Platform balks at April 1 deadline, tweaks wording instead Following an announcement last month that Twitter would be "winding down" its "legacy verified program" on April 1, those lucky enough to possess a coveted blue tick waited for the symbol to…
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Lees meerLesson we've learned from Ukraine Not all defense tech is bleeding-edge cyber — or kinetic — warfare tools. Sometimes the best defense is as boring as ... backups.…
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Lees meer'It's not unusual for VoIP apps' says CEO The CEO of VoiP software provider 3CX said his team tested its products in response to recent alerts notifying it of a supply chain attack, but assessed reports of a malware infestation were a false positive…
Lees meerPLUS Japanese PM grilled by ChatGPT; Singapore slams bank outage; WeChat adds paid tier; and more Asia In Brief The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday successfully flew and landed an autonomous reusable spaceplane.…
Lees meerOz upstart promised jira.domain.com, now offers something.jira.domain.com Atlassian customers' eleven-year quest for custom domains continues, with the Australian upstart's proposed solution failing to satisfy.…
Lees meerALSO: Synopsys releases AI tools for faster chip design, and Cerebras open sources family of language models In brief A Google engineer reportedly quit after warning CEO Sundar Pichai that the company was wrong to train its AI search chatbot Bard o…
Lees meerTo scupper scams, account-holders must hand over personal info or else Almost two million mobile phone subscribers in Vietnam are at risk of having their services severed, thanks to a new government policy that seeks to curb spam.…
Lees meerMicrosoft's cloudy pal 21Vianet upgrades to M365 China somehow, unbelievably, made it through the COVID-19 pandemic without a local version of Microsoft's Teams collaborationware app, but thankfully it won't have to face the next crisis similarly un…
Lees meerALSO: DJI forgets the 'B' in 'BCC,' and this week's critical known exploits In Brief The principal of a Florida science and technology charter school has resigned after allegedly writing a $100,000 check to an Elon Musk impersonator using school fu…
Lees meerPLUS Japanese PM grilled by ChatGPT; Singapore slams bank outage; WeChat adds paid tier; and more Asia In Brief The Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) on Sunday successfully flew and landed an autonomous reusable spaceplane.…
Lees meerMiscreants hit downstream customers with infostealers Two security firms have found what they believe to be a supply chain attack on communications software maker 3CX – and the vendor's boss is advising users to switch to the progressive web app unt…
Lees meerLatest rules stop short of naming you-know-who Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade, and Industry plans to enact export restrictions on 23 technologies used in the production of semiconductors.…
Lees meerLooking for leaky memory, and possibly revenge The Chinese government has opened an investigation into US memory vendor Micron citing national security risks.…
Lees meerIf the price looks too good to be true, it probably is Ukrainian cops have arrested two suspects and detained 10 others for their alleged roles in a cybercrime gang that used phishing scams and phony online marketplaces to steal more than $4.3 milli…
Lees meerManifest V2 will die another day Back in December, Google postponed its Chrome Extensions shakeup because the project was unfinished and beset by bugs, after a previous schedule setback three months earlier.…
Lees meerCEO on industry shifts that allow open source and smaller players to gain a footing Interview In December, MariaDB floated on the New York Stock Exchange via the special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) Angel Pond Holdings. With the move came $10…
Lees meerEarning that nickname all over again Capita, a major business and IT services provider that has scored multi-million-dollar contracts with several UK government agencies, confirmed some of its systems fell over today due to "an IT issue."…
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