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Shouldn't Teams, Zoom, Slack all interoperate securely for the Feds? Wyden is asking -
Doctorow: 'The most amazing part is that this isn't already the way it's done'
Collaboration software used by federal government agencies — this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google — will be required to work together and be securely end-to-end encrypted, if legislation proposed by US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) passes.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 19:43:28 GMT)Now all Windows 11 users are getting adverts to 'make the Start menu great again' -
And you thought the Bing begging was annoying
Microsoft has made good on its promise, or threat, to put advertisements inside the Windows 11 Start menu with its latest update.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 18:41:19 GMT)Lenovo and Micron first to implement LPCAMM2 in laptop -
The SODIMM replacement finally arrives
Lenovo's latest ThinkPad P1 Gen 7 laptop is set to be the first to use the new LPCAMM2 memory form factor, the successor to SODIMM sticks.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:45:08 GMT)Microsoft cannot keep its own security in order, so what hope for its add-ons customers? -
Secure-by-default... if your pockets are deep enough
Microsoft has come under fire for charging for security add-ons despite the company's own patchy record when it comes to vulnerabilities and breaches.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 17:15:11 GMT)US Chamber of Commerce to sue FTC for banning noncompetes in most jobs -
Senior execs making $150K+ will still have to abide by them, but they fall away for everyone else
The US Chamber of Commerce is saying it will sue the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) for officially banning noncompete clauses in employment contracts across Amercia.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 16:30:07 GMT)Another Boeing whistleblower comes forward – with receipts -
What's that? Q1 was better than expected? Pump those shares
Another Boeing whistleblower has come forward to report problems at his former employer, but that doesn't seem to have upset shareholders, who sent shares skyward on news of a quarter bearing fewer losses than expected.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:45:07 GMT)Management company settles for $18.4M after nuclear weapons plant staff fudged their timesheets -
The firm 'fessed up to staff misconduct and avoided criminal liability
A company contracted to manage an Amarillo, Texas nuclear weapons facility has to pay US government $18.4 million in a settlement over allegations that its atomic technicians fudged their timesheets to collect more money from Uncle Sam.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:00:09 GMT)Google cools on cookie phase-out while regulators chew on plans -
Privacy Sandbox slips into 2025 after challenges from UK authorities
Google's plan to phase out third-party cookies in Chrome is being postponed to 2025 amid wrangling with the UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) and Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:31:28 GMT)US charges Iranians with cyber snooping on government, companies -
Their holiday options are now far more restricted
The US has charged and sanctioned four Iranian nationals for their alleged roles in various attacks on US companies and government departments, all of whom are claimed to have worked for fake companies linked to Iran's military.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 14:01:56 GMT)Oracle changes its tune with HQ move to Music City -
Nashville 'ticked all the boxes' for Big Red's employees, says founder Ellison
Oracle co-founder and CTO Larry Ellison has confirmed that the tech giant plans to move its global headquarters to Nashville, Tennessee.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:31:10 GMT)Tesla misses the mark on all fronts in quarter of chaos -
Who cares that net profit slid 55%? Not Wall Street
In a dynamic first quarter, Elon Musk's Tesla contended with a terrorist organization, survived an arson attempt, and fiercely competed with hybrid car makers, all against a backdrop of falling prices as competition for electric vehicle customers intensified.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:15:12 GMT)Euro cloud group blasts Broadcom over VMware licensing maneuvers -
CISPE says concessions 'solve nothing'
Updated Euro cloud trade body CISPE has hit back at concessions offered by Broadcom over VMware licensing, saying these do not address key issues that led it to lobby the European Commission into investigating.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:30:10 GMT)European Parliament votes to screw repair rights in consumer toolkits -
Directive places requirements on gizmo vendors, but still needs formal approval
