Europe wants easy default browser selection screens. Mozilla is already sounding the alarm on dirty tricks Can you blame it? Applications23 Sep 2023 | 29
VR headsets to shift 30 million units a year by 2027, vastly behind wearables The eyes don’t have it, but you're all ears Personal Tech23 Sep 2023 | 10
Uncle Sam is this keen to keep US CHIPS funds out of China Meanwhile, GlobalFoundries scores $3B DoD contract to fab chips for military, aerospace Systems23 Sep 2023 | 6
Colleges snub Turnitin's AI-writing detector over fears it'll wrongly accuse students By the time they graduate, employers will be making them use LLMs anyway AI + ML23 Sep 2023 | 9
Unity apologizes, tweaks runtime install fees after gaming world outrage Is this the engine maker's final continue? Software22 Sep 2023 | 8
IBM's Weather Company leaked my personal info to analytics, thunders netizen Video watching habits and other data just handed over, lawsuit claims Software22 Sep 2023 | 1
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 Patches22 Sep 2023 | 3
That's gas: CO2 found on Europa surface may hint at some possible sign of life Hey, ESA: Can Juice get there any faster? Offbeat22 Sep 2023 | 5
US military F-35 readiness problems highlighted in aptly timed report This surely can't be related to that crash debacle over the weekend, right? Offbeat22 Sep 2023 | 10
FAA wants rocket jockeys to clean up after their space launch parties Have you seen orbit? There's junk everywhere Science22 Sep 2023 | 6
UK-US data deal could hinge on fate of legal challenges to EU arrangement So much for sovereignty then Databases22 Sep 2023 | 26
FYI: Those fancy 'Google-designed' TPU AI chips had an awful lot of Broadcom help Comment And Meta's tapping up Big B too – it's big bucks for this silicon giant AI + ML22 Sep 2023 |
The right tools for the right job The need for trusted infrastructure when moving applications from on-prem to the AWS Cloud Webinar
European Commission hits Intel with new fine over antitrust findings Updated What a difference a year makes: in June '22 it was asking for half a billion in interest back after a successful appeal Systems22 Sep 2023 | 2
Airport chaos as eGates down for the count across UK Updated Travelers told routine work being performed nationwide On-Prem22 Sep 2023 | 37
CMA says new Microsoft-Activision deal addresses concerns Meet gaming's power couple, with Ubisoft the third wheel. Now competition watchdog must ensure Windows biz keeps promises Software22 Sep 2023 |
Why Chromebooks are the new immortals of tech Opinion A decade of support is a much better deal than what Microsoft or Apple will give you OSes22 Sep 2023 | 62
BOFH: A security issue, you say? Activate code tangerine Episode 18 When you utter those words, it empowers us to do anything BOFH22 Sep 2023 | 41
How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer On Call If you throw enough mud, some of it will stick … and crash a server Systems22 Sep 2023 | 179
If you're cautious about using ML and bots at work, that's not a bad idea DataGrail Summit Alex Stamos: 'We don't really know what's gonna go wrong with AI yet' AI + ML22 Sep 2023 | 18
The clock is ticking and Korea wants to know if its chipmakers will get their export license extension SK hynix and Samsung do so much memory-making in China, ending sanction exemptions would be extraordinary Systems22 Sep 2023 | 7
ESA gets the job of building Europe's secure satcomms network IRIS2 oversight deal signed as constellation’s schedule slips, and Ariane 6 hits another snag Security22 Sep 2023 | 3
Mastodon makes a major move amid Musk's multiple messes Federated social network adds n00b-friendly features to the 'Fediverse' Software22 Sep 2023 | 41
The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right Quick look Fanboi numbers are well down – but Apple's queueing system, rather than apathy, is likely the cause Personal Tech22 Sep 2023 | 59
Amazon 'protects' against junk AI e-books by limiting author-bots to three a day Somehow still 'committed to providing the best possible reading and publishing experience' AI + ML22 Sep 2023 | 23
Now IBM sued for age discrim by its own HR veterans Staff with short 'runways' told to take off amid shift to corporate chatbots, it's claimed On-Prem21 Sep 2023 | 55
