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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 |
Honda cooks up an electric motorbike menu, with sides of connectivity Plans buffet of components you can assemble into a dream machine Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 |
Weak session keys let snoops take a byte out of your Bluetooth traffic BLUFFS spying flaw present in iPhones, ThinkPad, plenty of chipsets Research30 Nov 2023 |
AI offers some novel crystal materials that could form future chips, batteries, more What's more, a robot managed to cook some of them up. So, y'know, it might not be entirely science fiction AI + ML30 Nov 2023 | 1
OpenAI makes it official: Sam Altman is back as CEO Microsoft joins the board in non-voting role AI + ML30 Nov 2023 | 7
NASA tech reveals he crashed Spirit Mars rover two weeks before vital deadline 'A large pulse of electricity had gone somewhere other than intended, and telemetry stopped coming from the spacecraft' Science30 Nov 2023 | 2
China's Loongson debuts processor that 'matches Intel silicon circa 2020' Best not to dismiss it, as Asus looks to be onboard and advances are promised On-Prem30 Nov 2023 | 3
US lawmakers have Chinese LiDAR on their threat-detection radar Amid fears Beijing could harvest spatial data, letter suggests Huawei-style bans may be needed Security30 Nov 2023 | 1
Rogue ex-Motorola techie admits cyberattack on former employer, passport fraud Pro tip: Don't use your new work email to phish your old firm Cyber-crime30 Nov 2023 | 3
Meta yanks VR headset's strap-on booster battery after charging bricks it A misbehaving Li-ion on your noggin - what could possibly go wrong? Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 1
Meta: If you're in our house running AI-massaged political ads, you need to 'fess up Facebook titan vows to protect two billion voters ... but US gets more protection than India, Indonesia, Mexico, EU AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 2
Goldman sacked: Apple 'wants out' of credit card collab Don't be too shocked: Financial giant has been fleeing normie banking lately after failing to find footing Personal Tech29 Nov 2023 | 12
Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive No one's buying these things. Just, uh, ignore the massive markups Personal Tech29 Nov 2023 | 31
Uncle Sam probes cyberattack on Pennsylvania water system by suspected Iranian crew CISA calls for stronger IT defenses as Texas district also hit by ransomware crew Cyber-crime29 Nov 2023 | 5
Time to take action: Google's inactive account purge begins Friday You should've received an email if you're affected, but here's a reminder just in case Networks29 Nov 2023 | 5
Dragonfly delayed – formal confirmation of journey to Saturn's moon slips into 2024 Titan trip postponed while NASA awaits the FY 2025 budget request Science29 Nov 2023 |
IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though Databases29 Nov 2023 | 1
Okta data breach dilemma dwarfs earlier estimates All customer support users told their info was accessed after analysis oversight Security29 Nov 2023 | 8
That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth Forget Martian dust devils, it's the peril of the blue smoke you have to worry about Science29 Nov 2023 | 28
Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too OSes29 Nov 2023 | 31
Server sales down 31% at HPE as enterprises hack spending Customers still 'digesting' shipments bought in 2022, says exec in mixed fiscal year for hardware biz On-Prem29 Nov 2023 | 8
Microsoft .NET MAUI devs vent over bugs backlog, response times New features are great and all, but maybe fix some of the issues too? Software29 Nov 2023 | 9
AI threatens to automate away the clergy Is divine intervention next on the tech to-do list? Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 63
British Library begins contacting customers as Rhysida leaks data dump CRM databases were accessed and library users are advised to change passwords Cyber-crime29 Nov 2023 | 2
Google goes geothermal to power some bitbarns Search giant exploring more locations to squeeze watts from rocks On-Prem29 Nov 2023 | 24
UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms Acts under the guise of protecting the public from fraud, yet history suggests Home Office has other motives Security29 Nov 2023 | 59
Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator Competition Markets Authority claims merger will reduce innovation for designers and other creative types Software29 Nov 2023 | 9
Brit borough council apologizes for telling website users to disable HTTPS Planning portal back online with a more secure connection Security29 Nov 2023 | 23
