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Submission + - The Leeuwarden COVID-19 vaccine injury lawsuit

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An anonymous reader writes: The Defendants: Among the defendants in this extraordinary civil lawsuit are Bill Gates, Pfizer CEO Albert Bourla and former Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte, alongside the State of the Netherlands and thirteen other prominent figures from politics, business, media and science.

These are not simply individuals named or criticised in the plaintiffs’ case: they are defendants in the proceedings, represented by lawyers, with defendants residing within Dutch municipalities also summoned in person. Following the rejection of Bill Gates’ challenge to the jurisdiction of the Dutch court, the case now advances to the substantive merits hearing in Leeuwarden on 22 October 2026.

Submission + - AfD party hit by major cyberattack

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An anonymous reader writes: Germany's right-wing AfD party hit by major cyberattack:

BERLIN (AA) — Germany's right-wing Alternative for Germany (AfD) party was targeted in a major cyberattack that allegedly exposed hundreds of thousands of emails, local media reported Tuesday.

According to the AfD, data was allegedly stolen from the party’s email accounts during a hacker attack.

"In September 2026, a hacker attack occurred at a hosting service provider used by our party, during which portions of a few email accounts—most of which had not been used for years—were apparently copied unlawfully," the party told the German daily Bild.

Submission + - Security blunder left trusted CA keys exposed to anyone

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An anonymous reader writes: eMudhra security blunder left trusted CA signing keys exposed to anyone

Eight intermediate certificates issued by Indian certificate authority eMudhra were secured with private keys so weak that anyone could recover them from the public certificates in under a second.

A private key of this type is meant to be a random number more than 100 digits long. Each of these was smaller than 256, so anyone can find one by testing at most 256 values.

Security researcher Scott Helme was among those who recovered the keys.

“One of eMudhra’s certificate authority private keys is the number 4. Not a number that starts with 4, or the number 4 followed by a few hundred random digits, just, 4 Another one is 56, and another is 115. I know, because I recovered all of them from their public certificates on my laptop just now, and it took less than a second,” wrote Helme.

Submission + - Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap

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An anonymous reader writes: Google Cloud's London zones takes a nap, multiple services disrupted

“UPDATED Google Cloud customers in Western Europe are waking up to severe disruption affecting multiple services and, as yet, there is no estimated time of recovery.”

“The europe-west-2-b is one of three local availability zones in the London region, intended to help protect against hardware or regional failures. The downtime began at 0608 UTC, meaning customers need more than a coffee to feel OK about today.”

Comment Re:No profit no paychecks no Community (Score 1) 202

by Mirnotoriety (#66384916) Attached to: Professor Calls To Abolish Business Schools For Failing Society
Or a leveraged financing chain: Starting with a base capitol of 10,000 with 10% cumulative interest over a three tier loan multiplier. You end up with 10 million to finance an office block. You sell the office block for 30 million and pay back the loan. Leaving you with 13.17 million.

Submission + - Paris riots highlight lack of diversity in French press

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An anonymous reader writes: Color Bind: Last year’s riots in the Paris suburbs highlighted the French press’s lack of diversity. Change is coming, but will it make a difference?

“There is a powerful feeling among the under — or unemployed youth of African and North African descent who did so much of the rioting that France has failed to acknowledge them. Most of the time they are invisible citizens, out of sight and out of mind, stuck in peripheral housing projects where jobs are scarce and opportunities nearly nonexistent .. the media as a whole have spent years colluding in the nonrecognition of the ethnic minorities who played a key role in the unrest.”

Submission + - Enterprise IT dependency erodes choice

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: CIOs admit they are being forced to upgrade enterprise IT

“The deep integration within the organisation makes it increasingly difficult for IT departments to select alternative enterprise IT systems, says survey”

“Switching off a service became easier technically; switching away from the provider could become harder commercially and operationally”

“Over several decades, dependence accumulated with few external guardrails to constrain it.”

“Economists have studied this problem for decades: once a customer makes relationship-specific investments, the vendor gains leverage that no contract can fully anticipate.”

Submission + - A Hacker Broke Into John Deere, SharkNinja With an Army of AI Agents (theverge.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: A hacker broke into more than 100 websites using an army of AI agents that mostly operated on their own, according to findings from the AI security firm Norforge. Though Norforge doesn’t name the targets, Reuters reports that the victims included companies like John Deere, SharkNinja, and Cummins.

[...] Researchers at Norforge uncovered the attacks through exposed work on Cairn, an open-source AI platform that describes itself as a “general-purpose problem-solving engine.” With Cairn, users set a start and end point for the AI agents, which document their progress as they move forward with the task. However, as noted by Norforge, hackers can also use the tool to orchestrate cyberattacks using AI agents.

The hacker who broke into more than 100 sites was the “most active” among the exposed Cairn instances discovered by Norforge, waging attacks on companies based in the US, Canada, Australia, and Japan, as reported by Reuters. This attacker laid out “preferred intrusion tactics” using fewer than 100 Chinese characters, with successful breaches taking about 23 hours, according to Reuters. Overall, Nordforge found more than 20 exposed Cairn instances that are “likely malicious.”

Comment New MICROS~1 same as old MICROS~1 (Score 1) 87

by Mirnotoriety (#66382294) Attached to: Mozilla is Calling Out Microsoft for Forcing Edge on Users
* Bing search results for alternative browsers a large panel titled ‘All you need is right here’ is displayed.

* On the Chrome download page a large blue banner proclaims ‘Microsoft Edge runs on the same technology as Chrome, with the added trust of Microsoft’.

* Windows 11 run for the first time screen prompts to import other browser settings and in the process enable Edge as default.

* Windows 10 11 migration: Microsoft’s Windows Backup utility does not properly transfer an alternative browser and its default status. After restore, Edge is silently set as the default instead.

* AI / Copilot: Microsoft’s Copilot overrides the user’s chosen default browser and opens links in Edge. Researchers also flag a possible “pipeline” of consent requests that could funnel browsing data (including from rival browsers) into Microsoft’s advertising and personalization systems.

Comment Re:The part I don't get (Score 1) 85

> If you listen to what Torvalds says ..

Linus Torvalds: “AI is a great new tool, but it’s a tool, and when I see people saying, ‘Hey, 99% of our code is written by AI,’ I literally get angry, because those same people — I can pretty much guarantee — that 100% of their code is written by compilers. But they never say that.”

Comment Re:Pragmatic Approach, Unmentioned Caveat (Score 1) 85

> .. certain details have been swept under the rug—chiefly that Torvalds' only significant vibe-coded contribution to the kernel thusfar was a ten-patch modification to page-caching that was promptly rescinded when other maintainers pointed out a race condition hidden in Claude Code's verbose output. [thenewstack.io] Torvalds ultimately dumped the mess onto human coder Kiryl Shutsemau's lap.

Perish the thought that the lead kernel maintainer would collaborate with other developers /s
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“Linus Torvalds used Claude Code to build a Linux page cache fix that hit 23x read throughput, but kernel reviewers found a race before anything merged.”

Amanda Caswell: “.. Linus Torvalds turned to Anthropic’s Claude Code to tackle a kernel performance problem that developers have struggled with for more than two years”

“Torvalds had spent 18 months running a broken version of his own fix for the page-cache reference-counting bottleneck, while other developers had encountered problems with their approaches.”

“Reviewers have since identified a race condition and raised concerns about memory reclamation.”

“Torvalds has handed further development to Kiryl Shutsemau, a Linux kernel developer who previously worked on the same bottleneck.”

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