US govt IT help desk techie 'leaked top secrets' to foreign nation National defense files can earn you $55K … and espionage charges Cyber-crime21 Sep 2023 | 13
Beneath Microsoft's Surface event, AI spreads everywhere Windows gets its own Copilot to help operate the operating system – Edge, Bing, Outlook, 365 not spared, either AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 38
Epic payout: FTC opens Fortnite settlement claim floodgates Parents and players alike can now apply for a piece of the $245m pie Personal Tech21 Sep 2023 | 3
TransUnion reckons big dump of stolen customer data came from someone else Prolific info-thief strikes again Cyber-crime21 Sep 2023 | 5
95% of NFTs now totally worthless, say researchers 'Even the most prominent collections are struggling to maintain demand' Offbeat21 Sep 2023 | 73
US DoD serves up $238M Chips Act funding to 8 regional hubs Hoping to bridge the dreaded 'lab-to-fab' gap where R&D dreams go to die Systems21 Sep 2023 |
EU right to repair updates pass latest hurdle Makers won't be able to pull wool over consumers' eyes, though critics say it hasn't gone far enough Personal Tech21 Sep 2023 | 16
Cisco spends $28B on data cruncher Splunk in cybersecurity push $157/share cash deal is the largest acquisition in networking titan's history Security21 Sep 2023 | 5
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Call me an Apple fan, says Huawei founder and chief exec Ren Zhengfei says he still takes lessons from American rival Offbeat21 Sep 2023 | 8
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Korea's FTC fines Broadcom $14.3M for pushing 'unfair' deal onto Samsung Updated Watchdog claims it abused market position to leverage 'unfavorable' long-term parts supply contract Systems21 Sep 2023 |
Vodafone claims first space-based 5G phone call – no modifications needed The roaming charges must be out of this world Networks21 Sep 2023 | 12
VCs lay $52.5M golden egg for MotherDuck's serverless analytics platform Database service vendor based on open source DuckDB fattens up to $400M valuation Databases21 Sep 2023 |
Lawsuit claims Google Maps led dad of two over collapsed bridge to his death Web giant accused of gross negligence by not updating app despite complaints Legal21 Sep 2023 | 189
Menacing marketeers fined by ICO for 1.9M cold calls Five businesses facing half a million in collective penalties for illegally phoning folk registered with TPS Security21 Sep 2023 | 29
EE touts next-gen broadband Smart Hub with Wi-Fi 7 for 2024 Sure to lure in a few in the WFH crowd ... but no pricing yet Networks21 Sep 2023 | 19
Intel CTO suggests using AI to port CUDA code to – surprise! – Intel chips This is about ending Nvidia's vendor lock-in, insists Greg Lavender AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 6
Authors Guild sues OpenAI for using Game of Thrones and other novels to train ChatGPT Class action alleges pirated novels were fed into binary brainbox AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 53
India's biggest tech centers named as cyber crime hotspots Global tech companies' Bharat offices attract the wrong sort of interest Security21 Sep 2023 | 1
Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza Pizza Hut Australia says 190,000 customers' info – including order history – has been accessed Security21 Sep 2023 | 92
Zuck uses India visit to increase Meta's transactional traction WhatsApp gets better at taking money and so does Meta with verified accounts for biz Software21 Sep 2023 |
Toshiba succeeds at selling itself, delisting set for September 27 Acquiring entity Japan Industrial Partners hasn't said what it plans for the sprawling conglomerate Systems21 Sep 2023 | 2
ServiceNow upgrade goes from AI to Zero Trust You can’t not do GenAI in 2023, and 'Vancouver' release has gone there – but its detours may be more worthy SaaS21 Sep 2023 | 1
Uncle Sam names three Amazon execs as Prime suspects in subscription ripoff case Dark patterns 'knowingly duped millions of consumers' Personal Tech21 Sep 2023 | 30
Google on trial: Feds challenge deals that set your web search defaults Big G wheels out its old argument that its products are better - and look, there they are, pre-installed and in your face Personal Tech20 Sep 2023 | 27
