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Plus: Apple's iOS privacy changes 'weren't a factor' in Q2 Facebook's parent company Meta has spent $7.7 billion on capital expenditure in the last quarter, driven by investments in datacenter infrastructure and AI, as it recorded its first ever revenue decline thanks to falling advertising income.…

Strong growth in quarterly financials, investors not convinced ServiceNow has cut its sales outlook for the year after seeing an increase in economic uncertainty as well as unfavourable currency exchange rates.…

Will the real CDE please stand up? If the real CDE is too much hard work for you or for your computer, there's a new version of the Not So Common Desktop Environment.…

This time local companies provide the images and there's no mention of national security worries Google has brought its Street View service – which offers photographs of most locations on Google Maps – back to India, six years after the nation rejected it as an invasion of privacy and a threat to national security.…

'Executed swiftly on cost optimization measures' as part of transformation blueprint Shape-shifting French IT services provider Atos is reporting widening losses amid a costly group transformation that involves employing thousands more workers offshore and nearshore, and a two-way split of the group.…

Union tells members to hold nerve on eve of first nationwide sit down in 35 years BT stands accused of running a "misinformation" campaign against unionized staff at its Openreach subsidiary as tens of thousands of network engineers prepare to go on their first national strike since 1987.…

Construction delays for web giant's Privacy Sandbox keep these bickies on the menu Google says it needs more time to build and test its ostensibly privacy-preserving ad technology, marketed as the "Privacy Sandbox." So the ad biz has delayed its previous plan to block privacy-pilfering third-party cookies in Chrome until 2024.…

Apparently the company and the country need him at work – crooked or not South Korea’s prime minister Han Duck-soo announced he would recommend a pardon for Samsung vice chairman and heir Lee Jae-yong during a parliamentary session on Wednesday.…

Cute that they think the human race will still be here when Perseverance's samples arrive Martian rock samples collected by NASA's Perseverance rover won't arrive on Earth until 2033 – as they'll need an orbiter and lander sent out toward the end of the decade to fetch them, the US space agency said Wednesday.…

Our ancestors made tools from bones … so why not freeze a spider instead of 3D printing parts? Videos Scientists from Rice University in Texas have used a dead spider as an actuator at the end of a robot arm – a feat they claim has initiated the field of "necrobotics".…

Allegations of financial impropriety continue to swirl The CEO of Huawei's Indian operation, Xiongwei Li, has been given permission to appeal a travel ban imposed by India's tax authorities.…

Comms ministry boss sees space as preferable to messing around with mountaintop builds The Philippines is considering SpaceX's Starlink satellite internet service as a means to provide access for remote communities.…

Windows 11 debuts, as service extends to Hong Kong VMware this week announced its virtualization stack for AWS will come to Hong Kong this quarter, one of a number of upgrades and improvements to the Amazonian edition of its core offerings.…

And on the same day revenue declined, web ad spend uncertain, hiring slowed, more AI curation promised The US Federal Trade Commission filed a lawsuit Wednesday in an attempt to stop Facebook parent Meta from acquiring VR firm Within, claiming the deal could harm competition and consumers.…

Internet-connected MDM instances, each with an 'unrestricted number' of managed devices, were vulnerable FileWave has fixed a couple vulnerabilities in its endpoint management software that could allow a remote attacker to bypass authentication and take full control of the deployment and associated devices.…

House intel chair raises snoop tool concerns as Google and others call for greater crack down Google and internet rights groups have called on Congress to weigh in on spyware, asking for sanctions and increased enforcement against so-called legit surveillanceware makers.…

Senate throws funding act back over to House to pass Senators today inched billions of dollars in US semiconductor fabrication subsidies a little closer to reality.…

Kim will be shaking in his shoes The US is offering up to $10 million for information on members of state-sponsored North Korean threat groups, double the amount that the State Department announced in April.…

Land of Putin capable of attacking routes in cyberspace as well as real world Apple's internet traffic took an unwelcome detour through Russian networking equipment for about twelve hours between July 26 and July 27.…

Skyhawk Solar could generate up to 100MW of energy to feed Google datacenters A massive solar project is giving the Tennessee Valley Authority - and Google - a big boost of renewable energy.…

Forty years in, a protocol that's over the hill and under the gun, at least for the majors One of the most entrenched standards of the last forty years, the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), might be seeing the end of the line, at least for applications in some of the world's largest datacenters.…

Stretching its security software a bit further Amazon’s cloud platform is extending security capabilities for a couple of its widely used services; Amazon Elastic Block Store (EBS) and Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).…

Reports seeing 'offensive actor' flinging SubZero malware Microsoft has published an analysis of a Europe-based "private-sector offensive actor" with a view to helping its customers spot signs of attacks by money-hungry gangsters.…

Rust never sleeps and is henceforth welcome for backend services and CLI tools Meta, the social ad biz better known as Facebook, on Wednesday endorsed four programming languages as preferred options for employees and for developers building software on its platform, now in the midst of reorientation toward data-rich virtual worlds.…

Hopefully 80-week lead times a thing of the past Juniper Networks said it is seeing strong demand for network kit, especially for 400G products from the cloud and hyperscale sectors, and claims its earlier supply chain difficulties are easing.…

Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 incident response team warns of patch speedups Palo Alto Networks' annual Unit 42 incident response report is out, warning of an ever-decreasing gap between vulnerability disclosures and an increase in cybercrime.…

