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Palo Alto Networks execs apologize for 'hostesses' dressed as lamps at Black Hat booth

Biz admits turning human women into faceless, sexualized furniture was a 'tone deaf' marketing ploy

Security14 Aug 2024 | 115

Microsoft tweaks fine print to warn everyone not to take its AI seriously

Don't use LLMs for anything important and don't try to reverse engineer it

Software14 Aug 2024 | 14

Microsoft patches scary wormable hijack-my-box-via-IPv6 security bug and others

Patch Tuesday Plus more pain for Intel which fixed 43 bugs, SAP and Adobe also in on the action

Patches14 Aug 2024 | 19

Is Lenovo a blind spot in US anti-China security measures?

Opinion Questions raised as one of the world's largest PC makers joins America's critical defense team

Security14 Aug 2024 | 34

Google is a monopoly. The fix isn't obvious

Comment A business breakup may be coming – but what comes after may not be better

Software15 Aug 2024 | 14

Microsoft pushing, pushing, pushing Edge in Defender slammed as a 'dark pattern'

Is it an ad? Or serious infosec advice?

Personal Tech14 Aug 2024 | 46

US accuses man of being 'elite' ransomware pioneer they've hunted for years

Authorities allege 'J.P. Morgan' practiced ‘extreme operational and online security’

Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 | 5

Indian telcos to cut off scammy, spammy, telemarketers for two whole years

There's a blockchain involved so it's totally going to stop you getting those calls

Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 26

Intel, already adrift, now Armless too

Sells stake in rival chip designer, keeps its MariaDB shares

Offbeat14 Aug 2024 | 9

Still waiting for a Pi 500 and wondering what do this summer?

The team knows you want one, but in the meantime why not make one yourself?

Personal Tech14 Aug 2024 | 47

NIST finalizes trio of post-quantum encryption standards

Nicely ahead of that always-a-decade-away moment when all our info becomes an open book

Security14 Aug 2024 | 12

Enzo Biochem ordered to cough up $4.5 million over lousy security that led to ransomware disaster

Three state attorneys general probed the company and found plenty to chastise

Cyber-crime14 Aug 2024 | 3

Six ransomware gangs behind over 50% of 2024 attacks

Plus many more newbies waiting in the wings

Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 |

Microsoft squashes bug that sent Windows devices to BitLocker recovery

A patch to fix the patch that caused admins to scamper for their recovery keys

OSes14 Aug 2024 | 13

Biden tries to cut through fog of confusion caused by deliberately deceptive customer service tricks

Targets impossible unsubscribes, elusive human assistance, and other wallet-draining time sinks

Public Sector13 Aug 2024 | 42

Akeana debuts RISC-V CPU designs on $100M budget, longs for an Arm wrestle

Whatever happened to the team behind Marvell’s ThunderX2 chips? Oh, hello

Systems13 Aug 2024 | 2

UK's 'electricity superhighway' gets green light just in time for AI to gobble it all up

500 km transmission cable promises enough power for two million homes, or a heck of a lotta GPUs

On-Prem14 Aug 2024 | 121

Google brings more Gemini AI features to Android, saves the best for Pixel 9

Video And four more phones. Woo. Yay.

Personal Tech13 Aug 2024 | 17

China-linked cyber-spies infect Russian govt, IT sector

No, no, go ahead, don't let us stop you, Xi

Research15 Aug 2024 | 10

Texas sues GM for selling driver data to analytics, insurance companies

Lone Star State alleges GM cashed in with "millions in lump sum payments" from the sale

Security14 Aug 2024 | 20

Linux Foundation wades into AI as Open Model Initiative joins ranks

Penguins reiterate commitment to 'fostering open, collaborative' development, licensing

AI + ML13 Aug 2024 | 4

AI stole my job and my work, and the boss didn't know – or care

Column Everyone knows automation will happen, which is why everyone needs proof of human involvement

AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 26

Another GPU cloud emerges. This time, upstart Foundry

Biz set sights beyond just another rent-an-accelerator cluster provider

Systems13 Aug 2024 | 1

GitHub rolls back database change after breaking itself

Git blame an infrastructure update

Cloud Infrastructure Month14 Aug 2024 | 9

FTC urges judge to spank Google over Android App market monopoly

Pay no attention to web giant's whining about the cost of compliance, watchdog argues

Legal13 Aug 2024 | 8

Russian cyber snoops linked to massive credential-stealing campaign

Citizen Lab also spots a COLDWASTREL swimming in the Rivers of Phish

Cyber-crime14 Aug 2024 |

AI or bust? Only one part of US tech economy keeps growing, says analyst

Investors still shovelling money into AI but 'path to monetization' still far

AI + ML14 Aug 2024 | 6

IRS has loads of legacy IT, still has no firm plans to replace it

Treasury questions the retirement of the, er, Technology Retirement Office

Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 19

Icelandic group demos private cloud powered by renewables

Sited in Reykjavík, datacenter running on geothermals and hydropower

Cloud Infrastructure Month14 Aug 2024 | 6

SiFive offers potential Neoverse N2 rival – the P870-D RISC-V core for datacenters

Chip upstart takes aim at Arm with design that can scale up to 256 cores

Systems14 Aug 2024 | 3

Over 40 million Kakao Pay users' data somehow ended up with Alipay

Payment arm of Korean messaging app denies any illegal activity

Security15 Aug 2024 | 5

InSight data suggests plentiful water lies beneath Mars' surface

There's water in them thar hills, but it'll be really hard to get to

Science13 Aug 2024 | 21

Apple-flavored Opera One brings its browser AI show to iOS

iPhone version of mobile browser sees surge of interest in wake of EU competition rules

Software14 Aug 2024 |

India shuffles away draft law treating influencers like real broadcasters

Online celebs might find that flattering – but not if it means a committee must approve their next livestream

Public Sector14 Aug 2024 | 12

NASA's VIPER rover might still reach the lunar surface after all

Intuitive Machines tosses hat into the ring for NASA's canceled trundlebot

Science14 Aug 2024 | 11

Twitter must pay over half a million to unfairly dismissed Irish exec

Remember the 'go hardcore or go home' email? Turns out: not super compatible with Irish employment law

Personal Tech15 Aug 2024 | 57

Actors can license AI voice clones in union deal

Thesps at least get final say on what their doppelgängers will say

AI + ML15 Aug 2024 | 2

Cisco slashes thousands of staff, 7% of entire workforce, pivots into AI

Reorg of entire biz as tech giant addresses downturn in core networking segment

Networks15 Aug 2024 | 7

Delays? We're still shipping 'small quantities' of Nvidia's GB200 in Q4, Foxconn insists

Production ramp won't kick off until Q1 2025

Systems14 Aug 2024 | 1

Mad Liberator extortion crew emerges on the cyber-crook scene

Anydesk is its access tool of choice

Cyber-crime15 Aug 2024 | 1

Russian man who sold logins to nearly 3,000 accounts gets 40 months in jail

He’ll also have to pay back $1.2 million from fraudulent transactions he facilitated

Cyber-crime15 Aug 2024 |

Google's ex-CEO U-turns after saying staff 'going home early' killed winning

Eric Schmidt blamed WFH and work-life balance policies for Google's stumbles in AI race

Off-Prem15 Aug 2024 | 21

NASA pushes decision on bringing crew back in Starliner to the end of August

When is a mishap not really a mishap?

Science15 Aug 2024 | 9

Building high performance fabrics with Ethernet

How Dell is helping its customers to be GenAI ready

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If the world had a hyperscale datacenter capital, it would be... Northern Virginia

If you guessed Beijing, sorry – but it is number 2, according to Synergy Research figures

Cloud Infrastructure Month15 Aug 2024 |

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