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Microsoft to tackle spam by restricting Exchange Online bulk email Need to send to more than 2,000 external recipients in 24 hours? Time to start looking for an alternative Applications16 Apr 2024 | 1
SIM swap crooks solicit T-Mobile US, Verizon staff via text to do their dirty work No breach responsible for employee contact info getting out, says T-Mo Cyber-crime16 Apr 2024 | 1
US Equal Employment agency says Workday AI hiring bias case should continue Judge to hear software vendor's effort to dismiss discrimination case next month Software16 Apr 2024 | 1
NASA confirms Florida house hit by a piece of ISS battery pack Who needs aircon when you have NASA to punch holes through your home? Science16 Apr 2024 | 9
Open sourcerers say suspected xz-style attacks continue to target maintainers Social engineering patterns spotted across range of popular projects Security16 Apr 2024 | 2
AI gold rush continues as Microsoft invests $1.5B in UAE's G42 Can regulators keep up? AI + ML16 Apr 2024 |
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Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source Opinion Shifts its transmission from vendor neutral into open source gear
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Blackstone wants to plug hyperscale datacenter into former Britishvolt battery site Plans to plant $12B bitbarn where homegrown renewables hope once lived On-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 9
Google location tracking deal could be derailed by politics $62 million settlement plan challenged over payments to progressive nonprofits Security16 Apr 2024 | 10
KPMG bags £8.5M NHS gig as cheerleader for Federated Data Platform rollout Consultancy tasked with helping local services get on board Public Sector16 Apr 2024 | 5
AI cloud startup TensorWave bets AMD can beat Nvidia Starts racking MI300X systems - because you can actually buy them and they beat the H100 on many specs Systems16 Apr 2024 | 4
Intel's effort to build a foundry biz is costing far more – and taking longer – than expected Analysis If you wanna make money you've gotta spend money. And against Samsung it's gonna cost a lot On-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 4
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Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions Virtualization16 Apr 2024 | 5
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OpenAI launches Asian operations in Tokyo to avoid being lost in translation Local customers get early access to Japanese-language GPT-4 AI + ML16 Apr 2024 | 2
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Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit Systems16 Apr 2024 | 3
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Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again Says the IRS can do this stuff for free Applications15 Apr 2024 | 41
Samsung snags $6.4B in CHIPS Act funds for Texas fabs Work in Austin, Taylor will include new 2nm facility, packaging plant, and Pentagon partnership Systems15 Apr 2024 | 4
US lawmakers rage over Intel Meteor Lake-powered Huawei PC Special export license granted to Intel by President Trump unlikely to be renewed Systems15 Apr 2024 | 7
Japan turns up heat on Apple, Google with threat of hefty fines Antitrust proposals could stretch to 30% of annual revenues for law-breaking app store monopolies Applications15 Apr 2024 | 3
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Roku makes 2FA mandatory for all after nearly 600K accounts pwned Streamer says access came via credential stuffing Cyber-crime15 Apr 2024 | 13
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Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11 It probably wasn't only sound driver problems that kept users away OSes15 Apr 2024 | 11
Delinea Secret Server customers should apply latest patches Updated Attackers could nab an org's most sensitive keys if left unaddressed Patches15 Apr 2024 | 3
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North American S/4HANA migrations ramping among SAP users Skills access still an issue for organizations hoping to beat the 2027 ECC support deadline
Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders This wasn't what most had in mind when Redmond promised to make the feature 'great again' OSes15 Apr 2024 | 91
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Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it who, me? If you're too exhausted to think, maybe you shouldn't be doing tech support On-Prem15 Apr 2024 | 61
Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 15
Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships Reconaissance vessels first, then set a course for armed drones AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 8
Salesforce apparently poised to slurp data management outfit Informatica Investors get excited about using AI to make AI easier
US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all Infosec in brief PLUS: Chinese chipmaker Nexperia attacked; A Microsoft-signed backdoor; CISA starts scanning your malware; and more
Australian operation of web host BlueVPS laid low by storage failure Asia In Brief PLUS: AWS expands India payment options; Alibaba co-founders unite in criticism; Korea invests in AI; and more
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China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027 There's no Huawei we saw that coming Networks13 Apr 2024 | 70
75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns Devops13 Apr 2024 | 44
Why it’s time to rethink your cloud strategy Organizations must rethink where and how they are placing their workloads as applications and data become more distributed Commissioned
Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins Opinion Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must
Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it who, me? If you're too exhausted to think, maybe you shouldn't be doing tech support
Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions
Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders This wasn't what most had in mind when Redmond promised to make the feature 'great again'
US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all Infosec in brief PLUS: Chinese chipmaker Nexperia attacked; A Microsoft-signed backdoor; CISA starts scanning your malware; and more
Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11 It probably wasn't only sound driver problems that kept users away
Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy Interview Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders
CISA in a flap as Chirp smart door locks can be trivially unlocked remotely Hard-coded credentials last thing you want in home security app
Roku makes 2FA mandatory for all after nearly 600K accounts pwned Streamer says access came via credential stuffing
NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15 billion miles away Since you can't get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software
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Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes
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Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability Legal12 Apr 2024 | 17
Adobe will fork over cash for clips to train text-to-video AI Not touching copyrighted material with a barge pole AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 2
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