Feds raise alarm over Snatch ransomware as extortion crew brags of Veterans Affairs hit Invasion of the data snatchers Cyber-crime20 Sep 2023 | 3
Signal adopts new alphabet jumble to protect chats from quantum computers X3DH readied for retirement as PQXDH is rolled out Security20 Sep 2023 | 18
International Criminal Court hit in cyber-attack amid Russia war crimes probe Right as judges issued warrants against Putin Cyber-crime20 Sep 2023 | 19
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
Core blimey, Intel's answer to AMD and Ampere's cloudy chips has 288 of them And they're all tailored for efficiency Systems20 Sep 2023 | 6
Neuralink's looking for participants willing to be part of human trials Musk company gets FDA's OK for six-year assessment of its brain implants Science20 Sep 2023 | 25
Pot calls the kettle hack as China claims Uncle Sam did digital sneak peek first Beijing accuses US of breaking into Huawei servers in 2009 Cyber-crime20 Sep 2023 | 14
GNU turns 40: Stallman's baby still not ready for prime time, but hey, there's cake It turned the software industry upside down regardless Applications20 Sep 2023 | 79
Apple pairs well with profits, not repair shops iFixit demotes iPhone 14 from 7/10 to 4 after reality of software locks hit home Personal Tech20 Sep 2023 | 22
UK Online Safety Bill to become law – and encryption busting clause is still there Admits it's 'not technically feasible' ... but with no promise not to invoke it Networks20 Sep 2023 | 90
Robocall scammers sentenced in US after netting $1.2M via India-based call centers Part of network of crims who used 'trickery and threats' to target elderly, says US Attorney Cyber-crime20 Sep 2023 | 15
Sysadmin and spouse admit to part in 'massive' pirated Avaya licenses scam Could spend 20 years in prison after selling $88M in ADI software keys Cyber-crime20 Sep 2023 | 20
Chan Zuckerberg org to spin up 1,000+ H100 GPU cluster for AI medical research Plus: DeepMind trained model to predict genetically mutated DNA strings AI + ML20 Sep 2023 | 6
As TikTok surveils staff's office hours, research indicates WFH is good for planet Not leaving home for work cuts an individual's carbon footprint by 54%, says research On-Prem20 Sep 2023 | 58
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Scientists suggest possible solution to space-induced bone loss Douglas Adams was right! Mice may hold key to exploring the universe Science20 Sep 2023 | 42
AWS spins up more cloudy Mac Minis, now with M2 Pro silicon Andy Jassy's rent-a-Macs have no love for the vanilla M2, and the Max and Ultra aren't used in the Mini PaaS + IaaS20 Sep 2023 | 6
Singapore may split liability for phishing losses between banks and victims Won't someone please think of the banks? Cyber-crime20 Sep 2023 | 14
Hong Kong authorities cuff six in connection with floundering crypto platform JPEX Special Adminstrative Region aspires to be a crypto hub, is making an example of allegedly unlicensed operator Personal Tech20 Sep 2023 | 3
A chip off the old block: The 200mm fab supply chain breaker Southeast Asia, China spearheading factory capacity growth for foreseeable future On-Prem20 Sep 2023 |
Google Bard can now tap into your Gmail, Docs, more Web giant promises personal info and files won't be used to train this chatbot AI + ML20 Sep 2023 | 34
So what if China has 7nm chips now, there's no Huawei it can make them 'at scale' Updated Or so says US Commerce Secretary Personal Tech19 Sep 2023 | 76
Intel slaps forehead, says I got it: AI PCs. Sell them AI PCs People try to put us down, talkin' 'bout ML generation AI + ML19 Sep 2023 | 27
Judge sides with Meta and Google, puts California child privacy law on hold NetChoice 'likely to prevail' in First Amendment argument, court rules Personal Tech19 Sep 2023 | 24
DoD hopes $30M BEACONS will light the way to next-gen American battery designs And less than half the cost of a single F-35 – bargain! Science19 Sep 2023 | 8
Marvell disputes claim Cavium backdoored chips for Uncle Sam Allegations date back a decade to leaked Snowden docs Research19 Sep 2023 | 8
Russian allegedly smuggled US weapons electronics to Moscow Feds claim sniper scope displays sold in sanctions-busting move Cyber-crime19 Sep 2023 | 23
