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Gains access to offshoring centers in Malaysia and Philippines Lenovo has struck an agreement with Hong Kong comms conglomerate PCCW to create a jointly owned services company, advancing its strategy of growth through services.…

Just what we needed: a threat to rival Anonymous A Malaysia-linked hacktivist group has attacked targets in India, seemingly in reprisal for a representative of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) making remarks felt to be insulting to the prophet Muhammad.…

Microsoft details this ransomware-as-a-service Two of the more prolific cybercriminal groups, which in the past have deployed such high-profile ransomware families as Conti, Ryuk, REvil and Hive, have started adopting the BlackCat ransomware-as-as-service (RaaS) offering.…

Plus: Intel, AMD react to Hertzbleed data-leaking holes in CPUs Patch Tuesday Microsoft claims to have finally fixed the Follina zero-day flaw in Windows as part of its June Patch Tuesday batch, which included security updates to address 55 vulnerabilities.…

Why not just ship it in Narnia and call it a win? Intel has said its first discrete Arc desktop GPUs will, as planned, go on sale this month. But only in China.…

Pair's multimillion-dollar contract caper unraveled A former Maryland Cabinet-level official and a former IT executive have pleaded guilty to involvement in a bribery and extortion scheme related to technology contracts about a decade ago.…

26m requests a second? Not legit traffic, not even Bill Gates doing $1m giveaways could manage that Cloudflare said it this month staved off another record-breaking HTTPS-based distributed denial-of-service attack, this one significantly larger than the previous largest DDoS attack that occurred only two months ago.…

Who'll board the custom silicon bandwagon next? Alibaba Cloud offered a peek at its latest homegrown silicon at its annual summit this week, which it calls Cloud Infrastructure Processing Units (CIPU).…

The buck stops with me, says Armstrong, but I still have a job Coinbase has axed 1,100 employees, cutting its workforce by 18 per cent, while the value of digital assets including Bitcoin plummet amid rising inflation rates in the US.…

In truth, a non-tape media player for Gen Xers with more money than sense What's old is new again with reboots of classic devices for gaming and music coming out all the time. But that kitsch value comes at a cost, even if the tech is from the current era.…

API can be manipulated to reveal tokens in clear text log data Travis CI stands for "Continuous Integration" but might just as well represent "Consciously Insecure" if, as security researchers claim, the company's automation software exposes secrets by design.…

Over 2,000 customers with malice on their minds A 33-year-old Illinois man has been sentenced to two years in prison for running websites that paying customers used to launch more than 200,000 distributed denial-of-services (DDoS) attacks.…

Of the top 10 fabless chip designers, the Big M soared in Q1 thanks to switch ASICs In the world of fabless chip designers, AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm usually soak up the most attention since their chips are fueling everything from top-end supercomputers to mobile devices.…

We're just astounded to see bipartisan efforts in Congress in this day and age A draft US law that would, for one thing, subsidize the US semiconductor industry, has gained an amendment that would turn the screws on American investments in foreign countries.…

It's back to the future for PostgreSQL as Michael Stonebraker lists priorities for the popular open-source system he helped create PostgreSQL co-creator and MIT computer science professor Michael Stonebraker has listed his top requests for features to add into the popular open-source database, including a time travel function he admits was implemented badly in the 1980s.…

Nexus portfolio undergoes cloudy Software-as-a-Service revamp Cisco's Nexus Cloud will eventually allow customers to manage their datacenter networks entirely from the cloud, says the networking giant.…

Silicon-anode power units could come to market soon, accelerating adoption of electric vehicles A new type of silicon-anode lithium-ion battery could be the solution the EV market is waiting for as it can allegedly charge from empty to full in less than 10 minutes.…

Would give its right, er, leg, to keep HQ – and jobs – in Britain The UK government is continuing efforts to have chip designer and licensor Arm listed on the London Stock Exchange after its public offering rather than New York, as is the current plan.…

Boffin agency seeks help to shoot 100kW through the air with lasers, but contributors don't have long to deliver US military researchers are trying to turn in-flight refueling tankers into laser-shooting "airborne energy wells" for charging drones, and they want the public's help to figure out how.…

It is sure a lot of money to be able to say confidently: 'It's going to rain' Exclusive A court case which would have seen Atos take on the UK government over a £854 million (c $1 billion) supercomputer contract for the Meteorological Office has ended before it began.…

Acquisition of health data specialist Cerner adds $15.8b to Big Red's debt Oracle has impressed the markets with strong revenue growth for cloud infrastructure and applications-as-a-service.…

Native code or nothing thanks to Safari's approach to web apps A week after confirming plans for Telegram Premium, the messaging platform's CEO, Pavel Durov, is again criticizing Apple's approach to its Safari browser for stifling the efforts of web developers.…

Redmond kicks off Patch Tuesday with a months-old flaw fix Two security vendors – Orca Security and Tenable – have accused Microsoft of unnecessarily putting customers' data and cloud environments at risk by taking far too long to fix critical vulnerabilities in Azure.…

Digital, Big Data, and Security units to be known as 'Evidian', less profitable parts as 'Tech Foundation Co' Atos's share price tumbled this morning on confirmation it is exploring a two-way split of operations, a decision that made the position of recently installed CEO Rodolphe Belmer untenable.…

Going from the semi-annual channel, but you'll never really wash it off the internals The end is nigh for support for Internet Explorer 11 on some editions of Windows 10. That is, unless users look a little too hard at Windows' internals.…

