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OpenText CEO: Micro Focus buy is an enteprise portfolio play
Climbing the software stack, new owner sees IBM and ServiceNow as rivals Interview It is nearly three years since Micro Focus recorded a $1bn plus loss, owing to COVID-19 disruption and the fall-out from the $8.8bn acquisition of HP Software in 2017. None of this stopped content management and enterprise integration vendor OpenText from paying $6 billion for the company in August 2022.…
AWS, Microsoft make finding important admin info less frustrating
It's 2023 and tech giants have discovered email and unified dashboards You might think that the biggest players in the information technology industry might be good at providing their customers with important and timely information, but tragically you would be misguided in that belief. Thankfully, on Wednesday Microsoft and Amazon Web Services both announced fixes to their surprisingly unsophisticated factoid feeds.…
Python still has the strongest grip on developers
And a reminder that experience points matter a lot Python is still a top choice for software developers, beating out other programming languages, according to a widely respected industry poll.…
Biden proposes 30 percent tax on cryptominers' power bills
Digi-dollars are toxic in many ways and the administration wants the sector needs to clean up its act The Biden Administration on Tuesday detailed a proposed tax designed to counter the environmental and economic effects of cryptocurrency mining.…
TSMC and pals dream of €10B German chip fab
UK not included, too busy enjoying Brexit's sunlit uplands instead A collaboration between TSMC, NXP Semiconductor, Bosch, and Infineon would see the construction of a new fab in Saxony, Germany valued at as much as $11 billion (€10 billion).…
Broadcom CEO promises $2 billion annual R&D boost to make VMware better at the things it already does
Hock Tan thinks hybrid multicloud can be made much easier to use Broadcom CEO Hock Tan has promised to spend $2 billion a year on research and development at VMware.…
Beware of geeks bearing gifts, so check the fine print on Cisco's latest financing deal
Buy now, even services or second-hand kit, and pay in 2024 … if you feel lucky Cisco Capital, the networking giant's finance limb, announced on Wednesday it will sell you stuff for the next three months and not ask for any money until 2024.…
Storing the Quran on your phone makes you a terror suspect in China
Human Rights Watch details mass surveillance and repression Authorities in the Chinese province of Xinjiang have conducted more than 11 million searches of residents' devices, to check for the presence of 50,000 items considered indicators of dissent or terror. Among them is the Quran – the central text of Islam.…
Uncle Sam probes H-1B abuse surge: What do our vultures make of it?
Two Limeys and two Yanks in immigration situation conversation Register Kettle The H-1B visa system, which is used by businesses to import skilled foreign workers into America, has seen a massive jump in applications. It's a big enough surge to get the attention of Uncle Sam.…
Go ahead, forget that password. Use a passkey instead, says Google
'But they're gonna take my thumbs' hits different in 2023 Google wants to take us further into a passwordless future by allowing personal account holders to login using passkeys rather than using passphrases and multifactor authentication (MFA).…
Meta does the 'We found baddies and crushed them' thing again – this time for AI
Who would have thought crims would try using Facebook to fool people? Meta says it has shut down over 1,000 links related to ChatGPT that lead its users to malware, as criminals seek to profit from the current craze for generative AI.…
Orqa drone goggles bricked: Time-bomb ransomware or unpaid firmware license?
VR headset maker and software dev clash over blame Drone-racing goggles from Orqa stopped working over the weekend due to what was alleged by the manufacturer to be a "ransomware time-bomb" embedded in the hardware's bootloader by a "greedy former contractor." Or as contractor put it, the code was provided under license, which had now expired, leading to the shut down of kit.…
Give NotPetya-hit Merck that $1.4B, appeals court tells insurers
'The get-out-of-jail-free card option has been removed' as one expert put it Merck's insurers can't use an "act of war" clause to deny the pharmaceutical giant an enormous payout to clean up its NotPetya infection, a court has ruled.…
Windows 11 wrecks speech recognition for some apps
Microsoft OS stutters with Japanese and Chinese languages If some of the applications on your Windows 11 systems are having problems with features like speech recognition and handwriting when using Japanese or Chinese languages, it's likely linked to recent updates to the operating system.…
Chrome's HTTPS padlock heads to Google Graveyard
As blue check marks start showing up in Gmail Logowatch Google plans to retire the padlock icon that appears in the Chrome status bar during a secure HTTPS web browsing session because the interface graphic has outlived its usefulness.…
Now you've all quit buying RAM and personal gear, chip wafer demand stumbles
We thought you loved us, cries someone in a fab somewhere, probably Worldwide shipments of silicon wafers slid nine percent during the first quarter of 2023 versus Q1 2021, and fell 11.3 percent from Q1 2022, the SEMI's Silicon Manufacturing Group's (SMG) reported this week.…
Twitter's API paywall crumbles (but only for those saving lives, predicting weather, etc.)
