Judge tells tale of two men, their lawyer, and a 'willful campaign... to mislead the court' A New York judge has issued a default judgment against two Russian nationals who are alleged to have helped create the "Glupteba" botnet, sold fraudulent cre…
Lees meerNightly and Developer Edition Firefox users will be able to test the new cruelty Mozilla plans to add support for Manifest v3 browser extensions to its online store – addons.mozilla.org – so developers can have them cryptographically signed for dist…
Lees meerProfit down in latest quarter but forecast for 2023 raised Cisco is forging ahead with restructuring that involves cutting jobs, moving headcount to priority divisions and consolidating real estate, despite raising its revenue forecast for the curre…
Lees meerMing-Chi Kuo is prognosticating again Ming-Chi Kuo, the analyst with the uncanny ability to predict all things Apple, has said that while the iPhone 15 will ditch its Lightning ports for USB-C next year, only the two high-end models, the Pro and Pro…
Lees meerFormer BigQuery tech lead tells Reg about data-warehouse-on-your-laptop DuckDB Interview In analytical database systems, the story of the last ten years or more has been about building out. Only databases distributed over multiple nodes could cope …
Lees meerMove over, Mastodon – bungling UK politician's platform finds thousands of new users amid Elon Musk chaos Cast your minds back to the Before Times and you may recall that Matt Hancock was not the UK's disgraced health secretary, but head of the Depa…
Lees meerAnd it's been sending out hundreds of thousands of malicious emails a day The Emotet malware-delivery botnet is back after a short hiatus, quickly ramping up the number of malicious emails it's sending and sporting additional capabilities, including…
Lees meerScientists have long been unsure of the 'when' of planetary formation – but that question may have been answered Astronomers have long known how planets form, but the when of it has always been unclear. If a Cambridge University team's conclusion fr…
Lees meerFrustrate enough users and your product will fall. Hint, hint, Elon Note-taking app Evernote, once a darling of busy tech aficionados, announced the end of its 14-year run as an independent company today with its sale to Italian mobile app company B…
Lees meerDistributed ledger design slowed transactions, smart contracts were not so smart The Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) has paused its multi-year effort to replace its core trading systems with a blockchain-powered platform, written off up to AU$2…
Lees meerSnapdragon giant flips off Softbank, promises processors within next two years Qualcomm intends to ship processors within the next two years using custom Arm-compatible CPU cores designed in house by its acquired Nuvia team.…
Lees meerCEO says new RTX 4090 cards off to a 'great start' despite melting cable issues Remember when we said a growing supply of graphics cards was worrisome because it portended a weakening economy and not just declining interest in crypto-mining?…
Lees meerDRAM and NAND wafer production cut 20% Micron Technology is making deeper production cuts for 2023 over concerns that the economy is getting worse, continuing a significant reversal from the high demand that made chip shortages the norm during the f…
Lees meerIt's the gift to cybercriminals that keeps on giving Iranian state-sponsored cyber criminals used an unpatched Log4j flaw to break into a US government network, illegally mine for cryptocurrency, steal credentials and change passwords, and then snoo…
Lees meerCascade Lake and Skylake prove even more expensive than expected VLSI Technology, a patent holding company affiliated with Softbank's Fortress Investment Group, has been awarded $948.8 million in a patent infringement claim against Intel Corporation…
Lees meerNorway, France also sound data privacy alarms World Cup apps from the Qatari government collect more personal information than they need to, according to Germany's data protection agency, which this week warned football fans to only install the two …
Lees meerLinux Foundation presents IT and help to key volunteers – and some wonder if this is a deal with the Devil Special report The free and open source software (FOSS) community is caught in a love triangle of sorts, and it's all down to money.…
Lees meerInfo-stealing trojan is hidden in malicious PyPI packages on GitHub WASP malware is using steganography and polymorphism to evade detection with malicious Python packages designed to steal credentials, personal information, and cryptocurrency.…
Lees meerNot a great look for the electric car company as drivers urged to remain alert Tesla's automated driver assistance system (ADAS) is coming under fire again, with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration reporting two new fatal Tesla accide…
Lees meerDrawing a line under the share swap drama of 2018, or trying to... Dell has agreed to pay shareholders $1 billion to settle claims it didn't give them the full picture when using their allegedly undervalued shares to finance the $67 billion purchase…
Lees meerIf antitrust regulators aren't happy, the deal won't go through Broadcom has begun the process of getting European Union approval for its proposed $61 billion takeover of cloud and virtualization biz VMware, which the company hopes to close within i…
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