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What's the opposite of defenestration? To considerable amusement in the Linux community, the infamous lead developer of systemd has a new job – at Microsoft.…

The births bring Musk's brood to 9 ... that we know of Tech mogul Elon Musk quietly welcomed twins last November, bringing the total number of children he's fathered to nine.…

Tom Keane helped Redmond win JEDI deal, respond to GDPR, and ran Azure datacenter infrastructure worldwide Microsoft cloud lieutenant Tom Keane is departing the megacorp where he has spent the past 21 years in various senior roles. He is heading for the exit a month after featuring in a report about the toxic culture among company execs.…

The Brexit and COVID era has seen a litany of failures and half-baked ideas As UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson prepares to resign – but stay on in a caretaker role for three months – the momentous occasion offers the opportunity to reflect on his legacy of half-baked ideas and unfinished projects.…

Major supplier to US government and enterprise only just getting back on its feet New Jersey-based IT reseller and service provider SHI International was knocked off the web after a July 4 cyberattack.…

The memory chips are here, we're just waiting on Intel and AMD Memory maker Micron has announced availability of DDR5 server DRAM components in preparation for server and workstation platforms from Intel and AMD that are due to support the faster memory standard.…

Singapore's Group-IB was once a Moscow startup and will now conduct 'regional diversification' Singapore-based security vendor and services provider Group-IB has commenced a "regional diversification" program that will see it not just continue to operate in Russia (unlike a great many other companies), but do so with a dedicated entity.…

Lock down your 'piss corridor' – or even better, don't have one at all Many security breaches involve leaks, but not perhaps in the same way as one revealed by noted security consultant Andrew Tierney, who managed to gain unauthorized access to a datacenter via what he delightfully terms the "piss corridor."…

Tech giants under scrutiny by the Competition and Markets Authority The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is kicking off investigations into both Microsoft's merger with Activision Blizzard and concerns about Amazon's Marketplace habits.…

£800m contract focused on education sector will see subcontractors managed by consultant Management consultancy WCL has won a tender with the UK government to supply "everything ICT" in a contract which could be worth up to £800 million (c $950 million) over its lifetime.…

Teradata, Oracle Cloud still play a role in carrier's data-wrangling plans UK telecoms giant Vodafone is deploying an MLOps service within the organization, with the help of Google Cloud.…

No it's not, says Gartner – it's a hardcore sales tactic you can easily counter Some technology vendors have hiked prices by up to 30 percent over the last year and claimed the rises are due to inflation, despite inflation running at a far, far lower rate.…

'It is possible to implement end-to-end crypto in a way that preserves privacy,' claims UK Home Sec Tech companies could be fined $25 million (£18 million) – or ten percent of their global annual revenue – if they don't build suitable mechanisms to scan for child sex abuse material (CSAM) in end-to-end encrypted messages and an amended UK law is passed.…

Other US spooks chime in with similar warnings The directors of the UK Military Intelligence, Section 5 (MI5) and the US Federal Bureau of Investigation on Wednesday shared a public platform for the first time and warned of China's increased espionage activity on UK and US intellectual property.…

Google has one already, and Ukraine now has a ‘drone army’ Ukraine has awarded Microsoft and Amazon Web Services the national peace prize, with AWS winning the award for a cloud migration project.…

City of Wuxi trying its best to keep factories open amid COVID outbreak South Korean chipmaker SK hynix has pitched hundreds of tents at its plant in Wuxi, China,…

Again warns investors that alterna-cash is a very risk proposition The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has hinted the city-state may soon impose more regulations on cryptocurrency.…

Upstart promises to tackle that old adage: Garbage in, garbage out IBM says its acquisition of observability startup Databand will help it stop bad data from poisoning customers' machine-learning and analytics workloads and save countless hours of lost time in the process.…

CISA, FBI, US Treasury warn Kim Jong-un's latest malware has hit healthcare orgs For the past year, state-sponsored hackers operating on behalf of North Korea have been using ransomware called Maui to attack healthcare organizations, US cybersecurity authorities said on Wednesday.…

You wanted flying cars and robo-butlers. Instead, we're getting tooth-cleaning morphing nanoparticle bots Experts in chemistry, dentistry, and engineering have developed a way to electromagnetically control iron oxide nanoparticles to clean plaque on human teeth.…

Cupertino is so sure of Lockdown Mode it's offering $2m to bug hunters to break it Apple's latest security feature won't be used by most of its customers, but those who need Lockdown Mode could find it to be a literal life saver.…

With construction unceremoniously underway, x86 giant may have overplayed its hand COMMENT The way Intel has been talking about the status of its $20 billion Ohio fab project, you would be forgiven if you assumed that construction on the Midwest mega-site has been delayed in light of Congress struggling to pass a large subsidies package that would support new American chip factories.…

RaaS malware devs have been busy bees The Hive group, which has become one of the most prolific ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) operators, has significantly overhauled its malware, including migrating the code to the Rust programming language and using a more complex file encryption process.…

Gaming the system was fine for a while, now it's time to get precise about precision Comment A multi-exaflop supercomputer the size of your mini-fridge? Sure, but read the fine print and you may discover those performance figures have been a bit … stretched.…

Open source model improves translation of rarer spoken languages by 70% Meta's quest to translate underserved languages is marking its first victory with the open source release of a language model able to decipher 202 languages.…

