Global IT spending forecast to reach $5.0T this year Comms services and AI contributing to increase, but vendors are taking 'risks'
Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off A good PR move opines community member
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck
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
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 | 1
Prolific phishing-made-easy emporium LabHost knocked offline in cyber-cop op Feature Police mimic Spotify Wrapped videos to let crims know they're being hunted Security18 Apr 2024 | 1
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 | 7
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 | 4
Valkey publishes release candidate and attracts new backer Open source Redis alternative gathers momentum Databases18 Apr 2024 | 2
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 | 4
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 | 16
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 | 2
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
Mars helicopter sends final message, but will keep collecting data One last software update installed safely, reconfigured it as 'stationary testbed' Science18 Apr 2024 | 10
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 | 8
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 | 9
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 | 8
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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 | 1
America may end up with paid-for 5G fast lanes under net neutrality anyway Damn you, network virtualization Networks17 Apr 2024 | 9
ASML ships another high NA EUV lithography machine to mystery client The cutting-edge chipmaking tool for a secret customer Systems17 Apr 2024 | 4
Kremlin's Sandworm blamed for cyberattacks on US, European water utilities Water tank overflowed during one system malfunction, says Mandiant Research17 Apr 2024 | 6
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 | 19
Are we in a cost of technology crisis? Our vultures think so Kettle Won't somebody please think of the shareholders SaaS17 Apr 2024 | 3
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 | 40
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 | 9
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 | 46
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 | 14
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 | 5
Whistleblower cries foul over alleged fuselage gaps in Boeing 787 Dreamliner Company rejects claims as 'inaccurate' Offbeat17 Apr 2024 | 76
Making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy 14mins Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders
AI spam is winning the battle against search engine quality 9mins 'Not all AI content is spam, but I think right now all spam is AI content'
Google is wrong to put AI search features behind paywall 10mins 'A huge amount of responsibility to ensure that there is ethical management'
Healthcare AI won't take jobs – it'll make nursing easier, says process automation founder 12mins Something's gotta give in short-staffed, overworked healthcare industry, reckons Thoughtful cofounder and CPO
Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO 10mins Civo's Mark Boost says price hikes appear designed to retain whales while tossing back small fry
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 | 4
Official: EU users can swerve App Store and download iOS apps from the web Anticompetitive remedies? We've heard of them Applications17 Apr 2024 | 41
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 | 27
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 | 5
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 | 33
What can be done to protect open source devs from next xz backdoor drama? 19mins What happened, how it was found, and what your vultures have made of it all
Next Vision, or Vision Next? What we really thought about Google and Intel's AI events 18mins We sat through these conferences so you didn't have to
What Big Tech's balance sheets this week said – and didn't say – about real-world AI adoption 18mins Is there anything more terrifying than a 'smart' HR chatbot? Well, OK, yes, but ...
Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster? 17mins Lack of skills, funding, and scrutiny – pick three
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 | 2
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
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Protecting distributed branch office environments from ransomware As ransomware becomes more sophisticated, detection tools should be upgraded to cover every site and location
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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!
YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move'
China scientists talk of powering hypersonic weapon with cheap Nvidia chip Analysis Jetson module can efficiently process computational fluid dynamics models
Gentoo Linux tells AI-generated code contributions to fork off A good PR move opines community member OSes16 Apr 2024 | 9
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 | 2
Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig Paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling OSes16 Apr 2024 | 87
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
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
Torvalds intentionally complicates his use of indentation in Linux Kconfig Paramount penguin forces more robust whitespace handling
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
YouTube now sabotages ad-blocking apps that stream its vids EFF lambastes latest 'lazy and deliberately malicious move'
MGM says FTC can't possibly probe its ransomware downfall – watchdog chief Lina Khan was a guest at the time What a twist!
Open sourcerers say suspected xz-style attacks continue to target maintainers Social engineering patterns spotted across range of popular projects
Change Healthcare’s ransomware attack costs edge toward $1B so far First glimpse at attack financials reveals huge pain
OpenAI's GPT-4 can exploit real vulnerabilities by reading security advisories While some other LLMs appear to flat-out suck
Alleged cryptojacker accused of stealing $3.5M from cloud to mine under $1M in crypto No prizes for guessing the victims
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
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 | 3
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 | 37
Why it’s time to rethink your cloud strategy Organizations must rethink where and how they are placing their workloads as applications and data become more distributed Commissioned