WAN router IP address change blamed for global Microsoft 365 outage Command line not vetted using full qualification process, says Redmond. We think it involved chewing gum somewhere Networks30 Jan 2023 | 60
Former Facebooker alleges Meta drained users' batteries to test apps You are the product Personal Tech30 Jan 2023 | 45
FOSS could be an unintended victim of EU crusade to make software more secure Opinion Don't throw the open source baby out with the bathwater OSes30 Jan 2023 | 73
Gee, tanks: Russian hackers DDoS Germany for aiding Ukraine in brief Also: a week of leaks; Riot Games says 'LoL' to source code ransom demands; and Yandex source also appears online Security30 Jan 2023 | 12
Shag pile PC earned techies a carpeting from HR Who, Me? Thankfully a veep with a sense of humor pulled the rug out Personal Tech30 Jan 2023 | 43
After less than half a year, Intel quietly kills RISC-V dev environment Did Pathfinder get lost in sea of red ink? Or is Chipzilla becoming RISC averse? Software30 Jan 2023 | 28
Labyrinth of 371 legacy systems hindered hospital's IT meltdown recovery Guy's and St Thomas' in London spent two months getting back on its feet after heatwave fried datacenter Systems30 Jan 2023 | 32
Meanwhile, in Japan, pet fish run up credit card bill on Nintendo Switch Gaming critters wreak havoc after Pokémon attempt crashes Offbeat30 Jan 2023 | 22
Chromebook SH1MMER exploit promises admin jailbreak Schools' laptops are out if this one gets around, tho beware bricking Security30 Jan 2023 | 12
The wages of sin aren't that great if you're a developer choosing the dark side Salary report shows OKish pay, plus the possibility of getting ripped off and the whole prison thing Cyber-crime30 Jan 2023 | 15
Tech CEO nixes AI lawyer stunt after being threatened with jail time In brief Plus: Google builds text-to-music model but won't release it, and more AI + ML30 Jan 2023 | 26
JD Sports admits intruder accessed 10 million customers' data No payment details exposed in breach, says retailer, but shoppers told to be 'vigilant about potential scams' Cyber-crime30 Jan 2023 | 24
Oh, 07734! Internet Archive debuts vintage calculator emulator MAME adapted to bring your favorite TI and HP graphing machines back to life Personal Tech30 Jan 2023 | 46
Renewables are cheaper than coal in all but one US location Thanks in large part to the Inflation Reduction Act, the dirty fuel has even fewer things going for it now Science30 Jan 2023 | 77
McDonald's pulls plug on Wi-Fi, starts playing classical music to soothe yobs Welsh city of Wrexham has a reputation to uphold Offbeat31 Jan 2023 | 59
Microsoft Office 365 Cloud has a secret lining Hardened versions of apps and services can handle classified information for government Off-Prem31 Jan 2023 | 15
Microsoft, GitHub, OpenAI urge judge to bin Copilot code rip-off case We're not the bad guys in this, Azure empire says with a straight face Devops31 Jan 2023 | 18
Microsoft upgrades Defender to lock down Linux gear for its own good Ballmer thought this kernel was cancer, Nadella may disagree Security31 Jan 2023 | 10
Gootloader malware updated with PowerShell, sneaky JavaScript Perhaps a good time to check for unwelcome visitors Cyber-crime30 Jan 2023 | 5
NASA Geotail spacecraft's 30-year mission ends after last data recorder fails Also, JunoCam malfunctioned again, time to get new kit up there Science31 Jan 2023 | 18
Japan, Netherlands reportedly join US in China tech export ban But the first rule of Chip Fight Club must be observed. Meanwhile Beijing may have its own shadow bans Systems30 Jan 2023 | 18
Salesforce refreshes board as activist investors circle Slack said to be worth fraction of price paid, new hires not as productive amid downturn SaaS30 Jan 2023 | 6
helloSystem 0.8: A friendly, all-graphical FreeBSD Not complete yet, but getting closer to welcoming Mac migrants and systemd scorners OSes31 Jan 2023 | 16
Sweating the assets: Techies hold onto PCs, phones for longer than ever Discounts coming to clear inventory as device makers hit by inflation, interest rates, conflict in Ukraine Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 49
UK spy agency violated Snooper's Charter with 'unlawful' data retention Turns out even MI5 has to comply with retention rules Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 20
NetApp ditches 8% of staff as customers put away wallets 210,000+ people in IT now lost their job since start of 2022 Storage31 Jan 2023 | 6
South Korea makes crypto crackdown a national justice priority It's listed alongside issues like tackling gang violence, drugs, and sex crimes Cyber-crime31 Jan 2023 | 2
China shops around US bans to power its nuclear weapons research program Entity List proves to be a non-entity once Beijing's buyers get busy Systems31 Jan 2023 | 12
BT in tests to beam down 5G coverage from the stratosphere Bet is to use UAV to plug not-spots in mobile coverage with 150Mbps across 15,000 square km Networks31 Jan 2023 | 34
Amid FTX's burning wreckage, Japan outpost promises asset withdrawals in February Well what do you know – plenty of hard-nosed regulation by central authorities actually protected investors Cyber-crime31 Jan 2023 | 8
Boffins deploy machine learning in search for intelligent ET Model developed using TensorFlow and Keras sifts through data for 'technosignatures' from alien worlds AI + ML30 Jan 2023 | 11
Beijing grants permit to 'flying car' that can handle 'roads and low altitude' X2 eVTOL doesn't have wheels but paves the way for sedan-like X3 Offbeat31 Jan 2023 | 29
Killed EU antitrust fine could still come back to haunt Intel European Commission says findings about payments intended to prevent sales of rival products still stand Systems30 Jan 2023 | 2
US Department of Energy solicits AMD's help with nuke sims Chips were just Epyc, but now they're the bomb and Intel's inside the tent too Systems31 Jan 2023 | 5
New York again mulls letting people pay the state in crypto Ah, the 2020s, in which we fund public roads and schools with Dogecoin Personal Tech30 Jan 2023 | 13
Phone the rich: Premium handsets sole survivors of slump in India, China Market shifts from volume-driven to value-driven Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 2
White House pushes for total ban on US exports to Huawei Beijing watching developments closely as death knell rings for company's foreign supply chain Networks31 Jan 2023 | 8
A moment of silence for all the drives that died in the making of this Backblaze report Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more – who knew? Storage31 Jan 2023 | 14
Samsung profits and sales slump, hopes for a jump start from cars Record income for foundry business offers sole bright spot Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 |
Landlord favorite Twitter sued for allegedly not paying rent on Market Square HQ Genius move: You can't lose money if you don't pay your bills Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 12
Any iPad is foldable if you try hard enough but Apple guru says a hinged one is coming Cupertino commentators split over foldable fondleslab predictions Personal Tech31 Jan 2023 | 10
Oracle cozies up to IBM, adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux So much for being 'Unbreakable' say developers Devops31 Jan 2023 | 2
Cali puts mobile app makers on notice over privacy Let customers opt-out, or start adding zeros to compliance fines Software31 Jan 2023 | 3
OpenAI offers error-prone AI detector amid fears of a machine-stuffed future ChatGPT: Please explain the difference between 'token efforts' and 'putting the genie back in the bottle' AI + ML31 Jan 2023 | 3
Watchdog: There just may be something in these claims Apple broke labor laws You're holding staff meetings wrong? On-Prem01 Feb 2023 |
Jellyfish watches for the sting of developer bottlenecks Dashboard your DevOps data and see where your team has been slacking Devops01 Feb 2023 |