Following the removal last week of Russian Linux kernel maintainers to comply with US policies, Linus Torvalds – the developer of the original Linux kernel – spoke about his concerns that there were lots of Russian trolls who could potentially infiltrate the Linux kernel. The decision to block the maintainers followed a compromise of the…
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East London innovation and startup hub Plexal has partnered with the Cyber Security Agency (CSA) of Singapore – the Asian state’s equivalent to the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) – and the National University of Singapore (NUS) to create a cross-border cyber security innovation programme. Dubbed CyberBoost, Plexal and its collaborators hope the initiative…
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Microsoft is banning Android phones from its workplace in China for privacy and security reasons. According to Bloomberg News, Microsoft staff will have to ditch their Android-powered devices in favor of iPhones starting in September.Special iPhone apps will be required for China-based employees to verify their identities when logging in to work computers or phones.…
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We caught up with Pure Storage CEO Charlie Giancarlo at the company’s Accelerate event in Las Vegas this week. He gave us his view on why storage write speed is key for checkpointing in artificial intelligence (AI) workloads, why Pure aims to make corporate data available, rapidly, and in the place it does its day-to-day…
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On 6 January 2020, when Ciaran Martin announced he was stepping down from the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) later in the year, he had no way of knowing the UK was on the brink of the biggest public health crisis in a century, and that the NCSC’s energies were shortly to be diverted to…
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Smartphone vendors have struggled in recent years, with one notable exception: Apple. While others saw sales and profits dive amid economic uncertainty, Apple did something unexpected by selling more expensive iPhones without increasing the price.Apple increased the average selling price for the iPhone, taking advantage of the growing popularity of Pro versions of phones like…
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Although TSMC can’t claim to be the first fab to use extreme UV (EUV) lithography – that title goes to Samsung – they do get to claim to be the largest. As a result, the company has developed significant experience with EUV over the years, allowing TSMC to refine how they use EUV tooling to…
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Over 5.3 billion data records are known to have bene breached in a total of 652 publicly disclosed cyber security incidents in April 2024, a staggering increase of over 122,000% on April 2023, and over 1,600% higher than in March 2024, according to figures revealed by risk and privacy management specialist IT Governance. Taken with…
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The Ultra Ethernet Consortium (UEC) has announced this week that the next-generation interconnection consortium has grown to 55 members. And as the group works towards developing the initial version of their ultra-fast Ethernet standard, they have released some of the first technical details on the upcoming standard. Formed in the summer of 2023, the UEC aims…
China has initiated a policy shift to eliminate American processors from government computers and servers, reports Financial Times. The decision is aimed to gradually eliminate processors from AMD and Intel from system used by China’s government agencies, which will mean lower sales for U.S.-based chipmakers and higher sales of China’s own CPUs. The new procurement…
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