Anyone else still has to pay for once-free service to help social network pay its bills The paywall around Twitter's API has crumbled slightly, with the bird site U-turning for organizations providing a public service.…
US chipmakers don’t want to be locked out of industry’s biggest market: China
Always Be Closing – deals to grab that sweet, sweet renminbi The US semiconductor industry wants to have its cake and eat it, or rather it wants to have continued access to the huge Chinese market despite Washington’s ongoing campaign to limit Beijing’s access to advanced chip technology.…
Universe-mapping Euclid satellite arrives in US ahead of July launch
Neither war nor bad sensors nor a nautical journey will keep this probe from building a 3D map of space It's been a decade since it was announced, but the Euclid mission to build a 3D map of the universe is finally getting close to launch with the spacecraft landing in Florida ahead of an expected July liftoff.…
Handwritten Einstein essay on theory of relativity goes under the hammer
It's not an NFT either! Albert Einstein is – to put it mildly – a bit of a ledge so science fans will be interested to note that a handwritten essay by the granddaddy of modern physics is being flogged by Boston-based RR Auction.…
Major decision on GDPR compensation rights expected soon
Breached businesses might have to cough for your discomfort too Could EU residents receive compensation for "non-material" harm caused by illegal data use under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)? We'll find out tomorrow, when the European Court of Justice (ECJ) is set to make a ruling in a case being nervously watched by many a data-hungry company doing business across the political bloc.…
SAP signs IBM Watson deal, ChatGPT showstopper waits in the wings
50-year-old ERP vendor reaches for 15-year-old AI to be down with the kids ERP giant SAP has inked an agreement with IBM to use its Watson AI technology, the aim being to help users find apps on its solutions cloud.…
FCA mulls listing rules after Hauser blames 'Brexit idiocy' for Arm's New York IPO
Flotations in the UK down 40% since 2008, might be more at play than UK's split from EU The UK's financial regulator is looking at ways to make London more attractive for companies in the wake of Arm choosing to list in New York and Herman Hauser blaming the decision on "Brexit idiocy."…
A lone Nvidia GPU speeds past the physics-straining might of a quantum computer – in these apps at least
Don't hold your breath waiting for all those breakthroughs we've been promised A group of researchers from Microsoft and the Scalable Parallel Computing Laboratory in Zurich have offered a harsh reality check to those hyping the world altering potential of quantum computers, by finding that off-the-shelf GPUs can sometimes do better than machines from the frontiers of physics.…
Academics have 'no confidence' in Edinburgh University's response to its Oracle disaster
Institution yet to answer 'elementary' project management questions after upgrade left staff and suppliers unpaid Updated The University of Edinburgh academic representative body has issued a statement of no confidence in the institution over its disastrous Oracle migration, which left research students and suppliers unpaid.…
When it comes to Linux distros, one person's molehill is another's mountain
Gosh, you're a fussy old lot, aren't you? Comment There are lots of distros out there. Some people hop from one to another, some stay on the same one for decades. What constitutes a good enough reason?…
Unlike your iPhone, Apple's batterygate controversy refuses to die
iGiant now battles to kill off $2B UK class-action suit Half a decade after introducing a software feature designed to dial back performance on iPhones with degraded batteries, Apple is still dealing with the reaction to what became known as "Batterygate".…
Rise of the machines is slower than expected says World Economic Forum
Don't get too comfortable, machines are doing more thinking Businesses globally have introduced automation into their operations at a slower pace than previously anticipated, the World Economic Forum (WEF) opined this week.…
Smuggler busted heading for China with dodgy GPUs … and live lobsters
A new twist on fast food Hong Kong authorities have caught a pair of smugglers who attempted to shift a vanload of live lobsters, along with some decrepit GPUs, into China.…
AMD reveals Azure is offering its SmartNICs as-a-service
Still smiling despite Q1 PC chip sales slumping 65 points and flat server sales AMD has revealed it's scored a big customer for its Pensando Data Processing Units (DPUs, aka SmartNICs): Microsoft’s Azure cloud, which is offering them as a service.…
Saturn's rings are shrinking and boffins will use the Webb 'scope to find out why
They go down, down, down, with the burning pull of gravity ... or do they? Astronomers will direct NASA's James Webb Space Telescope to peer at Saturn in an attempt to discern when its iconic rings might vanish.…
Pornhub walls off Utah in age-verification law protest
Dare we say that's a master stroke Smut surfers in Utah are facing disappointment if attempting to visit Pornhub lately. Rather than their planned, er, viewing, they're instead greeted with a video informing them all access to the site has been blocked within their state.…
OpenAI's ChatGPT may face a copyright quagmire after 'memorizing' these books
This top-drawer AI tech has a major science-fiction habit Boffins at the University of California, Berkeley, have delved into the undisclosed depths of OpenAI's ChatGPT and the GPT-4 large language model at its heart, and found they're trained on text from copyrighted books.…
Apple pushes first-ever 'rapid' patch – and rapidly screws up
Maybe you're just installing it wrong? Apple on Monday pushed to some iPhones and Macs its first-ever rapid security fix.…
