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Encoded 'alien message' will reach Earth today, but relax: It's just a drill
Happy first contact day – well, sort of.…
US mulls retaliation for China blacklisting Micron without evidence of security threat
The chip wars between Washington and Beijing show no sign of cooling off after a senior US politician insisted his country should retaliate for the blacklisting of Micron.…
OpenAI calls for global agency focused on 'existential risk' posed by superintelligence
An international agency should be in charge of inspecting and auditing artificial general intelligence to ensure the technology is safe for humanity, according to top executives at GPT-4 maker OpenAI.…
Atlassian says 'Don't #@!% the Planet' so it can keep making money
Australian software house Atlassian has decided to share its sustainability practices in a booklet titled Don't #@!% the Planet*.…
Virgin Orbit won't: Satellite launching company shutters
Richard Branson's Virgin Orbit has sold all its assets just months after a failed attempt at what would have been first ever satellite launch from UK soil.…
Lenovo profits sink 75% as PC demand continues nosedive
Chinese powerhouse Lenovo is feeling the burn as demand for personal computers continues to melt in a post-pandemic world.…
Lightning just as frightening on Jupiter as it is on Earth
Lightning is strikingly similar on Jupiter as it is on Earth, data from the Juno probe has revealed.…
UK watchdog won't block Openreach’s discount fiber pricing
UK telecoms regulator Ofcom has given the go-ahead to Openreach’s Equinox 2 discount pricing scheme, despite earlier criticism from smaller network operators that it allows the dominant player to undercut them.…
Ex-McKinsey IT director claims he was fired for whistleblowing
A former IT director at McKinsey & Co filed a complaint yesterday claiming it wrongfully terminated him after he blew the whistle on alleged disaster recovery issues within the consultancy.…
Your boss tells you to build some generative AI. Dell and Nvidia are already knocking
Dell World Dell has hooked up with Nvidia to pitch enterprises on tools to build generative AI models trained on their own corporate data, rather than publicly available information such as that used by general-purpose large-language models (LLMs) like OpenAI's GPT.…
IT security analyst admits hijacking cyber attack to pocket ransom payments
A former IT security analyst at Oxford Biomedica has admitted, five years after the fact, to turning to the dark side – by hijacking a cyber attack against his own company in an attempt to divert any ransom payments to himself.…
ChatGPT can't pass these medical exams – yet
ChatGPT has failed to pass the American College of Gastroenterology exams and is not capable of generating accurate medical information for patients, doctors have warned.…
Microsoft finally gets around to supporting rar, gz and tar files in Windows
Microsoft has signaled it will add native support for tar, 7-zip, rar, gz and "many other" archive file formats to Windows.…
Samsung's screens will check your blood pressure if the movie’s too scary
Video Korean giant Samsung has shown off what it reckons might just be the future of display tech.…
Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs
Microsoft has delivered a preview of tech that lets a physical PC boot into a virtual one, running in Azure, instead of running Windows from its local drive.…
US bans North Korean outsourcer and its feisty freelancers
When businesses go shopping for IT services, North Korea-controlled companies probably struggle to make it into many lists.…
Pakistan turns its back on crypto to keep anti-terrorism watchdogs happy
Pakistan's minister of finance declared last week that cryptocurrency would never be legal in Pakistan and actions are in motion that would ban the digi-cash. Forever.…
Apria Healthcare says potentially 2M people caught up in IT security breach
Personal and financial data describing almost 1.9 million Apria Healthcare patients and employees may have been accessed by crooks who breached the company's networks over a series of months in 2019 and 2021.…
Microsoft wants you to think inside the Dev Box from July
Microsoft, having tested its cloud-based software development environment on more than 9,000 of its own engineers, plans to invite external coders to think inside its Dev Box on July 10, 2023.…
SF cops got warrant-free OK to watch protest via private security cameras
San Francisco cops earlier this year obtained permission to access 450 surveillance cameras belonging to private businesses to live monitor protests expected following the killing of Tyre Nichols, it emerged today.…