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PowerSchool theft latest: Decades of Canadian student records, data from 40-plus US states feared stolen
22 January 2025 @ 1:02 am
Lawsuits pile up after database accessed by miscreants Canada's largest school board has revealed that student records dating back to 1985 may have been accessed by miscreants who compromised software provider PowerSchool.…
App stores unconvinced by Trump's TikTok ban pause, which may itself be on shaky legal ground
21 January 2025 @ 10:45 pm
El Reg asked a lawyer to explain WTH is going on Analysis President Trump's executive order stalling the enforcement of the TikTok ban in the United States has created legal uncertainty for companies hosting or distributing the app. To further confuse the matter, it's not even clear that Trump's decree is within his power to issue or enforce. …
Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud went down 'hard' today
21 January 2025 @ 8:15 pm
Same, Big A, same If you were unable to access Atlassian's Bitbucket Cloud today, it's because in the words of the IT giant, the service was "hard down."…
Patch procrastination leaves 50,000 Fortinet firewalls vulnerable to zero-day
21 January 2025 @ 6:45 pm
Seven days after disclosure and little action taken, data shows Fortinet customers need to get with the program and apply the latest updates as nearly 50,000 management interfaces are still vulnerable to the latest zero-day exploit.…
Trump hits undo on Biden AI safety order, EV mandate, emissions standards, and more
21 January 2025 @ 5:30 pm
Also, prepare for paused wind projects and the Gulf of America from Trump 2.0 – and that's just day 1 US President Donald Trump has wasted no time in culling Biden-era programs, including the elimination of the prior administration's executive orders on AI safety and electric vehicles, and freezing funds for EV infrastructure.…
Neural interface lets paralyzed person steer virtual quadcopter, opening new doors for gaming
21 January 2025 @ 4:57 pm
Researchers aim to tackle unmet needs for social connection and recreation Scientists in the US have developed a neural interface that enables an individual with paralysis to control a virtual quadcopter by decoding brain activity into distinct finger movements.…
Words alone won't get the stars and stripes to Mars
21 January 2025 @ 3:32 pm
So you want to go to the Red Planet. How deep are your pockets and how much time do you have? Comment "America is going to Mars," said Elon Musk at yesterday's inauguration of US President Donald Trump. America is already there, thanks to decades of robotic exploration.…
Meta, X sign up to Euro Commish code of conduct on hate speech
21 January 2025 @ 2:45 pm
Under Digital Services Act, monitors will be allowed to report abusive language and platforms should respond in 1 day Online platform companies, including X and Meta, have signed up to a new code of conduct aimed at targeting online hate speech, which the European Commission has now baked into the Digital Services Act.…
Tariff uncertainty looms large over budget conscious CIOs
21 January 2025 @ 2:00 pm
It’s a feature not a bug, and what the US electorate voted for, says analyst As US president Donald Trump's inauguration passes into history, tech leaders face uncertainty as they wait to see if repeated promises of global US import tariffs are put into action.…
HPE probes IntelBroker's bold data theft boasts
21 January 2025 @ 1:19 pm
Incident response protocols engaged following claims of source code burglary Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) is probing assertions made by prolific Big Tech intruder IntelBroker that they broke into the US corporation's systems and accessed source code, among other things.…