Digital transformation in the age of uncertainty Two businesses reveal how they respond to today’s commercial challenges. Webinar
AI won't take your job, might shrink your wages, European Central Bank reckons In the US, however, folks are ready and willing to bin you for a bot AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 17
No link between internet use and poor mental health, according to Oxford boffins 'We looked very hard for a smoking gun linking technology and well-being and we didn't find it' Science29 Nov 2023 | 26
Japan's space agency suffers cyber attack, points finger at Active Directory JAXA is having a tough time in cyberspace and outer space, the latter thanks to an electrical glitch Cyber-crime29 Nov 2023 | 4
Good luck finding competent Copilot help, warns Microsoft MVP Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 27
Two sats, one customer: Japan's NTT signs up for Amazon's space internet Take that, Elon Off-Prem29 Nov 2023 | 1
VMware president Sumit Dhawan out – scores gig as CEO of infosec vendor Proofpoint Amid accounts of wider layoffs and Broadcom doing a 'strategic review' of end-user compute and Carbon Black products Virtualization29 Nov 2023 |
Japan's digital minister flamed and shamed for using his smartphone in Parliament His job is to modernise Japan but Googling electoral trivia to ensure accurate answers is not allowed Offbeat29 Nov 2023 | 9
Zuckerberg accused of OK'ing Insta plastic surgery filters despite fears of harm to kids 'Meta knows what it is doing is bad for children ... it is now there in black and white' Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 15
Someone else has a go at reforming US Section 702 spying powers – and nope, no warrant requirement Back to plan A, then, eh? Public Sector29 Nov 2023 | 5
Either the FBI is recruiting in Iran – or some govt Google ad buyers are getting a lousy deal Advertisers may be surprised to find where their banners appear Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 5
Now AWS gets a ChatGPT-style Copilot: Amazon Q to be your cloud chat assistant Re:Invent Anthropic CEO also rocks up on stage for reasons Devops28 Nov 2023 | 4
Plex gives fans a privacy complex after sharing viewing habits with friends by default Updated Grandma is watching what?! Security28 Nov 2023 | 46
Virgin Atlantic flies 'world's first fossil-fuel free' transatlantic commercial flight Sustainable kerosene-alt is hot right now as low-emission aviation takes off Bootnotes28 Nov 2023 | 34
AWS unveils core-packed Graviton4 and beefier Trainium accelerators for AI Re:Invent Also hedging its bets with a healthy dose of Nvidia chips too Systems28 Nov 2023 | 2
Vertiv goes against the grain with wooden datacenters for greener bytes Will timber tech take root or just go up in flames? On-Prem28 Nov 2023 | 15
They did it for science: 40 years since Spacelab module first launched The legacy lives on, but best not mention that landing, eh? Science28 Nov 2023 | 1
AI agents can copy humans to get closer to artificial general intelligence, DeepMind finds Google’s AI offshoot finds copy-cat robots capable of aping living mentors AI + ML28 Nov 2023 | 33
Activist Investor Elliott calls for a management reboot at Crown Castle Urges US cell tower giant to reverse 'value-destructive strategy' Networks28 Nov 2023 | 13
Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model Scrolling through endless humblebrags without targeted ads is a fundamental right, according to privacy expert Legal28 Nov 2023 | 83
Helping companies defend what attackers want most - their data Varonis introduces Athena AI to transform data security and incident response Partner Content
Europol shutters ransomware operation with kingpin arrests A few low-level stragglers remain on the loose, but biggest fish have been hooked Cyber-crime28 Nov 2023 | 3
Brits turn off Twitter, although teens and tweens keen on generative AI Bing grows but Google remains top dog, according to Ofcom report Networks28 Nov 2023 | 72
Couchbase takes fight to MongoDB with columnar side store upgrade DBaaS update aimed at customers looking for live analytics on apps Databases28 Nov 2023 |
Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license The 'Azure RTOS' used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS OSes28 Nov 2023 | 19
Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater Competition OpenAI led by the Swedish Chef? Musk aims for Mars and hits Venus instead? What are your predictions? Bootnotes28 Nov 2023 | 194
Logitech's Wave Keys tries to bend ergonomics without breaking tradition Review Or your wallet Personal Tech28 Nov 2023 | 40
