by Liam Proven on (#5YTR7)
Kinda sorta. It's out there if you look hard enough The Mozilla Foundation has released version 100 of its flagship web browser Firefox.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YTR8)
Security suite for the orgs unwilling to stump up for a Microsoft 365 Business Premium subscription Microsoft has made a standalone version of Microsoft Defender for Business generally available, aimed at customers not keen on paying for one of its subscriptions.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5YTPA)
Component suppliers are cancelling orders on the same week they are due, says CEO Arista Networks is committing billions of dollars more in orders to secure stock as component availability in the networking world remains uncertain, with suppliers sometimes cancelling orders at the last minute.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5YTPB)
Probe into Capitol attack must wait for appeal before data can be accessed A US judge has dismissed efforts by the Republican National Committee (RNC) to block the release of emails created and managed on a Salesforce system as part of an investigation into the 6 January 2021 attacks on the Capitol building.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5YTKK)
Customers to be served by inexperienced workers – the only ones TCS, HCL, Infosys and Wipro can find India's big four outsourcers averaged 22.7 percent attrition over the last 12 months, according to their recently published results, and that massive loss of personnel means customers will likely be served by less experienced staff.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YTH5)
If only Microsoft listened to feedback before the release of Windows 8 Microsoft has pulled the "tablet-optimized" taskbar from Windows Insider builds, citing "feedback" as the cause.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5YTF8)
Effect of GitHub's OpenAI-powered Copilot memorizing sensitive but public data Leaving your cryptocurrency wallet's private key out on the public internet is not a good idea: anyone who finds this key can try to use it to drain the wallet of its funds.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5YTF9)
Airports, hospitals, hotels, and more need to deploy patches for hijack bugs Five critical remote code execution vulnerabilities in millions Aruba and Avaya devices can be exploited by cybercriminals to take full control of network switches commonly used in airports, hospitals, and hotels, according to Armis researchers.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5YTDF)
UK government department extends 11-year relationship following legacy application challenges The UK's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has awarded IBM a contract for cloud services worth up to £2.13 million ($2.67 million) for just six months.…
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by Rupert Goodwins on (#5YTC3)
If Sherlock was alive today, he’d pack a Pi next to pistol and pipe Opinion Almost exactly a month ago, we noted a splendid piece of academic research into Google's data-gathering and consent practises.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5YTAF)
Oh, serve me ads, lots of ads, under clouded eyes above, just fence me in Google in the next few days plans to begin testing fenced frames, a proposed web API to help its Privacy Sandbox ad technologies meet commitments to privacy of a sort.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5YT8S)
Xiaomi really got something in return for those cross-border payments, say money laundering cops India's government has seized over $724 million of bank deposits held by Chinese gadget-maker Xiaomi and alleged the company has improperly moved funds offshore.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5YT8T)
We're not the ones telling them to burn fossil fuels, top names write in response to probe request Big names in Bitcoin have defended cryptocurrency mining, issuing a jointly signed letter hitting back at US lawmakers who last month urged a government watchdog to probe the practice.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5YT7P)
Mission not quite accomplished after some weird wobbles Space launch contender Rocket Lab has successfully demonstrated its peculiar method of capturing spent rocket boosters so they can be re-used: catching them with a helicopter as they fall.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5YT5D)
SoftBank may control the company, but it seems not to have all the important passwords Japanese investment firm SoftBank may have the paperwork to prove it has taken control of chip design biz Arm's troubled Chinese outpost, but appears not to have yet secured passwords to the company website. It currently carries what appears to be a letter from staff protesting the ouster of former CEO Alan Wu.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5YT3N)
Campaigners again say web giant again held mandatory anti-union meetings Amazon workers in New York voted against joining the Amazon Labor Union on Monday, a month after the trade union group won a separate election to create its first-ever unionized warehouse.…
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by Tobias Mann on (#5YT2W)
At least some of you realize not every server has to go into AWS, Azure or GCP Colocation giants Equinix, Digital Realty, and Iron Mountain shrugged off ongoing supply-chain shortages, soaring energy prices, and the looming threat of inflation, boasting instead robust demand and record revenues.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5YT0H)
Plus: Pentagon hires first chief digital and artificial intelligence officer, and more In brief A synthetic enzyme designed using machine-learning software can break down waste plastics in 24 hours, according to research published in Nature.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5YSYZ)
Too bad everyone else is pretty much on track with their processors Qualcomm has vowed to unleash a generation of laptop processors that will rival Apple's M-series chips, though they won't arrive until late 2023.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5YSX3)
If true, a good use for DRM? Millions of dollars worth of John Deere agricultural machinery stolen from a dealership in Ukraine by Russian Federation forces has been traced to the Chechen Republic and bricked, it is reported.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5YSV5)
Plus: Another university hit with malware, and more In brief The Black Basta crime gang has claimed it infected the American Dental Association with ransomware.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5YSS8)
Tower Semiconductor’s involvement means Intel could eventually own a piece An international semiconductor consortium called ISMC Digital plans to invest $3 billion in a new manufacturing plant in India and Intel could eventually own a piece of it.…
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Dell shows off full stack of cyber recovery SaaS, partners with Snowflake for data analytics LAS VEGAS – Dell is giving enterprises new ways to protect the data they store in public clouds.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5YSM8)
Latest Spanish officials to detect Pegasus spyware on mobile devices Spain's prime minister and defense minister are the latest elected officials to detect Pegasus spyware on their mobile phones, according to multiple media reports quoting Spanish authorities.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5YSHG)
