Cashdollar - 'It’s not often we get this kind of story in security' Somewhere out there, a botnet operator is kicking themselves and probably hoping no one noticed the typo they transmitted in a command that crashed their whole operation. …
Lees meerShiny silicon plus Rusty drivers will eventually equal openly saucy happiness Arm-powered laptops and desktops are appearing on the market, but external appearances are deceptive. These are very different from familiar x86-based PCs, as the accounts…
Lees meerA particle physicist, an astronomer and a cosmologist meet in a bar. You what, COSMA8? The James Webb Space Telescope has served up impressive views of the cosmos since the first images were revealed back in July, but it is also providing data to ot…
Lees meer'Acute and justifiable fear' in the way patient data is set to be processed, campaigners warn An NHS pilot to upload patient data in a data analytics system based on tech from Palantir is the subject of a legal threat from campaign groups who claim …
Lees meerTechnically and leadership-wise what site needs is stability Opinion It's a toss-up between Elon Musk's management misadventures and Twitter's technical troubles as to which will cause the most damage. …
Lees meerNow that's what we call Intel Inside If you think you can fool customs officials into believing you are pregnant and not, in fact, smuggling hundreds of Intel processors and iPhones in a prosthetic strapped to your belly, think again.…
Lees meer5,000 redirectable beams in each bird Boeing has delivered a pair of O3b mPOWER satellites to telecom network provider SES – and had a dig at rival space broadband technologies along the way.…
Lees meerSupreme Court won’t revisit case after agreeing conflict of interest trumped tech Cisco has managed to avoid a $2-plus billion payment for patent infringement on a technicality hat has nothing to do with the patents.…
Lees meerAdd a busted tech platform to the list of the company's sins FTX's Japanese outpost has teased good news for investors in the collapsed and disgraced trading platform – then dashed their hopes.…
Lees meerGood luck with that, Zuck – remember how it worked out in Australia? Meta, the social media conglomerate formerly known as Facebook, has threatened to remove news from its platforms if the US adopts a law that would force it to negotiate with publis…
Lees meer'Shake to jump' technique nixed a year after top apps put it to work China's Telecommunication Terminal Industry Forum Association (TAF) has issued a raft of new regulations – including one that sets rules for when motion sensors can trigger smartph…
Lees meerExposed to 'droids? Symptoms may include disinterest, unemployment, lower pay, along with a bit of depopulation Exposure to industrial robots in the workplace leads to less participation in the labor force, less employment, and less pay, according t…
Lees meerSystem is optional, for the moment America's Transport Security Administration, better known as the TSA, has been testing facial recognition software to automatically screen passengers flying across the country in 16 airports. And now it's looking i…
Lees meerWe're not talking princes here Four men suspected of plotting to commit wire fraud and identity theft have been arrested and now face extradition to America.…
Lees meerContributors will have to disclose whether their work was made using AI, and are not allowed rip off artists Adobe will sell AI-generated images on its stock image platform, despite concerns the technology raises potential copyright issues, the comp…
Lees meerYou don't have to be a coder to cut off the juice when blunt tools are around Officials in Moore County, North Carolina, declared a state of emergency on Sunday after gunfire damaged an electrical substation and left 45,000 homes and businesses with…
Lees meerOEMs including Samsung, LG and Mediatek named and shamed Compromised Android platform certificate keys from device makers including Samsung, LG and Mediatek are being used to sign malware and deploy spyware, among other software nasties.…
Lees meerHigh error rates mean thousands of AI answers need checking by humans OpenAI's question-answering bot, ChatGPT, isn't smart enough for the team at Stack Overflow, who today announced a temporary ban on answers generated by the AI bot because of how …
Lees meerRecord income? Tick. CHIPS Act subsidies coming? Tick. Yet chipmaker tries to make Wall Stret happier still US contract chipmaker GlobalFoundries plans to lay off as many as 800 employees, proving that job security is not a foregone conclusion for a…
Lees meerSocio-economic disparities between who benefits from new plants still remain, say MIT researchers The health benefits of replacing fossil fuel-burning power plants with wind energy are quantifiable, says the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, bu…
Lees meerIf you like the flavor of Cinnamon, good news: you'll get a new version The first beta version of Mint 21.1 is now available for download, and the flagship Cinnamon desktop edition contains the biggest change, with a new version of the desktop.…
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