Broadcom Buckle up: $61 billion VMware acquisition a done deal by October 30, says Broadcom Competition watchdog goes from a host of worries to a shrug.
pure storage 300TB SSD drives are coming and NAND evolving fast. Hard drives will have nowhere left to hide by 2026 "There’s a great deal of innovation taking place right now in NAND, with all major flash manufacturers demonstrating significant density increases this year"
Interviews Featured The Big Interview: CISA’s $7 billion CDM program aims to run pan-federal cybersecurity. Is it delivering? "We have gotten very smart on how to do business with agencies and build in flexibility into our contracting vehicles. We took an approach early on to divide and conquer..."
data center Featured Tech titans team up to rethink Ethernet, from the physical to the software layer, and beyond "The new era needs a new network as performant as a supercomputing interconnect, as ubiquitous and cost-effective as Ethernet [and] as scalable as a cloud data center"
vulnerabilities CVE for “Damn Vulnerable Web Application” rejected after troubling, bemusing hackers "To the 731 people who have DVWA exposed to the internet, I apologise for CVE-2023-39848, I recommend you temporarily remove them from the internet till I can create a patch."
News Featured SoftBank tipped to buy out remaining Arm ownership stake Softbank has reportedly struck a deal to buy out Vision Fund's ownership stake in Arm ahead of a planned IPO
News Russia threatens Google with 3 million ruble fine Google faces a $32,000 fine in Russia after government officials claimed it failed to take down Ukraine-related YouTube content
News US looks to South America for help tackling cybercrime The Department of Justice says that it will be working with South American nations in an effort to curb intellectual property theft
Members only Hashicorp HashiCorp’s “poison pill” shift away from open source triggers call for Terraform foundation Now over 300 companies and individuals are calling for HashiCorp to reverse its decision or see Terraform forked and the community decamp...
News When airplane mode isn't airplane mode: iOS malware spoofs standby Researchers say that iOS can be manipulated to create a phony "airplane mode" that allows for the background transmission of data
Opinion It’s time for e-auctions and smart procurement to beat the current chaos "CIOs should engage with their procurement colleagues to understand how they could benefit from more sophisticated IT purchasing..."
News LabRat malware said to be flying under the radar of security tools A newly-spoted proxyjacking campaign is going above and beyond to hide itself from detection
News PowerShell hit with fresh set of vulnerability disclosures Researchers with AquaSecurity say PowerShell Gallery is open to a series of lookalike module attacks
News Featured Pair of new attacks could threaten machine learning models A group of researchers believe they have found a pair of new techniques for manipulating machine learning models
vulnerabilities Citrix ShareFile vulnerability being exploited amid warnings of a “huge spike” in attacks Pre-auth RCE in Citrix ShareFile has the potential to be the next MOVEit, or Accellion, or GoAnywhere, or Aspera Faspex, or...
AI Censorship by hallucination? US educators are using AI to find and ban books with sex in them Among the books pulled from one library are National Medal of Arts and Presidential Medal of Freedom-winner Maya Angelou's autobiography, Khaled Hosseini's "The Kite Runner" and Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaiden's Tale"
News Intel abandons $5 billion deal it had hoped would boost Foundry business "Modestly disappointing for the prospects of Intel’s foundry efforts… [which were] never going to be easy even with Tower, but now may prove to be even more challenging without.”
News Cybercrime charges included in latest Trump indictment The latest indictment against Donald Trump includes possible cybercrime charges against some of Trump's associates
News Tech hiring is on the upswing... unless you're female ONS figures show tech jobs are increasing, but the number of women in the industry has slightly decreased over the quarter
MongoDB MongoDB takes “Queryable Encryption” wizardry GA -- say it has improved latency, useability The set of client-side libraries and server-side code lets applications encrypt sensitive fields in documents, so they remain encrypted while the server processes them; clever...
News Redis gets an overhaul with its 7.2 update Redis is looking to add widespread cleint support for developers and AI integration with its 7.2 update
Members only central government Can £160 million and the cloud fix the DWP’s dismal contact centres? One DWP contact centre services provider reported a shocking 173 SLA breaches in a single year....
Members only News Critical Bank of England systems outage puts the spotlight back on a major settlements overhaul The worst RTGS outage in nearly a decade was resolved without too much loss of hair but will renew enthusiasm for a core settlement engine replacement due in 2024...
News Dell gets $6.5m booting for lying to Aussies about hardware prices Dell has been hit with a fine for misleading Australian customers about the discounts they might get when buying a new monitor with their PC purchase
News Microsoft warns of CODESYS flaws within industrial hardware Microsoft says that flaws in the CODESYS SDK are leaving thousands of PLC units at risk of remote attack with potentially catastrophic consequences