After nearly 3B personal records leak online, Florida data broker confirms it was ransacked by cyber-thieves Names, addresses, Social Security numbers, more all out there
Uncle Sam sues TikTok for 'extensive' data harvesting from millions of kids Remember that promise to be nice? You broke it, say prosecutors
TeamViewer says Russia broke into its corp IT network Same APT29 crew that hit Microsoft and SolarWinds. How close were we to a mega backdoor situation?
AWS is pushing ahead with MFA for privileged accounts. What that means for you ... The clock is ticking – why not try a passkey?
Unlucky AT&T subscribers struggle to make calls in multi-hour US outage If you're wondering why connectivity seems toast at the moment
Do you really need that GPU or NPU for your AI apps? And how do we feel about Palantir selling its ML-based targeting system to the entire US military? Tune in!
Arm is so, so over this AI accelerator unit craze As it offers 3nm shake-and-bake Cortex-X925, A725 processor designs for phones, PCs
Microsoft defends barging in on Chrome with pop-up ads pushing Bing, GPT-4 We thought you people wanted choice, IT colossus sniffs
LinkedIn's turn to fall over: Outage hits thinkfluencer hub What's not to like? At the moment, everything on Microsoft's social network
What Big Tech's balance sheets this week said – and didn't say – about real-world AI adoption Is there anything more terrifying than a 'smart' HR chatbot? Well, OK, yes, but ...
Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster? Lack of skills, funding, and scrutiny – pick three
Be honest. Would you pay off a ransomware crew? Today us vultures are debating bans on ransom payments, deplorable tactics by extortionists, and more
Need to make some 3D models but lack the skill and talent? Say, have you tried... AI? That's going to be a recurring question in 2024
SEC Twitter hijacked to push fake news of hotly anticipated Bitcoin ETF approval Buy the hype, sell the, wait, what do we do now?!
Welcome to 2024: Volkswagen really is putting ChatGPT into cars as a gabby copilot Plus: Deloitte rolls out homegrown AI for its 75K workers to dogfood
What the AI copyright fights are truly about: Human labor versus endless machines The real beef concerns our future to create and be rewarded for it
Elon is the bakery owner swearing in the street about Yelp critics canceling him First he was speed-running moderation, now internet advertising. Welcome to the party, pal
We challenged you to come up with tech predictions for 2024 (wrong answers only) – here are some favorites so far Plus some of our own and the ugly Microsoft sweater one of you will win. Please take it off our hands...
OpenAI meltdown: Where does this leave the upstart, Microsoft, and you? Tune in, hear or watch our vultures wrap up this fiasco, before it goes out of date
Your online store down? Can't get to your fave web shop? Maybe blame Shopify Biz races to fix broken systems
Ransomware crooks SIM swap medical research biz exec, threaten to leak stolen data Advarra probes intrusion claims, says 'the matter is contained'
Apple squashes security bugs after iPhone flaws exploited by Predator spyware Holes in iOS, macOS and more fixed following tip off from Google, Citizen Lab
Salesforce engineers roll back change after breaking own cloud for hours today Services said to be returning to normal from downtime though Tableau Cloud still MIA
Google outlines Outline SDK: Censorship, geo-block-beating tool to drop into apps Well, when it's finished, anyway
Having slammed brakes on hiring, Google says it no longer needs quite so many recruiters Hundreds about to find out first hand how the tough the job market is right now
RHEL drama, ChromeOS and more ... Our vultures speak freely about the latest in Linux Do distros even matter in the era of cloud and microservices?
Threads versus Twitter: Shouldn't we be happy the wheels are falling off antisocial social media? Our vultures ponder decentralization over convenience
So the FBI 'persistently' abused its snoop powers. What's to worry about? When is warrantless surveillance warranted?
With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next? We reckon so And what next for cooling, datacenter placement, and more – tune in and find out direct from our vultures
YouTube's 'Ad blockers not allowed' pop-up scares the bejesus out of netizens Just a small experiment – for now?
