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Email about pricing from rival seller of Microsoft licensing and software under spotlight The US Navy must start a "supplemental investigation" into allegations Dell had inside information on a rival's pricing for a $2.5 billion software deal, a federal claims judge has ruled, after the sea forces "failed to fully comply" with an earlier order.…

State-sponsored Bronze President group launches cyber-espionage malware campaign against notional ally China appears to be entering a raging cyber-espionage battle that's grown in line with Russia's unprovoked attack on Ukraine, deploying advanced malware on the computer systems of Russian officials.…

Personalized news feed has its fans, according to exec Lurking within Microsoft's Q3 2022 earnings reports last night was news that people are indeed still buying Windows PCs, and that half a billion customers are "active users" of the company's news feed, Microsoft Start.…

Peer-to-peer network between different nodes ensures parameters can be exchanged securely HPE has lifted the lid on two new AI products, one aimed at enterprises wanting to build and train machine learning (ML) models at scale, and a second that introduces a decentralized ML system to enable distributed or edge deployments to share updates to their models.…

Former Capita-owned ESS' minimum 3-year deals put under spotlight by CMA Britain's competition watchdog is probing the largest local provider of school management information systems to ascertain if it is abusing its market dominance to force customers to sign three-year agreements.…

Images of bombed streets belie the fact that consultancies are still operating and need income BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has called upon organizations to give Ukraine's tech consultancies serious consideration when tendering for contracts.…

Changes will make things less challenging for developers, but maybe not for users The Fedora development team are planning some significant changes to the way the distro handles graphics, which will help to push forward the state of Linux graphics support – but it may hinder troubleshooting when things go wrong.…

Intel and co outline Holodeck-like DARPA-backed efforts for combat bots Intel has shed some light on its participation in a DARPA program set up to aid the development of autonomous combat vehicles that can go off road. …

Software picks up subtle clues human doctors miss AI algorithms can predict whether a patient will develop pancreatic cancer years before an official diagnosis, or so this research suggests.…

First Middle Kingdom company to take a stance says it doesn't want anyone weaponizing its flying machines In a first for a major Chinese tech company, drone-maker DJI Technologies announced on Tuesday that it will temporarily suspend business in both Russia and Ukraine.…

Software giant calls out impact of slow transition to New Commerce Experience amid strong results Microsoft's partners appear to have pushed back against Redmond's "new commerce experience" licensing scheme, as the software giant noted a slower-than-expected transition to the arrangement in its Q3 2022 earnings.…

Web giant milks advertisers with data harvested from digital assistant Amazon and third-party services have been using smart speaker interaction data for ad targeting, in violation of privacy commitments, according to researchers at four US universities.…

Consumer kit now sits under business dedicated to 'terminals' and alongside B2B org Huawei CEO Yu Chengdong has announced the company will create a business PC unit and is "fully entering the commercial field."…

From COVID-19 chaos to Russia's war, startup CEO opens up When Russia invaded her native country, Ukrainian expat Alexa Sinyachova was immediately inundated with requests from friends and business partners asking what they could do to help. …

Cameras, Wi-Fi, and Bluetooth are operational – maybe China’s wider tech independence plan is, too Alibaba Cloud has advanced its work to port Android to the RISC-V architecture.…

More details emerge about 'Project Monterey' and its role driving infrastructure workloads into hybrid clouds VMware has gone back to its roots to explain why the world needs to add a new hardware tier to datacenters.…

Star-Trek-style computers? There are worse ways to spend $65m of funding Adept AI, an artificial intelligence R&D lab founded by ex-Googlers who helped invent the popular transformer architecture, launched on Tuesday with the ambitious goal of teaching machines how to use "every software tool and API in the world."…

Bugs cost $680m in 2021, academics say, as devs have other concerns Comment "Smart contracts," which consist of self-executing code on a blockchain, are not nearly as smart as the label suggests.…

The current affairs reporting you've been searching for Ayar Labs believes future chips and systems will be connected by light rather than electrical signals, and that vision is receiving considerable buy-in from semiconductor giants Nvidia and Intel – as well as a few other major tech companies and more than a dozen investment firms.…

We hope you've patched that 9.8/10 severity bug A team of Iranian cyber-spies dubbed Rocket Kitten, for one, is likely behind attempts to exploit a critical remote-code execution vulnerability in VMware's identity management software, according to endpoint security firm Morphisec.…

Life tastes not so good right now Coca-Cola confirmed it's probing a possible network intrusion after the Stormous cybercrime gang claimed it stole 161GB of data from the beverage giant.…

d-ream team or a d-isaster? Let's see what Microsoft's money can do Another day, another US chip startup raising tens of millions of dollars.…

The Schmidt hits the fan The USA's policy of decoupling its technology industries from China lacks a strategy, a theory of success, and an understanding of how to achieve its ill-defined goals, according to a new paper by Jon Bateman from the thinktank Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP).…

Well, it's not like there's any hardware to buy at the moment Among US companies with the largest pool of investments, the biggest focus their energy around software, a report finds. …

Pandemic supply chain and war in Ukraine has potential to disrupt recovery, warns Gartner The value of semiconductors sold worldwide in 2022 is projected to reach $676 billion, although further revisions by Gartner are a distinct possibility, such is the increased market volatility.…

Ready-to-implement components that make the business easier, firm claims Red Hat Application Foundations, a set of software services for organizations developing container-based applications across hybrid and multi-cloud environments, is out.…

More attacks and more targeted attacks than ever before. What could have happened to cause that uptick? Kaspersky has released a report showing Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks hit an all-time-high in the first quarter of 2022.…

