A pit and 4,500 gallons of water were needed to put it out A totaled Tesla Model S burst into flames in a Sacramento junkyard earlier this month, causing a fire that took "a significant amount of time, water, and thinking outside the box to extingui…
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Lees meerFortune 500 company was an early adopter of Google Cloud, which led to a search for a new security architecture Matt Ramberg is the vice president of information security at Sanmina, a sprawling electronics manufacturer with close to 60 facilities i…
Lees meerPaul Fellows describes how it beat the overambitious ARX to Acorn's Archimedes computer One of the longest-lived GUI operating systems in the world has its origins as an emergency project – specifically the means by which Acorn planned to rescue the…
Lees meerAnonymous speech protections apply online too, and copyright can't diminish that It's been a good week for free speech advocates as a judge ruled that copyright law cannot be used to circumvent First Amendment anonymity protections.…
Lees meerJapanese tech conglomerate has reportedly received 10 offers, each with a different idea about how to do things Toshiba has received 10 potential offers for the company, eight of which would take the company private, while two would allow it to rema…
Lees meerMegacorp shows Alexa speaking like kid's deceased grandma In the latest episode of Black Mirror, a vast megacorp sells AI software that learns to mimic the voice of a deceased woman whose husband sits weeping over a smart speaker, listening to her d…
Lees meerThey're putting a crew together, and Beijing's tossed in $750m to get things started A Chinese state-backed startup has hired legendary Japanese chip exec Yukio Sakamoto as part of a strategy to launch a local DRAM industry.…
Lees meer50% of public sector tech budgets in the cloud by 2015? Well that didn't happen! British readers who have only recently packed away the bunting commemorating the Platinum Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II have been offered reason to get it out again by …
Lees meerThe Start Menu has been tweaked, but Smart App Control will appeal to the security conscious The second coming of Windows 11 is almost upon us. Is it worth chancing an upgrade? We took a look at the latest release preview of 2022's take on Microsoft…
Lees meerHyperscalers hog the good stuff Power and thermal management equipment essential to building datacenters is in short supply, with delays of months on shipments – a situation that's likely to persist well into 2023, Dell'Oro Group reports.…
Lees meerI like driving in my car, hope my data's not gone far UK automobile service and parts seller Halfords has shared the details of its customers a little too freely, according to the findings of a security researcher.…
Lees meerUse it sensibly instead – which means turning on the useful bits Microsoft doesn't enable by default Windows PowerShell is enormously useful, extremely prevalent, and often targeted by crooks because it offers an express route into the heart of Wind…
Lees meerMove over silicon – digital circuits have a flexible new friend Scientists in Germany claim to have developed bipolar transistors from organic materials, opening a path for flexible and transparent electronics.…
Lees meerStart by pondering if customers could store their own info and provide access Column Sixteen years ago, British mathematician Clive Humby came up with the aphorism "data is the new oil".…
Lees meerVictims lured into handing over online banking logins, police say Europol cops have arrested nine suspected members of a cybercrime ring involved in phishing, internet scams, and money laundering.…
Lees meerPromoted phones as ready for a dunking – forgot to mention known problems with subsequent recharges Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission has fined Samsung Electronics AU$14 million ($9.6 million) for making for misleading water resistance…
Lees meerFreedom or echo chamber? Brave Software, maker of a privacy-oriented browser, on Wednesday said its surging search service has exited beta testing while its Goggles search personalization system has entered beta testing.…
Lees meerAnd pay the tiniest of fines, too Facebook parent Meta has settled a complaint brought by the US government, which alleged the internet giant's machine-learning algorithms broke the law by blocking certain users from seeing online real-estate advert…
Lees meerEngineers, sales teams told to stick around, customers promised more 'choice' – to buy from Symantec or CA Broadcom has made its first public comment in weeks about its plans for VMware, should the surprise $61 billion acquisition proceed as planned…
Lees meerFocus emerges on workload security during its Zenith 2022 shindig Zscaler is growing the machine-learning capabilities of its zero-trust platform and expanding it into the public cloud and network edge, CEO Jay Chaudhry told devotees at a conference…
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