Microsoft blames Russian Clop ransomware crew for theft of staff info British Airways, the BBC, and UK pharmacy chain Boots are among the companies whose data has been compromised after miscreants exploited a critical vulnerability in deployments of…
Lees meerCorporate watchdog fouled its info-separation regime, let the wrong people read sensitive docs The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has dismissed proceedings against 42 companies and individuals after admitting that its enforcement staff …
Lees meerLegal prof warns: 'This case is like a wrecking ball for internet law' The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals last week ruled that Enigma Software Group can pursue its long standing complaint against rival security firm Malwarebytes for classifying i…
Lees meerBYODALAINGTI (as long as it's not got TikTok installed) The US federal government's ban on TikTok has been extended to include devices used by its many contractors - even those that are privately owned. The bottom line: if some electronics are used …
Lees meerPocket change, in other words Microsoft is being fined $20 million by the US Federal Trade Commission for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by illegally gathering kids' personal information and retaining it without paren…
Lees meeriGiant's turn to roll the dice on VR next year after Facebook, Microsoft, Google blow billions on the unloved tech WWDC For its annual Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple today teased an augmented-reality headset called Vision Pro, its second-ma…
Lees meerPocket change, in other words Microsoft is being fined $20 million by the US Federal Trade Commission for violating the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) by illegally gathering kids' personal information and retaining it without paren…
Lees meerResearchers find 100,000 accounts spamming child abuse material Twitter failed to take down numerous images of child sexual abuse material posted on its platform over two months, researchers at the Stanford Internet Observatory will allege in an upc…
Lees meerCrooks steal Social Security numbers and post them on dark web, victims blame holes in Mercer's security An American university founded in 1833 is facing a bunch of class action lawsuits after the personal data of nearly 100,000 people was stolen fr…
Lees meerThe doctor, and their steno-bot, will see you now. Then see another patient quickly because they don't have to stop and scrawl notes US healthcare chain Carbon Health has introduced an AI tool to generate medical records automatically, based on conv…
Lees meerStop us if you've heard this one before Cisco is again talking up a strategy to unify its diverse network management tools into a "Cisco Networking Cloud" within three to five years.…
Lees meerMost distant smoke and smog discovery could help explain star formation in the early universe Using data from the James Webb Space Telescope, an international group of astronomers have discovered smog and smoke molecules indicative of early star for…
Lees meerOverseas subsidiaries unaffected, sale still on the table Global datacenter operator Cyxtera has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in the US, saying it aims to use this to restructure and put the company back on a more sound financial footi…
Lees meerNext time you mess up a spreadsheet, take heart that you didn't destroy someone's political hopes and dreams To Austria now, where the Social Democratic Party (SPÖ) has shown that Excel blunders can have severely career-limiting effects.…
Lees meerWindows titan blames technical problems while hacktivists claim it woz them wot did it Updated Microsoft's cloudy productivity services are having an up-and-down day, with two outages making life miserable for users.…
Lees meerChanges are happening in Fedora and openSUSE immutable distros, too Initially leaked in a forum comment, it has been confirmed in a blog post: Canonical will soon snappily jump aboard the immutable distro bandwagon.…
Lees meerFabs still need to be built, process tech needs to be proven – and Pat's gotta make it price competitive Analysis Ever since CEO Pat Gelsinger announced Intel was opening its fabs to contract manufacturing, the question has been: for whom?…
Lees meerMany people die in car crashes but we don’t outlaw cars, so bad AI might be OK, says Microsoft Asia president Singapore's ATxSG conference has opened with a feisty encounter in which Microsoft's president for Asia argued that bad AI's worst effects …
Lees meerCustomers either face update cliff edge or loss of access in licensing shift Intuit, purveyors of small business accounting software, has infuriated some customers after committing to turning off access to on-prem licensed desktop software or ending…
Lees meer'This is certainly the biggest change we've made since the campaign to remove SMB1' Microsoft is getting closer to requiring cryptographic signing of SMB traffic by default for all connections on Windows 11 at least.…
Lees meerPromoted bundled monitors are bargains, but actually sold them for above regular prices Dell’s Australian arm will refund or compensate over 4,250 of its Australian customers, after offering them dud discounts for displays.…
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