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Interview Europeans are starting to worry that US companies’ dominance of the cloud represents untenable risk.…

Microsoft has halted the rollout of a revamped battery indicator to Windows 11 Insiders in the Release Preview Channel.…

Signal CEO Meredith Whittaker says her company will withdraw from countries that force messaging providers to allow law enforcement officials to access encrypted user data, as Sweden continues to mull such plans.…

As SpaceX prepares for a Friday launch of its next Starship flight test, Elon Musk's biz has explained that the failure of the previous test was due to a harmonic response.…

We had a play with Murena's first tablet, a Google Pixel running /e/OS, its in-house de-Googled Android 13 with additional privacy features.…

HP CEO Enrique Lores saw his total compensation shrink by a little more than $98,000 in the corporation's fiscal 2024. To mere mortals that would induce tears, but as for the executive himself, it likely just meant he had to opt for a slightly less shiny new suit.…

Computing pioneer Steve Wozniak didn't set out to revolutionize the computer industry. He just wanted the respect of his fellow engineers.…

While the likes of OpenAI and Alibaba are talking up artificial general intelligence (AGI) capable of replacing humans, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella argues AI's success should be measured by its benefit to the global economy – which may come once the technology finds a killer app to match the impact of email or Excel.…

Infosec bytes Kaspersky says it has found more than 200 GitHub repos hosting fairly convincing-looking fake projects laced with malicious software.…

During confirmation hearings in the US Senate Tuesday for the role of deputy director of the Dept of Homeland Security, the nominee Troy Edgar said CISA has had the wrong management and needed to be "reined in."…

DISA Global Solutions, a company that provides drug and alcohol testing, background checks and other employee screening services, this week notified over 3.3 million people that their sensitive information may have been stolen by miscreants.…

Chinese spies reportedly broke into the US Republication National Committee's Microsoft-powered email and snooped around for months before being caught.…

The smart cookie who discovered a perfect 10-out-of-10-severity remote code execution (RCE) bug in MITRE's Caldera security training platform has urged users to "immediately pull down the latest version." As in, download it and install it.…

IBM plans to buy DataStax, the AI and data biz that supports and contributes to the open source Cassandra wide column database.…

Scientists reckon the red hue of Mars might have originated in an earlier period in the planet's past when liquid water was widespread on the surface.…

Details about the harassment allegations leveled at DEF CON veteran Christopher Hadnagy have now been revealed after a motion for summary judgment was filed over the weekend.…

Microsoft is quietly testing the waters with an ad-supported version of its Office suite.…

Council officers heading up a disastrous Oracle implementation that left Europe's largest local authority unable to manage its finances lacked an understanding of the cloud-based solution they had chosen to buy.…

A Chinese government-backed group is spoofing legitimate medical software to hijack hospital patients' computers, infecting them with backdoors, credential-swiping keyloggers, and cryptominers.…

London is bottom of the table when it comes to 5G mobile service, according to a report gauging major European cities on the overall quality of user experience. And, Europe itself lags behind other regions in 5G SA deployment.…