Oracle coughs up $115M to make privacy case go away (2024/07/22) Big Red agrees not to capture personal details after two-year class action
EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims Microsoft (2024/07/22) Was a 2009 agreement on interoperability to blame?
Two Russians sanctioned over cyberattacks on US critical infrastructure (2024/07/22) Supposed hacktivist efforts previously linked to the Kremlin's GRU
The Clacktop: A Thinkpad Yoga with a mechanical keyboard (2024/07/22) Impressively home-made, this is the sort of laptop we wish we could buy new
Unit4 ends support for research costing tool used to plan the Covid vaccine (2024/07/22) Exclusive UK university users face migration path following plan to withdraw support for product some build £1M solutions around
Microsoft's CISPE settlement includes a suspension of audits for members (2024/07/22) Exclusive Cloud group companies free of Redmond's compliance cops for 2 years in return for ditching EC antitrust complaint
Serco appoints former GDS leader Tom Read to digital leadership role (2024/07/22) Read also served at UK's MoJ, where outsourcer paid fine over electronic tagging fiasco
Facebook prank sent techie straight to Excel hell (2024/07/22) Who, Me? When someone kicks a chair across the room out of fear they'll be fired it's stopped being funny
HCL's back-to-office plan: Come in three days a week, or forget about holidays (2024/07/22) Indian tech workers' union calls for a strike over 14-hour day proposal
Curiosity rover is crushing it: Ran over a rock and found pure sulfur (2024/07/22) An unexpected splash of yellow on the red planet
Google, Oracle, Microsoft make their case for VMware migrations – HPE on the outer? (2024/07/22) New instance types and discounts galore, and Broadcom all smiles as its preferred licensing finds more friends
Cellebrite got into Trump shooter's Samsung device in just 40 minutes (2024/07/22) Infosec in brief Also: Second-string Russian hackers sanctioned; Senators demand answers from Snowflake, and more
Chinese researchers create four-gram drone that might fly forever (2024/07/22) Asia in brief Plus: Former Samsung worker jailed for leaking secrets; Robo-cabs reach Shanghai airport; and more
CrowdStrike's Falcon Sensor also linked to Linux kernel panics and crashes (2024/07/22) Rapid restore tool being tested as Microsoft estimates 8.5M machines went down
FTC grabs controller as Microsoft jacks up Game Pass price by 81% (2024/07/20) This is exactly what we said would happen post-Blizzard merger, laments watchdog, as its appeal continues
UK cops arrest teen suspect in MGM Resorts cyberattack probe (2024/07/19) 17-year-old cuffed as FBI says it will 'relentlessly pursue' miscreants around the globe
CrowdStrike Windows patchpocalypse could take weeks to fix, IT admins fear (2024/07/19) Kettle Our vultures gather to review this very freaky Friday
Cybercriminals quickly exploit CrowdStrike chaos (2024/07/19) Who loves a global outage? Phishers, fraudsters and all manner of creeps
Life, interrupted: How CrowdStrike's patch failure is messing up the world (2024/07/19) Oh, was it supposed to be Y2K24?
Angry admins share the CrowdStrike outage experience (2024/07/19) CrowdStrike? More like ClownStrike! Amirite?