Be honest. Would you pay off a ransomware crew?
Kettle
Today us vultures are debating bans on ransom payments, deplorable tactics by extortionists, and more
While we fire the boss, can you lock him out of the network?
On Call
And he would have got away with it, too, if it weren’t for this one tiny backdoor
How governments become addicted to suppliers like Fujitsu
Analysis
Interest in Japanese’s firm’s public sector deals – worth $15B in the UK alone since 2012 – spikes
BOFH: Nice air conditioning system. Would be a shame if anything happened to it
Episode 1
How to 'improve your service level' with 'AI' when redundancies loom
NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane
Boffins say the quiet part out loud: There's no room for the sonic boom
Science13 Jan 2024 | 29
Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster?
Kettle Lack of skills, funding, and scrutiny – pick three
Public Sector13 Jan 2024 | 38
Number of orgs compromised via Ivanti VPN zero-days grows as Mandiant weighs in
Snoops had no fewer than five custom bits of malware to hand to backdoor networks
CSO13 Jan 2024 | 2
Why we update... Data-thief malware exploits SmartScreen on unpatched Windows PCs
Phemedrone Stealer loots drives for passwords, cookies, login tokens, etc
Patches12 Jan 2024 | 10
GitHub Copilot copyright case narrowed but not neutered
Microsoft and OpenAI fail to shake off AI infringement allegations
AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 7
Exploit for under-siege SharePoint vuln reportedly in hands of ransomware crew
It’s taken months for crims to hack together a working exploit chain
Cyber-crime12 Jan 2024 | 4
Google to lay Asia-Pacific to South America undersea cable
Humboldt cable to zoom from Chile to Australia through the South Pacific
Networks12 Jan 2024 | 5
Secret multimillion-dollar cryptojacker snared by Ukrainian police
Criminal scored $2M in crypto proceeds but ends up in ‘cuffs following property raid
Cyber-crime12 Jan 2024 | 6
Broadcom ditches VMware Cloud Service Providers
ICYMI 'How can they cancel a major program affecting hundreds, perhaps thousands of customers, with zero notice?'
US tech innovation dreams soured by changed R&D tax laws
But Congress is on top of that, right?
On-Prem12 Jan 2024 | 4
Going green Hertz: Rental giant axes third of EV fleet over lack of demand
Company expects $245 million hit due to depreciation
Offbeat12 Jan 2024 | 50
Media experts cry foul over AI's free lunch of copyrighted content
US senators want to know how chatbots represent an existential crisis to journalism and democracy
AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 10
Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get faulty Windows 10 update installed
Unhelpful error codes, complex fixes ... When did Windows turn into Linux?
OSes12 Jan 2024 | 82
So, are we going to talk about how GitHub is an absolute boon for malware, or nah?
Microsoft says it's doing its best to crack down on crims
Research12 Jan 2024 | 19
Data regulator fines HelloFresh £140K for sending 80M+ spams
Messaging menace used text and email to bombard people
Security12 Jan 2024 | 24
Secure network operations for hybrid working
How to have zero trust connectivity and optimize the remote user experience
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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
Amazon discontinues Aurora scale-to-zero database in favor of always-billed replacement
Just-in-time compiler likely to arrive in Python 3.13
Fluid Framework 2.0 previewed with first beta, suffers from lack of community engagement
JavaScript functions stored procedures previewed in MySQL – but developers are wary
Why Google is waiving egress fees for disgruntled customers ditching GCP
Analysis Hint: US, UK, European antitrust police are on the hunt
BOFH: Nice air conditioning system. Would be a shame if anything happened to it
Episode 1 How to 'improve your service level' with 'AI' when redundancies loom
BOFH12 Jan 2024 | 70
Your pacemaker should be running open source software
Opinion Using embedded medical technology, such as a pacemaker, defibrillator, or insulin pump? What's running inside is a complete mystery
OSes12 Jan 2024 | 45
While we fire the boss, can you lock him out of the network?
