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Iran war wreaking havoc on shipping and air cargo, could create global delays
The war against Iran is causing an air and shipping jam, but it will likely have little effect on the global technology market unless the conflict widens significantly, according to analysts.…
AWS outages spread as Iran bombards targets across Gulf region
Multiple Amazon Web Services (AWS) availability zones in the Middle East are experiencing outages or degraded connectivity after objects struck a UAE facility, as Iranian retaliatory missile and drone attacks hit targets across the Gulf.…
Iran's cyberwar has begun
Iranian hackers have launched spying expeditions, digital probes, and distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks in the wake of the US and Israel launching missile strikes over the weekend, and security researchers urge organizations to expect more cyber intrusions as the war continues.…
Popular prayer program becomes propaganda pusher after reported Israeli hack
Imagine your favorite app encouraging you to surrender during a war. That's happening right now in Iran.…
Motorola partners with GrapheneOS for future phones
GrapheneOS is headed to Motorola smartphones in 2027, pending hardware from the Lenovo-owned brand that satisfies the privacy-focused Android fork's requirements.…
US struck Iran with copies of its own drones
The Pentagon has confirmed that US forces struck Iranian targets using weapons that are copies of Iran's own Shahed 136 suicide drones.…
UK Businesses told to brace cyber defenses amid Iran conflict risk
The UK's cybersecurity agency is warning British organizations to brace for potential digital blowback as the Middle East conflict spills further into the online world.…
Qualcomm, Nvidia ready for 'AI-native' 6G, if only the world knew what it was
It seems like just yesterday that the 5G rollout started. Now, at Mobile World Congress, major companies are already talking about commercializing 6G. Never mind that binding 6G standards haven't been nailed down yet.…
Singapore eyes barge-based hydrogen power for datacenters
Datacenters increasingly want dedicated power, and Singapore has a unique solution. Bridge Data Centres (BDC) and Concord New Energy (CNE) are working to put hydrogen power generators on barges, saying that this arrangement is particularly suited to the local environment.…
Generic methods arrive in Golang, but they weren't the top dev demand
The Go team has approved generic methods, reversing a longstanding position in the language's FAQ. The proposal, from Go co-designer Robert Griesemer, now moves to implementation.…
Stop macOS 26 nagging with one tiny policy tweak
Averse to "liquid glass"? Are you happy enough with your Mac as it is? Try this local policy and banish those upgrade nag screens for a few months.…
Fly me to the Moon: NASA reshuffles the Artemis card deck
NASA has reshuffled its Artemis program, pushing the first crewed lunar landing in more than half a century back to Artemis IV, with Artemis III performing a check-out of the lunar lander in Earth orbit.…
SAP writes $480M check to finally end IP legal spat with Teradata
Data warehousing and analytics biz Teradata and SAP have ended their long-running legal dispute after the German ERP vendor agreed to cough up $480 million to bring the fighting to a close.…
Memory scalpers hunt scarce DRAM with bot blitz
Web scraping bots are increasing the pressure on the tech supply chain by scouring sites for DRAM, so their minders can snap up increasingly scarce inventory and resell it for a quick profit.…
Scammers try to SIM-swap Dubai citizens hours after Iranian missile strikes
Scammers targeted Dubai citizens mere hours after missiles struck the city, attempting to gain access to their bank accounts, police have warned.…
Windows 11 tops market share as 10 faces extended farewell
Windows 11 has leapt ahead of Windows 10 in market share, according to the latest Statcounter figures.…
Firefox 149 beta develops a split personality
The new beta of the next version of Firefox lets you view two web pages side by side, with a split you can drag with your mouse.…
Iran all but vanishes from the global internet amid US-Israel strikes
Iran's internet has plunged into a near-total blackout, with traffic down to around 1 percent of normal levels and connectivity described as "close to zero" as authorities curb access amid widening regional conflict.…
Microsoft's Project Silica promises eternal storage. It can't get there from here
Opinion There is more joy in heaven over a single report of genuinely new technology than in a thousand desperate AI marketing pitches. What the angels will make of Microsoft's Project Silica, a mixture of the two, is less clear.…
LibreOffice Online dragged out of the attic, dusted off for another go
The Document Foundation (TDF) has pulled LibreOffice Online out of its "attic" – its term for retired projects – and is resuming development.…

