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Lees meerBut investors aren't impressed by losses and unpleasant outlook Atlassian sees the current round of layoffs and hiring freezes across the tech industry as an opportunity on which it hopes to capitalise – even as its own share price slumps.…
Lees meerSmooth 'OPERA1ER' hit orgs around the world over four or more years A French-speaking criminal group codenamed OPERA1ER has pulled off more than 30 cyber-heists against telecom organizations and banks across Africa, Asia, and Latin America, stealing…
Lees meerA weighty lens, placed off-centre on a lightweight smartphone – what could possibly go wrong? Chinese smartphone darling has shown off a phone with a full camera lens bolted to its back – which looks very dorky, but thankfully is only a concept devi…
Lees meerExecs say enterprise hardware biz is flying – don't mention the sub-one-percent profit In February 2022 Lenovo shared a slightly special number: $17 million. That's the first profit made by its Infrastructure Solutions Group (ISG) since its predeces…
Lees meerEmail to your personal account is bad news, email to your work account means you still work at Twitter Twitter owner, sole director and – according to his Twitter profile, now also "Twitter Complaint Hotline Operator" – has reportedly informed compa…
Lees meerSanctions? What sanctions? Just look at the low, low, power consumption figures Alibaba Cloud has revealed that it plans to power 20 percent of its operations with its own homebrew CPUs by 2025.…
Lees meerMonetary authority presses ahead with Ubin+ cross-border CBDC trial anyway While central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) are often advanced as a way to improve the world's creaking cross-border payments infrastructure, some financial experts believe…
Lees meerAfter two previous failures, will third time be the charm? NASA will roll its Space Launch System back out to the launchpad at the Kennedy Space Center on Friday to prepare for a third attempt to put its most powerful rocket yet into the sky on Nove…
Lees meerThis is the chiplet-based RNDA 3 GPU fans have been waiting for AMD has come out swinging at Nvidia with new flagship Radeon graphics cards that are cheaper than its rival's fresh GeForce RTX products.…
Lees meerOverwhelmed by waves of push notifications, worn-down users inadvertently let the bad guys in Analysis The September cyberattack on ride-hailing service Uber began when a criminal bought the stolen credentials of a company contractor on the dark we…
Lees meerWhile Elon may just dump half of Twitter and scrap work-from-home Citing the likelihood of recession and increases in rideshare insurance costs, Lyft is laying off 13 percent of its workforce, with no team left unaffected.…
Lees meerAlso one of the first distros we've seen with Kernel 6.0 Nitrux OS is one of the most stylish and innovative distros we've seen so far: systemd-free, based on AppImages, and with a very unusual desktop.…
Lees meerHow to turn a classic infrastructure biz into something fit for the cloud era Shapeshifting infrastructure services biz Kyndryl can't plug its revenue leak but cutting costs did cut losses in half.…
Lees meerThe decision comes as the e-commerce giant stuggles with soaring energy prices and cash-strapped customers Amazon is freezing hiring of new corporate positions across the company for the rest of 2022 amid worsening economic conditions.…
Lees meerBut old 'go nuts, show nuts' attitude is dead for good Tumblr has reversed course on its 2018 nudity ban, welcoming some – but not all – adult content creators back to the platform after a four-year hiatus.…
Lees meerCommitments include international wallet info sharing, KYC requirements, and an AML crackdown The White House's second International Counter Ransomware Initiative summit has concluded, and this year the 36-nation group has made clear it intends to c…
Lees meerPublic will be able to test each system as part of development process The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has conditionally approved 13 proposed automated frequency coordination (AFC) systems to manage spectrum access for unlicensed devi…
Lees meerAcquisition of Ukrainian startup to help broaden appeal beyond popular cache Database provider Redis has acquired RESP.app, a popular developer tool used to ease developer experience on the popular key-value database.…
Lees meerBut overall profits are up thanks to cost cutting and success in other divisions Lenovo revenues have declined for the first time in 10 quarters due to a steep fall in demand for PCs and tablets, but profits rose due to cost-cutting measures and gro…
Lees meerNational telecom giant admits strike action is impacting customer broadband connections BT Group is looking to eke out higher savings amid rising inflation in the relentless pursuit of improved profits.…
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