BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96 (2024/11/20) Obit Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week
Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season (2024/11/20) Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13
Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous (2024/11/20) Column CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value
European Cloud Competition Observatory created to keep an eye on software licensing (2024/11/20) Exclusive Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium
China wants mobile devices to limit usage time for minors, ensure they only see nice content (2024/11/20) Seeks grand alliance between manufacturers, developers and content providers – all in the name of socialism
Google changes Android release cycle so new versions arrive in Q2 (2024/11/20) Version 16 developer preview starts the new cycle, with warnings for devs to test sooner rather than later
Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom (2024/11/20) Shuttered reactor's operator says it's needed - once giant seawall is finished
Healthcare org Equinox notifies 21K patients and staff of data theft (2024/11/20) Ransomware scum LockBit claims it did the dirty deed
China-linked group abuses Fortinet 0-day with post-exploit VPN-credential stealer (2024/11/20) No word on when or if the issue will be fixed
Russian suspected Phobos ransomware admin extradited to US over $16M extortion (2024/11/19) This malware is FREE for EVERY crook ($300 decryption keys sold separately)
Microsoft 365 Copilot trips over angle brackets, frustrating coders (2024/11/19) updated Chatbot seems to choke when fed tricky less-than character
America's drinking water systems have a hard-to-swallow cybersecurity problem (2024/11/19) More than 100M rely on gear rife with vulnerabilities, says EPA OIG
Microsoft breaks timezones in Settings and calls on an unlikely ally for help (2024/11/19) Control Panel hobbles to the rescue!
Microsoft Fabric promises transactions, analytics on one database service (2024/11/19) Ignite Windows giant also improving Iceberg support after throwing lot in with Delta Parquet
Supermicro hot-swaps auditor in hope of dodging Nasdaq delisting (2024/11/19) Server maker tries accounting reboot amid reports of customers bailing
Palo Alto Networks tackles firewall-busting zero-days with critical patches (2024/11/19) Amazing that these two bugs got into a production appliance, say researchers
Microsoft goes thin client with $349 Windows 365 Link mini PC (2024/11/19) Ignite Just as good as Apple at making squat boxes, but this one doesn't do very much
Database warhorse SQL Server 2025 goes all-in on AI (2024/11/19) Ignite Better locking, improved query optimization, and... Copilot
Microsoft unleashes autonomous Copilot AI agents in public preview (2024/11/19) Ignite They can learn, adapt, and make decisions – but don't worry, they're not coming for your job