Google Drive misplaces months' worth of customer files
Updated The horror of logging in only to find everything since May has vanished
Storage27 Nov 2023 | 100
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Microsoft opens sources ThreadX under MIT license
The 'Azure RTOS' used in millions of Raspberry Pis is now FOSS
OSes28 Nov 2023 | 21
No new top boss at NSA until it answers questions about buying up location, browsing data
Senator Ron Wyden puts his foot down – for as long as he can
Public Sector02 Dec 2023 | 30
Scores of US credit unions offline after ransomware infects backend cloud outfit
Supply chain attacks: The gift that keeps on giving
Cyber-crime02 Dec 2023 | 15
DevTernity conference collapses amid claims women speakers were faked
Anna? Oh, she was just a demo persona, says organizer
Devops28 Nov 2023 | 20
UK government rings the death knell for SIM farms
Acts under the guise of protecting the public from fraud, yet history suggests Home Office has other motives
Security29 Nov 2023 | 76
Adobe's buy of Figma is 'likely' bad for developers, rules UK regulator
Competition Markets Authority claims merger will reduce innovation for designers and other creative types
Software29 Nov 2023 | 11
IT sent the intern to sort out the nasty VP who was too important to bother with backups
Who, Me? Kid escaped from the executive suite without screwing things up
Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 89
Data-destroying defect found after OpenZFS 2.2.0 release
Updated Earlier and later versions may be affected – worth your while reading the advisories
OSes27 Nov 2023 | 32
Ransomware-hit British Library: Too open for business, or not open enough?
Opinion Unique institutions need unique security. Instead, they're fobbed off with the same old, same old
Cyber-crime27 Nov 2023 | 25
UEFI flaws allow bootkits to pwn potentially hundreds of devices using images
Exploits bypass most secure boot solutions from the biggest chip vendors
Research01 Dec 2023 | 23
Bank boss hated IT, loved the beach, was clueless about ports and politeness
On Call At the dawn of the dialup age, making a connection could be complicated
Networks01 Dec 2023 | 160
AI agents can copy humans to get closer to artificial general intelligence, DeepMind finds
Google’s AI offshoot finds copy-cat robots capable of aping living mentors
AI + ML28 Nov 2023 | 34
Plex gives fans a privacy complex after sharing viewing habits with friends by default
Updated Grandma is watching what?!
Security28 Nov 2023 | 47
Meta sued by privacy group over pay up or click OK model
Scrolling through endless humblebrags without targeted ads is a fundamental right, according to privacy expert
Legal28 Nov 2023 | 88
Experienced Copilot help is hard to find, warns Microsoft MVP
Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred
AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 40
HP printer software turns up uninvited on Windows systems
No escape from bloat, even without relevant hardware attached
OSes30 Nov 2023 | 55
Leader of pro-Russia DDoS crew Killnet 'unmasked' by Russian state media
Infosec in Brief Also: NXP China attack, Australia can't deliver on ransom payment ban (yet), and Justin Sun's very bad month
Security27 Nov 2023 | 11
Wayland takes the wheel as Red Hat bids farewell to X.org
Firefox 121, freshly in beta test, will default to the protocol too
OSes29 Nov 2023 | 48
Musk tells advertisers to 'go f**k' themselves as $44B X gamble spirals into chaos
Comment Hello, police? I'd like to report a murder
Personal Tech30 Nov 2023 | 318
Tesla sues Swedish government after worker rebellion cripples car biz
Updated Sparks fly as Elon's Musketeers sue for license plate liberation
Offbeat27 Nov 2023 | 159
Brit borough council apologizes for telling website users to disable HTTPS
Planning portal back online with a more secure connection
Security29 Nov 2023 | 53
Japan's space agency suffers cyber attack, points finger at Active Directory
JAXA is having a tough time in cyberspace and outer space, the latter thanks to an electrical glitch
Cyber-crime29 Nov 2023 | 4
Watchdog claims retaliation from military after questioning cushy federal IT contracts
Special report IT-AAC had a hand in scrutinizing JEDI, now faces probe for challenging $300M+ single-source deals
Public Sector30 Nov 2023 | 12
Ukraine cyber spies claim Putin's planes are in peril as sanctions bite
