Chayjitti Hongmanee/Shutterstock Most people think of USB drives as nothing more than portable storage devices. For years, they were the go-to tool for moving documents, photos, and music from one computer to another. But with cloud storage dominating and file-sharing easier than ever, many old flash drives now sit unused in drawers. The truth is…
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Karlis Dambrans/Shutterstock Google’s business model is simple when it comes to its budget line of phones. Wait a few months after releasing the new flagship phone to sell a more affordable version that takes the best bits, like the chip and display. That’s exactly what happened with the Google Pixel 9a, releasing roughly eight months…
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The government is being urged to “properly scrutinise” the environmental impact of the nation’s growing datacentre footprint by non-profit Foxglove, which is currently overseeing the first legal challenge of its kind against a hyperscale build in the UK. The organisation, which campaigns for fairness in technology and the protection of local communities, has published research…
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North Wales Police has been ordered to disclose the reasons for stopping a UK lawyer who represented Hamas and seizing the contents of mobile phone to closed-door court hearing. Justice Martin Chamberlain said that he did not accept that North Wales Police could simply assert there was a lawful basis for stopping and copying the…
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Oracle has issued a fix for a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its E-Business Suite (EBS) as the well-used ERP software package emerges as the latest vector for mass Cl0p (aka Clop) ransomware attacks. The Oracle EBS ecosystem is deeply embedded in enterprise financial and operational systems, which offers hackers access to a…
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Bilanol/Shutterstock You can officially mark “big Amazon lawsuit” off your 2025 bingo card, as Amazon has legally agreed to refund customers their money in relation to a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) antitrust lawsuit. Originally filed in June 2023, the FTC alleged that Amazon enrolled customers in its premium Prime service without consent. Worse yet, when…
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Kimberly White/Getty Images There’s been a lot of excitement about Mira Murati’s Thinking Machines Lab (TML) AI startup ever since the former high-ranking OpenAI executive left the company that created the ChatGPT chatbot and spawned the current AI revolution. A year later, Murati’s AI firm is ready to release its first, highly anticipated AI product. …
If the UK’s digital economy is to enjoy a prosperous future, the nation’s electricity grids need to be urgently upgraded to ensure the datacentres underpinning it all have a consistent and reliable supply of high-capacity power. That’s according to a poll of 101 FTSE 250 executives, commissioned by the Energy Networks Association (ENA), where 90%…
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Ahead of the official opening of identity specialist Okta’s annual Oktane customer conference in Las Vegas, Nevada, the cyber security supplier shared a preview of how it aims to help users secure non-human identities (NHIs) such as AI agents, as the security sector faces up to a looming gap in technological capabilities through which threat…
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Yasin Hasan/Shutterstock A new teardown of version 4.53 of the Fitbit app has uncovered code that suggests Google will follow in Apple’s footsteps with a built-in hypertension feature for the Pixel Watch. Apple isn’t the first company to offer such a feature on its smartwatch, though it is one of the first to do so…
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