Boss faces grilling over disatrous software snafu The US House Committee on Homeland Security has requested public testimony from CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz in the wake of the chaos caused by a faulty update.…
Lees meerFor now it's Capgemini to the rescue (again) Updated The UK's Treasury ministry is to determine the fate of aging SAP software that runs the nation's tax system – processing £750 billion ($968 billion) of transactions a year – over the coming weeks…
Lees meerStrictly for performance fiends with ultra-modern kit who want a distro to match Hands-on CachyOS is a performance-optimized rebuild of Arch Linux, with a simpler installer and dozens of desktops and options to tweak. Stable reliability, not so muc…
Lees meerIn space, no one can hear you scream when you step on one ESA's space brick has landed in LEGO® stores, but you can't buy the 3D-printed items to add to your own creations.…
Lees meerFirst nasty to exploit Modbus to screw with operational tech devices A previously unseen malware, dubbed FrostyGoop, able to disrupt industrial processes was used in a cyberattack against a district energy company in Ukraine last northern winter, re…
Lees meerProprietary code goes unpublished – but no FOSS package ever dies Opinion One of the delicious promises of open source software is eternal life. In literature from Gilgamesh on, this has been a classic trap for the careless and greedy, but this is …
Lees meerBut does it matter when all Grace needs to is to babysit GPUs? Comment AMD has claimed its current datacenter silicon is already more than twice as fast, and up to 2.75 times more efficient, than Nvidia's Grace CPU Superchips.…
Lees meerGovernment doesn't seem to mind – and business is into it, claims report Hong Kong's government and local businesses undermine sanctions by deliberately facilitating the transfer of restricted and sensitive technology to naughty regimes, according t…
Lees meerPut those pesky crashes in the past with a fun microcode upgrade! Intel has promised to deliver a fix for some of its recent desktop processors suffering "stability issues."…
Lees meerAnother sign of China's technological turn inwards – but not, sadly, a SPARC revival Tencent Cloud has launched a version of its homebrew cut of Linux distribution CentOS.…
Lees meerWagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore Indonesia has an online gambling problem. Despite having blocked access to wagering content over 2.5 million times last year, the nation’s Ministry of Communications and Information…
Lees meerAd giant promises to protect privacy, as critics say surveillance continues Google no longer intends to drop support for third-party cookies – the online identifiers used by the ad industry to track people and target them with ads based on their onl…
Lees meerNew instance types and discounts galore, and Broadcom all smiles as its preferred licensing finds more friends Google Cloud has delivered a Broadcom-compliant version of its cloudy VMware offering, and pitched it as a keenly priced migration target.…
Lees meerAfter 24 years, bug report finally gets fixed Mozilla's Thunderbird team has fixed a 24-year-old feature bug, bringing system tray mail notifications to GNOME and KDE desktop environments for Linux users.…
Lees meerBig misconception is that data ingestion is occurring, we're told Google, after facing accusations about its AI model ingesting private files, says Gemini can read and summarize this type of sensitive data in real time – but only with Workspace user…
Lees meerAnd you thought rolling back a borked update on a server down the hall was hard? The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared the story of how engineers brought a mission back from the brink after a micrometeoroid strike, an equipment failure, and an …
Lees meerWas a 2009 agreement on interoperability to blame? Did the EU force Microsoft to let third parties like CrowdStrike run riot in the Windows kernel as a result of a 2009 undertaking? This is the implication being peddled by the Redmond-based cloud an…
Lees meerRapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5M machines went down CrowdStrike's now-infamous Falcon Sensor software, which last week led to widespread outages of Windows-powered computers, has also caused crashes of Linux machines.…
Lees meerOne arrest was made weeks ago but no word on the suspect's identity yet A DDoS-for-hire site described by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) as the world's most prolific operator in the field is out-of-action following a law enforcement sting dubb…
Lees meerYou can't offer a better deal in exchange for silence, argues NLRB Separation agreements Meta gave to employees during mass 2022 layoffs are illegal, a US judge has decided, and the reasoning could have implications far beyond Zuckercorp.…
Lees meerBig misconception is that data ingestion is occurring, we're told Google, after facing accusations about its AI model ingesting private files, says Gemini can read and summarize this type of sensitive data in real time – but only with Workspace user…
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