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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.…

Roses are rad, violets are lame, Taiwan's playing a very long game In spite of slowing semiconductor demand, particularly at the high end and for leading edge nodes, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. (TSMC) plans to plow an additional $3.5 billion into its Arizona fab sites.…

And growing abuse of cloud – because using hijacked Brazilian cable modems to down sites is so 2013 Dozens of companies over the weekend were hit by distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks, including the largest one yet recorded, or so Cloudflare says.…

Browser finally gone, but its memory, engine, wails of user and dev torment live on until at least 2029 This Valentine's day, Microsoft is quietly giving users the final gift of no more Internet Explorer by rolling out an Edge patch to most versions of Windows 10, finally killing the browser in all but IE mode.…

Aurora needs a break to get users off 11.x, says cloud giant AWS database downtime necessary to execute a migration has been described as "an embarrassingly low bar" for a managed service after the cloud giant announced plans for getting off PostgreSQL 11.x.…

Chocolate Factory's ad tech renovation is moving ahead, like it or not Google on Tuesday began rolling out a beta test of its Privacy Sandbox software for a small portion of Android 13 devices to learn how its purportedly privacy-protecting ad tech actually performs.…

Looks financially driven, says analyst, but don't rule out bigger moves in future Liberty Global has acquired a stake in British telecoms outfit Vodafone, but denied it has plans for a takeover bid. The US-based group is the parent company of Virgin Media, which merged with UK telco O2 in 2021.…

Quickly, Elon: Distract everyone from fact the platform can't support a single new thing you force on it Opinion As another potential revenue stream for Twitter is held up, Elon Musk still seems to be more concerned with his tweet view count, confirming Monday that he'd undone every block he ever placed on his account.…

How competitive will in-flight Wi-Fi be? Prices, quality among major headaches The European Commission is to probe more deeply Vista's proposed $7.3 billion buy of fellow satellite maker Inmarsat on the back of worries about the potential reduction of competition for in-flight Wi-Fi connectivity.…

Aim of the game is to match Intel and AMD on performance Google is understood to be developing its own custom Arm server processors, following in the footsteps of cloud rival AWS.…

The OS family isn't broken – so why are so many companies trying to fix it? Part 1 Some Linux veterans are irritated by some of the new tech: Snap, Flatpak, Btrfs, ZFS, and so forth. Doesn't the old stuff work? Well, yes, it does – but not well enough.…

Redmond's hype box and Google's Bard just as bad as each other Microsoft's new AI-powered Bing search engine generated false information on products, places, and could not accurately summarize financial documents, according to the company's promo video used to launch the product last week.…

Ride-hailing biz 'modernizes infrastructure' by using someone else's computer Ride-hailing platform Uber has struck agreements with Oracle and Google to shift workloads off its own datacenters and into the cloud.…

Google's finest via the what now? Plus: RISC-V-powered Chromebook isn't out of the question Column You probably knew Google's ChromeOS is a Linux distribution. But, now, it's running on more than Linux under the hood. I didn't, and I've been covering Chrome OS like paint since the day it arrived. Today, your newer Chromebook also depends on the open-source Zephyr Project Real-Time Operating System (RTOS). Here's Chrome OS's history and where Zephyr comes in. …

Amazon-owned biz puts its staff first Amazon's robo-taxi division Zoox will be using employees as guinea pigs after the company completed the first trials of its driverless vehicle on public roads.…

Promises tiny egress costs and a better way to do distributed microservices Akamai plans to turn Linode, the junior cloud it acquire for $900 million, into the platform of choice for developers of distributed Kubernetes applications, and those who have come to fear cloud egress charges.…

Where's the Brexit bonus? UK chipmakers are threatening to move their operations to the US or Europe if the British government doesn't get its act together and release its long-awaited semiconductor strategy.…

Bootleg ChatGPT mini-apps are already testing the limits of OpenAI's policies Beijing Municipal Bureau of Economy and Information Technology said on Monday it will support enterprises in building large AI models that compare to ChatGPT, as China's tech giants rush to deliver their own generative AI chatbots.…

Lazarus Group’s favorite digi-dollar launderer may have risen again Notorious cryptocurrency anonymization service Blender, which the US Department of the Treasury last year sanctioned for helping to launder hundreds of millions of dollars in digital assets stolen by the North Korean-linked gang Lazarus Group, appears to have relaunched..…

As 13,000 officers managed their inboxes, a certain Chinese balloon floated across Montana … Thirteen thousand members of the United States Army were reportedly caught up in a Reply-All email storm in early February.…

Supernova will prove open source project is not dead – just pining for a complete overhaul The Thunderbird email client – once Mozilla's most prominent project other than the Firefox browser – is being completely overhauled ahead of a major July release 115, dubbed "Supernova".…

Danuri probe is ready to spend its planned year testing space internet, spotting radiation and/or water South Korea's Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter, Danuri, which launched in August 2022, has sent back its first images of Earth's sole natural satellite, plus some shots of our home planet as seen from lunar orbit.…

Happy Valentine's Day! Now don't get fooled It sounds like the plot of a somewhat far-fetched romcom-slash-thriller Netflix series, maybe billed as You meets Your Place or Mine, dropping just in time for Valentine's Day.…

Trust us tovarishch, we're just going to do a few more checks Russia's space agency will hold off returning three astronauts from the International Space Station as it works with NASA to investigate a coolant leak issue that impacted an uncrewed freighter spacecraft last weekend.…

That's not what I like Crooks have breached Pepsi Bottling Ventures' network and, after deploying info-stealing malware, made off with sensitive personal and financial information according to a notification sent to consumers.…

A beefy 10GB one-time download that arrives in March Next month Microsoft will start offering on-prem Unified Update Platform (UUP), which promises to deliver smaller and faster uploads of Windows updates.…

Already decimated staff in September Twilio on Monday said it plans to cut 17 percent of its workforce and close additional office locations, having previously shed office staff in 2022.…