US sanctions spree continues with 15 more for Russian entities
It's sanctions central at the US Treasury this week as a further 15 are slapped on organizations and individuals in Russia.…
Canva acquires Affinity, further wounding a regulator-bruised Adobe
Canva is stepping up its competition with Adobe for creative software dominance with the acquisition of popular creative software suite Affinity.…
Uncle Sam's had it up to here with 'unforgivable' SQL injection flaws
The US has clearly had enough of software vendors shipping products with "unforgivable" vulnerabilities, and is now urging them to launch formal code reviews to stamp out SQL injection flaws.…
Nvidia software exec Kari Briski on NIM, CUDA, and dogfooding AI
Interview Nvidia's GPU Technology Conference concluded last week, bringing word of the company's Blackwell chips and the much-ballyhooed wonders of AI, with all the dearly purchased GPU hardware that implies.…
SK hynix said to be building $4B memory packaging plant in Indiana
High-bandwidth memory (HBM) leader SK hynix is set to build an advanced packaging facility in Indiana, which is estimated to cost $4 billion and come online in 2028 to potentially package high-end HBM.…
SAP ordered to pay $26.4M in South Africa energy firm dispute
A Special Tribunal in South Africa has ordered the German software giant SAP to pay a R500 million ($26.4 million, £20.9 million) settlement within a week following a long-running investigation into compliance with public finance laws.…
Microsoft gets new Windows boss as Start Menu man Parakhin 'to explore new roles'
Microsoft just put Pavan Davuluri in charge of the company's Windows and Surface teams, while Windows exec Mikhail Parakhin is "to explore new roles."…
UXL Foundation readying alternative to Nvidia's CUDA for this year
The UXL Foundation is readying its open standard accelerator programming model, touted by some as an alternative to Nvidia's CUDA platform, for "a spec release in Q4."…
Sun Microsystems co-founder charged with insider trading
A Silicon Valley heavyweight has been charged with insider trading by the US Securities and Exchange Commission.…
Ransomware can mean life or death at hospitals, but DEF CON hackers have a plan
Interview As ransomware gangs target critical infrastructure – especially hospitals and other healthcare organizations – DARPA has added another government agency partner to its Artificial Intelligence Cyber Challenge (AIxCC).…
Scaleway shows off its new RISC-V devices at Kubecon
European cloud provider Scaleway showed off its new RISC-V servers at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation's (CNCF's) Kubecon Europe 2024 event.…
Good news: HMRC offers a Linux version of Basic PAYE Tools. Bad news: It broke
Updated Did you know that His Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) offers free Linux tools? Sadly, though, they recently stopped working.…
Fujitsu set to be preferred bidder in UK digital ID scheme
A UK government-endorsed ID card scheme is set to appoint Fujitsu as a business outsourcing supplier despite the Japanese company's earlier promise to refrain from participating in UK public procurement.…
FreeBSD Foundation hands out Beacon gongs for safer software
The inaugural Beacon Awards has handed three prizes to projects working on safer software for CHERI-enabled hardware running on the CheriBSD operating system.…
UK elections are unaffected by China's cyber-interference, says deputy PM
The UK's deputy prime minister, Oliver Dowden, says China has been unsuccessful in its attempts to undermine UK elections.…
Row breaks out over true severity of two DNSSEC flaws
Updated Two DNSSEC vulnerabilities were disclosed last month with similar descriptions and the same severity score, but they are not the same issue.…
Cloudflare says it has automated empathy to avoid fixing flaky hardware too often
Cloudflare has revealed a little about how it maintains the millions of boxes it operates around the world – including the concept of an "error budget" that enacts "empathy embedded in automation."…
SWIFT embraces central bank digital currencies after sandbox success
One of the many sanctions imposed on Russia after its illegal invasion of Ukraine was exclusion from the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) – the messaging network that most of the world's banks use to move money across borders.…
RISC-V PCIe 5 SSD controller for the rest of us hits 14GB/s
A demo of Yingren Technology's YRS820 PCIe 5.0 SSD controller – built entirely on the RISC-V architecture – showed it reading at 14GB/sec and writing at 12GB/sec, without any active cooling required.…
New Zealand to world: China attacked us, too!
The government of South Pacific island nation New Zealand has revealed that it, too, has been attacked by China.…