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India’s massive COVID-19 wave slows VMware desktop hypervisor development
VMware has revealed that surging second wave of COVID-19 infections in India has impacted at least one of its products.…
Australia proposes teaching cyber-security to five-year-old kids
Australia has decided that six-year-old children need education on cyber-security, even as it removes other material from the national curriculum.…
China hauls in 13 web giants for ‘supervision interviews’
China has again moved to ensure its web giants don’t prove too disruptive to its economy, hauling 13 of them in for “supervision interviews” with a panel of regulators.…
Stealthy Linux backdoor malware spotted after three years of minding your business
Chinese security outfit Qihoo 360 Netlab on Wednesday said it has identified Linux backdoor malware that has remained undetected for a number of years.…
BadAlloc: Microsoft looked at memory allocation code in tons of devices and found this one common security flaw
Microsoft has taken a look at memory management code used in a wide range of equipment, from industrial control systems to healthcare gear, and found it can be potentially exploited to hijack devices.…
US appeals court nixes ban on 3D printed 'ghost guns'
A federal appeals court has overturned a district court order preventing plans for 3D-printed guns from being shared online.…
Richer each day, home and Huawei: Apple's hunger for Snapdragon modems, smartphone recovery pays off for Qualcomm
San Diego HQ'd chipmaker Qualcomm has reported [PDF] quarterly financials that impressed even the worthless stock traders, courtesy of a recovery in phone sales and a strong output in China.…
Your company’s workspace is anywhere and everywhere. Here’s how to tie it all together
Promo After more than a year of working from home, is it time for some normalcy to return to IT? Unlikely, as the existing demands of digital transformation are now intertwined with what seems like an permanent shift in how organisations organise themselves.…
Flatcar Linux takes the 520, drives up to Redmond: Microsoft acquires Kinvolk
Microsoft has acquired Kinvolk, a German open source company whose best known project is Flatcar Container Linux, a distribution designed for container workloads.…
JetBrains shoves TeamCity into the cloud, pitches Kotlin for build pipelines because YAML is 'really a pain'
JetBrains has released TeamCity Cloud, a hosted version of its Continuous Integration (CI) tool, with support for Kotlin DSL (Domain Specific Language) for configuring build pipelines.…
Not as many $1m customers as last quarter? Sorry, we're out: ServiceNow shares fall despite soaring revenues
ServiceNow has spooked investors by adding fewer high-value contracts in the first calendar quarter of 2021 than it did the previous quarter.…
Apple won't be sharing revenue guidance for rest of the year, but we can always guess what it'll look like
Apple is having one helluva pandemic. The world's most valuable tech brand last night reported stellar numbers for its Q2 of fiscal 2021 [PDF] ended 27 March, with revenue up 53 per cent to $89.584bn and profit more than doubling.…
Mayday! Mayday! Microsoft has settled on a build and Windows 10 21H1 is inbound
Buckle up, it's that time again. Microsoft is set to unleash Windows 10 21H1 upon an expectant world, as well as inflict its weird obsession with News and Interests on existing users.…
Vivaldi update unleashes the 'Cookie Crumbler' to simply block any services asking for consent (sites may break)
The latest release of Chromium-based browser Vivaldi has extended ad blocking to handle cookie warning dialogs and sent a shot across the bows of Google's ad technology, FLoC.…
Billions in data protection lawsuits rides on Google's last-ditch UK Supreme Court defence for Safari Workaround sueball
Google has urged the UK's Supreme Court to throw out a £3bn lawsuit brought by an ex-Which director over secretly planted tracking cookies on devices running Safari, on the grounds that local law doesn’t allow for opt-out class action lawsuits.…
Major shift in smartphone market sees Chinese kit win the middle while Apple and Samsung skim the cream
People are buying smartphones again, according to figures from analyst IDC which show the market grew 25 per cent year-on-year in Q1 2021.…
48 ways you can avoid file-scrambling, data-stealing miscreants – or so says the Ransomware Task Force
The Institute for Security and Technology's Ransomware Task Force (RTF) on Thursday published an 81-page report presenting policy makers with 48 recommendations to disrupt the ransomware business and mitigate the effect of such attacks.…
Big Tech bankrolling AI ethics research and events seems very familiar. Ah, yes, Big Tobacco all over again
Analysis Big tech's approach to avoiding AI regulation looks a lot like Big Tobacco's campaign to shape smoking rules, according to academics who say machine-learning ethics standards need to be developed outside of the influence of corporate sponsors.…
Microsoft demotes Calibri from default typeface gig, starts fling with five other fonts
Microsoft has decided that Calibri’s days as its default font are numbered.…
When you’re building a cybersecurity pro, you need to get the foundations right
Promo Cyber attackers are a diverse lot. They can strike from anywhere in the world, and may be motivated by greed, politics, status, or pure malevolence. And their techniques range from the dazzlingly sophisticated to the frankly crude, technically speaking.…
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