Finding sustainable strategies that work How to meet the need for ESG and the demands of living with economic volatility Webinar
A bird’s eye view of your global attack surface Get to know your external attack surface before the cyber criminals map it first Sponsored Post
Ukraine cyber spies claim Putin's planes are in peril as sanctions bite Aeroflot fleet still has a smoking section, but not for tobacco Public Sector28 Nov 2023 | 101
Samsung creates a group dedicated to inventing whatever comes next Exec who led memory and battery businesses to global dominance gets the job of defining Chaebol's future Personal Tech28 Nov 2023 | 2
After bashing Nvidia for ‘arming’ China, Cerebras's backer G42 alarms US govt with suspected Beijing ties What was it they say about folks in silicon houses? HPC28 Nov 2023 | 5
India's CERT given exemption from Right To Information requests Activists worry investigations may stay secret, and then there's those odd incident reporting requirements Security28 Nov 2023 | 4
AWS previews AppFabric for productivity – pitched as AI-powered glue between apps Re:Invent Park user data in Amazon's servers for ML-generated insights and actions – yea or nay for you? Devops28 Nov 2023 | 1
X/Twitter booted out of Australia's disinformation-fighting club Ghosted authorities after complaint during hotly contested referendum Legal28 Nov 2023 | 59
DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked Anna? Oh, she was just a demo persona, says organizer Devops28 Nov 2023 | 20
'Serial cybercriminal and scammer' jailed for 8 years, told to pay back $1.2M Crook did everything from SIM swaps to fake verified badge scams Cyber-crime28 Nov 2023 | 3
Game over for ByteDance's big video game studio dream? TikTok parent reportedly gives hundreds the tintack Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 1
Nvidia’s China-market H20 chips hit another speed bump Integration woes delay Nvidia's hopes of maintaining grip on Middle Kingdom Systems27 Nov 2023 | 2
Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz Updated Sparks fly as Elon's Musketeers sue for license plate liberation Offbeat27 Nov 2023 | 150
Trio of major holes in ownCloud expose admin passwords, allow unauthenticated file mods Mitigations require mix of updating libraries and manual customer action Patches27 Nov 2023 | 8
Server shipments to fall 20% this year, but AI means vendors still raking it in Less is more, as hyper heterogeneous computing heats up On-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 1
Japanese tech startups testing cash incentives for office return Bonuses for bums on seats is a new one for us at Vulture Towers Offbeat27 Nov 2023 | 23
UK and US lead international efforts to raise AI security standards 17 countries agree to adopt vision for artificial intelligence security as fears mount over pace of development AI + ML27 Nov 2023 | 14
Neuralink pockets extra VC cash in computer-brain interface quest Funding follows FDA approval for human trial Science27 Nov 2023 | 2
Tiny11 shrinks Windows 11 23H2 down to pocket size An option when sun sets on Windows 10, but Microsoft might have a problem OSes27 Nov 2023 | 52
Alibaba shuts down quantum lab, donates it to university Three guesses where DAMO plans to focus research from now on. Yep, you guessed it...AI HPC27 Nov 2023 | 2
DBaaS takes the trouble out of cloud databases How open-source databases operating in the cloud can deliver performance, flexibility, scalability and cost savings Sponsored Feature
Why an SBOM needs the X factor How an eXtended Software Bill of Materials (XBOM) protects against cyber attacks Webinar
Data-destroying defect found after OpenZFS 2.2.0 release Updated Earlier and later versions may be affected – worth your while reading the advisories OSes27 Nov 2023 | 30
Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files Updated The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished Storage27 Nov 2023 | 98
Microsoft, Databricks double act tries to sew up the data platform market Analysis But the one-stop shop vision fails to take it far beyond the competition Databases27 Nov 2023 | 2
Leader of pro-Russia DDoS crew Killnet 'unmasked' by Russian state media Infosec in Brief Also: NXP China attack, Australia can't deliver on ransom payment ban (yet), and Justin Sun's very bad month Security27 Nov 2023 | 11
Amazon says it's ready to train future AI workforce AI in Brief Plus: Russia will soon be Putin up with lagging West, fake influencers and more AI + ML27 Nov 2023 | 5
Education is the foundation of modern cyber defence How to enhance employee career development and retain skilled staff with SANS cyber training Sponsored Post
