Windows Patch Tuesday hits snag with Citrix software, workarounds published Microsoft starts 2025 as it hopefully doesn't mean to go on
China's Salt Typhoon spies spotted on US govt networks before telcos, CISA boss says We are only seeing 'the tip of the iceberg,' Easterly warns
Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy
IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year Half the number of roles axed, and yes – you can keep blaming AI
AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats Virtualization17 Jan 2025 |
SpaceX resets ‘Days Since Starship Exploded’ counter to zero Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch Science17 Jan 2025 | 4
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 2
GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums We'll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC Personal Tech17 Jan 2025 | 4
In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows Bootnotes16 Jan 2025 | 20
Feds sue Southwest for chronic delays, unrealistic schedules Department of Transportation wants in on last-minute Biden administration action too Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 2
Russia's Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts FSB cyberspies venture into a new app for espionage, Microsoft says Security16 Jan 2025 | 1
TSMC plans to have 1.6nm chips in 'volume production' by 2026 You've got to spend money – like $36 billion+ – to make, er, AI chips Systems16 Jan 2025 | 2
Enzo Biochem settles lawsuit over 2023 ransomware attack for $7.5M That's in addition to the $4.5M fine paid to three state AGs last year Cyber-crime16 Jan 2025 | 1
Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory The hyperscale plant is designed to produce tens of thousands of AVs a year Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 16
Raspberry Pi hands out prizes to all in the RP2350 Hacking Challenge Power-induced glitches, lasers, and electromagnetic fields are all tools of the trade Security16 Jan 2025 | 10
Cybersecurity rethink - from reaction to resilience Proactive strategies for data security and identity management in 2025 Webinar
Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR Interview She doesn't feel pity, remorse, or fear, but she'll craft a polite email message as she turns you down
Google reports halving code migration time with AI help Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas AI + ML16 Jan 2025 | 9
AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach Plus: Bit barns' demand for water, land, and power could breed 'growing opposition' from residents On-Prem16 Jan 2025 | 17
Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog Regulator asks people to link their credit cards, mobile accounts, or face scans for smut use to protect kids Personal Tech16 Jan 2025 | 126
Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5 The eighth point-release of Bookworm – yes, you read that right – and the latest MX with new Xfce OSes16 Jan 2025 | 21
Blue Origin reaches orbit with New Glenn, fumbles first-stage recovery Jeff Bezos' space company achieves milestone with payload delivered Science16 Jan 2025 | 43
Infoseccer: Private security biz let guard down, exposed 120K+ files Assist Security’s client list includes fashion icons, critical infrastructure orgs Security16 Jan 2025 | 9
Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, advocacy groups argue Free Software Foundation Europe and others urge European Commission to double down on DMA Software16 Jan 2025 | 13
UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog NAO report highlights £3B cost overruns and 29 years of cumulative delays in IT projects Personal Tech16 Jan 2025 | 27
India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit As the ESA celebrates planned break-up of its solar blotter-spotter Science16 Jan 2025 | 12
US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register Sophgo scores a place on Entity List, Indian nuclear boffins taken off Legal16 Jan 2025 | 4
Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems HPC16 Jan 2025 | 13
Parallels brings back the magic that was waiting seven minutes for Windows to boot BTW In a preview of x86_64 VMs running on Apple silicon, so it’s excusable for now
GoDaddy slapped with wet lettuce for years of lax security and 'several major breaches' Watchdog alleged it had no SIEM or MFA, orders rapid adoption of basic infosec tools CSO15 Jan 2025 | 9
DJI loosens flight restrictions, decides to trust operators to follow FAA rules Right after one of its drones crashed into an aircraft fighting California wildfires? Great timing Security15 Jan 2025 | 15
Oh, Deere! FTC sues tractor maker, alleging decades of monopolized repairs Updated Incoming Trump-picked watchdog boss dissents, calls suit 'hasty' and 'deeply imprudent,' so will it stick? Public Sector15 Jan 2025 | 29
China's Salt Typhoon spies spotted on US govt networks before telcos, CISA boss says We are only seeing 'the tip of the iceberg,' Easterly warns Security15 Jan 2025 | 9
IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year Half the number of roles axed, and yes – you can keep blaming AI CxO15 Jan 2025 | 23
Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 29
Nvidia plots Quantum Day at GTC 2025 – for tech it called a distant dream Don't believe the hype? GPU maker jumps on the bandwagon anyway HPC15 Jan 2025 | 3
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Windows Patch Tuesday hits snag with Citrix software, workarounds published Microsoft starts 2025 as it hopefully doesn't mean to go on Patches15 Jan 2025 | 6
'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 26
AI frenzy continues as Macquarie commits up to $5B for Applied Digital datacenters Bubble? What bubble? On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 9
Another open source project shifts to restrictive license: Fluent Assertions following Xceed partnership
JetBrains Rider will get remote Windows development, mixed mode .NET and C++ debugging and improved SQL Server support
Crypto klepto North Korea stole $659M over just 5 heists last year US, Japan, South Korea vow to intensify counter efforts Cyber-crime15 Jan 2025 | 12
Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI Energy consumption set to become a key performance indicator by 2027 On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 27
Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home Threat to quit still preferred to commuting on packed public transport On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 181
