After nearly 3B personal records leak online, Florida data broker confirms it was ransacked by cyber-thieves
Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, more all out there
Cyber-crime16 Aug 2024 | 43
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GitHub rolls back database change after breaking itself
Git blame an infrastructure update
Cloud Infrastructure Month14 Aug 2024 | 14
Uncle Sam sues TikTok for 'extensive' data harvesting from millions of kids
Remember that promise to be nice? You broke it, say prosecutors
Personal Tech02 Aug 2024 | 30
TeamViewer says Russia broke into its corp IT network
Updated Same APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation?
CSO28 Jun 2024 | 25
AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you ...
The clock is ticking – why not try a passkey?
CSO17 Jun 2024 | 17
Brit tech tycoon Mike Lynch cleared of all charges in US Autonomy fraud trial
Jury in San Francisco finds founder plus finance VP not guilty
Software06 Jun 2024 | 131
Unlucky AT&T subscribers struggle to make calls in multi-hour US outage
If you're wondering why connectivity seems toast at the moment
Networks04 Jun 2024 | 2
Do you really need that GPU or NPU for your AI apps?
Kettle And how do we feel about Palantir selling its ML-based targeting system to the entire US military? Tune in!
AI + ML01 Jun 2024 | 8
Arm is so, so over this AI accelerator unit craze
Analysis As it offers 3nm shake-and-bake Cortex-X925, A725 processor designs for phones, PCs
AI + ML30 May 2024 | 6
Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4
We thought you people wanted choice, IT colossus sniffs
Applications15 Mar 2024 | 62
LinkedIn's turn to fall over: Outage hits thinkfluencer hub
Updated What's not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft's social network
Personal Tech06 Mar 2024 | 15
What Big Tech's balance sheets this week said – and didn't say – about real-world AI adoption
Kettle Is there anything more terrifying than a 'smart' HR chatbot? Well, OK, yes, but ...
AI + ML03 Feb 2024 | 8
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 | 133
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 | 37
Need to make some 3D models but lack the skill and talent? Say, have you tried... AI?
That's going to be a recurring question in 2024
AI + ML10 Jan 2024 | 13
SEC Twitter hijacked to push fake news of hotly anticipated Bitcoin ETF approval
Updated Buy the hype, sell the, wait, what do we do now?!
Cyber-crime09 Jan 2024 | 11
Welcome to 2024: Volkswagen really is putting ChatGPT into cars as a gabby copilot
CES Plus: Deloitte rolls out homegrown AI for its 75K workers to dogfood
AI + ML09 Jan 2024 | 53
What the AI copyright fights are truly about: Human labor versus endless machines
Kettle The real beef concerns our future to create and be rewarded for it
AI + ML03 Jan 2024 | 42
Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him
Kettle First he was speed-running moderation, now internet advertising. Welcome to the party, pal
Personal Tech02 Dec 2023 | 189
We challenged you to come up with tech predictions for 2024 (wrong answers only) – here are some favorites so far
Kettle Plus some of our own and the ugly Microsoft sweater one of you will win. Please take it off our hands...
Bootnotes30 Nov 2023 | 38
OpenAI meltdown: Where does this leave the upstart, Microsoft, and you?
Kettle Tune in, hear or watch our vultures wrap up this fiasco, before it goes out of date
AI + ML21 Nov 2023 | 5
Your online store down? Can't get to your fave web shop? Maybe blame Shopify
Biz races to fix broken systems
Personal Tech13 Nov 2023 | 11
Ransomware crooks SIM swap medical research biz exec, threaten to leak stolen data
Advarra probes intrusion claims, says 'the matter is contained'
Cyber-crime01 Nov 2023 | 6
Apple squashes security bugs after iPhone flaws exploited by Predator spyware
Holes in iOS, macOS and more fixed following tip off from Google, Citizen Lab
Cybersecurity Month22 Sep 2023 | 6
Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today
Updated Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA
SaaS20 Sep 2023 | 3
Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool to drop into apps
Well, when it's finished, anyway
Networks14 Sep 2023 | 3
Having slammed brakes on hiring, Google says it no longer needs quite so many recruiters
Hundreds about to find out first hand how the tough the job market is right now
Off-Prem13 Sep 2023 | 30
Square blames last week's outage on DNS screw-up
It's not hip to be this Square
Personal Tech11 Sep 2023 | 8
RHEL drama, ChromeOS and more ... Our vultures speak freely about the latest in Linux
Register Kettle Do distros even matter in the era of cloud and microservices?
OSes20 Jul 2023 | 19
Another challenger to OpenAI? OK, we'll allow it
Register Kettle With xAI, second time's the charm, eh, Elon?
AI + ML12 Jul 2023 | 21
Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media?
