SpaceX resets 'Days Since Starship Exploded' counter to zero -- Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris

1 day ago

In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy -- Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows

1 day ago

Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products - If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever

1 day ago

AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach -- Plus: Bit barns' demand for water, land, and power could breed 'growing opposition' from residents

2 days ago

Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings -- Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home -- OSes

20 hours ago

Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper -- Gaia makes its final science observation -- Science

22 hours ago

How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history - Opinion - With added manga and snark. What's not to like? OSes - 18 Jan 2025 - | 31

29 minutes ago

CISA: Wow, that election had a lot of foreign trolling. Trump's Homeland Sec pick: And that's none of your concern -- Cyber agency too 'far off mission,' says incoming boss Kristi Noem -- Public Sector

1 day ago

Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall -- Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

FCC to telcos: By law you must secure your networks from foreign spies. Get on it -- Plus: Uncle Sam is cross with this one Chinese biz over Salt Typhoon mega-snooping -- CSO

1 day ago

Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut it - Analysis - Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there's something for everyone in the presidential directive - Public Sector - 17 Jan 2025 - | 21

36 minutes ago

China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies -- Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors -- Systems

1 day ago

Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading -- Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year -- Cyber-crime

1 day ago

Clock ticking for TikTok as US Supreme Court upholds ban - Updated - With Biden reportedly planning to skirt enforcement and kick the can to Trump, this saga might still not be over - Security - 17 Jan 2025 - | 41

7 hours ago

EU demands a peek under the hood of X's recommendation algorithms -- Commission insists the timing has nothing to do with Musk meddling in German politics ahead of election -- Personal Tech

1 day ago

Cybersecurity rethink - from reaction to resilience - Proactive strategies for data security and identity management in 2025 - Webinar

2 days ago

Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling - HTH - Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed 'shadow AI' to creep in

1 day ago

Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day -- Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast -- Patches

1 day ago

Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer -- €15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 -- HPC

1 day ago

Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a month -- Many users less than impressed by unexpected arrival of AI assistant in Word -- AI + ML

1 day ago

Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI -- Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved' -- AI + ML

1 day ago

IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the door -- With a near half-billion-pound price hike bringing contract value to £1.4B -- Networks

2 days ago

Medusa ransomware group claims attack on UK's Gateshead Council -- Pastes allegedly stolen documents on leak site with £600K demand -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Tech support fill-in given no budget, no help, no training, and no empathy for his plight - On Call - Fixed the problem anyway – with no approval for a purchase and no permission to use a device - Storage - 17 Jan 2025 - | 73

11 hours ago

MariaDB adds vector search in Gen AI DB push

1 day ago

BMC Software enhances mainframe data storage and AI services

1 day ago

Cirrus Data extends block data moves with Red Hat integration

1 day ago

Storage news ticker – January 17

1 day ago

Microsoft eggheads say AI can never be made secure – after testing Redmond's own products -- If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever -- AI + ML

2 days ago

AWS adds 32-vCPU option and an easier on-ramp to its cloudy desktops -- Weirdly, this shows the weakness of hosted Windows with an admission about vidchats -- Virtualization

2 days ago

SpaceX resets 'Days Since Starship Exploded' counter to zero - Updated - Test flight seven did better on the ground with a successful booster catch – as aircraft divert from falling debris - Science - 17 Jan 2025 - | 90

36 minutes ago

GM parks claims that driver location data was given to insurers, pushing up premiums -- We'll defo ask for permission next time, automaker tells FTC -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Enterprises in for a shock when they realize power and cooling demands of AI - FYI - Energy consumption set to become a key performance indicator by 2027

1 day ago

In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy -- Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows -- Bootnotes

2 days ago

Feds sue Southwest for chronic delays, unrealistic schedules -- Department of Transportation wants in on last-minute Biden administration action too -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Russia's Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts - updated - FSB cyberspies venture into a new app for espionage, Microsoft says - Security - 16 Jan 2025 - | 2

1 day ago

TSMC Can't Be Caught Or Bought, Only Sought Or Stolen

2 days ago

Using NIM Guardrails To Keep Agentic AI From Jumping To Wrong Conclusions

2 days ago

Can Synthetic Data Help Us Scale AI's Data Wall?

