Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11 Never mind ESU... how about that upgrade?
Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive People just don't know how to wrangle chatbots into useful things, Intel says
Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do? Gartner weighs the pros and cons of the latest enterprise hotness
Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has 'priorities' – but still won't explain 'spy clause' Draft doc struggles to describe how theoretically encryption-busting powers might be used
SpaceX closing in on approval for 25 Starship launches in 2025 Draft environmental assessment ready for public scrutiny Science22 Nov 2024 |
Amazon bets another $4B on Anthropic You just gonna stand there, Google, let AWS take the 'primary training partner' title? Not gonna do nothing? AI + ML22 Nov 2024 |
Public developer spats put bcachefs at risk in Linux Fisticuffs in FOSS-land! Fancy file system's future fraught! OSes22 Nov 2024 | 3
Microsoft pulls text recognition from Photos app preview OCR tech not quite ready for primetime, in this bit of Windows at least Applications22 Nov 2024 | 6
Datacenters could blow up your electric bill thanks to AI Operators may have to pay more for energy if capacity cannot meet demand On-Prem22 Nov 2024 | 8
A year after Broadcom took control of VMware, it's in the box seat Analysis Customers are 'all miserable' – but not yet deciding to bail Virtualization22 Nov 2024 | 13
AI PCs: 'Something will have to give in 2025, and I think it's pricing' Consultant bemoans lack of use cases and businesses' budget AI + ML22 Nov 2024 | 37
EU buyers still shunning pure electric vehicles, prefer hybrids Dual power source beat petrol-only autos for second month running Personal Tech22 Nov 2024 | 59
Mega defense corp Thales faces Anglo-French bribery and corruption probe Authorities remain tight-lipped on specifics Public Sector22 Nov 2024 | 7
BOFH: The devil's in the contract details Episode 22 But at least we have the PFY – and beautiful views from the office window BOFH22 Nov 2024 | 31
SafePay ransomware gang claims Microlise attack that disrupted prison van tracking Fledgling band of crooks says it stole 1.2 TB of data Cyber-crime22 Nov 2024 | 1
Techie left 'For support, contact me' sign on a server. Twenty years later, someone did On Call A certain very famous PC manufacturer may not be very good at documenting its legacy tech On-Prem22 Nov 2024 | 48
Whomp-whomp: AI PCs make users less productive People just don't know how to wrangle chatbots into useful things, Intel says AI + ML22 Nov 2024 | 82
Helpline for Yakuza victims fears it leaked their personal info Organized crime types tend not to be kind to those who go against them, so this is nasty Security22 Nov 2024 | 15
AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews FYI Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry's personal info from HR bots
AWS gives its management screens a makeover in the name of improved productivity Maybe it was crowded layout, inconsistent colors and drop shadows that made cloud so hard? Off-Prem22 Nov 2024 | 5
India's Moon orbiter was shifted suddenly to avoid Korea's and NASA's craft Apparently there's not enough space in space Science22 Nov 2024 | 19
Here's what happens if you don't layer network security – or remove unused web shells TL;DR: Attackers will break in and pwn you, as a US government red team demonstrated Security22 Nov 2024 | 2
Nvidia's dominance on the Green500 faces challenges from AMD – and itself SC24 Blackwell's weaker FP64 performance could give the House of Zen's Instinct accelerators a leg up in future efficiency benchmarks Systems22 Nov 2024 | 1
GlobalFoundries nets $1.5B from CHIPS Act despite sanctions violation fine DoC claims only 4 non-China foundries match GF's scale On-Prem21 Nov 2024 |
New York Times lawyers claim OpenAI accidentally deleted evidence in copyright case Probably not intentional, but '150 person-hours' of work were still lost AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 7
Neuralink brain chips head for the Great White North Canadian volunteers wanted for mind-meld trials AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 11
DARPA-backed voting system for soldiers abroad savaged VotingWorks, developer of the system, disputes critics' claims Security21 Nov 2024 | 3
Prepare for an AI policy upending under Trump, say experts Analysis Biden executive orders are as good as dead, and the industry will probably have more say in what comes next Public Sector21 Nov 2024 | 16
