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New Relic report also sees accelerated uptake of freshly-ground JDK releases

The nearly three-year-old Java 17 has overtaken Java 11 as the most widely used long-term support (LTS) version of the programming language, according to app monitors at New Relic.…

Growth is rather slower than cloudy rivals, but boss Andy Jassy can explain that

Amazon Web Services is on track to earn $100 billion of revenue in FY2024, has improved its margins, and provides the bulk of its parent company's operating income.…

Superapp GoTo has an angle on everything – even taming TikTok

Indonesian superapp provider GoTo will soon offer to take you for a ride – or loan you money to buy your own.…

An ACE in the hole for miscreants

Updated  The open source R programming language – popular among statisticians and data scientists for performing visualization, machine learning, and suchlike – has patched an arbitrary code execution hole that scored a preliminary CVSS severity rating of 8.8 out of 10.…

Vastaamo villain more than doubled reported crime in Nordic nation

A cyber-thief who snatched tens of thousands of patients' sensitive records from a psychotherapy clinic before blackmailing them and then leaking their files online has been caged for six years and three months.…

Promises to train 850,000 workers and build datacenters

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella says the company will invest $1.7 billion in expanding its presence and building datacenters in Indonesia.…

Publishers want ChatGPT models destroyed after ML tech trained 'unlawfully' on articles

Eight big-city American newspapers have banded together to sue Microsoft and OpenAI, claiming the tech duo unlawfully used the publishers' copyrighted articles to train AI models.…

Congress to hear how Citrix MFA snafu led to massive data theft, $870M+ loss

Updated  UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty will tell US lawmakers Wednesday the cybercriminals who hit Change Healthcare with ransomware used stolen credentials to remotely access a Citrix portal that didn't have multi-factor authentication enabled.…

It's not like you need wonks to put driverless robotaxis on public roads or anything

The organizational tree at Tesla keeps shedding leaves, and a surprising number keep falling from the top with two more high-profile executives reportedly leaving the firm. …

Slotting in the module for ambitious next-generation compute goals

Japan's Arm-based Fugaku supercomputer is to be paired with a newly developed quantum system from IBM as part of a project to research and develop future computing systems.…

Tried to sell top secret docs for the low, low price of $85K

A former NSA employee has been sentenced to 262 months in prison for attempting to freelance as a Russian spy.…

Unless you live in Europe or Korea

OpenAI's Memory feature is now broadly available for ChatGPT Plus users, meaning many more can feel vaguely uncomfortable about how much the chatbot is "remembering" about their preferences.…

Big rise in valuation... for browser that won't let you Control-V any data copied inside it

Insta-unicorn Island, with its browser built for the enterprise, has some interesting funding news: it just hit a $3 billion valuation in an era where it's AI or bust in the VC world. …

Customers to get their light-up cyberpunk respirators refunded

Remember when Razer, better known for overpriced peripheral hardware with RGB blinkenlights aimed at gamers, released an overpriced "N95-grade" face mask?…

15 to 30% won't touch the sides... 50%? Now you're talking

Import duties of 40 to 50 percent will be needed to shield the European auto industry from China-based producers, according to a new report.…

Second time lucky as competition from Starlink and pals increases

Satellite operator SES is to acquire Intelsat for $3.1 billion, creating an entity with more than 100 Geostationary Earth Orbit (GEO) and 26 Medium Earth Orbit (MEO) satellites.…

Software doyen hopes to achieve a third impossible thing

Interview  Bruce Perens believes he can do three impossible things, having already accomplished two of them.…

There are many reasons why this is likely more trouble than it's worth

EV carmaker Tesla is considering a wonderful money-making wheeze – use all of that compute power in its vehicles to process workloads for cash, like a kind of AWS on wheels.…

Europe takes action after Facebook parent withdraws monitoring tool

The European Commission has launched formal proceedings against Meta, alleging failure to properly monitor distribution by "foreign actors" of political misinformation before June's European elections.…

This nearly Snap-free Ubuntu remix may be about about to win friends and influence people

Xubuntu 24.04 is out, and offers a minimal installation option that is considerably more minimal than the other official flavors.…