The European Parliament has adopted the right-to-repair directive with 584 votes in favor and three against, making repairing goods more accessible and cost-effective.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 12:00:11 GMT)Law prof predicts generative AI will die at the hands of watchdogs -
Big tech backlash and animus against the machines will invite stifling red tape
Video Generative AI is destined to drown in a tsunami of regulation, argues Santa Clara University law professor Eric Goldman.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 11:15:08 GMT)Strong electric car sales expected for 2024, but charging grid needs work -
International Energy Agency points out obvious: Infrastructure needs to meet demand
The International Energy Agency (IEA) is reminding governments to match the continued rapid growth of electric car sales with infrastructure improvements.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 10:32:36 GMT)Rapidus US chief says AI chip crunch, supply chain paranoia make for an ideal growth climate -
Japanese foundry upstart aims to bolster domestic production while catering to growing demand for custom accelerators
Interview The foundry space is arguably the most complex and competitive it has been in decades as foundry upstarts in the US and Japan look to challenge heavyweights Samsung and TSMC for a piece of the action.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 09:30:09 GMT)Graph databases speaking the same language after ISO gives GQL the nod -
Standards body adoption could help ease portability between vendors
GQL, the query language for graph databases, has been recognized by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), offering users more portability of queries and skills between graph database systems.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 08:30:06 GMT)If Britain is so bothered by China, why do these .gov.uk sites use Chinese ad brokers? -
One wonders why are there adverts on public-sector portals at all
Exclusive At least 18 public-sector websites in the UK and US send visitor data in some form to various web advertising brokers – including an ad-tech biz in China involved in past privacy controversies, a security firm claims.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 07:29:13 GMT)Japanese and Singaporean devs battle over gamified crowdsourced telco maintenance app -
You read that right – it's a bit like Pokémon Go, but for telephone poles
Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO) – which manages infrastructure including the Fukushima nuclear power plant – is reportedly involved in an IP dispute over an app that gamifies the crowdsourced identification of faulty power poles.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 06:33:27 GMT)China's mega-telcos are spending billions on AI servers -
China Mobile alone wants almost 8,000 machines
Giant Chinese telco China Mobile, which boasts over a billion customers, wants to purchase nearly 8,000 AI servers.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 05:30:09 GMT)Senate passes law forcing ByteDance to sell off TikTok – or face a US ban -
Somewhere in Beijing, someone's screaming: Mother, PFACAA!
Updated The US Senate has passed a bill that compels TikTok's Chinese owner ByteDance to offload the app to a US-approved buyer or face a ban. President Biden has indicated he will sign it into law.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 04:15:12 GMT)US government reportedly ponders crimping China's use of RISC-V -
Permissive licenses may be about to collide with geopolitics
The United States Department of Commerce is reportedly considering lawmakers' calls to make it harder for China to use the RISC-V instruction set architecture (ISA).…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:16:10 GMT)White House tweaks HIPAA to shield medical files of those seeking reproductive care -
In theory, this should make it harder for states to compel data-sharing to enforce anti-abortion laws
A revision to America's healthcare privacy rules aims to better protect abortion providers and patients seeking the procedure — and other types of reproductive care, such as in vitro fertilization and contraception — as some US states ban procedures and attempt prosecutions.…
(Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:29:10 GMT)Intel Foundry ticks another box in quest to fab mil-spec chips for US DoD -
Gelsinger and gang certified to court wider array of defense contractors
Intel's Foundry division is one step closer to manufacturing chips for military applications using its forthcoming 18A process node.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 23:45:10 GMT)Using its own sums, AMD claims it's helping save Earth with Epyc server chiplets -
Smaller dies, less wafer loss equals lower emissions, exec claims
Comment AMD says its decision to ditch monolithic datacenter chips seven years ago in favor of a chiplet architecture has helped cut global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by tens of thousands of metric tons a year.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 22:14:12 GMT)Waymo robotaxi drives down wrong side of street after being alarmed by unicyclists -