Chinese ship casts shadow over Baltic subsea cable snipfest Danish military confirms it is monitoring as Swedish police investigate. Cloudflare says impact was 'minimal' Networks21 Nov 2024 | 35
Eviden wins €60M Finnish supercomputing award amid Atos turmoil Despite parent's financial turbulence, subsidiary continues to secure major contracts HPC21 Nov 2024 |
'Alarming' security bugs lay low in Linux's needrestart utility for 10 years Update now: Qualys says flaws give root to local users, 'easily exploitable', default in Ubuntu Server Research21 Nov 2024 | 14
API error knocks PayPal, Venmo offline around the globe It's fixed now, but aside from an error with the Braintree GraphQL API it's not clear what happened Applications21 Nov 2024 | 3
Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11 Never mind ESU... how about that upgrade? OSes21 Nov 2024 | 83
DoJ wants Google to sell off Chrome and ban it from paying to be search default Updated Filing also suggests it flogging off Android, stops scraping content for AI without opt-out Applications21 Nov 2024 | 53
Thousands of AI agents later, who even remembers what they do? Gartner weighs the pros and cons of the latest enterprise hotness AI + ML21 Nov 2024 | 20
Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has 'priorities' – but still won't explain 'spy clause' Draft doc struggles to describe how theoretically encryption-busting powers might be used Cyber-crime21 Nov 2024 | 57
Arm lays down the law with a blueprint to challenge x86's PC dominance Now it's up to OEMs and devs to decide whether they want in Systems21 Nov 2024 | 15
AWS will pay devs to verify Rust standard library because of 7,500 unsafe functions and enormity of task
Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him Zomato boss Deepinder Goyal leaves a sour taste in the mouth Offbeat21 Nov 2024 | 81
Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government Digital end of life planning saves your loved ones from a little extra anguish Software21 Nov 2024 | 66
Brazil hooks up with Chinese satellite broadband service that doesn't operate yet After beefing with Elon Musk, comms minister wants to diversify product choice Networks21 Nov 2024 | 9
Where CPUs play in GPU-accelerated AI systems Find out how the Intel Xeon 6 with P-Cores makes the case for the host CPU Partner Content
Pakistan's tech lobby warns that slow internet is strangling IT industry Low-priced freelancers and call centers are at risk Channel21 Nov 2024 | 10
Five Scattered Spider suspects indicted for phishing spree and crypto heists DoJ also shutters allleged crimeware and credit card mart PopeyeTools Cyber-crime21 Nov 2024 | 3
Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator Meet Liminal Panda, which prowls telecom networks in South Asia and Africa CSO20 Nov 2024 | 13
Dell settles with Uncle Sam over Army bid-rigging claims DoJ alleges merely overpriced offers from reseller followed inflated deals from IT giant Public Sector20 Nov 2024 | 2
We'll answer any questions DoJ has, HPE CEO tells us as Feds probe $14B Juniper buy Takeover still expected to close late 2024 or early next year
Job seekers call BS on the workplace AI revolution Survey respondents doubt it boosts performance or even lightens the load
Mega US healthcare payments network restores system 9 months after ransomware attack Change Healthcare’s $2 billion recovery is still a work in progress
Google's AI bug hunters sniff out two dozen-plus code gremlins that humans missed OSS-Fuzz is making a strong argument for LLMs in security research
Microsoft unveils beefy custom AMD chip to crunch HPC workloads on Azure Ignite In-house DPU and HSM silicon also shown off
SpaceX claims another Starship success, but fumbles the catch In-space engine reignition paves way for orbital missions
Why AI builds best on private clouds AI projects under pressure to show real value in the tightest of timeframes might be worth keeping on-premises
An easy route to AI-enhanced productivity How the integration of Google Gemini across Google Workspace turbo charges existing apps with AI power
AI-assisted malware resistance, response and recovery How visibility into the life of an IO all the way from the storage controller to the flash media aids cyber protection
Quantum computing is coming – are you ready? Are you prepared for the day that quantum computing breaks today’s encryption?
