Hyperloop Hyperloop will only live up to its first syllable following liquidation announcement Elon Musk's Hyperloop One startup is reportedly doomed to shut down at the end of the year as the revolutionary rail system failed to gain a foothold
Windows 11 Windows 10 end of life could kill 240 million PCs Microsoft's decision to switch to a new version of Windows could create an epic wave of e-waste as some 240 million PCs stand to lose support according to industry analysts
Microsoft Microsoft won't get back to mixed reality Microsoft has dropped support for its augmented reality system, signaling a major shift for the company and its vision of the future
Lapsus Lapsus$ hacker sent to hospital custody A hacker associated with the infamous Lapsus$ hacking crew has been handed over to medical professionals over mental health concerns related to Autism
Apple Vision Apple Vision Pro rumored for February release Apple's augmented reality headset could be arriving sooner than later, according to reports out of China
comcast Hello Americans: you, you, you, you, you, you, (not you), you, you, you... did not lose your personal data in a Comcast breach Comcast says that it lost the data of roughly 35.9 million people as the result of data breach related to a Citrix software error
News Google to cough up $700m in antitrust settlement Google has settled with a number of US states over a lawsuit regarding its handling of Android apps and pricing. The total fee will tally out at $700m
News Feds bust Blackcat malware ring The US department of justice has busted up a prolific ransomware as a service ring that targeted hundreds of companies
News NSA updates software guidelines The NSA has posted a new set of cybersecurity guidelines for government agencies
Members only MongoDB MongoDB hacked: Hints at authentication system compromise Attackers had access to certain corporate systems “for some period of time before discovery”
SEC New SEC cyber rules are go... Firms need to disclose any cybersecurity incident they determine to be material and to describe the material aspects of the incident's nature, scope, and timing within four days.
Members only ERP HMG puts massive £500m ERP contract out to tender An early Christmas present for Systems Integrators and their SaaS partners as a ten-year ERP centralisation contract lands
News Google praised for rollout of anti-tracking policy updates Google has won praise from the Electronic Frontier Foundation after it issued a new set of policies and default settings for its Location History feature that could limit police overreach in surveillance and search
cybercrime Microchargers charged for chump change charges The DOJ has launched a legal campaign against what it says are a network of fraudsters that thrive on extracting micropayment charges in order to avoid detection by banks
News 'Tis the season: Box gifts customers an early weekend with Friday outage File sharing and collaboration service Box fell victim to an extended outage that affected all of its services on Friday
Members only banks Europe's banks steel themselves for a tough ECB cyber resilence test after blistering criticism "Institutions continue to report gaps in risk control areas considered fundamental to cyber hygiene, such as proper identity and access management, timely vulnerability patching or network security"
AI Dropbox’s AI integration with OpenAI turns into a messaging mess – as Amazon’s CTO apologises over data protection post "To data scientists and developers in the domain, the answers to these questions may be laughably obvious and the questions naive, but to most end-users they will not be."
central government UK government eyes data centre security overhaul; may consider it CNI, create a new regulator "Risks have also been identified in relation to data centre customer access to sites and facilities, and access by contractors or those providing supply chain services..."
Fathom Swiss Re buys Fathom, flood data specialist and The Stack's inaugural Tech for Good award winner Globally, natural catastrophes caused $100 billion in insured losses this year alone, with “at least” $12 billion of these total insured losses attributed to flood-related events.
NATO NATO signs up IBM to build and run a custom cybersecurity offering IBM is providing a custom "Asset, Configuration, Patching and Vulnerability” service with a special focus on vulnerability management.
Oracle Larry Ellison: Oracle gave Elon Musk GPUs – “Boy, did they want more” “If Oracle Database just disappeared at companies, the whole planet would come to a standstill”
Patch Tuesday A December Patch Tuesday recap: Azure Logic Apps, Power Platform get critical fix A CVSS 9,8 bug that lets attackers spoof legitimate connectors between Microsoft/Azure services is the pick of the bunch...
vmware Broadcom is killing off VMware perpetual licences and strong-arming users onto subscriptions Starting when? Starting now. Kiss goodbye to support and subscriptions (SnS) on-premises users, too.
AWS AI firm Anthropic slashed its AWS bill 40% by using Karpenter "If spot instances weren’t available, we had no way to tell Cluster Autoscaler to fall back to on-demand Instances, and we ended up stuck in a few loops…" others note.
Members only Kubernetes The future of Kubernetes at AWS: Slack, Anthropic lead a "Karpenter" love-in Hammer down those AWS bills, chisel away at that scheduling latency; pick a carpentry tool, pick your clumsy metaphor...