Isn't software something worth paying for? Well, frankly, no At the heart of the computer industry are some very big lies, and some of them are especially iniquitous. One is about commercial software.…
Lees meerAnnexed Donetsk? No more consultants for you then Fresh export sanctions were leveled at Russia by the UK last week, with IT consultancy among other professional services that are banned.…
Lees meerWelsh, on the other hand, there's no tech that can help with that Boffins at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) in the US are working with the usual internet super-corps to, ideally, improve AI voice recognition for people with disab…
Lees meerThey’re on track for a whopping three percent in 2026 – well out of the mainstream, but growing faster Cross “optimise site and/or app for folding smartphones” off your to-do list: analyst firm IDC says they’re not going to be mainstream devices by …
Lees meerData theft stinks, says victim. Alleged perp claims he's getting a raw deal The president of casual Japanese chain restaurant Kappa Sushi resigned yesterday in the wake of a data-theft scandal that has rocked the world of sushi trains.…
Lees meerMangalyaan orbiter launched for just $74m, lasted a magnificent 16 times longer than expected India’s Mangalyaan Mars Orbiter Mission has ended.…
Lees meerOther business units also made full members of Group, perhaps hinting and spin-outs The deal to merge Citrix and Tibco has closed, and the two companies are now business units of a new entity called “Cloud Software Group” – as is NetScaler, the appl…
Lees meerPLUS: Toshiba considers offers, clams up; India's HFCL claims Wi-Fi 7 first; Vietnam may censor SocMed; and more Asia In Brief Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi’s Indian subsidiary has expressed disappointment with a decision by nation’s government t…
Lees meerSuperstar is still exclusively a meat popsicle Bruce Willis' agent has denied the Die Hard superstar fully sold his image rights to an AI startup specializing in deepfake technology.…
Lees meerSome days, security just feels like a total illusion. OK, most days... A recently disclosed critical vulnerability in Atlassian's Bitbucket is actively being exploited, according to the US government.…
Lees meerHello, love, I need $32k to fix my oil rig A man in the US has been jailed for 25 years after using dating websites, email scams, and other online swindles to steal more than $9.5 million from companies and individuals.…
Lees meerDon't have a TikTok account? It doesn't matter – the pixels still grab your data Google and Meta may be the first names that come to mind when thinking of secretive online tracking of users, but another business is getting into the game in a very si…
Lees meerCops and Feds get easier info sharing, Britain benefits most The Data Access Agreement (DAA), by which the US and UK have agreed how one country can respond to lawful data demands from police and investigators in the other, took effect on Monday.…
Lees meerAssuming this Kyber TLS stuff works as expected Cloudflare is the first major internet infrastructure provider to support post-quantum cryptography for all customers, which, in theory, should protect data if quantum computing ever manages to break t…
Lees meerInfosec systems designer alleged to have chatted with undercover agent A 30-year-old former National Security Agency (NSA) employee arrested for allegedly trying to sell classified information was tied the crime by FBI investigators who claim they l…
Lees meerTechnology is addressing many of the cyberthreats, but the human element will always be a factor If you've ever found yourself in an interminable meeting listening to the CISO ramble on about the important role you play in protecting yourself and th…
Lees meerVote result good news for new users, but might be bad for remixes The next major release of Debian will ship installation images that are not 100 percent free open source software.…
Lees meerBut how will you know when your vehicle's extended warranty has expired? The FCC has opened proceedings to fight scam text messages that have become an increasing part of daily life for US consumers (and techies who have to talk grandma out of click…
Lees meerMERGE means more code can be copied from earlier installation, because let's be real – that's how it's happening PostgreSQL, the popular open source relational database, is getting support for MERGE statements, a move which is intended to make migra…
Lees meerColorful data techie seeks to fend off rivals Interview Despite industry efforts to get both data exploration and business analysis workloads onto a single "lakehouse" system, separate data lakes and warehouses are still required for effective ente…
Lees meerFinally 'unlocking value' for the 2017 $15b acquisition, just not via the imagined route Intel has filed for an IPO for its Mobileye automotive biz following earlier delays, but it is not clear what value the chip giant expects to get from the flota…
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