Up 188% on 2020 but could be because financial institutions were encouraged to report incidents Banks in the US paid out nearly $1.2 billion in 2021 as a result of ransomware attacks, a marked rise over the year before though it may simply be due to…
Lees meerStatcounter says Number 10 is still Number 1 in the Windows world Much of the Windows world has yet to adopt Microsoft's latest desktop operating system more than a year after it launched, according to figures for October collated by Statcounter.…
Lees meerHere's hoping it doesn't come with factory-installed rattling for added authenticity What is a Porsche fan to do when sitting on the couch, separated from their beloved ride by the confining walls of home, unable to gaze upon the beauty of the vehic…
Lees meerYou're paying too much for too much, and the providers know it Comment Much of the IT community has been willing to tolerate – even encourage – magical thinking about cloud, and plenty of us believed.…
Lees meerNefarious schemes included harvesting motherboard components and selling them back to Apple A one-time Apple employee working as a buyer within the iGiant's supply chain department has pleaded guilty to mail and wire fraud charges spanning multiple …
Lees meerAs with the Destroy Huawei manual, US to pressure other countries to devise semiconductor sanctions The US is trying to persuade allies to limit China's access to advanced semiconductor technologies, in a replay of its previous heavy-handed tactics …
Lees meerPining for Windows XP? Update to the last major release can do that Zorin OS 16.2 is a friendlier and more feature-rich distro than its parent Ubuntu 20.04, with a lot of updates and bundled apps.…
Lees meerMuch-loved but outdated hardware could be consigned to tech history UK communications regulator Ofcom is consulting on whether it should end the requirement for telecommunications companies to support the services necessary to send faxes.…
Lees meerJury still out on whether any kind of metaverse is strictly necessary Researchers at MIT and the IBM Watson AI Lab have created a machine learning model to predict what a listener would hear in a variety of locations within a 3D space.…
Lees meerDevice sales hit the floor as vendors look to Windows PCs Huawei was the only major tablet maker to grow shipments in Q3 on the back of demand in China and Russia as the rest of the top five manufacturers reported shrinking sales to retailers and di…
Lees meerThink I got some dust in my eye The Mars InSight lander is preparing to drift off to an eternal slumber beneath a blanket of solar-panel-obscuring Martian dust, as its power is set to run out within the next few weeks. …
Lees meerBeijing nose best, wants VR to work in sport, tourism. industrial sims, at 8K with 60fps China's government has published a plan for the nation's virtual reality industry and included a suggestion to promote research in "odor simulation" – suggestin…
Lees meerSurely only a blockhead would pay these prices? Blockheads with $3,000 burning a hole in their pockets and a desire for a new coat can now blow their dough on a Minecraft-themed garment from high-end fashion brand Burberry.…
Lees meerDeal could 'upend the entire cyber-insurance ecosystem and make it almost impossible to get meaningful cyber coverage' Mondelez International has settled its lawsuit against Zurich American Insurance Company, which it brought because the insurer ref…
Lees meerIt's not how many qubits you've got, it's how you use them What happens when you plug what's said to be a quantum computer into Europe’s most powerful supercomputer? That’s just what researchers at Finland's government-sponsored technical research i…
Lees meerFaster than the others, 600m structures now in a public DB AI researchers at Meta say they have developed the largest protein-folding model of its kind to date, and that it is capable of predicting the structure of more than 600 million proteins.…
Lees meerDon't the factory workers of China know that the season of huge shopping sprees starts next week? One of the plants at which Taiwanese contract manufacturer Foxconn makes Apple's iPhone is experiencing an outbreak of COVID-19, potentially imperillin…
Lees meerAlso testing digital cash tied to specific purposes – like only letting kids spend allowances on school supplies Singapore aims to eliminate the use of checks, beginning with corporate checks, by the year 2025. The phase-out was announced by the cit…
Lees meer$276 million in fines will do that to a monopolist India’s Competition Commission last week fined Google a combined $276 million for monopolistic practices in the markets for app stores and mobile operating systems, and called for the company to ope…
Lees meerTotally not about trying to keep customers in the ecosystem. Okay, maybe a lot about that VMware says it will help pay for your enterprise to move workloads to the cloud.…
Lees meerPC chip slump forces break-even non-profit impression for a few months AMD's PC chip revenue have taken a major hit, but the Ryzen designer still managed to grow sales in the double digits in the third quarter of this year, thanks in good part to co…
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