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Smile! You're on Candid Doorbell – and the joke's on us all Column It's hard to understand why anyone expressed surprise when Amazon's VP of public policy, Brian Huseman, recently admitted sharing data with police.…

Cost control measures seem to hit CFO too – he's re-used quotes about cuts Concerns over rising labor costs and the subsequent impacts on their profits have led Indian outsourcer Infosys to cut Q1FY23 variable bonuses to an organizational average of 70 percent of theoretical maximum.…

Kim Jong-un has entered the chat Lloyd's of London insurance policies will stop covering losses from certain nation-state cyber attacks and those that happen during wars, beginning in seven months' time.…

Ren Zhengfei warns tough economic times mean it’s time to focus on profit and quality Huawei CEO Ren Zhengfei has reportedly told staff that tough economic times represent a real threat to the company.…

Cryptography prof tells Microsoft to get forked Earlier this month, the US Treasury Department sanctioned cryptocurrency mixing service Tornado Cash, claiming it provided money laundering for entities deemed national threats to America.…

Users may get around $0.53 each, Facebook would lose about eight hours of annual profit Meta has offered to pay $37.5 million to settle a class-action lawsuit, which claimed its social media platform Facebook illegally harvested location data even when users explicitly denied consent.…

That wasn't actually me on a Zoom call, it was a malicious AI clone built from TV interviews, claims PR A Binance PR exec says crooks created a deep-fake "AI hologram" of him to scam cryptocurrency projects via Zoom video calls.…

Loose access to production systems, out of date software, and more claimed Twitter's former security chief Peiter "Mudge" Zatko accused the company and its board of directors of violating financial rules, of fraud, and of grossly neglecting its security obligations in a complaint to the US Securities & Exchange Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, and the US Justice Department last month.…

That $52b CHIPS Act ain't enough – we need another $15b Intel is turning to private equity to bankroll its much-hyped chip foundry expansion.…

US watchdog snubs Intuit's request to drop claims of bait-and-switch tactics The FTC is pressing ahead with its allegations of false advertising against Turbo Tax maker Intuit after a brief pause in proceedings.…

Now this x86 giant just needs to ship a compatible CPU Hot Chips Intel offered the closest glimpse yet at its flagship datacenter GPU, code named Ponte Vecchio, at the Hot Chips conference this week, with its own internal benchmarks showing the chip outperforming AMD’s MI250x and competing head-to-head with Nvidia’s upcoming H100 GPU.…

Network interface card LEDs are a risk too by blinking in Morse code An Israeli security researcher known for foiling air gap security measures has published a reminder of just how vulnerable the approaches are to both visual and ultrasonic threats. …

Ready or not, ISS is coming down in 2031, and Amazon, Boeing and more are ready for business NASA has given the go-ahead for the first commercially owned and operated space station, Orbital Reef, to advance to design phase.…

Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg's Meta spends billions on the concept COMMENT While Meta has been hemorrhaging billions trying to bring CEO Mark Zuckerberg's metaverse to life with little to show for it, China has decided it too will take a crack at the virtual-reality concept.…

Top secret tech theft admission sealed into top secret plea deal An ex-Apple engineer who worked on Titan – the company's "need to know basis" self-driving car project – yesterday admitted to stealing proprietary tech while he was working for the company.…

CEO pledges to 'keep moving Moore's Law forward' during Hot Chips keynote Hot Chips Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sees a future where everything is a computer assembled from chiplets using advanced packaging technologies like Intel's own as the chipmaker seeks to keep Moore's Law alive.…

Privacy case claiming Big Red contravened a string of US laws follows boasts made by Larry Ellison in 2016 Oracle is the subject of a class-action suit alleging the software giant created a network containing personal information of hundreds of millions of people and sold the data to third parties.…

Airbus's solar-powered Zephyr nosedives after more than 64 days aloft An unmanned, solar-powered drone was hours from breaking the world record for the longest-duration flight before it suddenly crashed.…

Telco billionaire purchase A-OK from national security standpoint, apparently, but will he buy up more? The UK government has declared it will take no further action regarding the purchase of BT shares by French telco billionaire Patrick Drahi, following a national security assessment into his Altice company becoming the largest BT shareholder.…

From original author Brian Kernighan, one of the original Unix team In Unix terms, this news is akin to Moses appearing and announcing an amendment to the 10 commandments.…

Japanese giant will stop making mainframes four years later Fujitsu has been awarded a renewed contract for support and maintenance of the aging UK Police National Computer (PNC) after no other companies tendered for the work.…

Energy costs are up 40 percent and OVH isn't going to eat that without sharing some pain French cloud company OVH has announced it will hike its prices.…

New and friendlier CAC, after years of cracking down The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) has signaled it would like to smooth growing tensions with internet firms after a couple of years in which it strongly asserted its powers.…

Oh wow, get a load of Google using strcpy() all wrong – strcpy! Haha, you'll never ever catch us doing that Microsoft has described a severe ChromeOS security vulnerability that one of its researchers reported to Google in late April.…

Here's how to detect an intrusion via vulnerable email systems Organizations that didn't immediately patch their Zimbra email systems should assume miscreants have already found and exploited the bugs, and should start hunting for malicious activity across IT networks, according to Uncle Sam.…

Hopefully Lucky 13 spots suggested, all on the south pole near water ice The next US astronauts to set foot on the Moon will find themselves on the summit of a mountain range or the ridge of a crater near the lunar south pole.…

