Facebook is one bad Chrome extension away from another Cambridge Analytica scandal [Fri Feb 18 2022]

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Facebook is one bad Chrome extension away from another Cambridge Analytica scandal

Meta says it's on top of access token abuse but also needs Google's help

 

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AMD, DoiT to help Google Cloud customers optimize for Epyc

Pair promise to provide the tools to achieve peak Zen

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EU digital sovereignty: Cloud players unconvinced

Why do they keep going to the US for cloud services?

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Amazon, Visa strike global truce on credit card charges

Payment card processing fees will fall away in some regions

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AWS to build 32 more small clouds around the world

Edgy, low-latency 'Local Zones' spreading from Amsterdam to Warsaw

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

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Building A Data Lakehouse On Google Cloud Platform

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Intel reveals GPU roadmap with hybrid integrated discrete graphics

How an investor meeting turned into a night on the tiles

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JPMorgan Chase readies for post-quantum security world

Expanding the reach of quantum communications, QKD. Literally

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RISC-V is keeping its head down in the global chip war

Open-source spec appears nation-neutral, but for how long?

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Cisco can't say when long waits for hardware will end

Omicron dents Switchzilla's previous optimism that late 2022 could see backlog clear

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IBM merges 13 APAC nations into one regional organization

And calls it 'ASEANZK' (gesundheit) to reflect inclusion of Australia, New Zealand, Korea and all of ASEAN

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“Zero-Copy” Hybrid Bursting With No App Changes

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Taiwan cracks down on China spying on tech firms

Revised laws will regulate workers' travel to mainland in bid to protect economy

Interpol: Policing model needs to change with cybercrime

Law enforcement to work in a more networked, borderless fashion – just like the crooks

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SonicWall CEO on ransomware: Every good vendor was hit in past 2 years

Public and private sector both under attack as malware evolution accelerates

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Privacy and computer security are too important to be left to political meddling

And it shouldn't be a privilege handed out by governments

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Facebook is one bad Chrome extension away from another Cambridge Analytica scandal

Meta says it's on top of access token abuse but also needs Google's help

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UK cybersecurity revenue up 14% on last year to £10.1bn

Sector also sees record level of investment, according to government-backed research

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Google expands Privacy Sandbox to Android

Web giant shocked, shocked, to find misuse of data going on in here

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Russia 'stole US defense data' from IT systems

Clearly no need for leet zero-day hax when you can spearphish and exploit months-old vulnerabilities

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Alarm raised after Microsoft wins data-encoding patent

This is why we can't have nice things, potentially

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VMware patches critical guest-to-host vulnerabilities

Time to fix code like it's 2020

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Three major browsers are about to hit version 100. Will websites cope?

Build numbers causing problems: Truly, what is new is old again

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AWS and Elasticsearch settle trademark infringement lawsuit

'There is only one Elasticsearch, and it comes from Elastic'

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