D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify Vendor offers 20% discount on new model, but not patches CSO20 Nov 2024 | 53
Kyndryl insiders say there's little new business Special report IT giant aims to end revenue slide by March, former employees have doubts On-Prem20 Nov 2024 | 18
HPE lets loose VM Essentials to run on third-party platforms GreenLake update dangles juicy carrot for VMware refugees Systems20 Nov 2024 |
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off If only the company in the title knew how to scale servers in the cloud Personal Tech20 Nov 2024 | 40
Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government Digital end of life planning saves your loved ones from a little extra anguish
Techie left 'For support, contact me' sign on a server. Twenty years later, someone did On Call A certain very famous PC manufacturer may not be very good at documenting its legacy tech
AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry's personal info from HR bots
Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has 'priorities' – but still won't explain 'spy clause' Draft doc struggles to describe how theoretically encryption-busting powers might be used
Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him Zomato boss Deepinder Goyal leaves a sour taste in the mouth
'Alarming' security bugs lay low in Linux's needrestart utility for 10 years Update now: Qualys says flaws give root to local users, 'easily exploitable', default in Ubuntu Server
Chinese ship casts shadow over Baltic subsea cable snipfest Danish military confirms it is monitoring as Swedish police investigate. Cloudflare says impact was 'minimal'
Microsoft flashes Win10 users with more full-screen ads for Windows 11 Never mind ESU... how about that upgrade?
Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator Meet Liminal Panda, which prowls telecom networks in South Asia and Africa
Here's what happens if you don't layer network security – or remove unused web shells TL;DR: Attackers will break in and pwn you, as a US government red team demonstrated
BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 Obit Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week Bootnotes20 Nov 2024 | 118
Steam cuts the cord for legacy Windows and macOS Don't say you weren't warned Personal Tech20 Nov 2024 | 40
Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13 Personal Tech20 Nov 2024 | 174
Navigating third-party risks Strategies for mitigating external access vulnerabilities and safeguarding sensitive data Webinar
Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous Column CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value CSO20 Nov 2024 | 46
European Cloud Competition Observatory created to keep an eye on software licensing Exclusive Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium PaaS + IaaS20 Nov 2024 | 3
China wants mobile devices to limit usage time for minors, ensure they only see nice content Seeks grand alliance between manufacturers, developers and content providers – all in the name of socialism Personal Tech20 Nov 2024 | 14
Google changes Android release cycle so new versions arrive in Q2 Version 16 developer preview starts the new cycle, with warnings for devs to test sooner rather than later OSes20 Nov 2024 | 10
Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom Shuttered reactor's operator says it's needed - once giant seawall is finished Off-Prem20 Nov 2024 | 12
Healthcare org Equinox notifies 21K patients and staff of data theft Ransomware scum LockBit claims it did the dirty deed Cyber-crime20 Nov 2024 | 1
China-linked group abuses Fortinet 0-day with post-exploit VPN-credential stealer No word on when or if the issue will be fixed Security19 Nov 2024 | 2
Russian suspected Phobos ransomware admin extradited to US over $16M extortion This malware is FREE for EVERY crook ($300 decryption keys sold separately) Cyber-crime19 Nov 2024 | 5
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Microsoft 365 Copilot trips over angle brackets, frustrating coders updated Chatbot seems to choke when fed tricky less-than character AI + ML19 Nov 2024 | 22
America's drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem More than 100M rely on gear rife with vulnerabilities, says EPA OIG Public Sector19 Nov 2024 | 18
Microsoft breaks timezones in Settings and calls on an unlikely ally for help Control Panel hobbles to the rescue! Applications19 Nov 2024 | 30