Ransomware-hit British Library: Too open for business, or not open enough? Opinion Unique institutions need unique security. Instead, they're fobbed off with the same old, same old Cyber-crime27 Nov 2023 | 24
Videoconferencing fatigue is real, study finds Your brain and heart do not enjoy Zooming, Teamsing, or Webexing Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 34
IT sent the intern to sort out the nasty VP who was too important to bother with backups Who, Me? Kid escaped from the executive suite without screwing things up Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 87
Datacenter architect creates bonkers designs to illustrate the craft, and quirks, of building bit barns They’re basically skyscrapers, says Charles Fortin. But they could be ships, cars, or rocks On-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 36
Crypto crasher Do Kwon's extradition approved, but destination is unclear Hey Google, are the jails nicer in South Korea or the US? Cyber-crime27 Nov 2023 | 4
AWS plays with Fire TV Cube, turns it into a thin client for cloudy desktops re:Invent $195 a pop, delivered, pre-provisioned ready to stream desktops or apps Off-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 25
Beijing fosters foreign influencers to spread its propaganda They get access to both China's internet and global platforms, and cash in on both Security27 Nov 2023 | 16
Foxconn founder Terry Gou quits Taiwan presidential race Asia In Brief PLUS: Japan, UK, Italy, collab on new fighter jet; Korea's CBDC trial; Toshiba to delist Offbeat27 Nov 2023 | 2
USB Cart of Death: The wheeled scourge that drove Windows devs to despair Stout heart a requisite for software engineers in days of yore Bootnotes25 Nov 2023 | 85
Surface Duo crashes the party as Doctor Who celebrates 60th birthday Hey Cortana: Why is David Tennant back as the BBC's longest lived space alien? Bootnotes25 Nov 2023 | 57
FFmpeg 6.1 drops a Heaviside dose of codec magic You may never have heard of it, but you almost certainly use it, possibly many times a day Software24 Nov 2023 | 48
Tata Consultancy Services ordered to cough up $210M in code theft trial Naughty engineers + inability to work email = $$$ Legal24 Nov 2023 | 10
OpenCart owner turns air blue after researcher discloses serious vuln Web storefront maker fixed the flaw, but not before blasting infoseccer Patches24 Nov 2023 | 48
China lobs tech demo into orbit for People's Republic version of Starlink Another mega-constellation incoming Networks24 Nov 2023 | 3
Taxing times: UK missed out on £1.75B because of digitization delays Public Accounts Committee slams progress and questions plans Public Sector24 Nov 2023 | 25
Black Friday? More like Blackout Friday for HSBC's online and mobile banking Updated Think of all the crap discounted things you won't need to buy now Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 39
Do we really need another non-open source available license? Opinion No, but here comes the Functional Source License to further muddy the open-source licensing waters OSes24 Nov 2023 | 69
UKFast founder Lawrence Jones convicted of rape Ex-hosting biz boss to be sentenced for historic offences after being found guilty of earlier sexual assault Legal24 Nov 2023 |
German budget woes threaten chip fab funding for Intel and TSMC Constitutional court tells govt: Er, about that €60B you handed out... it's not legal Systems24 Nov 2023 | 38
Steering a steady tech course in choppy waters How to digitally transform and future proof your business in challenging times Webinar
BOFH: Groundbreaking discovery or patently obvious trolling? Episode 22 Get off my intellectual property BOFH24 Nov 2023 | 63
User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work On Call When is a spreadsheet not a spreadsheet? Software24 Nov 2023 | 132
Europe's Ariane 6 rocket rated 'ready to rumble' after passing hot fire test Still not reusable, but at least it's getting closer to long-delayed launch Science24 Nov 2023 | 43
Singapore to deter crypto investors with tactics like those used on smokers, gamblers Buying on credit forbidden, affordability tests imposed, and accreditation required for big bets Legal24 Nov 2023 | 13
India's space gatekeepers pick Eutelsat OneWeb to provide satellite broadband Bharti Enterprises-backed outfit beats Kuiper and Starlink Networks24 Nov 2023 | 1
Simplify and secure operations at the edge The shift to decentralized IT environments and why only a dedicated edge management platform can solve it Commissioned
Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist Tech companies should behave like the aviation industry and detail failures to improve safety for all Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 24