Cops turn LockBit ransomware gang's countdown timers against them [Wed Feb 21 2024]

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Staff say Dell's return to office mandate is a stealth layoff, especially for women

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Italy's military mulling space-based supercomputing cloud

HPC satellites less about world domination, more high availability for comms

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Persistent memory to replace DRAM, but it could take a decade

Wham, bam, hello MRAM, FERAM, and ReRAM

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GlobalFoundries scores $1.5B in Uncle Sam's semiconductor subsidy bonanza

Meanwhile, Intel looks set to bag more than $10B

Euro shoppers popping more and more premium phones in the basket

Apple ousts Samsung as the people's choice in Q4, and the words 'refresh' and 'cycle' are whispered for 2024

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Europe's datacenter dilemma is that hyperscalers are hogging them all

Space scarcity and soaring build costs send rent through the roof

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Two days into the Digital Services Act, EU wields it to deepen TikTok probe

Bloc isn't happy with made-in-China network's efforts to protect kids and data

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Square Kilometre Array precursor looks to filter out satellite interference

Starlink isn't the biggest problem, but increasing numbers of orbiting transmitters isn't helpful

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Vietnam to collect biometrics - even DNA - for new ID cards

Iris scan, voice samples and blood type to be included in database

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Australia has no next-gen HPC investment plan and clouds can't fill the gap

Academy of Science calls for exascale system, which would cost more than current budgets for all supers

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Singapore's monetary authority advises banks to get busy protecting against quantum decryption

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Cops turn LockBit ransomware gang's countdown timers against them

Authorities dismantle cybercrime royalty by making mockery of their leak site

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Wyze admits 13,000 users could have viewed strangers' camera feeds

Customers report feeling violated following the security snafu

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Insider steals 79,000 email addresses at work to promote own business

After saying they're very sorry, they escape with a slap on the wrist

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Reported $60M Reddit deal signed to train AI models with user data

Training machine learning on Redditors' musings - what could go wrong?

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Top five reasons to move from CentOS to RHEL (according to Red Hat)

Feeding IBM's bottom line not in the list

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Microsoft Publisher books its retirement party for 2026

Venerable desktop publisher not going to get a Copilot any time soon

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MariaDB receives offer to go private more than year after disastrous IPO

$37.3M bid significantly down from SPAC flotation valued at $672M

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Preview edition of Microsoft OS/2 2.0 surfaces on eBay

Discounted from $2,600 down to just $650. What a bargain!

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Legal campaigners challenge UK.gov decision to redact NHS-Palantir contract

Federated Data Platform agreement merits pre-action letter from Good Law Project

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Superapp Gojek fine-tunes each new error message for a week. What? Why?

Multilingual service spans five nations and finds fancy graphics improve engagement

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