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Another day, another DDoS attack that tries to scare the victim into paying up with mention of dreaded gang Akamai has spoken of a distributed denial of service (DDoS) assault against one of its customers during which the attackers astonishingly claimed to be associated with REvil, the notorious ransomware-as-a-service gang.…

So small, you can't feel it crawl Video Robot boffins have revealed they've created a half-millimeter wide remote-controlled walking robot that resembles a crab, and hope it will one day perform tasks in tiny crevices.…

Whaddayaknow? It's made it more than halfway to America The autonomous Mayflower ship is making another attempt at a transatlantic journey from the UK to the US, after engineers hauled the vessel to port and fixed a technical glitch. …

I think we can all agree that China is not alone in wishing it had an alternative to Microsoft Windows China has identified "chokepoints" that leave it dependent on foreign countries for key technologies, and the US-based Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) claims to have translated and published key document that name the technologies about which Beijing is most worried.…

Promises modular kit gets you up and running in six to nine months, with AI-powered ops to make it efficient Huawei has entered the data center construction business with an offering that it claims can be built in half the time required by competing methods, then run more efficiently.…

Sure, they’re small Pacific nations, but they’re in very strategic locations China has begun talking to ten nations in the South Pacific with an offer to help them improve their network infrastructure, cyber security, digital forensics and other capabilities – all with the help of Chinese tech vendors.…

Offers comforting vision for core customers, products, channel – though warns efficiencies are coming Broadcom has signaled its $61 billion acquisition of VMware will involve a “rapid transition from perpetual licenses to subscriptions.”…

Voltage glitch here, glitch there, now you can fiddle with location disc's firmware At the Workshop on Offensive Technologies 2022 (WOOT) on Thursday, security researchers demonstrated how to meddle with AirTags, Apple's coin-sized tracking devices.…

Shut up and take ... poor kids to KFC? In what is either a creepy, weird spin on Robin Hood or something from a Black Mirror episode, we're told a ransomware gang is encrypting data and then forcing each victim to perform three good deeds before they can download a decryption tool.…

Windows giant carries a PyTorch for chip designer and its rival Nvidia Microsoft Build Microsoft Azure on Thursday revealed it will use AMD's top-tier MI200 Instinct GPUs to perform “large-scale” AI training in the cloud.…

Y'know, those large cellphones fixed in place that you share with everyone and have to put coins in. Y'know, those metal disks representing... New York City this week ripped out its last municipally-owned payphones from Times Square to make room for Wi-Fi kiosks from city infrastructure project LinkNYC.…

Now we can say extortionware has jumped the shark Another ransomware strain is targeting VMware ESXi servers, which have been the focus of extortionists and other miscreants in recent months.…

As shareholders sue the social network amid Elon Musk's takeover scramble Twitter has officially entered the post-Dorsey age: its founder and two-time CEO's board term expired Wednesday, marking the first time the social media company hasn't had him around in some capacity.…

You might say its valuation is melting away IPO darling Snowflake's share price took a beating in an already bearish market for tech stocks after filing weaker than expected financial guidance amid a slowdown in orders from some of its largest customers.…

Workplace safety, labor organizing, sustainability and, um, wage 'fairness' all struck down in vote Amazon CEO Andy Jassy's first shareholder meeting was a rousing success for Amazon leadership and Jassy's bank account. But for activist investors intent on making Amazon more open and transparent, it was nothing short of a disaster.…

Unless anyone out there can make a better offer. Oh, Elon? Broadcom has confirmed it intends to acquire VMware in a deal that looks set to be worth $61 billion, if it goes ahead: the agreement provides for a “go-shop” provision under which the virtualization giant may solicit alternative offers.…

Sensibly written code only, please. Plus: what all those 'heated discussions' were about The much-anticipated Perl 7 continues to twinkle in the distance although the final release of 5.36.0 is "just around the corner", according to the Perl Steering Council.…

Schrems III on the cards unless negotiators protect better oversight of US data access requests European privacy campaigner Max Schrems is warning that enhancements to the EU-US Privacy Shield data-sharing arrangements might face a legal challenge if negotiators don't take a new approach.…

I don't think it's going to happen, I don't think it's going to happen... It happened Windows Server 2022 now supports Windows Subsystem for Linux 2, as long as you don't mind installing a preview patch.…

Double ordering, overheating of semiconductor sector, inflation, growing stockpiles = trouble ahead The chip industry is on course for an inventory correction in the second half of 2022 or early 2023 with steep inflation, signs of end-user demand slowing, and companies building stockpiles among the causes.…

Entrepreneur now looking at $33.5b bill if he wants to complete $44b purchase Elon Musk must personally secure $33.5 billion to fund his $44 billion Twitter purchase after allowing a $12.5 billion margin loan against Tesla stock to expire.…

First use of National Security and Investment Act powers as Altice owner looks poised to increase stake further The UK government has kicked off a national security assessment on the investment in BT by French telco tycoon Patrick Drahi, who via his Altice UK organisation topped up his stake to 18 percent late last year.…

A widespread distro that many of its users don't even know they have Version 3.16.0 of Alpine Linux is out – one of the most significant of the many lightweight distros.…

We're only here for DBIRs The cybersecurity landscape continues to expand and evolve rapidly, fueled in large part by the cat-and-mouse game between miscreants trying to get into corporate IT environments and those hired by enterprises and security vendors to keep them out.…

Control and access are becoming a hot button for orgs Interview "It's our data, it's our intellectual property. Being able to migrate it out those systems is near impossible... It was a real frustration for us."…

