Forrester Research is DeFi-ing current hype Analyst firm Forrester Research has had a look at Web3 – the buzzword describing blockchain-powered decentralized metaverse-y stuff – and decided there's not a lot to like.…
Lees meerCompany changed address to avoid probe after sending 378,553 messages Britain's data watchdog has issued an £80,000 penalty to a financial advisor that dispatched hundreds of thousands of unsolicited text messages during lockdown.…
Lees meerBehold the rarest of IT skills: Tact and diplomacy On Call Being On Call requires certain skills. Technical ability? Sure. A desire to help? Naturally. However, there are some calls where one has to dip into one's reservoirs of diplomacy. Two bytes…
Lees meerAnd software nasty may have a VPNFilter link, too Tens of thousands of Viasat satellite broadband modems that were disabled in a cyber-attack some weeks ago were wiped by malware with possible links to Russia's destructive VPNFilter, according to Se…
Lees meerThe deal is a long way from done and players can already foresee rival bids Singapore-based Effissimo Capital Management, the largest shareholder in troubled Japanese tech giant Toshiba, has signed a deal to sell its stake to American private invest…
Lees meerManaged to send material from his private email address The United States Department of Justice (DoJ) has revealed it has indicted a National Security Agency (NSA) employee for sharing top secret national security information with an unnamed person …
Lees meerFittings open on Saturday, to make it easier to take motorized pals with you wherever you go Japanese startup Groove X will on Saturday stage fittings for a wearable sling - somewhat akin to baby carriers - designed to let owners of "Love Robots" mo…
Lees meerPublic agencies told to stop using overseas apps from 2025 as parallel imports approved, too Russian President Vladimir Putin has banned the purchase of foreign software – be it standalone applications or code shipping in equipment – for significant…
Lees meerVid-streamer iQIYI also earns a place Chinese search giant and AI cloud company Baidu has landed on the US Securities and Exchange Commission's provisional list of companies it might de-list because of opaque disclosures.…
Lees meerAlphabet AI lab under fire after bosses 'dragged out' probe into abuse A former DeepMind employee has blasted the AI lab for being, in her view, "grossly inadequate" in dealing with internal sexual harassment.…
Lees meerNothing like a little kernel-level memory snooping, code execution Apple has released updates for its mobile and desktop operating systems to patch security holes that may well have been exploited in the wild.…
Lees meerUni trio probe efforts by miners to max out rewards at expense of others UC Berkeley boffins have found that strategies for squeezing extra profit out of Ethereum transactions come at the cost of other cryptocurrency investors and threaten the secur…
Lees meerBackers include SK Lubricants as dielectric fluid research partner An enterprise immersion cooling company has received a $28 million investment it plans to use to sink itself into additional customer datacenters.…
Lees meerLead dev of modest ground-up Unix-like OS quits job to work on it SerenityOS, which started out as a one-man project in 2018, has now got to the point where its creator proudly announced that its web browser passes the Acid3 browser test.…
Lees meerWill provide tips on spotting bad info, frontload highly cited sources Further embracing its unspoken role as arbiter of truth, Google has unrolled some new search result features to help users "sort out what information is credible and what isn't."…
Lees meerYou didn't have any plans for the weekend anyway, did you? Another Java Remote Code Execution vulnerability has reared its head, this time in the popular Spring Framework and, goodness, it's a nasty one.…
Lees meerChip giant wants to compete in software while playing catch-up in silicon Intel hopes to gain an extra edge in the cloud and datacenter markets with the acquisition of Granulate, a developer of software that optimizes complex and old workloads for m…
Lees meerRPA vendor's recurring revenue for 2023 will be down by $15m after pausing Russia operations UiPath's CEO has said the war in Ukraine is "having a profound impact" on business confidence in Europe and the UK.…
Lees meerConfused? Don’t be – Intel flagged this when it married Evo and vPro a while back Dell has refreshed its business laptops, predictably enough adding 12th-gen Intel silicon while also trying to make its offerings in a very well established product ca…
Lees meerReverse engineering yields sticky microarchitectural vulnerabilities Nvidia's ultra-dense GPU-driven AI training and inference systems are prone to covert and side channel attacks, according to research just published from a team led by Pacific Nort…
Lees meerUses 64-node cluster of classical HPC boxen to prove it Fujitsu says it has developed the world's fastest quantum simulator capable of handling 36 qubit quantum circuits. The firm will use this to speed development of quantum applications, and said …
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