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What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.

Like many legacy government IT systems, SSA systems contain code written in COBOL, a programming language created in part in the 1950s by computing pioneer Grace Hopper. The Defense Department essentially pressured private industry to use COBOL soon after its creation, spurring widespread adoption and making it one of the most widely used languages for… Read More: What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social… »

Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers

Steffen Schmidt, the CEO of Medicusdata, a company that provides text-to-speech services to doctors and hospitals in Europe, says that having data in Europe has always “been a must,” but his customers have been asking for more in recent weeks. “Since the beginning of 2025, in addition to data residency guarantees, customers have actively asked… Read More: Europe is looking for alternatives to US cloud providers »

Ransomware payments declined in 2024 despite massive. well-known hacks

While the decline in payments during the second half of 2024 is significant for being the largest ever in Chainalysis’ data, the number of ransomware attacks and volume of payments has fluctuated and declined before. Notably, researchers saw a marked decrease in activity in 2022, a year in which Chainalysis placed total ransomware payments at… Read More: Ransomware payments declined in 2024 despite massive. well-known hacks »

How the UK was connected to the Internet for the first time

Although 4 billion addresses seemed near infinite in 1974, by the early 1990s it was already evident that the Internet would soon run out of IP (IPv4) addresses, necessary for computers to be connected to the Internet. Work on the next generation of IP, IPv6, was to increase the number of routable network addresses from… Read More: How the UK was connected to the Internet for the… »

$1 phone scanner finds seven Pegasus spyware infections

Seven out of 2,500 scans may sound like a small group, especially in the somewhat self-selecting customer base of iVerify users, whether paying or free, who want to be monitoring their mobile device security at all, much less checking specifically for spyware. But the fact that the tool has already found a handful of infections… Read More: $1 phone scanner finds seven Pegasus spyware infections »

Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram

“SimpleX, at its core, is designed to be truly distributed with no central server. This allows for enormous scalability at low cost, and also makes it virtually impossible to snoop on the network graph,” Poberezkin wrote in a company blog post published in 2022. SimpleX’s policies expressly prohibit “sending illegal communications” and outline how SimpleX… Read More: Neo-Nazis head to encrypted SimpleX Chat app, bail on Telegram »

When you call a restaurant, you might be chatting with an AI host

Getty Images | Juj Winn reader comments 63 A pleasant female voice greets me over the phone. “Hi, I’m an assistant named Jasmine for Bodega,” the voice says. “How can I help?” “Do you have patio seating,” I ask. Jasmine sounds a little sad as she tells me that unfortunately, the San Francisco–based Vietnamese restaurant… Read More: When you call a restaurant, you might be chatting with… »

Nvidia’s AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than US

VGG | Getty Images reader comments 10 The cost of renting cloud services using Nvidia’s leading artificial intelligence chips is lower in China than in the US, a sign that the advanced processors are easily reaching the Chinese market despite Washington’s export restrictions. Four small-scale Chinese cloud providers charge local tech groups roughly $6 an… Read More: Nvidia’s AI chips are cheaper to rent in China than… »

CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage

Enlarge / Shares in SentinelOne and Palo Alto Networks have risen since July’s IT outage, while CrowdStrike has shed almost a quarter of its market value. Getty Images reader comments 92 CrowdStrike’s president hit out at “shady” efforts by its cyber security rivals to scare its customers and steal market share in the month since… Read More: CrowdStrike unhappy with “shady commentary” from competitors after outage »

CrowdStrike claps back at Delta, says airline rejected offers for help

Enlarge / LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – JULY 23: Travelers from France wait on their delayed flight on the check-in floor of the Delta Air Lines terminal at Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) on July 23, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. reader comments 7 CrowdStrike has hit back at Delta Air Lines’ threat of litigation against… Read More: CrowdStrike claps back at Delta, says airline rejected offers for… »