Enterprise Technology News and Analysis
- Biden signs sweeping cybersecurity order, just in time for Trump to gut itby Jessica Lyons on January 17, 2025 at 8:23 pm
Ransomware, AI, secure software, digital IDs – there's something for everyone in the presidential directive Analysis Joe Biden, in the final days of his US presidency, issued another cybersecurity order that is nearly as vast in scope as it is late in the game.…
- China to probe US chip subsidies as export curbs rattle alliesby Dan Robinson on January 17, 2025 at 7:34 pm
Beijing investigating claims of unfair competition in mature semiconductors The "chip wars" between the US and China show no sign of cooling off as Beijing prepares to examine whether America is unfairly subsidizing its own semiconductor companies. Meanwhile, Washington's latest export restrictions have angered even some of its allies.…
- Fortinet: FortiGate config leaks are genuine but misleadingby Connor Jones on January 17, 2025 at 6:32 pm
Competition hots up with Ivanti over who can have the worst start to a year Fortinet has confirmed that previous analyses of records leaked by the Belsen Group are indeed genuine FortiGate configs stolen during a zero-day raid in 2022.…
- Clock ticking for TikTok as US Supreme Court upholds banby Brandon Vigliarolo on January 17, 2025 at 5:15 pm
With Biden reportedly planning to skirt enforcement and kick the can to Trump, this saga might still not be over updated The US Supreme Court has upheld a law requiring TikTok to either divest from its Chinese parent company ByteDance or face a ban in the United States. The decision eliminates the final legal obstacle to the federal government forcing a shutdown of the platform on January 19.…
- EU demands a peek under the hood of X's recommendation algorithmsby Brandon Vigliarolo on January 17, 2025 at 4:40 pm
Commission insists the timing has nothing to do with Musk meddling in German politics ahead of election The European Commission is stepping up its ongoing investigation of Elon Musk's X with a request to examine recent changes made to the platform's recommendation algorithms.…
- Six vulnerabilities in ubiquitous rsync tool announced and fixed in a dayby Liam Proven on January 17, 2025 at 3:49 pm
Turns out tool does both file transfers and security fixes fast Don't panic. Yes, there were a bunch of CVEs, affecting potentially hundreds of thousands of users, found in rsync in early December – and made public on Tuesday – but a fixed version came out the same day, and was further tweaked for better compatibility the following day.…
- Germany unleashes AMD-powered Hunter supercomputerby Tobias Mann on January 17, 2025 at 2:32 pm
€15 million system to serve as testbed for larger Herder supercomputer coming in 2027 Hundreds of AMD APUs fired up on Thursday as Germany's High-Performance Computing Center (HLRS) at the University of Stuttgart announced the completion of its latest supercomputer dubbed Hunter.…
- Copilot invades Microsoft 365 Personal and Family for an extra three bucks a monthby Richard Speed on January 17, 2025 at 1:35 pm
Many users less than impressed by unexpected arrival of AI assistant in Word Copilot is coming to Microsoft 365 Personal and Family, and Vulture Central has had some hands-on experience with the generative AI assistant's attempts to be helpful.…
- Apple solves broken news alerts by turning off the AIby Richard Speed on January 17, 2025 at 12:31 pm
Summaries will return when Apple Intelligence has 'improved' Apple has released a new beta of iOS 18.3 and tacitly admitted that, yes, its AI-generated notification summaries need a bit more work.…
- IBM swoops in to rescue UK Emergency Services Network after Motorola shown the doorby Lindsay Clark on January 17, 2025 at 11:26 am
With a near half-billion-pound price hike bringing contract value to £1.4B IBM has secured a deal with the UK Home Office to supply user services for the troubled Emergency Service Network (ESN) upgrade, providing voice and data communications after Motorola withdrew from the project.…
- Medusa ransomware group claims attack on UK's Gateshead Councilby Connor Jones on January 17, 2025 at 10:30 am
Pastes allegedly stolen documents on leak site with £600K demand Another year and yet another UK local authority has been pwned by a ransomware crew. This time it's Gateshead Council in North East England at the hands of the Medusa group.…
- Brit government contractor CloudKubed enters administrationby Paul Kunert on January 17, 2025 at 9:28 am
Home Office, Department for Work and Pensions supplier in hands of FRP Advisory A self-described specialist supplier of "transformational data and AI solutions" to the UK government has called in the administrative receivers.…
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