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Lees meerLargest local authority in Europe expects to go live with re-implementation Birmingham City Council – Europe's largest local authority, serving over one million customers – has agreed to re-implement an Oracle Fusion system following a failed rollou…
Lees meerDrama between two of the leading secure messaging services Telegram CEO Pavel Durov issued a scathing criticism of Signal, alleging the messaging service is not secure and has ties to US intelligence agencies.…
Lees meerA nice gesture among the sh!tshow of Broadcom's acquisition VMware has made another small but notable post-merger concession to users: the Workstation Pro and Fusion Pro desktop hypervisor products will now be free for personal use.…
Lees meerAfter years of people being victimized, it's about time Google and Apple are rolling out an anti-stalking feature for Android 6.0+ and iOS 17.5 that will issue an alert if some scumbag is using a gadget like an AirTag or similar to clandestinely tra…
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Lees meerSoftBank to focus on AI, but might pick up LINE, Yahoo! holding company SoftBank, once Alibaba's biggest investor, has sold its stake in the Chinese tech company, it told investors on an earnings call.…
Lees meerFirst commercial flight trials of a quantum-based system that be backup for GPS The UK has just completed commercial flight trials of quantum-based navigation systems that are designed to be immune to conventional jamming and spoofing.…
Lees meerSTS-125 – the Space Shuttle mission that almost never happened It is fifteen years since the Hubble Space Telescope was captured by a Space Shuttle for the final time.…
Lees meerWhen PoC code is released within a day of disclosure, it's only a matter of time before attacks kick off The UK's NHS is warning of the possibility that vulnerabilities in Arcserve Unified Data Protection (UDP) software are being actively exploited.…
Lees meerNHS England's own survey also reveals suspicions that it would sell data to third parties Four out of five patients worry NHS IT systems may be vulnerable to cyber attacks while around half are concerned that the world's largest single health system…
Lees meerAux.computer fragments the community – but doesn't fix the technological objections Comment Recent ructions in the Nix project over moderation, leadership, and funding, have led to a fork… but one that fails to address the technical and human issue…
Lees meerBreaking news, perhaps literally: AI content blocking tool in Safari for iOS The UK News Media Association (NMA) has written to Apple, warning that its reported plan to provide AI-powered ad blocking in iOS 18 threatens the revenue of news publicati…
Lees meerWhat good is great power use effectiveness if your DC is packed with inefficient kit? ISC Power use effectiveness – PUE for short – has long been the spec by which datacenter efficiency has been measured. But after nearly two decades Nvidia believe…
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Lees meerWith LLNL's AMD-powered El Capitan on the horizon, time is running out for Intel's Aurora to claim number 1 spot ISC Argonne National Laboratory's Aurora supercomputer has officially breached the exaflop barrier, but, once again, it's fallen short …
Lees meerEmergency ambulances diverted while techies restore systems US information security agencies have published advisories on how to detect and thwart the Black Basta ransomware gang – after the crew claimed responsibility for the recent attack on US he…
Lees meerEither they learned to brake-check or motorcycles were following too close The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) is investigating two rear-end crashes involving Amazon-owned Zoox self-driving cars and motorcycles.…
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