'Puck' hardware demoed with customers including Royal Dutch Shell to address big concern: cost Splunk has released a major update to its core data-crunching platform, emphasizing reductions in the quantity of data ingested and therefore the cost of operations.…

Users hopeful of waving bye to window overload as staggered rollout moves from Dev to Beta Channel Microsoft has added tabbed File Explorer functionality to the Window Insider beta channel, opening up the possibility of it making an appearance in the next major Windows Update.…

Over a year after discussions began, National Data Guardian continues to pursue transparency in health data use More than two years after England launched a COVID data store, keeping details of National Health Service (NHS) patients, the country's National Data Guardian (NDG) remains unsatisfied with who is accessing the data.…

Retro fun and games in Berlin's ComputerSpieleMuseum Curious about the history of home computing both west and east of the iron curtain? Berlin's ComputerSpieleMuseum in Germany's capital has you covered.…

Notes rise of 'pay to play' where companies try to buy way into governance – and says this is not that OpenInfra Berlin OpenInfra still has ideas to share, including an intriguing funding model for open source projects the Foundation discussed at its in-person event last week in Berlin.…

We mingle with the vendors so you don't have to RSA Conference Your humble vulture never liked conference expos – even before finding myself on the show floor during a global pandemic. Expo halls are a necessary evil that are predominatly visited to find gifts to bring home to the kids. …

Philippines says subsidies inflate profits, not local economy The government of the Philippines has welcomed the decision by giant business process outsourcer Concentrix Corporation to forgo tax incentives and instead allow its staff to continue working from home for the foreseeable future. The nation feels that subsidising outsourcers' bottom lines does nothing to boost the local economy.…

Broadens targets from telecoms to finance and government orgs The Gallium group, believed to be a Chinese state-sponsored team, is going on the warpath with an upgraded remote access trojan (RAT) that threat hunters say is difficult to detect.…

Paravirtualized guests on old x86s are the risk – just the sort of thing that gets forgotten The Xen Project has disclosed three bugs in its eponymous hypervisor – all of which would allow a malicious VM administrator to take control of a host system.…

Reports suggest SMBs will get more time, but core elements including six-hour reporting requirement remain Indian media is reporting that the government has consulted with industry about its controversial infosec reporting rules, possibly resulting in concessions that slightly ease requirements for some businesses.…

Be a good neighbor to folks and the environment, and we'll think that permit over SpaceX is one step closer to securing a permit to launch not just its first rocket from Boca Chica, Texas but its reusable super-heavy lifter at that.…

New meaning for accessory to murder A woman in the US has been charged with murder after she allegedly tracked down her boyfriend using an Apple AirTag and ran him over after seeing him with another lady.…

Factories hope to buy their way out of shortages – with Taiwan leading the pack If you've been ripping your hair out about the ongoing semiconductor shortage, you should know that chip manufacturers are at least trying to spend their way out of the problem at record levels.…

Don't even think about putting LaMDA on the compensation committee Google has promised to cough up $118 million to settle a years-long gender-discrimination class-action lawsuit that alleged the internet giant unfairly pays men more than women.…

Infamous 'Dinobabies' memo comes back to haunt Big Blue again Updated In one of the many ongoing age discrimination lawsuits against IBM, Big Blue has been ordered to produce internal emails in which former CEO Ginny Rometty and former SVP of Human Resources Diane Gherson discuss efforts to get rid of older employees.…

Chip designer hopes to have broad inference and training coverage from the edge to the cloud Analysis After re-establishing itself in the datacenter over the past few years, AMD is now hoping to become a big player in the AI compute space with an expanded portfolio of chips that cover everything from the edge to the cloud.…

Not a good moment to look at that digi-coin portfolio, fam The cryptocurrency world is experiencing what can only be described as a meltdown, with prices plummeting today to lows not seen since the end of 2020.…

Outsource all the things! To whom? The lowest bidder of course, says Gartner The world's governments are eager to let someone else handle their IT headaches, according to a recent Gartner report, which found a healthy appetite for "anything-as-a-service" (XaaS) platforms to cut the costs of bureaucracy.…

Now can we just buy them, please? Microsoft isn't wasting time trying to put Activision Blizzard's problems in the rearview mirror, announcing a labor neutrality agreement with the game maker's recently-formed union.…

Russian-based group doubles the extortion by exfiltrating the corporate data before encrypting it. Windows and Linux systems are coming under attack by new variants of the HelloXD ransomware that includes stronger encryption, improved obfuscation and an additional payload that enables threat groups to modify compromised systems, exfiltrate files and execute commands.…

LibreOffice, Collabora, KDE Gear all updated their Microsoft alternatives – whatever your OS Fresh versions of three of the bigger open-source application suites just landed for those seeking to break free from proprietary office apps.…

First of Europe's pre-exascale systems inaugurated, hits top 3 even without GPU partition fully installed HPE has scored another supercomputing win with the inauguration of the LUMI system at the IT Center for Science, Finland, which as of this month is ranked as Europe's most powerful supercomputer.…

Another assault in the battery market as automakers race to translate EV tech to the home Japanese automaker Toyota has become the latest car company to repurpose its electric vehicle batteries for home energy storage. …

Goal is to bring analytics to its transactional workloads but there are places where this might fall short Analysis At MongoDB's recent conference in New York, the company demonstrated its ambition in taking on workloads from other databases.…

Blake Lemoine began to believe that LaMDA, Language Model for Dialogue Applications, exhibited self-awareness Google has placed one of its software engineers on paid administrative leave for violating the company's confidentiality policies.…