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Improvements in mapmaking platform to cost 500 employees their future at geolocation tech provider TomTom says it is laying off 10 percent of its global workforce due to advances in automation technology and greater use of digital techniques in its mapmaking process.…

People forget that IoT gadgets aren't appliances and need to be supported with updates from the vendor Smart homes are increasingly becoming hackable homes, according to consumer research.…

You might say the US agency needed an OpenShift in mindset Cloud-native architectures have changed the way applications are deployed, but remain relatively uncharted territory for high-performance computing (HPC). This week, however, Red Hat and the US Department of Energy will be making some moves in the area.…

You wait for one infection and then three come along at once An emailed report seemingly about a payment will, when opened in Excel on a Windows system, attempt to inject three pieces of file-less malware that steal sensitive information.…

Graduates from top 50 global universities get a pass as critics say it fails to make up for Brexit impact The UK has begun a fast-track visa scheme for tech workers graduating from a list of top 50 universities worldwide.…

Recognizing your doodles and building some software – or that's the idea Interview "We implemented this as an 'AI+human' experience," said Ryan Cunningham, VP of Power Apps, "and not 'AI does it 100 percent for you' experience."…

Rocks stood out like a THOR thumb for code Researchers at The Asteroid Institute have developed a way to locate previously unknown asteroids in astronomical data, and all it took was a massive amount of cloud computing power to do it.…

Far from the finished product and not obviously a game-changer, but intriguing nonetheless In October 2021, Cisco announced WebEx Hologram – an augmented reality meeting experience that promised "photorealistic, real-time holograms of actual people" and the chance to "share physical and digital content".…

Proof-of-concept lab work demos potential future threat Forescout researchers have demonstrated how ransomware could spread through an enterprise from vulnerable Internet-of-Things gear.…

We have questions: Who's logged in lately? How would you know? Ain't it grand that Microsoft wants you in Azure AD? Updated Microsoft has warned users that Azure Active Directory isn't currently producing reliable sign-in logs.…

Clever asymmetrical economic warfare makes Beijing very uncomfortable India's government has reportedly started probes into the local activities of Chinese tech companies Vivo and ZTE, prompting a rebuke from China's foreign ministry.…

Fast-evolving botnet targets critical VMware, F5 BIG-IP bugs, we're told The botnet malware EnemyBot has added exploits to its arsenal, allowing it to infect and spread from enterprise-grade gear.…

It now builds its own and says it has become the largest contributor to OpenStreetMap in Southeast Asia Grab – the Singaporean ride-sharing app that beat Uber on its home turf – decided to develop its own maps because Big Tech's simply weren't up to the job, the company's head of product said at a conference in Singapore.…

Despite public support for more repairable gear, tech lobbying may have kept that from happening A California Right to Repair bill, SB 983, died in committee last week, despite broad consumer support for fixable products.…

Justices Roberts, Kavanaugh, Barrett help halt enforcement of HB 20 The US Supreme Court on Tuesday reinstated the suspension of Texas' social-media law HB 20 while litigation to have the legislation declared unconstitutional continues.…

x86 giant now has an HPC roadmap, which includes successor to Ponte Vecchio After a few years of teasing Ponte Vecchio – the powerful GPU that will go into what will become one of the fastest supercomputers in the world – Intel is sharing more details of the high-performance computing chips that will follow, and one of them will combine CPUs and GPUs in one package.…

Fraudster and two alleged accomplices nabbed in joint op An Interpol-led operation code-named Killer Bee has led to the arrest and conviction of a Nigerian man who was said to have used a remote access trojan (RAT) to reroute financial transactions and steal corporate credentials. Two suspected accomplices were also nabbed.…

Big Blue's 'routine eschewal of rules' justifies large penalty, judge says IBM has been ordered to pay Houston-based IT firm BMC $1.6 billion for fraud and contract violations because it moved mutual client AT&T from BMC software to IBM software.…

Decentralized identity and knowing who needs what Microsoft has whipped out the rebranding team once more, and chosen the name "Entra" as a catch-all for the company's identity and access capabilities.…

It's even open source, so someone may actually use it With Intel poised to enter the datacenter GPU market, the chipmaker this week showed off a software platform mean to simplify management of these devices at scale at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.…

Chipmaker interested in forming a consortium for purchase – and so is SK hynix, Intel Qualcomm has reiterated it would like a stake in Arm and help create a consortium that would keep the Brit chip designer neutral, or out of the hands of any single chip company at least.…

Salesforce complexity can be 'difficult and expensive to govern', especially for multicloud, warns Gartner The set of enterprise technologies acquired by Salesforce in recent years, together with its own applications, have proved "more difficult and expensive to govern than expected for many customers," says Gartner.…

Internal beauracy and barriers hold up roll out of defenses, report finds Ask 1,000 CIOs whether they believe their organizations are vulnerable to cyberattacks targeting their software supply chains and about 82 percent can be expected to say yes.…

Latest version of simplified container tool for penguins is out Developer Luca di Maio has released version 1.3.0 of DistroBox, a tool to simplify running different versions of Linux in containers.…

If you fancy your own dedicated network there's another player in town – but don't ask how much it costs BT linked arms with Ericsson to serve-up commercial 5G private network deployments as a managed service for organizations in Britain.…

