'Digital emancipation proclamation' praised by tech tinkerers, but info brokers aren't happy On Tuesday, California's Governor Gavin Newsom signed two law bills that give people more control over their devices and their data, the Right to Repair Act…
Lees meerPhilHealth blames government procurement rules for license expiry and issues phishing warnings A recent ransomware attack on the Philippine Health Insurance Corporation (PhilHealth) occurred while the organization's antivirus software subscription h…
Lees meerProbe goes loopy after mistaking solar rays for stars The European Space Agency's Euclid space telescope is back to normal and will resume its mission, thanks to a software update that was required after its navigation sensors mistakenly identified …
Lees meerCommercial customers are in the frame, and gamers aren't forgotten, as it takes on Intel's mini PCs Fresh from winning the rights to build machines based on Intel's quirky little Next Unit of Compute (NUC) mini-PC spec, ASUS has cooked up plans to o…
Lees meerAsian internet registry still has 5M 32-bit addresses from different sources – or practically infinite IPv6s The Asia-Pacific Network Information Centre (APNIC) on Monday announced it is close to delegating the last IPv4 addresses in its final /8 bl…
Lees meerDoctored video featured vile false slur, but it wasn't a deepfake ... so that's OK, then? Meta's Oversight Board is probing the social media giant's policies on deepfake content after Facebook decided against taking down a faked video that falsely l…
Lees meer640K, sorry, 1080p ought to be enough for anybody Intel filled out its Arc graphics portfolio Tuesday with a $179 card aimed at 1080p gamers on a shoestring budget.…
Lees meerEx-Red Hat CEO James M Whitehurst takes the big chair in the interim Unity has announced the immediate retirement of president, CEO, chair, and board member John Riccitiello.…
Lees meerThe digital town square, but with more pay-to-play curbs On the social media site formerly known as Twitter, you can now opt to allow only paying verified accounts to reply to your tweets. Again, it's more fee speech than free speech for this Elon M…
Lees meerRedmond willing to do its accounts in red ink to get you hooked Analysis Microsoft is reportedly losing up to $80 a month per user on its GitHub Copilot services.…
Lees meerHappy Halloween! Security bugs under attack squashed, more flaws fixed Patch Tuesday Microsoft on Tuesday issued more than 100 security updates to fix flaws in its products, including two bugs that are already under active attack, as well as addres…
Lees meer'It is wrong that our system was used to punish an innovator and to enrich a pretender' A California judge has quashed one of Sonos's legal victories against Google – and the $32.5 million royalty payout that came along with it – declaring Sonos's p…
Lees meerIt's PowerShell or something similar in the not too distant future Microsoft has stopped developing VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely in a future Windows release.…
Lees meerIt's PowerShell or something similar in the not too distant future Microsoft has stopped developing VBScript after a 27-year relationship and plans to remove the scripting language entirely in a future Windows release.…
Lees meerAnd Caroline Ellison says she was told by Bankman-Fried to take $10B from customer accounts At the fraud trial of former FTX head Sam Bankman-Fried, prosecutors presented the jury with Python code for the FTX backend that allowed flagged client acco…
Lees meerBotnet storm drowned last record with 398 million requests per second A zero-day vulnerability in the HTTP/2 protocol was exploited to launch the largest distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack on record, according to Cloudflare.…
Lees meerBut P-12's production timeline is fuzzy A Swedish technology company thinks it has a solution to the misery of urban commutes, at least for those in cities with good access to waterways: 30-seat, all-electric hydrofoil shuttles that can reach speeds…
Lees meerBut P-12's production timeline is fuzzy A Swedish technology company thinks it has a solution to the misery of urban commutes, at least for those in cities with good access to waterways: 30-seat, all-electric hydrofoil shuttles that can reach speeds…
Lees meerWith 13 new payloads it's the biggest update to the botnet in months The infamous Mirai botnet was spotted by researchers who say it is spinning up again, this time with an "aggressively updated arsenal of exploits."…
Lees meerBernstein estimates value of agreement, warns it and similar deals may end if DoJ wins antitrust case Google pays Apple between $18 billion to $20 billion a year to remain the dominant search engine in the iPhone, according to a financial analyst th…
Lees meerBitmain's 'Antminers' dominate the market – but customers aren't buying The world's largest source of hardware designed for the task of mining cryptocurrency, Beijing-based Bitmain, has reportedly furloughed staff after disappointing sales.…
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