The coolant-deprived vessel that got them there will return to Earth alone Russian space agency Roscosmos has decided to send another Soyuz capsule to the International Space Station to rescue crew stranded by a coolant leak in their return ride. …
Lees meerNot transparent, not specific, and too easy to say yes to Google users don't have enough choice over whether – and to what extent – they agree to "far-reaching processing of their data across services," Germany's competition regulator says, adding t…
Lees meerAnything to avoid interacting with Elon Musk We must have all heard about "emotional support animals" by now – pets that provide comfort to people with psychiatric disabilities. They're also used as an excuse to try to take peacocks and more recentl…
Lees meerThousands of flights cancelled, but the agency said things should be up and running soon The US Federal Aviation Administration ordered airlines to "pause all domestic departures" this morning as it tries to deal with an outage in a critical compute…
Lees meerReferences to Palantir use cases, 'unique tools' litter the tender docs as critics mull legal action NHS England has kicked off the formal competition for its Federated Data Platform, giving suppliers just one month to bid for the increased contract…
Lees meerVendors lower prices to stimulate demand but inflation, fears of recession trump discounts Global PC shipments – desktops, notebooks and workstations – saw out 2022 with something of a whimper as sales volumes crashed to levels last seen before the …
Lees meerPart of a settlement with US Department of Justice after ads discrimination case Meta is rolling out a more open-minded AI-powered system that promises to reduce discrimination after it was sued by the Department of Justice for preventing Facebook u…
Lees meerOpen source reimplementation could be even better than the original in its prime Haiku is an open source OS with a few differences. The big one is that it's not a Unix. The next is that it's pretty close to being a realistic, usable alternative OS f…
Lees meerResearchers see pandemic boom in computer-related tech spend England's public spending on information technology has at least doubled, to reach £17.3 billion ($21 billion) over the last five years, according to research.…
Lees meerComplex software packages need ever gruntier specs... and Koomey’s Law awaits Comment A few months back, I wrote that buying software is a big lie. All lies have consequences, of course. The worst kind of consequences are the ones you didn't see co…
Lees meerAt least the penknives are still secure A supposedly secure messaging app preferred by the Swiss government and army was infested with bugs – possibly for a long time – before an audit by ETH Zurich researchers.…
Lees meerInternational Monetary Fund report suggests 'diffusion' - a kind of tech trickle-down - might sort things out Asia is the biggest user of industrial robots, its residents account for nearly 60 percent of the world's online retail sales, and the regi…
Lees meerWants around $10 a month for stuff you get free today, plus plenty more new features Microsoft has revealed that a Premium cut of its Teams cloudy collaborationware suite will debut in early February, and some features that are currently included in…
Lees meerFuture is cloudy at the Cloud Software Group After months of speculation, job cuts appear to have commenced at the Cloud Software Group (CSG) – the company formed by the odd couple merger of Citrix and Tibco.…
Lees meerZurich’s Japanese outpost also leaks a couple of million records Global insurer Aflac's Japanese branch has revealed that personal data describing more than three million customers of its cancer insurance product has been leaked online.…
Lees meerCall metadata can be ferreted out Boffins based in China and the UK have devised a telecom network attack that can expose call metadata during VoLTE/VoNR conversations.…
Lees meerPlus Intel, Adobe, SAP and Android bugs Patch Tuesday Microsoft fixed 98 security flaws in its first Patch Tuesday of 2023 including one that's already been exploited and another listed as publicly known. Of the new January vulnerabilities, 11 are …
Lees meerUnions claims management is the flying company into a 'graveyard spiral' In the wake of a Christmas meltdown that saw it cancel some 16,700 flights, one would expect heads to roll at Southwest Airlines, but that's not the case: Instead, several of t…
Lees meerBoffins find Twitter foreign influence campaign didn't have much pull Russian disinformation didn't materially affect the way people voted in the 2016 US presidential election, according to a research study published on Monday, though that doesn't m…
Lees meerCould ChatGPT be Google's nemesis? Microsoft is reportedly considering investing $10 billion into OpenAI as it looks towards integrating ChatGPT into its web search engine Bing and Office products.…
Lees meerClimate change, drugs and immigration behind chip supply on White House priority list The US, Mexico, and Canada have renewed talks on semiconductor manufacturing supply chains during the North American Leaders Summit (NALS) in Mexico City which kic…
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