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Is this gang some sort of Conti side hustle? The answer may be yes The Feds have warned organizations about a lesser-known extortion gang Karakurt, which demands ransoms as high as $13 million and, some cybersecurity folks say, may be linked to the notorious Conti crew.…

From Non-Fungible Tokens to No Freedom, Twit, if convicted A now-former product boss at a top NFT marketplace was arrested and charged with wire fraud and money laundering in the first-ever insider-trading case involving the digital tokens.…

Don't leave those firmware patches to last The notorious Conti ransomware gang has working proof-of-concept code to exploit low-level Intel firmware vulnerabilities, according to Eclypsium researchers.…

US think tank sees growing interest in counterspace capabilities In a report published earlier this week, the Secure World Foundation, a space-oriented NGO, warned that in the past few years there's been a surge of interest in offensive counterspace weapons that can disrupt space-based services.…

Still managing app servers by hand? What is this, 2012? If you want to run analytics in a serverless cloud environment, Amazon Web Services reckons it can help you out all while reducing your operating costs and simplifying deployments.…

House Dems demand documents from CEO on facility hit by tornado – or else The US House Oversight Committee has told Amazon CEO Andy Jassy to turn over documents pertaining to the collapse of an Amazon warehouse – and if he doesn't, the lawmakers say they will be forced to "consider alternative measures."…

The hope is for Taiwan’s chipmakers to build new plants in Europe as tensions brew with China Taiwan's government has announced a "major breakthrough" in talks with the European Union about cooperation in the semiconductor industry, which could pave the way for the island nation's chipmakers to build new plants in Europe.…

Two years on and there's still not enough stuff to go around--or people The US datacenter construction boom may be faltering and the reasons are not difficult to predict. The same supply shortages, price hikes and a lack of labor that have characterized not-quite-post-pandemic life is a risk for DC builders, too.…

Work culture is irrevocably changed. Businesses that don't see that are in for a rough ride Comment What goes up must come down - even in the tech industry. …

Do you feel the need? The need for speed? Arista Networks aims to eliminate every last ounce of excess latency from your network. And in pursuit of this goal, the company tapped an all-star cast of Broadcom, Intel, and AMD Xilinx silicon to power its latest switches.…

Antivirus-but-for-pictures would trample rights, not even work as expected, say academics While Apple has, temporarily at least, backed away from last year's plan to run client-side scanning (CSS) software on customers' iPhones to detect and report child sexual abuse material (CSAM) to authorities, European officials in May proposed rules to protect children that involve the same highly criticized approach.…

At least one manufacturer would like to disagree with study's conclusions Updated Mini nuclear reactors that are supposed to usher in an era of cheaper and safer nuclear power may generate up to 35 times more waste to produce the same amount of power as a regular plant, according to a study.…

In Gaussian boson sampling at least, quantum supremecy is here Researchers in Canada have conducted a quantum computing experiment that they claim completes a calculation in just a fraction of a second that would take a conventional computer 9,000 years.…

Your package is delayed. Click this innocent-looking link to reschedule FluBot, the super-spreader Android malware that infected tens of thousands of phones globally, has been reportedly squashed by an international law enforcement operation.…

The chips must flow. But don't mention the Great Wall Taiwan has engaged with the United States, and the European Union, in separate talks aimed at securing tech supply chains.…

De-Googled Android phone does the job, has a few rough edges First Look The /e/ Foundation's de-Googled version of Android 10 has reached the market in a range of smartphones aimed at the privacy-conscious.…

Privacy service will keep working, just beyond the reach of India's government Virtual private network operator ExpressVPN will pull its servers from India, citing the impossibility of complying with the nation's incoming requirement to record users' identities and activities.…

Offers alternative to vanilla servers and recruits world's biggest tech distributors to push hybrid storage appliance Amazon Web Services has launched two significant challenges to on-prem hardware.…

Let's dive in and do it anyway, because that worked so well for social media The metaverse already has privacy problems, and efforts to address them are disconcertingly hard to find, argued panelists at a Singapore conference yesterday.…

If the idea was to see if a ship could make it without any humans, we think we may have the answer by now No, this isn't deja vu. IBM's self-sailing Mayflower ship, tasked with making it across the Atlantic without any humans onboard to help, has suffered another mechanical glitch preventing it from continuing its intended journey.…

Public acknowledgement 'unusual', one cybersec exec tells us America's military conducted offensive cyber operations to support Ukraine in its response to Russia's illegal invasion, US Cyber Command chief General Paul Nakasone has said.…

We assume the world's smallest violin is available right now on Prime Updated Amazon has blasted a proposed antitrust law that aims to clamp down on anti-competitive practices by Big Tech.…

Bosses can always work from home – after they've done a minimum of 40 hours a week on site Tesla supremo Elon Musk has declared that executive staff at his battery-powered vehicle biz shall not work from afar.…

Intel loses out as Instinct GPUs power the world’s fastest big-iron system Analysis In a sign of how meteoric AMD's resurgence in high performance computing has become, the latest list of the world's 500 fastest public known supercomputers shows the chip designer has become a darling among organizations deploying x86-based HPC clusters.…

From alleging wild falsehoods to questioning man behind the curtain, Scorpion stings hell out of IonQ Quantum computing startup IonQ is facing a securities fraud lawsuit after a barrage of accusations came to light in a blistering report from Scorpion Capital, which claims the company lied about the maturity (and even existence of) its quantum device in addition to a smattering of claimed financial fictions.…

