US indicts duo over alleged Swatting spree that targeted elected officials
Apparently made over 100 fake crime reports and bomb threats
Cyber-crime29 Aug 2024 | 20
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Nvidia admits Blackwell defect, but Jensen Huang pledges Q4 shipments as promised
The setback won't stop us from banking billions, CFO insists
Systems29 Aug 2024 | 3
What a coincidence. Spyware makers, Russia's Cozy Bear seem to share same exploits
Google researchers note similarities, can't find smoking-gun link
Security29 Aug 2024 | 3
AMD's Victor Peng: AI thirst for power underscores the need for efficient silicon
Hot Chips Moore's Law may be running out of steam, but there are still knobs to turn and levers to pull
Systems29 Aug 2024 | 8
Feds claim sinister sysadmin locked up thousands of Windows workstations, demanded ransom
Sordid search history 'evidence' in case that could see him spend 35 years for extortion and wire fraud
Cyber-crime29 Aug 2024 | 52
Yelp accuses Google of being a local search bully in antitrust lawsuit
Chocolate Factory claims rival is trying to revive cases it's already lost
Legal29 Aug 2024 | 8
Salesforce mulls charging per AI chat as investors sweat over fewer seats
Benioff sees 'very high margin opportunity' in bid to 'monetize' productivity gains
SaaS29 Aug 2024 | 5
Rock Chrome hard enough and get paid half a million
Google revises Chrome Vulnerability Rewards Program with higher payouts for bug hunters
Security29 Aug 2024 |
Verizon taps another satellite operator to make texting from the middle of nowhere easier
iPhone-like functionality coming to other devices on the network soon
Networks29 Aug 2024 |
Managing heat in AI-driven datacenters
Adapting cooling strategies for high-density compute environments
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Ex-Windows boss who tried to save the Start Menu now Shopify tech wizard
Time to make e-commerce great again instead?
Personal Tech29 Aug 2024 | 7
Fintech outfit Klarna swaps humans for AI by not replacing departing workers
Insists it's not cutting jobs and pays harder-to-automate people more with AI savings
AI + ML29 Aug 2024 | 17
Brain Cipher claims attack on Olympic venue, promises 300 GB data leak
French police reckon financial system targeted during Summer Games
Cyber-crime29 Aug 2024 | 4
DataVita declares sovereignty with 'National Cloud' for UK
Scottish provider promises no hidden fees, full control, and safe haven for data
PaaS + IaaS29 Aug 2024 | 11
Brit teachers are getting AI sidekicks to help with marking and lesson plans
Updated Isn't the education system in enough trouble already?
AI + ML29 Aug 2024 | 29
Hangover from messy Walmart tech divorce ongoing at Asda
UK grocer suffers IT issues with clothing orders, self-scanning, and store picker app
Systems29 Aug 2024 | 35
Sweet 16 and making mistakes: More of the computing industry's biggest fails
Part 2: The 16-bit era As the hardware got more capable, the messes got more expensive
Personal Tech29 Aug 2024 | 120
Astronomers back call for review of bonkers rule that means satellite swarms fly without environment checks
Space boffins want pollution from the likes of Starlink regulated
Science29 Aug 2024 | 46
EU tries to pin down China on definition of 'important data'
Rules on cross border data transfers have European businesses scratching their heads
Legal29 Aug 2024 | 2
Nvidia's growth slows to a mere 122 percent but it’s still topping expectations
Still growing in China, ramping Hopper prods and predicting Blackwell billions soon
Cloud Infrastructure Month29 Aug 2024 | 10
CrowdStrike's meltdown didn't dent its market dominance … yet
Total revenue for Q2 grew 32 percent
Software29 Aug 2024 | 22
Public clouds are 'dirty' about VMware's on-prem push, says Broadcom CEO Hock Tan
VMware Explore Virtzilla's sales swing decisively to the Cloud Foundation bundle
VMware Explore29 Aug 2024 | 8
AT&T to shell out $950,000 after quad-state 911 outage
Service takes another dive just as settlement is announced
Networks28 Aug 2024 | 7
Microsoft hosts a security summit but no press, public allowed
op-ed CrowdStrike, other vendors, friendly govt reps…but not anyone who would tell you what happened
Security28 Aug 2024 | 11
Proof-of-concept code released for zero-click critical IPv6 Windows hole
If you haven't deployed August's patches, get busy before others do
OSes28 Aug 2024 | 13
Supermicro delays 10-K filling due to accounting issues
Financial research org labels server-maker a ‘serial recidivist’, alleges quality product problems
Systems28 Aug 2024 | 5
Google trains a GenAI model to simulate Doom's game engine in real-ish time
The proof of concept shows promise despite big limitations
AI + ML28 Aug 2024 | 26
Warren Buffett’s favorite insurer GEICO drops VMware for OpenStack
Seeks customizable cloud and less lock-in
Software28 Aug 2024 | 11
Iran's Pioneer Kitten hits US networks via buggy Check Point, Palo Alto gear
The government-backed crew also enjoys ransomware as a side hustle
Cyber-crime28 Aug 2024 | 5
Elon Musk reins in Grok AI bot to stop election misinformation
Because who needs yet another lawsuit?
