Boeing union workers in US reject contract: 96% vote to strike (2024/09/13) Doubtful processes, risky spacecraft, what else could possibly go wrong? Oh...30,000 staff off work
As Oracle's AWS deal completes Big 3 triumvirate, questions remain over licensing (2024/09/13) Analysis Some users will see the appeal of Big Red stacking its hardware in Amazon's datacenters
UK watchdog fears Voda-Three merger will balloon phone bills for customers (2024/09/13) Analysts claim it would be better for competition though
'Hyperscale customer' to take massive datacenter site near London (2024/09/13) Exclusive 'Commercially sensitive' incognito buyer has a lot more support than last group that tried to build a bit barn near M25
BOFH: The Boss is right, the applications of AI are truly staggering (2024/09/13) Episode 17 The future... of defenestration
Muppet broke the datacenter every day, in its own weighty way (2024/09/13) On Call Mr Snuffleupagus turned out to be all too real and bad at database resilience
OpenAI's latest o1 model family tries to emulate 'reasoning' – tho might overthink things a bit (2024/09/13) 'Chain of thought' techniques mean latest LLM 'better' at stepping through complex challenges
Cambodian senator sanctioned by US over alleged forced labor cyber-scam camps (2024/09/13) Do not go on holiday to the O Smach Resort
Australia’s government spent the week boxing Big Tech (2024/09/13) With social media age limits, anti-scam laws, privacy tweaks, and misinformation rules Elon Musk labelled 'fascist'
Feds pull plug on domains linked to import of Chinese gun conversion devices (2024/09/13) Illegal goods allegedly shipped to the US labeled as toys or jewels
Fortinet admits miscreant got hold of customer data in the cloud (2024/09/13) That would explain this 440GB leak, then
'Hadooken' Linux malware targets Oracle WebLogic servers (2024/09/13) Nastyware seeks creds, mines crypto, and plants ransomware that isnt deployed - for now?
FCC boss starts bringing up Musk's Starlink dominance, antitrust concerns (2024/09/13) SpaceX broadband network now accounts for nearly two-thirds of all active satellites in orbit
Unity scraps hated runtime fees, hits devs with subscription hikes instead (2024/09/12) Insert coin to continue
I stole 20 GB of data from Capgemini – and now I'm leaking it, says cybercrook (2024/09/12) Allegedly pilfered database has source code, private keys, staff info, T-Mobile VM logs, more
Google sued for using trademarked Gemini name for AI service (2024/09/12) Even the chatbot allegedly admits to infringement claim
Mastercard splurges $2.65B on another big cyber purchase – Recorded Future (2024/09/12) Oh, turns out there are some things money can buy
Adobe fixed Acrobat bug, neglected to mention whole zero-day exploit thing (2024/09/12) SaaS seller sets severity to 'critical'
Boeing to launch quantum comms satellite testbed in 2026 (2024/09/12) After Starliner stumbles, the aerospace giant eyes a new frontier - entanglement swapping in space