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Sleuths who cracked Zodiac Killer's cipher thank the crowd
Thomas Claburn
Fifty-one years of community contributions, software, and clever cryptanalysis contributed Three men received recognition in December 2020 for cracking the Zodiac Killer's 340-character cipher (Z340) - but they want to share credit with the community of sleuths who helped with the 51-year code breaking effort....
NASA taps trio of companies to build the next generation of lunar rover
Richard Speed
At $4.6 billion, this Moon malarkey is getting expensive NASA has selected three companies to develop designs for a lunar terrain vehicle (LTV) to transport astronauts around the Moon....
Thank the bots, your blue check is back on X
Brandon Vigliarolo
What a great way to inflate those numbers Elon What Elon taketh away, Elon also giveth. Fee-free blue checks on Twitter are back, but only for users with a certain number of followers who pay for X Premium....
Google ponders making AI search a premium option
Richard Speed
Ad-free search experience might not be on the cards Google is reportedly considering tweaks to its search engine, including making some AI features subscription-only - an ad-free search experience is seemingly not on the cards....
Ivanti commits to secure-by-design overhaul after vulnerability nightmare
Connor Jones
CEO addresses whirlwind start to 2024 and how it plans to prevent a repeat Ivanti has committed to adopting a secure-by-design approach to security as it gears up for an organizational overhaul in response to the multiple vulnerabilities in Connect Secure exploited earlier this year....
Microsoft's playdate in Google's Privacy Sandbox gets messy
Thomas Claburn
Targeted ads in Edge may be blocked before they even arrive Analysis Inspired by Google's Privacy Sandbox ad tech renovation initiative, Microsoft last month announced plans for a "privacy preserving" mechanism to deliver interest-based ads in its Edge browser....
German state ditches Windows, Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice
Matthew Connatser
'Complete digital sovereignty' ... sounds familiar Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....
Microsoft unbundling Teams is to appease regulators, not give customers a better deal
Richard Speed
Think before you pull the trigger, warn analysts If you're planning to save money by cutting out the unbundled Teams product from your Microsoft 365 subscription, the decision might not be as straightforward as you'd think....
UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in
Lindsay Clark
After slew of AWS deals signed under MoUs, CDDO says current approach might weaken its position Exclusive The UK government has admitted its negotiating power over billions of pounds of cloud infrastructure spending has been inhibited by vendor lock-in....
Vodafone and Three's UK merger hits regulatory roadblock
Paul Kunert
Watchdog concerns about price hikes and consolidation remain unresolved Britain's competition regulator is kicking off a deeper investigation into the potential impact caused by the merger of Vodafone and Three in the UK after neither resolved previously expressed concerns....
Ransomware gang <em>did</em> steal residents' confidential data, UK city council admits
Connor Jones
INC Ransom emerges as a growing threat as some ex-LockBit/ALPHV affiliates get new gigs Leicester City Council is finally admitting its "cyber incident" was carried out by a ransomware gang and that data was stolen, hours after the criminals forced its hand....
65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts
Richard Speed
The Mercury 7: 'Not one of us knew what he was in for' Sixty-five years ago this week, NASA introduced its first astronauts, saying they'd be launched into space in the agency's new capsule. They were immediately dubbed The Mercury 7....
How HashiCorp's license shakeup seeded a new open source rebel
Richard Speed
We're really just getting started, says OpenTofu community member Interview HashiCorp might be less than impressed with the rise of the Terraform fork, OpenTofu, but where Hashi sees challenges, the maintainers of the open source project see opportunities....
Microsoft thinks bundles are great and customers love them
Paul Kunert
Rivals and regulators might disagree, so might users that are paying for software they don't need It's always interesting to see how technology executives crop their marketing messages to suit the audience....
Boffins build world's largest astronomical digital camera to map the heavens
Matthew Connatser
3.2 glorious gigapixels to make 'the greatest movie of all time' Construction of the LSST Camera, destined for the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile has been completed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Silicon Valley....
Ethernet advances will end Nvidia's InfiniBand lead in AI networks
Simon Sharwood
Desire to build brainboxes will also see optical interconnects go mainstream Three imminent improvements to the Ethernet standard will make it a better alternative to host AI workloads, and that will see vendors back the tech as an alternative to Nvidia's InfiniBand kit, which is set to dominate for the next two years....
OpenStack pushes its first easy-to-upgrade release out the door
Simon Sharwood
'Caracal' improves AI capabilities and is pitched as an alternative to VMware The OpenInfra Foundation has loosed an update of OpenStack on the waiting world and - like everyone else that can spell "virtualization" - has pitched it as fine alternative for those pondering a move away from VMware....
TSMC shrugs off impact of Taiwan earthquake
Laura Dobberstein
Nonetheless DRAM prices may yet feel slight aftershocks Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has shrugged off the impact of yesterday's earthquake....
Infosys announces 'In-Person Collab' weeks
Laura Dobberstein
Sounds so much cooler than 'come back to the office or else' In an effort to get its employees back into the office, Infosys has reportedly instituted mandatory in-person attendance for select roles - but dubbed the program "In-Person Collab" weeks. Because that's how the young people talk, right?...
Nearly 1M medical records feared stolen from City of Hope cancer centers
Jessica Lyons
Is there no cure for this cyber-plague? Nearly one million individuals' personal details, financial account information, and medical records may well have been stolen from City of Hope systems in the United States....
PCIe 7.0 first official draft lands, doubling bandwidth yet again
Tobias Mann
The downside? You probably won't see kit to use it until 2027 Analysis The PCIe 7.0 spec is on track for release next year and, for many AI chip peddlers trying to push the limits of network fabrics and accelerator meshes, it can't come soon enough....
Cyberattack hits Omni Hotels systems, taking out bookings, payments, door locks
Jessica Lyons
As WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, other Meta bits plus Apple stuff fall offline today Updated Omni Hotels & Resorts' computer systems have been offline since Friday due to what the American luxury hospitality chain called a "disruption."...
AWS severs connection with several hundred staff
Brandon Vigliarolo
'Necessary,' 'focusing our efforts,' 'deliver maximum impact' ... sounds just like all the other tech layoffs lately Hundreds of Amazon Web Services employees are being shown the door this week - a move the American technology behemoth said is necessary as it, like many others, moves to streamline operations....
Uber Eats to rid itself of pesky human drivers with food delivery by robo Waymo
Iain Thomson
First they came for the taxis and I did nothing because I was not a taxi driver Bad news if you're income-boosting, or God forbid trying to make a living, as an Uber Eats delivery driver because the robots are coming - to one part of the United States, at least....
Iowa sysadmin pleads guilty to 33-year identity theft of former coworker
Connor Jones
Actions sent homeless victim to jail and a mental hospital for more than a year An Iowa system administrator has pleaded guilty to charges related to stealing and assuming a former coworker's identity over a 33-year period....
US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone
Richard Speed
What's a few microseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually NASA, which isn't known for timeliness, has been tasked by the White House with implementing a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) zone for the Moon traceable to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC)....
Want to keep Windows 10 secure? This is how much Microsoft will charge you
Richard Speed
Hint: It will keep going up Updated Microsoft has laid out the ground rules for getting Windows 10 Extended Security Updates (ESU) as market share figures indicate users are still giving Windows 11 a wide berth....
TSMC evacuated fabs after M7.4 earthquake hit Taiwan
Simon Sharwood
Internet outages recorded as Japan issues tsunami warning Video A significant earthquake has struck Taiwan, shuttering some of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing's chip fabrication plants....