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DoJ cracks down on competing companies that share board members Directors at tech firms SolarWinds, DynaTrace, Skillsoft, and Udemy have resigned after the US Department of Justice raised concerns about overlapping board membership it felt created antitrust problems.…

Australia's Medibank says it's been shown stolen data that includes details of treatments administered to customers Updated Australian health insurer Medibank has revealed it's been contacted by a group that claims to have its customers' data and is threatening to distribute it.…

When we concede that everything has bugs, we wish it wasn't quite everything This week, the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) expanded its ever-growing list of vulnerability in industrial control systems (ICS) and critical infrastructure technology.…

Hundreds of thousands of people's sensitive info poorly protected New York regulators continue turning the screws on organizations with slapdash computer security.…

And would you believe it, employees are not thrilled Exclusive IBM Consulting on Tuesday issued a policy telling US employees located near IBM or client offices that they are expected to be in the office at least three days a week.…

Everyone cool with us plonking down a massive warehouse here? No? Oh well Exclusive Intel is being taken to court in Massachusetts over its proposals to build a distribution and logistics warehouse on the site of its defunct R&D offices and chip factory that closed in 2013.…

Nightmare for those with one-time security codes texted to their phones Verizon has notified some prepaid customers that their accounts were compromised and their phone numbers potentially hijacked by crooks via SIM swaps.…

Don't want to see ads during your trip? Sorry, no app for that Uber has announced the creation of an advertising division dedicated to helping brands "connect with consumers throughout the entire ride process." That's right. The entire ride.…

Remember, remember, the Microsoft trackers DuckDuckGo's macOS browser has entered public beta, opening the privacy-centric browser to anyone on a Mac or MacBook willing to give it a go. …

What did you expect, HoloLens-ready Minesweeper and new skins for Calculator? Microsoft is rolling out the only feature updates this year for Windows 10, with the IT giant describing it as a "scoped and streamlined" effort with a strong focus on security.…

Did we say donate? We meant submit. Megacorp swiftly KOs former blog title Google has offered its tool for pure Go Kubernetes containers to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) ... and may have thought it was a done deal.…

Verdict in for trial where promo vid showed gravity rather than batteries or fuel cells keeping electric truck moving A federal jury has found the founder of eco-truck outfit Nikola, Trevor Milton, guilty of deceiving investors with exaggerated claims about how close his company was to producing working prototypes of zero-emission 18-wheelers.…

Oh c'mon! Was it too much to expect Skynet? SpaceX's in-flight internet service for airplanes now has a name – Starlink Aviation.…

OK, boomer – how do I turn off cookies? It's just as you suspected: your Gen Z and millennial coworkers just aren't taking cybersecurity at work seriously enough. …

Oh snap. It's not going to work with existing passive cables if they're longer than a metre A new generation of Thunderbolt interconnect technology is coming, with Intel promising data speeds up to 120Gbit/sec when it ships.…

Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first Oracle CloudWorld Oracle's vision for the coming year is to start putting the same tools it uses internally into the hands of customers.…

Suffice to say things got a little awkward Cyber-diplomats from around the world say they want the internet to be safe, secure, and free of interference. Of course, they believe it's the fault of other nations that the internet is not safe, secure or free of interference.…

Tech dept still wearing halo from saving companies in lockdown... plus cloud committers 'can't cut that spending' Despite the abundance of geopolitical uncertainty and darkening economic clouds, global IT spending is projected to hit $4.6 trillion in 2023, up 5.1 percent from 2022, according to Gartner's latest forecast.…

Orca Security disclosed the bug, and older versions remain vulnerable A proof-of-concept exploit has been published detailing a spoofing vulnerability in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric. The flaw allows attackers to gain full administrator permissions and then perform any manner of malicious activity.…

If you need even more speed, Nvidia and Broadcom have silicon twice as fast Cisco this week unveiled one of its highest performance and lowest form factor switches yet – a diminutive 1RU pizza box packed with 32 800Gbit/sec ports – at the Open Compute Platform Summit in San Jose.…

AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one Special report GitHub Copilot – a programming auto-suggestion tool trained from public source code on the internet – has been caught generating what appears to be copyrighted code, prompting an attorney to look into a possible copyright infringement claim.…

"Serverless" microVMs further blur the line between containers and virtual machines The FreeBSD developer who brought FreeBSD to Amazon EC² has now got it working on the company's lightweight Firecracker hypervisor.…

Inflation and energy prices force consumers to prioritize household bills over shiny electronic devices The bad news juggernaut just keeps on rolling for devices maker, with global smartphone shipments for calendar Q3 falling to their lowest quarterly rate in eight years.…

Boss says it was 'stealing' – but what do you think? Poll A boss lit a small fire under LinkedIn when he posted that his company had sacked two recently hired engineers for continuing to work a full-time job at another company.…

Involvement with lobby group that welcomed Putin's pals presses buttons Germany's government has stood down the president of its Federal Office for Information Security, Arne Schönbohm, over his links to Russia.…

Almost, but not quite, that moment of Big Tech accountability you've been waiting for One of the CEOs of South Korean super-app Kakao has resigned in the wake of the datacenter fire that disrupted it and other web giants.…

