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$54.20 per share in cash so that Musk can help 'unlock' its 'potential' The Twitter, Elon Musk saga has taken another turn, with the tech billionaire tabling an offer of $54.20 per share to buy the service outright.…

IBM kit made 20 journeys into space, now selling for surprisingly down-to-Earth prices Boston-based auction house RR Auction currently has an out of this world item up for bid: IBM computers collectively used aboard twenty Space Shuttle missions.…

Vendors didn't 'diversify' adoption beyond education, CIOs flirted with form factor and nothing more Crashing Chromebook shipments caused the global PC market to shrink for the first time since the pandemic began.…

Payloads pulled as Europe eyes alternatives The European Space Agency (ESA) has pulled back from yet more "cooperative activities" with Russia as the agency continues to adjust to life without its former partner.…

Govt org that led controversial Palantir data store seeks overarching system and help to improve services NHS England is planning the procurement of a data platform with up to £240m million ($312 million) on the table to help in re-organization of the health service and recovering from the COVID-related backlog in care.…

Far from cheap but discounts could put HoloLens in closer reach for schools The HoloLens 2 has been around long enough some might see a reduction in the often-cited high pricetag. In this case, it's educational institutions eligible for a 10 percent price cut.…

All so that it can maintain backdoor access across reboots The China-linked Hafnium cyber-gang is using a strain of malware to maintain a persistent presence in compromised Windows systems by creating hidden tasks that maintain backdoor access even after reboots.…

Aims to reach a billion users with expanded cloud, and lots of cartoon content Korean web portal Naver – which enjoys 18 per cent share of the search market in its home nation – has unveiled plans to expand its business product portfolio and secure a billion global users.…

Founder's daughter is married to top UK politician, holds billion dollar stake that was maxed for tax efficiency Indian IT services giant Infosys has announced it will quit Russia, after finding itself at the center of a political storm in the UK.…

Big Blue contends it should not be forced to reveal more than law requires IBM has been accused of trying to avoid its legal discovery obligations in Kinney v. IBM, one of many age discrimination lawsuits that have been brought against the IT titan in the past few years.…

Yitian 710 chip boasts 128 Armv9 cores, available to test Alibaba Cloud has started accepting requests from customers to preview an instance type powered by the home-grown Arm CPUs it revealed last year.…

Miscreants Googled for post-intrusion tools before downloading them onto servers, PCs Lockbit ransomware operators spent nearly six months in a government agency's network, deleting logs and using Chrome to download hacking tools, before eventually deploying extortionware, according to Sophos threat researchers.…

But this time the patch should do the trick Apache has taken another shot at fixing a critical remote code execution vulnerability in its Struts 2 framework for Java applications – because the first patch, issued in 2020, didn't fully do the trick.…

Fees for sellers of virtual goods in Horizon Worlds will be almost half of sale price Meta intends to charge content creators as much as 47.5 percent of revenue from the sale of digital assets that touch its Meta Quest Store and virtual-reality service Horizon Worlds, more even than Apple's "30 percent App Store tax" that the firm's Facebook subsidiary has decried.…

Better support for top ML frameworks means stronger chip competition Good news for those who like their AI chips big: Cerebras Systems has expanded support for the popular open-source PyTorch and TensorFlow machine-learning frameworks on the Wafer-Scale Engine 2 processors that power its CS-2 system.…

Greenwashing or serious commitment? Intel has committed to being net zero for greenhouse gas emissions across its global operations by 2040, and has set itself interim milestones for 2030 including 100 percent renewable electricity use and to identify greener chemicals with lower global warming potential.…

Years of extended delays and changes for late 2022-planned system Intel is expected to provide next-gen CPUs and GPUs for what will become one of the world's fastest supercomputers later this year, but when the United States' long-delayed Aurora project is finally up and running, it will happen without a top Intel architect who was key to its delivery.…

Julia replaces Fortran as the basis for Earth's new digital twin When faced with climate models coded in Fortran in the 1960s and 70s, MIT decided there wasn't any more cobbling together left for the ancient code, so they decided to toss it out and start fresh. …

Addresses 'top reported issues'.. apart from that whole C++ thing Microsoft has made available an updated preview of Visual Studio 2022 for Mac, addressing what it described as the "top reported issues" in preview 9.…

Tightening of IP laws to prevent poaching seen by Beijing as 'provocative smear' Trouble is brewing over moves by Taiwan to prevent China from gaining access to its chip technology, as the island nation proposes tougher laws to deter the leaking of trade secrets outside the country.…

Tough news for those Googlers still holding out for permanent remote work Google is betting big on the future of the office with $9.5 billion in investments planned for such facilities in 2022. …

Keksec malware used for DDoS attacks, may spread to cryptomining, Fortinet says A prolific threat group known for deploying distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and cryptomining attacks is running a new botnet that is built using the Linux-based Gafgyt source code along with some code from the Mirai botnet malware.…

Aims to develop next generation cyberinfrastructure, amongst other things The Ohio Supercomputer Center (OSC) is building out a new high performance compute cluster for AI applications based on Dell hardware with AMD Epyc processors and Nvidia GPU accelerators.…

Running a multi-user Windows environment and Git? Time to patch After a hefty Patch Tuesday comes news of an update for Git to deal with a vulnerability for the source shack when run on Microsoft's Windows.…