Securing AI workloads in multi-tenant K8s clusters Discover how F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes offloads critical AI tasks to BlueField-3 DPUs Partner Content
Four plead guilty in US government tech procurement fraud case Scheme involving bribes, bid rigging and insider info may have cost US taxpayers $1.3M Public Sector15 Jan 2025 | 6
SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon Blue Ghost's first time, and second time lucky for Japanese company ispace? Science15 Jan 2025 | 21
British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees Collective Proceedings Order seeks £1.5B from iGiant Applications15 Jan 2025 | 9
UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff Rising costs blamed, although any excuse to do more with less AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 122
Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences
Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure is for apps you don’t want in the cloud, but will manage from it Azure Local is about hybrid management, not hybrid resource pools, and is catching up with virtual rivals
Boeing going backwards as production’s slowing and woes keep flowing No such problems at Airbus, which cruised at a high level and shipped almost two planes a day last year
Intel Capital next into the chip giant's trebuchet, to be shot as far over the wall as possible This'll be good for you, don't you worry, CFO tells venture fund while pulling back the sling
SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover Plus: SpaceX rocket re-entries spark airline delays
Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in Hyper-V Patch Tuesday Plus: Excel hell, angst for Adobe fans, and life's too Snort for Cisco
A rethink of parental leave policy IT workers and programmers set to benefit as Sandvik implements HR reboot
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
The bell tolls for TikTok as lifelines to avoid January 19 US ban vanish Comment SCOTUS unlikely to save it, no time to find a buyer. So, hi, Xiaohongshu! Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 65
Allstate accused of quietly paying app makers for driver data Insurance giant sued by Texas for using surveillance without consent to jack up premiums, deny coverage Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 23
FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from thousands of Windows PCs in America Hey, Xi: Zài jiàn! Cyber-crime14 Jan 2025 | 24
Biden opens federal land to power-hungry AI datacenters Watt's the problem? Not enough energy to win the arms race? The Future of the Datacenter - 2025 and Beyond14 Jan 2025 | 6
Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home Threat to quit still preferred to commuting on packed public transport
Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI Energy consumption set to become a key performance indicator by 2027
China's Salt Typhoon spies spotted on US govt networks before telcos, CISA boss says We are only seeing 'the tip of the iceberg,' Easterly warns
GoDaddy slapped with wet lettuce for years of lax security and 'several major breaches' Watchdog alleged it had no SIEM or MFA, orders rapid adoption of basic infosec tools
Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, advocacy groups argue Free Software Foundation Europe and others urge European Commission to double down on DMA
Microsoft’s latest on-prem Azure is for apps you don’t want in the cloud, but will manage from it Azure Local is about hybrid management, not hybrid resource pools, and is catching up with virtual rivals
Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy
Crypto klepto North Korea stole $659M over just 5 heists last year US, Japan, South Korea vow to intensify counter efforts
IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year Half the number of roles axed, and yes – you can keep blaming AI
Windows Patch Tuesday hits snag with Citrix software, workarounds published Microsoft starts 2025 as it hopefully doesn't mean to go on
Price-fixing-as-a-service: The claim against healthcare cost-cruncher MultiPlan Interview Attorney Jennifer Scullion on allegations of algorithmic suppression of competition Software14 Jan 2025 | 12
With AI boom in full force, 2024 datacenter deals reach $57B record Fewer giant contracts, but many more smaller ones, in bit barn feeding frenzy Systems14 Jan 2025 | 2
Oracle open source overlord calls it quits, leaves with big ol' pile of shares 38-year veteran Edward Screven led technology and architecture decisions since Sun merger Databases14 Jan 2025 | 3
Cyber protection made intuitive and affordable How Cynet delivered 100 percent Protection and 100 percent Detection Visibility in 2024 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation Partner Content
Microsoft, PC makers cut prices of Copilot+ gear in Europe, analyst stats confirm Double-digit reduction only served to 'stimulate some interest' AI + ML14 Jan 2025 | 48
Brit watchdog probes Google's search, ads empire Third front opened amid continued scrutiny from US, Euro regulators Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 4
Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change 'Let's not do this again please'... days before release date OSes14 Jan 2025 | 39
Snyk appears to deploy 'malicious' packages targeting Cursor for unknown reason Updated Packages removed, vendor said to have apologized to AI code editor as onlookers say it could have been a test Security14 Jan 2025 | 1
Tim cooking up the dough as his Apple pay rises 18% to $74.6M He could buy 49,766 and a half MacBook Pros with that Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 48
Absolute Linux has reached the end – where to next? Analysis Linux distros that don't exist, but we wish did OSes14 Jan 2025 | 52
UK floats ransomware payout ban for public sector Stronger proposals may also see private sector applying for a payment 'license' Cyber-crime14 Jan 2025 | 25
Europe hopes Trump trumps Biden's plan for US to play AI gatekeeper Export controls would limit shipments of GPUs to large swaths of EU AI + ML14 Jan 2025 | 75
Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky Updated Free Our Feeds solicits funds to foster AT Protocol that powers decentralized social media Bootnotes14 Jan 2025 | 60
Intel’s datacenter architecture boss and Xeon lead jumps to Qualcomm Sailesh Kottapalli sees ‘a once-in-a-career opportunity’ at the house of Snapdragon – maybe server CPUs or AI silicon? Systems14 Jan 2025 | 1