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‘How not to hire a North Korean plant posing as a techie’ guide updated by US and South Korean authorities

Advise turning off and never using remote desktop protocol, prohibiting private VPNs, not trusting recruiters’ due diligence

Cybersecurity Month19 Oct 2023 | 37

In-memory database Redis wants to dabble in disk

Aims to lower costs and broaden appeal of system popular with devs

Databases19 Oct 2023 | 5

Royal College considers no confidence move after Excel recruitment debacle

Mangled spreadsheets mean government was asleep on the job and should be held to account

Personal Tech20 Oct 2023 | 27

Nokia to erase up to 14,000 employees from payroll

Profits plunge, sales down in Q3. Multi-year cost cutting drive means staff will be decimated

Networks19 Oct 2023 | 6

First Brexit, now X-it: Musk 'considering' pulling platform from EU over probe

Comment Plus: Working from home is 'detached from reality' says world's richest man

Personal Tech19 Oct 2023 | 206

Analysts scratch heads over MariaDB's decision to ditch DBaaS crown jewels

'Their future is murky at the moment'

Databases19 Oct 2023 | 5

Casio keyed up after data loss hits customers in 149 countries

Crooks broke into the ClassPad server and swiped online learning database

Cyber-crime19 Oct 2023 | 9

Making the problem go away is not the same thing as fixing it

On Call The difference is especially stark at 2:00 AM

Software20 Oct 2023 | 77

Indian authorities raid fake tech support rings after tipoff from Amazon and Microsoft

Also went after crypto-crooks who sought money to buy miners for fake token

Cybersecurity Month20 Oct 2023 | 20

Amazon unveils new drone design, plans liftoff of aerial delivery in UK, Italy

Smaller, quieter, and expected to deliver millions of packages in coming years

Science19 Oct 2023 | 47

NASA celebrates 40 years of Discovery, the longest-serving Space Shuttle

OV-103 was there for Hubble and the assembly of the ISS

Science19 Oct 2023 | 10

Corner cutting of nuclear proportions as duo admit to falsifying safety tests 29 times

No word on motivation but pair face up to 5 years in the cooler

Legal20 Oct 2023 | 13

UK tribunal agrees with Clearview AI – Brit data regulator has no jurisdiction

American selfie-scraper shakes off $9M privacy fine as the 'actions of a foreign state are out of scope'

AI + ML19 Oct 2023 | 26

Fears China could trash Broadcom's VMware nuptials as revenge for sanctions

Regulator twiddled thumbs for Intel and Tower Semi, it could happen again

Virtualization19 Oct 2023 | 7

Europol knocks RagnarLocker offline in second major ransomware bust this year

Group will be remembered as staunch negotiator and a bullier of critical infrastructure orgs

Cyber-crime19 Oct 2023 |

Ex-Navy IT manager gets 5 years in slammer for 2018 database heist

Seafaring cybercrim's wife faces similar sentence next month

Security19 Oct 2023 | 2

Cybercrim claims fresh 23andMe batch takes leaked records to 5 million

Class action lawsuits abound after mega breach

Cyber-crime19 Oct 2023 | 4

Look ma, no fans: Mini PC boasts slimline solid-state active cooling system

Hong Kong-based maker claims cooler is 'silent'

Personal Tech20 Oct 2023 | 27

Boeing gives busy billionaires unbothered about bespoke beds a cheaper BizJet

Suggests modular interiors for the frequent flyer in a hurry to take off in their own 737

Offbeat20 Oct 2023 | 24

AMD gives 7000-series Threadrippers a frequency bump with Epyc core counts

Workstation CPUs hit 96 cores, high-end desktops get 64. Prices nearly as high as clock speeds

Systems20 Oct 2023 | 8

Winklevoss twins back in hot water after NY AG sues over $1B cryptocurrency fraud

Updated SBF comes up like a bad penny

Legal19 Oct 2023 | 20

It's full of stars! Galactic atlas catalogs 400k Milky Way neighbors

Public gallery invites you to have a scroll and wonder where the hours went

Offbeat19 Oct 2023 | 2

Biotech exec sentenced to eight years for COVID-19 testing finger-stick fraud

100+ diagnostic tests from a single drop of blood – sound familiar?

