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Arm's lackluster Q2 outlook overshadows strong Q1 revenue growth
Execs blame gap in licensing revenues for lost momentum, while hawking AI Brit chip design champ Arm posted its fourth consecutive quarter of growth on Wednesday with Q1 revenues up 39 percent year-over-year to $939 million and profits of $233 million....
Germany names China as source of attack on government geospatial agency
Meanwhile, US apparently considers further AI hardware sanctions Germany's government has named China-controlled actors as the perpetrators of a 2021 cyber attack on the Federal Office of Cartography and Geodesy (BKG) - the official mapping agency....
Xen hypervisor quadruples its possible core count for version 4.19
Pesky test infrastructure woes seem to be solved, too The Xen Project has delivered a new cut of its open source hypervisor....
Infosys denies it owes $4B in taxes to India
Taxman disagrees with the outfit that built the tax portal IT services giant Infosys is facing a demand for almost $4 billion in tax demand from Indian state of Karnataka, relating to expenses incurred by its overseas branches....
Meta to boost training infra for Llama 4 tenfold, maybe deliver it next year
Sweet sweet GenAI money not yet flowing, Zuck reckons other ML efforts are paying off Meta has told investors generative AI won't bring it revenue this year, but that the massive investments it's planning will pay off over time - and be configured so they're not tied to training workloads....
Superclusters too big, but single servers too small? Oracle offers AI Goldilocks zone
Adds L40 bare metal option to the O-Cloud, plus A100 and H100 VMs. And teases a GH200 beast Oracle has created a pair of for-rent AI infrastructure options aimed at medium-scale AI training and inference workloads - and teased the arrival of Nvidia's GH200 superchip in its cloud...
Ransomware infection cuts off blood supply to 250+ hospitals
Scumbags go for the jugular A ransomware attack against blood-donation nonprofit OneBlood, which services more than 250 American hospitals, has "significantly reduced" the org's ability to take, test, and distribute blood....
Tesla that killed motorcyclist was in Full Self-Driving mode
28-year-old mowed down in US state where cars ordinarily aren't allowed to operate autonomously Washington State Patrol investigators have found that the Tesla involved in the death of a motorcyclist on Friday, April 19, 2024 was operating in Full Self-Driving (FSD) mode....
More than 83K certs from nearly 7K DigiCert customers must be swapped out now
Small stay of execution in 'exceptional circumstances' promised as lawsuits start to fly As the DigiCert drama continues, we now have a better idea of the size and scope of the problem - with the organization's infosec boss admitting the SSL/TLS certificate revocation sweep will affect tens of thousands of its customers, some of which have warned that the short notice may have real-world safety implications and disrupt critical services....
Russia takes aim at Sitting Ducks domains, bags 30,000+
Eight-year-old domain hijacking technique still claiming victims Dozens of Russia-affiliated criminals are right now trying to wrest control of web domains by exploiting weak DNS services....
Intel prepares to cut 'thousands' of workers
Employees hate this one simple trick to fix failing business empires Intel is said to be considering laying off thousands of its employees to alleviate the x86 giant's unsteady financial situation....
Remember Nokia? Amazon's lawyers do, in patent infringement suit
Finnish firm started the networking and cloud fight, Amazon could finish it Amazon has filed a complaint against Nokia accusing the Finnish tech firm of violating a dozen of its patents....
Upcoming US export rules on chipmaking tools won't apply to friendly countries
37 nations on good terms with Uncle Sam spared incoming restrictions, report claims The US is said to be tightening its export rules on chipmaking equipment, but will provide exceptions for allied and friendly nations....
Boeing's Q2 nosedive buoyed by appointment of new CEO
It lost billions and missed expectations, but fresh blood at the top has pleased shareholders Boeing missed the mark on pretty much every analyst expectation in Q2 as it continues to struggle to recover from a series of devastating engineering failures....
Chrome adopts app-bound encryption to stymie cookie-stealing malware
Windows users now get macOS-grade secret security Google says it's enhancing the security of sensitive data managed by Chrome for Windows users to fight the scourge of infostealer malware targeting cookies....
Two senior board execs leave SAP as restructuring hits the fan
German vendor maintains departures follow increase in job cuts On the back of an expanded workforce restructuring, two execs responsible for revenue and marketing depart have departed SAP's board....
Samsung confirms Exynos 2500 chip as profit skyrockets on back of AI memory boom
Strikes? What strikes? Samsung Electronics is riding the AI wave with an increase in sales and a huge jump in operating profit thanks to a recovery in the memory market, and the firm expects demand from server AI to stay strong for the rest of the year....
