Biting the hand that feeds IT — Enterprise Technology News and Analysis
Comment For all their differences, the biggest tech companies share one thing in common: They don't like to stay in their lane. …
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 5:00 pm
A group of politicians and lawmakers in the UK have backed a campaign to ban the sale of CCTV systems made by companies alleged to introduce potential security issues as well as being linked to human rights abuses in China.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 4:30 pm
Physicists at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) have announced the observation of three never-before-seen particles as the accelerator kicks off its third run.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 4:00 pm
Tuxedo Computers is launching a second generation of its Pulse high-end Linux laptop.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 3:02 pm
The datacenter is dead – at least according to FedEx, which announced plans to close its server farms and transition completely to the cloud, where it hopes to save an estimated $400 million annually.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 2:38 pm
The European Space Agency (ESA) has released a strategy roadmap to take it into the 2030s and beyond.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 2:00 pm
US president Joe Biden is debating whether to end or cut Trump-era tariffs imposed on Chinese imports into the United States, according to reports.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 1:30 pm
More red flags about the semiconductor market are being raised with the news that a key supplier to chipmakers such as TSMC is planning to hike prices, which will likely have a knock-on effect on chip prices.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 1:00 pm
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BSI) has put out an IT baseline protection profile for space infrastructure amid concerns that attackers could turn their gaze skywards.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 12:15 pm
One of the GNOME developers has suggested that the next major release of Gtk could drop support for the X window system.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 11:33 am
Alibaba's financial services affiliate, Ant Group, has open sourced its "privacy-preserving Computation Framework."…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 10:30 am
IBM has won a contract worth £34.2 million (c $41.2 million) as part of a tranche of technology upgrade deals from the UK's National Savings & Investment bank set to be worth hundreds of millions.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 9:39 am
Review Logitech has lined up another headset to tap into the continuing trend for remote and hybrid working: the Zone Vibe 125.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 8:30 am
The Netherlands' Maastricht University has managed to recoup the Bitcoin ransom it paid to ransomware scum in 2019 – and has made a tidy profit on the deal.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 7:46 am
NASA and commercial space outfits Rocket Lab and Advanced Space have collectively announced that the Cislunar Autonomous Positioning System Technology Operations and Navigation Experiment – CAPSTONE – mission has left Earth orbit and is on its way to Luna.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 6:45 am
A threat actor has taken to a forum for news and discussion of data breaches with an offer to sell what they assert is a database containing records of over a billion Chinese civilians – allegedly stolen from the Shanghai Police.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 6:04 am
Google has issued an unexpected update to its Chrome browser to address a zero-day WebRTC flaw that is actively being exploited.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 2:57 am
The Indian government has decided to share with the world the many e-governance tools it has created to run the country, under the name Indiastack.global.…
Posted on 5 July 2022 | 1:02 am
Schneider Electric has teamed up with Dell Technologies on an automated shutdown system for hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI), based on the integration of its APC PowerChute with Dell's VxRail HCI platform.…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 5:28 pm
Microsoft's Azure cloud is having difficulty providing enough capacity to meet demand, according to some customers, with certain regions said to refusing new subscriptions for services.…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 4:26 pm
NortonLifeLock and Columbia University's legal tussle over anti-malware patents continued last week, with attorney fees and a new trial in dispute two months after a jury awarded the uni $185 million.…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 3:24 pm
Alibaba is following in the footsteps of larger rivals by launching a tool that customers can use to measure and manage the carbon emissions of their business with the aim of lowering their environmental impact.…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 2:28 pm
In brief Numerous people start to believe they're interacting with something sentient when they talk to AI chatbots, according to the CEO of Replika, an app that allows users to design their own virtual companions.…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 1:32 pm
Analysis Jim Chanos, the infamous short-seller who predicted Enron's downfall, has said he plans to short datacenter real-estate investment trusts (REIT).…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 12:29 pm
The latest beta of the popular Windows USB creation tool Rufus adds some handy features, such as removing Microsoft account requirements and turning off TPM chip detection – and there are others too.…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 11:49 am
