Microsoft fixes under-attack privilege-escalation holes in Hyper-V
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The bell tolls for TikTok as lifelines to avoid January 19 US ban vanish
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SCOTUS unlikely to save it, no time to find a buyer. Hi, Xiaohongshu!
FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from thousands of Windows PCs in America
Hey, Xi: Zài jiàn!
Price-fixing-as-a-service: The claim against healthcare cost-cruncher MultiPlan
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Attorney Jennifer Scullion on allegations of algorithmic suppression of competition
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
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Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition
You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy
AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 1
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 |
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 | 4
'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 | 6
AI frenzy continues as Macquarie commits up to $5B for Applied Digital datacenters
Bubble? What bubble?
On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 6
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 | 2
Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR
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AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 29
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 | 10
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 | 49
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 | 3
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Sonos CEO steps down after smart speaker app upgrade hit bum note
ICYMI Board appoints interim leader to stay in tune with its turnaround song, both execs hear sweet sound of cash landing in the bank
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 | 9
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 | 6
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 | 86
Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds
Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences
Databases15 Jan 2025 | 8
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
On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 4
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
Offbeat15 Jan 2025 | 62
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
CxO15 Jan 2025 | 6
SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover
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Bootnotes15 Jan 2025 | 45
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
Patches15 Jan 2025 | 1
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. Hi, Xiaohongshu!
Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 54
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 | 20
They've only gone and made Doom run in a PDF file
Lol Knee-deep in the markup
FBI wipes Chinese PlugX malware from thousands of Windows PCs in America
Hey, Xi: Zài jiàn!
Cyber-crime14 Jan 2025 | 19
Biden opens federal land to power-hungry AI datacenters
Watt's the problem? Not enough energy to win the arms race?
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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 | 10
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 | 1
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 | 46
Brit watchdog probes Google's search, ads empire
Third front opened amid continued scrutiny from US, Euro regulators
Personal Tech14 Jan 2025 | 4
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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
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Snyk appears to deploy 'malicious' packages targeting Cursor for unknown reason
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Security14 Jan 2025 | 1
Tim cooking up the dough as his Apple pay rises 18% to $74.6M
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GitHub Git downtime caused by bad configuration update
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JetBrains Rider will get remote Windows development, mixed mode .NET and C++ debugging and improved SQL Server support
Coding help on StackOverflow dives as AI assistants rise
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Security14 Jan 2025 | 121
Absolute Linux has reached the end – where to next?
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UK floats ransomware payout ban for public sector
Stronger proposals may also see private sector applying for a payment 'license'
Cyber-crime14 Jan 2025 | 22
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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 | 73
Hulk smash Musk and Zuck! Actor Mark Ruffalo and non-billionaire pals back network tech underpinning Bluesky
Free Our Feeds solicits funds to foster AT Protocol that powers decentralized social media
Bootnotes14 Jan 2025 | 59
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
WordPress drama latest: Leader Matt Mullenweg exiles five contributors
WordPress.org accounts cancelled, dissidents told to fork off
Applications14 Jan 2025 | 27
Cryptojacking, backdoors abound as fiends abuse Aviatrix Controller bug
This is what happens when you publish PoCs immediately, hm?
CoreWeave drops £1bn in UK datacenters – but don't expect the latest Nvidia magic just yet
Rent-a-GPU outfit's latest datacenters are packed to the brim with H200s
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Scumbags stole API keys, then started a hacking-as-a-service biz, it is claimed
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Azure, Microsoft 365 MFA outage locks out users across regions
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NATO's newest member comes out swinging following latest Baltic Sea cable attack
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Pastor's divine 'dream' crypto scheme indicted by Uncle Sam
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Nvidia snaps back at Biden's 'innovation-killing' AI chip export restrictions
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Microsoft tests 45% M365 price hikes in Asia-Pacific to see how much you enjoy AI
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