Aeroflot fleet still has a smoking section, but not for tobacco
Public Sector28 Nov 2023 | 112
Senate bill aims to stop Uncle Sam using facial recognition at airports
Legislation would eliminate TSA permission to use the tech, require database purge in 90 days
Public Sector01 Dec 2023 | 32
SAP faces more accusations of breaching on-prem customers' trust
Cloud-only innovation strategy slammed as users opt for on-prem and hosted support for S/4HANA
Databases30 Nov 2023 | 11
Admin of $19M marketplace that sold social security numbers gets 8 years in jail
24 million Americans thought to have had their personal data stolen and sold for pennies
Cyber-crime30 Nov 2023 | 12
Boffins find asking ChatGPT to repeat key words can expose its training data
This one weird trick will blow the large language model's artificial mind
AI + ML01 Dec 2023 | 42
AWS plays with Fire TV Cube, turns it into a thin client for cloudy desktops
re:Invent $195 a pop, delivered, pre-provisioned ready to stream desktops or apps
Off-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 28
Tiny11 shrinks Windows 11 23H2 down to pocket size
An option when sun sets on Windows 10, but Microsoft might have a problem
OSes27 Nov 2023 | 52
Electric vehicles earn shocking report card for reliability
Legacy auto makers struggle with new tech, and upstarts suffer teething problems with first cars
Personal Tech01 Dec 2023 | 110
Small but mighty, 9Front's 'Humanbiologics' is here for the truly curious
Programmers developing what is essentially UNIX 2.0 are still busy bunnies
OSes01 Dec 2023 | 37
Regulator says stranger entered hospital, treated a patient, took a document ... then vanished
Scottish health group to tweak security checks, access authorization to avoid a repeat
Security01 Dec 2023 | 81
We challenged you to come up with tech predictions for 2024 (wrong answers only) – here are some favorites so far
Kettle Plus some of our own and the ugly Microsoft sweater one of you will win. Please take it off our hands...
Bootnotes30 Nov 2023 | 36
Trio of major holes in ownCloud expose admin passwords, allow unauthenticated file mods
Mitigations require mix of updating libraries and manual customer action
Patches27 Nov 2023 | 8
AWS rakes in half a billion pounds from UK Home Office
Someone has to top up the Bezos rocket fund, like British taxpayers
PaaS + IaaS01 Dec 2023 | 31
Videoconferencing fatigue is real, study finds
Your brain and heart do not enjoy Zooming, Teamsing, or Webexing
Personal Tech27 Nov 2023 | 34
Crypto crasher Do Kwon's extradition approved, but destination is unclear
Hey Google, are the jails nicer in South Korea or the US?
Cyber-crime27 Nov 2023 | 4
'Return to Office' declared dead
Remote work is here to stay despite in-person mandates, this economist says
On-Prem03 Dec 2023 | 67
Okta data breach dilemma dwarfs earlier estimates
All customer support users told their info was accessed after analysis oversight
Security29 Nov 2023 | 14
That time a JPL engineer almost killed a Mars Rover before it left Earth
Forget Martian dust devils, it's the peril of the blue smoke you have to worry about
Science29 Nov 2023 | 54
Weak session keys let snoops take a byte out of your Bluetooth traffic
BLUFFS spying flaw present in iPhones, ThinkPad, plenty of chipsets
Research30 Nov 2023 | 12
China's Loongson debuts processor that 'matches Intel silicon circa 2020'
Best not to dismiss it, as Asus looks to be onboard and advances are promised
On-Prem30 Nov 2023 | 33
Brits turn off Twitter, although teens and tweens keen on generative AI
Bing grows but Google remains top dog, according to Ofcom report
Networks28 Nov 2023 | 84
Microsoft, Databricks double act tries to sew up the data platform market
Analysis But the one-stop shop vision fails to take it far beyond the competition
Databases27 Nov 2023 | 2
US lawmakers have Chinese LiDAR on their threat-detection radar
Amid fears Beijing could harvest spatial data, letter suggests Huawei-style bans may be needed
Security30 Nov 2023 | 13
AI threatens to automate away the clergy
Is divine intervention next on the tech to-do list?
Bootnotes29 Nov 2023 | 74
Potential sat-bothering cannibal coronal mass ejection slams into Earth's atmo tonight
And where folks are likely to see a light show
Science01 Dec 2023 | 9
Microsoft .NET MAUI devs vent over bugs backlog, response times
New features are great and all, but maybe fix some of the issues too?