Register Kettle Our vultures ponder decentralization over convenience
Personal Tech07 Jul 2023 | 102
So the FBI 'persistently' abused its snoop powers. What's to worry about?
Register Kettle When is warrantless surveillance warranted?
Security25 May 2023 | 5
With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next? We reckon so
Register Kettle And what next for cooling, datacenter placement, and more – tune in and find out direct from our vultures
AI + ML11 May 2023 | 1
YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens
Just a small experiment – for now?
Personal Tech10 May 2023 | 168
Cash App founder stabbed to death in San Francisco
Tributes paid to former Square CTO Bob Lee, 43
Personal Tech06 Apr 2023 | 31
RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94
'Impossible to imagine the world we live in today ... without his contributions'
On-Prem25 Mar 2023 | 73
Ericsson pulls plug on 8,500 workers
Updated At least we know who isn't going to suffer Stockholm syndrome
Networks25 Feb 2023 | 21
India sets USB-C charging deadline for smartphones
We'll have what Europe's having
Personal Tech29 Dec 2022 | 46
Qualcomm teases custom Arm-compatible Oryon CPU cores designed by Nuvia
Snapdragon giant flips off Softbank, promises processors within next two years
Systems17 Nov 2022 | 12
Arm shells Qualcomm's Snapdragon launch party with latest salvo in license war
Softbank's chip designer warns US giant may lose all of its CPU licenses at this rate
Personal Tech16 Nov 2022 | 9
Qualcomm pushes latest Arm-powered Snapdragon chip amid bitter license fight
Wi-Fi 7, TSMC 4nm, faster GPU, INT4 and AI everywhere – and a rocky relationship with its CPU designer
Personal Tech15 Nov 2022 | 2
Arm sues Qualcomm over custom Nuvia CPU cores, wants designs destroyed
Updated British chip designer unhappy key customer is using lucrative blueprints
Systems31 Aug 2022 | 66
LastPass source code, blueprints stolen by intruder
Your passwords are still safe, biz says
Security25 Aug 2022 | 46
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
Tories spar over UK's delayed Online Safety Bill
Perfect political pantomime
Personal Tech15 Jul 2022 | 141
Florida man accused of selling fake, broken Cisco devices from China to hospitals, schools, military
Plus, Oracle reportedly mulling laying off staff to cut costs by up to $1b
Networks08 Jul 2022 | 26
Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones
Updated ATMs, 911 calls, and more hit by networking snafu
Networks08 Jul 2022 | 58
Apple emits macOS, iOS, iPadOS patches for 'exploited' security bugs
Nothing like a little kernel-level memory snooping, code execution
Security31 Mar 2022 | 4
Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity
Biz cites 'unwarranted and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine' ... also crippling sanctions
Networks04 Mar 2022 | 61
'Hundreds of computers' in Ukraine hit with wiper malware as conflict continues
Of course you realize, this means war
Security23 Feb 2022 | 116
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel green-lights Mike Lynch's extradition to US to face Autonomy fraud charges
Brit tycoon's bad Friday just got worse
Software28 Jan 2022 | 89
US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans
In brief Plus: Apple patches exploited-in-the-wild bug, White House zero-trust order, and more
Security27 Jan 2022 | 20
As CISA tells US govt agencies to squash Log4j bug by Dec 24, fingers start pointing at China, Iran, others
Microsoft says cyber-spies linked to Beijing, Tehran are getting busy with security flaw along with world + dog
Security15 Dec 2021 | 11
Google joins others in Big Tech: Get vaccinated – or you're fired
Updated Not getting a COVID-19 jab? That's not very googley of you
On-Prem15 Dec 2021 | 170
UK's antitrust watchdog is very angry and has written a letter telling Apple and Google how angry it is with them
Shocked, shocked, to find that anti-competitive behavior is going on in here
Personal Tech15 Dec 2021 | 29
Microsoft closes installer hole abused by Emotet malware, Google splats Chrome bug exploited in the wild
Patch Tuesday Round off the year with a large crop of fixes for programming blunders
Security15 Dec 2021 | 8
SiFive's latest top-end RISC-V CPU core supports proper virtualization in hardware
Hypervisor extension implemented in P650 processor engine that's stalking Arm's Cortex family
Virtualization02 Dec 2021 | 10
Apple says it will no longer punish those daring to repair their iPhone 13 screens
iFixit welcomes 'tactical achievement' after iGiant offers vague software fix to Face ID block
Personal Tech09 Nov 2021 | 40
AMD tries to spoil Nvidia's week by teasing high-end accelerators, Epyc chips with 3D L3 cache, and more
Microsoft cloud first to privately preview Milan-X parts
HPC09 Nov 2021 | 4
Zuckerberg wants to create a make-believe world in which you can hide from all the damage Facebook has done
Comment His social network has Meta-stasized
Personal Tech29 Oct 2021 | 225
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