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
In farewell speech, Biden rails against the tech industrial complex, disinfo dismantling democracy Video Welcome to a decade where the oligarchs are no longer silent in the shadows
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 datacenters putting zero emissions promises out of reach Plus: Bit barns' demand for water, land, and power could breed 'growing opposition' from residents
Windows Insiders can now turn on Administrator Protection from settings Security feature widens out to more Windows 11 users, including those at home OSes18 Jan 2025 | 5
Got a telescope? Bid farewell to ESA's retiring Milky Way mapper Gaia makes its final science observation Science18 Jan 2025 | 3
How Windows got to version 3 – an illustrated history Opinion With added manga and snark. What's not to like? OSes18 Jan 2025 | 15
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 Sector18 Jan 2025 | 11
Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds Personal Tech17 Jan 2025 | 13
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 CSO17 Jan 2025 | 16
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 Sector17 Jan 2025 | 12
China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle allies Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors Systems17 Jan 2025 | 7
Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year Cyber-crime17 Jan 2025 | 5
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 Security17 Jan 2025 | 38
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 Tech17 Jan 2025 | 21
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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
Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a day Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast Patches17 Jan 2025 | 13
Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputer €15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 HPC17 Jan 2025 | 1
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 + ML17 Jan 2025 | 57
Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AI Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved' AI + ML17 Jan 2025 | 41
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 Networks17 Jan 2025 | 41
Medusa ransomware group claims attack on UK's Gateshead Council Pastes allegedly stolen documents on leak site with £600K demand Cyber-crime17 Jan 2025 | 9
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 Storage17 Jan 2025 | 72
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 + ML17 Jan 2025 | 51
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 Virtualization17 Jan 2025 | 6
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 Science17 Jan 2025 | 75
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 Tech17 Jan 2025 | 37
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
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 Bootnotes16 Jan 2025 | 63
Feds sue Southwest for chronic delays, unrealistic schedules Department of Transportation wants in on last-minute Biden administration action too Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 7
Russia's Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts updated FSB cyberspies venture into a new app for espionage, Microsoft says Security16 Jan 2025 | 2
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 Systems16 Jan 2025 | 3
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-crime16 Jan 2025 | 1
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 Offbeat16 Jan 2025 | 25
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 Security16 Jan 2025 | 18
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Google reports halving code migration time with AI help Chocolate Factory slurps own dogfood, sheds drudgery in specific areas AI + ML16 Jan 2025 | 13
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-Prem16 Jan 2025 | 66
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 Tech16 Jan 2025 | 243
Another open source project shifts to restrictive license: Fluent Assertions following Xceed partnership
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 OSes16 Jan 2025 | 32
Blue Origin reaches orbit with New Glenn, fumbles first-stage recovery Jeff Bezos' space company achieves milestone with payload delivered Science16 Jan 2025 | 58
Infoseccer: Private security biz let guard down, exposed 120K+ files Assist Security’s client list includes fashion icons, critical infrastructure orgs Security16 Jan 2025 | 14
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
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 Software16 Jan 2025 | 21
UK government tech procurement lacks understanding, says watchdog NAO report highlights £3B cost overruns and 29 years of cumulative delays in IT projects Personal Tech16 Jan 2025 | 58
India becomes just fourth country to dock satellites in orbit As the ESA celebrates planned break-up of its solar blotter-spotter Science16 Jan 2025 | 13
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 Legal16 Jan 2025 | 4
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
Nvidia shovels $500M into Israeli boffinry supercomputer System to feature hundreds of liquid-cooled Blackwell systems
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
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
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?
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
A rethink of parental leave policy IT workers and programmers set to benefit as Sandvik implements HR reboot
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
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 CxO15 Jan 2025 | 35
Even modest makeup can thwart facial recognition You may not need to go full Juggalo for the sake of privacy AI + ML15 Jan 2025 | 46
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 HPC15 Jan 2025 | 4
Windows Patch Tuesday hits snag with Citrix software, workarounds published Microsoft starts 2025 as it hopefully doesn't mean to go on Patches15 Jan 2025 | 8
Capital One two-day outage leaves customers in free-fall Third-party supplier blamed as folks left unable to access funds
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
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
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
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
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
Just as your LLM once again goes off the rails, Cisco, Nvidia are at the door smiling Some of you have apparently already botched chatbots or allowed ‘shadow AI’ to creep in
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
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
Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleading Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year
'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 + ML15 Jan 2025 | 28
AI frenzy continues as Macquarie commits up to $5B for Applied Digital datacenters Bubble? What bubble? On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 9
Crypto klepto North Korea stole $659M over just 5 heists last year US, Japan, South Korea vow to intensify counter efforts Cyber-crime15 Jan 2025 | 12
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
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 + ML15 Jan 2025 | 79
Shove your office mandates, people still prefer working from home Threat to quit still preferred to commuting on packed public transport On-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 190
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 Sector15 Jan 2025 | 7
SpaceX launches 2 lunar landers on path to the Moon Blue Ghost's first time, and second time lucky for Japanese company ispace? Science15 Jan 2025 | 21
British tribunal claim aims to take a bite out of Apple over App Store fees Collective Proceedings Order seeks £1.5B from iGiant Applications15 Jan 2025 | 10
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 + ML15 Jan 2025 | 127
Foundation model for tabular data slashes training from hours to seconds Good ol' spreadsheet data could benefit from 'revolutionary' approach to ML inferences Databases15 Jan 2025 | 10
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-Prem15 Jan 2025 | 6
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 Offbeat15 Jan 2025 | 92
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 CxO15 Jan 2025 | 8
SEC sues Elon Musk for allegedly screwing investors out of $150M before Twitter takeover Plus: SpaceX rocket re-entries spark airline delays Bootnotes15 Jan 2025 | 53