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Nickolas Sharp now faces up to 35 years in prison A former Ubiquiti Networks employee accused of hatching an elaborate plot to first steal nearly $2 million from his employer, extort more, then later orchestrating a smear campaign against the company pleaded guilty to multiple felony charges Thursday.…

As for actually doing anything about it - that'll have to wait The US Commerce Department is putting an official stamp on what many have saying for years: the iOS and Android app store model "is harmful to consumers and developers." …

Social ad behemoth insists what it does it okay ... and what others do is not Meta Platforms has sued an Israel-based web scraping firm called Bright Data for scraping data from its Facebook and Instagram websites – even though Meta paid Bright Data to scrape data from other websites.…

Who needs 6GHz when you can have 128MB of L3 To compete with Intel's fire-breathing 6GHz Core i9-13900KS desktop processors, AMD isn't shipping higher clocked Ryzens, but instead is throwing a boat load of cache at the problem.…

Facebook, Google, Twilio had a look-see of that data, we're told GoodRx will cough up $1.5 million to settle claims it shared people's health information with Facebook, Google, and other third parties.…

She's got a lot of work to do Heads keep rolling upward at Southwest Airlines, as the biz announced that its VP of Technology was being promoted into the now-vacant Chief Information Officer position.…

The campaign illustrates another option for miscreants who had relied on Microsoft macros Malvertising attacks are being used to distribute virtualized .NET loaders that are highly obfuscated and dropping info-stealer malware.…

Plus: ChatGPT Plus now available for $20 a month in the US Microsoft will reportedly integrate OpenAI's upcoming large language model GPT-4 into the Bing search engine over the next few weeks, as Google scrambles to test rival AI products, fearing it could lose its dominant position in online search. …

'Stunning' scans reveal how ray-finned fish diverged from other vertebrates A fish fossil first described in northwest England more than 100 years ago is shedding light on the evolution of the brain with the help of X-ray scanning and 3D reconstruction.…

In the virtual corporate world, slackers have nowhere to hide Microsoft Teams – one of the go-to video meetup tools of the pandemic – is promising to "re-energize employees to achieve business results" by injecting a bit of AI into the mix.…

From the Department of Improbable Alliances Google has offered VMware in the cloud and brought support for Microsoft 365 to Linux, which Microsoft itself has never bothered to do.…

Surely this is the trick to profitability Twitter is eliminating access to its API, but the once-free comms integration will still be available to those who want it – for a price.…

Almost 10 million premises hooked up but cost-cutting campaign continues BT Group is leaning into its fiber rollout and cost-cutting to balance the books amid a 3 percent drop in revenue for its Q3 ended 31 December.…

Meanwhile, Xfce takes its first steps toward Wayland support News is emerging regarding the future of two popular Linux desktops: System76's Pop!_OS and COSMIC, as well as a future version of Xfce.…

Portugal's biggest exporter of beer warns of restrictions to supply chain Super Bock Group, Portugal's largest beverage biz, is warning of potential interruption to supplies as it manages the fallout from cybercrooks attacking its tech infrastructure.…

A fix is coming eventually, Nvidia says If you're one to obsess over frames per second or CPU and GPU utilization, you may have noticed some odd behavior when using Discord with Nvidia graphics cards of late.…

Applications to do with legacy copper and consumer broadband 'cannot be shut down' BT is has contracted infrastructure services provider Kyndryl to help migrate some of its legacy mainframe applications to the cloud.…

Zuck declares 2023 the 'year of efficiency' - code for breaking leases and firing thousands Meta announced on Wednesday that it will cancel multiple datacenter projects and build future bit barns with a "phased" approach, saving billions along the way.…

System identified a candidate that appears more effective than FDA-approved drugs AI is helping scientists discover new antibodies that could trigger our own immune systems into destroying cancer cells.…

Coal is cooked and gas is dissipating, as renewables delivered a fifth of all EU juice in 2022 Take that, energy crisis: Wind and solar power generation rose to record levels in the EU last year, overtaking natural gas as an energy source for the first time and preventing a wider return to coal.…

There's a lot of manual work to do from now to March to make sure you don't break the cloud bank Microsoft has warned its partner community that real-time tracking and notifications of customers' Azure spend is broken until mid-March, creating the possibility that spending overruns will go undetected.…

Also cuts import duties to attract EV-battery makers and keep smartphone factories humming India has sidelined Big Tech in its pursuit of a cloud for its agricultural industry.…

More supposition than superposition as local media goes on Sci-Fi journey Quantum computers have started rolling off the production line in China, according to local media reports.…

But the code creator has revived the abandoned code for OpenTelemetry After a delay of over a year, an open source code contribution to enable the export of data from Datadog's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform finally got merged on Tuesday into a collection of OpenTelemetry components.…

ACLU, EFF, public defenders say that's a hard no Updated Evidence collected in a Google geofence dragnet warrant that's being used to prosecute a Virginia man accused of robbing a bank is unconstitutional and should be thrown out of court, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and eight federal public defenders. …