Legal19 Oct 2023 | 13

HashiCorp CEO talks license changes and the role of foundations

Interview Open Source or Source Available? Does anyone really care?

Devops19 Oct 2023 | 6

Biden has brought the ban hammer down on US export of AI chips to China

Analysis Datacenter GPUs and some consumer cards now exceed performance limits

Systems19 Oct 2023 | 9

India courts IBM, Intel, and Tower for chip partnerships - all in one day

Big Blue in early talks to advance local RISC-V designs

Systems19 Oct 2023 | 1

Sorry kids, Infosys and Wipro have cancelled graduate recruitment

India's big four outsourcers scored record deals in Q2, but revenue didn't reflect those successes

Channel20 Oct 2023 | 6

'Recession-resilient' Tesla misses Q3 expectations, slows Mexico expansion

But look over there: A Cybertruck release date! Just please 'temper expectations,' Elon begs

Offbeat19 Oct 2023 | 42

Microsoft CEO Nadella's compensation drops... to $48M

Try to hold back your tears as CEO to employee pay ratio hits: 250 to 1

Software20 Oct 2023 | 4

Half a billion pound NHS data platform award still stuck in the pipes

Palantir users' endorsement letter could lay the ground for Palantir win

Databases20 Oct 2023 | 8

World's largest chipmaker TSMC's sales down on last year, says upswing 'coming'

Isn't that what it said last time? Premium chips are picking up ... no really

Systems19 Oct 2023 |

US government's Login.gov turns frown upside down, now smiles on facial recognition

Authentication portal to match snaps on existing IDs with user-provided snaps

Personal Tech19 Oct 2023 | 20

More X subscription tiers could spell doom for free access as biz bleeds cash

One's cheaper but with ads, the other's more expensive with no ads, says Musk

Offbeat20 Oct 2023 | 41

Mars chilled for aeons, but stayed so stressed it gets crusty marsquakes

Multiple orbiters failed to find a crater matching rumble. Boffins now blame Red planet's internal problems

Science19 Oct 2023 | 7

Imagine a world without egress fees or cloud software license disparities

UK regulator lists series of potential remedies for anti-competitive practices early on in probe

Public Sector20 Oct 2023 | 3

'Influencer' gets 7 months in prison for plot to interfere with 2016 US election

Florida man gets 4,900 people to 'vote' via SMS after promoting it as an option

Legal20 Oct 2023 | 17

October Cybersecurity Awareness Month to target internal security risks

SANS offers cyber security pros a valuable toolkit of resources to mitigate the potentially serious cybersecurity risks faced by internal staff

Net neutrality is back in the Land of the Free – for now

Until the Democrats leave office, that is

Networks20 Oct 2023 | 2

Bad Vibrations: Music publishers sue Anthropic AI for using copyrighted lyrics

You Can't Always scrape What You Want, even if the lyrics are Blowin' in the (digital) Wind

Legal20 Oct 2023 | 7

Astroboffins spot high-power 8b year old radio burst from pre-Earth event

Signal could help astronomers suss out the mass of the universe

Science20 Oct 2023 | 3

Web Summit CEO's comments on Israeli conflict 'war crimes' sparks boycott

Intel, Siemens, Google, Meta, and Stripe among event walkouts

Personal Tech20 Oct 2023 | 5

The problem with Jon Stewart is that Apple appears to have cancelled his show

Planned episodes on China and AI reportedly worried Apple top brass

Bootnotes20 Oct 2023 | 2

Admin behind E-Root stolen creds souk extradited to US

There was a young man from Moldova, who the Feds just want to roll over, but with 20 inside, and nowhere to hide, he just wants it all to be over

Cyber-crime20 Oct 2023 | 2

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