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Apple changes EU App Store rules, but will fight Europe’s demands – Computerworld
Malicious compliance But there is still a problem; Apple says that even though it’s been meeting intensively with European Commission regulators for more than a year, the experience has been a frustrating one. Regulators have continuously moved the goalposts on what compliance looks like. The company complains that they have even prevented Apple from implementing new solutions to bring its…
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Ransomware gang says it hacked Dairy Farmers of America, demands payment in 3 days
Ransomware group Play yesterday took credit for last week’s cyber attack on Dairy Farmers of America. The DFA last week said a ransomware attack disrupted multiple dairy manufacturing plants in the USA’s largest dairy cooperative. Play said it stole confidential data including budget, payroll, accounting, taxes, and financial info from the DFA. Play gave the DFA three days to pay…
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Ransomware gang says it stole confidential files from Taos County, NM; demands ransom in 7 days
Ransomware group Kairos today said it stole 1.94 TB of data from the Taos County, New Mexico local government. Kairos listed Taos County on its data leak site. To prove its claim, it posted a sample of documents that Kairos says it stole from the Taos County government. Some of the documents appear to be related to a child sexual…
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Apple challenges Europe’s interoperability demands – Computerworld
What makes matters worse is that while Apple is being forced to open up in ways that advantage competitors, quite literally at its expense, it is not being given the opportunity to do the same back. Apple is the only company that these demands have been made of, meaning it is being forced to give its intellectual property away to…
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$200 billion to build a data center? Soaring AI demands mean costs could skyrocket within a few years
Surging AI-related infrastructure demands mean data centers could soon cost as much as $200 billion to build, according to a recent study, with most owned privately rather than by governments. Research by Epoch AI tracing the computing powering AI by analyzing 500 systems shows that AI supercomputers — Epoch’s phrase for AI data centers or GPU clusters — are doubling…
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Microsoft says it’ll protect EU cloud customers from shutdown demands
Microsoft has said it will protect European data from American overreach in the courts if necessary — and will increase its investment in data centres in the EU. The move is seen as a response to the Trump administration’s irritation over EU rules that have supposedly impacted American big tech firms, and suggested retaliation looms. Trump signed a memorandum earlier…
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Ransomware gang demands $400K from Massachusetts school district
Ransomware gang Medusa over the weekend claimed responsibility for last week’s cyber attack against Fall River Public Schools in Bristol County, Massachusetts. The school district says it’s investigating the attack that disrupted schools’ phone and testing systems, according to a pop-up alert on the the FRPS home page. It says officials have no indication that personal information was accessed, but…
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Ransomware gang demands $420,000 from Arkansas school district after data breach
Ransomware gang Rhysida over the weekend claimed responsibility for a December 2024 data breach at Forrest City School District in Arkansas. The school district announced it suffered a cyber attack on or around December 12, 2024 that forced it to suspend internet service. Rhysida is demanding the Forrest City pay 5 bitcoin in ransom, worth about $420,000 at time of…
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IT professionals aren’t budging on flexible work demands – and more than half say they’ll quit if employers don’t meet expectations
Nearly half of IT workers in the UK have quit a job due to a lack of workplace flexibility, according to new research. Analysis from Randstad shows 40% of UK-based IT pros have quit over a lack of flexible work options, while 31% of workers globally have done the same. The study noted that IT workers typically value flexible working…
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Pressure Mounts for Apple as Brazilian Court Demands iOS Sideloading
A Brazilian court has dealt a major blow to Apple’s tightly controlled ecosystem, ordering the tech giant to allow sideloading on iOS within 90 days. The ruling follows similar mandates in the EU, signaling a global push for more open digital marketplaces. With Apple commanding nearly 60% of the U.S. mobile market and over 62% in Japan, the decision could…
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