Microsoft touts migration to Windows 11 as painless, though wallets may disagree
Millions have perfectly serviceable PCs running Windows 10 at home
What are our top picks from the vast world of retro tech? Let's find out
Kettle
Standby to be amazed: Lotus Notes is still being developed
Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users
Uninstall the update or edit the Windows registry to restore order
How 'sleeper agent' AI assistants can sabotage your code without you realizing
Analysis
Today's safety guardrails won't catch these backdoors, study warns
Apple, AMD, Qualcomm GPU security hole lets miscreants snoop on AI training and chats
So much for isolation
Research17 Jan 2024 |
Facial recognition tech has outpaced US laws – and don't expect the Feds to catch up
comment Let's be realistic: If the EU can't regulate it well, America definitely won't
Public Sector17 Jan 2024 | 2
IBM scraps rewards program for staff inventions, wipes away cash points
Exclusive Big Blue staffers aren't pleased to lose out on potential bonuses
On-Prem17 Jan 2024 | 14
Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse
Updated 'Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,' says study
Personal Tech17 Jan 2024 | 27
Chip wars could lead to oversupply as China increases domestic capacity
Middle Kingdom can make market moves too... as potential global price battles loom
Systems17 Jan 2024 | 4
Can solar power be beamed down from space? Yes. Is it commercially viable? Not yet
Caltech looks back on the highs and lows of the SSPD-1 project
Science17 Jan 2024 | 36
NVMe consortium polishes its specs to support computational storage
Tech to shift storage to compute has so far failed to catch on in a big way
Storage17 Jan 2024 |
Could immutability be a Leap too far for openSUSE users?
Update on Linux distro's next major version heralds big changes ahead
OSes17 Jan 2024 | 15
YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus
FYI Slowdowns apparently due to a bug afflicting browser extensions, not retaliation against filters
What's worse than paying an extortion bot that auto-pwned your database?
Paying one that lied to you and only saved the first 20 rows of each table
Research17 Jan 2024 | 9
AI investment still at the planning stage through 2024, Gartner says
Imagined impact of GenAI on GDP is over-optimistic, analyst firm says
AI + ML17 Jan 2024 | 1
AI political disinformation is a huge problem – but harder to fight than ever
Analysis How OpenAI, Microsoft, and others are trying to combat deepfakes and more
AI + ML17 Jan 2024 | 14
Post Office boss unable to say when biz knew Horizon could be remotely altered
CEO stays tight-lipped in front of MPs while Fujitsu admits moral responsibility for compensation
Public Sector17 Jan 2024 | 74
Microsoft touts migration to Windows 11 as painless, though wallets may disagree
Millions have perfectly serviceable PCs running Windows 10 at home
OSes17 Jan 2024 | 66
Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users
Uninstall the update or edit the Windows registry to restore order
Patches17 Jan 2024 | 24
Injecting generative AI into your organization
Hear Dell Technologies share its early experiences of finding a way
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RETRO TECH WEEK
The 'nothing-happened' Y2K bug – how the IT industry worked overtime to save world's computers
Software ...though bonkers conspiracies on solving date-field problem never died down
Eben Upton on Sinclair, Acorn, and the Raspberry Pi
Interview The future's bright. The future's retro
How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds
History Compatible hardware and peripherals are still on sale, four decades after its launch
The New ROM Antics – building the ZX Spectrum 128
Opinion If you think Sinclair’s hardware was odd, you haven’t met the people
Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form
Hardware The only PC with a keyboard so dreadful it challenged the ZX80, now even less usable
Enterprises struggle with Agile methodology, reports long-standing survey of practitioners
SQLite’s new support for binary JSON is similar but different from a PostgreSQL feature
Database management the easy – and professional – way
Spotlight on GitHub self-hosted runners again as researcher demonstrates attack on PyTorch code
Thousands of Juniper Networks devices vulnerable to critical RCE bug
ICYMI Yet more support for the argument to adopt memory-safe languages
BT to spell out contract price hikes in pounds and pence
Updated None of this inflation-linked percentage nonsense, says Ofcom
Networks17 Jan 2024 | 17
Home improvement marketers dial up trouble from regulator
ICO slaps penalties on two businesses that collectively made more than 3 million cold calls
Security17 Jan 2024 | 10
What are our top picks from the vast world of retro tech? Let's find out
Kettle Standby to be amazed: Lotus Notes is still being developed
Personal Tech17 Jan 2024 | 10
Combination of cheap .cloud domains and fake Shark Tank news fuel unhealthy wellness scams
.SBS gTLD once owned by Australian broadcaster is another source of strife
Security17 Jan 2024 | 4
Google updates Chrome's Incognito Mode data slurp disclaimer in early browser build
After settling privacy lawsuit now admits you're observable even when trying for anonymity