But the potentially abundant, if distant, source of sustainable energy could offer hope Nuclear fusion will not provide an answer to the medium-term "sacrifice" the world population will have to endure to get to net-zero carbon emission by 2050 — the target for keeping average global heating within the 1.5˚C margin.…

For your consideration: A reasonable list of the least bad distros It is a truth universally acknowledged that all operating systems suck. Some just suck less than others.…

Technology firms rank second in UK list of strategic public-sector suppliers Everyone's favourite outsourcing business Capita is scheduled to see 415 government contracts with the British public sector expire between 2022 and 2025, more than any other major supplier.…

All the the rage with gamers, mechanical type comes to office users – where cool goes to die Review Logitech has rounded out its Master series with the MX Mechanical keyboard and MX Master 3S mouse. Both cost serious money, but are they worth it?…

It's not hard to find unpleasant precedents for what might happen to Virtzilla VMware customers have seen companies acquired by Broadcom Software emerge with lower profiles, slower innovation, and higher prices - a combination that makes them nervous about the virtualization giant’s future.…

Details? Nope. Potential? Enormous. Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger and Samsung Electronics boss Lee Jae-yong met on Monday in South Korea and “discussed how to cooperate between the two companies."…

Goodbye cloudy retro-gaming, bonjour ‘rétrojeu video en nuage’ France’s Commission d'enrichissement de la langue française has decided to offer citizens new ways to describe video games in the language of the land.…

Blockchain still has a role to play - if properly regulated - says Heng Swee Keat Singapore’s deputy prime minister Heng Swee Keat has told retail investors not to buy cryptocurrency.…

Leases, IP rights, ownership of goods … it’s almost easier to list things the Supreme People’s Court doesn’t want on a blockchain China’s Supreme People’s Court has issued an opinion calling for massive adoption of blockchain across China’s judiciary, financial sector, and government, and for the technology to underpin intellectual property in the nation.…

Brute force attack leaves the license wide open for undetectable alteration, but back end data remains unchanged An Australian digital driver's license (DDL) implementation that officials claimed is more secure than a physical license has been shown to easily defaced, but authorities insist the credential remains secure.…

Using guess-who's datacenter equipment, natch Transitioning just half of all datacenters to sustainable operating models could cut global energy costs by $7 billion, Supermicro CEO Charles Liang claims.…

Researchers comb through code execution flaw found in malicious document Infosec researchers have idenitied a zero-day code execution vulnerability in Microsoft's ubiquitous Office software.…

Considered to be preferable to sale to China-owned Nexperia, say sources UK government officials are mulling a sale of chipmaker Newport Wafer Fab to a US consortium instead of allowing its agreed deal with China-owned Nexperia to stand.…

HPE-built system to be used by Uncle Sam for material science, renewables, and more Nvidia will reveal more details about its Venado supercomputer project today at the International Supercomputing Conference in Hamburg, Germany.…

Texas school shooting should prompt a rethink in commercial ties with powerful gun-lobby group, workers urge management Around 4,000 Salesforce staff have signed an open letter calling for the CRM giant to stop working with the National Rifle Association, the powerful US gun-lobby organisation.…

Claims partnerships will drive development and adoption of exascale computing in Europe European microprocessor designer SiPearl revealed deals with Nvidia and HPE today, saying they would up the development of high-performance compute (HPC) and exascale systems on the continent.…

Data Protection Impact Assessment merely a 'standard step' A year after the Dutch data protector said there were too many "legal obstacles" for its civil servants to use Google Workspace, a re-worked agreement will permit the public sector to fire up the productivity suite.…

CEO talks up 'great economics to franchisees ... through the power of software... AI and creative construct' IBM says it is rolling out its natural language processing software to a greater number of McDonalds' drive-thrus months after buying the automated order technology unit from the fast food chain, along with the team that developed it.…

Focuses on 600 users, lets smaller outfits slide, trims R&D spend, slashes sales expenses Broadcom's stated strategy is very simple: focus on 600 customers who will struggle to change suppliers, reap vastly lower sales and marketing costs by focusing on that small pool, and trim R&D by not thinking about the needs of other customers – who can be let go if necessary without much harm to the bottom line.…

Startup Rezilion suggests enterprises should change prioritization strategies Enterprise security teams being overrun by the rising numbers of vulnerabilities uncovered each day could vastly reduce their patching workload by changing how they prioritize the flaws, according to recent research from vulnerability startup Rezilion.…

HR boss admits news may be 'disappointing' for the 'significant' population of former staff IBM has confirmed to former staff that it will no longer provide grants for the Retired Employee Club, meaning no more subsidized short trips to the Italian Riviera or golf days.…

Ingenuity footage sent back to Earth via Perseverance, despite looming battery problem Video On Friday NASA released footage of the Ingenuity Mars Helicopter flying further and faster than ever before.…

Consultation asks for contributions from industry to better understand digital threats The UK government has kicked off a consultation to collate feedback on strengthening the security and resilience of local datacenters and cloud services to protect against outages and national security threats.…

Interesting Moon experiment raises cool questions about disposal of hidden value Opinion Making a call on the quality of a new idea in tech can be hard. But if you ask me, not in the case of Lonestar Data Holdings, whose plan to build datacenters on the Moon is literal lunacy.…

How do you spell 'backup' again? 'D' 'R' 'O' 'P'... Who, Me? A reminder of the devastation a simple DROP can do and that backups truly are a DBA's best friend in this morning's "there but for the grace of..." Who, Me?…