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Memory-maker Micron predicts new wave of server consolidation
AI boosted revenue last year, demand for more RAM in devices to help in 2025 Micron has told investors it expects a new round of server consolidation to add to its already strong growth....
Apple quietly removed 60 more VPNs from Russian app store, researchers claim
iThing-maker is Putin Kremlin repression ahead of privacy, rights orgs argue Apple has pulled 60 VPNs from its App Store in Russia, according to research from anti-censorship org GreatFire....
Infosys scores deal to write code for EV-maker Polestar
HQ in Sweden, made in China, programmed in Bengaluru, but with a traditional offshoring marque Indian tech services giant Infosys has scored a deal to write code for Swedish electric vehicle outfit Polestar....
India extends IT hardware import license scheme that enraged Big Tech
And hints at revised rules to come later this year India's Ministry of Commerce and Industry has extended the scheme that enraged hardware makers by requiring them to secure import permits - and indicated it will be revised further....
Uncle Sam accuses Aussie AI startup boss of financial fakery that duped investors
Crikey! $40M of investments in 'digital employees' allegedly went down faster than a frosty Fosters The former CEO of an AI startup that promised to replace humans with "digital employees" has been accused by the US Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission of raising $40 million from investors, including venture capitalists, after showing them deliberately falsified financial records....
WordPress.org denies service to WP Engine, potentially putting sites at risk
That escalated quickly WordPress on Wednesday escalated its conflict with WP Engine, a hosting provider, by blocking the latter's servers from accessing WordPress.org resources - and therefore from potentially vital software updates....
OpenAI to reveal secret training data in copyright case – for lawyers' eyes only
Counsel for aggrieved authors will view info in a secure room, without internet access, and no devices present OpenAI has agreed to reveal the data used to train its generative AI models to attorneys pursuing copyright claims against the developer on behalf of several authors....
If your AI does the crime, you'll do the time, warns DoJ
Add compliance requirements to your AI to-do list If juggling the extreme cost and hazy ROI of AI weren't enough of a headache, the United States Department of Justice (DoJ) now expects enterprise compliance officers to start weighing the tech's potential for harm - or risk stiff fines if it breaks the law....
China's Salt Typhoon cyber spies are deep inside US ISPs
Expecting a longer storm season this year? Updated Another Beijing-linked cyberspy crew, this one dubbed Salt Typhoon, has reportedly been spotted on networks belonging to US internet service providers in stealthy data-stealing missions and potential preparation for future cyberattacks....
Unions 2, Apple 0: Cupertino caves after fresh strike threat
You're doin' fine, Oklahoma! Apple's anti-union posturing is looking like quite the paper tiger: The iPhone goliath has reached an agreement with unionized retail workers in Oklahoma, marking the second time it has caved to organized labor after facing the prospect of a strike....
91% of polled Amazon staff unhappy with return-to-office, 3-in-4 want to jump ship
'Decisions like the one from Jassy are a big reason why I don't want kids' Amazon CEO Andy Jassy last week sent a memo to staff informing them everyone is now expected in the office five days a week from the start of next year, and a poll of staff suggests this hasn't gone down well....
Altman reportedly asks Biden to back a slew of multi-gigawatt-scale AI datacenters
With 2.5 million Blackwell GPUs, would gobble enough energy to power millions of homes OpenAI CEO Sam Altman is reportedly trying to convince the Biden administration that an enormous network of AI datacenters, each consuming up to five gigawatts of power, is imperative to ensuring US national security and maintaining its technological lead over China....
US Army drafts AI to combat recruitment shortfall
No more cold calls: Recruit 360 pinpoints top prospects from millions Plagued by recruiting shortfalls, the US Army is turning to AI to help it sift through the chaff for fresh recruits....
A look under the hood of the 3D-printed, Raspberry Pi powered 'suicide pod'
Design files will be available soon, but no word yet on the software A highly controversial 3D printed suicide pod has been used for the first time, leading to multiple arrests in Switzerland. The device is so DIY-friendly that you could technically build it at home, assuming you've got the right tools and, well, the necessary motivation....
RansomHub genius tries to put the squeeze on Delaware Libraries
Extorting underfunded public services for $1M isn't a good look Despite being top of the ransomware tree at the moment, RansomHub - specifically, one of its affiliates - clearly isn't that bright as they are reportedly trying to extort Delaware Libraries for around $1 million....
Google's Rust belts bugs out of Android, helps kill off unsafe code substantially
Memory safety flaws used to represent 76% of 'droid security holes. Now they account for 24% Google says its effort to prioritize memory-safe software development over the past six years has substantially reduced the number of memory safety vulnerabilities in its Android operating system....
The early bird gets a touch of nostalgia as Ubuntu 24.10 hits beta
Fun retro tweaks, App Center facelift, and more as Oracular Oriole moves into view The beta version of Ubuntu 24.10 has just come out, with GNOME 47 as its default desktop and some fun retro touches....
