Новости за 26.04.2024

Nobody's favorite operating system is now available for inspection

In partnership with IBM, Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0, more than 35 years since the operating system made a muted appearance ahead of Windows 3.x.…

One Chinese national arrested in Chicago while another suspect thought to be abroad

Ouch!

Millions of Kaiser Permanente patients' data was likely handed over to Google, Microsoft Bing, X/Twitter, and other third-parties, according to the American healthcare giant.…

Cloud giant directs users to pack their bags for DropBox, gives them a year to get affairs in order

Getting their hands on AI memory one Huawei or another...

A group of Chinese semiconductor firms including Huawei are reportedly looking to get domestic production of high bandwidth memory (HBM) up and running by 2026.…

Analysts brand deal a 'nail in the coffin' for UK tech investment

Private equity investor Thoma Bravo has successfully completed a second acquisition attempt of UK-based cybersecurity company Darktrace in a $5.3 billion deal.…

Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potential

Feature  The Z80 has a long series of successor models – some compatible and some not. There are multiple options for hobbyist computer builders.…

Multicloud has the potential to increase costs and operational complexity, but a universal storage layer can help

Tuta cries foul, Chocolate Factory denies service unreachable

Tutao, known for the encrypted email service Tuta Mail, has filed a Digital Markets Act (DMA) complaint to the EU over an alleged de-ranking in Google Search.…

Doing business in Beijing? 'You need to do a what-if scenario'

interview  It didn't seem America's divest-or-ban bill for TikTok was going to make it into law when we last spoke with former White House chief information officer Theresa Payton – but law it now is. …

Only minor changes from original proposals that kicked up privacy storm

Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works

Already facing off against each other in Texas over separate reverse engineering claims

Defra is counting contractors like sheep

The UK agriculture department is "working towards" getting consultant and contractor numbers down to less than a quarter of its tech and digital transformation teams and reducing contingent labor to 12 percent of headcount by the end of the financial year.…

Check out the SANS CISO Primer for tips on hardening your organisation’s security posture in 2024

Support chap learns users will try to solve problems in non-obvious ways

Cloudy hosts given short license change deadlines, customers warned of support portal brownouts

Huawei is OK, but Xiaomi, OPPO, and Samsung are in strife. And Honor isn't living its name

Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricing

Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar has announced he will step down in August, leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes alone at the top of the Australian collaborationware company.…

Chipzilla's Foundry business weighs down the Gelsinger gang - for now

Intel has reported double-digit growth in client computing revenue, growing demand for AI PCs, and promised of strong gains in the second half of 2024 – but also reported a first quarter loss that sent the chip biz's stock sliding in after-hours trading Thursday.…

If ML proves an expensive habit in future, these money printers won't have much to worry about ... probably

Talk about going round the (South) Bend

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is adding $11 billion of datacenter capacity in St Joseph County outside South Bend, Indiana, the cloud giant announced Thursday.…

Athletics boss accused of deep-faking Baltimore school principal

Baltimore police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks.…

Cash to go out as refunds to punters

The FTC today announced it would be sending refunds totaling $5.6 million to Ring customers, paid from the Amazon subsidiary's coffers.…