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Do not pass go, do not collect $200, says government agency

The US Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) has slapped coding boot camp BloomTech with several punishments for alleged deceptive business practices.…

And it's far from the only hyperscaler getting in on the act

Microsoft is looking to significantly expand datacenter space to service expected AI demand, tripling the rate at which it adds capacity early in its next financial year. Other hyperscalers appear to be following suit.…

Vote met strong opposition from Biden's office

A draft law to restrict the US government's ability to procure data on citizens through data brokers will progress to the Senate after being passed in the House of Representatives.…

Not just Windows 10. Don't forget about Exchange Server, Skype for Business, and all those Office installations

Windows 10 isn't the only Microsoft product due for the chop next year – end of support also beckons for Office 2016, 2019, and a swathe of productivity servers.…

Scam prevalent across Korea and Japan actually had some winners

Black Hat Asia  Speaking at the Black Hat Asia conference on Thursday, a Korean researcher revealed how the discovery of a phishing operation led to the exposure of a criminal operation that used stolen credit cards and second-hand stores to make money by abusing Apple Stores’ practice of letting third parties pick up purchases.…

Some say various cell services were out, others still say landlines were affected. What just happened?

Updated  Widespread 911 outages in the United States appear to have mostly been resolved, though that doesn't mean the cause is clear.…

It'll be pricier, but there are geopolitical benefits, says CEO

TSMC boss C C Wei says customers who want to fabricate in the chip giant's non-Taiwan facilities will need share the cost by paying more.…

Thermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts

NASA is sending astronauts out to fix an X-ray telescope on the International Space Station (ISS) after the instrument developed a "light leak."…

Extent of information seized will be a concern for those affected

Ransomware strikes at yet another US healthcare organization led to the theft of sensitive data belonging to just shy of 185,000 people.…

AI assistant turns up via Edge update. It was an accident. This time...

Microsoft's Copilot obsession has continued with the AI assistant unexpectedly arriving on Windows Server 2022 this week, in a situation the software giant is calling an "incorrect install."…

Memorymaker to park mega plant in Syracuse, says senator

Memory chipmaker Micron looks set to be the next recipient of US government subsidy cash with $6.1 billion heading its way to help fund new-build semiconductor plants.…

Restructure of finance teams will see some leave, and other roles created in Mexico City, Bangalore, and US cities

Google is again firing the redundancy cannon for the second time this year, with a restructure being pushed through and teams in the finance and real estate units of the business understood to be impacted.…

Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use

The EU's Data Protection Board (EDPB) has told large online platforms they should not offer users a binary choice between paying for a service and consenting to their personal data being used to provide targeted advertising.…

Only good for calls and texts pretty much, and that's no mistake

Those who find modern smartphones too distracting from real life might be interested in the Boring Phone (no relation to the smartphone of the same name), a novelty flip phone based on HMD's Nokia 2660 Flip.…

Police emit Spotify Wrapped-style videos to let crims know they're being hunted

Feature  Cops have brought down a dark-web souk that provided cyber criminals with convincing copies of trusted brands' websites for use in phishing campaigns.…

2.9 gives a taste of what's to come

Major updates to Debian's Advanced Packaging Tool don't come along very often, but APT 2.9 is here with a significant facelift.…

Resist the pressure to jump on the bandwagon just yet warns, warns Forrester

Forrester Research says that although 50 models of AI PCs are already on sale today there remains "no killer app" that would make any of them an essential tool for business users.…

Open source Redis alternative gathers momentum

Valkey, the value-key database pitched as an open source alternative to Redis, has acquired new backers and announced its first release candidate.…

Hypershield detects bad behavior and automagically reconfigures networks to snuff out threats

Cisco has developed a product called Hypershield that it thinks represents a new way to do network security.…

Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes

The European Commission on Wednesday gave TikTok 24 hours to explain the risk assessment procedures it used before launching a version of the made-in-China app that rewards users for using it in certain ways.…