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Mid-contract telco price hikes must end, Ofcom told 03/11/2023 at 12:32 By Dan Robinson Which? and Uswitch call on UK regulator to tackle specter of bigger bills for Brits come April UK telcos are facing complaints about mid-contract price rises, with 87 percent of consumers saying they should be allowed to simply walk away with […]

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Google shelves plan to build four San Francisco GoogleBurbs 03/11/2023 at 11:32 By Laura Dobberstein Working from home, smaller office footprints, and cost cutting made GoogleVille redundant Google and real estate developer Lendlease have binned their scheme to create four master-planned California communities known as the San Francisco Bay Project.… This article is an excerpt

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Arm grabs a slice of Raspberry Pi to sweeten relationship with IoT devs 03/11/2023 at 09:32 By Tobias Mann Can’t RISC losing them to another ISA Arm Holdings has acquired a minority stake in the popular single-board computer maker Raspberry Pi in a bid to cement its influence over the IoT developer community.… This article

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Apple’s year ends with surging services, a billion subscribers, and a view of generation next 03/11/2023 at 08:36 By Simon Sharwood Hardware (other than iPhones) is not so hot, but ’emerging markets’ are getting Apple fever Apple has posted revenue of $383.3 billion – or about $12,000 per second – for the year, cracked the

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Atlassian predicts its on-prem products will grow faster than cloud 03/11/2023 at 07:32 By Simon Sharwood That is not the plan – nor was a larger loss – so investors whacked the Aussie’s share price Atlassian’s share price has taken a sharp dive after the Australian collaboration corporation revealed decent results, but predicted its on-prem

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India’s lunar landing made a mess on the Moon 03/11/2023 at 06:46 By Laura Dobberstein ‘Ejecta halo’ detected by orbiter reminds that life on Luna will be dirty, gritty, and sneezy India’s Space Research Organisation (ISRO) has published resrarch that reveals its Chandrayaan-3 mission made quite a mess on the Moon.… This article is an

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FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges 03/11/2023 at 04:21 By Simon Sharwood Jury took just four hours to reach guilty verdicts Sam Bankman-Fried, the founder and former CEO of crypto exchange FTX and trading firm Alameda Research, has been found guilty of seven criminal charges.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Uber, Lyft to had back $328M of stolen wages to NY drivers 03/11/2023 at 04:07 By Katyanna Quach So much for appy cabbies being ‘partners’ – Big U kept fares low by making ’em pay fees that riders should have picked up Uber and Lyft will hand over $328 million in back pay to more

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US Commerce Dept pinky swears it won’t push American spyware on world-plus-dog 03/11/2023 at 02:35 By Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Or maybe just not let foreign govts buy this stuff at all? The US Commerce Department has promised to stop promoting American-made commercial spyware to foreign governments.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View

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Google gives up on that API that looked more than a bit like DRM for websites 03/11/2023 at 02:03 By Thomas Claburn Instead, Chocolate Factory focuses on more limited attestation for Android WebViews Amid rising community concern, Google says it will no longer develop controversial technology that was said to fight fraud online though to

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Scarlett Johansson sics lawyers on AI biz that cloned her for an ad 03/11/2023 at 01:05 By Katyanna Quach Plus: Beatles emit song with a little help from a neural network Lawyers representing Scarlett Johansson have pressured the developers of an AI avatar-generating app into taking down an advert that used the Hollywood mega-star’s face

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Amazon’s $1.4B price-raising ‘Project Nessie’ algorithm exposed in FTC antitrust fight 03/11/2023 at 00:15 By Brandon Vigliarolo More details emerge from Loch Jassy, including how this was anything but a ‘scrapped’ project A fresh less-redacted copy of the US FTC’s monopoly-abuse lawsuit against Amazon has confirmed some of what we previously reported about the web

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In quest to defeat Euro red-tape, Apple said it has three Safari browsers – not one 02/11/2023 at 23:17 By Thomas Claburn And with a straight face, too. Brussels didn’t buy it Apple tried to avoid regulation in the European Union by making a surprising claim – that it offers not one but three distinct

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GPS leading your phone astray? We can just fix that in code, startup claims 02/11/2023 at 23:02 By Brandon Vigliarolo Zephr bags $3.5M, reckons its tech can pinpoint location to sub-60cm levels Interview  A startup that’s just emerged from stealth claims it’s solved smartphone GPS positioning problems by adding software to triangulate a handset with

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OSHA strengthens whistleblower protections 02/11/2023 at 23:01 By The U.S. Department of Labor announced that OSHA is strengthening information sharing, referrals and training for anti-retaliation protections.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Pentagon seeks government gossips to dish dirt on UFOs 02/11/2023 at 21:49 By Brandon Vigliarolo Online form isn’t for just anyone, so stow your crackpot theories for now The Pentagon’s UFO hunters have set up an online form to collect first-hand information about secret US government programs involving unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP).… This article is

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Infosec pros can secure IT, but have harder time securing job satisfaction 02/11/2023 at 21:12 By Connor Jones Industry facing burnout scare as workplace issues snowball The proportion of cybersecurity professionals reporting low “happiness ratings” has risen sharply over the last 12 months, raising concerns about increasing burnout rates in the industry.… This article is

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Critical Apache ActiveMQ flaw under attack by ‘clumsy’ ransomware crims 02/11/2023 at 20:31 By Connor Jones Over a week later and barely any patches for the 10/10 vulnerability have been applied Security researchers have confirmed that ransomware criminals are capitalizing on a maximum-severity vulnerability in Apache ActiveMQ.… This article is an excerpt from The Register

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Theora video codec to be coded out from Chrome and Firefox 02/11/2023 at 19:48 By Richard Speed Usage barely measurable so ax will swing on compression dinosaur The Theora video compression codec is finally being put out to pasture as Google pulls it from Chrome and Mozilla mulls the same for Firefox.… This article is

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Snowflake puts LLMs in the hands of SQL and Python coders 02/11/2023 at 19:19 By Lindsay Clark As more features come to Data Cloud, customers might want to keep an eye on consumption Cloud data warehouse biz Snowflake has launched a fully managed service designed to rid developers building LLMs into their applications of the

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