Remember Google Plus? Remember its privacy blunder? Remember applying for a slice of a settlement? Congrats, $2.15 is on its way to you. And millions on lawyers and admin costs Personal Tech05 Aug 2021 | 15
AWS taps up Singapore scientists to overcome hurdles facing quantum computing 'Some forms of encryption used today can be broken by future large-scale quantum computers, which drives a search for alternatives' Networks05 Aug 2021 | 9
Google hits undo on Chrome browser alert change that broke websites, web apps 'This is peak Chrome; a reasonably good idea hampered because it was pushed out thoughtlessly' Applications05 Aug 2021 | 43
Please, no Moore: 'Law' that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into a cul-de-sac Feature Are we approaching peak computing? What are the alternatives? On-Prem05 Aug 2021 | 159
Ch-ch-ch-Chia! HDD sales soar to record levels as latest crypto craze sweeps Europe Knock-on effect for NAS and SSD devices too Storage05 Aug 2021 | 69
Das tut mir leid! Germany's ruling party sorry for calling cops on researcher after she outed canvassing app flaws Party denies naming activist to police but apologises anyway Security05 Aug 2021 | 33
8 years ago another billionaire ploughed millions into space to harvest solar power and beam it back down to Earth Caltech received $100m for the project and is only just telling us now Science05 Aug 2021 | 87
Paperless office? 2.8 trillion pages printed in 2020, down by 14% or 450 billion sheets Big brands might take solace that in 2025, 4.4 million pages will still be printed every minute Personal Tech05 Aug 2021 | 59
Got a cheap Cisco router in your home office? If it's one of these, there's an exposed RCE hole you need to plug Patches issued for two CVE-rated vulns Security05 Aug 2021 | 10
SK hynix to create US-HQ'd NewCo for Intel's outgoing $9bn NAND biz Chipzilla exec and vineyard owner Robert Crooke to run operation … in between picking grapes Storage05 Aug 2021 |
A little Dataiku haiku for you: Hungry investors / throw data management firm / even more money $400m Series E values outfit at $4.6bn AI + ML05 Aug 2021 |
Full Stream ahead: Microsoft will end 'classic' method of recording Teams meetings despite transcription concerns 'All meeting recordings will be saved to OneDrive and SharePoint' from 16 August Software05 Aug 2021 | 45
Fastly CEO opens up on that June outage that crippled so many websites Admits some customers, including one in top ten yet to return its network Networks05 Aug 2021 |
Mozilla slams post-cookie ad tech proposals SWAN and UID2 - needs much more work Replacements for cookie-based tracking still pose privacy problems Software05 Aug 2021 | 15
Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, professor warns Updated For now it's child abuse material but the tech has mission creep written in Security05 Aug 2021 | 363