Thanks, we'll take any good news, large or small, right now Vid The aviation industry's attempts to go green are getting a boost from an unlikely place: carbon-neutral jet fuel pulled from thin air.…
Lees meerTech giants and digital rights groups didn't like it, but at least it was a law The government of India has scrapped the Personal Data Protection Bill it's worked on for three years, and announced it will – eventually – unveil a superior bill.…
Lees meerSimple to exploit, enough to pocket $3,000 A Danish ethical hacker was able to work his way uninvited into a closed Cloudflare beta and found a vulnerability that could have been exploited by a cybercriminal to hijack and steal someone else's email.…
Lees meerPlan to educate the children turned out to be a 'won't someone think of the children?' moment The UK's Parliament has ended its presence on TikTok after MPs pointed out the made-in-China social media service probably sends data about its users back …
Lees meerAccenture roped in to find the weakest link One of the world's most prominent and mission–critical uses of the blockchain - The Australian Securities Exchange's (ASX) project to replace its CHESS core trading systems with a distributed ledger – has …
Lees meerSOL holders literally S.O.L. Millions of dollars worth of Solana cryptocurrency and other tokens were stolen from seemingly thousands of netizens this week by thieves exploiting some kind of security weakness or blunder.…
Lees meerHopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year Exclusive GitLab plans to automatically delete projects if they've been inactive for a year and are owned by users of its free tier.…
Lees meerOr just see it as preparing them for the future What with American students increasingly subject to surveillance software, 15 advocacy groups want the US Department of Education to set monitoring policies that are consistent with civil rights laws.…
Lees meerBeats screwing around actually crafting these unloved tokens A Bitcoin mining outfit said it made $9.5 million in credits selling electricity back to the power grid of Texas at a premium when energy demand rose to record levels during a heatwave las…
Lees meerTachyum points to alleged deep conflicts of interest as source of delays Server chip startup Tachyum has been plagued by delays producing its Prodigy Universal Processor, which meshes CPU, GPU and AI-geared matrix units in a single architecture.…
Lees meerOrganizations can be more proactive in tracking threats, finding holes in their protection Microsoft says it will give enterprise security operation centers (SOCs) broader access to the massive amount of threat intelligence it collects every day.…
Lees meerThat's just the tip of the iceberg – and now he faces potentially years in the clink A now-former T-Mobile US store stole at least 50 employees' work credentials to run a phone unlocking and unblocking service that prosecutors said netted $25 millio…
Lees meerTime to take another gander at that pitch deck Venture capital is the latest to feel the pinch from the economic downturn, with venerable Silicon Valley incubator Y Combinator's Summer 2022 cohort consisting of less than 250 companies, down from ove…
Lees meerA $26m chunk of the infrastructure bill set aside to prove it can handle inverter-based energy The Biden administration is confident in the US's ability to demonstrate its power grid can run entirely on clean power, so it's giving the Department of …
Lees meerAbout one in ten reports for loans, credit cards, etc said to be wrong US credit agency Equifax says errant computer code led the company to provide inaccurate credit information about US folks to financial institutions for a period of about three w…
Lees meerIt's all fun and games until somebody gets their files encrypted Miscreants making use of typosquatting are being spotted by researchers at Sonatype, emphasizing the need to check that the package is really the one you meant to download.…
Lees meerAncient, yes, but its progenitor VMS isn't dead just yet There's a proposal to remove the code for the DECnet networking protocol from the Linux kernel… but what was DECnet anyway?…
Lees meerWhat would you do with an otherwise healthy spacecraft? ESA has admitted defeat and declared the mission of its Sentinel-1B spacecraft is at an end after attempts to deal with a borked power bus ended in failure.…
Lees meerHow's that renewable energy transition going? Amazon increased its total carbon footprint by 18 percent during 2021, despite promises to transition entirely to renewable energy for its operations before the end of the decade.…
Lees meerMonolith found in Australian field actually a piece of SpaceX vehicle Australian media has reported that space debris found in New South Wales was indeed junk from a SpaceX mission, including one piece measuring nearly three meters in length.…
Lees meerAutomotive makers say they still can't buy enough semiconductors to meet car buyers demands Infineon, the largest chip supplier to the automotive sector, has upgraded revenue and margin forecasts for 2022 as customers continue to struggle to source …
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