On Call And he would have got away with it, too, if it weren’t for this one tiny backdoor
Security12 Jan 2024 | 91
Disease X fever infects Davos: WEF to plan response to whatever big pandemic is next
Heads up, this isn't about Elon
Science12 Jan 2024 | 65
Nvidia can't sell its best chips to China, but India is more than happy to take them
Datacenter biz plans to deploy 32,000 Nvidia H100 and H200s next year
Systems12 Jan 2024 |
Daughter of George Carlin horrified someone cloned her dad with AI for hour special
Seven words you can't say – This won't backfire and ruin art forever
AI + ML12 Jan 2024 | 31
What to make of Google backing Right-to-Repair in Oregon? 'It gives me hope'
Anything to slow down the tech trash treadmill welcome at this point
Personal Tech12 Jan 2024 | 7
Mapping the journey to HCI
Watch our webinar for key trends and strategies for infrastructure success in 2024
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Adios, dead zones: Starlink relays SMS in space for unmodified phones on Earth
Now you'll never have an excuse for missing that weekend work text or call
Networks12 Jan 2024 | 54
eBay to cough up $3M after cyber-stalking couple who dared criticize the souk
Staff sent live cockroaches, porno – and more – in harassment campaign to silence pair
Cyber-crime11 Jan 2024 | 24
Silicon Valley weirdo's quest to dodge death – yours for $333 a month
Wonder when he's going to give that 28-year-old their skin back
Bootnotes11 Jan 2024 | 85
Arm cooking up powerful Cortex-X CPU to beat iPhone performance, says industry watcher
Plus: Analyst believes Samsung might give up on own cores and use Arm designs instead
Systems11 Jan 2024 | 22
Mandiant's brute-forced X account exposes perils of skimping on 2FA
Speculation builds over whether a nearly year-old policy change was to blame
Cyber-crime11 Jan 2024 | 25
OpenAI rolls out Team tier because not everyone has enterprise-deep pockets
Benefits include no snacking on your sensitive data
AI + ML11 Jan 2024 | 3
Chinese company's rocket debut makes waves by launching from the sea
Real-life Kerbal Space Program?
Science11 Jan 2024 | 2
Elon Musk made 1 in 3 Trust and Safety staff ex-X employees, it emerges
Oz online safety czar receives evidence of cull despite platform reinstating hundreds of banned accounts
Personal Tech11 Jan 2024 | 105
Infoseccers think attackers backed by China are behind Ivanti zero-day exploits
Customers currently left patchless while attacks are expected to increase
Cyber-crime11 Jan 2024 | 5
Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession
Power user excavates evidence of experimental 'Cowriter' feature
OSes11 Jan 2024 | 66
Forget cloud-first – data-first is the priority in the modern world
Why citizen trust needs openness, collaboration and data embedded at the heart of service design
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Microsoft suggests command line fiddling to get faulty Windows 10 update installed
Unhelpful error codes, complex fixes ... When did Windows turn into Linux?
So, are we going to talk about how GitHub is an absolute boon for malware, or nah?
Microsoft says it's doing its best to crack down on crims
NASA, Lockheed Martin reveal subtly supersonic X-59 plane
Boffins say the quiet part out loud: There's no room for the sonic boom
Why we update... Data-thief malware exploits SmartScreen on unpatched Windows PCs
Phemedrone Stealer loots drives for passwords, cookies, login tokens, etc
Number of orgs compromised via Ivanti VPN zero-days grows as Mandiant weighs in
Snoops had no fewer than five custom bits of malware to hand to backdoor networks
Exploit for under-siege SharePoint vuln reportedly in hands of ransomware crew
It’s taken months for crims to hack together a working exploit chain
GitHub Copilot copyright case narrowed but not neutered
Microsoft and OpenAI fail to shake off AI infringement allegations
Secret multimillion-dollar cryptojacker snared by Ukrainian police
Criminal scored $2M in crypto proceeds but ends up in ‘cuffs following property raid
Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster?
Kettle Lack of skills, funding, and scrutiny – pick three
Going green Hertz: Rental giant axes third of EV fleet over lack of demand
Company expects $245 million hit due to depreciation
STORIES
Google rings in 2024 with sweeping layoffs
Cuts are a continuation of late-2023 redundancies to help teams better 'align their resources'
Off-Prem11 Jan 2024 | 6
PC 'price hike' coming as cost of memory soars – analysts
Scores are on the doors for Q4, as after 2 years shipments grow again... by 0.3%
Personal Tech11 Jan 2024 | 11
How governments become addicted to suppliers like Fujitsu
Analysis Interest in Japanese’s firm’s public sector deals – worth $15B in the UK alone since 2012 – spikes
Public Sector11 Jan 2024 | 143
Office gossips beware – chitchat could choke your career chances
Study of workplace blabbermouths reveals the consequences
Offbeat11 Jan 2024 | 52
AI flips the script on fingerprint lore – maybe they're not so unique after all
Discovery could have implications for the field of forensics
AI + ML11 Jan 2024 | 46
Memtest86+, the little RAM tester, flexes FOSS muscles with v7.0
Essential tool for PC troubleshooting, even if you never run anything but Windows
Storage11 Jan 2024 | 18
Michael Dell: Don't worry about AGI, after all we solved that ozone layer thing
Budget, schmudget, when it comes to AI-enabled productivity gains, says exec
Bootnotes11 Jan 2024 | 9
It's a preview party at Microsoft, but do you really want an invite?
