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Ransomware gang says it hacked a school district in Central Point, Oregon
Ransomware gang Interlock over the weekend took credit for a May 2025 cyber attack on Central Point School District 6 in Oregon. The district reported a cyber attack disrupted its systems on May 16, 2025, including absence notifications and gradebook updates. It restored systems by June 6, 2025. In a Facebook post, Superintendent Walt Davenport says the attack disrupted internet,…
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Apple’s Haptic F1 Movie Trailer Is Cool—But What’s the Point?
I guess it’s hard to get attention for your movie these days, with the competition in both cinemas and on streaming channels hotter than ever. So what did Apple do to help promote F1: The Movie? They made a movie trailer that buzzes in your hands. That’s right, Apple’s “haptic trailer” has the movie world abuzz, it seems. But honestly,…
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CEOs want AI in everything, but software engineers are pushing back – extensive application upgrades are a becoming a huge ‘paint point’ for teams
Software engineers are becoming exasperated at having to embed AI capabilities in applications, according to research from Gartner – a problem the firm says isn’t likely to go away. More than three-quarters (77%) of senior software engineers said demands to integrate AI within existing applications are a “significant or moderate pain point”. Key factors behind this sharpened focus on AI…
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Check Point bolsters attack surface protection with Veriti acquisition
Cybersecurity solutions provider Check Point has announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire exposure asset specialist Veriti Cybersecurity. Founded in 2021, Veriti has pioneered the preemptive exposure management (PEM) platform category, offering fully automated threat exposure and mitigation tools. Powered by AI and featuring integration with more than 70 vendors, Veriti’s offering is designed to continuously identify,…
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Pressure rises to bolster data center energy efficiency as IT leaders worry demand is pushing the grid to breaking point
IT leaders are increasingly concerned about both data center energy efficiency and supply, with the rapid expansion of AI putting strain on national infrastructure. Research from Cadence found that three-quarters of data centers face increased pressure from AI-driven demands. As a result, seven-in-ten IT decision makers warn that the national grid is being pushed to breaking point. “AI is driving…
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Check Point expands customer advocacy program to drive ‘hands-on’ support
Cybersecurity provider Check Point has expanded its partner and customer advocacy management services to provide customers with direct access to advocacy experts. Partners and customers will now have a single point of contact that will act as a trusted advisor to help improve security operations, accelerate executive management, and optimize cybersecurity strategies, the firm revealed at its CPX 2025 event…
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Software security debt is spiraling out of control – remediation times have surged 47% in the last five years, and it’s pushing teams to breaking point
Software security flaws are taking longer to fix than ever, new research shows, with remediation times having grown by 47% in the last five years. Statistics from Veracode’s 15th State of Software Security report show the average time it takes an organization to fix a vulnerability has risen from from 171 days in 2020 to 252 days today. This marks…
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Expensive Gaming Handhelds Have a Cheap Weak Point, But Not for Long
Summary Analog sticks are a common point of failure on controllers, and that includes the ones built into handhelds from manufacturers like Valve and Asus. You can mitigate the problem by recalibrating your sticks for a quick remedy, but a permanent fix involves replacing the sticks by performing surgery on your handheld. Upgrading to Hall Effect sticks, which are far…
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How to create System Restore Point on Windows 11
To create a System Restore Point on Windows 11, open the “System Protection” settings, select the drive, click on “Confiture,” and select the “Turn on system protection” option. Then, on “System Protection,” select the drive to protect and click on “Create.” To recover Windows 11 with a restore point, open the “System Protection” settings, click on “System Restore,” select the…
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Microsoft Surface rumors point to a big Copilot Plus refresh next year
Microsoft’s first Copilot AI-ready Surface laptop arrived earlier this year, and now Windows Central reports that the rest of the lineup is due for a refresh in 2025. According to the report, we can expect new Surface Pro and Surface Laptop computers — and we’ve already seen a possible prototype pop up in October — with Intel Lunar Lake chips, that will be…
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