Meng Wanzhou will get her regular six-month stints in the role, starting who knows when Huawei executive Meng Wanzhou – who was famously held in Canada and is the daughter of company founder Ren Zhengfei – has quietly been named as one of three peop…
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Lees meerPlus: Hive hits health-care org, law enforcement ransomware response is lacking, and orgs can't meet new disclosure rules In Brief Cybercriminals have used fake emergency data requests (EDRs) to steal sensitive customer data from service providers …
Lees meerWhen does this thing get to unionize? Robotics company Boston Dynamics is making one of its latest robots more generally commercially available: a mobile, autonomous arm called Stretch.…
Lees meerIf it can cut energy requirements for both, this idea might not stink after all Tomorrow Water, a subsidiary of Korean firm BKT, is aiming to make datacenters more environmentally friendly by colocating them with sewage treatment plants, an arrangem…
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Lees meerIf decision is upheld, this 'could seriously harm FOSS and copyleft' A US federal district court decision in California favoring database biz Neoj4 is incorrect and imperils free open-source software, according to the Software Freedom Conservancy.…
Lees meerWhite House chimes in: Folks 'in every state must have a free and fair choice' to unionize Amazon warehouse workers in New York City voted in favor of joining a trade union on Friday, marking the first-ever successful union campaign against the tech…
Lees meerFixed passphrases for OmniAuth users not such a great idea GitLab on Thursday issued security updates for three versions of GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE) software that address, among other flaws, a critical hard-coded pas…
Lees meerFerroelectric devices key for this qubit-slinging startup A Swiss quantum computing company claiming a world-first discovery has just marked what it believes is one of the largest funding rounds in the history of the quantum tech space.…
Lees meerOpen-source HPC suite now includes 100 full-release products The Extreme-scale Scientific Software Stack (E4S) project has released version 22.02 of its collection of software packages for developing, deploying and running scientific applications on…
Lees meerPretty 'community' version of one of the best-known Linuxes in Middle Kingdom Deepin version 20.5 is the latest "Community" version of one of the best-known Chinese Linux distros, and shows an interesting blend of technological influences.…
Lees meerIn the meantime, Windows giant eliminates 'challenged restriction' Microsoft's attempts to have a 2021 lawsuit's claims regarding anti-competitive practices struck out were this week contested in UK courts.…
Lees meerTwo teenagers arrested as part of police probe into extortion group British police have charged two teenagers as part of an international investigation into the Lapsus$ cyber extortion gang.…
Lees meerSo long as the economy stays healthy, and supply can catch up to demand IDC forecasts that spending on compute and storage systems for cloud infrastructure will grow 21.7 percent this year compared to 2021. Spending on public clouds is also expected…
Lees meerTech’s posterchild of German industrial success must face its failures as it succumbs to midlife angst Feature Like so many stories in the history of computing, it involves Xerox. Scientific Data Systems was sold by Xerox to IBM as part of a hardwa…
Lees meerSteering body calls for help to 'identify ISA gaps, build plans for future extensions' The momentum behind RISC-V is growing with the backing of tech heavyweights, but it comes with a challenge: encouraging CPU designers to stay on the same page, an…
Lees meerWe can't have that contractor making us look bad Something for the Weekend I nearly choked when I read the email. "Your eBay auction has ended. Your NFT has sold for $1 million." That's about $0.999999 million more than I thought it was worth, henc…
Lees meerAlso: Belarusian miscreants pivot to browser-in-the-browser attacks A Russian cybercrime gang has lately sent credential-phishing emails to the military of Eastern European countries and a NATO Center of Excellence, according to a Google threat repo…
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