Must be hard to face a huge, unexpected bill, amirite? In one of the most massive patent verdicts in legal history, a federal jury in East Texas has ordered cellular giant Verizon to pay patentholder General Access Solutions $847 million.…
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Lees meerPresident has ordered a datacenter audit and made backups mandatory Indonesia’s president Joko Widodo has ordered an audit of government datacenters after it was revealed that most of the data they store is not backed up.…
Lees meerPlus: Singapore launches global regulatory blockchain; China gets new SciTech boss; India spectrum auction fizzles Asia In Brief China's Ministry of State Security has asked citizens to stop posting info about the nation's spy satellites and nation…
Lees meerI'll get you next time, Gadget, next time! Despite a European Commission review in April clearing Microsoft of trying to exert control over OpenAI by the backdoor, the duo's $13 billion partnership hasn't escaped regulatory scrutiny just yet.…
Lees meerWhy all three at once? Blame Syniverse – everyone else is Updated AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile US are today experiencing international roaming outages, leaving at least some American subscribers unable to use their phones as they expect while overse…
Lees meerFunny what happens if you take Tesla out of the numbers, though Interest in electric vehicles has waned slightly among US motorists for the first time since 2020 says Pew Research, with only three out of ten Americans right now saying they're consid…
Lees meerSo, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and unsafe dependencies The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has analyzed 172 critical open source projects and found that more than half cont…
Lees meerSo, so many lines of memory-unsafe routines in crucial open source, and so many unsafe dependencies The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has analyzed 172 critical open source projects and found that more than h…
Lees meerNormally it's the iGiant's prices that give the ol' ticker a hard time A quartet of heart doctors are trying to resuscitate health-monitoring tech outfit AliveCor's antitrust lawsuit regarding the Apple Watch, by arguing changes made to the iMaker's…
Lees meerSame APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation? TeamViewer says it was Russian intelligence that broke into its systems this week.…
Lees meerNo supply-chain attacks to see over here! Updated After having its website shut down, the polyfill.io owner is fighting back against claims it smuggled suspicious code onto websites all across the internet.…
Lees meerClaims customer data, prod environment not affected as NCC sounds alarm Updated TeamViewer on Thursday said its security team just "detected an irregularity" within one of its networks – which is a fancy way of saying someone broke in.…
Lees meerWhy all three at once? Blame Syniverse – everyone else is Updated AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile US are today experiencing international roaming outages, leaving at least some American subscribers unable to use their phones as they expect while overse…
Lees meerStarlink rival slips again, but service still set for 2025 The first full-scale mission of Amazon's Project Kuiper has slipped to the end of 2024, a year after the company finally got its prototype satellites into orbit.…
Lees meerHorizon system expert denied tailoring evidence in convictions later quashed Gareth Jenkins, former distinguished engineer at Fujitsu Services Ltd, said he "clearly got trapped into doing things that I shouldn't have done" when giving technical evid…
Lees meerAims to expand optical networking biz, particularly in North America Nokia is set to buy optical networking biz Infinera in a $2.3 billion transaction, the companies have confirmed.…
Lees meerCooling tech left to sweat the details AI is currently the big driver in datacenter investment and will push capital expenditure on the facilities up by nearly 30 percent this year, and is also on track to become the top server workload by deploymen…
Lees meerAnd ordered so rudely this techie had little interest in sticking around to fix the subsequent chaos On Call Techies are often beset by undeserving and despicable dolts who demand daunting feats of tech support. Which is why each Friday The Registe…
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