Google squashes AI teams together in push for fresh models You can leave your personal vendettas at home – we have work to do, Pichai warns AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 3
SpaceX, Northrop Grumman reportedly working on US spy sat program LEO rising in US military: Close encounters of the recon kind Networks19 Apr 2024 |
Sacramento airport goes no-fly after AT&T internet cable snipped Police say this appears to be a 'deliberate act.' Cyber-crime19 Apr 2024 | 12
NASA solar sail to be Siriusly visible in orbit from Earth Look out for a new star next week Science19 Apr 2024 | 5
Qt Ubuntu 24.04 betas show that there's room to innovate Hot on the heels of Ubuntu Noble beta come the betas of the Qt-based remixes, with some interesting differences OSes19 Apr 2024 | 17
AI energy draw from Chicago datacenters to rise ninefold No wonder industry is exploring nuclear as an alternative to electricity On-Prem19 Apr 2024 | 8
WhatsApp, Threads, more banished from Apple App Store in China Still available in Hong Kong and Macau, for now Security19 Apr 2024 | 6
Unintended acceleration leads to recall of every Cybertruck produced so far That isn't what Tesla meant by Full Self-Driving Offbeat19 Apr 2024 | 60
A quarter of 5-7 year olds now use smartphones, says regulator Social media use and gaming show steep increases within the age group, after UK comms watchdog given new powers Personal Tech19 Apr 2024 | 30
Cybercriminals threaten to leak all 5 million records from stolen database of high-risk individuals It’s the second time the World-Check list has fallen into the wrong hands Cyber-crime19 Apr 2024 | 13
Germany cuffs alleged Russian spies over plot to bomb industrial and military targets Apparently an attempt to damage Ukraine's war effort Security19 Apr 2024 | 3
Wing Commander III changed how the copy hotkey works in Windows 95 No, boss, I'm not just playing a game. I'm testing compatibility. Honest Offbeat19 Apr 2024 | 56
Some smart meters won't be smart at all once 2/3G networks mothballed UK reckoning with prospect of millions of homes with obsolete hardware Networks19 Apr 2024 | 177
Your trainee just took down our business and has no idea how or why On Call Oh, to have been a fly on the wall in the debrief meeting On-Prem19 Apr 2024 | 86
UK unions publish AI bill to protect workers from 'risks and harms' of tech TUC questions government's approach so far AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 3
Huawei's latest flagship smartphone contains no world-shaking silicon surprises Kirin 9010 SoC powering the Pura 70 is impressive, but doesn't indicate unforeseen prowess Personal Tech19 Apr 2024 | 9
Oracle scores big win with Fujitsu Japan for its Alloy partner cloud But Big Red's $8 billion investment plan may not be all it seems Channel19 Apr 2024 | 1
Meta lets Llama 3 LLM out to graze, claims it can give Google and Anthropic a kicking Plans multilingual 400 billion parameter version, but starts with more modest fare AI + ML19 Apr 2024 | 7
US Air Force says AI-controlled F-16 fighter jet has been dogfighting with humans Video Robo-plane was made to restrain itself so as not to harm pilot or airframe AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 46
Ransomware feared as IT 'issues' force Octapharma Plasma to close 150+ centers Updated Source blames BlackSuit infection – as separately ISP Frontier confirms cyberattack Cyber-crime18 Apr 2024 | 7
Crooks exploit OpenMetadata holes to mine crypto – and leave a sob story for victims 'I want to buy a car. That's all' Cyber-crime18 Apr 2024 | 4
Stability AI decimates staff just weeks after CEO's exit More like Instability AI, right kids? AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 8
IBM accused of cheating its own executive assistants out of overtime pay Big Blue bosses retaliate against those seeking overtime, lawsuit claims On-Prem18 Apr 2024 | 24
Google fires 28 staff after sit-in protest against Israeli cloud deal ends in arrests Alphabet Workers Union says bosses refuse to listen to concerns Off-Prem18 Apr 2024 | 85
Feds hit coding boot camp with big fine for allegedly conning students Do not pass go, do not collect $200, says government agency Software18 Apr 2024 | 4
Microsoft aims to triple datacenter capacity to fuel AI boom And it's far from the only hyperscaler getting in on the act On-Prem18 Apr 2024 | 2
House passes bill banning Uncle Sam from snooping on citizens via data brokers Vote met strong opposition from Biden's office Security18 Apr 2024 | 15
