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Lees meerAll right stop, collaborate and listen, 'soft is back with some theft protection Microsoft has some advice on how to defend against "ice phishing" and other novel attacks that aim to empty cryptocurrency wallets, for those not already abstaining.…
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Lees meerInstitution also relies on German vendor for data warehouse software City, University of London is sizing up the market for a new SaaS ERP system set to replace its SAP ECC software in a contract worth up to £17m.…
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Lees meerSee? Not everything old from IBM is being ignored The free open source web browser Otter – which uses the Chromium browser engine at the heart of Google's Chrome and Microsoft's Edge – is being ported to OS/2.…
Lees meerUS Trade Rep admits China is Number One - at cranking out counterfeit products, sometimes with forced labour An updated US Trade Representative's Office register of online and physical markets that reportedly sell or facilitate fake goods has added …
Lees meerFinancial allegations could make nice change from accusations of being Beijing's eavesdropping machine The Indian Government's Income Tax Department has raided the local offices of Chinese telecoms giant Huawei as part of an investigation into wheth…
Lees meerBy bringing back the optimism of Gordon Moore, and the paranoia of Andy Grove, Intel has its mojo back Intel's CEO Pat Gelsinger is an admirer of the company's iconic leaders – Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce and Andy Grove – and has a five-year plan to …
Lees meerRevised laws will regulate tech workers' travel to mainland in bid to protect economy Taiwan's Parliament, the Executive Yuan, yesterday revealed draft amendments to national security laws aimed at deterring and punishing Chinese economic espionage …
Lees meerHow an investor meeting turned into a night on the tiles Intel laid out its future graphics accelerator roadmap to investors on Thursday, which includes plans to blur the lines between integrated and discrete graphics.…
Lees meerThis is why we can't have nice things, potentially Microsoft last month received a US patent covering modifications to a data-encoding technique called rANS, one of several variants in the Asymmetric Numeral System (ANS) family that support data com…
Lees meerTime to fix code like it's 2020 You're an IT pro in a VMware shop. A malicious person, for example, gains access to one of your virtual machines via a compromised local admin account for that VM. Can it get worse? Oh yes, VMware has warned – they ca…
Lees meerPair promise to provide the tools to achieve peak Zen AMD has partnered with DoiT International on a program aimed at helping Google Cloud customers optimize their off-prem workloads to obtain the best performance, cost and security, at least for wo…
Lees meerLaw enforcement to work in a more networked, borderless fashion – just like the crooks The digitalisation of the global workforce in the face of a pandemic has led criminals to upgrade their working model, and now law enforcement must too.…
Lees meerVersion numbers causing problems? Truly, what is new is old again This February Google put out Chrome 98, closely followed by Mozilla releasing Firefox 97. Soon both will hit version 100.…
Lees meerExpanding the reach of quantum communications, QKD. Literally These days it seems every major company is outlining a quantum strategy, even if those plans are nebulous at best. However, in areas like financial services, especially at global banks li…
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