T-Mobile US puts NYC emergency services in the 5G fast lane with network slicing
Updated T-Mobile US has signed a deal to provide telecoms for emergency services in New York City using network slicing to their ensure calls and data traffic are prioritized above other users.…
London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world
London is bottom of the table when it comes to 5G mobile service, according to a report gauging major European cities on the overall quality of user experience. And, Europe itself lags behind other regions in 5G SA deployment.…
Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?
Ex-Apple design whiz Sir Jony Ive appeared on the BBC's long-running Radio 4 show Desert Island Discs over the weekend. Despite his storied career and close friendship with the late Steve Jobs, his picks were pedestrian even for a Brit in his late 50s.…
Malware variants that target operational tech systems are very rare – but 2 were found last year
Two new malware variants specifically designed to disrupt critical industrial processes were set loose on operational technology networks last year, shutting off heat to more than 600 apartment buildings in one instance and jamming communications to gas, water, and sewage network sensors in the other.…
OBS-tacle course: Fedora and Flathub's Flatpak fiasco sparks repo rumble
A clash over different Flatpak-packaged versions of OBS Studio highlights problems with distro-maintained software repositories versus external ones.…
Southern Water takes the fifth over alleged $750K Black Basta ransom offer
Southern Water neither confirms nor denies offering Black Basta a $750,000 ransom payment following its ransomware attack in 2024.…
Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs
Developers worried about their careers in the age of AI might be able to relax a little after the US Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) predicted employers will hire another 300,000 coders by 2033.…
How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit
Analysis AI models like OpenAI o1/o3, DeepSeek-R1, and Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking can mimic human reasoning through a process called chain of thought.…
The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t
Apple customers, privacy advocates, and security sleuths have now had the weekend to stew over the news of the iGadget maker's decision to bend to the UK government and disable its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature.…
Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure
Comment Despite persistent worries that vast spending on AI infrastructure may not pay for itself, cloud providers, hyperscalers, and datacenter operators have continued to shovel billions of dollars into ever-larger GPU clusters.…
US Dept of Housing screens sabotaged to show deepfake of Trump sucking Elon's toes
Visitors to the US Department of Housing and Urban Development's headquarters in the capital got some unpleasant viewing on Monday morning after TV screens across the building began showing a deepfake video of President Trump kissing and sucking Elon Musk's toes.…
Google binning SMS MFA at last and replacing it with QR codes
Google has confirmed it will phase out the use of SMS text messages for multi-factor authentication in favor of more secure technologies.…
Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over 4 years to swerve Trump import tariffs
As computer makers grapple with Trump's tariffs, Apple is doubling down on US manufacturing and research-and-development investments, announcing plans to spend $500 billion and hire 20,000 people over the next four years in America to support these efforts.…
Intel cranks up accelerators in Xeon 6 blitz to outgun AMD
Facing stiff competition from its long-time rival AMD and the ever-present specter of custom Arm silicon in the cloud, Intel on Monday emitted another wave of Xeon 6 processors.…
Microsoft's drawback on datacenter investment may signal AI demand concerns
Microsoft has reportedly cancelled leases on datacenter capacity in the US, raising questions about whether the company may have overestimated demand for AI services and the compute power it needs to drive them.…
Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list
Microsoft has published the list of CPUs supported by Windows 11 24H2 – which confirms to OEMs that if they were hoping to raid stocks of pre-11th-generation Intel CPUs, they're out of luck.…
DXC paid 50% more than original contract value for disastrous public sector Oracle project
Updated Systems integrator DXC accrued over 50 percent more than its original contract value for completing less than half the scheduled contract term during a disastrous project to move a UK government body off an ageing SAP ERP system and onto Oracle Fusion.…
uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions
Google's purge of Manifest v2-based extensions from its Chrome browser is underway, as many users over the past few days may have noticed.…
SpaceX has an explanation for the Falcon 9 bits that hit Poland
SpaceX has published an explanation for the debris from the Falcon 9 second stage that fell over Poland last week. Because of an oxygen leak, the expected deorbit burn didn't occur.…
Ivanti endpoint manager can become endpoint ravager, thanks to quartet of critical flaws
Security engineers have released a proof-of-concept exploit for four critical Ivanti Endpoint Manager bugs, giving those who haven't already installed patches released in January extra incentive to revisit their to-do lists.…
