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Sydney Uni data goes walkabout after criminals raid code repo - Attackers helped themselves to historical personal info on 27K people - Cyber-crime - 19 Dec 2025 - |

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BOFH - : All through the house, not a creature was stirring except the homicidal vacuum cleaner - Episode 24 - Minor firmware issues coincide with workplace absence among leadership - BOFH - 19 Dec 2025 - | 11

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Blockchain company Nomad to repay users under FTC deal after $186M cyberattack -- Regulator makes various additional demands over alleged cybersecurity failings -- Security

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Built for what's next: Arm's advantage in the AI PC era - When considering your upgrade for Windows 11, it's time to look at Arm vs x86 - It's an upgrade to improved efficiency, performance, and battery life.

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China turns on a vast experimental network it says is an heir to ARPANET -- Beijing wants to 'seize the initiative in the international competition in cyberspace'

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GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners - updated - Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.

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Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement -- GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their heads

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Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths -- Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn't escalate their concerns

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Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide -- Customers in 10 of the company's 23 regions had "operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete."

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NS&I tech overhaul blows past Treasury spending limits -- UK state-owned bank admits revised plan runs beyond contract end with Atos -- Public Sector

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pearOS is a Linux that falls rather close to the Apple tree -- Revived distro returns on Arch with KDE Plasma, global menus, and a familiar macOS-style sheen -- OSes

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HPE tells customers to patch fast as OneView RCE bug scores a perfect 10 - Maximum-severity vuln lets unauthenticated attackers execute code on trusted infra management platform - Patches - 19 Dec 2025 - |

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UK prepares to wave goodbye to 3G telecoms as tri-hard tech retires -- Virgin Media the last to go as users of older mobiles warned to upgrade -- Networks

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Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud - Exclusive - Tech exec admits not dead cert it'll find the right solution - PaaS + IaaS - 19 Dec 2025 - | 11

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Ministers confirm breach at UK Foreign Office but details remain murky -- Officials admit 'there certainly has been a hack,' but refuse to confirm China link or data theft -- Cyber-crime

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Faith in the internet is fading among young Brits -- Ofcom survey finds 18-34s increasingly see life online as bad for society and their mental health -- Off-Prem

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GOV.UK to unleash AI chatbot on confused citizens -- Coming with added 'filters and rules' after prototype spat out inaccurate or outright wrong responses -- Public Sector

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Cornish recycling drive sows confusion among Reg Standards Bureau -- Are pasties a proxy for weight? Or a cypher for circumference? -- Offbeat

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User found two reasons – both of them wrong – to dispute tech support's diagnosis - On Call - Hey, teacher, leave that cabling alone - Networks - 19 Dec 2025 - | 76

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Techie 'forgot' to tell boss their cost-saving idea meant a day of gaming - Who, Me? One keypress turned a tricky Windows NT balancing act into a life of leisure

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Ten mistakes marred firewall upgrade at Australian telco, contributing to two deaths -- Optus gave bad instructions, staff didn't escalate their concerns -- Networks

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Amazon blocked 1,800 suspected North Korean scammers seeking jobs -- Plus: Lazarus Group has a brand new BeaverTail -- Cyber-crime

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Snowflake update caused a blizzard of failures worldwide -- Customers in 10 of the company's 23 regions had "operations fail or take an extended amount of time to complete." -- PaaS + IaaS

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Your car's web browser may be on the road to cyber ruin -- Study finds built-in browsers across gadgets often ship years out of date -- Research

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Crypto crooks co-opt stolen AWS creds to mine coins -- 'Within 10 minutes of gaining initial access, crypto miners were operational' -- Cyber-crime

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Mobile industry says energy targets are meaningless without common metrics -- NGMN warns fragmented standards leave operators guessing about power use -- Networks

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Trump Media jumps aboard the speculative nuclear fusion bandwagon -- Ambitious timelines don't bend the laws of physics -- Science

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Kim's crypto thieving reached a record $2B in 2025 -- ByBit attack doing some seriously heavy lifting -- Cyber-crime

