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What changed in technology each day, traced to the document it changed in, with the grade of every source and the date it was read.
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Chips & infrastructure
54% of Americans now say data centres are mostly bad for the environment, up from 39% in January
Pew's survey found views had turned more negative on energy costs and local quality of life too, and 60% would be uncomfortable with a new data centre nearby.
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Security & privacy
Critical flaws in F5 and Check Point security products were exploited on the day they were disclosed
Both let an unauthenticated attacker run code: one in F5's BIG-IP access gateway when it acts as an OAuth server, the other in Check Point's management server.
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Chips & infrastructure
EU adopts a rating scheme for data centres' energy and water use, with first labels expected in 2027
It covers data centres above 500 kW. The Commission also opened a consultation on minimum performance standards, as it plans to triple EU data centre capacity.
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Business
EU customs reform takes effect, with a fee on small e-commerce parcels from November and one EU data hub
A single EU customs data system will replace national IT systems, first for e-commerce in 2028. A €3 duty on low-value parcels has applied since July.
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Security & privacy
China names 30 apps over personal-data failures and gives them 15 working days to fix them
The internet regulator's tests found apps with no privacy rules, demands for unneeded permissions, and no working way to delete an account.
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Internet & devices
China says platforms removed 1.56 million posts about companies and dealt with 26,000 accounts in a clean-up
The internet regulator's campaign targets what it calls malicious hype about businesses, from extortion to posts running down firms' prospects. It names accounts on Xiaohongshu, Douyin, Weibo and others.
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Security & privacy
Three Linux kernel flaws are being exploited, US cyber agency says, including one scored 9.8
The flaws are in the kernel's TLS, crypto-socket and network-bridge code. CISA notes the kernel is used in many products, some of which may no longer get fixes.
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Rules & courts
India makes telecom operators act on numbers their AI systems flag as spam, and regulates robocalls
Automated calls must now be declared in advance or be treated as spam. Action against a sender can start with 3 complaints instead of 5, if AI detection agrees.
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Work & careers
In 34 of 37 countries, more people expect AI to mean fewer jobs than more, Pew survey finds
Worry runs highest in wealthy countries: around seven in ten adults or more in Australia, South Korea and the US expect job losses over the next 20 years.
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Chips & infrastructure
India says 5 of the 12 chip plants it approved are now in commercial production, as it moves to Semicon 2.0
Two more assembly and packaging lines, in Mohali and Surat, started on 17 September, the government says. It puts Semicon 2.0's budget at $13.5 billion, up from $8 billion.
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Rules & courts
EU proposes no social media accounts of their own before 15, and none at all under 13
The Commission's KIDS Act would also ban infinite scroll and profiling feeds for under-18s, and make large platforms prove their services are safe by design. It is a proposal: Parliament and member states must agree it.
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Security & privacy
Salesforce customers faced severe delays and errors for more than seven hours, across all regions
Requests stalled on an internal login service. Salesforce says the fix held from 15:26 UTC, and that it will publish the cause after a full investigation.
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Security & privacy
A flaw in Pixel phones' cellular modem is being exploited; Google's 5 September patch level fixes it
Google says there are signs of limited, targeted attacks. The US cyber agency added the flaw to its exploited list a day after Google's bulletin.
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Rules & courts
Google must open its ad exchange to rival tools for six years under a monitor, unsealed opinion shows
The judge found a breakup 'neither realistic nor needed'. Google must connect AdX to the open-source Prebid and to rival ad servers, and let publishers export their data.
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Work & careers
UK job vacancies in information and communication were 36,000 this summer, about half their 2022 peak
The official count was unchanged on a year earlier. Across the whole UK economy, vacancies fell to 702,000, the lowest since early 2021.
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Rules & courts
China takes an AI app offline for not labelling AI-generated content, among 10 enforcement cases
The internet regulator also fined a hospital left with 700 unpatched vulnerabilities, and a property firm that collected over 5,000 customers' faces without consent.
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Work & careers
Cambium Networks cuts 260 jobs, 53.6% of its staff, with no severance, as its UK arm enters administration
The maker of wireless broadband and Wi-Fi equipment filed the cuts with the SEC. Administrators will try to sell some or all of its business lines.
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AI
China has now registered 1,112 generative AI services, after 124 more in July and August
The new batch includes 7 services that run on the phone itself. Apps built on registered models are counted separately, 731 so far.
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Security & privacy
A cleanup job overloaded a GitHub database, degrading about 28 services for two hours
Creating issues on the web failed 96% of the time at worst, and sign-ups over 90%. GitHub says it will split up the database cluster that failed.
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Security & privacy
Attackers are exploiting flaws in GitLab and JFrog Artifactory, where companies keep their code and builds
The GitLab flaw, scored 10 out of 10, let an unauthenticated user read any file on a self-managed server. US agencies were given three days to patch it.
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Rules & courts
China spells out when firms can send personal data abroad under certification, and bans splitting transfers
Certification covers 100,000 to 1 million people's data a year; above that, a security assessment is required. Breaking transfers up to stay under the line is not allowed.
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Chips & infrastructure
TSMC's revenue rose 53.3% in August from a year earlier, to NT$514.8 billion
Its sales for January to August were up 39.3%. The monthly report gives a single total and does not say which products drove it.
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Business
Oracle's booked future revenue reached $664 billion, as it sold $20 billion of shares to fund data centres
Cloud infrastructure revenue more than doubled in the quarter to August. Free cash flow was negative $5 billion as Oracle kept building.
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Security & privacy
Cisco says state-backed hackers and a ransomware group are exploiting its firewall management software
One flaw, scored 10 out of 10, gives root access without logging in. Cisco's researchers found a variant of malware previously attributed to Russia's Sandworm on one compromised system.
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Security & privacy
Chrome had two flaws exploited by attackers within a week; update to version 153 fixes the second
Both were in V8, Chrome's JavaScript engine, and let a crafted web page run code inside the browser's sandbox. Chrome 153 also fixed 229 other security bugs.