Timing for plan to redirect HTTP requests now indeterminate to allow for further feedback More than a decade after implementing support for secure HTTPS connections on its website, the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is finally planning to begin redirecting insecure HTTP connections to the more protected spec.…

But don't worry, Zuck would never misuse this type of sensitive data Novant Health confirmed that it may have disclosed 1.3 million patients' sensitive data, including email addresses, phone numbers, financial information - even doctor's appointment details - to Meta.…

Scammers are using cloud services to create and host web pages that can be used to lure victims into handing over their credentials Criminals are slipping phishing emails past automated security scanners inside Amazon Web Services (AWS) to establish a launching pad for attacks.…

There is a madness to the methods Boffins at universities in France, Germany, Luxembourg, and Sweden took a deep dive into known Java deserialization vulnerabilities, and have now resurfaced with their findings. In short, they've drawn attention to the ways in which libraries can accidentally introduce serious security flaws.…

Washington, Seoul, Beijing, Taipei and ...Mexico City battle to attract vendors Mexico is the next country in line to offer incentives to tempt semiconductor manufacturers to set up shop, and may be aiming to take advantage of the US desire to bring manufacturing closer to home.…

Here's your latest excuse to miss that Zoom meeting Another Windows update, another Windows problem. Microsoft has admitted that a July update for Windows 10 may have broken audio for some users. …

For 'limited, serial number-authorized repairs' in move unlikely to appease critics Loyal Mac fans inclined to break out the WD-40 and duct tape when their trusted devices misbehave now have access to an official Apple Self Service Repair program.…

Prolific group pummeled days after claiming to be file thief behind attack on cybersecurity vendor The LockBit ransomware group last week claimed responsibility for an attack on cybersecurity vendor in June. The high-profile gang is now apparently under a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) because of it.…

In the battle between bandwidth, latency, and starvation, we'll always be choosing two Trying to create a network that's fair, equitable, and starvation-free may simply be impossible – at least with current congestion control algorithms (CCA), an MIT study has found.…

Fellow group member Taiwan claims it never got the invite A South Korean official confirmed on Thursday that the country would attend the preliminary meeting of the so-called international Chip 4. Fellow prospective member, Taiwan, claims it had not been given any details of the event.…

A faster 51.2Tbit/sec co-packaged switch is also in the works Broadcom will deploy its 25.6Tbit/sec Humbolt co-packaged optical (CPO) switches in China-based cloud provider Tencent's datacenters in a bid to accelerate adoption of the emerging network tech.…

Liz Truss to go over IR35 off payroll tax as ruling party voters gear up to pick their leader The leading candidate to replace Boris Johnson as the UK's prime minister has said she would review changes to the IR35 tax rules so often criticized by IT contractors.…

PowerPoint presentations are all well and good, but for Peter Beck, you can't beat something physical Rocket Lab CEO Peter Beck spoke at the SmallSat 2022 conference and offered up words of wisdom for anyone pondering an entry into the lighter end of the launch market.…

No country for old menus Opinion A year ago, corporate VR sucked deep on the hype pipe and offered it around. We weren't convinced. All that investment, all that technology, to recreate a drab pastiche of the very environments we'd gratefully escaped in the magical world of WFH.…

New kid on the block risked decimating colleagues' side hustle Who, Me? When you start a new job, you always want to impress the boss by going the extra mile (or kilometer). But doing so can risk incurring the wrath of co-workers. …

It's getting hot in here so take down all your nodes Comment This year's summer heatwaves aren't just making your average Brit's life a bit miserable, it also caused problems for some cloud providers and server admins trying to keep their gear running.…

Plus: See if in-app browsers are monitoring you, a novel industrial network attack technique, and more In brief Zoom fixed a pair of privilege escalation vulnerabilities, which were detailed at the Black Hat conference this month, but that patch was bypassed, necessitating yet another fix.…

Controversial Pegasus spyware maker to focus on NATO sales while battling various court cases Pegasus spyware slinger NSO Group announced on Sunday it will reorganize, replacing its CEO and letting go of around 100 workers.…

Plus: Indonesia's four-hour takedown demand; Peak Facebook in Korea?; Alibaba frees font; and more. Asia In Brief Huawei last week unveiled initiatives to encourage developers to work on its Harmony OS – the platform it created after US sanctions denied the Chinese giant access to Google's Android operating system.…

Plus: How US Homeland Security uses AI – and text-to-image systems deployed in social media In brief Elon Musk wants Tesla's robot butler to be able to cook, mow lawns, and care for the elderly, he wrote in an essay published in a magazine backed by the official Cyberspace Administration of China.…

Traffic is growing 30 percent every year, there's no reason to believe that'll change, BT's Andrew Lord argues Every year the bandwidth that telecom networks carry increases by roughly 30 percent. To keep up, the interconnects on which these networks are built are going to need to get a whole lot smarter and more capable before long, BT's Andrew Lord said during his Hot Interconnects keynote early this week.…

Hopefully these probes won't end up as target practice for some aliens in a few centuries The most distant human-made objects, Voyager 1 and 2, are still cruising in interstellar space, more than 12 billion miles from Earth, as NASA today celebrates the 45th year of its longest-operating mission.…

Sandia has been working on the project for more than a decade – now comes scaling When it comes to turning turbines, steam is out and supercritical carbon dioxide is in – as demonstrated by Sandia National Labs when it connected a closed-loop system to the local grid, supplying about 10 kilowatts of power for nearly an hour. …