OK Google, whatever you're doing, please don't Git-based code host SourceHut will not have to block the Go Module Mirror as planned, after Google took notice of its complaints.…

Microsoft and friends happy to assuage Uncle Sam's anxiety — for a price Fujitsu may not be worried about encryption busting quantum computers showing up anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the US government is willing to risk missing out.…

Max reward per project integration is now $30k Google sweetened the potential pot to $30,000 for bug hunters in its open source OSS-Fuzz code testing project.…

Here's your new desk, phone, security card, and an unpleasant missive for some OpenText marked the completion of its $6bn purchase of Micro Focus by setting out plans to shed 8 percent of the combined workforce, equating to circa 2,000 people joining the dole queue.…

If it walks like a Ponzi, quacks like a Ponzi, guess what it is? A court-appointed examiner investigating the collapse of cryptocurrency biz Celsius has issued a report of her findings, which are wrapped up in the very first sentence of its executive summary.…

Vendor lock-in: savings of up to $750m a year possible if Uncle Sam didn't predetermine the victor Oracle and Microsoft – two companies receiving most of the US government's off-the-shelf software spending over the last decade – get at least 25 percent and 30 percent of their respective government revenue through purchase processes which are not competitive.…

XPS doc display issues fixed – until the next patch, at least Microsoft this week rolled out fixes to issues caused by security updates released in December 2022 that botched how XPS documents are displayed in various versions of .NET and .NET Framework.…

Updated Galaxies dive into Apple territory Samsung Electronics has unveiled its first premium PC, the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra, and positioned it very much as a MacBook alternative for professional creative types who need to work with colossal image files.…

Yes, we may end up being criminally charged, but we haven't been yet Tesla has confirmed the Department of Justice asked it to hand over documents related to Autopilot and Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD), as the US government's criminal probe into hype surrounding the software continues.…

Plus Xfce flavor desktop based on latest version 4.18 The latest blog post from the Linux Mint project announces new features coming in 21.2 – and some of them are surprisingly big changes for a point release.…

They're a 'liquid engineering' biz, and applications include bit barns Lubricants company Castrol has hooked up with the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) to help develop next-generation immersion cooling fluids for datacenters.…

Chip giant holding out hope that demand rebounds once supplies dry up Memory chipmaker SK hynix saw its first operating loss in 10 years for calendar Q4 of 2022 amid a sharp fall in prices, although it's forcasting a gradual recovery later this year.…

SaaS provider Workday also among those laying off employees Online payment service PayPal says it intends to cut about 7 percent of its workforce, or around 2,000 jobs, in the latest cull to hit the tech sector.…

Cargo airline Atlas Air takes delivery of 1,547th and last Queen of the Skies After what is actually a longer farewell than Elton John's five-year final tour, Boeing is finally, for real this time, saying goodbye to the 747 as it delivers the last one to the world's largest 747 operator, American cargo airline Atlas Air.…

Giving windows a transmissive metasurface can improve coverage from a single base station Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo has opened up on its endeavors to make sure 5G and successor wireless technology generations continue to function, despite humans – or perhaps the companies that employ them – insisting they work indoors.…

Insiders claim investment trust demanded design changes but didn't adjust deadlines, job cuts loom Exclusive The UK's National Employment Savings Trust (Nest), an occupational pensions scheme, has ended its £1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) deal with French IT services supplier Atos just two years into its potential 18-year term.…

Big Red 'will always start with a large number and negotiate down' The best time to prepare for exiting an Oracle Unlimited License Agreement is the day after the user organization signs up to one, according to software asset management experts.…

As for privacy concerns about the Topics API? We'll get back to you Google's delayed disposal of third-party cookies – data stored in web browsers for advertising and analytics, among other things – will kick off the third quarter of 2024.…

Pas le visage, merci A bill to allow real-time video surveillance of vistors to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics was approved by France's Senate on Tuesday and now advances to the National Assembly – but crucially bans the use of facial recognition technology.…

Malicious OAuth apps were the tickets into victims' systems Miscreants using malicious OAuth applications abused Microsoft's "verified publisher" status to gain access to organizations' cloud environments, then steal data and pry into to users' mailboxes, calendars, and meetings.…

Still plans a ‘competitive dividend’ for investors Intel’s foul financials have flowed into senior workers’ pay packets, which will reportedly be lightened by at least five percent.…

Piracy-as-a-service, 'bulletproof' ISPs, fake influencers, and big Chinese e-tailers turned a blind eye The combination of digital technology and COVID-19 caused a shift in the world's trade in counterfeit goods, according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative's annual Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy.…

CEO Lisa Su's job is vastly more fun that Pat Gelsinger's right now, at least on the balance sheet Intel's pain is apparently AMD's gain as the chip design company looks to steal more share from its long-time rival in 2023.…

As 17 percent of customers see Virtzilla's short term strategic significance shrinking Broadcom has signalled its intention to take on hyperscale datacenter operators once its acquisition of VMware concludes.…

Dashboard your DevOps data and see where your team has been slacking Boston-based software biz Jellyfish believes it can help devs write better code by focusing on the adjacent processes to avoid software slowdowns.…