Cryptocurrencies make up less than 1% of wiki donations, but as member points out, that $130k could pay a salary The wiki community held a vote as to whether the Wikimedia Foundation should continue to accept cryptocurrency donations, the result of which was a resounding "no".…

Data from embedded sensors, from in the sea to in space, could be used with ML to detect next-gen weapons The US Northern Command, the military command group designated to protect North America from attack, has lobbied Congress for $29.8m to expand its IT infrastructure to better support machine-learning technologies.…

SODIMM fans rejoice – the familiar form factor returns with a speedier CPU The Raspberry Pi gang will soon ship some new hardware in a form factor to delight builders still mourning the Compute Module 3. Behold the Compute Module 4S.…

Initial boom in data vizualization, but CEO Mike Capone says it needs to 'play nice' to win in new segment Interview It's never a zero-sum game, according to Mike Capone, CEO of data visualization software specialist Qlik. For the sake of the company, he'd better be right, as Qlik is betting its success on a foray into a market with way more competition than the one in which it earned its stripes.…

Anyone who tells you Linux is hard to use wasn't paying attention – and here's why Column I've used pretty much every desktop out there, and the Linux desktop is still the best of the best.…

Software was supposed to eat the world, but it's scarcely snacking on today's monstrous silicon Column When I first saw an image of the 'wafer-scale engine' from AI hardware startup Cerebras, my mind rejected it. The company's current product is about the size of an iPad and uses 2.6 trillion transistors that contribute to over 850,000 cores.…

Plus: Watchdog approves Fitbit's algorithm for detecting a dodgy ticker While Apple engineers continue adding health-related features to its smartwatch range, its blood-pressure monitoring system won't be ready until 2024 at the earliest, it is reported.…

Plans to take a bigger bite of the SME security market by swimming towards SASE Investment firm KKR has acquired Barracuda Networks from private equity firm Thoma Bravo.…

Chinese giant still hiring in Moscow – for some very interesting gigs Updated Chinese telecom giant Huawei has issued a mandatory month-long furlough to some of its Russia-based staff and suspended new orders, according to Russian media.…

Sixty percent of current facilities are near Tokyo – a risky concentration Japan's government has secured expressions of interest from over 100 regional centers willing to host new datacenters, as part of an effort to make the nation's computing infrastructure more resilient.…

April bundle addresses 100-plus vulnerabilities including 10 critical RCEs Microsoft's massive April Patch Tuesday includes one bug that has already been exploited in the wild and a second that has been publicly disclosed.…

Argonne boffinry nerve-center is building a qubit computer with x86 giant Inside Intel sees quantum computing as the next step beyond today's CPUs and GPUs, and this week took a step ahead in delivering such a system.…

Suspected admin who went by 'Omnipotent' awaits UK decision on extradition to US After at least six years of peddling pilfered personal information, the infamous stolen-data market RaidForums has been shut down following the arrest of suspected founder and admin Diogo Santos Coelho in the UK earlier this year.…

Tool disables non-essential tokens A team of researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison and Google say they have found a way to use artificial intelligence to neutralize manipulative cookie consent pop-ups that have become ubiquitous on the web.…

Startup sells software and hardware as a subscription to make private 5G easy Intel has acquired private 5G network provider Ananki, several months after the startup spun out of the non-profit Open Networking Foundation to commercialize open-source network technologies.…

Murali Venkata found guilty of conspiracy to resell case management app A former acting branch chief of IT for the US Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) oversight office was convicted on Monday of conspiring to steal US government software in order to develop a commercial copy that could be resold to other government agencies.…

Lightspin threat researchers discovered the bug, which AWS fixed A local file read vulnerability in Amazon's Relational Database Service (RDS) could have been exploited by an attacker to gain access to internal AWS credentials, the cloud behemoth has confirmed.…

Only 36% use it now, but an additional 47% plan to adopt HAS in the next year An Intel study finds that businesses are eager for cybersecurity and are keen to see how security can be baked into devices.…

Says its other global operations won't be affected by the process Cloud and datacenter service provider Sungard Availability Services has filed for bankruptcy both in the US and for its Canadian subsidiary, just weeks after its UK division was forced into administration.…

Industrial giants, cybersec vendors collect under OTCSA banner A number of the world's largest manufacturing and cybersecurity companies are getting behind a new consortium aimed at protecting industrial systems from threats.…

Lambda, Razer take on Apple with Tensorbook for ML engineers AI hardware company Lambda and PC gaming rig maker Razer are hoping to steal some thunder from Apple's M1 Max-powered MacBook Pro with a new laptop designed explicitly for machine learning engineers.…

Python's stranglehold in data science makes Neo4j rethink language strategy Graph database specialist Neo4j has launched a graph analytics workspace as a fully managed cloud service.…

Personal security, private travel, for exec making a single 'Zuck Buck' Meta only paid Mark Zuckerberg $1 last year, and the board recently voted to do the same in 2022. …

Guarding against the forever almost-here crypto-cracking tech OpenSSH 9 is here, with updates aimed at dealing with cryptographically challenging quantum computers.…

Reveals confidential filing but no pricing ahead of review by the SEC Arm-based server processor upstart Ampere Computing has signaled its intention to go public, and said it has filed the initial paperwork with the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).…

Will the last Western tech biz in Russia please turn out the lights? Nokia is the second of the world's biggest telco network kit makers to turn its back on Russia in as many days due to the continuing invasion in Ukraine - yesterday Ericsson "indefinitely" pulled out of the country.…