October 2025 will be a support massacre for a bunch of Microsoft products Not just Windows 10. Don't forget about Exchange Server, Skype for Business, and all those Office installations Software18 Apr 2024 | 27
Fraudsters abused Apple Stores' third-party pickup policy to phish for profits Black Hat Asia Scam prevalent across Korea and Japan actually had some winners Cyber-crime18 Apr 2024 | 1
911 goes MIA across multiple US states, cause unclear Updated Some say various cell services were out, others still say landlines were affected. What just happened? Networks18 Apr 2024 | 31
TSMC expects customers to pay more for chips fabbed overseas It'll be pricier, but there are geopolitical benefits, says CEO Systems18 Apr 2024 | 8
NASA will send astronauts to patch up leaky ISS telescope Thermal shield damage is screwing with daytime observations of X-ray bursts Science18 Apr 2024 | 11
185K people's sensitive data in the pits after ransomware raid on Cherry Health Extent of information seized will be a concern for those affected Cyber-crime18 Apr 2024 | 6
Microsoft claims it didn't mean to inject Copilot into Windows Server 2022 this week AI assistant turns up via Edge update. It was an accident. This time... AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 51
Micron scores $6.1B CHIPS Act cash for New York and Idaho fabs Memorymaker to park mega plant in Syracuse, says senator Systems18 Apr 2024 |
Google laying off staff again and moving some roles to 'hubs,' freeing up cash for AI investments Restructure of finance teams will see some leave, and other roles created in Mexico City, Bangalore, and US cities Off-Prem18 Apr 2024 | 6
EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy Platforms should not confront users with 'binary choice' over personal data use Security18 Apr 2024 | 68
Novelty flip phone strips out almost every feature possible to be as boring as possible Only good for calls and texts pretty much, and that's no mistake Personal Tech18 Apr 2024 | 51
Prolific phishing-made-easy emporium LabHost knocked offline in cyber-cop op Feature Police emit Spotify Wrapped-style videos to let crims know they're being hunted Security18 Apr 2024 | 12
Debian spices up APT package manager with a dash of color, squishes ancient bug 2.9 gives a taste of what's to come OSes18 Apr 2024 | 32
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AI PCs are here but a killer application for biz users? Nope Resist the pressure to jump on the bandwagon just yet warns, warns Forrester AI + ML18 Apr 2024 | 33
Valkey publishes release candidate and attracts new backer Open source Redis alternative gathers momentum Databases18 Apr 2024 | 5
Cisco creates architecture to improve security and sell you new switches Hypershield detects bad behavior and automagically reconfigures networks to snuff out threats Security18 Apr 2024 | 10
Europe gives TikTok 24 hours to explain 'addictive and toxic' new app Commissioner Thierry Breton likens click-to-earn version to cigarettes Software18 Apr 2024 | 48
Singapore infosec boss warns China/West tech split will be bad for interoperability When you decide not to trust a big chunk of the supply chain, tech (and trade) get harder Cyber-crime18 Apr 2024 | 3
Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed' Science18 Apr 2024 | 20
Taiwanese film studio snaps up Chinese surveillance camera specialist Dahua Stymied by sanctions, it had to go … but where? Security18 Apr 2024 |
Software glitch saw Aussie casino give away millions in cash Nobody cared enough to check why audits were out of whack Software18 Apr 2024 | 19
HPE sues China's Inspur Group over server patents Middle Kingdom biz accused of IP theft and changing names to evade sanctions Systems18 Apr 2024 |
Hugely expanded Section 702 surveillance powers set for US Senate vote Opponents warn almost anyone could be asked to share info with Uncle Sam Public Sector17 Apr 2024 | 16
Snowmobile, Amazon's truck-powered migration service, reaches the end of the road Demand for bulk storage on wheels turned out to be wan Storage17 Apr 2024 | 12
Uncle Sam earmarks $54M of CHIPS funding for small-biz semiconductor boffinry Up to 24 outfits to bag taxpayer cash for projects 'developing a viable product or service' for US chip industry Public Sector17 Apr 2024 | 1
Psst, hey. It's the NSA. You want some AI security advice? You can trust us, we're the good guys AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 2