ESA spending €17M on spacecraft just to watch it go up in flames
DRACO will be born to die in the fires of atmospheric re-entry The European Space Agency (ESA) has awarded Spanish company Deimos Space a contract for a spacecraft whose sole purpose is to burn up in the Earth's atmosphere so engineers can see what happens....
US may exempt chip giants' billion-dollar fabs from some rules, but the laws of physics still apply
AC/DC: America's power grid might need to brace itself Analysis The multibillion-dollar gamble of Intel and other semiconductor industry players on US-based chipmaking is shaking a lot more than just technological trees - it seems set to give America's power infrastructure a bit of a headache....
Campaigners claim 'Privacy Preserving Attribution' in Firefox does the opposite
Tracking alternative is less invasive than other methods, but is opt out by default Privacy activist group noyb has filed a complaint against Mozilla over a "Privacy Preserving Attribution" feature that was quietly enabled in the Firefox browser following a July update....
Apple ropes off at least 4 GB of iPhone storage to house AI
Better or worse than a surprise U2 album? Apple's on-device AI model, dubbed Apple Intelligence, will require 4 GB of device storage space, and more at a later date. That's about the size of an HD movie, for now....
Google files first ever complaint with European Commission against Microsoft
Mountain View versus Redmond: Fight over cloud software licensing policies gets formal Google Cloud Platform has filed a complaint with the European Commission alleging Microsoft software licensing policies are anti-competitive, including claims customers are being charged four times more to run Windows Server in non-Azure clouds....
Northern Ireland cops whose info was leaked in 2023 may get £240M+ damages
Officers put in danger when republican dissidents grabbed hold of their names and details Victims have yet to receive any compensation after a document was mistakenly published in 2023 containing data belonging to members of the Police Service of Northern Ireland (PSNI), however, fresh reports say damages in the case could reach up to 240 million ($320.9 million)....
Hyperscalers are carving up the ocean floor into private internet highways
Think tank warns of sovereignty risks from subsea cable consolidation The dominance of US-based hyperscalers like Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Amazon in subsea cables has reshaped the industry and put critical infrastructure at risk, an Australian think tank claims....
Messaging app makers' dilemma: Keeping comms private and funding open source
After Telegram CEO was charged in France, Element bosses mull the challenges Interview Not upsetting law enforcement with end to end encryption and finding a sustainable way to fund open source development are challenges facing messaging giants and minnows alike....
Fujitsu wins spot on £600M framework after vowing to sit out public sector
Post Office scandal? What scandal? Fujitsu has won a place on a UK tech framework worth up to 600 million ($802 million) despite promising not to bid for public sector contracts while its role in the Post Office Horizon scandal faces scrutiny. The company says bidding for the deal took place before it made that commitment to the UK government....
AI PCs will dominate shipments by 2026, but not because of demand
Buying computers without the tech to get harder as chipmakers compete for cash, say analysts AI PCs are forecast to account for 43 percent of PCs by 2025, says tech market sales number cruncher and consultancy Gartner, and by 2026, an AI device may be the virtually the only laptop a big business can choose....
NASA, IBM just open sourced an AI climate model so you can fine-tune your own
Prithvi, Prithvi, Prithvi good Researchers at IBM and NASA this week released an open source AI climate model designed to accurately predict weather patterns while consuming fewer compute resources compared to traditional physics-based simulations....
VMware reportedly investigated by Japanese antimonopoly authorities
Broadcom's software bundles under scrutiny after perhaps irking Fujitsu Japan's Fair Trade Commission, the nation's anti-monopoly agency, has reportedly commenced an investigation into VMware's software licensing practices....
India funds Moon lander, space station module, and Venus orbiter
Wants lunar sample return within three years, Venus launch in 2028, orbiting hab in 2035, boots on Luna five years later India's government last week signed off on three big space missions: a Moon lander, a space station module, and a Venus orbiter....
Samsung and pals Hyundai, Kia, team for software-defined cars, IoT integration
Turn on home aircon and maybe peer inside the fridge or oven - all from behind the wheel Samsung and fellow South Korean giants Kia and Hyundai have struck up an IoT alliance that will see cars drive home appliances, and smartphones control some operations inside cars....
AI chatbot gets green light to hallucinate your investment portfolio
Service due to roll out later this month, despite fears AI will crash the market AI has driven the stock market into a hype-fueled frenzy, and an Israeli startup has even convinced regulators to let its chatbot hallucinate an investment portfolio on your behalf....
SBF's right-hand woman praised for testimony – and jailed for two years
Caroline Ellison thanked for helping take down FTX supremo, ordered to surrender her own billions The former CEO of Alameda Research, Caroline Ellison, has been sentenced to two years in a minimum-security prison after pleading guilty to helping her former boyfriend Sam Bankman-Fried siphon billions out of the FTX exchange....
