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It lost billions and missed expectations, but fresh blood at the top has pleased shareholders Boeing missed the mark on pretty much every analyst expectation in Q2 as it continues to struggle to recover from a series of devastating engineering failures....

Windows users now get macOS-grade secret security Google says it's enhancing the security of sensitive data managed by Chrome for Windows users to fight the scourge of infostealer malware targeting cookies....

German vendor maintains departures follow increase in job cuts On the back of an expanded workforce restructuring, two execs responsible for revenue and marketing depart have departed SAP's board....

Strikes? What strikes? Samsung Electronics is riding the AI wave with an increase in sales and a huge jump in operating profit thanks to a recovery in the memory market, and the firm expects demand from server AI to stay strong for the rest of the year....

An unprecedented period for an unparalleled force in cybercrime Feature For roughly two years, LockBit's ransomware operation was by far the most prolific of its kind, until the fateful events of February. After claiming thousands of victims, extorting hundreds of millions of dollars, and building a robust army of sophisticated cybercriminals, the life's work of its mastermind, LockbitSupp - whom cops claim is Russian national Dmitry Khoroshev - is now hanging by a thread....

Feedback prioritized, unless it's about a feature customers really miss Microsoft has announced an ad-free update for Skype, now headed to testers in the company's Insider program. However, this update is unlikely to appease users who are still missing features previously dropped from the once-premier chat app....

A playbook full of strategies and someone fumbles the implementation Do you have problems configuring Microsoft's Defender? You might not be alone: Microsoft admitted that whatever it's using for its defensive implementation exacerbated yesterday's Azure instability....

Users and developers warned to prepare for what's coming with human resources a focus in 'high-risk' category As the world's first legislation specifically targeting AI comes into law on Thursday, developers of the technology, those integrating it into their software products, and those deploying it are trying to figure out what it means and how they need to respond....

Ranger 7 finally gets its shot. Five years later, humans would follow It has been 60 years since a spacecraft snapped the USA's first close-up images of the lunar surface, a mere five years before astronauts set foot on the Moon. Ranger 7 finally achieved the feat in July 1964....

Open source TerraForm rival introduces a new file extension so users can 'keep older code around for compatibility' Terraform alternative OpenTofu has reached version 1.8 amid further signs of fragmentation....

In front, unmodified GNOME; underneath, it's all a bit strange, but purposefully so Vanilla OS is an experimental distro testing out new implementations of immutability, cross-distro packaging, A/B failover, and more....

It took 13 months to notice 40 million voters' data was compromised The UK's Electoral Commission has received a formal slap on the wrist for a litany of security failings that led to the theft of personal data belonging to around 40 million voters....

Redmond disputes some claims made in Cracked Labs report Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides "field service management" that allows customers to monitor mobile service workers through smartphone apps - allegedly to the detriment of their autonomy and dignity....

The workaround is going to be inevitable in the future anyway, say Chinese boffins Leading Chinese computer scientists have suggested the nation can build large language models without imported GPUs - by using supercomputers instead....

All a simple misunderstanding, we're told A meeting intended to allay fears that Emirati AI firm G42's deal with Microsoft could result in China accessing advanced US technology was reportedly cancelled by the UAE ambassador to the US....

Everyone loves Copilot, execs claim - and hope they can say the same for Copilot Plus PCs Microsoft has tried to convince investors that AI is paying off, but they appear unimpressed by news of customer adoption and revenue revealed Tuesday in the software giant's Q4 and full-year results for 2024....

Minister accuses cab drivers of gaming algos to score more lucrative fares Taxi drivers are gaming ride-sharing algorithms in Japan to find more and more lucrative fares, according to digital transformation minister Taro Kono....

ICANN's local boss Jia Rong Low gets the gig - and a challenging to-do list The Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) has named its new director general: ICANN regional managing director and vice president Jia Rong Low....

Which is nice, but way behind Nvidia, while other segments are soft and supply-chain pain persists AMD has told investors that its Instinct MI300X GPUs - the chip designer's alternative to Nvidia AI accelerator hardware - landed over $1 billion of datacenter revenues in Q2 this year....

For the want of an underscore DigiCert has given some unlucky customers 24 hours to replace their SSL/TLS security certificates it previously issued them - due to a five-year-old blunder in its backend software....

E-super-souk isn't having any of it Amazon has been ordered by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to take full and proper responsibility for recalling faulty and dangerous products sold by merchants through its website and app....

Things are getting Tensor between Cupertino and Nv Apple has detailed in a research paper how it trained its latest generative AI models using Google's neural-network accelerators rather than, say, more fashionable Nvidia hardware....

Shut the Front Door! If you've had or are having problems using websites and apps today, it might well be due to the Microsoft Azure outage....

Everything's bigger in Texas -even the settlement deals Meta will pay a record $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit with Texas, which accused the Facebook giant of breaking privacy laws by performing facial recognition on people's photos without their consent....

Oh, Boies, here we go again Delta Air Lines lost hundreds of millions of dollars due to the CrowdStrike outage earlier this month - and it has hired a high-powered law firm to claw some of those lost funds back, potentially from the Falcon maker and Microsoft itself....