America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway Damn you, network virtualization Networks17 Apr 2024 | 21
ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer Systems17 Apr 2024 | 10
Kremlin's Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant Research17 Apr 2024 | 10
Boston Dynamics' humanoid Atlas is dead, long live the ... new commercial Atlas Video If the plan was to make this all-electric droid look mildly terrifying, mission accomplished Science17 Apr 2024 | 22
Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures think so Kettle Won't somebody please think of the shareholders SaaS17 Apr 2024 | 4
Future Roku TVs may inject tailored ads into anything and everything when you pause Updated Muted the audio? That's an advert. Paused a video? That's an advert Personal Tech17 Apr 2024 | 59
NASA confirms nuclear-powered Dragonfly drone is going to Titan Whew! Relief for boffins as rotorcraft slated to arrive at Saturn moon in 2034 Science17 Apr 2024 | 12
Tesla asks shareholders to reinstate Musk's voided $56B pay package Given the electric car maker's annus horribilis so far in 2024, does the chief even deserve it? Personal Tech17 Apr 2024 | 71
Intel's neuromorphic 'owl brain' swoops into Sandia labs Hala Point system crams more than a thousand neurochips into a 6U chassis to tackle real-time AI AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 1
Samsung boosts LPDDR5X to 10.7 Gbps, ups efficiency and capacity for mobile and servers Guess what it's great for? Go on, have a guess... 20 points if you muttered an abbreviation starting with A and ending in I Storage17 Apr 2024 | 2
Crypto conferences liquidated after biblical flooding in Dubai There's something nice about seeing Web3 fanatics in ankle-deep water Bootnotes17 Apr 2024 | 16
AlmaLinux 9.4 beta prepares to tread where RHEL dares not CIQ also has an alternative approach to compatible kernels with RockyLinux OSes17 Apr 2024 | 6
Whistleblower cries foul over alleged fuselage gaps in Boeing 787 Dreamliner Company rejects claims as 'inaccurate' Offbeat17 Apr 2024 | 87
Exploit code for Palo Alto Networks zero-day now public Race on to patch as researchers warn of mass exploitation of directory traversal bug Security17 Apr 2024 | 2
ASML profits plunge 40% amid dip in chipmaking tool orders Except in China, where customers accounted for almost half of the photolithography giant's top line Systems17 Apr 2024 | 5
Official: EU users can swerve App Store and download iOS apps from the web Anticompetitive remedies? We've heard of them Applications17 Apr 2024 | 81
Mega city council's Oracle ERP system still not legally safe, compliant... 2 years after rollout Fusion software misses another deadline, one external auditors for Birmingham City Council described as 'absolutely crucial' Databases17 Apr 2024 | 46
Logitech intros free tool for ChatGPT prompts... plus a mouse with an AI button For when the AI service cannot grok what it's being asked Personal Tech17 Apr 2024 | 14
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 6
NetBSD 10 proves old tech can still kick apps and take names three decades later FOSDEM 2024 Proper old-school Unix, not like those lazy, decadent Linux types OSes17 Apr 2024 | 37
Devaluing content created by AI is lazy and ignores history Column The answer is not to hide from ML, but to be honest about it AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 47
Global IT spending forecast to reach $5.0T this year Comms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks' Networks17 Apr 2024 | 3
Google will pump more than $100B into AI, says DeepMind boss Not all at once, of course AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 5
Japanese government rejects Yahoo! infosec improvement plan Just doesn't believe it will sort out the mess that saw data leak from LINE messaging app Security17 Apr 2024 | 3
Tencent Cloud to revisit design after circular dependencies slowed emergency API fix Almost 2,000 customers experienced outages Off-Prem17 Apr 2024 | 2
Indian PM's 25-year roadmap laid out with help from AI AI is so good at drawing pictures and driving cars, why not let it govern a country? AI + ML17 Apr 2024 | 8
RISC-V AI chip upstart Rivos plans to undercut Nvidia, helped by a quarter-billion in VC lucre With Apple lawsuit behind it, focussed on finalizing its designs On-Prem17 Apr 2024 |