The UK has signed up to a US plan for sharing police-held biometric data about citizens with US border officials.…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 10:44 am
Opinion The word hacker, for most people, means a youth in a hoodie turning off power stations with a sticker-encrusted laptop. This annoys those who know that the true hacker ethos is to make stuff do things it was not designed to do, with bonus points for charm, ingenuity, and the maximum effect for the work put in. …
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 9:41 am
Who, Me? It's Monday, and this week's column contains another reminder to check that those backups really have worked in an unfortunately synchronized episode of Who, Me?…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 8:42 am
Almost 40 million residents of Japan spent the weekend in The Time Before Smartphones after local telco KDDI Corp. experienced its biggest outage to date – affecting both voice calls and data communications.…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 7:43 am
Microsoft is readying a "Lite" version of its flagship messaging and calendar app for Android.…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 6:58 am
The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) announced a crackdown on investment fraud platforms on Friday in conjunction with the country's Ministry of Public Security.…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 5:29 am
Analyst outfit IDC has predicted that the world's IT buyers will spend more on infrastructure intended for use in clouds than in other scenarios some time during 2022.…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 4:29 am
The British Army has apologized after its Twitter and YouTube accounts were compromised by entities that used them to promote NFTs.…
Posted on 4 July 2022 | 1:07 am
The latest threat security research into operational technology (OT) and industrial systems identified a bunch of issues — 56 to be exact — that criminals could use to launch cyberattacks against critical infrastructure. …
Posted on 3 July 2022 | 11:17 am
China’s efforts to end its reliance on Microsoft Windows got a boost with the launch of the openKylin project.…
Posted on 3 July 2022 | 9:33 am
Comment Liquid and immersion cooling have undergone something of a renaissance in the datacenter in recent years as components have grown ever hotter.…
Posted on 2 July 2022 | 4:03 pm
Interview In June, Purism began shipping a privacy-focused smartphone called Librem 5 USA that runs on a version of Linux called PureOS rather than Android or iOS. As the name suggests, it's made in America – all the electronics are assembled in its Carlsbad, California facility, using as many US-fabricated parts as possible.…
Posted on 2 July 2022 | 10:07 am
In brief Google on Friday pledged to update its location history system so that visits to medical clinics and similarly sensitive places are automatically deleted.…
Posted on 2 July 2022 | 7:41 am
TikTok, owned by Chinese outfit ByteDance, last month said it was making an effort to minimize the amount of data from US users that gets transferred outside of America, following reports that company engineers in the Middle Kingdom had access to US customer data.…
Posted on 2 July 2022 | 12:30 am
The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has rejected Google's and Mozilla's objections to the Decentralized Identifiers (DID) proposal, clearing the way for the DID specification to be published a W3C Recommendation next month.…
Posted on 1 July 2022 | 9:50 pm
A cyberattack on a software company almost a week ago continues to ripple through labor and workforce agencies in a number of US states, cutting off people from such services as unemployment benefits and job-seeking programs.…
Posted on 1 July 2022 | 8:41 pm
It seems promoters of RISC-V weren't bluffing when they hinted a laptop using the open-source instruction set architecture would arrive this year.…
Posted on 1 July 2022 | 7:59 pm
Investigators at a blockchain analysis outfit have linked the theft of $100 million in crypto assets last week to the notorious North Korean-based cybercrime group Lazarus. The company said it had tracked the movement of some of the stolen cryptocurrency to a so-called mixer used to launder such ill-gotten funds.…
Posted on 1 July 2022 | 6:11 pm
There's more than one path to net zero emissions by 2050, but the only practical one runs straight through nuclear power, according to the International Energy Agency.…
Posted on 1 July 2022 | 5:29 pm
Good news for especially determined fans of Ubuntu's formerly in-house desktop: there's a new version.…
Posted on 1 July 2022 | 4:33 pm
Cloud data lake vendor Cloudera has announced the general availability of Apache Iceberg in its data platform.…
Posted on 1 July 2022 | 3:48 pm
NASA's Moon rocket is to trundle back into its shed today after a delay caused by concerns over the crawlerway.…
Posted on 1 July 2022 | 3:33 pm
Datacenter operator Switch Inc is being sued by investors over claims that it did not disclose key financial details when pursuing an $11 billion deal with DigitalBridge Group and IFM Investors that will see the company taken into private ownership if it goes ahead.…
Posted on 1 July 2022 | 2:30 pm
Google is to pay $90 million to settle a class-action lawsuit with US developers over alleged anti-competitive behavior regarding the Google Play Store.…
Posted on 1 July 2022 | 1:30 pm
It has taken a while, but the Jenkins project confirmed this week that Java 11 will be required from this week's Jenkins 2.357 and for the upcoming September LTS release.…
Posted on 1 July 2022 | 12:29 pm