China claims Taiwan, not civilian hackers, behind website vandalism
Taiwan laughs it off - and so does Beijing, which says political slurs hit sites nobody reads anyway Taiwan has dismissed Chinese allegations that its military sponsored a recent wave of anti-Beijing cyber attacks....
CrowdStrike apologizes to Congress for 'perfect storm' that caused global IT outage
Argues worse could happen if it loses kernel access CrowdStrike is "deeply sorry" for the "perfect storm of issues" that saw its faulty software update crash millions of Windows machines, leading to the grounding of thousands of planes, passengers stranded at airports, the cancellation of surgeries, and disruption to emergency services hotlines among many more inconveniences....
WP Engine hits back after Automattic CEO calls it 'cancer'
Cease'n'desist letter claims top boss demanded tens of millions for trademark license Updated WordPress hosting service WP Engine on Monday sent a cease and desist letter to WordPress maker Automattic, to force the latter's CEO Matthew Mullenweg to stop making allegedly false and misleading claims about WP Engine following a purported trademark license demand....
FBI raids HQ of US govt IT giant Carahsoft
Still business as usual, we're told Virginia-based public sector IT services giant Carahsoft was raided Tuesday by US government agents....
Who’s watching you the closest online? Google, duh
Four Chocolate Factory trackers cracked the Top 25 in all regions Google, once again, is the "undisputed leader" when it comes to monitoring people's behavior on the internet, according to Kaspersky's annual web tracking report....
Russia's digital warfare on Ukraine shows no signs of slowing: Malware hits surge
Severe incidents may be down, but Putin had to throw one in for good measure Russia's use of malware to support its military efforts in Ukraine is showing no signs of waning while its tactics continually evolve to bypass protections....
Ancient US air traffic control systems won't get a tech refresh before 2030
If they don't crash first, say government auditors Updated The Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) air traffic control (ATC) systems are perilously out of date, but don't expect replacements anytime soon, says the US Government Accountability Office (GAO)....
Snowflake seeks to raise funds with $2B bond sale
Poorly received by investors, the moves comes in a difficult year Cloud-based data warehousing and analytics biz Snowflake has issued $2 billion in bonds with the aim to buy back shares and potentially launch an acquisition strategy....
10 nasty software bugs put thousands of fuel storage tanks at risk of cyberattacks
Thousands of devices remain vulnerable, US most exposed to the threat Tens of thousands of fuel storage tanks in critical infrastructure facilities remain vulnerable to zero-day attacks due to buggy Automatic Tank Gauge systems from multiple vendors, say infosec researchers....
With Granite Rapids, Intel is back to trading blows with AMD
And they didn't even need a bunch of skimpy E-cores to do it Over the past few years, we've grown accustomed to Xeon processors that, generation after generation, come up short of the competition on some combination of core count, clock speeds, memory bandwidth, or PCIe connectivity....
Elon's latest X-periment: Blocked users can still stalk your public tweets
'High time this happened' says Musk Elon Musk has confirmed a change to X that will allow blocked users to view public posts....
Warm embrace of CHIPS Act cash envelopes Polar Semiconductor
Minnow of among government funded whales to double production capacity US-based Polar Semiconductor - the maker of analog and power chip devices and sensors - has bagged $123 million of CHIPS and Science Act funding to nearly double production capacity in the US....
As IBM pushes for more automation, its AI simply not up to the job of replacing staff
So say our sources, who warn job cuts, outsourcing risk depriving biz of seasoned technical talent IBM's plan to replace thousands of roles with AI presently looks more like outsourcing jobs to India, at the expense of organizational competency....
How to spot a North Korean agent before they get comfy inside payroll
Mandiant publishes cheat sheet for weeding out fraudulent IT staff Against a backdrop of rising exposure to North Korean agents seeking (mainly) US IT roles, organizations now have a cheat sheet to help spot potential operatives....
Capita wins £135M extension on much-delayed UK smart meter rollout
Outsourcing firm has been building network for over a decade now - how's that going? The poster child of UK outsourcing, Capita, has won a two-year extension to its license to manage the delivery of the UK's smart meter secure communications platform, a system dogged by delays....
Post-IPO Raspberry Pi results in: So you can make money in tech without added AI
The little computer-that-could benefits as supply chain eases Raspberry Pi has reported a jump in revenue and profit for the first half of 2024, sending the company's shares soaring despite marginally lower volumes than expected....
Scientists demonstrate X-rays as a way to zap asteroids out of Earth's path
Lab-based proof-of-concept shows how radiation creates explosive plumes to deflect menacing space rocks US scientists have demonstrated that potentially dangerous asteroids destined for Earth could be deflected from their trajectory using X-rays....
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