Charter told to pay $7.3b in damages after cable installer murders grandmother
Broadband giant says it will appeal jury verdict in negligence case
Cyber-crime27 Jul 2022 | 83
27th > July > 2022 Archive
Microsoft profits rise again despite knocks from China, Russia
Finishes the year with close to $200 billion annual revenue and $185 million a day in profits
Software27 Jul 2022 | 3
Google Cloud growth slows, losses grow, bosses unworried
Server spend surges across Alphabet’s empire
Off-Prem27 Jul 2022 | 17
Vietnamese attacker circumvents Facebook security with ‘DUCKTAIL’ malware
Session cookies and 2FA subversion allow takeover of biz and ad accounts, lead to unauthorized ad buys
Research27 Jul 2022 | 8
IBM puts NIST’s quantum-resistant crypto to work in Z16 mainframe
Big Blue says it helped developed the algos, so knows what it's doing
Security27 Jul 2022 | 10
Chinese smartphone sales sink to levels not seen since 2012
Worse than during 2020's lockdowns and less than half 2016 sales
Personal Tech27 Jul 2022 | 7
NASA's Lunar Orbiter spots comfortably warm 'pits' all over the Moon
Shaded bits of lava tubes stay at 17°C all lunar day and all lunar night, a contrast with the rest of Luna's frequent fluctuations
Science27 Jul 2022 | 80
Micron's 232-layer NAND is a game changer for database workloads
Analysis Faster, higher capacity, and cheaper per gig. What more could you ask for? Oh yeah, endurance?
Storage27 Jul 2022 | 28
SK Group pledges $22b for US chip, battery manufacturing
Plus Kioxia, WD snag a $680 million cash infusion from Japan
On-Prem27 Jul 2022 | 3
Weak data protection helped China attack US Federal Reserve, report says
Details of adversarial tradecraft detailed, includes many email accounts
Cyber-crime27 Jul 2022 | 2
Apple-1 prototype hand-soldered by Woz up for auction, bids expected to reach $500k
For just a few hundred thou, you can 'reimagine' dusty Jobs garage computer with a massive crack across the circuit board
Offbeat27 Jul 2022 | 48
Chinese booster rocket tumbles back to Earth: 'Non-zero' chance of hitting populated area
88 percent of the world's population live under the currently estimated footprint of the debris
Science27 Jul 2022 | 63
Semiconductor market to dip 2.5% next year as inflation hits
Not the money-printing machine investors were hoping for as demand set to decrease, says Gartner
Systems27 Jul 2022 | 1
Computer glitches harmed 'nearly 150' patients after Oracle Cerner system go-live
Problems with the October 2020 veterans’ hospital software launch being fixed quickly, promises Oracle
Software27 Jul 2022 | 40
MIT, Autodesk develop AI that can figure out confusing Lego instructions
But can MEPNet make sense of that Ikea manual too?
AI + ML27 Jul 2022 | 22
Time from vulnerability disclosures to exploits is shrinking
Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 incident response team warns of patch speedups
Security27 Jul 2022 |
Juniper says 400G network kit in demand, supply chain worries easing
Hopefully 80-week lead times a thing of the past
Networks27 Jul 2022 |
Meta approves four programming languages for workers and developers
Rust never sleeps and is henceforth welcome for backend services and CLI tools
Software27 Jul 2022 | 17
Knotweed Euro cyber mercenaries attacking private sector, says Microsoft
Reports seeing 'offensive actor' flinging SubZero malware
Security27 Jul 2022 | 4
AWS ups security for Elastic Block Store, Kubernetes service
Stretching its security software a bit further
Security27 Jul 2022 |
There is a path to replace TCP in the datacenter
Forty years in, a protocol that's over the hill and under the gun, at least for the majors
Networks27 Jul 2022 | 79
Massive solar project in Tennessee is all about Google
Skyhawk Solar could generate up to 100MW of energy to feed Google datacenters
On-Prem27 Jul 2022 | 18
Apple network traffic takes mysterious detour through Russia
Land of Putin capable of attacking routes in cyberspace as well as real world
Security27 Jul 2022 | 31
US puts $10 million bounty on North Korean cyber-crews
Kim will be shaking in his shoes
Security27 Jul 2022 | 7
Congress continues playing hot potato with $52b CHIPS Act subsidies
Senate throws funding act back over to House to pass
Systems27 Jul 2022 | 7
We're likely only seeing 'the tip of the iceberg' of Pegasus spyware use against the US
House intel chair raises snoop tool concerns as Google and others call for greater crack down
Security27 Jul 2022 | 19
FileWave fixes bugs that left 1,000+ orgs open to ransomware, data theft
Internet-connected MDM instances, each with an 'unrestricted number' of managed devices, were vulnerable
Security27 Jul 2022 | 5
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