And 'tweaks' is doing some heavy lifting, there It may be nearly three years since the world officially exhausted all of the available IPv4 internet addresses, but now a new initiative has been proposed that could free up hundreds of millions of addresses that are currently unused – or are they?…

We took the popular Ubuntu-based Windows replacement for a test drive Linux Lite has been around since 2012 and version 6, codenamed "Fluorite", is one of the first Ubuntu-based distros to offer a version built on Ubuntu 22.04 "Jammy Jellyfish", released just last month.…

CEO admits integration of mega-mergers remains an ongoing project Global CRM giant Salesforce has reported first quarter revenue of $7.41 billion, up 24 percent on the same period last year.…

Revenue hit for HP far larger than many tech providers post-pullout but PC, print giant stays course PC and printer giant HP Inc. is boldly but belatedly turning its back on Russia and Belarus due to the continued conflict in Ukraine.…

With increasing density in a smaller footprint, small shops finally have datacenter dunking dibs Immersion cooling has long been the domain of larger datacenter operators but with increasing density and therefore smaller datacenter facilities, there is a need for shops of all sizes to get around heavy-duty AC and air cooling.…

Want a Surface badge, but don't have Surface Laptop money? Step this way Microsoft has updated its Surface Laptop Go, giving commercial customers the option of more RAM – but keeping quiet when it comes to Pluton.…

Improvements in mapmaking platform to cost 500 employees their future at geolocation tech provider TomTom says it is laying off 10 percent of its global workforce due to advances in automation technology and greater use of digital techniques in its mapmaking process.…

People forget that IoT gadgets aren't appliances and need to be supported with updates from the vendor Smart homes are increasingly becoming hackable homes, according to consumer research.…

You might say the US agency needed an OpenShift in mindset Cloud-native architectures have changed the way applications are deployed, but remain relatively uncharted territory for high-performance computing (HPC). This week, however, Red Hat and the US Department of Energy will be making some moves in the area.…

You wait for one infection and then three come along at once An emailed report seemingly about a payment will, when opened in Excel on a Windows system, attempt to inject three pieces of file-less malware that steal sensitive information.…

Graduates from top 50 global universities get a pass as critics say it fails to make up for Brexit impact The UK has begun a fast-track visa scheme for tech workers graduating from a list of top 50 universities worldwide.…

Recognizing your doodles and building some software – or that's the idea Interview "We implemented this as an 'AI+human' experience," said Ryan Cunningham, VP of Power Apps, "and not 'AI does it 100 percent for you' experience."…

Rocks stood out like a THOR thumb for code Researchers at The Asteroid Institute have developed a way to locate previously unknown asteroids in astronomical data, and all it took was a massive amount of cloud computing power to do it.…

Far from the finished product and not obviously a game-changer, but intriguing nonetheless In October 2021, Cisco announced WebEx Hologram – an augmented reality meeting experience that promised "photorealistic, real-time holograms of actual people" and the chance to "share physical and digital content".…

Proof-of-concept lab work demos potential future threat Forescout researchers have demonstrated how ransomware could spread through an enterprise from vulnerable Internet-of-Things gear.…

We have questions: Who's logged in lately? How would you know? Ain't it grand that Microsoft wants you in Azure AD? Updated Microsoft has warned users that Azure Active Directory isn't currently producing reliable sign-in logs.…

Clever asymmetrical economic warfare makes Beijing very uncomfortable India's government has reportedly started probes into the local activities of Chinese tech companies Vivo and ZTE, prompting a rebuke from China's foreign ministry.…

Fast-evolving botnet targets critical VMware, F5 BIG-IP bugs, we're told The botnet malware EnemyBot has added exploits to its arsenal, allowing it to infect and spread from enterprise-grade gear.…

It now builds its own and says it has become the largest contributor to OpenStreetMap in Southeast Asia Grab – the Singaporean ride-sharing app that beat Uber on its home turf – decided to develop its own maps because Big Tech's simply weren't up to the job, the company's head of product said at a conference in Singapore.…

Despite public support for more repairable gear, tech lobbying may have kept that from happening A California Right to Repair bill, SB 983, died in committee last week, despite broad consumer support for fixable products.…

Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett help halt enforcement of HB 20 The US Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated the suspension of Texas' social-media law HB 20 while litigation to have the legislation declared unconstitutional continues.…

x86 giant now has an HPC roadmap, which includes successor to Ponte Vecchio After a few years of teasing Ponte Vecchio – the powerful GPU that will go into what will become one of the fastest supercomputers in the world – Intel is sharing more details of the high-performance computing chips that will follow, and one of them will combine CPUs and GPUs in one package.…

Fraudster and two alleged accomplices nabbed in joint op An Interpol-led operation code-named Killer Bee has led to the arrest and conviction of a Nigerian man who was said to have used a remote access trojan (RAT) to reroute financial transactions and steal corporate credentials. Two suspected accomplices were also nabbed.…

Big Blue's 'routine eschewal of rules' justifies large penalty, judge says IBM has been ordered to pay Houston-based IT firm BMC $1.6 billion for fraud and contract violations because it moved mutual client AT&T from BMC software to IBM software.…

Decentralized identity and knowing who needs what Microsoft has whipped out the rebranding team once more, and chosen the name "Entra" as a catch-all for the company's identity and access capabilities.…