Mirai botnet loves exploiting your unpatched TP-Link routers, CISA warns
Oracle and Apache holes also on Uncle Sam's list of big bad abused bugs The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is adding three more flaws to its list of known-exploited vulnerabilities, including one involving TP-Link routers that is being targeted by the operators of the notorious Mirai botnet.…
Ed tech house Chegg's share price halves after blaming ChatGPT for subscription dip
Student app maker says it's 'not a sky falling thing,' customizes own LLM just in case Chegg's stock price plummeted 49 per cent on Tuesday, wiping nearly $1 billion off its market valuation, after the education technology biz blamed a slowdown in subscriptions on ChatGPT.…
Apple, Google propose anti-stalking spec for Bluetooth tracker tags
We moved fast and broke things, people got harassed and murdered, so let's revisit privacy Apple and Google have come together to develop an industry specification to prevent "unwanted tracking," otherwise known as stalking, via Bluetooth location tracking tags.…
288 arrested in multinational Monopoly Market takedown
US tells criminals it 'will find you' and has a particular set of skills In an international operation 288 people have been arrested across the US, Europe and South America after allegedly selling opioids on the now-shuttered Monopoly Market dark web drug trafficking marketplace, according to US and European law enforcement.…
TSMC chips away at the competition with 2nm production set for 2025
World's largest semiconductor contract manufacturer also gives details on 3nm nodes Taiwanese chip manufacturing behemoth TSMC has given an update on its process technologies, indicating that it is still on track to start production of 2nm chips in 2025, and expanding its 3nm portfolio to include nodes optimized for high performance computing (HPC) and another aimed at automotive applications.…
Microsoft helps devs create chatbots – because who needs human interaction anyway?
It's now easier to whip up the conversational tool of your HR department's dreams Developers who want to create their own chatbot are getting help from Microsoft, a company itself deeply mired in AI and large language models (LLMs).…
Eco warriors sue FAA over Starship fallout, claim watchdog is lost in space
NEPA was violated by letting SpaceX do its own impact study, suit alleges A group of environmental nonprofits and an indigenous nation have sued America's Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) over the fallout from SpaceX's failed Starship launch last month.…
Samsung puts ChatGPT back in the box after 'code leak'
Others also blocked as company works on its own generative AI tech Samsung has imposed a "temporary" ban on generative AI tools like ChatGPT after what appears to be an accidental source code leak.…
EDB offers 'risk-free' migration to lure Oracle users to the PostgreSQL side
Long-suffering Big Red customers 'may finally be ready,' says analyst EnterpriseDB, a support and services company for database PostgreSQL, has launched what it calls a "risk-free" approach to migrating applications from Oracle's database to the open source relational system.…
West warns Malaysia to keep Huawei out of 5G networks
Entertaining offers from 'untrusted suppliers' could cause damage, according to US and EU envoys The Malaysian government has reportedly been warned against allowing Huawei a role in the country's 5G network rollout by the EU and US amidst continuing efforts to limit the influence of Chinese technology companies.…
Data loss costs are going up – and not just for those who choose to pay thieves
Ransoms, investigations, and breach-related lawsuits are hitting companies in the wallet, law firm says Data loss – particularly from ransomware attacks – has always been a costly proposition for enterprises. However, the price organizations have to pay is going up, not only in terms of the ransom demanded but also for the cost of investigating attacks and the lawsuits that increasingly follow in the wake of such breaches.…
SAP users not happy about German vendor's price rises
Issues remain in the costs for development and quality assurance in the cloud Nearly half of SAP users in its German-speaking heartlands are either dissatisfied or very dissatisfied with the software giant’s cloud pricing strategy, according to the latest survey.…
Microsoft cries foul over UK gaming deal blocker but it's hard to feel sorry for them
Brit regulator is merely heeding the Call of Duty Opinion If IT was a perfume market, there'd be little to touch Petulance du Big Tech for a strong and unmistakable fragrance. Amid overtones of sour grapes and crocodile tears, the bitter almonds of injured innocence and aromatic arrogance linger long on the nose.…
CERN celebrates 30 years since releasing the web to the public domain
Software vendors and the EU weren’t interested, so giving it away became the best option The European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN) on Sunday celebrated the 30th anniversary of releasing the World Wide Web into the public domain.…
Russia's APT28 targets Ukraine government with bogus Windows updates
Nasty emails designed to infect systems with info-stealing malware The Kremlin-backed threat group APT28 is flooding Ukrainian government agencies with email messages about bogus Windows updates in the hope of dropping malware that will exfiltrate system data.…
IBM's motto is 'Think' – its CEO reckons AI can do that as well as some workers
Thousands of back-office jobs to go as Big Blue replaces them with brainboxes For decades, IBM's slogan has been a single word: "Think". Now its CEO wants to replace thousands of human workers with AI.…
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