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Another bad week for SonicWall as SMA 1000 zero-day under active exploit -- Flaw in remote-access appliance lets attackers chain bugs for root-level takeover -- Cyber-crime

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Nvidia Nearly Completes Its Control Freakery With Slurm Acquisition

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Building The AI Factory Datacenter

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Nvidia Is The Only AI Model Maker That Can Afford To Give It Away

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Tomorrow's Datacenter Won't Be Like Yesterday's – Here's Why

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User insisted their screen was blank, until admitting it wasn't - On Call - Getting that confession took hours, during which L1 and L2 support gave up

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FBI dismantles alleged $70M crypto laundering operation -- Justice Department claims unlicensed exchange funneled ransomware profits -- Cyber-crime

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Isaacman finally confirmed as NASA boss after Trump derailed first attempt -- Billionaire space tourist inherits troubled agency facing budget chaos, workforce cuts, and a Moon race against China -- Science

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NHS tech supplier probes cyberattack on internal systems - Updated - Around 2,000 GP practices use its products - Cyber-crime - 18 Dec 2025 - | 3

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UK surveillance law still full of holes, watchdog warns -- Investigatory Powers Commissioner says reforms have failed to close oversight gaps -- Security

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Docker Hardened Images now free, devs give cautious welcome

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GitHub to charge for self-hosted runners from March 2026

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Cursor AI editor gets visual designer – but bugs and ever-changing UI irk developers

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Rust boosted by permanent adoption for Linux kernel code

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Liquid cooling means more performance and less heat for supercomputing - How Lenovo Neptune became the cooling technology behind the world's greenest supercomputers - Sponsored Feature

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Brit broadband grilling descends into farce over targets and definitions -- MPs press minister for answers – and get few -- Networks

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United Nations agrees to persist with multi-stakeholder internet governance -- World Summit on the Information Society resolves the world needs a permanent forum to discuss how we manage the 'Net -- Public Sector

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Micron says memory shortages are here for the foreseeable future -- Even with its new fabs coming online, demand will exceed supply -- Systems

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Lenovo DE6600: The Storage Engine Built for HPC Acceleration

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The storage integration problem that breaks infrastructure automation

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Storage news ticker – December 18

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Lightbits scales virtual SANs past 100 PB

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Purdue makes 'AI working competency' a graduation requirement -- GPT-before-GPA plan has faculty and students scratching their heads -- AI + ML

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AI and cybersecurity: Two sides of the same coin - Practical lessons on securing AI and using AI to strengthen defence - Sponsored Post

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Datacenters feel the Bern as Senator Sanders pushes bit barn building pause -- Vermont lawmaker proposes DC moratorium to give Congress time to rein in the AI boom -- Public Sector

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All aglow about DCs, investors launch $300M at microreactor startup -- Startup expects its first Kaleidos reactor to power on at Idaho National Lab next year -- The Future of the Datacenter

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NASA tries savin' MAVEN as Mars probe loses contact with Earth -- Spacecraft was 'rotating in an unexpected manner' and might have shifted orbit -- Science

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AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans -- CodeRabbit review of pull requests shows meatbags beat clankers -- AI + ML

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NATO's battle for cloud sovereignty: Speed is existential -- Build a digital backbone faster than adversaries can evolve or lose the information war -- Security

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California DMV tells Tesla to ease off on those Autopilot claims -- Full Self-Driving Capability marketing deemed a 'violation of state law' -- AI + ML

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Microsoft security update breaks MSMQ on older Win systems -- Folder permission changes cause queue failures and misleading error messages, no real fix yet -- OSes

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X sues to protect Twitter brand Musk has been trying to kill -- Lawsuit concedes the bird is still the word for many -- Legal

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Data sovereignty: Don't just tick the box, think outside it -- How your data strategy can fuel innovation

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How TeamViewer builds enterprise trust through security-first design -- What to do when even your espresso machine needs end-to-end encryption

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Bring complexity under control with enterprise-grade Kubernetes -- No, it'll probably never be a doddle – but you don't have to take the hard way when deploying Kubernetes, says Nutanix

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Former UK chancellor George Osborne finds something to do at OpenAI -- Follows Nick Clegg at Meta and Rishi Sunak at Anthropic in snuggling up to US tech -- AI + ML

