Amid fears Beijing could harvest spatial data, letter suggests Huawei-style bans may be needed A US congressional committee has questioned whether Chinese-made Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) devices might have a negative impact on national secu…
Lees meerPro tip: Don't use your new work email to phish your old firm An ex-Motorola technician in the US has admitted he tried to fraudulently obtain a passport while awaiting trial for a cyberattack on his former employer.…
Lees meerA misbehaving Li-ion on your noggin - what could possibly go wrong? Meta has paused shipments of the wearable battery-slash-head strap accessory for its Quest 3 VR goggles amid reports the device bricks itself when charged.…
Lees meerYou should've received an email if you're affected, but here's a reminder just in case Consider this your final warning: Google is going to start wiping inactive accounts on Friday, December 1. …
Lees meerTitan trip postponed while NASA awaits the FY 2025 budget request The future of NASA's Dragonfly trip to Saturn's moon Titan is looking uncertain after the agency gave the go-ahead for work to proceed on the final design and fabrication but kicked f…
Lees meerUsers on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though Cloud giant AWS has announced the inclusion of IBM's Db2 database — among the first relational databases on the market — as one of the systems…
Lees meerFacebook titan vows to protect two billion voters ... but US gets more protection than India, Indonesia, Mexico, EU Meta will require advertisers to disclose whether their political ads on its platforms contain any AI-generated or digitally altered …
Lees meerGrandma is watching what?! Updated A new Plex "feature" has infuriated some users after sharing with others what they are watching on the streaming service. This functionality is on by default.…
Lees meerDon't be too shocked: Financial giant has been fleeing normie banking lately after failing to find footing The future of Apple's credit card offering has been thrown into limbo, as the iPhone giant apparently wants out of its collaboration with Gold…
Lees meerCISA calls for stronger IT defenses as Texas district also hit by ransomware crew CISA is investigating a cyberattack against a Pennsylvania water authority by suspected Iranian miscreants. The intrusion forced operators to switch a pumping station …
Lees meerGrandma is watching what?! Updated A Plex "feature" has infuriated some users after sharing with others what they are watching on the streaming service — and it appears this functionality is on by default.…
Lees meerYou should've received an email if you're affected, but here's a reminder just in case Consider this your final warning: Google is going to start wiping inactive accounts on Friday, December 1. …
Lees meerTitan trip postponed while NASA awaits the FY 2025 budget request The future of NASA's Dragonfly trip to Saturn's moon Titan is looking uncertain after the agency gave the go-ahead for work to proceed on the final design and fabrication but kicked f…
Lees meerUsers on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though Cloud giant AWS has announced the inclusion of IBM's Db2 database — among the first relational databases on the market — as one of the systems…
Lees meerAll customer support users told their info was accessed after analysis oversight Okta has admitted that the number of customers affected by its October customer support system data breach is far greater than previously thought.…
Lees meerForget Martian dust devils, it's the peril of the blue smoke you have to worry about Engineer and astro-futurist Chris Lewicki wrote an essay this week - that would not be out of place in our Who, Me? archives - about a testing mistake that nearly t…
Lees meerFirefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too Red Hat reckons Wayland is now mature enough to take over as the only display server in the forthcoming RHEL 10.…
Lees meerCustomers still 'digesting' shipments bought in 2022, says exec in mixed fiscal year for hardware biz Hewlett Packard Enterprise has reported a dramatic decline in server revenues as corporate customers cut back on spending amid a more cautious outl…
Lees meerNew features are great and all, but maybe fix some of the issues too? The developers are revolting – at least, it seems that way if an increasingly fractious thread regarding Microsoft's .NET MAUI is anything to go by.…
Lees meerIs divine intervention next on the tech to-do list? God bless this mess. The UK's Department for Education has crunched the numbers and found that the country's clergy of all things is among the professions most at risk from AI.…
Lees meerCRM databases were accessed and library users are advised to change passwords The Rhysida ransomware group has published most of the data it claimed to have stolen from the British Library a month after the attack was disclosed.…
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