Instead of a week of profits, mere days of net income for Cook The record-setting €1.1 billion fine levied against Apple by French authorities has been cut by two-thirds to just €372 million ($363 million) – an even more paltry sum for the world's f…
Lees meerProbe takes highest resolution surface shot yet while citizen scientists get busy with their coloring pencils NASA's Juno probe had a close encounter with the Jovian moon Europa on September 29 and this week the space agency released the highest res…
Lees meer… Including virtual machines as well as physical ones Friday Freeware Fest Elmar Hanlhofer's Plop Boot Managers are a small family of tiny tools to enable booting from media that a computer can't usually boot from.…
Lees meerNew hardware? Consultants? You tell us because your infosec is off the grid The US Department of Energy has proposed regulations to financially reward cybersecurity modernization at power plants by offering rate deals for everything from buying new …
Lees meerIsn't it ironic: Potentially helping its former customers to ditch big iron Microsoft and Kyndryl have unveiled a new aspect of their global strategic partnership with plans to help enterprise customers make better use of data held on mainframe syst…
Lees meerUbiquitous database language support continued through third-party tool, users told Fivetran, the automated data integration company once valued at $5.6 billion, has received a volley of criticism for ending direct support for ubiquitous data langua…
Lees meerMade in Taiwan: Only TSMC seems to be dodging the downturn The bad news from the semiconductor industry continues as more chip companies report falling demand, with only TSMC bucking the trend and delivering higher than expected earnings for the qua…
Lees meerThe multibillion dollar question: Will it make in-flight Wi-Fi on planes more expensive? Global satellite maker Viasat's proposed $7.3 billion purchase of rival Inmarsat is being held up because Britain's competition regulator is worried about the d…
Lees meerThe Great Unresignation as inflation forces hords of retirees back into work A sustained upswing in the cost of living is forcing hundreds of thousands of retirees across Britain to reconsider a return to the workplace.…
Lees meerThey probably shouldn't be connected in the first place, says database expert Only a third of PostgreSQL databases connected to the internet use SSL for encrypted messaging, according to a cloud database provider.…
Lees meerBut we can say what this upcoming protocol is good for Systems Approach Some might say there's a possibility QUIC will start to replace TCP. This week I want to argue that QUIC is actually solving a different problem than that solved by TCP, and so…
Lees meerThey can't be any worse than some human developers Machine-learning models that power next-gen code-completion tools like GitHub Copilot can help software developers write more functional code, without making it less secure.…
Lees meerWhat’s worse than absurd support requests at work? Ridiculous requests at home, that’s what On Call As another working week ebbs away into history, dispel any thoughts that your efforts have made no mark in history by wallowing in other readers’ mi…
Lees meerKieren's here to chew gum and kick some Nominet ass. And he's all out of gum Former Register journo Kieren McCarthy was this week elected to the board of Nominet, the domain registry in charge of the .uk name space.…
Lees meerMicrosoft has four entries on list of shame, Log4j tops the chart Three US national security agencies - CISA, the FBI and the NSA - on Thursday issued a joint advisory naming the 20 infosec exploited by state-sponsored Chinese threat actors since 20…
Lees meerMeanwhile in China, Alibaba runs 500 delivery-bots and they’ve delivered 10 million items to Easy Street E-commerce behemoth Amazon.com has stopped work on its “Scout” parcel delivery robots.…
Lees meerQ3 sales still set to be up overall, Ryzen biz says in FYI to Wall St AMD has warned investors its guidance for quarterly revenue was out by $1.1 billion.…
Lees meerTwo Americans, a Japanese bloke and a Russian float into a lab. The bartender says... SpaceX has dropped off another four astronauts at the International Space Station, their Dragon capsule successfully docking just now with the orbiting lab.…
Lees meerIs it Putin? Is it the Norks? Is it a bored teenager? Roll the dice Lloyd's of London has reset its IT systems and is probing a possible cyberattack against it after detecting worrisome network behavior this week.…
Lees meerMaybe finally a good use for DRM, eh? Preventing armed modifications Boston Dynamics and five other robot makers have promised in an open letter they won't allow their machines to be weaponized by either themselves or their customers. …
Lees meerAmbulances diverted, patient records frozen, rhymes with handsome wear America's second-largest nonprofit healthcare org is suffering a security "issue" that has diverted ambulances and shut down electronic records systems at hospitals around the co…
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