2 days ago

Red Hat Woos VMware Shops With OpenShift Virtualization Engine

3 days ago

TSMC plans to have 1.6nm chips in 'volume production' by 2026 -- You've got to spend money – like $36 billion+ – to make, er, AI chips -- Systems

2 days ago

Enzo Biochem settles lawsuit over 2023 ransomware attack for $7.5M -- That's in addition to the $4.5M fine paid to three state AGs last year -- Cyber-crime

2 days ago

Anduril picks Ohio for 5 million square foot autonomous weapon factory -- The hyperscale plant is designed to produce tens of thousands of AVs a year -- Offbeat

2 days ago

Raspberry Pi hands out prizes to all in the RP2350 Hacking Challenge -- Power-induced glitches, lasers, and electromagnetic fields are all tools of the trade -- Security

2 days ago

Elevate DevSecOps with data-driven insights - Why developers and security teams need visibility, context and control to reduce risk - Webinar

4 days ago

Google reports halving code migration time with AI help -- Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas -- AI + ML

2 days ago

AI datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach -- Plus: Bit barns' demand for water, land, and power could breed 'growing opposition' from residents -- On-Prem

2 days ago

Brits must prove their age on adult sites by July, says watchdog -- Regulator asks people to link their credit cards, mobile accounts, or face scans for smut use to protect kids -- Personal Tech

2 days ago

Bun update brings Chrome debugging and controversial S3 API, PostgreSQL client coming soon

1 day ago

Another open source project shifts to restrictive license: Fluent Assertions following Xceed partnership

3 days ago

GitHub Git downtime caused by bad configuration update

4 days ago

Rust 1.84 released, including name change to WASI target that may break toolchains

4 days ago

Debian 12.9 arrives, quickly followed by MX Linux 23.5 -- The eighth point-release of Bookworm – yes, you read that right – and the latest MX with new Xfce -- OSes

2 days ago

Blue Origin reaches orbit with New Glenn, fumbles first-stage recovery -- Jeff Bezos' space company achieves milestone with payload delivered -- Science

3 days ago

Infoseccer: Private security biz let guard down, exposed 120K+ files -- Assist Security's client list includes fashion icons, critical infrastructure orgs -- Security

3 days ago

Securing AI workloads in multi-tenant K8s clusters - Discover how F5 BIG-IP Next for Kubernetes offloads critical AI tasks to BlueField-3 DPUs - Partner Content

10 days ago

Apple's interoperability efforts aren't meeting spirit or letter of EU law, advocacy groups argue -- Free Software Foundation Europe and others urge European Commission to double down on DMA -- Software

3 days ago

UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog -- NAO report highlights £3B cost overruns and 29 years of cumulative delays in IT projects -- Personal Tech

3 days ago

India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit -- As the ESA celebrates planned break-up of its solar blotter-spotter -- Science

3 days ago

US adds Chinese RISC-V player that TSMC suspected of helping build Huawei GPUs to risky company register -- Sophgo scores a place on Entity List, Indian nuclear boffins taken off -- Legal

3 days ago

Parallels brings back the magic that was waiting seven minutes for Windows to boot -- In a preview of x86_64 VMs running on Apple silicon, so it's excusable for now

1 day ago

Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer -- System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems

1 day ago

GoDaddy slapped with wet lettuce for years of lax security and 'several major breaches' -- Watchdog alleged it had no SIEM or MFA, orders rapid adoption of basic infosec tools

2 days ago

DJI loosens flight restrictions, decides to trust operators to follow FAA rules - Right after one of its drones crashed into an aircraft fighting California wildfires? Great timing

1 day ago

Oh, Deere! FTC sues tractor maker, alleging decades of monopolized repairs - Updated - Incoming Trump-picked watchdog boss dissents, calls suit 'hasty' and 'deeply imprudent,' so will it stick?