Latest silicon aims to bring Gigabit connectivity to sub-$100 handsets Qualcomm has been pushing high-end smartphone platforms recently, but its latest release targets the budget segment, aiming to deliver Gigabit 5G connectivity to sub-$100 handsets....

A model finetuned on your social media profile? What could possibly go wrong? SIGGRAPH Big public AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot have become near ubiquitous over the past few years - but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is banking that before long, everyone will have at least one, if not more, personalized AI assistants to call their own....

Partnership with NXP, Infineon, and Bosch finally gets under way TSMC and partners will break ground in Dresden, Germany, to start building the Taiwanese chip maker's first European fab....

Not to mention the skills gap, AI skepticism, and the unrelenting quest for power Datacenter operators face multiple challenges such as power and cooling requirements, while staffing issues persist and many are not tracking the right sustainability metrics. On the plus side, they can count on strong and growing demand for digital services....

Leaves a trail of ransomware infections, data theft, business email compromise in its wake Insight The developers of EvilProxy - a phishing kit dubbed the "LockBit of phishing" - have produced guides on using legitimate Cloudflare services to disguise malicious traffic. This adds to the ever-growing arsenal of tools offering criminals who lack actual technical expertise to get into the digital thievery biz....

Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond? Updated Microsoft's cloud services are having a bad day with users worldwide reporting difficulty connecting to Azure....

While some celebrate, the World Wide Web Consortium Technical Architecture Group is not happy The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a blog criticizing Google's climbdown over the deprecation of third-party cookies, declaring that the move "undermines a lot of the work we've done together."...

Calculating ROI of neural networks turns out to be rather complicated Feature The tech industry's enthusiasm for artificial intelligence software - a conveniently amorphous term - has yet to generate much of an economic windfall....

Get those patches applied - all the big dogs are abusing it Do you have your VMware ESXi hypervisor joined to Active Directory? Well, the latest news from Microsoft serves as a reminder that you might not want to do that given the recently patched vulnerability that has security experts deeply concerned....

Yes, you've heard the term 'AI Factories' before but Europe has its own spin Europe's supercomputing body has officially added a new pillar to its strategy - to develop and operate AI Factories to drive "a more competitive and innovative" European AI ecosystem....

New release does something you might have thought it already did The new version of the high-speed compression algorithm LZ4 gets a big speed boost - nearly an order of magnitude....

Long overdue updates include expanded mandatory security incident reporting Analysis The introduction of fresh UK cybersecurity legislation, though delayed, is timely....

Just when you think you've ban-hammered one, it pops up with another name Analysis This month Anthropic's ClaudeBot - a web content crawler that scrapes data from pages for training AI models - visited tech advice site iFixit.com about a million times over a 24-hour period....

Founder forbidden to leave the country, promises to make things right for out-of-pocket vendors The South Korean government on Monday created a 560 billion ($445 million) rescue package to bail out merchants who used two major e-commerce marketplaces that have failed to pass on payments for several weeks....

They DKIM here, they DKIM there A huge phishing campaign exploited a security blind-spot in Proofpoint's email filtering systems to send an average of three million "perfectly spoofed" messages a day purporting to be from Disney, IBM, Nike, Best Buy, and Coca-Cola - all of which are Proofpoint customers....

Solaris support persists and support for Armed Macs improves Oracle last week debuted a beta for a major update to its VirtualBox desktop hypervisor....

Follows requirement for social media and messaging platforms to get a license Legislation for an internet "kill switch" will reach Malaysia's Parliament in October, according to the country's minister for Law and Institutional Reform....

At last, the world-changing innovation of ML emojis can be yours to enjoy Apple Intelligence, Cupertino's promised suite of generative AI services, has debuted in beta versions of iOS 18.1, iPadOS 18.1, and macOS Sequoia 15.1....

Funny what threatening to walk off the job and shutter a retail store can do Apple is on the verge of entering its first-ever agreement with a stateside retail employee union, caving to demands from store workers who threatened to walk off the job in May....

Khaan! Khaaaaaan! Two US senators have urged the FTC to probe and potentially prosecute three automakers that allegedly unlawfully sold motorists' personal data for pennies....

'Ignore previous instructions' thwarts Prompt-Guard model if you just add some good ol' ASCII code 32 Meta's machine-learning model for detecting prompt injection attacks - special prompts to make neural networks behave inappropriately - is itself vulnerable to, you guessed it, prompt injection attacks....

Do we really want to bother SCOTUS with this, friends? Surely they're way too busy to take a look US border agents must obtain a warrant, in New York at least, to search anyone's phone and other electronic device when traveling in or out of the country, another federal judge has ruled....

Trick appears to speed powering up but could cause damage to cables Tesla has asked owners to stop wrapping wet towels around handles to speed up the recharging process, warning that this can damage its Supercharger stalls....

Aruba, Aruba! Some network pros worry it will lead to less choice The European Commission is set to deliver unconditional approval for HPE's proposed $14 billion purchase of Juniper Networks, according to reports....

Ads in the Start Menu not annoying enough for you? Hold my beer Microsoft is always on the lookout for new and exciting ways to annoy Windows users. Its latest wheeze is a full-screen pop-up in Windows 11 to urge the non-initiated to back up their files....