Starlink speeds ahead in the satellite race but rivals aren't starstruck just yet Download rates stabilize after influx of users dragged on service Networks19 Sep 2023 | 12
SCREAM resonates in the race for the Gordon Bell Climate Prize A look at America's next top model ... in fine resolution HPC19 Sep 2023 | 8
Venture capital firm makes 'unsolicited' bid for MariaDB buyout Database company, which went through an IPO in December last year, was still in search of credit facility as of August Databases19 Sep 2023 | 4
Rocket Lab launch streak goes up in smoke with 41st mission Electron rocket was lost when reusable first stage separated early this morning Science19 Sep 2023 | 10
Tabular's Iceberg vision goes from Netflix and chill to database thrill Promise of neutral data layer between vendors' vested interests attracts $26M Databases19 Sep 2023 |
'Small monthly payment' only thing that stands between X and bot chaos, says Musk Comment Yes, because automated accounts are really the problem here Personal Tech19 Sep 2023 | 115
Unity talks of price cap and fees for only largest games developers That sound? It's the screeching noise of a massive U-turn as games engine biz admits mistakes Software19 Sep 2023 | 16
Nvidia's 900 tons of GPU muscle bulks up server market, slims down wallets Fewer boxes shipped, but with 8 H100s apiece, revenue is up amid AI frenzy Systems19 Sep 2023 | 4
The Clorox Company admits cyberattack causing 'widescale disruption' Back to 'manual' order processing for $7B household cleaning biz, financial impact will be 'material' Cyber-crime19 Sep 2023 | 7
Schneider Electric warns that existing datacenters aren't buff enough for AI You're going to need liquid-cooled servers, 415V PDUs, two-ton racks, and plenty of software management On-Prem19 Sep 2023 | 9
GitHub Copilot, Amazon Code Whisperer sometimes emit other people's API keys Final update AI dev assistants can be convinced to spill secrets learned during training AI + ML19 Sep 2023 | 9
UK courts award CGI £60M deal to keep ancient tech alive Legacy – sorry 'heritage' – support contract includes case managements systems Applications19 Sep 2023 | 4
Ubuntu's 'Mantic Minotaur' peeks out of the labyrinth As outline becomes visible, including the return of ZFS, kernel 6.4 glides across the Styx into eternity OSes19 Sep 2023 | 12
BT confirms it's switching off 3G in UK from Jan next year Time to retire that Nokia N97 at last? Networks19 Sep 2023 | 120
Buiding Excel-like UI for Uber's China ops exposed Microsoft calculation quirks Updated Developer recounts rideshare outfitattempts to crack the Middle Kingdom market Applications19 Sep 2023 | 28
Desktop AI isn’t happening, says AMD, and might not for quite a while Chip designer has extended support for modest desktop CPUs, citing Intel setting expectations for cheap and not-so-speedy silicon Personal Tech19 Sep 2023 | 9
China to set standards for the metaverse because it's not sure what one is Beijing reckons they could be handy for manufacturing, but for now they're just a mess Software19 Sep 2023 | 5
Australia to build six 'cyber shields' to defend its shores Local corporate regulator warns boards that cyber is totally a directorial duty Security19 Sep 2023 | 26
VMware staff reportedly told job cuts may start before Broadcom acquisition CVs are starting to appear on social media because staff think it's a sensible time to be in the shop window Virtualization19 Sep 2023 | 5
US Defense Department enlists Google for AI-powered cancer-spotting kit A different type of ARM - the Augmented Reality Microscope Science19 Sep 2023 | 1
World's most powerful free-electron laser upgraded to fire a million X-rays per second US DoE particle will be a 'strobe light' in atomic disco Science18 Sep 2023 | 15
Thousands of Juniper Junos firewalls still open to hijacks, exploit code available to all Unauthenticated and remote code execution possible without dropping a file on disk Security18 Sep 2023 | 6
Intel thinks glass substrates are a clear winner in multi-die packaging Don't get too excited, tech won't be ready until the end of the decade Systems18 Sep 2023 | 9
