Microsoft plans to drop SMB1 binaries from Windows 11 (2022/04/20) Yet another nail in the coffin for aged and unsecure file-sharing protocol
Amazon opens MASSIVE AI speech dataset so Alexa can speak your language (2022/04/20) Goal is to make natural language processing available in all the world's tongues
Criminals adopting new methods to bypass improved defenses, says Zscaler (2022/04/20) PhaaS, SMiShing, and remote work drive increase in phishing attacks
Cloud spending to scrape $500 billion this year – Gartner (2022/04/20) Growing enterprise demand for more complex cloud-native services carries a higher price tag
Netflix to crack down on account sharing, offer ad-laden cheaper options (2022/04/20) Streaming giant plans to grow by adding new subscription tier and building up games unit
US warns North Korean Lazarus gang rising against cryptocurrency outfits (2022/04/20) Malware-laced recruitment emails are more Kim job ill than Kim Jong-un
Google tracked record 58 exploited-in-the-wild zero-day security holes in 2021 (2022/04/20) Friends are always tellin' me, you're a user ... Just be good to free()
Judge dismisses Microsoft's challenges: ValueLicensing case to proceed in Britain (2022/04/20) UK High Court beckons for Windows vendor and reseller amid claims of on-prem software license skulduggery
Google 'Switch to Android' app surfaces in iOS App Store (2022/04/20) After years of Apple's agitation to 'Move to iOS,' the Chocolate Factory has a reply
Under pressure, SAP shuts down Russian operations (2022/04/20) On-prem software may remain albeit without support nor maintenance
Departing Space Force chief architect likens Pentagon's tech acquisition to a BSoD (2022/04/20) US military must 'ride the wave of commercial innovation ... or risk drowning under its own weight'
Big Apple Apple Store workers hope to form union (2022/04/20) Amazon staff success spurs similar spirit in NYC for a sporting share of super-profits
IoT biz Insteon goes silent, smart home gear plays dumb (2022/04/19) CEO removes mention of company from LinkedIn profile
Kaspersky cracks Yanluowang ransomware, offers free decryptor (2022/04/19) Step one, get some scrambled files back. Steps two through 37...
Intel promotes graphics chief Raja Koduri weeks after Arc discrete GPU reveal (2022/04/19) Exclusive CEO memo confirms ex-AMD veteran's bump up to executive veep
Smartphone shipments expected to drop again for Q1 2022 (2022/04/19) Samsung, Apple gain market share while everyone else loses amid economic uncertainty
Google Cloud launches exclusive AI management platform (2022/04/19) Prevision.io wants to 'democratize machine learning innovation' for smaller organizations
Ryzen Pro CPUs are better for work than Intel's, claims AMD (2022/04/19) First business chips from AMD to include Microsoft's Pluton security processor, stock is available says chip biz
Immersion-cooled colo is coming to Ohio... via a crypto-mining datacenter (2022/04/19) LiquidStack CEO says we're in a perfect storm for the growth of two-phase immersion cooling
ESET uncovers vulnerabilities in Lenovo laptops (2022/04/19) Updated Firmware updates incoming in response to UEFI threats