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'I wonder what this cable does': How to tell thicknet from a thickhead Termin-what? Why can't I connect directly to the network

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Microsoft: Outlook desktop app crashing due to missing identity setting

A new Windows esport event: Opening Outlook

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After eleven-year wait, Atlassian customers promised custom domains in 2023

Some got so cranky waiting they made a t-shirt celebrating the 'CLOUD-6999' Jira ticket

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Nipping ransomware in the bud Detecting pre-ransomware activity

Feeding the data-hungry GPU beast Partnered with NVIDIA

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Intel finally takes the hint on software optimization

Don't have the budget or customer base for Graviton-class silicon? Intel thinks it can help

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Meta iOS apps accused of injecting code into third-party websites

Company insists it's doing so 'to honor people’s App Tracking Transparency (ATT) choices'

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Twitter unveils US midterm election integrity plans, upsets almost everyone

Don't feed the trolls? Users deem policy an attack on conservatives, dystopian, and election manipulation

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AWS takes a shot at the private 5G network

Well, more like 4G LTE right now, and you'll probably need someone to put up the radio

BT union announces 48-hour strike action in protest over pay

26,000 engineers and call center operators to down tools again this month

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'I wonder what this cable does': How to tell thicknet from a thickhead

Termin-what? Why can't I connect directly to the network

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The Total Economic Impact™ Of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewalls Whitepaper

Cloud Or Colo? The Point When AI Startups Need To Make The Switch Whitepaper

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Elon Musk wrote article for China's internet regulator, hinted at aged care robots

PLUS Vietnam's massive infosec push; Philippines telco fight; Australia dumps COVID app; and more

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Ukraine's cyber chief comes to Black Hat in surprise visit

Tl;DR - the news isn't good

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Let there be ambient light sensing, without fear of data theft

Six years on web devs finally settle on sensor privacy defenses

17 Comments

Palo Alto bug used for DDoS attacks and there's no fix yet

There goes the weekend...

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Starlink satellite dish cracked on stage at Black Hat

Once the modchip plans are live, you can, too

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US reveals 'Target' pic of Conti man with $10m reward offer

Fashion Police chipping in on the bounty related to costliest strain of ransomware on record

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Microsoft trumps Google for 2021-22 bug bounty payouts

Another $13.7m handed out to researchers, but then again it does have an awful lot of attack surfaces

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Intel ups protection against physical chip attacks in Alder Lake

Repurposes logic originally used for spotting variations in voltage, timing in older circuits to help performance

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Emergency services call-handling provider: Ransomware forced it to pull servers offline

Advanced's infrastructure still down and out, recovery to take weeks or more

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Why HCI is a Good Bet for Database Workloads

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AI could save future firefighters from deadly flashover explosions

NIST-led engineers are working on building a real-time alert system

5 Comments

Your AI-generated digital artwork may not be protected by US copyright

Do we want to recognise machines as authors?

32 Comments

Meta's AI internet chatbot demo quickly starts spewing fake news and racist remarks

Plus: How Google is using language models to improve search, and watch Heinz's AI ketchup advert

23 Comments

AI laser probe for prostate cancer enters clinical trials

FDA says yes to the tests

17 Comments

Ubuntu 22.04.1: Slightly late, but worth the upgrade

Latest shine on the Jammy Jellyfish brings ton of fixes to keep you working smoothly

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Our software is perfect. If something has gone wrong, it must be YOUR fault

Hello customer, can I help you? Ha ha, just kidding, of course I won’t

191 Comments

VMware offers cloudy upgrade lifeline to legacy vCenter users

But warns 'upcoming major release of vSphere' will break some plugins

9 Comments

Offbeat

Scientists find gasses from Earth in rocks from early Moon

The discovery could help scientists further understand the origins of life

9 Comments

Google fined $42.5m over misleading Android location settings in Australia

Ad behemoth committed to 'providing the most helpful products possible'

12 Comments

BOFH: Who us? Sysadmins? Spend time with other departments?

Oh yes. We'd be only too happy to leave our basement dwelling and frolic among you

86 Comments

Microsoft open-sources its emojis as part of new design philosophy

No Clippy, though, and that philosophy only seems to go so far

23 Comments

Asteroids may shoot pebbles into shallow temporary orbits, boffins believe

OSIRIS-Rex saw this happening. An odd meteorite suggests why and how

5 Comments

US military fuels eVTOL research with $75m contract

The renewed agreement more than doubles the DoD's deal with Joby Aviation

9 Comments

Court voids 34,000 unfair Fuji Xerox contracts

Required customers to pay for software they did not receive, among other sins

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'I wonder what this cable does': How to tell thicknet from a thickhead [Mon Aug 15 2022]

{* Daily Headlines *}

'I wonder what this cable does': How to tell thicknet from a thickhead

Off-Prem

Microsoft: Outlook desktop app crashing due to missing identity setting

After eleven-year wait, Atlassian customers promised custom domains in 2023

Nipping ransomware in the bud

Feeding the data-hungry GPU beast

On-Prem

Intel finally takes the hint on software optimization

Meta iOS apps accused of injecting code into third-party websites

Twitter unveils US midterm election integrity plans, upsets almost everyone

AWS takes a shot at the private 5G network

BT union announces 48-hour strike action in protest over pay

'I wonder what this cable does': How to tell thicknet from a thickhead

The Total Economic Impact™ Of Palo Alto Networks VM-Series Virtual Firewalls

Cloud Or Colo? The Point When AI Startups Need To Make The Switch

Security

Elon Musk wrote article for China's internet regulator, hinted at aged care robots

Ukraine's cyber chief comes to Black Hat in surprise visit

Let there be ambient light sensing, without fear of data theft

Palo Alto bug used for DDoS attacks and there's no fix yet

Starlink satellite dish cracked on stage at Black Hat

US reveals 'Target' pic of Conti man with $10m reward offer

Microsoft trumps Google for 2021-22 bug bounty payouts

Intel ups protection against physical chip attacks in Alder Lake

Emergency services call-handling provider: Ransomware forced it to pull servers offline

Why HCI is a Good Bet for Database Workloads

Software

AI could save future firefighters from deadly flashover explosions

Your AI-generated digital artwork may not be protected by US copyright

Meta's AI internet chatbot demo quickly starts spewing fake news and racist remarks

AI laser probe for prostate cancer enters clinical trials

Ubuntu 22.04.1: Slightly late, but worth the upgrade

Our software is perfect. If something has gone wrong, it must be YOUR fault

VMware offers cloudy upgrade lifeline to legacy vCenter users

Offbeat

Scientists find gasses from Earth in rocks from early Moon

Google fined $42.5m over misleading Android location settings in Australia

BOFH: Who us? Sysadmins? Spend time with other departments?

Microsoft open-sources its emojis as part of new design philosophy

Asteroids may shoot pebbles into shallow temporary orbits, boffins believe

US military fuels eVTOL research with $75m contract

Court voids 34,000 unfair Fuji Xerox contracts

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