Developers are not alone in losing track of which platform to back
Software11 Jan 2024 | 25
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Turbo-charging the WLAN with Wi-Fi 7
New Huawei AP designed to boost speed, access and efficiency in campus wireless networks
Redefining datacenter connectivity with open source networking
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Cyber security isn’t simple, but it could be
The biggest problem is a tendency to ignore problems you can’t see or haven’t looked for, says SecurityHQ
Accelerate time to insight for AI and HPC
Why few AI projects can get off the ground unless data flows freely
Quantum computing eggheads throw some other qubits at the wall to see what sticks
Just keep the cold clammy hand of Fujitsu away from it
HPC11 Jan 2024 | 7
Pennsylvanians, your government workers are now powered by ChatGPT
We've heard of bored penpushers hallucinating at their desks, but this is something else
AI + ML11 Jan 2024 | 9
Latest tech layoffs: Twitch, Duolingo, Citrix parent ditch hundreds of workers
Happy New Year!
On-Prem11 Jan 2024 | 15
SAP to cough up $220M to drag bribery charges into recycle bin
Enterprise software giant claims it has cut ties with bad apples
Public Sector10 Jan 2024 | 17
Fidelity National now says 1.3M customers had data stolen by cyber-crooks
It's still not calling it ransomware
Cyber-crime10 Jan 2024 | 1
If you're gonna use AI-made stuff in your game, you better tell us, says Steam
And pinky swear there's no copyright-infringing material
AI + ML10 Jan 2024 | 5
Trump-era rules reversed on treating gig workers as contractors
$ gig revert HEAD && gig commit -e 'Biden was here'
Personal Tech10 Jan 2024 | 72
Uncle Sam tells hospitals: Meet security standards or no federal dollars for you
Expect new rules in upcoming weeks
Security10 Jan 2024 | 7
Be honest. Would you pay off a ransomware crew?
Kettle Today us vultures are debating bans on ransom payments, deplorable tactics by extortionists, and more
Cyber-crime10 Jan 2024 | 31
Kia crashes CES with modular electric vehicle concept
CES It's about time someone figured out how to make swappable bits for EV skateboards
Personal Tech10 Jan 2024 | 41
Microsoft's HoloLens goes galactic in $19.8M augmented reality adventure
US Space Force harnesses Azure cloudy computing for orbital training
Public Sector10 Jan 2024 | 2
Urban mobility transformation enhances the “Fast” but removes the “Furious”
How cities old and new are using AI at the edge to tackle traffic, public safety, pollution, sustainability and more
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Cybercrooks play dress-up as 'helpful' researchers in latest ransomware ruse
Posing as cyber samaritans, scumbags are kicking folks when they're down
Cyber-crime10 Jan 2024 | 2
Data wrangler Zuckerberg becomes world's least likely cattle rancher
What a cowboy!
Bootnotes10 Jan 2024 | 18
The Hobbes OS/2 Archive logs off permanently in April
Fans of the tech dinosaur have a few months to fill their drives with software
OSes10 Jan 2024 | 53
ShinyHunters chief phisherman gets 3 years, must cough up $5M
Sebastien Raoult developed various credential-harvesting websites over more than 2 years
Cyber-crime10 Jan 2024 | 5
44-year-old Voyager 2 data sheds light on solar system's magnetic personalities
Magnetosheath jets found around Earth may be present on other planets after Jupiter discovery
SAP reshuffles leadership as cloud crusade continues
New moves follow year where customers complained it broke their trust
STMicroelectronics slims to be lean, mean, chipmaking machine
Streamlines from 3 product groups to 2 as Automotive chief leaves the building
Biggest Linux kernel release ever welcomes bcachefs file system, jettisons Itanium
Farewell IA64, hello snapshots and Rusty refinements
OSes10 Jan 2024 | 48
Boffins demo self-eating rocket engine in Scotland
Interview Roll up, roll up. See Ouroboros-3 eating its own fuselage
Science10 Jan 2024 | 52
Top large language models struggle to make accurate legal arguments
Interview AI can't cite cases, fully grok the law, or reason about it effectively, study finds
AI + ML10 Jan 2024 | 44
Block data storage on trend
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