Google Cloud to help India export its Digital Public Infrastructure (2024/10/04) Bundles free government apps to help digital diplomacy – and maybe find some new customers
Elon Musk's X mashed by Australian court for evading child protection reporting (2024/10/04) Argument that it didn't inherit Twitter's legal obligations did not hit the spot
Big names among thousands infected by payment-card-stealing CosmicSting crooks (2024/10/04) Gangs hit 5% of all Adobe Commerce, Magento-powered stores, Sansec says
Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids (2024/10/04) California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger
AI’s energy appetite too big for Texas grid, regulators warn (2024/10/04) Updated Datacenters coming online in the next 15 months will need to supply at least some of their own power
Cloudflare beats patent troll so badly it basically gives up (2024/10/04) Networking giant pockets $225K, foe promises to stop suing and abandons IP
Scammers in the slammer for years after ripping off Apple with fake iPhone returns (2024/10/04) Duo must also cough up $1.5M for pulling off multi-million-dollar exchange swindle
John Deere accused of being full of manure with its right-to-repair promises (2024/10/03) Tractor maker has only turned over shoddy tools, half-baked info, may be breaking the law, says senator
Saying goodbye to the tech dreams Microsoft abandoned with Windows 11 24H2 (2024/10/03) Is that a Mixed Reality headset, or just a complicated paperweight? Oh and farewell WordPad
Sensitive data on 61K+ patients accessed in Alabama hospital cyberattack (2024/10/03) Intruder pored over medical records, insurance details, Social Security numbers in some cases
It's true, social media moderators do go after conservatives (2024/10/03) Because they're most likely to share crappy misinformation online
Google expands visual, audio search, lets AI handle layout (2024/10/03) AI Overviews get links to referenced websites – and ads
DOJ, Microsoft seize 107 domains used in Russia's Star Blizzard phishing attacks (2024/10/03) Winter is coming
Valve powers up Arch Linux – because who needs Windows when you have a Steam Deck? (2024/10/03) Distro behind the handheld console announces corporate sponsorship
Average North American CISO pay now $565K, mainly thanks to one weird trick (2024/10/03) Best way to boost your package is to leave, or pretend to
Submer dives into $55.5M funding to cool down hot-blooded AI datacenters (2024/10/03) Tech's consumption of water and energy driving interest in liquid cooling
Two British-Nigerian men sentenced over multimillion-dollar business email scam (2024/10/03) Fraudsters targeted local government, colleges, and construction firms in Texas and North Carolina
NASA switches off Voyager 2 plasma instrument to stretch out juice (2024/10/03) Veteran probe set to score a half-century while still doing science
The force is strong in Iceberg: Are the table format wars entering the final chapter? (2024/10/03) Interview Former Apple engineer and Apache PMC member Russell Spitzer describes efforts to unite around a single format