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31 July 2025

Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords

Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months

On-Prem

Trump officials float plan for Americans to share their medical data more freely

Apple, Google, AI biggies, and for-profit insurance all eagerly rubbing their hands 7 Comments

India gets its turn on the Trump tariff train: 25% levy to start Friday

The US president also hints at an extra penalty for New Delhi over trade with Russia 6 Comments

Broadband biz fined for emergency caller location data fail

Gigaclear slapped by watchdog for failings, admits 'seriousness of the error' 4 Comments

Datacenter lobby blows a fuse over EU efficiency proposals

Green rules risk short-circuiting AI ambitions, warns group including AWS, Microsoft and Google 14 Comments

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The TSA likes facial recognition at airports. Passengers and politicians, not so much

Few passengers are told they can opt out, and when they do, airport staff may push back 4 Comments

Users left scrambling for a plan B as Dropbox drops Dropbox Passwords

Read-only in weeks, deleted forever in months 19 Comments

Minnesota governor calls in the troops after St Paul cyberattack

'This was a deliberate, coordinated, digital attack' 18 Comments

Palo Alto Networks inks $25b deal to buy identity-security shop CyberArk

The lure? Identity security and privileged access management tools to verify humans and... machines 2 Comments

Ransomware gang sets deadline to leak 3.5 TB of Ingram Micro data

Distie insists global operations restored despite some websites only now coming back online 2 Comments

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Alibaba admits Qwen3's hybrid-thinking mode was dumb

Chinese e-commerce giant is going back to dedicated instruct and thinking-tuned models as they prioritize quality over convenience 1 Comments

Microsoft hails cloud and AI revenue for boffo earnings

Azure numbers shared for the first time. No details about AI, however.

Zuck tries to justify AI splurge with talk of 'superintelligence' for all

You get a superintelligence and you get a superintelligence. Everybody gets a superintelligence 17 Comments

Enterprises neglect AI security – and attackers have noticed

IBM report shows a rush to embrace technology without safeguarding it, and as for governance... 1 Comments

Zed code editor hears your prayers, rolls out AI-free mode

Can we have this as a global feature in all software? Please? 11 Comments

Italy says Meta may be violating law with AI in WhatsApp

Competiton regulator smells abuse of a dominant market position, Zuckercorp claims all is well 3 Comments

Edge case: Opera claims Microsoft still playing dirty with defaults

Brazil is the latest browser battlefield 10 Comments

Oracle VirtualBox licensing tweak lies in wait for the unwary

Java-like move could land those expecting free trial with a new bill 88 Comments

Europe's AI crackdown starts this week and Big Tech isn't happy

Users and developers struggle to comply as situation evolves 19 Comments

Cisco donates Agntcy project to Linux Foundation in the hope it gets AI agents interacting elegantly

AI frameworks are becoming a Russian nesting doll of abstraction layers 4 Comments

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Radar problem caused mayhem in UK skies on Wednesday

The latest kerfuffle to stall flights in and out of Heathrow 5 Comments

US Navy won't torpedo hurricane forecast satellite feed after all

Data stream from aging sensor to continue after public backlash and amateur workaround 3 Comments

NASA awards Firefly Aerospace $177M to drop more bots on the Moon

If at first you succeed, have some more money 2 Comments

Flock storage: Audio boffin encodes data in a starling

Birdsong stores 176 KB, but can it run Doom? 28 Comments

Australia bans kids from signing up for YouTube accounts, angering Google

‘We want kids to know who they are before platforms assume who they are’ says Minister 48 Comments

Clouds and submarine cables report no impact from sixth-largest earthquake in recorded history, subsequent tsunami

Russian rumbler has authorities across the Pacific warning of possible problems 5 Comments

Australia’s attempt to join the space race lasts just 14 seconds

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