Sorry, conspiracy theorists, it's more likely sloppy webdev work rather than spying We expect a certain amount of cookie-based tracking on retail websites and social networks, but in some countries up to 90 percent of government sites have implemented trackers – and serve them seemingly without user consent. …

Round led by Singapore's ABC Impact, which sees growing market for the technology in Asia UK-based liquid cooling company Iceotope has scored £30 million (c $35.7 million) in a funding round led by Singapore's ABC Impact private equity provider, which sees a growing market for the technology in Asia.…

Beawre teh mizpelled pakcage naem Researchers at ReversingLabs have uncovered evidence of a widespread software supply chain attack through malicious JavaScript packages picked up via NPM.…

Digital thieves made off with 20GB of internal documents and customer data Marriott Hotels has leaked data to attackers again and this time the culprits made off with 20GB of information, which reportedly included credit card info and internal company documents. …

Lack of alternative offers means sale may go ahead with expected completion in fiscal 2023 Broadcom's proposed buyout of VMware looks set to proceed after the "go-shop" period for alternative offers expired without any rival bidders coming forward.…

US-led national security bans have left Chinese comms giant seeking inspiration Once mighty Chinese comms giant Huawei has decided the strategy required to surmount a long list of challenges "should not be decided by a handful of people" at the top of the company.…

Back to 2019 with two build numbers. Plus: Previous features may 'disappear' Microsoft has split up its band of unpaid testers, the Windows Insiders, into two groups with the latest updates to the company's Beta Channel.…

Customers 'becoming impatient' to get 'clarity' on the matter, says exec Nexperia has expressed frustration with the UK government's probe into its takeover of Newport Wafer Fab – ongoing since last year – saying the company has invested money into the plant and needs a swift decision.…

Deals leave NHS bodies out of pocket after collapse in value of UK health tech company Seven NHS hospital trusts in the UK including world-renowned pediatric hospital Great Ormond Street appear to have lost millions of pounds following deals with an AI startup that has since delisted from AIM, part of the London Stock Exchange.…

Stop us if you've heard this before: Apple facing charges of anti-competitive behavior in the App Store A UK tribunal has agreed that a Collective Proceedings Order (CPO) potentially involving 19.6 million consumers in the country can go ahead in a case that could cost Apple up to £1.5 billion ($1.8 billion).…

Google, Facebook, Amazon and the rest stand to lose – if rules are actually enforced After nearly two years of legal wrangling, the European Parliament on Tuesday passed the Digital Markets Act and the Digital Services Act, teeing up a showdown between the continent and US tech giants.…

One market down on China's march toward tech self-sufficiency, a bajillion more to go. Beijing's efforts to grow local alternatives to the wares of the world's mightiest tech companies have made progress in the relational database market, according to research by analyst firm International Data Corp (IDC).…

Time to bone up on Hancom Office, the productivity suite that's big in Korea – and nowhere else The governments of the United Kingdom and the Republic of Korea (that's South Korea) have reached an in-principle agreement to share data across borders.…

The fun folk who attacked Solar Winds using a poisoned CV and tools from the murky world of commercial hackware Palo Alto Networks' Unit 42 threat intelligence team has claimed that a piece of malware that 56 antivirus products were unable to detect is evidence that state-backed attackers have found new ways to go about the evil business.…

Local carriers are also upset with the laws, which they say will break encryption India's rules governing content takedowns are being challenged by local mobile carriers and Twitter, on grounds that they are technically infeasible and restrict free speech.…

Why go through the hassle of demands and decryption when quietly mining is so much easier? The developer of the AstraLocker ransomware code is reportedly ceasing operations and turning attention to the far simpler art and crime of cryptojacking.…

Yet another sign x86 giant has moved past Krzanich era to focus on core chip businesses As Intel tries to enact an ambitious comeback plan, the semiconductor giant has been offloading some divisions that aren't key to its core chipmaking business. The latest to get shunted off is the company's PR-friendly drone-powered light-show business, and the buyer is… Elon Musk's brother.…

NIST pushes ahead with CRYSTALS-KYBER, CRYSTALS-Dilithium, FALCON, SPHINCS+ algorithms The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has recommended four cryptographic algorithms for standardization to ensure data can be protected as quantum computers become more capable of decryption.…

Beijing can't get next-gen lithography gear, America now trying to block sales of older machines The US government is reportedly stepping up efforts to hamper China's ability to grow its semiconductor manufacturing capabilities by pressing for a wider ban on key chipmaking gear.…

DoD puts money behind bug bounty program after reward-free pilot The US Department of Defense has created a broad but short bug bounty program for reports of vulnerabilities in public-facing systems and applications.…

Unlucky few percent of netizens affected by weird timing issue For the past three months, an elusive bug in Google's open-source Chromium project has been causing a small percentage of Chrome extensions to silently fail.…

Silicon Valley and financial institutions may be increasingly inseparable Comment For all their differences, the biggest tech companies share one thing in common: They don't like to stay in their lane. …

UK wants to follow US move to stop sales from equipment manufacturers A group of politicians and lawmakers in the UK have backed a campaign to ban the sale of CCTV systems made by companies alleged to introduce potential security issues as well as being linked to human rights abuses in China.…

Tetraquarks and other discoveries as CERN revs up for Run 3 Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have announced the observation of three never-before-seen particles as the accelerator kicks off its third run.…

Germany's answer to System76 – pre-installed with your preferred distro Tuxedo Computers is launching a second generation of its Pulse high-end Linux laptop.…