But can MEPNet make sense of that Ikea manual too? Stumped by a Lego set? A new machine learning framework can interpret those instructions for you. …

Problems with the October 2020 veterans’ hospital software launch being fixed quickly, promises Oracle Computer errors following the go-live of a new Oracle Cerner electronic health records system harmed nearly 150 patients at a Washington hospital, as revealed during a hearing in the US.…

Not the money-printing machine investors were hoping for as demand set to decrease, says Gartner Gartner thinks global semiconductor sales growth will fall this year compared to last, and is forecasting a revenue decline in 2023 as rising inflation and consumers cutting back on spending take a greater toll on demand.…

88 percent of the world's population live under the currently estimated footprint of the debris Space boffins are watching the skies for a 23 metric ton Chinese rocket booster that is expected to crash back to Earth.…

For just a few hundred thou, you can 'reimagine' dusty Jobs garage computer with a massive crack across the circuit board Got several hundred thousand dollars burning a hole in your pocket? Why waste it investing in further education, or paying off debts, when you can spend it on an original "Apple Computer A" prototype, right, Jobs fans?…

Details of adversarial tradecraft detailed, includes many email accounts China's cyber espionage activities are extensive and sophisticated but when the Middle Kingdom tried to steal sensitive economic data from the US Fed, poor security meant its operatives didn't have to dip too far into their bags of tricks.…

Plus Kioxia, WD snag a $680 million cash infusion from Japan South Korean conglomerate SK Group signaled this week it will splurge $22 billion on semiconductor manufacturing, green energy, and bioscience research in the US.…

Faster, higher capacity, and cheaper per gig. What more could you ask for? Oh yeah, endurance? Analysis Micron’s newly launched 232-layer TLC NAND modules could be a boon for data-intensive workloads like database operations and analytics.…

Shaded bits of lava tubes stay at 17°C all lunar day and all lunar night, a contrast with the rest of Luna's frequent fluctuations Data from the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) has led scientists to conclude that the Moon hosts around 200 "pits" that offer stable and human-friendly temperatures.…

Worse than during 2020's lockdowns and less than half 2016 sales Smartphone sales have slumped in China, with Q2 seeing the nation revert to volumes last experienced in 2012- the year Samsung launched the Galaxy SIII and Apple gave the world the iPhone 5.…

Big Blue says it helped developed the algos, so knows what it's doing IBM has started offering quantum-resistant crypto – using the quantum-resistant crypto recommended by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).…

Session cookies and 2FA subversion allow takeover of biz and ad accounts, lead to unauthorized ad buys Security vendor WithSecure, which was spun out in March 2022 as F-Secure’s enterprise security arm, claims it’s found malware that targets Facebook Business accounts.…

Server spend surges across Alphabet’s empire Google’s cloud continues to lose money, but the ad giant and its parent company Alphabet aren’t troubled by the $858 million in cloudy red ink produced in its second quarter for financial year 2022.…

Finishes the year with close to $200 billion annual revenue and $185 million a day in profits Microsoft reported poorer than expected fourth quarter results, but still managed to end its FY 2022 rather well.…

Broadband giant says it will appeal jury verdict in negligence case Charter Communications must pay out $7 billion in damages after one of its Spectrum cable technicians robbed and killed an elderly woman, a jury decided Tuesday.…

Plus: Coinbase said to face SEC wrath, blockchain scam CEO admits using victims' millions to fund Hawaiian condo The US government is reportedly investigating Kraken, a massive cryptocurrency exchange suspected of violating sanctions against Iran, and is expected to slap the crypto behemoth with a fine in the near future.…

Don't worry, the crooks totally deleted the data and promised not to use it for evil A ransomware gang has not only taken down WordFly, a mailing list provider for top arts organizations among others, but also siphoned data belonging to the US-based Smithsonian, Canada's Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.…

His latest project, Druglike, most definitely isn't in the pharmaceutical business, from which he's been banned Martin Shkreli, released from prison in May after serving much of his seven-year prison sentence for securities fraud, on Monday announced Druglike, described as "a Web3 drug discovery software platform."…

The Ocean Cleanup pulled all that trash in less than a year, and its newest system could collect 10x more A Dutch startup working to remove plastic garbage from the Pacific Ocean said it's marking a major milestone: extracting 100,000 kg (220,462 lbs) of plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch (GPGP).…

Tesla is not the only biz that can take billions from American taxpayers The US Department of Energy is set to hand General Motors' subsidiary $2.5 billion in loans to help finance the construction of three new EV battery cell plants across the midwest. …

Cool, another Rust project ... Oh A new info-stealer malware is spreading rapidly in the wild as the developer behind it continues to add capabilities and recently released the source code on GitHub.…

Digital security via processor design, hardware-enforced protection … and a friendly desktop Wayland and the KDE Plasma desktop now run on CheriBSD, the special version of FreeBSD for Arm's experimental Morello hardware.…

NASA: First we’ve heard of it Hopes that the departure of Russian space chief Dmitry Rogozin from Roscosmos will improve global space relations have been crushed. New boss Yuri Borisov today confirmed a post-2024 withdrawal from the International Space Station project.…

Stop us if you'd heard this one before... Microsoft's torrid time with patches is continuing after the company admitted that printing might once again be broken in Windows 10 for some users following the application of an update.…