Look to the skies this weekend as solar storms strike Earth
Video The US National Weather Service has issued a warning that a G4 solar storm will lash Earth from Friday until Sunday.…
TikTok becomes first platform to require watermarking of AI content
TikTok intends to begin labelling AI-generated images and videos uploaded to its video-sharing service.…
Hey, Reddit. Quick question. All those clicks on my ads. Were they actually real?
Reddit was sued by an unhappy advertiser who claims that internet giga-forum sold ads but provided no way to verify that real people were responsible for clicking on them.…
German plod defend Tesla gigafactory from eco-warriors
Attempts by climate protesters to storm Tesla's Berlin gigafactory were foiled by German police on Friday, with 16 arrests made.…
Did IBM make a $6.4B blunder by buying HashiCorp?
Opinion In some ways, IBM paying a cool $6.4 billion for HashiCorp makes perfect sense. HashiCorp's infrastructure-as-code (IaC) tool Terraform is very popular and would work well with Red Hat Ansible. And, yes, I've heard the joke about how if you put them together, you'd get "Terrible."…
OpenAI insists it's not launching a search engine nor GPT-5 on Monday
OpenAI, the maker of many chatbots and taker of much Microsoft money, denies it's planning to unveil a web search engine on Monday.…
SpaceX set to literally rock Florida with more and bigger Starship launches
SpaceX's Starship is coming to the Kennedy Space Center in Florida – and its plan to use the launch facility means the Federal Aviation Administration will probe the potential environmental impact of Elon Musk's most powerful rockets blasting off the US East Coast.…
Fedora Asahi Remix 40 served on Apple Silicon
Lagging the mainstream edition by a couple of weeks, the Asahi-flavored version of Fedora 40 is here – redolent with KDE Plasma 6.…
Tesla accused of union buster bluster at Buffalo factory
The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is taking Tesla back to the hearing chamber, this time to settle whether it interfered with the organizing rights of employees at its factory in Buffalo, New York.…
Cybercriminals hit jackpot as 500k+ Ohio Lottery lovers lose out on their personal data
More than half a million gamblers with a penchant for powerballs will be receiving some fairly unwelcome news very soon, if not already, as cybercriminals have made off with their personal data.…
Iran most likely to launch destructive cyber-attack against US – ex-Air Force intel analyst
Interview China remains the biggest cyber threat to the US government, America's critical infrastructure, and its private-sector networks, the nation's intelligence community has assessed.…
UK's National Cyber Security Centre entry code cracks up critics
Rolling hot off the heels of World Password Day (groan), every May 2 we hacks generally receive hundreds of emails from PR companies repping their respective infosec pros, all espousing their expert opinions on how to create an "iron-clad" or "military-grade" password, or something equally cringey.…
I told Halle Berry where to go during a programming gig in LA
On Call On Call is on vacation this week, so it seems appropriate to share a couple of the stories sent our way after our recent tale of a support contract that saw a techie required to spend a weekend in a $5,000/night hotel suite.…
Latest figures show AMD chipping away at Intel's CPU dominance
Intel continues to rule the roost in the PC chip market, but AMD is gaining ground in server, desktop, and mobile, according to the latest figures from Mercury Research.…
GhostStripe attack haunts self-driving cars by making them ignore road signs
Six boffins mostly hailing from Singapore-based universities say they can prove it's possible to interfere with autonomous vehicles by exploiting the machines' reliance on camera-based computer vision and cause them to not recognize road signs.…
Samsung sole winner as US smartphone market hits sixth quarterly decline in a row
The US smartphone market registered yet another year-over-year decline in shipments in the first calendar quarter, this time down eight percent compared to Q1 2023.…
Dream Chaser mini-shuttle set to take flight at last
Sierra Space's Dream Chaser spaceplane is finally set to launch in 2024 after completing its latest set of tests at NASA's Neil Armstrong Test Facility.…
Microsoft's Brad Smith summoned by Homeland Security committee over 'cascade' of infosec failures
The US government wants to make Microsoft's vice chair and president, Brad Smith, the latest tech figurehead to field questions from a House committee on its recent cybersecurity failings.…
China's SMIC sounds alarm on price wars from silicon surplus
Chinese chipmaker Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC) is the latest to warn of a potential oversupply in the global market, saying there is an increasingly fierce price war for less advanced silicon in its domestic arena.…
'Four horsemen of cyber' look back on 2008 DoD IT breach that led to US Cyber Command
RSAC A malware-laced USB stick, inserted into a military laptop at a base in Afghanistan in 2008, led to what has been called the worst military breach in US history, and to the creation of the US Cyber Command.…