Five months after takedown, LockBit is a shadow of its former self
An unprecedented period for an unparalleled force in cybercrime Feature For roughly two years, LockBit's ransomware operation was by far the most prolific of its kind, until the fateful events of February. After claiming thousands of victims, extorting hundreds of millions of dollars, and building a robust army of sophisticated cybercriminals, the life's work of its mastermind, LockbitSupp - whom cops claim is Russian national Dmitry Khoroshev - is now hanging by a thread....
Skype goes ad-free, which is unusual for Microsoft
Feedback prioritized, unless it's about a feature customers really miss Microsoft has announced an ad-free update for Skype, now headed to testers in the company's Insider program. However, this update is unlikely to appease users who are still missing features previously dropped from the once-premier chat app....
'Error' in Microsoft's DDoS defenses amplified 8-hour Azure outage
A playbook full of strategies and someone fumbles the implementation Do you have problems configuring Microsoft's Defender? You might not be alone: Microsoft admitted that whatever it's using for its defensive implementation exacerbated yesterday's Azure instability....
EU AI Act still in infancy, but those with 'intelligent' HR apps better watch out
Users and developers warned to prepare for what's coming with human resources a focus in 'high-risk' category As the world's first legislation specifically targeting AI comes into law on Thursday, developers of the technology, those integrating it into their software products, and those deploying it are trying to figure out what it means and how they need to respond....
It is 60 years since a US spacecraft first took a close-up of the Moon
Ranger 7 finally gets its shot. Five years later, humans would follow It has been 60 years since a spacecraft snapped the USA's first close-up images of the lunar surface, a mere five years before astronauts set foot on the Moon. Ranger 7 finally achieved the feat in July 1964....
OpenTofu hits version 1.8 with more crowd-pleasing features
Open source TerraForm rival introduces a new file extension so users can 'keep older code around for compatibility' Terraform alternative OpenTofu has reached version 1.8 amid further signs of fragmentation....
Compared to other distros, Vanilla OS 2 'Orchid' is rewriting how Linux works
In front, unmodified GNOME; underneath, it's all a bit strange, but purposefully so Vanilla OS is an experimental distro testing out new implementations of immutability, cross-distro packaging, A/B failover, and more....
UK Electoral Commission slapped for basic cybersecurity fails
It took 13 months to notice 40 million voters' data was compromised The UK's Electoral Commission has received a formal slap on the wrist for a litany of security failings that led to the theft of personal data belonging to around 40 million voters....
Microsoft Dynamics 365 called out for worker surveillance
Redmond disputes some claims made in Cracked Labs report Microsoft Dynamics 365 provides "field service management" that allows customers to monitor mobile service workers through smartphone apps - allegedly to the detriment of their autonomy and dignity....
China stops worrying about lack of GPUs and learns to love the supercomputer
The workaround is going to be inevitable in the future anyway, say Chinese boffins Leading Chinese computer scientists have suggested the nation can build large language models without imported GPUs - by using supercomputers instead....
Canceled meeting between US and UAE throws fresh scrutiny on Microsoft-G42 deal
All a simple misunderstanding, we're told A meeting intended to allay fears that Emirati AI firm G42's deal with Microsoft could result in China accessing advanced US technology was reportedly cancelled by the UAE ambassador to the US....
Microsoft remains massively profitable, investors await AI payoff
Everyone loves Copilot, execs claim - and hope they can say the same for Copilot Plus PCs Microsoft has tried to convince investors that AI is paying off, but they appear unimpressed by news of customer adoption and revenue revealed Tuesday in the software giant's Q4 and full-year results for 2024....
Ridesharing makes new and unique mess in Japan's taxi industry
Minister accuses cab drivers of gaming algos to score more lucrative fares Taxi drivers are gaming ride-sharing algorithms in Japan to find more and more lucrative fares, according to digital transformation minister Taro Kono....
Asia's regional internet registry APNIC names new director general
ICANN's local boss Jia Rong Low gets the gig - and a challenging to-do list The Asia Pacific Network Information Center (APNIC) has named its new director general: ICANN regional managing director and vice president Jia Rong Low....
AMD sold $1B of Instinct GPUs last quarter, driving triple-digit datacenter growth
Which is nice, but way behind Nvidia, while other segments are soft and supply-chain pain persists AMD has told investors that its Instinct MI300X GPUs - the chip designer's alternative to Nvidia AI accelerator hardware - landed over $1 billion of datacenter revenues in Q2 this year....
DigiCert gives unlucky folks 24 hours to replace doomed certificates after code blunder
For the want of an underscore DigiCert has given some unlucky customers 24 hours to replace their SSL/TLS security certificates it previously issued them - due to a five-year-old blunder in its backend software....
