Altice bigwig now telco's largest shareholder but denies it's a takeover attempt The UK government has extended its national security assessment into the increasing ownership of BT shares by French telco tycoon Patrick Drahi, and has reportedly requ…
Lees meerAward timing reveals further slippage in HMRC's mega procurement plan The UK's tax collection agency is handing a £29.6 million ($35 million) contract to Accenture, providing further evidence that timelines to replace IT suppliers under a £7.1 billi…
Lees meerBoffins see promise in optoelectronic accelerators running faster with less energy than traditional components As Intel, TSMC, and Samsung race to prove that Moore's law is still relevant with faster and more efficient chips, researchers in China ha…
Lees meerLiterally galaxies far, far away Pics Each colored speck or oval-shaped orb dotting the background in each image collected by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), and released on Tuesday, is an individual star or galaxy somewhere deep in the univ…
Lees meer'Scarcity breeds clarity' Alphabet CEO tells staff in internal memo Google issued a heads-up to its staff on Tuesday that it will be slowing down some hiring for the remainder of 2022, thereby adding the ad giant's name to a growing list of companie…
Lees meerWe're in it for Elon haul After threatening to do so, Twitter on Tuesday actually sued Elon Musk, claiming the billionaire is breaking the terms of his agreement to buy the biz by trying to flee scot-free from the deal.…
Lees meerNo, Windows Autopatch didn't kill the monthly patchapalooza Patch Tuesday Despite worries that Patch Tuesday may not be as exciting now that Microsoft's Windows Autopatch is live — with a slew of caveats — the second Tuesday of this month arrived w…
Lees meerRight after Biden's order to protect women in a post-Roe America America's Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has these words for organizations that stretch the truth about anonymizing and securing people's data: expect to hear from us.…
Lees meerTurn signals have been optional add-ons for decades, mind you BMW is changing up a gear in its drive to charge people subscriptions for features in their cars, effectively putting functionality behind a paywall.…
Lees meerNation's second-largest petroleum producer to deploy switches, firewalls Juniper Networks scored a win in India’s oil industry this week after the country’s second-largest, state-owned petroleum producer, Oil India, tapped the networking stalwart to…
Lees meerSpinning skyscrapers might produce about 1G at widest point, matching Earth's gravitational force Japanese scientists are putting a new spin on human life in outer space with a proposal for centrifugal skyscrapers on the Moon and Mars.…
Lees meerThree vulnerabilities in one line of code AWS fixed three authentication bugs present in one line of code in its IAM Authenticator for Kubernetes, used by the cloud giant's popular managed Kubernetes service Amazon EKS, that could allow an attacker …
Lees meerZuckerberg makes good on headcount threats he issued last month Meta is adopting a new strategy to reduce its headcount – let line managers handle it.…
Lees meerThink AI is hard to implement? That excuse is getting harder to make as you avoid the ML rush Intel and IT consultancy Accenture are hoping to help businesses adopt AI applications quicker with bundles of open-source software designed to speed perfo…
Lees meerSpeculative execution side-channels continue to haunt silicon world Older AMD and Intel chips are vulnerable to yet another Spectre-based speculative-execution attack that exposes secrets within kernel memory despite defenses already in place. Mitig…
Lees meerCompany says it is pivoting to systems 'that'll help get us closer to achieving Net Zero' Home automation platform Hive plans to terminate key products in its line, including the Hive View cameras, HomeShield, and Leak products.…
Lees meerSpace oddity definitely not a metaphor for a corporate takeover going down the tubes Space fans bored of waiting for the James Webb Space Telescope briefing were treated to fireworks of a very different nature after SpaceX's latest Starship prototyp…
Lees meerBig Blue chases data-intensive and business-critical workloads, with pay-as-you-go consumption options IBM has expanded its Power10 server line-up with mid-range and scale-out systems aimed at data-intensive and business-critical workloads, with new…
Lees meerIt's the end of the world as we know it, and you'll be fine Ever the optimist, New York has reminded its citizens of what they should do in the event of a nuclear attack. And not just any nuclear attack either, but the "big one."…
Lees meerNothing shiny about US Chromebook sales anymore, plus war in Ukraine and inflation hits EMEA shipments A collapse in Chromebook demand along with conflict in Europe and a worrying rise in inflation have led to the steepest decline in PC shipments in…
Lees meerRedmond characterizes job losses as an annual clean-up rather than a sign of anything serious Microsoft has laid off more than a thousand staff, classifying this as a sort of summer clean-up following closure of the latest financial year.…
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