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Time to rethink that cybersecurity strategy? A US bank has said at least the names and social security numbers of more than 1.5 million of its customers were stolen from its computers in December.…

Chaebol hit by lower demand for smartphones and TVs plus 4nm yield issues The demand for consumer electronics has slowed down in the face of inflation – but that didn't stop nine of the world's 10 largest contract chip manufacturers from growing in the first three months of the year.…

You wanna bug fix and chill? Microsoft's GitHub on Tuesday released its Copilot AI programming assistance tool into the wild after a year-long free technical trial.…

Automaker wants to develop recycling, remanufacturing processes Toyota has ambitious plans for the future of its electric vehicles, and it's turning to a Tesla founder to make them happen.…

1980s refugee, open source, and runs on modern kit RISC OS, the operating system of the original Arm computer, the Acorn Archimedes, is still very much alive – and doing relatively well for its age.…

Collab to 'generate significant returns' for Europe in science, tech, economy Lenovo has inked an agreement with Spain's Barcelona Supercomputing Center for research and development work in various areas of supercomputer technology.…

It's the second time a Musk-owned company has been accused of WARN Act violations Tesla is facing another lawsuit, and it's treading over old territory with this one. Fired Gigafactory workers are alleging that the electric car maker improperly terminated more than 500 people.…

The target? Thin clients and industrial devices – with new SoC family running up to 4 independent displays Embedded World AMD is bringing to market a new generation of Ryzen chips for embedded apps promising more CPU cores, enhanced built-in graphics and expanded I/O connectivity to drive kit such as IoT devices and thin clients.…

Plus it aborts ISS reboost. Not the greatest start to the week, was it? NASA engineers had to work fast to avoid another leak affecting the latest Artemis dry run, just hours after an attempt to reboost the International Space Station (ISS) via the Cygnus freighter was aborted following a few short seconds.…

'Network engineers walked over each other's changes' A large chunk of the web (including your own Vulture Central) fell off the internet this morning as content delivery network Cloudflare suffered a self-inflicted outage.…

OK, which of those engineers tweaked the settings? When infrastructure shifts away from state defined by original code HashiConf HashiCorp has kicked off its Amsterdam conference with a raft of product announcements, including a worthwhile look into infrastructure drift and a private beta for HCP Waypoint.…

Some crypto-bros keep the faith in the face of market onslaught ProShares, the issuer of exchange-traded funds with around $65 billion under management, has launched the first short Bitcoin exchange-traded product in the US, offering a way for investors to make money from the ongoing crypto-currency meltdown.…

Big Tech sanctions continue to roll in, Putin retaliates with counter sanctions Microsoft has blocked the installation of Windows 10 and 11 in Russia from the company's official website, Russian state media reported on Sunday.…

Find the clown who chose 'password' as a password and make things right 1Password, the Toronto-based maker of the identically named password manager, is adding a security analysis and advice tool called Insights from 1Password to its business-oriented product.…

Ideal for corporate fleet dash cameras, smart home security, police bodycams, VSaaS and more, says chip giant Embedded World Chipmaker Micron is offering a microSD Card for embedded applications with an impressive 1.5TB capacity, enough to hold four months of continuously recorded security camera footage, according to the company.…

A bot says what? Apple relies on IETF standards to remove annoyance, citing privacy and accessibility Apple has introduced a game-changer into its upcoming iOS 16 for those who hate CAPTCHAs, in the form of a feature called Automatic Verification.…

Step one: Make them easier to program The Linux Foundation wants to make data processing units (DPUs) easier to deploy, with the launch of the Open Programmable Infrastructure (OPI) project this week.…

'Significantly under-licenced' but didn't factor in Customer Success Manager when dealing with reseller The Post Office, a UK government-owned company, has awarded SAP a contract worth up to £2 million for software services following a misunderstanding of its SAP licences and service bundles.…

Ban akin to 'ordering a telephone company to prevent a person from having conversations' over its lines Google, EFF, and the Computer and Communications Industry Association (CCIA) have filed court documents supporting Cloudflare after it was sued for refusing to block a streaming site.…

Fixed in 2013, reinstated in 2016, exploited in the wild this year A security flaw in Apple's Safari web browser that was patched nine years ago was exploited in the wild again some months ago – a perfect example of a "zombie" vulnerability.…

And perhaps too heavy, which is a weighty issue for a machine that turns into a tablet Desktop Tourism My 20-year-old son is an aspiring athlete who spends a lot of time in the gym and thinks nothing of lifting 100 kilograms in various directions. So I was a little surprised when I handed him Microsoft’s Surface Laptop Studio and he declared it uncomfortably heavy.…

Nearly 60 holes found affecting 'more than 30,000' machines worldwide Fifty-six vulnerabilities – some deemed critical – have been found in industrial operational technology (OT) systems from ten global manufacturers including Honeywell, Ericsson, Motorola, and Siemens, putting more than 30,000 devices worldwide at risk, according to the US government's CISA and private security researchers. …

As always, check that O365 login page is actually O365 Someone is trying to steal people's Microsoft 365 and Outlook credentials by sending them phishing emails disguised as voicemail notifications.…

As the House of Zen kills off consumer-friendly non-Pro TR chips A drought of AMD's latest Threadripper workstation processors is finally coming to an end for PC makers who faced shortages earlier this year all while Hong Kong giant Lenovo enjoyed an exclusive supply of the chips.…

