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Devs missed warnings plus tons of code relies again on lone open source maintainer Google this week reversed an overhaul of one of its security-related file formats after the transition broke Android apps.…

What happened to not getting high on your own supply? Twitter needs to make money, and the US cannabis industry is booming, making its decision to become the first major social media platform to allow cannabis advertising in the US the perfect hybrid. …

OS won't start on some systems with ESXi VMs, while Win11 updates may not make it to devices Microsoft is sorting through two issues with Windows Server 2022 that affect VMware virtual machines and updates not getting passed on to Windows 11 devices.…

'Year of efficiency' includes accounting for more threats toward CEO caused by 'year of efficiency' Facebook parent company Meta is slashing costs practically everywhere, but it's not cutting founder Mark Zuckerberg's considerable personal security budget – that's actually getting a $4m boost.…

UK-based Coin Publishers were conned out of $206,000 after meeting in a Barcelona hotel Exclusive When Ahad Shams detailed on Twitter how his company was scammed out of $4 million in cryptocurrency after a face-to-face meeting, Chris Hunter immediately recognized what was going on.…

Bog-standard 5G already old hat by 2024 apparently Qualcomm is talking up Snapdragon X75 as the first wireless chipset ready with support for 5G Advanced, the next step for 5G networks.…

New versions of the two dominant desktops for Linux and other FOSS Unix-a-likes Version 5.27, the latest LTS release of the KDE Plasma desktop, is out, and a beta of the latest GNOME, version 44, is here too.…

Intel sees dollar signs, rubs its hands with glee The EU is making slow but steady progress in boosting its domestic semiconductor industry with two draft bills ready for debate in European Parliament, news that chip giant Intel in particular is pleased with.…

Alternative headline: The best use for nu-Bing Microsoft CTO could conjure was translating his daughter's slang Comment Still on the waiting list for Microsoft's AI-powered Bing search features? No? Well, me neither, but CTO Kevin Scott recently let slip an amazing new use case that couldn't possibly be done with a boring, old-fashioned search engine like Google.…

Well... that's one way to retain data sovereignty Top brass at French IT supplier Atos are mulling an offer from Airbus to buy a minority stake in Evidian – the digital, security and big data unit that is scheduled to uncouple from the troubled tech biz later this year.…

Free software offered to fend off paintbrush-armed robots Researchers have developed a technique aimed at protecting artists from AI models replicating their styles after having been trained to generate images from their artwork.…

Trade org claims restrictions will 'cause serious harm' globally China's main semiconductor trade organization has released a statement opposing the alliance between Japan, the Netherlands, and the US to restrict chip exports to the country.…

Cerberus data analytics system to give us a new reason to sweat at the landing gate UK aerospace and defence company BAE Systems has won a £38 million ($45.7 million) contract for "an advanced, highly capable analytics and targeting system" for intelligence officers at the nation's borders.…

What the big players and an outlier are doing, and why Part 2 This is the second half of a feature about work undertaken to harden and improve Linux, beginning with part 1 here.…

Software behemoth makes Windows updates smaller, faster … how about less buggy and more tested? Developers and other users of Microsoft's .NET Framework will soon be noticing changes to the company's Unified Update Platform (UUP).…

Charlie Munger also thinks semiconductors are a terrible business, Taiwan's safe from China, Elon Musk is 'peculiar' When a 99-year-old man says that "cryptocrapo" is for "idiots" and banning it is not a bad idea, many might think it's an "Old man yells at cloud" moment.…

As rival Arista admits Meta and Microsoft now account for at least ten percent of its business Cisco has again increased revenue guidance thanks to an improving supply chain that's given the networking giant confidence it will sell more stuff in the second half of 2023.…

Zhengzhou is lovely this time of year, Bac Giang could be nicer still Electronics assembler for the stars Foxconn has signed a $62.5 million lease on 45 hectares of land in an industrial park in Vietnam's Bac Giang province, as tech manufacturing operations continue to shift out of China.…

Nobody uses it, Linus Torvalds was happy to lose it, but it looks like sticking around Linux kernel developers have debated removing support for Intel and HP's now officially defunct Itanium/IA64 platform from the project, with the outcome appearing to be a proposal to keep it alive.…

First public word on 'new' direction reveals focus on core technologies and 'a ton of hiring' to modernize them a bit Citrix has broken its silence on future plans with a presentation by vice president for product management Calvin Hsu to its user group. He revealed the business unit of the Cloud Software Group plans to spend 2023 modernizing its core applications for hybrid clouds and hybrid work, licenses that span multiple environments, and "a ton of hiring" to make that happen.…

So Tesla's gonna open up its proprietary tech? The Biden-Harris Administration announced rules on Wednesday requiring the American automotive industry to build interoperable electric vehicle chargers that must be manufactured within the country – using US-sourced materials – by 2024. …

Want a clue to what you’re dealing with? Check the ransom note That didn't take long.…

Doh, a Deere, I fear no Deere The US Department of Justice on Tuesday asked an Illinois federal court not to dismiss antitrust litigation against agricultural equipment maker Deere & Company for allegedly trying to monopolize the repair of its products.…

Ignoring poll results is the new craze for some. At least that's daily entertainment guaranteed now Video Sorry, Tesla investors who want him back on the job: Elon Musk said he thinks it's going to take until the end of 2023 to stabilize Twitter to the point where he can appoint someone else as CEO.…

