Former Uber CSO convicted for covering up massive 2016 data theft Passing off a ransom payment as a bug bounty? That's obstruction of justice Cyber-crime06 Oct 2022 | 14
China upgrades Great Firewall to defeat censor-beating TLS tools Just in time to ensure nobody can disagree that giving Xi five more years as president is the best idea ever Security06 Oct 2022 | 8
OpenStack ends requirement for six-monthly upgrades with ‘SLURP’ plan As version ‘Zed’ debuts, project slows down a little Software06 Oct 2022 |
Japan tests probe to land on Martian moon Phobos, bring a chunk of it back to Earth COVID hiccups be damned, work on instruments and connectivity is under way and space agency JAXA is determined to hit launch window Science06 Oct 2022 | 20
Splunk alleges source code theft by former employee who started rival biz Updated Cribl accused of terrible behaviour, horrible IP practices, responds saying accusations are risible Software06 Oct 2022 | 10
AI eye-scanner can tell whether you'll croak it from a heart attack If and when this hits the mainstream, who's going to trust their retinas to random models? AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 19
Brexit dividend? 'Newly independent' UK will be world's 'data hub', claims digital minister Updated Amid inevitable talk of 'red tape' cutting at ruling party conference, data protection experts are concerned Science06 Oct 2022 | 123
BT will back down in face of non-stop protests, says union CWU: Just like UK government did a reverse-ferret on tax, so will national telecom titan on staff pay Networks06 Oct 2022 | 8
Europe lagging behind South Korea, Japan, US in 5G rollout UK and Germany among adoption leaders in the region Networks06 Oct 2022 | 21
Nuh-uh, Meta, we can do text-to-video AI, too, says Google Brace yourself for a weird future where everything is imagined by magic sand we taught how to think AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 5
Australian Federal Police arrest man suspected of exploiting Optus cyberattack Customers were allegedly sent texts demanding $1,300 or face having ID used in financial crime Security06 Oct 2022 | 1
Intel: We're inching closer to mass production of spin qubit chips Biggest demo yet of single and double quantum dots, x86 claims Systems06 Oct 2022 | 4
Microsoft warns: Windows 11 update breaks provisioning And it wouldn't be a Redmond OS update without printing issues OSes06 Oct 2022 | 31
Block this: Using satellites to plaster ads over our skies could work, say boffins They can't hurt us if we stay indoors Offbeat06 Oct 2022 | 85
DeepMind uses matrix math to automate discovery of better matrix math techniques How Meta, er, meta AI + ML06 Oct 2022 | 15
South Korea cancels passport of Terraform Lab's Do Kwon Whereabouts of wanted cryptobro unknown, but he's reliably on Twitter Cyber-crime06 Oct 2022 | 1
Samsung teases upcoming DRAM and NAND goodies at Tech Day event Lots of talk about the automation and digitization of manufacturing chips too Storage06 Oct 2022 |
Foreign spies hijacking US mid-terms? FBI, CISA are cool as cucumbers about it I think we can handle one little Russia. We sent two units, they're bringing any attempts down now Security06 Oct 2022 | 40
Canonical makes Ubuntu Pro free for up to five machines Kernel live-patching and a full decade of software updates OSes06 Oct 2022 | 3
IBM: Hey Joe, we make chips, too. How about some of 'em subsidies? We're paraphrasing here, but that's the gist of this week's PR stunt On-Prem06 Oct 2022 | 13
Linux kernel 5.19.12 'may harm' Intel laptop screens Remember the bad old days when getting X settings wrong could fry your CRT? They're back, kinda Personal Tech06 Oct 2022 | 28
Papa John's sued for 'wiretap' spying on website mouse clicks, keystrokes When the tracking hits your eye like a big pizza pie, that's a priori Security06 Oct 2022 | 27
Google reveals Pixel 7 phones with 1.7 Stadias of security fixes promised This and wearables fortified with machine learning to serve you, human Personal Tech06 Oct 2022 | 17
Huge nonprofit hospital network suffers IT meltdown after 'security incident' Ambulances diverted, patient records frozen, rhymes with handsome wear Cyber-crime06 Oct 2022 | 18
If someone weaponizes our robots, we'll be really, really sad, says Boston Dynamics Maybe finally a good use for DRM, eh? Preventing armed modifications Science06 Oct 2022 | 73