Piracy-as-a-service, 'bulletproof' ISPs, fake influencers, and big Chinese e-tailers turned a blind eye The combination of digital technology and COVID-19 caused a shift in the world's trade in counterfeit goods, according to the Office of the Unite…
Lees meerYou're holding staff meetings wrong? The United States' National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) - the federal agency that protects workers' right to organize - has "found merit" in allegations that Apple's rules, handbook, confidentiality policy, and …
Lees meerGenius move: You can't lose money if you don't pay your bills Elon Musk's strategy of cutting expenses at Twitter by not paying bills is coming home to roost. The company's landlords at its iconic Market Square HQ in San Fran have sued for two month…
Lees meerCupertino commentators split over foldable fondleslab predictions When Apple soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo tweets, the tech world pays attention. This time he's predicting a folding iPad to hit the market next year, which means some accompanying bad news …
Lees meerCloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more – who knew? Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has released a report on its hard drive failure rates for 2022 which appears to verify that the age of a drive is a key metric for predicting…
Lees meer210,000+ people in IT now lost their job since start of 2022 NetApp is laying off roughly eight percent of its workforce following the downturn in customer spending, adding to the employment bonfire raging across the tech industry.…
Lees meerBeijing watching developments closely as death knell rings for company's foreign supply chain The US government is reportedly going to halt all Amercian technology export licenses to Huawei as the Biden administration inflicts a total ban on the sal…
Lees meerDiscounts coming to clear inventory as device makers hit by inflation, interest rates and conflict in Ukraine Businesses are likely to sweat device assets for longer this year as they spend conservatively in a weakening economy, and this along with …
Lees meerBet is to use UAV to plug not-spots in mobile coverage with 150Mbps across 15,000 square km BT is helping to test out antenna technology for a company planning to deliver 4G and 5G coverage from high-flying aircraft. The system is intended to provid…
Lees meerRecord income for foundry business offers sole bright spot Samsung Electronics has posted nasty Q4 results and suggested that premium products and a surging foundry business are its way out of a slump.…
Lees meerTurns out even MI5 has to comply with retention rules An independent tribunal has blasted British spy agency MI5 for "serious failings in compliance" and "unlawful" data collection of British subject dating back to 2014.…
Lees meerChips were just Epyc, but now they're the bomb and Intel's inside the tent too AMD will join Intel in supporting Sandia National Lab's efforts to develop novel memory tech for use in Department of Energy (DoE) nuclear weapons simulations.…
Lees meerMarket shifts from volume-driven to value-driven Worldwide mobile phone shipments continue to decline, but India and China, two of Asia's major economies, are bucking the trend when it comes to premium handsets.…
Lees meerEntity List proves to be a non-entity once Beijing's buyers get busy The Chinese agency responsible for developing and maintaining nuclear weapons has reportedly been powered by Intel and Nvidia silicon for at least two years, despite spending over …
Lees meerYou are the product A lawsuit claiming Meta ran tests that deliberately degraded performance of its apps in ways that ran down smartphone batteries has been withdrawn after the social network reminded the ex-staffer who brought the case that his con…
Lees meerAh, the 2020s, in which we fund public roads and schools with Dogecoin A state legislator in New York has introduced a law bill that would make it legal for state agencies to accept payment in cryptocurrency for taxes, fines and other "financial obl…
Lees meerEuropean Commission says findings about payments intended to prevent sales of rival products still stand Intel may still face a fine from the European Commission (EC) after the trade bloc's General Court annulled a historical antitrust verdict and i…
Lees meerCommand line not vetted using full qualification process, says Redmond. We think it involved chewing gum somewhere The global outage of Microsoft 365 services that last week prevented some users from accessing resources for more than half a working …
Lees meerGuy's and St Thomas' in London spent two months getting back on its feet after heatwave fried datacenter Last summer's datacenter outage at one of the UK's largest hospitals took two months to completely rectify because of the complexity associated …
Lees meerThankfully a veep with a sense of humor pulled the rug out Who, Me? Welcome once again dear readers to Who, Me? in which we recount the heroic (and sometimes less so) antics of Regizens in the workplace.…
Lees meerMAME adapted to bring your favorite TI and HP graphing machines back to life The Internet Archive has delivered a nostalgic treat in the form of a collection of 14 vintage emulated calculators, now available to play with online.…
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