Software29 Nov 2023 | 27
Europol shutters ransomware operation with kingpin arrests
A few low-level stragglers remain on the loose, but biggest fish have been hooked
Cyber-crime28 Nov 2023 | 4
America's ambitious Artemis III likely to miss 2025 Moon landing date, auditors sigh
'SpaceX has made limited progress maturing the technologies needed'
Science30 Nov 2023 | 47
The AI everything show continues at AWS: Generate SQL from text, vector search, and more
re:Invent Invisible watermarks on AI-generated images? Sure. But major tools in the stack matter most
Databases30 Nov 2023 | 6
Law secretly drafted by ChatGPT makes it onto the books
'Unfortunately or fortunately, this is going to be a trend'
AI + ML02 Dec 2023 | 44
Logitech's Wave Keys tries to bend ergonomics without breaking tradition
Review Or your wallet
Personal Tech28 Nov 2023 | 45
Uh-oh, update Google Chrome – exploit already out there for one of these 6 security holes
Plus: 3 critical CVEs in Zyxel NAS devices
Security30 Nov 2023 | 2
IBM's vintage Db2 database jumps on AWS's cloud bandwagon
Updated Users on the mainframe will have to wait for their system to become available in the cloud service, though
Databases29 Nov 2023 | 7
Interpol makes first border arrest using Biometric Hub to ID suspect
Global database of faces and fingerprints proves its worth
Cyber-crime01 Dec 2023 | 7
Car dealers openly beg Biden to put brakes on electric vehicle drive
No one's buying these things. Just, uh, ignore the massive markups
Personal Tech29 Nov 2023 | 126
Beijing fosters foreign influencers to spread its propaganda
They get access to both China's internet and global platforms, and cash in on both
Security27 Nov 2023 | 16
Rackspace runs short of Cloud Files storage in LON region
Updated Rackspace? More like Lackspace as customers face upload and delete problems
Storage30 Nov 2023 | 22
Share your 2024 tech forecasts (wrong answers only) to win a terrible sweater
Competition OpenAI led by the Swedish Chef? Musk aims for Mars and hits Venus instead? What are your predictions?
Bootnotes28 Nov 2023 | 304
Datacenter architect creates bonkers designs to illustrate the craft, and quirks, of building bit barns
They’re basically skyscrapers, says Charles Fortin. But they could be ships, cars, or rocks
On-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 36
Ex-school IT admin binned student, staff accounts and trashed phone system
After getting the tintack, IRL BOFH went rogue
Public Sector01 Dec 2023 | 53
British Library begins contacting customers as Rhysida leaks data dump
CRM databases were accessed and library users are advised to change passwords
Cyber-crime29 Nov 2023 | 5
Rogue ex-Motorola techie admits cyberattack on former employer, passport fraud
Pro tip: Don't use your new work email to phish your old firm
Cyber-crime30 Nov 2023 | 5
Apple slaps patch on WebKit holes in iPhones and Macs amid fears of active attacks
Two CVEs can be abused to steal sensitive info or execute code
Patches01 Dec 2023 | 2
'Serial cybercriminal and scammer' jailed for 8 years, told to pay back $1.2M
Crook did everything from SIM swaps to fake verified badge scams
Cyber-crime28 Nov 2023 | 3
Hubble science instruments still out after going down 3 times in a week
Oh no, errant gyro!
Science30 Nov 2023 | 44
Duke Uni libraries decamp from 37Signals' Basecamp over CTO's blogs
We're canceling our subscriptions, say librarians citing co-founder's views
SaaS01 Dec 2023 | 34
Uncle Sam probes cyberattack on Pennsylvania water system by suspected Iranian crew
CISA calls for stronger IT defenses as Texas district also hit by ransomware crew
Cyber-crime29 Nov 2023 | 8
Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him
Kettle First he was speed-running moderation, now internet advertising. Welcome to the party, pal
Personal Tech02 Dec 2023 | 67
AWS unveils core-packed Graviton4 and beefier Trainium accelerators for AI
Re:Invent Also hedging its bets with a healthy dose of Nvidia chips too
Systems28 Nov 2023 | 2
India's CERT given exemption from Right To Information requests
Activists worry investigations may stay secret, and then there's those odd incident reporting requirements
Security28 Nov 2023 | 4
Today's 'China is misbehaving online' allegations come from Google, Meta
Zuck boots propagandists, Big G finds surge of action directed at Taiwan
Cyber-crime01 Dec 2023 | 10
You're so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages
re:Invent Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL
Off-Prem01 Dec 2023 | 8
Nostalgia for XP sells out Microsoft's 2023 'Windows Ugly Sweater'
Bliss not your thing? You could win the Paint version
Bootnotes30 Nov 2023 | 24
Black Basta ransomware operation nets over $100M from victims in less than two years
Assumed Conti offshoot averages 7 figures for each successful attack but may have issues with, er, 'closing deals'
Cyber-crime30 Nov 2023 | 3
VMware president Sumit Dhawan out – scores gig as CEO of infosec vendor Proofpoint
Amid accounts of wider layoffs and Broadcom doing a 'strategic review' of end-user compute and Carbon Black products
Virtualization29 Nov 2023 |
Alibaba shuts down quantum lab, donates it to university
Three guesses where DAMO plans to focus research from now on. Yep, you guessed it...AI
HPC27 Nov 2023 | 2
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