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Unrelated to the OAuth token attack, but still troubling as org reveals details of around 100,000 users were grabbed by the baddies
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AI + ML28 May 2022 | 6
Declassified and released: More secret files on US govt's emergency doomsday powers
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Bootnotes28 May 2022 | 15
Stolen university credentials up for sale by Russian crooks, FBI warns
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Cyber-crime27 May 2022 |
Big Tech loves talking up privacy – while trying to kill privacy legislation
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Personal Tech27 May 2022 | 7
SEC probes Musk for not properly disclosing Twitter stake
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Personal Tech27 May 2022 | 9
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CSO27 May 2022 | 10
Talos names eight deadly sins in widely used industrial software
Entire swaths of gear relies on vulnerability-laden Open Automation Software (OAS)
Patches27 May 2022 | 2
Despite global uncertainty, $500m hit doesn't rattle Nvidia execs
CEO acknowledges impact of war, pandemic but says fundamentals ‘are really good’
Systems27 May 2022 | 1
Another AI supercomputer from HPE: Champollion lands in France
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HPC27 May 2022 | 1
Workday nearly doubles losses as waves of deals pushed back
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SaaS27 May 2022 | 9
UK monopoly watchdog investigates Google's online advertising business
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Legal27 May 2022 | 5
Helping the helpers: Managed Kubernetes relieves some of the burden for software developers in the SaaS era
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Microsoft slows some hiring for Windows, Teams, and Office
'Making sure the right resources are aligned to the right opportunity' ahead of next fiscal year
Software27 May 2022 | 6
Recession fears only stoking enterprise tech spending for Dell, others
Staving off entropy with digital transformation, hybrid office, and automation projects
On-Prem27 May 2022 |
GitHub saved plaintext passwords of npm users in log files, post mortem reveals
Unrelated to the OAuth token attack, but still troubling as org reveals details of around 100,000 users were grabbed by the baddies
Security27 May 2022 | 11
This Windows malware uses PowerShell to inject malicious extension into Chrome
And that's a bit odd, says Red Canary
Research27 May 2022 | 9
Spam is back with a vengeance. Luckily we can't read any of it
Something for the Weekend It's a shame still nothing can be done about all the false positives, though
Bootnotes27 May 2022 | 59
Clonezilla 3: Copy and clone disk images to your heart's content
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Storage27 May 2022 | 27
BOFH: Where do you think you are going with that toner cartridge?
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BOFH27 May 2022 | 79
When management went nuclear on an innocent software engineer
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Software27 May 2022 | 171
Lenovo infrastructure group and Alibaba Cloud both make first annual profits
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Off-Prem27 May 2022 |
Let's play everyone's favorite game: REvil? Or Not REvil?
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Cyber-crime27 May 2022 | 3
World’s smallest remote-controlled robots are smaller than a flea
Video So small, you can't feel it crawl
Science27 May 2022 | 28
IBM-powered Mayflower robo-ship once again tries to cross Atlantic
Whaddayaknow? It's made it more than halfway to America
AI + ML27 May 2022 | 60
Revealed: The semi-secret list of techs Beijing really really wishes it didn't have to import
I think we can all agree that China is not alone in wishing it had an alternative to Microsoft Windows
On-Prem27 May 2022 | 22
Huawei claims it’s halved the time needed to build a 1,000-rack datacenter
Promises modular kit gets you up and running in six to nine months, with AI-powered ops to make it efficient
Off-Prem27 May 2022 | 5
Why do hackers keep coming back to attack you? Because they can
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China offering ten nations help to run their cyber-defenses and networks
Sure, they’re small Pacific nations, but they’re in very strategic locations
Security27 May 2022 | 24
Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware
Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming
Virtualization27 May 2022 | 31
How to reprogram Apple AirTags, play custom sounds
Voltage glitch here, glitch there, now you can fiddle with location disc's firmware
Research27 May 2022 | 2
Ransomware encrypts files, demands three good deeds to restore data
Shut up and take ... poor kids to KFC?
Research26 May 2022 | 11
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Microsoft Azure to spin up AMD MI200 GPU clusters for 'large scale' AI training
Microsoft Build Windows giant carries a PyTorch for chip designer and its rival Nvidia
AI + ML26 May 2022 |
New York City rips out last city-owned public payphones
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Bootnotes26 May 2022 | 26
Cheers ransomware hits VMware ESXi systems
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Research26 May 2022 | 3
Microsoft’s Power Pages: Easy web building, or an abstraction too far?
Microsoft’s MAUI cross-platform framework: Tooling still in preview and gaps remain
Microsoft reveals Dev Box workstations for remote development
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Twitter founder Dorsey beats hasty retweet from the board
As shareholders sue the social network amid Elon Musk's takeover scramble
Personal Tech26 May 2022 | 12
Snowflake stock drops as some top customers cut usage
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Storage26 May 2022 | 3
Amazon investors nuke proposed ethics overhaul and say yes to $212m CEO pay
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Broadcom to 'focus on rapid transition to subscriptions' for VMware
Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming
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Perl Steering Council lays out a backwards compatible future for Perl 7
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Verizon: Ransomware sees biggest jump in five years
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Slack-for-engineers Mattermost on open source and data sovereignty
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Internet went offline in Pakistan as protestors marched for ousted prime minister
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Ex-spymaster and fellow Brexiteers' emails leaked by suspected Russian op
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UK opens national security probe into 2021 sale of local wafer fab to Chinese company
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Mitsubishi Electric again admits to widespread quality control cheating
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Legal26 May 2022 | 12
As Microsoft's $70b takeover of Activision nears, workers step up their organizing
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Nvidia shares tumble as China lockdown, Russia blamed for dent in outlook
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AI + ML26 May 2022 | 1
Atos pushes out HPC cloud services based on Nimbix tech
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HPC25 May 2022 |
In record year for vulnerabilities, Microsoft actually had fewer
Occasional gaping hole and overprivileged users still blight the Beast of Redmond
Security25 May 2022 | 10
Vehicle owner data exposed in GM credential-stuffing attack
Car maker says miscreants used stolen logins to break into folks' accounts
Security25 May 2022 | 29
Foxconn factory fiasco could leave Wisconsinites on the hook for $300m
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On-Prem25 May 2022 | 60
Original killer PC spreadsheet Lotus 1-2-3 now runs on Linux natively
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Applications25 May 2022 | 93
ServiceNow takes aim at procurement pain points
Purchasing teams are a bit like help desks – always being asked to answer dumb or inappropriate questions
SaaS25 May 2022 |
HPE, Cerebras build AI supercomputer for scientific research
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HPC25 May 2022 | 2
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