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Damn Small Linux returns after a 12-year gap
Seventeen years after its last major version, an old favorite, Damn Small Linux, is back with a new 2024 release.…
It's time we add friction to digital experiences and slow them down
Column Before he woke up on the first day of February, one of my friends was robbed.…
Europe loosens the straps tying Apple and Microsoft to tough antitrust rules
The European Commission has reversed its decision that some Apple and Microsoft offerings qualify as "gatekeeper services" under the Digital Markets Act (DMA), meaning the bloc’s toughest regulations won’t be applied.…
Upstart retrofits an Nvidia GH200 server into a €47,500 workstation
Nvidia's long-teased GH200 CPU-GPU Superchips are finally going on sale, and the 1,000-Watt chip – built to run in servers and handle hefty AI training and inference tasks – is even available in a workstation from German startup gptshop.ai.…
Airbnb sees AI as its ticket to become a sprawling Big Tech giant
Airbnb sees AI as its ticket out of the travel industry ghetto, and a passport to expanding its services into other industries.…
Australian Tax Office probed 150 staff over social media refund scam
One hundred and fifty people who worked for the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) have been investigated – and some prosecuted – for participating in a tax refund scam promoted on Facebook and TikTok.…
Judge bins authors' copyright claim against OpenAI
A US judge has dismissed some of the claims made by writers in a copyright infringement lawsuit against OpenAI, though gave the wordsmiths another chance to amend their complaint.…
Crims found and exploited these two Microsoft bugs before Redmond fixed 'em
Patch Tuesday Microsoft fixed 73 security holes in this February's Patch Tuesday, and you better get moving because two of the vulnerabilities are under active attack.…
The most 2024 things to do are laying off staff and eyeing up AI – Mozilla's doing both
Firefox maker Mozilla has laid off "approximately 60" staff, or around five percent of its workforce.…
Just one bad DNS packet can bring down a public DNSSEC server
A 20-plus-year-old security vulnerability in the design of DNSSEC could allow a single DNS packet to exhaust the processing capacity of any server offering the system for domain-name resolution, effectively disabling the machine.…
US patents boss cannot stress enough that inventors must be human, not AI
The US Patent and Trademark Office this week repeated loud and clear it will only accept patent applications that list actual real humans as the inventor and not AI.…
QNAP vulnerability disclosure ends up an utter shambles
Network-attached storage (NAS) specialist QNAP has disclosed and released fixes for two new vulnerabilities, one of them a zero-day discovered in early November.…
ALPHV blackmails Canadian pipeline after 'stealing 190GB of vital info'
Updated Canada's Trans-Northern Pipelines has allegedly been infiltrated by the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware crew, which claims to have stolen 190 GB of data from the oil distributor.…
FCC Commissioner calls for crackdown on Apple's iMessage gatekeeping
Brendan Carr of the US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has called on the authority to take a closer look at Apple's actions in the Beeper Mini affair.…
Cruise swerves to hire safety guru after series of misadventures on the streets
Autonomous vehicle biz Cruise has hired a Chief Safety Officer following the dramatic incident last fall when a pedestrian was dragged under the wheels of one of its cars, precipitating a suspension of its US fleet.…
Biden admin keeps O-RAN dream alive with $42M funding for R&D facility
The Biden administration is keeping America's dreams of a future filled with open radio access network (OpenRAN) kit alive after awarding $42.3 million to a new consortium dedicated to commercialization of the tech. …
Flipper Zero takes to the big screen
A Video Game Module (VGM) containing a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller is out today for the Flipper Zero pentester multi-tool.…
Microsoft might have just pulled support for very old PCs in Windows 11 24H2
If you're running a very old PC but have managed to persuade Windows 11 to boot, it looks like the rug could soon be pulled from under you, judging by a post claiming that Microsoft's code will now require an instruction not found on old CPUs.…
Backblaze's geriatric hard drives kicked the bucket more in 2023
Cloud backup and storage provider Backblaze has published a report on hard drive failures for 2023, finding that rates increased during the year due to aging drives that it plans to upgrade.…
Crooks hook hundreds of exec accounts after phishing in Azure C-suite pond
The number of senior business executives stymied by an ongoing phishing campaign continues to rise with cybercriminals registering hundreds of cloud account takeovers (ATOs) since spinning it up in November.…