Biting the hand that feeds IT — Enterprise Technology News and Analysis
The cigar-shaped 'Oumuamua, the first interstellar object in recorded human history to whizz through the Solar System, is a comet after all, a pair of astronomers declared in research published in Nature on Wednesday.…
Posted on 23 March 2023 | 11:02 am
Which of these appeals more: a new, free, Javascript framework for writing network-enabled 3D games, complete with integrated physics modelling and spatial audio… or, a complete, mature, dynamic programming platform that can implement the metaverse?…
Posted on 23 March 2023 | 10:02 am
Unidentified miscreants have siphoned cryptocurrency valued at more than $1.5 million from Bitcoin ATMs by exploiting an unknown flaw in digicash delivery systems.…
Posted on 23 March 2023 | 9:02 am
Google has removed a ChatGPT extension from the Chrome store that steals Facebook session cookies – but not before more than 9,000 users installed the account-compromising bot.…
Posted on 23 March 2023 | 7:29 am
Eight very B-list celebrities have agreed to cough up fines after being accused of shilling a cryptocurrency without disclosing they were paid to do so, while the chap who apparently paid them has been charged with fraud.…
Posted on 23 March 2023 | 6:30 am
The possibility of the world's first successful privately funded and operated Moon landing is looking a little more likely after Japanese aerospace outfit ispace announced its Hakuto-R lander successfully completed a lunar orbit insertion maneuver on Tuesday.…
Posted on 23 March 2023 | 5:31 am
India's government has presented the nation with a challenge: to lead development and deployment of 6G, both within its borders and elsewhere.…
Posted on 23 March 2023 | 3:59 am
South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission has fined McDonald's, British American Tobacco, and Samsung for privacy breaches.…
Posted on 23 March 2023 | 2:29 am
Register Kettle AI-powered chatbots are 2023's hot tech topic, although users report the results they produce are mixed. At best.…
Posted on 23 March 2023 | 12:56 am
Photography community website DPReview will shut down on April 10, 2023, in conjunction with layoffs announced by parent company Amazon.com in January.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 11:44 pm
Public proof-of-concept exploits have landed for bugs in Netgear Orbi routers – including one critical command execution vulnerability. …
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 10:57 pm
Police in Ecuador are investigating attacks on media organizations across the country after a journalist was injured by an exploding USB flash drive.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 10:09 pm
A recent security update to Windows 11 has put the scare on some users by warning that Microsoft's Local Security Authority (LSA) feature is turned off and their system is vulnerable to attack.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 8:28 pm
America's Federal Trade Commission has warned it may crack down on companies that not only use generative AI tools to scam folks, but also those making the software in the first place, even if those applications were not created with that fraud in mind. …
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 8:27 pm
Distributed NoSQL database Aerospike has boosted functionality and engineering support for its real-time database within the popular Java development environment Spring Framework.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 7:16 pm
If we want to find evidence for alien life we don't need to keep looking for chemicals in exoplanet atmospheres or distant radio signals, says a Japanese astronomer. Instead, we should be studying the thousands of micrometer-sized bits of interstellar dust that hit Earth every year.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 6:30 pm
The European Commission has adopted a new set of right to repair rules that, among other things, will add electronic devices like smartphones and tablets to a list of goods that must be built with repairability in mind.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 5:36 pm
Britain’s competition watchdog fears Broadcom’s proposed $61 billion purchase of VMware may lead to higher prices for servers and damage potential innovation.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 4:27 pm
While the tech sector job losses ticker has clocked up a global body count of 150,000 so far for 2023, those looking to hire IT staff are not out of the woods yet, according to Gartner.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 3:30 pm
Microsoft GitHub has trained its Copilot programming model to perform new tasks, making the already widely adopted AI assistant all the more unavoidable for developers.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 2:00 pm
Scientists are using AI algorithms to design new materials, including synthetic proteins to make fake blood plasma and biological liquids found inside of cells.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 1:27 pm
Remember the Who Targets Me browser extension from privacy activists at Noyb? The group yesterday filed explosive complaints based on log records from the extension that claim six of Germany's political parties broke European data law when they targeted voters on Facebook's adtech platform.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 12:31 pm
Marvell Technology is the latest chipmaker to open a redundancy process, blaming a slowdown across much of industry for the decision to erase some four percent of its workforce.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 11:43 am
SpaceX has tried to shoot down Amazon's attempt to speed up approval of its rival satellite broadband constellation.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 10:45 am
Desktop Tourism ASUS's Zenbook Pro 16X OLED (UX7602) is a sleek beast of a laptop that invites you to take it head-on and go all-in – an offer that should give you pause before accepting.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 9:30 am