Software17 Jan 2024 | 4
Working from home never looked better: Leopard stalks around Infosys and TCS campuses
No consultants were mauled or eaten but some were quite scared
Offbeat17 Jan 2024 | 29
Nokia walks the walk about its RAN to play on Uncle Sam’s China fears
Comment It pays not to be Huawei, and the US military can be lucrative, too
Security17 Jan 2024 | 4
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FBI: Beware of thieves building Androxgh0st botnets using stolen creds
Infecting networks via years-old CVEs that should have been patched by now
CSO17 Jan 2024 |
Boss fight between Donkey Kong champ and leaderboard org ends with settlement
Retro Tech Week Video game record keepers Twin Galaxies finish messy four-year fight with Billy Mitchell
Personal Tech17 Jan 2024 | 18
Pentagon using ChatGPT? Oh sure, for cyber-things and veterans, says OpenAI
Just days after ban on 'military and warfare' applications goes away, Davos hears the details
AI + ML16 Jan 2024 | 4
How 'sleeper agent' AI assistants can sabotage your code without you realizing
Analysis Today's safety guardrails won't catch these backdoors, study warns
AI + ML16 Jan 2024 | 20
Google AI chatbot more empathetic than real doctors in tests
No, that does not mean machines can replace primary care physicians
AI + ML16 Jan 2024 | 13
JPMorgan latest to pile into quantum upstart with $5B valuation
Banking giant believes Quantinuum key to optimizing investment portfolios
Systems16 Jan 2024 | 2
US Supreme Court doesn't want to hear Apple, Epic's gripes about in-app purchases
Updated Get ready for links to non-Cupertino payment systems, America, hopefully
Personal Tech16 Jan 2024 | 18
Patch now: Critical VMware, Atlassian flaws found
You didn't have anything else to do this Tuesday, right?
Patches16 Jan 2024 | 5
The chips are down in China as imports see largest ever drop
Makes sense since the global market fell 11% in 2023
Systems16 Jan 2024 | 5
More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are exposed to old denial of service bugs
Updated Majority of public-facing devices still unpatched against critical vulns from as far back as 2022
Research16 Jan 2024 | 7
Planning ahead for flexible HCI
An IT infrastructure strategy for 2024 replete with TCO and ROI metrics
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CES HIGHLIGHTS
It's uncertain where personal technology is heading, but judging from CES, it smells
Column Our vulture spent a week in Las Vegas – here are his key takeaways
The week in weird: Check out the strangest CES tech of 2024
WTF Cat flap fever, a streaming service for dogs, and other oddities on display in Vegas this week
Drivers: We'll take that plain dumb car over a flashy data-spilling internet one, thanks
Privacy Now that's a smart move
It's not all watching transparent TV from a voice-commanded bidet. CES has work stuff too
Serious Fancy a Windows laptop that's also an Android tablet or a mouse and keyboard powered by kinetic energy and solar
Wireless priesthood begins blessing Wi-Fi 7 hardware
Networks A little more speed and less latency
John Deere tractors get connectivity boost with Starlink deal
SpaceX gets chance to prove the FCC was wrong for rejecting its $885m rural broadband subsidy bid
Networks16 Jan 2024 | 23
Windows 12 fan fiction shows how Microsoft might ladle AI into the OS
Unlikely to be a stop-the-slurpage button, but look at the wallpaper
OSes16 Jan 2024 | 22
Apple claims top spot in global smartphone market for first time
Shipments grow in Q4 after near two years of declines, and Huawei making a comeback in China
Personal Tech16 Jan 2024 | 7
Ivanti zero-day exploits explode as bevy of attackers get in on the act
Customers still patchless and mitigation only goes so far
Cyber-crime16 Jan 2024 | 5
Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs
Not all batteries like subzero temperatures
Offbeat16 Jan 2024 | 286
Europe benched in high tech 'Champions League' says ASML
Calls for stronger team play in the global economic tournament
Systems16 Jan 2024 | 10
Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs
AI for customers and staff, while Euro bitbarns shifted to Azure
PaaS + IaaS16 Jan 2024 | 17
Asahi Linux team issues promising update on efforts to conquer Apple Silicon
Good progress for penguinistas keen on Macs
OSes16 Jan 2024 | 12
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New Huawei AP designed to boost speed, access and efficiency in campus wireless networks
Redefining datacenter connectivity with open source networking
Why meeting escalating traffic demands requires flexible, resilient, modern network architectures built on open standards
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The biggest problem is a tendency to ignore problems you can’t see or haven’t looked for, says SecurityHQ
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UK public sector could save £20B by swerving mega-projects and more, claims chief auditor
Spending watchdog slams reliance on outdated systems and poor governance
Public Sector16 Jan 2024 | 87
Deep Green gets £200M from power supplier to scale waste heat reuse
Octopus Energy wants to back server-cooling, district heating projects
On-Prem16 Jan 2024 | 17
Remember when enterprise administration was more than just a browser dashboard?