Big three’s market share now at 65 per cent almost everywhere outside China AWS, Microsoft, and Google collectively harvested 65 percent of global spend on cloud computing in Q1 2022 and outgrew their competition to the extent that their collective dominance leaves rivals with only niches to explore.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5YSEV)
The new investigation marks the fourth set of allegations leveled against Apple by the EU since 2020 It is set to be a contentious morning in Cupertino as Apple execs wake to the announcement of a new European Union investigation into anti-competitive practices. …
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by Justin Warren on (#5YSC7)
Surveillance is a poor starting point for your security strategy Many information security practices use surveillance of users' activities. Logging, monitoring, observability – call it what you will, we have built a digital panopticon for our colleagues at work and it's time to rethink this approach.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YS1S)
I know what this process needs: Microsoft Access! Who, Me? A tale of discounts and process improvement via the magic of Excel, Access and a fair bit of electronic duct tape we imagine. Welcome to Who, Me?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5YRZC)
To Solaris 11.4, rather than somewhere more cloudy and less Sunny Oracle has given Solaris 10 users an easier way to migrate their apps – to a more modern version of Solaris.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#5YRV8)
Developers will be given 90 days to get them up to code, or face banishment Apple has warned developers it will remove their products from its App Stores if they've not been updated for three years.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5YRJ4)
Applications in lunar exploration and Earth-bound locomotion are possible Scientists with a grant have done what none thought possible – perhaps few even gave any thought to – and smashed the world record for the highest jumping robot.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5YRBT)
Boffins get excited about building better machine synapses There's a potential solution on the cards to the energy expenditure problems plaguing AI training, and it sounds simple: just strengthen the "synapses" that move electrons through a memory array. …
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5YR68)
Plus: US government's NIST publishes 86-page report investigating algorithmic bias AI algorithms can still come loaded with racial bias, even if they're trained on data more representative of different ethnic groups, according to new research.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5YQSB)
Scientists develop algorithm that decides if your job can just be an algorithm An online index of nearly a thousand jobs may useful in cluing in folks to the automation risk their field of employment faces.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5YQP9)
Also: Occulus virtual reality apps fail to detail info collection Meta's Facebook subsidiary has been collecting hashed personal data from students seeking US government financial aid, even from those without a Facebook account and those not logged into the student aid website, according to a research study published this week.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YQJY)
Plus: A look at some of the Centre for Computing History's most exciting machines Interview The Register took a road trip last weekend to celebrate the ZX Spectrum's 40th birthday, and visited The National Museum of Computing in Bletchley Park and the Centre for Computing History in Cambridge in search of the origins (and clones) of the rubber-keyed marvel.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5YQB4)
Plus: He reportedly wants to oust CEO, shake up site features Elon Musk has sold $8.4 billion of Tesla shares over the past few days and reportedly wants to hire a new Twitter CEO, after the company's board accepted his offer to privatize the social media biz.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5YQ9K)
Besides files being erased, another thing being deleted: Any sense this is a coincidence Security researchers have detailed six significant strains of data-wiping malware that have emerged in just the first quarter of 2022, a huge surge over previous years.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5YQ62)
Will they WF-other people's-H? Room rental biz Airbnb on Thursday said it will allow its employees to work from anywhere and compensation will remain flat or increase within countries.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5YQ4E)
China lockdowns, Apple's homegrown silicon, and more give x86 giant a headache – with an aspirin in reach Analysis Intel promises that a costly ramp in production of 10nm processors, which includes the forthcoming Sapphire Rapids server chips, will pay off in the second half of the year to counter a slowdown in the PC business.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YPZZ)
Final flight of Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy will be in 2022 Even as NASA publishes images demonstrating progress in the commission of the James Webb Space Telescope, preparations are being made to ground the Boeing 747-based Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA) for good.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YPXE)
Customer credits unlikely 'to be material to the financial statements' Atlassian has reported robust figures for its Q3 2022 ended March 31 in which revenues were up, net income was in the red and questions over the recent outage continue to linger.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YPXF)
Only works with signed-in users, but could lure more into using the browser Microsoft appears to be planning a VPN-like solution for its Edge browser judging by a support page for the upcoming feature.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5YPTD)
Claims new formula reduced carbon emissions by 40%, exceeded strength requirements Facebook parent company Meta has a new project that's grounded in the physical realm: using artificial intelligence to discover new formulas for green concrete.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5YPQW)
34% jump shows smaller businesses are catching on and driving investment, says Canalys Sales of cloud infrastructure services are still expanding by roughly a third every quarter – despite the maturing market – and in Q1 they leaped 34 percent to hit $55.9 billion.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5YPQX)
That Mac you ordered? Lead times stretch to June, but Apple warns 'most products affected' over next 3 months Apple is warning that lockdowns of factories in Shanghai due to COVID-19 and industry-wide silicon shortages will hurt its sales by between $4 billion to $8 billion in the next quarter.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5YPMY)
Concerns for Paragon CEO, and head kernel boss Torvalds suggests seeking maintainers There are doubts about the future of the new read-write NTFS driver in the Linux kernel, because its author is not maintaining the code, or even answering his email, leaving the code orphaned, says a would-be helper.…
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