1 day ago

China's Salt Typhoon spies spotted on US govt networks before telcos, CISA boss says -- We are only seeing 'the tip of the iceberg,' Easterly warns

3 days ago

A rethink of parental leave policy -- IT workers and programmers set to benefit as Sandvik implements HR reboot

1 month ago

Fortify your data -- How cyber resilient storage hardware can defeat ransomware

1 month ago

Where do European SMEs start when it comes to conquering the world? -- The answer is in Denmark

1 month ago

Why AI builds best on private clouds -- AI projects under pressure to show real value in the tightest of timeframes might be worth keeping on-premises

2 months ago

IT job market is still shrinking but not as quickly as last year -- Half the number of roles axed, and yes – you can keep blaming AI -- CxO

3 days ago

Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition -- You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy -- AI + ML

3 days ago

Nvidia plots Quantum Day at GTC 2025 – for tech it called a distant dream -- Don't believe the hype? GPU maker jumps on the bandwagon anyway -- HPC

3 days ago

Windows Patch Tuesday hits snag with Citrix software, workarounds published -- Microsoft starts 2025 as it hopefully doesn't mean to go on -- Patches

3 days ago

'Savvy' shortcuts produce near-instant speech-to-speech translation of 36 languages -- Babel Fish like ML model emerges after training on 4.5 million hours of multilingual spoken audio -- AI + ML

3 days ago

AI frenzy continues as Macquarie commits up to $5B for Applied Digital datacenters -- Bubble? What bubble? -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Crypto klepto North Korea stole $659M over just 5 heists last year -- US, Japan, South Korea vow to intensify counter efforts -- Cyber-crime

3 days ago

Cyber protection made intuitive and affordable - How Cynet delivered 100 percent Protection and 100 percent Detection Visibility in 2024 MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation - Partner Content

1 month ago

Megan, AI recruiting agent, is on the job, giving bosses fewer reasons to hire in HR - Interview - She doesn't feel pity, remorse, or fear, but she'll craft a polite email message as she turns you down - AI + ML - 15 Jan 2025 - | 80

13 hours ago

Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home -- Threat to quit still preferred to commuting on packed public transport -- On-Prem

3 days ago

Four plead guilty in US government tech procurement fraud case -- Scheme involving bribes, bid rigging and insider info may have cost US taxpayers $1.3M -- Public Sector

3 days ago

SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon -- Blue Ghost's first time, and second time lucky for Japanese company ispace? -- Science

4 days ago

British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees -- Collective Proceedings Order seeks £1.5B from iGiant -- Applications

4 days ago

UK businesses eye AI as the cheaper, non-whining alternative to actual staff -- Rising costs blamed, although any excuse to do more with less -- AI + ML

4 days ago

Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds -- Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences -- Databases

4 days ago

Microsoft's latest on-prem Azure is for apps you don't want in the cloud, but will manage from it -- Azure Local is about hybrid management, not hybrid resource pools, and is catching up with virtual rivals -- On-Prem

4 days ago

Taming the multi-vault beast - GitGuardian takes on enterprise secrets sprawl - Partner Content

1 month ago

Boeing going backwards as production's slowing and woes keep flowing -- No such problems at Airbus, which cruised at a high level and shipped almost two planes a day last year -- Offbeat

4 days ago

Intel Capital next into the chip giant's trebuchet, to be shot as far over the wall as possible -- This'll be good for you, don't you worry, CFO tells venture fund while pulling back the sling -- CxO

4 days ago

SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover -- Plus: SpaceX rocket re-entries spark airline delays -- Bootnotes

4 days ago