Day: May 10, 2019

Timely Trump tariffs tax tech totally: 25 per cent levy on modems, fiber optics, networking gear, semiconductors…

It’s the art of the deal, folks New tariffs imposed today by the US government on Chinese imports will hit the tech industry hard, with everything from semiconductors to networking equipment now taxed at 25 per cent.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Brexit To Add to Europe’s Woes in AI Race, Sweden’s Borg Says

The loss of the U.K.’s financial power and expertise as a result of Brexit is likely to exacerbate the European Union’s lag in the global technological arms race, according to Anders Borg, a former Swedish finance minister and senior adviser at artificial intelligence company Ipsoft. From a report: “Brexit entails several layers of problems,” Borg…


FIN7 Linked to Escalating Active Exploits for Microsoft SharePoint Bug

Using a bug patched in March, the attacks are starting to ramp up worldwide. …read more Source:: Threatpost


‘Unhackable’ Encrypted Flash Drive eyeDisk Is, As It Happens, Hackable

According to the findings of Pen Test Partners, a U.K.-based cybersecurity firm, the “unhackable” eyeDisk, an allegedly secure USB flash drive that uses iris recognition to unlock and decrypt the device, is hackable. From a report: In its Kickstarter campaign last year, eyeDisk raised more than $21,000; it began shipping devices in March. There’s just…


What’s that? Uber isn’t actually worth $82bn? Reverse-gear IPO shows the gig (economy) is up

Debut skids off the road as people reluctantly admit they hoped everyone else’s stupidity would help them cash out It couldn’t have happened to a nastier company.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Microsoft vs. Google: Why this browser war isn’t about privacy

At Microsoft’s just-concluded Build developers conference, questions about privacy and trust took center stage. Yet despite multiple opportunities, the company took almost no jabs at its arch-rival Google. Why is Microsoft so hesitant to use privacy as a competitive weapon? …read more Source:: ZDNet


NPM today stands for Now Paging Microsoft: GitHub just launched its own software registry

GitHub Package Registry provides libraries and other bits and bytes for Java, JavaScript, Ruby, .NET and more GitHub today will introduce the GitHub Package Registry, a service to allow software developers to publish and manage public or private software packages for a variety of programming languages.… …read more Source:: TheRegister


Researchers Are Liberating Thousands of Pages of Forgotten Hacking History From the Government

An anonymous reader writes: In 1989, just a few months after the web became a reality, a computer worm infected thousands of computers across the world, including those of NASA. Late last month — 30 years after the “WANK worm” struck NASA — the agency released an internal report that the agency wrote at the…


Google Creates ‘Dedicated Placement’ in Search Results For AMP Stories, Starting With Travel Category

Google says it will soon introduce a “dedicated placement” in Google Search for AMP Stories in specific categories, like travel, along with components that let AMP Story creators embed interactive content. From a report: The dedicated placement — a carousel of visual covers from Stories — will appear beneath the Search bar on mobile for…


Let’s rack and roll: Sanmina’s hulk can bench press 4,500lbs

This is your IT on steroids A reinforced IT rack able to accommodate up to 4,500lbs (more than 2 metric tonnes) of hardware – even in transit – has been built by contract manufacturer Sanmina.… …read more Source:: TheRegister