It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s a flying menace out to endanger national security

Two US government agencies, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), warned on Wednesday that drones made in China could be used to gather information on critical infrastructure.…

Testing for this can can involve taking a chunk out of your flesh, making this a case of AI tech being kinder to humans

The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a handheld AI-powered medical device that helps doctors diagnose skin cancer.…

'Fairly Trained', founded by a former AI exec who quit over the issue, hopes consumer activism spurs adoption

A former VP of audio at Stability AI who quit the biz over content scraping has launched a non-profit organization named “Fairly Trained” that certifies generative AI models whose developers obtained consent to train their models on copyrighted data.…

Everybody loves Google still, judging by these numbers

Microsoft's share of the global web search market has hardly changed since the arrival of Bing AI, aka Bing Chat aka Copilot, according to industry figures. We're told Bing's share has increased just 0.56 percentage points since it plugged OpenAI's GPT-4 into its web search nearly a year ago.…

Executives told comply or say goodbye

IBM Consulting this week told its US-based executives and people managers that, effective immediately, they must work from a corporate office at least three days per week, or face the consequences.…

Just as Secretary of State's 737 goes on the Blink(en) at Davos

Boeing could use any win it can get lately, and it's found an admittedly small one in a $102.7 million deal to modernize some of the US Navy's submarine-hunting P-8A Poseidon aircraft.…

A lot of IT depts can't wait to get past their ESX addiction

As the fallout from Broadcom’s takeover of VMware continues to rain down on the industry, rivals of the one-time virtualization giant have the opportunity to swoop on customers thanks to the massive changes happening to its channel.…

Assets boss also reckons she has more engineers than Amazon

Updated  The largest bank in the United States repels 45 billion cyberattack attempts per day, one of its leaders claimed at the World Economic Forum in Davos. …

Politics-busting, uber-transparent incident reviews require independence, less internal conflict

As the US mulls legislation that would see the Cyber Safety Review Board (CSRB) become a permanent fixture in the government's cyber defense armory, experts are calling for substantial changes in the way it's organized.…

Japanese lunar lander to attempt a soft touchdown

As the Astrobotic Peregrine spacecraft prepares for its final descent into the Earth's atmosphere, another lunar mission, the Japanese Smart Lander for Investigating Moon (SLIM), is gearing up for a soft landing on the Moon's surface.…

They paved paradise, put up grocery stores, bars, restaurants, hotels, hospitals ...

Californians wondering why a shady shell company spent time buying up vast acreages of scrubland in Solano County can wonder no more – because a gaggle of tech billionaires are going on a charm offensive to get a city built from scratch.…

Untold harms of holding the corporate perimeter revealed in extensive series of interviews

Ransomware attacks are being linked to a litany of psychological and physical illnesses reported by infosec professionals, and in some cases blamed for hospitalizations.…

SF employees set sail on exclusive six-seater sea shuttle – the rest will have to stick to roads

San Francisco-based employees of financial services firm Stripe will soon have an alternative to their automotive commute thanks to Navier, a startup building electric hydrofoil boats.…

Like buying a car where the seats are an optional extra

Microsoft's demands for extra cash from customers wishing to use Copilot for Microsoft 365 has highlighted a growing problem – the number of paid add-ons.…

Just when you thought you had recovered from Bleed

Two vulnerabilities in NetScaler's ADC and Gateway products have been fixed – but not before criminals found and exploited them, according to the vendor.…

Plus fresh release brings native Wayland support on Linux

WINE 9.0 brings the benefits of better WoW64 support to 64-bit x86 – and Arm – kit, plus native Wayland support on Linux.…

It won't be anywhere near the 12,000 heads that rolled last year, though, says Pichai

Alphabet boss Sundar Pichai is warning Googlers to brace themselves for more jobs cuts in 2024 though they won’t be as deep as last year.…

The threat hunters believe COLDRIVER has used SPICA since at least November 2022

Russian cyberspies linked to the Kremlin's Federal Security Service (FSB) are moving beyond their usual credential phishing antics and have developed a custom backdoor that they started delivering via email as far back as November 2022, according to Google's Threat Analysis Group.…

Chipmaker reports flat Q4 but expects to be on the up in 2024

Chipmaker TSMC had a mixed final calendar quarter of 2023, with profit falling less than expected and revenue growth “essentially flat,” in another sign that the global semiconductor downturn is over.…

UK political and media storm following dramatization of Post Office Horizon scandal

Fujitsu has seen $1 billion wiped off its market value after a week in the political and media spotlight for its role in the UK’s Post Office Horizon scandal, which prompted the European chief exec to say the company was morally responsible for providing compensation.…