The layoffs will continue until morale improves Exclusive DigitalOcean on Wednesday told staff it was laying off about 11 percent of them, or approximately 200 employees.…

Anything could happen in a half hour Updated Despite what Oracle supremo Larry Ellison might have you believe, Big Red's clouds do in fact go down.…

Plus bugs squashed in Server Platform Services and more Intel's Software Guard Extensions (SGX) are under the spotlight again after the chipmaker disclosed several newly discovered vulnerabilities affecting the tech, and recommended users update their firmware.…

If you could come this way and answer a few questions, say 16 countries Adobe's proposed $20 billion buy of web-first collaboration design startup Figma has hit a potential stumbling block, after the European Commission confirmed members states raised worries about competition.…

Christopher Kirchner alleged to have hyped up biz to investors then siphoned off a slice of cash The founder and ex-CEO of supply chain software startup Slync has been arrested on charges that he tricked investors into handing $67 million to the company then made off with $28 million to fund his "lavish lifestyle."…

Oh look, this x86 giant can ship more than just bugs, pink slips, and shareholder dividends Intel has officially launched the workstation-focused versions of its Sapphire Rapids Xeon processors, claiming an almost 30 percent boost in performance per core users when compared to its previous platform.…

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in Unified comms vendor Avaya is back where it was in 2017, once again slipping into the embrace of Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection with a plan to chop $2.6 billion of debt from its balance sheet.…

CEO speaks out against export restrictions, saying they will hold back semiconductor advances ASML has claimed that a former employee in China stole data about its technology, which may have led to a breach of export controls.…

Neo continues to rage against the machines decades after The Matrix Opinion Quelle surprise – the actor who played Neo in The Matrix is wary of the burgeoning developments in machine learning and artificial intelligence.…

Performance improvement plans and prompt exit packages in the offing Salesforce's woes continue as the once-mighty standard bearer for SaaS faces customer Twitter cutting 75 percent of its spending.…

Resilience, we've heard of it German airliner Lufthansa Group is working to restore services after an unspecified IT glitch – which it says was caused by a sliced broadband cable – forced it to delay or cancel flights.…

Ditch the special forces helicopter – it's easier to ship it in an actual ship AWS is pitching a Modular Data Center (MDC) at the US government, with the aim of making it easier to deploy makeshift bitbarns managed by AWS in remote locations.…

Go on, spill the contents of that imaginary angry resignation email... it'll do you good Three-quarters of remote workers based in the UK's capital city would demand an inflation-busting pay increase – or quit altogether – if asked to give up their right to flexible working.…

Another of the self-proclaimed BTC inventor's lawsuits rumbles onward A company owned by the man who claims to have invented Bitcoin is suing the developers of a fork of Bitcoin. Although the case was dismissed once already, it is being reopened, and a UK court will hear the Seychelles company's version of events next month.…

Being in Russia and going to jail might have something to do with it, tho Denis Pushkarev, maintainer of the core-js library used by millions of websites, says he's ready to give up open source development because so few people pay for the software upon which they depend.…

Gone in 60 seconds using a USB-A plug and brute force instead of a key Korean car-makers Hyundai and Kia will issue software updates to some of their models after a method of stealing them circulated on TikTok, leading to many thefts and even some deaths.…

Legendary investor appears to have made many millions in under 90 days Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway sold more than 86 percent of its stake in Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co Ltd (TSMC) a mere three months after purchasing $4.1 billion worth of the stock, according to a Tuesday regulatory filing.…

Plus – calm down now – all the fun of OS subscriptions! IBM has delivered on its December 2022 “statement of direction” that it would announce "a high-density 24-core processor for the IBM Power S1014 system" with news that the "processor" is actually a CPU module with two dozen cores for said server.…

WebKit flaw 'may have been exploited' – just like Tim Cook 'may have' made a million bucks this week Apple this week released bug-splatting updates to its operating systems and Safari browser, to fix a zero-day vulnerability in its WebKit browser engine that's reported to have been actively exploited.…

Elon Musk has already said he likes the idea of less human input into the data labelling process these folks drive A group of workers employed to label data at Tesla's Autopilot division in Buffalo, New York, launched a campaign to form an official union on Tuesday.…

Grey market resellers provide backdoors into China, too US sanctions are doing little to stem the flow of controlled technologies, with Cisco network gear still making it to Russia, and Intel CPUs and Nvidia GPUs still on sale in China.…

Some of the actors involved in AFRINIC's recent controversies want to reform Asia's regional registry The imminent elections for executive council members at the Asia Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) – the non-profit organization that distributes and manages IP addresses and AS numbers in 56 nations – has sparked calls for a rapid rewrite of the organization's bylaws to ensure no single entity can dominate its governance.…

Undisclosed earnings reports swiped, exploited A Russian national with ties to the Kremlin exploited stolen upcoming financial filings belonging to hundreds of companies to help him and his associates net more than $90 million.…

Big bill from Big Blue for Accenture move IBM is taking the former head of its Thailand operation, Patama Chantaruck, to court to claw back $470,000 in benefits it believes she owes after going to work for a rival and – allegedly – breaking the terms of a non-compete clause.…

You can be my Bing man anytime Pentagon boffins have for the first time used AI algorithms to automatically control a real F-16 fighter jet mid-flight. Well, OK, at least for the first time they can talk about.…

Adobe, SAP, Intel, AMD, Android also show up with bouquet of fixes Patch Tuesday Happy Patch Tuesday for February, 2023, which falls on Valentine's Day.…