Fire in the Cisco! Networking giant's Duo MFA message logs stolen in phish attack Also warns of brute force attacks targeting its own VPNs, Check Point, Fortinet, SonicWall and more Security17 Apr 2024 | 6
FYI: This site claims to have harvested 4B+ Discord chats, today all yours for a price Updated Of course there's an enterprise plan for the Feds and AI trainers Personal Tech16 Apr 2024 | 18
MGM says FTC can't possibly probe its ransomware downfall – watchdog chief Lina Khan was a guest at the time What a twist! Cyber-crime16 Apr 2024 | 17
YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move' Applications16 Apr 2024 | 66
China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip Analysis Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models Systems16 Apr 2024 | 5
Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off A good PR move opines community member OSes16 Apr 2024 | 19
Latest AMD Ryzen Pro chips are similar silicon, more smarts That other processor company really wants you to use AI at work Systems16 Apr 2024 | 3
Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig Paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling OSes16 Apr 2024 | 90
Judge refuses to Ctrl-Z divorce order made by a misclick Computer says you're single Bootnotes16 Apr 2024 | 57
Alleged cryptojacker accused of stealing $3.5M from cloud to mine under $1M in crypto No prizes for guessing the victims Research16 Apr 2024 | 2
Microsoft to tackle spam by restricting Exchange Online bulk email Need to send to more than 2,000 external recipients in 24 hours? Time to start looking for an alternative Applications16 Apr 2024 | 12
SIM swap crooks solicit T-Mobile US, Verizon staff via text to do their dirty work No breach responsible for employee contact info getting out, says T-Mo Cyber-crime16 Apr 2024 | 4
US Equal Employment agency says Workday AI hiring bias case should continue Judge to hear software vendor's effort to dismiss discrimination case next month Software16 Apr 2024 | 3
NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack Who needs aircon when you have NASA to punch holes through your home? Science16 Apr 2024 | 38
Open sourcerers say suspected xz-style attacks continue to target maintainers Social engineering patterns spotted across range of popular projects Security16 Apr 2024 | 29
AI gold rush continues as Microsoft invests $1.5B in UAE's G42 Can regulators keep up? AI + ML16 Apr 2024 | 3
Micron says it's first to QLC NAND with over 200 layers Enhanced data density and speed upgrades, though challenges in endurance remain Storage16 Apr 2024 | 5
Change Healthcare’s ransomware attack costs edge toward $1B so far First glimpse at attack financials reveals huge pain Cyber-crime16 Apr 2024 | 11
Blackstone wants to plug hyperscale datacenter into former Britishvolt battery site Plans to plant $12B bitbarn where homegrown renewables hope once lived On-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 49
Google location tracking deal could be derailed by politics $62 million settlement plan challenged over payments to progressive nonprofits Security16 Apr 2024 | 17
KPMG bags £8.5M NHS gig as cheerleader for Federated Data Platform rollout Consultancy tasked with helping local services get on board Public Sector16 Apr 2024 | 7
AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
Intel's effort to build a foundry biz is costing far more – and taking longer – than expected Analysis If you wanna make money you've gotta spend money. And against Samsung it's gonna cost a lot On-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 12
NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks Science16 Apr 2024 | 42
Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions Virtualization16 Apr 2024 | 15
Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86% Exclusive Zoonet employs 'elegant generalization of ping and traceroute' among other tricks Off-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 3
OpenAI launches Asian operations in Tokyo to avoid being lost in translation Local customers get early access to Japanese-language GPT-4 AI + ML16 Apr 2024 | 3
Konica Minolta and Fujifilm ponder JV to cut costs of printer businesses Japanese giants have big brands, but tiny shares of a shrinking market Personal Tech16 Apr 2024 | 10
Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
CISA in a flap as Chirp smart door locks can be trivially unlocked remotely Hard-coded credentials last thing you want in home security app Security15 Apr 2024 | 49