RIP Gordon Moore: Intel co-founder dies, aged 94 'Impossible to imagine the world we live in today ... without his contributions'
Qualcomm teases custom Arm-compatible Oryon CPU cores designed by Nuvia Snapdragon giant flips off Softbank, promises processors within next two years
Arm shells Qualcomm's Snapdragon launch party with latest salvo in license war Softbank's chip designer warns US giant may lose all of its CPU licenses at this rate
Qualcomm pushes latest Arm-powered Snapdragon chip amid bitter license fight Wi-Fi 7, TSMC 4nm, faster GPU, INT4 and AI everywhere – and a rocky relationship with its CPU designer
Arm sues Qualcomm over custom Nuvia CPU cores, wants designs destroyed British chip designer unhappy key customer is using lucrative blueprints
Charter told to pay $7.3b in damages after cable installer murders grandmother Broadband giant says it will appeal jury verdict in negligence case
Florida man accused of selling fake, broken Cisco devices from China to hospitals, schools, military Plus, Oracle reportedly mulling laying off staff to cut costs by up to $1b
Canadian ISP Rogers falls over for hours, takes out broadband, cable, cellphones ATMs, 911 calls, and more hit by networking snafu
Apple emits macOS, iOS, iPadOS patches for 'exploited' security bugs Nothing like a little kernel-level memory snooping, code execution
Internet backbone Cogent cuts Russia connectivity Biz cites 'unwarranted and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine' ... also crippling sanctions
'Hundreds of computers' in Ukraine hit with wiper malware as conflict continues Of course you realize, this means war
UK Home Secretary Priti Patel green-lights Mike Lynch's extradition to US to face Autonomy fraud charges Brit tycoon's bad Friday just got worse
US DoD staffer with top-secret clearance stole identities from work systems to apply for loans Plus: Apple patches exploited-in-the-wild bug, White House zero-trust order, and more
As CISA tells US govt agencies to squash Log4j bug by Dec 24, fingers start pointing at China, Iran, others Microsoft says cyber-spies linked to Beijing, Tehran are getting busy with security flaw along with world + dog
Google joins others in Big Tech: Get vaccinated – or you're fired Not getting a COVID-19 jab? That's not very googley of you
UK's antitrust watchdog is very angry and has written a letter telling Apple and Google how angry it is with them Shocked, shocked, to find that anti-competitive behavior is going on in here
Microsoft closes installer hole abused by Emotet malware, Google splats Chrome bug exploited in the wild Round off the year with a large crop of fixes for programming blunders
SiFive's latest top-end RISC-V CPU core supports proper virtualization in hardware Hypervisor extension implemented in P650 processor engine that's stalking Arm's Cortex family
Apple says it will no longer punish those daring to repair their iPhone 13 screens iFixit welcomes 'tactical achievement' after iGiant offers vague software fix to Face ID block
AMD tries to spoil Nvidia's week by teasing high-end accelerators, Epyc chips with 3D L3 cache, and more Microsoft cloud first to privately preview Milan-X parts
Florida man accused of breaking Mastodon's open-source license with botched social network launch Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code
Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services 'The internet is a complex system'
Space tourists splash down in Atlantic Ocean after three days in orbit Some sightseeing, music, gambling, chatting to folks back home – just like a regular roadtrip
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81 From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond
Semiconductor veterans gather to design customizable, chiplet-based RISC-V server processors Startup co-founded by former Applied Micro X-Gene execs emerges from stealth
Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs Hardware requirements loophole left in
Jury tells Apple to cough up two days of annual profit in 4G/LTE patent damages retrial And US trade judge reckons Google ripped off Sonos's tech
GitHub picks Friday 13th to kill off password-based Git authentication Plus: eBPF Foundation emerges, Exchange severs probed for ProxyShell holes, and more
Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more
Russia says software malfunction caused Nauka module to unexpectedly fire thrusters, tilt space station You call this a glitch?
Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more From vid.me to f&*% me?!
I no longer have a burning hatred for Jewish people, says Googler now suddenly no longer at Google Veep of cloud devrel exits after 'beyond car crash' all-hands meeting
Intel data center boss Navin Shenoy exits as CEO takes sledgehammer to group Now that Pat's got his feet under the table, time to shuffle the chairs
Intel to put SiFive's latest CPU cores into 7nm dev system to woo customers to RISC-V Horse Creek platform to 'showcase' new 64-bit P550 processor engine
Intel made $2bn+ takeover offer for RISC-V chip darling SiFive – report Someone's got to keep Altera company
Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence OK, we see where this is going
How to use Google's new dependency mapping tool to find security flaws buried in your projects Millions of Rust, JavaScript, Go, Maven repositories scanned and visualized
Arm has another 'most powerful CPU to date' – this time, the 64-bit-only Cortex-X2 for laptops and smartphones Processor core among raft of designs for upcoming devices
Arm freezes hiring until Nvidia takeover, cancels everyone's 'wellbeing' allowance Acquisition expected to complete in April 2022, empty positions can't be filled until then
If you can't upload to Amazon Photos right now, don't worry – no one can Unlimited picture-hosting service suddenly gets very limited