AI + ML28 Aug 2024 | 35
TikTok isn't protected by Section 230 in 10-year-old’s ‘blackout challenge’ death
Want a bot to pick engaging content and immunity from liability? Sorry, no
Legal28 Aug 2024 | 80
Dick's Sporting Goods discloses cyberattack
Authorities probing unwanted intrusion; hard questions ahead
Cyber-crime28 Aug 2024 | 11
HP secures $50M CHIPS Act boost to adapt inkjet tech for life sciences
Major funding backs printer giant's microfluidics work as market waits to see if regular printing revs recover
Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 9
NASA's billion-dollar launcher is behind schedule and burning cash
Stop us if you've heard this one before
Science28 Aug 2024 | 15
'Uncertainty' drives LinkedIn to migrate from CentOS to Azure Linux
Significant improvements to Microsoft's in-house Linux may follow
OSes28 Aug 2024 | 75
Microsoft partners beware: Action Pack to be retired in 2025
Windows giant continues march away from on-prem and into a cloudy future
SaaS28 Aug 2024 | 30
From Copilot to Copirate: How data thieves could hijack Microsoft's chatbot
Prompt injection, ASCII smuggling, and other swashbuckling attacks on the horizon
Patches28 Aug 2024 | 7
Missing Fujitsu PCs? It's back with a fresh lineup of 16 models
Business left Europe last year, but remains ticking away
Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 18
Enterprise SAP users split between on-prem and cloud as migration challenges loom
This is despite the German vendor's preferred upgrade path
Databases28 Aug 2024 | 7
As the Apple Watch turns 10, disabled users demand real accessibility
Opinion Forget wrist acrobatics, we need smarter wake word detection and on-device voice recognition
Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 10
Where the computer industry went wrong – the early hits
Part 1: The eight-bit era A personal collection of the memorable missteps and fumbles
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The ultimate dual-use tool for cybersecurity
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Rocket Factory Augsburg breaks down the SaxaVord blowout
'Enjoy the footage. It has cost us quite some money to generate'
Science28 Aug 2024 | 19
Woman uses AirTags to nab alleged parcel-pinching scum
Phew! Consumer-grade tracking devices are good for more than finding your keys and stalking
Personal Tech28 Aug 2024 | 98
Gartner warns Omnissa – formerly VMware's end-user compute biz – represents new risks
Weak roadmap, tricky migration path, and Broadcom dependencies add up to uncertainty
Virtualization28 Aug 2024 |
Big Tech: Malaysia won't let us set our own rules and that's not fair and makes us grumpy
Asia Internet Coalition asks for rethink of social media licensing law with the old 'You'll scare away investors' line – a week after AWS opened a region
Public Sector28 Aug 2024 | 22
Chinese broadband satellites may be Beijing's flying spying censors, think tank warns
Ground stations are the perfect place for the Great Firewall to block things China finds unpleasant
Networks28 Aug 2024 | 27
Copper's reach is shrinking so Broadcom is strapping optics directly to GPUs
What good is going fast if you can't get past the next rack?
Networks28 Aug 2024 | 3
Facebook whistleblower calls for transparency in social media, AI
Frances Haugen says navigating the digital world requires a North Star
Software27 Aug 2024 | 14
Tenstorrent's Blackhole chips boast 768 RISC-V cores and almost as many FLOPS
Hot Chips Shove 32 of 'em in a box and you've got nearly 24 petaFLOPS of FP8 perf
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 6
Intel's Software Guard Extensions broken? Don't panic
More of a storm in a teacup
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 9
A last look at the Living Computers museum before collection heads to auction
A guided tour of vintage hardware set to be scattered to the winds
Personal Tech27 Aug 2024 | 37
Google’s Irish bit barn plans denied over eco shortfall
DCs on the Emerald Isle better be green, says Dublin council - unless your name is Microsoft
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 13
Broadcom boss Hock Tan says public cloud gave IT departments PTSD
VMware Explore While datacenter silos have left you ‘so screwed’
Off-Prem27 Aug 2024 | 18
Volt Typhoon suspected of exploiting Versa SD-WAN bug since June
update The same Beijing-backed cyber spy crew the feds say burrowed into US critical infrastructure
Cyber-crime27 Aug 2024 | 3
IBM reveals upcoming chips to power large-scale AI on next-gen big iron
Telum II Processor and Spyre Accelerator set to boost performance and expand IO capacity
Systems27 Aug 2024 |
Cerebras gives waferscale chips inferencing twist, claims 1,800 token per sec generation rates
Hot Chips Faster than you can read? More like blink and you'll miss the hallucination
Systems27 Aug 2024 | 7
Boom Supersonic takes baby steps toward breaking the sound barrier
Twitchy roll resolved, landing gear works on one-third size demonstrator
Personal Tech27 Aug 2024 | 67
Zuckerberg admits Biden administration pressured Meta to police COVID posts
'The government pressure was wrong, and I regret that we were not more outspoken about it,' says Facebook founder
Personal Tech27 Aug 2024 | 182
Microsoft security tools questioned for treating employees as threats
Cracked Labs examines how workplace surveillance turns workers into suspects
Security27 Aug 2024 | 68
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