Argues making stuff using foreign-designed tech isn't leadership, as x86 giant shakes up board Intel ex-CEO Pat Gelsinger has thrown shade on Taiwanese chipmaker TSMC's plans to build fabrication plants in the USA, saying the factories will do nothi…
Lees meerSingle click on a phishing link in Google browser blew up sandbox on Windows Google pushed out an emergency patch for Chrome on Windows this week to stop attackers exploiting a sandbox-breaking zero-day vulnerability, seemingly used by snoops to tar…
Lees meerWOW! DID! SOMEONE! REALLY! STEAL! DATA! ON! 400K! USERS?! A cyber-crime ring calling itself Arkana has made a cringe music video to boast of an alleged theft of subscriber account data from Colorado-based cableco WideOpenWest (literally, WOW!)…
Lees meerDoJ suggests it sure looks like collusion when several big players use the same cost-saving software The US Justice Department on Thursday weighed into an antitrust legal war that alleges algorithmic price fixing by healthcare services by MultiPlan …
Lees meerCrew also cooked up two fresh SparrowDoor backdoor variants, says ESET The China-aligned FamousSparrow crew has resurfaced after a long period of presumed inactivity, compromising a US financial-sector trade group and a Mexican research institute. T…
Lees meerThoughtful and considered … even if it is based on an American distro EU OS is a proposal for an immutable KDE-based Linux distribution with a Windows-like desktop, designed for use in European public-sector organizations.…
Lees meerSo F-18 launch times, weapons, drone support aren't classified now ... who knew? Updated The Atlantic's editor-in-chief who was inadvertently added to a Signal group in which the US Secretary of Defense, Vice President, and others discussed secret …
Lees meerBig Blue 'might as well move its headquarters' to Bengaluru since it 'no longer prioritizes' America Following our report last week on IBM's ongoing layoffs, current and former employees got in touch to confirm what many suspected: The US cuts run d…
Lees meerWarning of possible problems sparks controversy: Was it OverDAtop? Rachel Kroll has clarified the Atop alarm: Turns out it was just a weird little bug, and it's probably already been fixed.…
Lees meerWarning of possible problems sparks controversy: Was it OverDAtop? "Rachelbythebay" has clarified the Atop alarm: Turns out it was just a weird little bug, and it's probably already been fixed.…
Lees meerConcerns over whether Bureau of Industry and Security, which maintains entity list, would be able to do its job Keeping critical tech out of the hands of US adversaries is about to get harder for the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) with the Tr…
Lees meerResearchers say 'proactive' approach is needed to combat global cybercrime Here's one you don't see every day: A cybersecurity vendor is admitting to breaking into a notorious ransomware crew's infrastructure and gathering data it relayed to nationa…
Lees meerAll eyes on SpaceX's April cargo mission to the orbital outpost Northrop Grumman's Cygnus cargo freighter, the NG-22, is being delayed indefinitely after engineers confirmed the Pressurized Cargo Module (PCM) had sustained damage in its shipping con…
Lees meerVendors with millions in federal contracts are watching nervously Tech vendors are awaiting the outcome of a constitutional battle to decide the fate of government contracts worth hundreds of millions of dollars after US President Donald Trump issue…
Lees meerScreenshot shows company head unhappy, claiming 'real CVE is pending' CrushFTP's CEO is not happy with VulnCheck after the CVE numbering authority (CNA) released an unofficial ID for the critical vulnerability in its file transfer tech disclosed alm…
Lees meerBad news for American tech businesses making money off deals with sanction-dodging companies The US government has initiated another crackdown on Chinese businesses skirting chip export bans, adding a few dozen new names, and offshoots of repeat off…
Lees meerBritain's biggest semiconductor plant to produce EV chips that can take the heat The former Newport Wafer Fab (NWF) facility in South Wales is getting £250 million ($323 million) to start making silicon carbide semiconductors, a year after the sale …
Lees meer'This was not good dog food' Retired Microsoft engineer Dave Plummer has taken to his YouTube channel to explain Redmond's missteps with Windows Longhorn and the background to the company's failed attempt at an XP follow-up.…
Lees meerTime to update your firmware, if you can, to one with the security fixes, cough cough DrayTek router owners in the UK and beyond had a pretty miserable weekend after some ISPs began to notice a bunch of their customers' gateways going offline.…
Lees meerYour mouse once understood two protocols. What's your excuse? Before Bluetooth and USB, computers had PS/2 ports. Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen took another trip down memory lane this week to explain just how dumb the USB-to-PS/2 adapters that ship…
Lees meerAs if living in Croydon wasn't bad enough The Metropolitan Police has confirmed its first permanent installation of live facial recognition (LFR) cameras is coming this summer and the lucky location will be the South London suburb of Croydon.…
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