Plus Australia launches an investigation into insurer's data privacy practices Australian health insurer Medibank's prognosis following an October data breach keeps getting worse as criminals dumped another batch of stolen customer data on the dark …
Lees meerBanishing memory safety bugs cuts critical vulnerabilities Google has been integrating code written in the Rust programming language into its Android operating system since 2019 and its efforts have paid off in the form of fewer vulnerabilities.…
Lees meerCritical infrastructure attacks ramping up The US government has issued an alert about Cuba; not the state but a ransomware gang that's taking millions in purloined profits.…
Lees meerWe need more free money from the government say silicon salesfolks America's top booster for federal semiconductor aid is arguing that the country needs to spend tens of billions more in silicon incentives to ensure it doesn't lose leadership in chi…
Lees meerSpend $500k and we'll double your money, but please ignore the trolls Twitter is reportedly trying to plug its drop in advertising revenues by concocting a series of inducements to convince some brands that have paused spending on the platform to re…
Lees meerSubject to conditions: offer only valid if you can get Starship off the ground The FCC has granted SpaceX permission to launch its Gen2 Starlink satellites, assuming it can adhere to a bevy of conditions, including ensuring Musk's expanded satellite…
Lees meer'We're going to have lower power, but it's going to cost more' says chipmaker's CTO Chipmaker AMD has hinted that new transistor technology will keep Moore's Law alive for the next six to eight years, but as one might guess, it will cost more.…
Lees meerBig Blue confirms DS8000 arrays, and various tape libraries and drives will all cost more IBM has announced it is to up the purchase price of a broad range of storage products from Jan 1, making a nice surprise to usher in the New Year for customers…
Lees meerYep. The very same JPEG-XL that's just been axed from Chromium A new application of machine learning looks both clever and handy, as opposed to the more normal properties of being somewhere between privacy-, copyright-, or life-endangering. But befo…
Lees meerMonths after CEO Benioff said return to office mandates don't work, a bunch told to come in three days a week, take half customer calls in-person Salesforce is calling some staff back to their corporate desk as it tries to counter slowing growth, de…
Lees meerChipmaker confirms 'voluntary time-off programs' part of push to reduce costs Chipmaker Intel is offering staff in Ireland the opportunity to take three months' leave from their jobs, with the catch being that it is unpaid. The move is part of cost …
Lees meerAs for Twitter, politicians need to grow thick skins and stop mistaking it for advertisement Former British prime minister BoJo has used one of his first speaking engagements since losing that job to appear at a blockchain conference in Singapore, w…
Lees meerLike fine wine, the longer it sits, the better it is A sophisticated and very patient threat group behind a global malvertising scheme is using so-called aged domains to skirt past cybersecurity tools and catch victims in investment scams.…
Lees meer'There is no evidence to suggest that TrustCor violated conduct, policy, or procedure' says biz Mozilla and Microsoft have taken action against a certificate authority accused of having close ties to a US military contractor that allegedly paid soft…
Lees meerRules haven't been decided yet but others are already kicking up a stink More than a dozen industry associations including the US Chamber of Commerce this week issued a joint statement warning the EU against adopting rules that would effectively exc…
Lees meerNo amount of resilience planning can defeat determined idiots whose devices are low on battery Welcome once more to On-Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed column that tells tales of IT pros being asked to fix things that should never have…
Lees meerInventor of the spanning tree protocol gets heretical about blockchain, crypto, and why the broken internet is a blessing in disguise Internet pioneer Radia Perlman has argued in favor of centralized infrastructure, while speaking at the Internation…
Lees meerTesting is your responsibility, not ours, says PCI-SIG Nvidia and other GPU makers have been urged to "ensure end user safety" by the consortium that created the specification for the 12VHPWR connector used in Nvidia's GeForce RTX 4090, which has be…
Lees meerA GreenLake future could reportedly be more cloudy Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) may have hyperconverged infrastructure vendor Nutanix on its wishlist this holiday season as the OEM reportedly weighs an acquisition bid.…
Lees meerRecord keeping rules might need a tweak to ensure content is preserved The United States Department of Justice is considering new guidelines for how businesses use messaging apps, so that they're not employed as a back channel to hide corrupt behavi…
Lees meerMicrosoft is literally turning them off and on again but has no clue what’s wrong Microsoft’s flagship cloudy productivity services are down across the Asia-Pacific region.…
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