Amazon, you will do a total recall of bad stuff sold through your site, watchdog barks
E-super-souk isn't having any of it Amazon has been ordered by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to take full and proper responsibility for recalling faulty and dangerous products sold by merchants through its website and app....
No love lost between Apple and Nvidia as iGiant chooses Google chips for AI training
Things are getting Tensor between Cupertino and Nv Apple has detailed in a research paper how it trained its latest generative AI models using Google's neural-network accelerators rather than, say, more fashionable Nvidia hardware....
Can't get Minecraft, MongoDB Cloud, others to work today? Blame that Azure outage
Shut the Front Door! If you've had or are having problems using websites and apps today, it might well be due to the Microsoft Azure outage....
Meta to cough up $1.4B to end fight over 'unlawful' facial recognition of friends
Everything's bigger in Texas -even the settlement deals Meta will pay a record $1.4 billion to settle a lawsuit with Texas, which accused the Facebook giant of breaking privacy laws by performing facial recognition on people's photos without their consent....
Delta Air Lines dials up Microsoft's legal nemesis over CrowdStrike losses
Oh, Boies, here we go again Delta Air Lines lost hundreds of millions of dollars due to the CrowdStrike outage earlier this month - and it has hired a high-powered law firm to claw some of those lost funds back, potentially from the Falcon maker and Microsoft itself....
Qualcomm goes budget with Snapdragon 4s Gen 2 5G chipset
Latest silicon aims to bring Gigabit connectivity to sub-$100 handsets Qualcomm has been pushing high-end smartphone platforms recently, but its latest release targets the budget segment, aiming to deliver Gigabit 5G connectivity to sub-$100 handsets....
Zuck dreams of personalized AI assistants for all – just like email
A model finetuned on your social media profile? What could possibly go wrong? SIGGRAPH Big public AI models like ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot have become near ubiquitous over the past few years - but Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg is banking that before long, everyone will have at least one, if not more, personalized AI assistants to call their own....
TSMC confirms it'll dig into Dresden for chip giant's first fab on Euro soil
Partnership with NXP, Infineon, and Bosch finally gets under way TSMC and partners will break ground in Dresden, Germany, to start building the Taiwanese chip maker's first European fab....
Rising costs biggest issue for datacenter operators as demand grows
Not to mention the skills gap, AI skepticism, and the unrelenting quest for power Datacenter operators face multiple challenges such as power and cooling requirements, while staffing issues persist and many are not tracking the right sustainability metrics. On the plus side, they can count on strong and growing demand for digital services....
'LockBit of phishing' EvilProxy used in more than a million attacks every month
Leaves a trail of ransomware infections, data theft, business email compromise in its wake Insight The developers of EvilProxy - a phishing kit dubbed the "LockBit of phishing" - have produced guides on using legitimate Cloudflare services to disguise malicious traffic. This adds to the ever-growing arsenal of tools offering criminals who lack actual technical expertise to get into the digital thievery biz....
Microsoft's Azure networking takes a worldwide tumble
Ready to talk it up to investors today, Redmond? Updated Microsoft's cloud services are having a bad day with users worldwide reporting difficulty connecting to Azure....
W3C says Google's cookie climbdown 'undermines' a lot of work
While some celebrate, the World Wide Web Consortium Technical Architecture Group is not happy The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has published a blog criticizing Google's climbdown over the deprecation of third-party cookies, declaring that the move "undermines a lot of the work we've done together."...
How deliciously binary: AI has yet to pay off – or is transforming business
Calculating ROI of neural networks turns out to be rather complicated Feature The tech industry's enthusiasm for artificial intelligence software - a conveniently amorphous term - has yet to generate much of an economic windfall....
Ransomware gangs are loving this dumb but deadly make-me-admin ESXi vulnerability
Get those patches applied - all the big dogs are abusing it Do you have your VMware ESXi hypervisor joined to Active Directory? Well, the latest news from Microsoft serves as a reminder that you might not want to do that given the recently patched vulnerability that has security experts deeply concerned....
Europe launches 'AI Factories' initiative in hopes of competing globally
Yes, you've heard the term 'AI Factories' before but Europe has its own spin Europe's supercomputing body has officially added a new pillar to its strategy - to develop and operate AI Factories to drive "a more competitive and innovative" European AI ecosystem....
Latest update for 'extremely fast' compression algorithm LZ4 sprints past old versions
New release does something you might have thought it already did The new version of the high-speed compression algorithm LZ4 gets a big speed boost - nearly an order of magnitude....
Revamped UK cybersecurity bill couldn't come soon enough, but details are patchy
Long overdue updates include expanded mandatory security incident reporting Analysis The introduction of fresh UK cybersecurity legislation, though delayed, is timely....
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