Feds propose $7.8M payment and ban on revealing 'sensitive' data to settle complaint Even if you don't know anyone who has used BetterHelp's services, podcast fans will recognize it from its annoying adverts for its online therapists. American regul…
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Lees meerRobot adventurers drop mesh network 'breadcrumbs' to stay connected To explore the subterranean lava tubes and caverns of the Moon or Mars we ought to consider the lessons learned by Hansel and Gretel, boffins have suggested, albeit with mesh networ…
Lees meerCrime-as-a-service vendors mix and match components as needed by client A malicious package discovered in the Python Package Index (PyPI) is the latest example of what threat hunters from Kroll called the continued "democratization of cybercrime," w…
Lees meerSomething something £100M cost savings, something something staying competitive Exclusive BT is launching a voluntary redundancy program for the merging Enterprise and Global divisions – something of an inevitability since the £100 million cost-cut…
Lees meerJust-revealed US cybersecurity strategy 'has fangs' for catching crafty criminals and crummy coders Analysis Technology providers can expect more regulations, while cyber criminals can look for US law enforcement to step up their efforts to disrupt…
Lees meerIf you're using ExplorerPatcher or StartAllBack, this is why your computer won't start The massive update to Windows 11 rolled out this week is proving to be a headache for users who are running some third-party UI customization applications on thei…
Lees meerBeware, it only has 3GB free and may go up to – yikes! – $23 A Chinese vendor is offering a pocket calculator that runs a full copy of Android 9 – complete with Wi-Fi. It costs ¥69, about 10 bucks.…
Lees meerJust-revealed US cybersecurity strategy 'has fangs' for catching crafty criminals and crummy coders Analysis Technology providers can expect more regulations, while cyber criminals can look for US law enforcement to step up their efforts to disrupt…
Lees meerVid-chat-biz ditches Greg Tomb as head-rolling continues Pandemic work communications darling Zoom has unceremoniously axed the president it hired less than a year ago "without cause," the company has confirmed in a regulatory filing.…
Lees meerServer sector still challenging and storage sales cycles lengthening again There’s some life in the enterprise datacenter industry judging by the financials reported by Dell and Hewlett Packard Enterprise, the problem for Dell is that its group grow…
Lees meerForeign-owned chip business gets even less British, no dual listing for now Arm has confirmed its shares will be listed only in New York following its initial public offering (IPO), dashing hopes of the UK government and others - for now at least - …
Lees meerIndustry hasn't 'improved much at all' SCSW Back in 2020, Eric Scales led the incident response team investigating a nation-state hack that compromised his company's servers along with those at federal agencies and tech giants including Microsoft a…
Lees meerProposal to break encryption to scan messages for abuse material challenged as illegal and unworkable Europe's proposed "Chat Control" legislation to automatically scan chat, email, and instant message communications for child sexual exploitation ma…
Lees meerSomething something £100M cost savings, something something staying competitive Exclusive BT is launching a voluntary redundancy program for the merging Enterprise and Global divisions – something of an inevitability since the £100 million cost-cut…
Lees meerMaybe he shouldn’t have built a naughtily-named website where users could get the fix? On Call Welcome, dear reader, to yet another instalment of On-Call, The Register's weekly column featuring readers' tales of being asked to show up and save the …
Lees meerProbe shows that – to absolutely no-one's surprise – big biz isn't playing ball Websites often provide visitors with the opportunity to opt out of data collection. This is not out of their abundant concern for your privacy – it's the law and they're…
Lees meer977 EliteBook x360 830 G6 Notebooks makes one Enrique Lores PC and print biz HP paid its CEO more than $20 million in the corporation's fiscal 2022 calendar – a 12 month period when revenue dipped and profit plunged in the face of weakening economie…
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Lees meerUS comes in second, rest of the world is a distant third in fields from biotech to batteries Think tank the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI) has published an update to its Critical Technology Tracker, and asserted that China has taken th…
Lees meer$206 million for breaching 2019 settlement – and DoJ warns it won't be afraid to do this again The US Department of Justice has slapped Ericsson with a $206 million fine for breaching terms of the deferred prosecution deal it struck in 2019 when the…
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