This shouldn't come as much of a surprise if you've been reading the headlines at all Government departments are guilty of high levels of non-compliance with the UK's off-payroll tax regime, according to a report by MPs.…

Two hour outage 'consistent with an intentional disruption to service' said NetBlocks Internet interruption-watcher NetBlocks has reported internet outages across Pakistan on Wednesday, perhaps timed to coincide with large public protests over the ousting of Prime Minister Imran Khan.…

Interpol, cops swoop with intel from cybersecurity bods Interpol and cops in Africa have arrested a Nigerian man suspected of running a multi-continent cybercrime ring that specialized in phishing emails targeting businesses.…

Hypervisor giant too big to be kept ticking over like CA or Symantec. Instead it can wrangle net-connected kit Comment Broadcom’s mooted acquisition of VMware looks odd at face value, but if considered as a means to make edge computing and the Internet of Things (IoT) more mature and manageable, and give organizations the tools to drive them, the deal makes rather more sense.…

A 'Very English Coop (sic) d'Etat' Emails between leading pro-Brexit figures in the UK have seemingly been stolen and leaked online by what could be a Kremlin cyberespionage team.…

Government has power to unwind transactions such as sale of Newport facility to China-controlled Nexperia The UK’s Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy has commenced a full national security assessment of Newport Wafer Fab’s acquisition by China-controlled entity Nexperia.…

Incident comes a week after 'SAP glitch' kept some planes on the taxiway Indian budget airline SpiceJet on Wednesday attributed delayed flights to a ransomware attack.…

Nifty slogan and more software suggested as the rectification Mitsubishi Electric has admitted to widespread cheating on its internal quality control efforts.…

This week: Subsidiary's QA staff officially unionize, $18m settlement disputed, and more Current and former Activision Blizzard staff are stepping up their organizing and pressure campaigns on execs as the video-game giant tries to close its $68.7bn acquisition by Microsoft.…

Sure, stonking server and gaming sales, but hiring and expenses to slow down, too Nvidia exceeded market expectations and on Wednesday reported record first-quarter fiscal 2023 revenue of $8.29 billion, an increase of 46 percent from a year ago and eight percent from the previous quarter.…

Meanwhile, Twitter coughs up $150m after using account security contact details for advertising Miscreants have dumped on Telegram more than 142 million customer records stolen from MGM Resorts, exposing names, postal and email addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth for any would-be identity thief.…

Meanwhile, Tails 5.0 users told to stop what they're doing over Firefox flaw DuckDuckGo promises privacy to users of its Android, iOS browsers, and macOS browsers – yet it allows certain data to flow from third-party websites to Microsoft-owned services.…

Someone got Zuck'd Meta’s AI business unit set up shop in Microsoft Azure this week and announced a strategic partnership it says will advance PyTorch development on the public cloud.…

Moore's Law got you down? Throw everything at the problem! Quantum, AI, cloud... IT services biz Atos has introduced a suite of cloud-based high-performance computing (HPC) services, based around technology gained from its purchase of cloud provider Nimbix last year.…

Occasional gaping hole and overprivileged users still blight the Beast of Redmond Despite a record number of publicly disclosed security flaws in 2021, Microsoft managed to improve its stats, according to research from BeyondTrust.…

Car maker says miscreants used stolen logins to break into folks' accounts Automaker General Motors has confirmed the credential stuffing attack it suffered last month exposed customers' names, personal email addresses, and destination data, as well as usernames and phone numbers for family members tied to customer accounts.…

What's Mandarin for 'Where's my money?' For five years, Foxconn promised and spectacularly failed to build a much-hyped sprawling factory near Mount Pleasant, Wisconsin. Now, the area's leaders may be saddled with $300 million in bond repayments that the Taiwanese iPhone maker had promised to repay. …

As Google guru who ported it points out, the operating system did not exist when 1-2-3 came out in 1983 A long lost native Unix version of the killer PC spreadsheet has not only been rediscovered, but almost unbelievably, it's been updated to create a native Linux version.…

Purchasing teams are a bit like help desks – always being asked to answer dumb or inappropriate questions ServiceNow's efforts to expand into more industries will soon include a Procurement Service Management product.…

Wafer madness hits the LRZ in HPE Superdome supercomputer wrapper HPE and Cerebras Systems have built a new AI supercomputer in Munich, Germany, pairing a HPE Superdome Flex with the AI accelerator technology from Cerebras for use by the scientific and engineering community.…

Advocates for MySQL and PostgreSQL see broader future for movement they helped create MySQL pioneer Peter Zaitsev, an early employee of MySQL AB under the original open source database author Michael "Monty" Widenius, once found it easy to identify the enemy.…

Paper authors warn Elon Musk's 2,400 machines could be used offensively An egghead at the Beijing Institute of Tracking and Telecommunications, writing in a peer-reviewed domestic journal, has advocated for Chinese military capability to take out Starlink satellites on the grounds of national security.…

Some of us have used them for decades, some are seeing them for the first time on marketing slides Systems Approach Explaining what an API is can be surprisingly difficult.…

Developers, developers... and top secret coffee machines. Security at MS is definitely tighter 25 years later Former Microsoft staffer Dave Plummer has revealed how he managed to sneak his wife into a corporate event so that she might experience a Steve Ballmer presentation first hand. The old romantic.…

But think tank says its past attempts at working together haven't gone well Leaders of the Quad alliance – Australia, India, Japan, and the USA – met on Tuesday and revealed initiatives to strengthen collaboration on emerging technologies and cybersecurity, with an unspoken subtext of neutralizing China.…