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UK.gov accused of Grinching Christmas by ignoring phone theft scourge -- Six months after expert testimony, no one has yet dialed into promised summit on technical solutions -- Personal Tech

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England keeping pen and paper exams despite limited digital expansion -- Regulator proposes strict limits on screen-based testing, cites infrastructure concerns and lack of evidence for benefits -- Public Sector

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UK plans right for flat owners to demand gigabit broadband -- Changes to Electronic Communications Code would bypass landlord objections to fiber installations -- Networks

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GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners -- Engineers cried foul over plan to charge $0.002/min.

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React2Shell exploitation spreads as Microsoft counts hundreds of hacked machines -- Security boffins warn flaw is now being used for ransomware attacks against live networks

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Jassy taps 27-year Amazon veteran to run AGI org, which is now definitely a thing that exists -- Amazon bets that by making AI its own group, it can outpace Microsoft and Google

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Waterfox browser goes AI-free, targets the Firefox faithful -- Even if Mozilla is going to add an AI kill switch, that may not be enough to reassure many.

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ServiceNow unworried by Salesforce firing shots across its bow -- Believes it can translate workflow smarts into AI ROI

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CEO spills the Tea about massive token farming campaigns -- Plus: automated SBOMs, $250,000 bounties ahead

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Attacks pummeling Cisco AsyncOS 0-day since late November -- No timeline for a patch

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DVSA's clapped-out booking system gets bot slapped as new boss rides in -- 18-year-old platform crumbles under 94M daily requests while resellers flog £62 tests for £500

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BBC tapped to stop Britain being baffled by AI -- Gov wants broadcaster to revive 1980s computer literacy magic – and maybe flog its archives to tech giants

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Cisco decides its homegrown AI model is ready to power its products -- Apparently you're about to get better advice on any identity issues lurking in your infrastructure -- AI + ML

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India unveils a homegrown dual-core 1GHz RISC-V processor, the DHRUV64 -- No details on power consumption, lots of patriotic pride -- Systems

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China's Ink Dragon hides out in European government networks -- Misconfigured servers are in, 0-days out -- Research

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The 5X AI reality check: why enterprises are leaving transformative value on the table - Your content structure is holding you back - Sponsored Post

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Hot for its bot, McKinsey may cut thousands of jobs -- The company has reportedly consulted itself and decided it needs fewer people -- AI + ML

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Analytics provider: We didn't expose smut site data to crims -- An employee of the adult site could be responsible. -- Security

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Meta's SAM bot keeps 'em separated as it isolates voices and instruments from audio clips -- No mention of protections to stop it being used to snoop on people -- AI + ML

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Browser 'privacy' extensions have eye on your AI, log all your chats -- More than 8 million people have installed extensions that eavesdrop on chatbot interactions -- AI + ML

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Why do bit barns keep bumping up our bills, Senators ask DC operators -- Amazon, meanwhile, claims its datacenters are helping ratepayers despite tons of evidence to the contrary -- The Future of the Datacenter

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Nvidia fills the void of American open-weights models with some of its own -- Nemotron 3 is a grab bag of 2025's top machine learning advancements -- AI + ML

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SantaStealer stuffs credentials, crypto wallets into a brand new bag -- All I want for Christmas ... is all of your data -- Cyber-crime

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Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm -- And parades its latest trio of Nemotron models -- Software

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Devs say Apple still flouting EU's Digital Markets Act six months on -- Coalition for App Fairness warns App Store fees remain unlawful despite non-compliance ruling -- Applications

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US freezes $42B trade pact with UK over digital tax row -- Tech Prosperity Deal paused after London resists pressure on online services levy -- Public Sector

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From Georgia to Essex, AI datacenters are testing public goodwill -- Communities on both sides of the Atlantic push back against rapid build-outs -- The Future of the Datacenter

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Smartphones face a memory cost crunch – and buyers aren't in the mood - AI-nflation - Rising DRAM and NAND prices are squeezing handset makers and threatening a fragile market recovery - Personal Tech - 16 Dec 2025 - | 27

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