Strange tales from San Francisco
A self-driving Waymo taxi in San Francisco was filmed passing unicyclists and scooters – which would have been mundane if it weren't for the fact that the autonomous vehicle drove down the wrong side of the street to do so.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 20:37:38 GMT)Banned Nvidia GPUs sneak into sanction-busting Chinese servers -
Graphics giant and partners say they're clean – it's all technically legit
More banned Nvidia GPUs are making their way into Chinese universities, local governments, and private companies.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:30:10 GMT)Miles of optical fiber crafted aboard ISS marks manufacturing first -
ZBLAN fibers made in space hopefully don't crystallize and are far less brittle, opening the path to faster photonics
Fiber optics of the future may be manufactured in space if the results of a recent ISS experiment prove its feasibility.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 19:00:10 GMT)Seagate joins the HDD price hike party, blames AI for spike in demand -
Expect ongoing supply shortages this year, say storage analysts
Seagate has joined Western Digital in increasing the prices of hard drives, with rising demand due to the huge data requirements of AI taking the blame. AI is also behind a rapid growth in orders for Enterprise solid state drives (SSDs).…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 18:15:12 GMT)SpaceX workplace injury rates are rocketing -
Musk outfit's figures almost 10 times worse than industry averages
Workplace safety data reported to the US government for 2023 indicates that SpaceX's injury rate continues to surpass the industry average.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 17:31:06 GMT)Miracle-WM tiling window manager for Mir hits 0.2.0 -
What are Mir and Wayland all about anyway?
Mir-based tiling window manager Miracle-WM version 0.2.0 is here, building on the basis of the initial release. Will Mir bring peace and harmony and convergence after all?…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:45:12 GMT)GM shared our driving data with insurers without consent, lawsuit claims -
Motorists file class action alleging breach of contract and more after their premiums went up
Two New Jersey drivers claim they now pay more for their car insurance because General Motors (GM) and its OnStar app snooped on their driving behavior without their consent and sent metrics to "various insurance carriers."…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:00:08 GMT)iPhone sales dive 19.1% in China as Huawei comeback hits Apple in the high end -
From first place to third as local brands grow
iPhone sales in China - the world's largest smartphone market - slipped by 19.1 percent in Q1 year-over-year while many domestic brands rose, pushing Apple from first to third place.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:30:11 GMT)Microsoft shrinks AI down to pocket size with Phi-3 Mini -
Language model focused on reasoning fits on a smartphone and runs offline
Microsoft claims the latest incarnation of its lightweight Phi-3 Mini AI model rivals competitors such as GPT-3.5 while being small enough to be deployed on a phone.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 15:01:14 GMT)Digital Realty wants to turn Irish datacenters into grid-stabilizing power jugglers -
Electricity goes both ways as bit barns in Dublin aim to cut emissions and boost the bank
Datacenter biz Digital Realty is to let facilities in Ireland feed energy back to the electricity grid when needed, helping to smooth out variability in supply, cut CO2 emissions and provide an additional revenue stream.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:30:07 GMT)Microsoft really does not want Windows 11 running on ancient PCs -
Even tighter requirements, so it's time to put old hardware out to pasture... or find an alternative OS
Microsoft's war on old PCs appears to have intensified as the latest builds of Windows 11 will not boot if your CPU does not support the SSE4.2 instruction set.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 14:00:12 GMT)SAP cloud swells its topline, but profits slide -
Cloud migration good for margins, CEO says
SAP booked revenue of €8.04 billion ($8.58 billion) in the first calendar quarter of 2024, up eight percent on the same period of 2023.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:34:12 GMT)Mandiant: Orgs are detecting cybercriminals faster than ever -
The 'big victory for the good guys' shouldn't be celebrated too much, though
The average time taken by global organizations to detect cyberattacks has dropped to its lowest-ever level of ten days, Mandiant revealed today.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 13:05:14 GMT)UnitedHealth admits IT security breach could 'cover substantial proportion of people in America' -
