Also, Chrome add-ons are great for fingerprinting, and hacked hot tubs splurge details In brief A Japanese contractor working in the city of Amagasaki, near Osaka, reportedly mislaid a USB drive containing personal data on the metropolis's 460,000 …
Lees meerDon't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge. And the edge is safer if you can take a step back Opinion Edge is terribly trendy. Move cloudy workloads as close to the user as possible, the thinking goes, and latency goes down, as do core network and da…
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Lees meerLive and work in Bali, pay tax at home The government of Indonesia has once again raised the idea of creating a "digital nomad visa" that would allow foreign workers to live and work in the tropical paradise of Bali, tax free, for five years.…
Lees meerVMware-powered sovereign cloud not going to challenge hyperscalers, but probably won't be the last such venture Hitachi has taken a modest step towards becoming a public cloud provider, with the launch of a VMware-powered cloud in Japan that The Reg…
Lees meerIt's easy to see why – the question is, why now? China's internet regulator has launched an investigation into the security regime protecting academic journal database China National Knowledge Infrastructure (CNKI), citing national security concerns…
Lees meerPlus: Yandex releases 100-billion-parameter language model for free, and more In brief US hardware startup Cerebras claims to have trained the largest AI model on a single device powered by the world's largest Wafer Scale Engine 2 chip the size of …
Lees meerPrivate offer 34 percent above share price is just the thing to change minds Customer service as-a-service vendor Zendesk has announced it will allow itself to be acquired for $10.2 billion by a group of investors led by private equity firm Hellman …
Lees meerBut welcomes fast cross-border payments in central bank digital currencies In the same week that it welcomed the launch of a local center of excellence focused on crypto-inspired central bank digital currencies, Singapore's Monetary Authority (MAS) …
Lees meerStartup EdgeQ believes pay-for-what-you-use model will make 5G transition more cost-effective Interview While the IT industry waits to see if and when Intel will introduce software-defined silicon in Xeon CPUs, one startup us is moving ahead with p…
Lees meerWhy screw around with cryptography and keys when just stealing the info is good enough Feature US and European cops, prosecutors, and NGOs recently convened a two-day workshop in the Hague to discuss how to respond to the growing scourge of ransomw…
Lees meerWe're going hybrid or off-prem to retain and lure staff, say polled managers For bosses suffering the effects of the Great Resignation, IT decision makers taking part in this survey have a suggestion: go remote and you won't have any trouble hiring …
Lees meerNASA probe reveals strange hole created by suspected Chinese junk Pic When space junk crashed into the Moon earlier this year, it made not one but two craters on the lunar surface, judging from images revealed by NASA on Friday.…
Lees meerThose town hall meetings that go off the rails? That's the internet all day, every day The two US senators behind a proposed law to bring order to cryptocurrency finance have published their legislation to Microsoft's GitHub to obtain input from the…
Lees meerWe asked what they will do to prevent cases being built against women. So far: Nothing Period- and fertility-tracking apps have become weapons in Friday's post-Roe America.…
Lees meer'A humbling and unfortunate reminder' that monsters lurk under bridges Blockchain venture Harmony offers bridge services for transferring crypto coins across different blockchains, but something has gone badly wrong.…
Lees meerFirst steps by humans to recapture planet's natural satellite NASA is finally ready to launch its unmanned Orion spacecraft and put it in the orbit of the Moon. Lift-off from Earth is now expected in late August using a Space Launch System (SLS) roc…
Lees meerBecause data flows into the United States, not because of that user interface Another kicking has been leveled at American tech giants by EU regulators as Italy's data protection authority ruled against transfers of data to the US using Google Analy…
Lees meerHopes of securing London listing for UK chip designer may be in vain Arm is most likely to list on the US stock exchange Nasdaq, according to Masayoshi Son, chief executive of SoftBank Group, which bought the chip designer in 2016 for $32 billion.…
Lees meerIn grayscale, though. Optimistic plans for daylight-readable display and long-life laptop E-paper display startup Modos wants to make laptops, but is starting out with a standalone high-refresh-rate monitor first.…
Lees meerMeanwhile, 'search highlights' will tell you 'what's special about each day' Microsoft has dropped a preview of its next batch of Windows fixes, slipping a resolution for broken Wi-Fi hotspots in among the goodies.…
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