Retro Tech Week Playing Colossal Cave Adventure on an ICL 2966 and coding on the last Elliott 803
Personal Tech16 Jan 2024 | 16
Can you dig it? Samsung buys chunk of a Canadian nickel mining company
Korean giant wants a local source of the stuff needed to build batteries
Offbeat16 Jan 2024 | 1
India again backs down on its controversial PC import restrictions
Desktops escape regulations, laptops and servers don't, no reasons explained
Legal16 Jan 2024 | 6
China’s gambling crackdown spawned wave of illegal online casinos and crypto-crime in Asia
‘Inaccessible and autonomous armed group territories’ host crooks who use tech to launder cash, run slave scam gangs, and more
Cyber-crime16 Jan 2024 | 4
Microsoft prices new Copilots for individuals and small biz vastly higher than M365 alone
Intros ‘Pro’ AI for creators, ditches 300-seat requirement for business use
AI + ML15 Jan 2024 | 45
Musk claims that venting liquid oxygen caused Starship explosion
Billionaire suggests a payload would have solved the problem. And we have a suggestion for who that payload could be
Science15 Jan 2024 | 116
Crippled Peregrine lunar lander set for fiery return to Earth in matter of days
Doing science and still alive ... but not for long
Science15 Jan 2024 | 11
Patch time: Critical GitLab vulnerability exposes 2FA-less users to account takeovers
The bug with a perfect 10 severity score has been ripe for exploitation since May
Patches15 Jan 2024 | 21
Reports that China's military uses Baidu's AI lead to stock plunge
Web giant retorts that researchers simply used its publicly available APIs
AI + ML15 Jan 2024 | 9
Point-based solutions for cloud security make way for platform approach
How Trend Micro takes AWS security to the next level with an integrated, automated cybersecurity platform
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Tesla owners in deep freeze discover the cold, hard truth about EVs
Not all batteries like subzero temperatures
How Sinclair's QL computer outshined Apple's Macintosh against all odds
Retro Tech Week Compatible hardware and peripherals are still on sale, four decades after its launch
Researchers confirm what we already knew: Google results really are getting worse
Updated 'Search engines seem to lose the cat-and-mouse game that is SEO spam,' says study
Patch now: Critical VMware, Atlassian flaws found
You didn't have anything else to do this Tuesday, right?
Atari 400 makes a comeback in miniature form
Retro Tech Week The only PC with a keyboard so dreadful it challenged the ZX80, now even less usable
More than 178,000 SonicWall firewalls are exposed to old denial of service bugs
Updated Majority of public-facing devices still unpatched against critical vulns from as far back as 2022
YouTube video lag wrongly blamed on its ad-blocking animus
Slowdowns apparently due to a bug afflicting browser extensions, not retaliation against filters
Vodafone signs a 10-year, $1.5B deal with Microsoft that sheds European DCs
AI for customers and staff, while Euro bitbarns shifted to Azure
China’s gambling crackdown spawned wave of illegal online casinos and crypto-crime in Asia
‘Inaccessible and autonomous armed group territories’ host crooks who use tech to launder cash, run slave scam gangs, and more
Ivanti zero-day exploits explode as bevy of attackers get in on the act
Customers still patchless and mitigation only goes so far
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FTC secures first databroker settlement banning sale of sensitive location data
Infosec in brief Also, iOS spyware abused Apple's own ECC, breach victim says it can't figure out what hackers took, and some critical vulns
Big Cloud deploys thousands of GPUs for AI – yet most appear under-utilized
If AWS, Microsoft, Google were anywhere close to capacity, their revenues would be way higher
Microsoft braces for automatic AI takeover with Copilot at Windows startup
Experiment is limited to the Insider Dev Channel. For now
AI and robots join forces to cook up proteins faster
Applications across chemistry, energy, and medicine await human-free acceleration
Science15 Jan 2024 | 3
CDW settles in lawsuit with rival reseller over Cisco sales
Meanwhile pending case from Cisco accuses Dexon of selling counterfeit kit
Networks15 Jan 2024 | 1
KDE 6 hits RC-1 while KDE 5 brings fresh spin on OpenBSD
New versions and ports of the Plasma desktop ahoy
OSes15 Jan 2024 | 34
Effective storage strategies for a new year
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