SEC gets $10m from Lyft over failure to disclose $424m pre-IPO stock sale Board member sold off stock just before listing, Lyft forgot to mention it Legal18 Sep 2023 |
Former CIO accuses Penn State of faking cybersecurity compliance Now-NASA boffin not impressed Security18 Sep 2023 | 4
Microsoft Surface chief Panos Panay abruptly announces departure Rumors point to Panay headed to Amazon to take over for outgoing Alexa and Echo chief David Limp Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 2
Sonos secures a victory in audio patent fight against Google ITC judge rules you can't sue over invalid patents, but the fight goes on Software18 Sep 2023 | 6
Microsoft worker accidentally exposes 38TB of sensitive data in GitHub blunder Included secrets, private keys, passwords, 30,000+ internal Teams messages Security18 Sep 2023 | 20
Textbook publishers sue shadow library LibGen for copyright infringement Yet another attempt at a permanent takedown – but will it stick? Science18 Sep 2023 | 67
If anyone finds an $80M F-35 stealth fighter, please call the Pentagon Updated US military enlists public to help track down missing jet Offbeat18 Sep 2023 | 77
Azure SQL Database takes Saturday off on US east coast following network power failure At least it was the weekend PaaS + IaaS18 Sep 2023 | 3
CERN swaps out databases to feed its petabyte-a-day habit Run 3 reboot provoked challenges for Europe's particle-smashing project Databases18 Sep 2023 | 2
Oracle at Europe's largest council didn't foresee bankruptcy Auditors unable to sign off accounts partly due to lack of IT controls amid challenging ERP deployment Databases18 Sep 2023 | 57
AMD's latest Epyc is slimmer, cooler, and ready to party at the edge Little chip promises big power savings Systems18 Sep 2023 |
California passes bill to set up one-stop data deletion shop Infosec in brief Also, LockBit gets a new second stringer, AirTag owners find yet another illicit use, and this week's critical vulns Security18 Sep 2023 | 12
Having read the room, Unity goes back to drawing board on runtime fee policy But the damage has already been done Software18 Sep 2023 | 36
Cryptojackers spread their nets to capture more than just EC2 AMBERSQUID operation takes AWS's paths less travelled in search of compute Research18 Sep 2023 | 3
Mention AI in earnings calls ... and watch that share price leap This week's story is brought to you by the letters C, E, O, as well as B and S Offbeat18 Sep 2023 | 6
Getting to the bottom of BMW's pay-as-you-toast subscription failure Opinion Fuming customers steamed as they'd already paid luxury prices Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 202
Britcoin or Britcon? Bank of England grilled on Digital Pound privacy concerns At least the economists seem to have a better grip on tech than Online Safety Bill pushers... Offbeat18 Sep 2023 | 42
Chap blew up critical equipment on his first day – but it wasn't his volt Who, Me? Where there’s smoke, there’s ire On-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 119
South Korean telco SK Broadband and Netflix call a truce in network payment fight Maybe better together? Duo announce AI and entertainment product partnership Legal18 Sep 2023 | 3
UK judge rates ChatGPT as 'jolly useful' after using it to help write a decision AI in brief PLUS: Coca-Cola's AI-designed drink to debut; chip startups struggle to compete with Nvidia as funding flees AI + ML18 Sep 2023 | 20
Activist investor KKR buys 20 percent of Asian datacenter outfit Owner of Cloudera and Barracuda likes the look of Singtel's portfolio Off-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 3
37 Signals says cloud repatriation plan has already saved it $1 million CTO David Heinemeier Hansson reckons he’s on track to hit $10 million over five years On-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 52
Apples to apples: Boffins find a way to make e-waste edible We're rubbish at recycling plastic, but Singaporean scientists think they can make more of it recoverable. Even the hard cases used in electronics Science18 Sep 2023 | 7
SK hynix vice-chair denies selling to Huawei, calls for memory probe Asia In Brief PLUS: Hong Kong’s CoinEx crypto exchange frozen; Uber eyes off India; and more! Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 2