What's up with AI lately? Let's start with soaring costs, public anger, regulations... 'Obtaining genuine consent for training data collection is especially challenging' industry sages say AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 12
Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again Says the IRS can do this stuff for free Applications15 Apr 2024 | 66
Samsung snags $6.4B in CHIPS Act funds for Texas fabs Work in Austin, Taylor will include new 2nm facility, packaging plant, and Pentagon partnership Systems15 Apr 2024 | 4
US lawmakers rage over Intel Meteor Lake-powered Huawei PC Special export license granted to Intel by President Trump unlikely to be renewed Systems15 Apr 2024 | 8
Japan turns up heat on Apple, Google with threat of hefty fines Antitrust proposals could stretch to 30% of annual revenues for law-breaking app store monopolies Applications15 Apr 2024 | 3
Tesla decimates staff amid ongoing performance woe Shares of the worst performing member of the S&P 500 slide some more as news unlikely to please investors Personal Tech15 Apr 2024 | 85
Backblaze cloud storage buzzes with added Event Notifications If you want open system to automate workflows over platform of your choosing, join the queue Storage15 Apr 2024 | 1
Roku makes 2FA mandatory for all after nearly 600K accounts pwned Streamer says access came via credential stuffing Cyber-crime15 Apr 2024 | 15
NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15 billion miles away Since you can't get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software Science15 Apr 2024 | 14
Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11 It probably wasn't only sound driver problems that kept users away OSes15 Apr 2024 | 12
Delinea Secret Server customers should apply latest patches Updated Attackers could nab an org's most sensitive keys if left unaddressed Patches15 Apr 2024 | 3
World is finally buying more phones and prices are rising Someone forgot to tell Apple and Samsung as Chinese brands rebound Personal Tech15 Apr 2024 | 14
US senator wants to put the brakes on Chinese EVs Fears of low-cost invasion and data spies spark call for ban Security15 Apr 2024 | 39
North American S/4HANA migrations ramping among SAP users Skills access still an issue for organizations hoping to beat the 2027 ECC support deadline Databases15 Apr 2024 | 1
Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders This wasn't what most had in mind when Redmond promised to make the feature 'great again' OSes15 Apr 2024 | 110
Feline firewall woke developer to declaw DDoS disaster System alerts were pinging but cat had no way of knowing what was happening Offbeat15 Apr 2024 | 19
Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins Opinion Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 182
After delay due to xz, Ubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' belatedly hits beta Kernel 6.8, GNOME 46, and more apps in Snap packages OSes15 Apr 2024 | 29
MIT breakthrough means there's no material too weird for 3D printing Thanks to sensors and math, machines can 'learn' to adapt to new mediums OSes15 Apr 2024 | 18
Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it who, me? If you're too exhausted to think, maybe you shouldn't be doing tech support On-Prem15 Apr 2024 | 66
Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15
Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships Reconaissance vessels first, then set a course for armed drones AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 8
Salesforce apparently poised to slurp data management outfit Informatica Investors get excited about using AI to make AI easier Software15 Apr 2024 |
US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all Infosec in brief PLUS: Chinese chipmaker Nexperia attacked; A Microsoft-signed backdoor; CISA starts scanning your malware; and more Security15 Apr 2024 | 11
Australian operation of web host BlueVPS laid low by storage failure Asia In Brief PLUS: AWS expands India payment options; Alibaba co-founders unite in criticism; Korea invests in AI; and more Off-Prem15 Apr 2024 | 3
Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy Interview Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders AI + ML14 Apr 2024 | 60
How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future 'Something is stopping it, even though it clearly can do it' AI + ML14 Apr 2024 | 16