COVID-19 pandemic made a bit of a dent, too A reduction of sulfur in shipping fuel reduced air pollution levels at sea to the lowest levels this century in 2020, according to an AI model built by NASA. The COVID-19 pandemic also helped here, too, natch.…

Or maybe we've just lost our appetite. Either way, lead times are very slowly on the mend It's not your imagination – it really is getting easier to find critical semiconductors.…

Can't say when they’ll roll out for sale or why you want kit with more moving parts Lenovo has staged its annual Tech World gabfest and teased devices with rollable OLED screens that shrink or expand as applications demand.…

As president of the G20, it will have the platform to make it happen India's finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman has indicated the nation will uses its looming presidency of the G20 group of nations to push for multilateral regulation of cryptocurrency.…

Fix-it guides among changes mulled by FTC for home appliances and potentially other stuff In yet another sign the right-to-repair movement is gaining ground in the United States, manufacturers could be forced to provide fix-it guides and maintenance instructions with certain products.…

You really think someone would do that? Just go on the internet and steal identities? In what can only be described as inevitable, the FBI is warning those eligible for student loan debt relief to keep an eye out for scammers trying to take advantage of President's Biden program.…

Tributes paid to Air Force veteran who helped make first US spacewalk possible Jim McDivitt, a US Air Force pilot and NASA veteran, best-known for flying in the pioneering Gemini and Apollo human spaceflight programs that led to the first manned Moon landing, has died at 93.…

There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views YouTube's recommendation algorithm not only gently traps viewers in mild echo chambers, it is more likely to suggest conservative-leaning videos regardless of your political alignment.…

Goodbye Lightning, hello USB-C and the usual two-year-old processor Apple today announced an updated iPad Pro and a redesigned entry-level iPad.…

SafeBreach supposedly spots somewhat stealthy subversive software SafeBreach Labs says it has detected a novel fully undetectable (FUD) PowerShell backdoor, which calls into question the accuracy of threat naming.…

Have you thought about your supply chains, partnerships, and how far they reach? Tensions between the US, China, and Taiwan have far-reaching impacts beyond semiconductor saber-rattling and trade restrictions. There is an enterprise security angle that CISOs should be on guard to tackle, according to US intelligence.…

Far cry from the $50 billion valuation Gelsinger hoped would fuel foundry empire Intel expects the initial public offering of its Mobileye business unit to muster a valuation of $16 billion, a fraction of the nearly $50 billion figure the autonomous driving division was expected to fetch earlier this year.…

Facebook to dump GIF super-gallery after just enough pestering from UK Meta has thrown in the towel in its protracted legal battle with the UK’s antitrust watchdog over the US giant's $400 million purchase of Giphy. After another ruling against it, the Facebook parent said it will sell Giphy as ordered.…

LiDAR companies lead the pack, with valuations plummeting up to 99% since IPO It's not a great time for self-driving tech startups. The ones that managed an IPO in the past two years have lost a combined 81 percent of their market value, dropping from a total of nearly $51 billion offering time to a mere $9 billion this month.…

More capable kit ready for more demanding machine learning tasks At the 2022 Open Compute Project (OCP) Global Summit on Tuesday, Meta introduced its second-generation GPU-powered datacenter hardware for machine learning and inference – a system called Grand Teton.…

An open source rival to Ableton Ardour, a free multi-platform digital audio workstation (DAW), has released version 7.…

Sorry Adobe but we can let users type or even hand-write directly Mozilla has released the latest version of the leading FOSS browser for Linux, Windows, macOS, FreeBSD and mobile OSes.…

It's plane to see it wants more info on fluid dynamics of flying engines Quantum startup Classiq is working with aero-engine maker Rolls-Royce on developing quantum algorithms to speed computational fluid dynamics for simulations in its engineering work.…

Even our nearest satellite can't stand our gravity An analysis of Australian sedimentary rock has helped to show the Moon was about 60,000km closer to the Earth 2.46 billion years ago than it is now.…

Around 1,000 souls reportedly tossed onto employment bonfire Microsoft is quietly making another round of job cuts to clip costs as even the biggest technology companies react to the financial storm clouds gathering over the global economy.…

Bit barns say they need diesel fuel supplies for backup generators The UK government is reported to have held discussions with datacenter operators about keeping their infrastructure operating during possible power shortages this winter, amid growing concerns there could be blackouts if gas supplies run low.…

The lesser of two REvils? There’s a relationship there, but not enough to say one evolved into the other It has been almost a year since the emerging ransomware gang Ransom Cartel was first detected and the group over that time has racked up a steady drumbeat of victims in such countries as the United States and France and from a broad array of industry sectors.…

Now selling vehicles others can brand, plus software any auto-maker can access Hon Hai Technology Group, the electronics manufacturer to the stars better known as Foxconn, has debuted two new electric vehicle models and production models of a prototype due to roll on Taiwanese roads in 2023.…

E-Walker is a 'seven degrees-of-freedom fully dexterous end-over-end walking robot' Although large in-space construction projects are the stuff of science fiction, they will have to become science fact as missions grow ever more ambitious. Researchers at the University of Lincoln have decided to get a head start.…