mardi 23 juillet 2024
12:45
Failure to follow proper procedures caused US-wide AT&T outage, FCC...America's second largest wireless carrier taking steps to prevent a repeat of 12-hour downtime in February An AT&T cellular outage lasting more than 12 hours that prevented US customers from accessing services including 911 was caused by misconfigured hardware and a failure to follow standard procedures when deploying.…
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Now as many as 10,000 SAP jobs to be hit by restructureRevenue and underlying profit please markets in Q2 as German software giant retains focus on costs SAP has expanded the number of jobs affected by its restructuring program by up to 20 percent after generating higher revenue but lower operating profit in the most recent full quarter.…
10:27
Arch-based CachyOS promises speed but trips over its lacesStrictly for performance fiends with ultra-modern kit who want a distro to match Hands-on CachyOS is a performance-optimized rebuild of Arch Linux, with a simpler installer and dozens of desktops and options to tweak. Stable reliability, not so much.…
08:00
FrostyGoop malware shut off heat to 600 Ukraine apartment buildingsFirst nasty to exploit Modbus to screw with operational tech devices A previously unseen malware, dubbed FrostyGoop, able to disrupt industrial processes was used in a cyberattack against a district energy company in Ukraine last northern winter, resulting in two days without heat for hundreds of people during sub-zero temperatures.…
07:30
How to maintain code for a century: Just add RustProprietary code goes unpublished – but no FOSS package ever dies Opinion One of the delicious promises of open source software is eternal life. In literature from Gilgamesh on, this has been a classic trap for the careless and greedy, but this is FOSS so it must be true. No package ever dies. ...
05:44
Hong Kong becomes major hub for shipping banned tech to Iran, RussiaGovernment doesn't seem to mind – and business is into it, claims report Hong Kong's government and local businesses undermine sanctions by deliberately facilitating the transfer of restricted and sensitive technology to naughty regimes, according to a report released on Monday by the nonprofit Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong Foundation.…
00:57
Indonesia blocks 2.5 million pieces of gambling content, minister says ...Wagering boomed – and so did the quantity of money heading offshore Indonesia has an online gambling problem. Despite having blocked access to wagering content over 2.5 million times last year, the nation’s Ministry of Communications and Information (KomInfo), believes it can only break the habit with further blocks and assistance from the private sector.…
lundi 22 juillet 2024
23:03
Google's plan to drop third-party cookies in Chrome crumblesAd giant promises to protect privacy, as critics say surveillance continues Google no longer intends to drop support for third-party cookies – the online identifiers used by the ad industry to track people and target them with ads based on their online activities.…
19:15
Global cops power down world's 'most prolific' DDoS dealershipOne arrest was made weeks ago but no word on the suspect's identity yet A DDoS-for-hire site described by the UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) as the world's most prolific operator in the field is out-of-action following a law enforcement sting dubbed Operation Power Off.…
18:50
Meta's mass layoff severance agreements illegal, says judgeYou can't offer a better deal in exchange for silence, argues NLRB Separation agreements Meta gave to employees during mass 2022 layoffs are illegal, a US judge has decided, and the reasoning could have implications far beyond Zuckercorp.…
18:15
What does Google Gemini do with your data? Well, it's complicated...Big misconception is that data ingestion is occurring, we're told Google, after facing accusations about its AI model ingesting private files, says Gemini can read and summarize this type of sensitive data in real time – but only with Workspace users' express permission. …
17:30
Nvidia said to be prepping Blackwell GPUs for Chinese marketBut will they ship before the Biden administration tightens export controls? Comment US trade restrictions on the sale of AI accelerators to China haven't detered Nvidia from bringing its latest Blackwell architecture to the Middle Kingdom.…
14:33
Engineers fix ESA's Gaia observatory from 1.5M kilometers awayAnd you thought rolling back a borked update on a server down the hall was hard? The European Space Agency (ESA) has shared the story of how engineers brought a mission back from the brink after a micrometeoroid strike, an equipment failure, and an impressive solar storm.…
12:00
EU gave CrowdStrike the keys to the Windows kernel, claims MicrosoftWas a 2009 agreement on interoperability to blame? Did the EU force Microsoft to let third parties like CrowdStrike run riot in the Windows kernel as a result of a 2009 undertaking? This is the implication being peddled by the Redmond-based cloud and software titan.…
09:34
Unit4 ends support for research costing tool used to plan the Covid...UK university users face migration path following plan to withdraw support for product some build £1M solutions around Exclusive Software used to cost the University of Oxford's Covid vaccine research has become the subject of an end-of-life announcement from enterprise application developer Unit4.…
08:34
Microsoft's CISPE settlement includes a suspension of audits for...Cloud group companies free of Redmond's compliance cops for 2 years in return for ditching EC antitrust complaint Exclusive Part of Microsoft's settlement with a bunch of cloud providers in Europe to make an antitrust complaint disappear is a two-year moratorium on software audits, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter.…
06:32
Facebook prank sent techie straight to Excel hellWhen someone kicks a chair across the room out of fear they'll be fired it's stopped being funny Who, Me? It's another Monday, dear reader, which means the working week has begun anew. On the bright side, it also means another dose of the reader-submitted tales of IT hijinks we call Who, Me?…
02:44
Cellebrite got into Trump shooter's Samsung device in just 40 minutesAlso: Second-string Russian hackers sanctioned; Senators demand answers from Snowflake, and more Infosec in brief Unable to access the Samsung smartphone of the deceased Trump shooter for clues, the FBI turned to a familiar – if controversial – source to achieve its goal: digital forensics tools vendor Cellebrite.…
00:53
Chinese researchers create four-gram drone that might fly foreverPlus: Former Samsung worker jailed for leaking secrets; Robo-cabs reach Shanghai airport; and more Asia in brief Chinese researchers have created a drone that weighs just over four grams – less than a sheet of printer paper – and may be able to fly indefinitely.…
dimanche 21 juillet 2024