Results set to be ratified by labor board by end of the week Workers at an Apple Store in Towson, Maryland have voted to form a union, making them the first of the iGiant's retail staff to do so in the United States.…

Privacy through amnesia not ideal for remembering user choice Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection (ITP) in Safari has implemented privacy through forgetfulness, and the result is that users of Twitter may have to remind Safari of their preferences.…

Wait, we’ll explain As the world continues to grapple with unrelenting inflation for many products and services, the trend of rising prices is expected to have the opposite impact on memory chips for PCs, servers, smartphones, graphics processors, and other devices.…

Chip giant still salty Having successfully appealed Europe's €1.06bn ($1.2bn) antitrust fine, Intel now wants €593m ($623.5m) in interest charges.…

But when it does work, bet you'll fall over yourselves to blow ten large on designer clobber for your avy Facebook owner Meta's pivot to the metaverse is drawing significant amounts of resources: not just billions in case, but time. The tech giant has demonstrated some prototype virtual-reality headsets that aren't close to shipping and highlight some of the challenges that must be overcome.…

Cancelled the K12 CPU? Big mistake. Huge, says Jim Keller Amid the renewed interest in Arm-based servers, it is easy to forget that one company with experience in building server platforms actually brought to market its own Arm-based processor before apparently losing interest: AMD.…

With operations deadline in September, team eager to squeeze more data out of infrared observatory The SOFIA aircraft has returned to New Zealand for a final time ahead of the mission's conclusion later this year.…

Only way to resolve is a rollback – but update included security fixes Microsoft's latest set of Windows patches are causing problems for users.…

Plus: FTC warns against using ML for automatic content moderation, and more In Brief No, AI chatbots are not sentient.…

95% of SOL deposits from 1 person, so margin selloffs could mean collapse Decentralized finance lending platform Solend tried to fend off the effects of the crypto meltdown at the weekend when 97.5 percent of its users voted to give it emergency powers to liquidate its largest customer account. A second vote held today reversed the first.…

Booking appointments and other interactions with hospital portals can lead to some medical details being shared for advertising, class action claims Social media megacorp Meta is the target of a class action suit which claims potentially thousands of medical details of hospital patients were shared with its Facebook brand.…

Assistant US attorney: 'She wanted data, she wanted money, and she wanted to brag' Updated A former Seattle tech worker has been convicted of wire fraud and computer intrusions in a US District Court.…

Plus: Each of the new orgs gets its own finance officer, if the split goes ahead in second half of 2023 French IT services provider Atos has confirmed the departure of its chief financial officer, just days after the CEO resigned in apparent disagreement with a company-wide restructure proposed by the board.…

Plus: Citrix ASM has some really bad bugs, and more In brief More than half of the 24.6 billion stolen credential pairs available for sale on the dark web were exposed in the past year, the Digital Shadows Research Team has found.…

Yes, yet another Debian downstream, but a particularly interesting one SpiralLinux is the result of the creator of GeckoLinux turning their attention to Debian – with an interesting outcome.…

JumpCloud SME report also finds remote workers getting better at following best security practices Not many people are talking about Apple's recent WWDC from an enterprise standpoint. But identity and machine management tool maker JumpCloud says a "shim" to connect "the login to the device through to the Safari browser" is a notable development.…

'Write once, run anywhere' finally came true, thanks to APE and the Cosmopolitan libc A bunch of almost unbelievably clever tech tricks come together into something practical with redbean 2: a webserver plus content in a single file that runs on any x86-64 operating system.…

It's time to toss the Turing test – it's not really about the machines at all Opinion The Turing test is about us, not the bots, and it has failed. …

Short sharp loss of privileges for poor sysadmin who emptied that directory Who, Me? The UK has bins, the US prefers trashcans, and computers like their /bin. How do you think today's episode of Who, Me? is going to go?…

Without so much as a mention of encryption, but with a pastel-hued emoji-heavy nod to ‘sustainable monetization’ Messaging app Telegram, which came to prominence for offering end-to-end encryption that irritated governments, has celebrated passing 700 million active monthly users with a pastel-hued announcement: a paid Premium tier of service.…

Alibaba hinted the gig was worth millions each year The US arm of Chinese social video app TikTok has revealed that it has changed the default location used to store users' creations to Oracle Cloud's stateside operations – a day after being accused of allowing its Chinese parent company to access American users' personal data.…

Bans VPNs, Dropbox, and more India's government last week issued confidential information security guidelines that calls on the 30 million plus workers it employs to adopt better work practices – and as if to prove a point, the document quickly leaked on a government website.…

'Editing and review' teams will be required to read everything and report dissent The Cyberspace Administration of China has announced a policy requiring all comments made to websites to be approved before publication.…

Star Trek's glowing circuit boards may not be so crazy Science fiction is littered with fantastic visions of computing. One of the more pervasive is the idea that one day computers will run on light. After all, what’s faster than the speed of light?…

Keep boxes updated and protected to avoid a NAS-ty shock QNAP is warning users about another wave of DeadBolt ransomware attacks against its network-attached storage (NAS) devices – and urged customers to update their devices' QTS or QuTS hero operating systems to the latest versions.…