Creeps give away money to harass recipients with abusive transaction descriptions on bank statements
(2020/06/04)
'Serious threats' and references to family violence as payment descriptors turned into virtual messaging service
Why updating your PC fleet lowers TCO, bolsters security – and makes life easier for your IT admins
(2020/06/04)
The Intel vPro platform aims to give businesses what they need to thrive
GSMA suggests mobile carriers bake contact-tracing into their own apps – if governments ask for it
(2020/06/04)
Working group already probing Bluetooth performance on myriad devices to help developers
Barmy ban on businesses, Brits based in Blighty bearing or buying .eu domains is back: Cut-off date is Jan 1, 2021
(2020/06/04)
If you're not registered somewhere in the union, you can't use the TLD
Keep it clean you lot: Samsung's created a hand-washing app for its wearables
(2020/06/04)
Complete with nagware and wash-tracking features
No more installing Microsoft's Chromium-centered Edge by hand: Windows 10 will do it for you automatically
(2020/06/04)
Something something pushing us over the Edge
IBM to power down Power-powered virtual private cloud, GPU-accelerated options
(2020/06/04)
Customers given 80 days before instance deletion and the suggested replacement doesn't yet support Linux
Update Firefox: Mozilla just patched three hijack-me holes and a bunch of other flaws
(2020/06/04)
Plus: Zoom fixes code-execution security bugs
SpaceX is about to launch its first Starlink internet satellite sporting a sun visor following complaints by astronomers
(2020/06/04)
Updated Star light, star bright, you're being blocked out by these satellites
Anatomy of a business email scam: FBI dossier details how fraudster pocketed $500k+ by redirecting payments
(2020/06/03)
Electrolux, construction biz fooled into handing over money funneled out of the US to South Africa
California emits fine-print of its GDPR-ish digital privacy law, complete with Google and Facebook-sized holes
(2020/06/03)
Sure, companies will probably just ignore its most important component, but what you gonna do?
Not just its VCS console that's MIA, Atari is a no-show in court, too: Reborn biz ignores hardware architect's lawsuit over unpaid wages
(2020/06/03)
12,000 people waiting for hardware, 500 might get it this month. Might
It's nice y'all like our chips but half our data-center sales are from cloud giants, FYI, says Nvidia's chief beancounter
(2020/06/03)
Hyperscalers snap up GPUs for AI inference
Smartphones, PCs, and now wearables... Coronavirus wrecks another corner of tech
(2020/06/03)
17% growth pre-pandemic now a measly 5%
$5bn+ sueball bounces into Google's court over claims it continues to track netizens in 'private browsing mode'
(2020/06/03)
You've not heard this one before but it does sound familiar
How HCI modernises database estate management
(2020/06/03)
HCI-DBaaS combo delivers even greater efficiency gains
Xiaomi has such Huawei with words: Our two new phones have 'easy access' to Google apps... unlike that other guy
(2020/06/03)
Who's in China and not involved in the deployment of 5G, eh? We are!
Google signs agreement to offer discounts on cloud services through UK govt's Digital Marketplace
(2020/06/03)
Microsoft already at the trough, IBM and AWS said to be en route
Amateur astroboffins spot young brown dwarf playing with planet-forming hula hoop just 102 parsecs from Earth
(2020/06/03)
Closest example yet of substellar object
Defending critical national infrastructure... hmm. Does Zoom count as critical now?
(2020/06/03)
Infosec Europe All the old lines are getting pretty darn blurred, say security experts at Euro online confab
"I'm not saying that they were knowingly dishonest, perhaps they were simply stupid. "
-- Linus Torvalds, commenting on those who really thought Microkernels were wise. (Open Sources, 1999 O'Reilly and Associates)