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Alphabet CEO tells Googlers: More job cuts on the way
Alphabet boss Sundar Pichai is warning Googlers to brace themselves for more jobs cuts in 2024 though they won’t be as deep as last year.…
Google TAG: Kremlin cyber spies move into malware with a custom backdoor
Russian cyberspies linked to the Kremlin's Federal Security Service (FSB) are moving beyond their usual credential phishing antics and have developed a custom backdoor that they started delivering via email as far back as November 2022, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group.…
Has the semiconductor down cycle reached its nadir? TSMC thinks so
Chipmaker TSMC had a mixed final calendar quarter of 2023, with profit falling less than expected and revenue growth “essentially flat,” in another sign that the global semiconductor downturn is over.…
Fujitsu gets $1B market cap haircut after TV disaster drama airs
Fujitsu has seen $1 billion wiped off its market value after a week in the political and media spotlight for its role in the UK’s Post Office Horizon scandal, which prompted the European chief exec to say the company was morally responsible for providing compensation.…
Google is changing how search results appear for EU citizens
Google is making some changes to how its products, including search, will work in Europe.…
At last: The BBC Micro you always wanted, in Mastodon form
Retro Tech Week If one of the tenets of retro computing is doing awesome things with not a lot of resources, then there are few better examples of the breed than the BBC Micro Bot - a Mastodon account that recently posted an image that looked for all the world like a raytraced scene.…
Vast botnet hijacks smart TVs for prime-time cybercrime
Security researchers have pinned a DDoS botnet that's infected potentially millions of smart TVs and set-top boxes to an eight-year-old cybercrime syndicate called Bigpanzi.…
40 years since Elite became the most fun you could have with 22 kilobytes
Retro Tech Week In 1984 the launch of a computer game was reported on British national news. The purported reason? The news editor apparently walked in after lunch and found all the staff were playing it.…
Asia beat US, EU in chip building because the West didn't invest, Intel CEO claims
The COVID-19 pandemic was a decisive factor in Intel’s decision to re-emphasize its own manufacturing prowess, after decades in which US and European nations failed to recognize the importance of the semiconductor industry and allowed Taiwan and Korea to become global leaders, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger told World Economic Forum chair Klaus Schwab in Davos on Wednesday.…
Will AI take our jobs? That's what everyone is talking about at Davos right now
The one question on leaders' minds as they debate the future of generative AI at this year's World Economic Forum in Davos is how the tech might change the future of employment.…
Samsung’s Galaxy S24 pitch: the AI we baked in makes you more human
Samsung has made AI the centerpiece of its annual premium handset launch and featured its Galaxy Ultra, the heir to the Galaxy Note, as the hero of the day.…
India's big four services giants soar on demand for AI
Indian IT service outfit HCL’s share price hit a record high this week, and scrip for its peers Infosys, TCS and Wipro also spiked, after the four announced quarterly results that revealed strong deal pipeline fueled by demand for AI, along with very slow headcount growth…
Global semiconductor revenues slid 11 percent in 2023, despite AI silicon splurge
2023’s copious chatter about generative AI has not translated into surging semiconductor revenues across the industry, according to analyst firm Gartner.…
Ban on Apple watches with blood oxygen sensors confirmed after failed appeal
Apple will not be allowed to sell its latest watches containing blood oxygen sensors starting from Thursday, judges from the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ordered.…
Wing, Alphabet's drone delivery unit, designs bigger bird to deliver pasta, faster
Alphabet's drone delivery biz, Wing, has unveiled a drone capable of carrying up to five pounds (2.26 kg) of payload, almost doubling the capacity of its existing fleet.…
Study: Thousands of businesses just love handing over your info to Facebook
The startlingly extent to which websites and brokers hand over details of people's habits to Facebook was revealed Wednesday.…
Insurance website's buggy API leaked Office 365 password and a giant email trove
Toyota Tsusho Insurance Broker India (TTIBI), an Indo-Japanese joint insurance venture, operated a misconfigured server that exposed more than 650,000 Microsoft-hosted email messages to customers, a security researcher has found.…
Apple, AMD, Qualcomm GPU security hole lets miscreants snoop on AI training and chats
A design flaw in GPU drivers made by Apple, Qualcomm, AMD, and likely Imagination can be exploited by miscreants on a shared system to snoop on fellow users.…
Facial recognition tech has outpaced US laws – and don't expect the Feds to catch up
comment If anything could compel the US government to regulate facial-recognition technology, a report sponsored by federal law enforcement urging just that may do the trick. …
IBM ends inventor rewards program, cancels points for patents
Exclusive IBM has canceled a program that rewarded inventors at Big Blue for patents or publications, leaving some angry that they are missing out on potential bonuses.…