That said, good ol' American healthcare system so elaborately costly, some are forced to avoid altogether
UnitedHealth Group, the parent of ransomware-struck Change Healthcare, delivered some very unwelcome news for customers today as it continues to recover from the massively expensive side and disruptive digital break-in.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:30:15 GMT)Voyager 1 regains sanity after engineers patch around problematic memory -
All from billions of miles away
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft has begun returning usable engineering data after engineers devised a way to work around a damaged memory chip.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:45:06 GMT)Leicester streetlights take ransomware attack personally, shine on 24/7 -
City council says it lost control after shutting down systems
It's become somewhat cliché in cybersecurity reporting to speculate whether an organization will have the resources to "keep the lights on" after an attack. But the opposite turns out to be true with Leicester City Council following its March ransomware incident.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 11:05:30 GMT)Silicon Valley roundabout has drivers in a spin -
Accidents at intersection quadruple
The United States are widely free from roundabout tyranny with only one for every 33,330 people. A good thing too because people passing by the city of Hollister, just south of Silicon Valley, can't seem to grok their new one.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 10:15:05 GMT)Don't rent out that container ship yet: CIOs and biz buyers view AI PCs with some caution -
Risky bet? Premium price with 'no demonstrable benefits'? It doesn't sound like an order avalanche
While vast swathes of the computer industry remain hellbent on inflating the AI PC hype bubble, the response from some analysts and biz consumers is milder as they sit on the side to see how the first generation tech shapes up.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 09:30:06 GMT)Over a million Neighbourhood Watch members exposed through web app bug -
Unverified users could scoop up data on high-value individuals without any form of verification process
Neighbourhood Watch (NW) groups across the UK can now rest easy knowing the developers behind a communications platform fixed a web app bug that leaked their data en masse.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 08:30:14 GMT)Meta comms chief handed six-year Russian prison sentence for 'justifying terrorism' -
Memo to Andy Stone: Don't go to Moscow for your holidays
Meta’s communications director Andy Stone has been sentenced in absentia to six years imprisonment in Russia for "justifying terrorism."…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 07:33:06 GMT)European Commission to suspend TikTok's new rewards program, open second probe -
For some reason the world's most notorious app decided not to tick all boxes under the world’s toughest digital law
TikTok has earned itself a second investigation under the European Union's Digital Services Act – and suspension of its rewards program – after failing to comply with the law in two important regards.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 06:28:11 GMT)Misconfigured cloud server leaked clues of North Korean animation scam -
Outsourcers outsourced work for the BBC, Amazon, and HBO Max to the hermit kingdom
A misconfigured cloud server that used a North Korean IP address has led to the discovery that film production studios including the BBC, Amazon, and HBO Max could be inadvertently using workers from the hermit kingdom for animation projects.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 05:26:10 GMT)Australia secures takedown order for terror videos, which Elon Musk wants to fight -
Yet X remains a supporter of The Christchurch Call, an international agreement to stop video nasties
+Comment Australia's government has secured a court order requiring Elon Musk's social network, X, to remove all videos depicting a terrorist attack.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 04:15:12 GMT)Japan to draw up routes for roads dedicated to robot trucks -
Digital reform conference sees PM repeat calls to get online government services right at last
Usually when a government announces it's drawing up a digitalization roadmap, it's being metaphorical. In Japan's case, it's quite literal: roadways dedicated to autonomous vehicles handling logistics-related traffic will be mapped out.…
(Tue, 23 Apr 2024 01:58:06 GMT)Old Windows print spooler bug is latest target of Russia's Fancy Bear gang -
Putin's pals use 'GooseEgg' malware to launch attacks you can defeat with patches or deletion
Russian spies are exploiting a years-old Windows print spooler vulnerability and using a custom tool called GooseEgg to elevate privileges and steal credentials across compromised networks, according to Microsoft Threat Intelligence.…
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