Strap in, we're on a tour from zero trust to chatty digital assistants If you're developing software or working with anything serverless, you'll know that remote and as-a-service APIs are what make the clouds float.…

Japanese ASIC provider rolling out AI partner program to get around in-house expertise Japanese ASIC provider MegaChips is rolling out an AI partner program pitched as allowing organizations to deliver AI capabilities without requiring in-house experts. It is also expanding into the US market to sell its full ASIC design services to American tech companies.…

In addition to cloud service, Arm also puts out its fastest Cortex-M CPU design yet The belief that IoT would become Arm's main growth engine never played out as owner SoftBank Group thought it would, but the British chip designer is still doing what it can to keep IoT developers hooked with a bevy of new offerings meant to significantly speed up development.…

You thought hunting for discount vouchers took a while? That's nothing compared to Windows booting on a till A fresh Windows 11 patch slipped out overnight as an optional update, but contains an impressively long list of fixes for Microsoft's flagship operating system.…

Remember the 12-year-old who revived the Unity desktop? Both that and fellow unofficial remix Cinnamon are looking great Two unofficial Ubuntu remixes came out on the same day as the official flavors: Ubuntu Unity, a 12-year-old wunderkind's revival of what used to be the official Ubuntu desktop, and Ubuntu Cinnamon, which is Linux Mint's flagship desktop environment.…

Hare-brained. Bad Hare day. Hare no evil, say no evil ... At least it'll be a pun goldmine On Monday, software developer Drew DeVault announced a systems programming language called Hare, describing it as "simple, stable, and robust." We've all heard that before – but there may be something in this.…

Billions of subsidies in Europe and US will hardly make a dent Taiwan dominates the world's semiconductor manufacturing industry – controlling 48 per cent of the foundry market and 61 per cent of the world's capacity to build at 16nm or better - according to market intelligence firm TrendForce.…

Meanwhile, UK and India finally explain Cyber Security Partnership agreed to in May 2021 India's government and the European Union have signed up to create a "Trade and Technology Council" – an entity the EU has previously only created to enhance its relationship with the United States.…

Boffins walk into the Li-ion's den The San Diego Supercomputer Center in the US is ditching its lead-acid uninterruptible power supply (UPS) batteries for more environmentally friendly rechargeables – though it's avoiding lithium-ion, and going with a new form of rechargeable alkaline. …

Leaked Digital Markets Act language forbids gatekeepers from limiting Safari rivals Special report Europe's Digital Markets Act – near-finalized legislation to tame the internet's gatekeepers – contains language squarely aimed at ending Apple's iOS browser restrictions.…

Calls for accelerated adoption as local users pass 700 million China's Central Cyberspace Administration has revealed a plan for further and faster adoption of IPv6 across the nation and outlined plans to drive new developments for the protocol.…

Will soldiers actually use these goggles? Asking for a watchdog The US Army could end up wasting much as $22 billion in taxpayer cash if soldiers aren't actually interested in using, or able to use as intended, the Microsoft HoloLens headsets it said it would purchase, a government watchdog has warned. …

Worth doing a lot of heavy lifting there, we know Crooks stole non-fungible tokens (NFTs) said to be worth about $3 million after breaking into the Bored Ape Yacht Club's Instagram account and posting a link to a copycat website that sought to harvest marks' assets. …

To truly understand virtual reality, first you need to go outside, interact with actual people... In a move sure to reassure those pushing for an all-virtual future, Facebook-owner Meta has announced it's opening its first physical store.…

Fly to some paradise, tweeting as you go, arrive, relax under the stars only to watch those same satellites in the sky SpaceX will provide free Wi-Fi for passengers flying internationally with Hawaiian Airlines as early as next year, using its Starlink broadband satellite network.…

Financial software giant slammed for 'poor security practices' Intuit is being sued in the US after a security failure at its Mailchimp email marketing business allegedly led to the theft of cryptocurrency from one or more digital wallets.…

Pretty cool that all other problems a billionaire could reasonably tackle are solved, leaving this one It's official. Twitter's board on Monday said it has accepted an offer from Elon Musk, the world's richest man, to purchase the micro-blogging website and take it private. …

Thinking of another word for this US govt department's name The first bug bounty program by America's Homeland Security has led to the discovery and disclosure of 122 vulnerabilities, 27 of which were deemed critical.…

Prepare your 'turn it off and on' jokes as engineers get ready to flip the heaters Attempts to recover ESA's stricken Sentinel-1B satellite are continuing and one of the failure scenarios engineers are considering will be familiar to some of us: possible leakage of a ceramic capacitor.…

100 self-driving cabs will wander streets of Guangzhou Residents of Chinese metropolises Guangzhou and Beijing may be in for a surprise the next time they hail a cab – some of them are now self-driving.…

Meanwhile, Intel is catching up to TSMC in leading-edge manufacturing nodes Apple and Intel are likely to become the first customers for TSMC's advanced 2nm manufacturing process when the node goes into production in late 2025, according to new reports.…

Report says social media platform's board close to accepting $54.20-a-share offer The weeks-long saga between Elon Musk and Twitter may be drawing to a close as soon as this afternoon with the sale of Twitter to the Tesla CEO thought to be imminent.…

Check Point uncovers web vulnerability that could have led to cryptocurrency theft A flaw detected in the browser version of the Ever Surf cryptocurrency wallet could have given hackers who exploited it full control over a targeted user's wallet, say threat hunters at Check Point Research.…