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Steve Kramer claims the whole thing was a ruse to regulate AI in politics

A political consultant admitted to paying a magician to create a fake anti-Biden robocall urging people not to vote in a Democratic primary election.…

US government's bounty hasn't borne fruit as whack-a-mole game goes on

Updated  The ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang is reportedly responsible for the massive Change Healthcare cyberattack that has disrupted pharmacies across the US since last week.…

As always, the lack of memory could prove limiting

Nvidia rolled out a pair of entry-level laptop GPUs aimed at professional notebooks on Monday, with performance claims far exceeding that of standalone system on chips (SoCs) from Intel and AMD.…

Officials have until March 2 to cough up or stolen data gets leaked

Updated  LockBit claims it's back in action just days after an international law enforcement effort seized the ransomware gang's servers and websites, and retrieved more than 1,000 decryption keys to assist victims.…

Perseverance images show violent end to Ingenuity's final flight

A little more light is being shed on the fate of NASA's Mars helicopter, Ingenuity, thanks to fresh images snapped by the Perseverance rover.…

Windows 11 didn't kickstart a refresh cycle so here's another excuse

Dell Technologies has joined other PC vendors that bought a ticket on the AI hype train as it prepares to release a swathe of new devices.…

One year on, balloon fever remains alive and well in the US

Just when you thought the skies over America were finally free of Chinese spy balloons … well they are, at least in this latest case of a mystery object that was spotted while flying over the western US.…

Billionaire worried about AI crawling over his computer

Are you getting a bit tired of Microsoft's demands while installing Windows 11? You aren't alone – billionaire Elon Musk is also less than impressed with the requirements for a smooth out-of-box experience.…

Price tag, hardware durability underpinning 'already lengthened replacement cycle'

Half of consumers polled in a Vodafone-backed survey are considering buying a refurbished smartphone instead of a brand-new handset, with the lower purchase price and environmental concerns cited as the main reasons.…

Still works, though, says CEO, promising pics any day now

Intuitive Machines' Odysseus lander last week became the first American lander to touch down on the Moon in 50 years – albeit landing on its side.…

Just what Android fans were missing, amirite? A 7 billion parameter LLM that accepts image and voice prompts?

MWC  Qualcomm is going big on AI at MWC, where it's showing off a 7 billion parameter large language model running on an Android phone, along with an online hub to help mobile devs blend models into their apps, and AI infused into its latest 5G modem and Wi-Fi 7 silicon.…

Plus fresh edge compute system that may be able to run on existing infra

MWC  Intel’s opening day at MWC is all about networks and edge compute, specifically a dedicated edge platform, a developer kit for AI models for vRAN, and a power management tool for 5G infrastructure.…

Check your service level agreements to make sure you'll at least get a slice of cake when your vendor goes down

The $5 credit AT&T is offering to customers affected by last week's major outage highlights that compensation when a provider suffers downtime is unlikely to get even close to the inconvenience or cost to business.…

2,000 employees at 38 facilities had data processed 'unlawfully', ICO says

A data protection watchdog in the UK has issued an enforcement notice to stop Serco from using facial recognition tech and fingerprint scanning to monitor staff at 38 leisure centers it runs.…

Also, another fake iOS app slips into the store, un-cybersafe EV chargers leave UK shelves, and critical vulns

Infosec in brief  A Florida journalist has been arrested and charged with breaking into protected computer systems in a case his lawyers say was less "hacking," more "good investigative journalism." …

Two major procurement initiatives aim to beef up public sector tech

UK government has launched two tenders for cloud services that could jointly see up to £7.5 billion ($9.5 billion) spent under framework agreements.…

Arise, the new Migration Nation

Opinion  It looked like the most cynical corporate move of the last couple of years, at least in IT. A year and a half after it was announced, so it has proved to be. Broadcom's $61 billion buyout of VMware was expected to follow a familiar formula – price hikes, product abandonment, complete ecosystem devastation – and the creation of two classes of people.…

Making full effective use of new persistent memory means tearing up the rulebook

Opinion  Non-volatile RAM is making a comeback, but the deep assumptions of 1970s OS design will stop us making effective use of it. There are other ways to do things.…

While you ponder that, look – or try to – at a concept transparent lappie

Lenovo has used Mobile World Congress (MWC) to debut a clutch of updated ThinkPads for business users that it claims are AI PCs – but which look a lot like just PCs that ship with AI-capable processors.…

Cupertino only wanted to be with Google for search – despite the prospect of buying Bing outright

Bad search results for the query "Annie Lennox first band" were among the reasons Apple rejected an approach from Microsoft to use the Bing search engine as the default in its Safari browser – and also discarded the idea of a joint venture to make Bing better or even the chance to buy the search engine outright.…