Just in time to ensure nobody can disagree that giving Xi five more years as president is the best idea ever China appears to have upgraded its Great Firewall, the instrument of pervasive real-time censorship it uses to ensure that ideas its governm…
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Lees meerAnd note to his crime pals – he said he would sing like a canary An ex-Canadian government worker who extorted tens of millions of dollars from organizations worldwide using the NetWalker ransomware has been sent down for 20 years.…
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Lees meerTell us it’s Russia without telling us it’s Russia Spies for months hid inside a US military contractor's enterprise network and stole sensitive data, according to a joint alert from the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agen…
Lees meerOh the hijinks of academia Researchers gave a laser beam machine vision and trained it to hunt cockroaches.…
Lees meerAdaptable Linux Platform v0.01 shows that the future of SLE is containerized As we reported back in July, the future direction of SUSE Linux Enterprise is starting to take shape, and it's containers all the way down.…
Lees meerCloud expansion comes a week before software giant's show Microsoft is looking for a share of the financial services industry's wallets, talking up new features and a "compliance" program for its industry cloud in the run-up to next week's Ignite 20…
Lees meerWell, yeah, when the batteries and power supplies can handle it, too Experimental tech designed to cool NASA equipment in space has an Earth-bound use as well: slashing electric vehicle charging times to five minutes or less.…
Lees meerNew language will be official, probably within a couple of months The first big change for the forthcoming Linux kernel 6.1 is in… and it's a big one.…
Lees meerNeat algorithmic trick squeezing into 256KB of RAM, barely enough for inference let alone training Researchers claim to have developed techniques to enable the training of a machine learning model using less than a quarter of a megabyte of memory, m…
Lees meerCloud and equipment vendors also keen to escape Arm's licensing boot Analysis Arm might not think RISC-V is a threat to its newfound foothold in the datacenter, but growing pressure on Chinese chipmaking could ultimately change that, Forrester Rese…
Lees meerNo formal offer yet received, Baring Private Equity Asia linked with ailing IT services house BPO and IT services multi-national DXC Technology has confirmed it is in contact with a "financial sponsor" that is interested in buying the business, amid…
Lees meerMemory maker says plant will help to boost memory production in America Micron has committed to a $100 billion memory chip fabrication plant in New York State, just days after saying it was cutting back on investment because of weakening demand in t…
Lees meerNottinghamshire picked by British minister famed for top hats and love of imperial measures UK business secretary Jacob Rees-Mogg has proposed building the UK’s first nuclear fusion power plant in a center of industrial decline.…
Lees meerPatiently gathers data that can be used to identify the victims, says Kaspersky Cybersecurity biz Kaspersky has spotted a modified version of the Tor Browser it says collects sensitive data on Chinese users.…
Lees meerAnd it's not the only venerable window manager still in development A new version of a quarter-century-old window manager shows that there's still room for improvement and innovation, even in established, mature tools.…
Lees meerScientists believe moth larvae saliva can oxidize, degrade polyethylene The caterpillar larvae of the wax moth produce saliva with enzymes capable of oxidizing and degrading polyethylene, offering a potential solution to the plastic pollution challe…
Lees meerAnyone remember SoftBank's pledge to double headcount in Britain? Arm has reportedly chopped around 20 percent of its headcount in the UK, unpicking some of the recruitment commitments parent SoftBank made to the government when it bought the chip d…
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