Police in the Indian state of Punjab hunting the leader of a Sikh separatist group have imposed a state-wide shut down of mobile internet and SMS services since Saturday, in order to pursue a single man.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 8:27 am
A cyber espionage campaign targeting organizations in Russian-occupied regions of Ukraine is using novel malware to steal data, according to Russia-based infosec software vendor Kaspersky.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 7:32 am
The US Commerce Department proposed rules on Tuesday that would limit the amount of CHIPS Act recipients can invest to expand semiconductor manufacturing in countries the US considers “adversarial.”…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 6:32 am
A slasher flick featuring Winnie the Pooh and other characters from A.A. Milne's beloved stories has mysteriously had its Hong Kong debut cancelled. Probably forever.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 5:29 am
India's rules requiring local organizations to report infosec incidents within six hours of detection have been observed by a mere 15 entities/…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 3:30 am
Russian president Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have set themselves the goal of dominating the world of information technology.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 1:58 am
BreachForums has reportedly shut down for good, just days after US authorities arrested the online criminal marketplace's alleged chief administrator.…
Posted on 22 March 2023 | 12:45 am
GTC On the surface, Nvidia's spring GPU Technology Conference was once again opened with a keynote dominated by generative AI technologies.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 11:30 pm
Google is offering Bard – its chat-driven rival to ChatGPT – to netizens in the US and UK who ask nicely.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 10:32 pm
The popularity of word salad prepared by large language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's ChatGPT, Google's Bard, and Meta's LLaMa has prompted academics to look for ways to detect machine-generated text.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 9:46 pm
Microsoft has torn the wraps off its multi-cloud security benchmark (MCSB), which replaces the four-year-old Azure Security Benchmark. Crucially, as the name suggests, it now has usage and configuration guidance that reaches into rival environments.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 8:43 pm
Peanut butter, Nutella, and strawberry jam represent squirtable media in a demonstration of 3D printing digital cooking, which has led to the odd dubious result.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 7:56 pm
If you've ever wondered why NASA's recent space missions haven't made more aggressive use of nuclear power, the Space Administration's Office of the Inspector General issued a report this week that may have your answer. The decade-long project to develop better nuclear space systems is, to put it lightly, a bit of a mess.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 5:45 pm
GTC Nvidia's strategy for capitalizing on generative AI hype: glue two H100 PCIe cards together, of course.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 4:15 pm
GTC Nvidia's latest gambit? Entrenching itself as a key part of the semiconductor manufacturing supply chain.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 3:45 pm
Acer is racing into virgin territory and – everybody look out – it's coming armed with AI: the Taiwanese PC maker is launching an E-bike that is apparently designed for urban commuting.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 3:28 pm
Opinion Code is being refused if it comes from developers in sanctioned Russian companies… but it's not clear if this is an effective move. Cui bono?…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 2:33 pm
A tiny satellite with a drag chute built by a team of students has been held up as one small possible solution to the thorny issue of space junk caused by defunct hardware cluttering up Earth’s orbit.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 1:31 pm
The University of Kansas Health System is set to trial software designed to help doctors automatically generate notes from conversations with patients, a move billed as "the most significant rollout to date of generative AI in healthcare" yet.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 12:38 pm
Interview Jordan Tigani made his name as an engineer leading the team behind BigQuery, Google’s data warehouse, which was among a group of systems to transform the market by separating storage and compute. Despite helping win global customers including Vodafone, and taking on big-name rivals Snowflake, Azure Synapse and AWS Redshift, he’s begun to think the approach has run out of “magic beans” for some users.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 11:30 am
Vendors working on an Edinburgh University ERP project have been awarded around £8 million ($9.81 million) in additional fees following a troubled implementation which led to delays in paying staff and suppliers.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 10:32 am
Lenovo's Thinkpad X13s is a lovely, if odd, little laptop. It's a modern Arm machine that is trying as hard as it can to resemble a vanilla x86 laptop… and it carries it off.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 9:30 am
Meta's former security policy manager, who split her time between the US and Greece, is reportedly suing the Hellenic national intelligence service for hacking her phone.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 8:31 am
Daniel Stenberg has observed the 25th anniversary of the curl open source project with the publication of curl 8.0.0, the 215th release of the command line tool, and a modest tele-celebration.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 7:28 am
Fresh from the launch of its large language model-based chatbot, ERNIE, Chinese web giant Baidu is rolling out of a cloud service integrated with the AI tool.…
Posted on 21 March 2023 | 6:58 am