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Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl

APRICOT With a generation of networking engineers set to retire, is this how to give their successors a faster start?

Networks27 Feb 2025 | 76

Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you...

Arm rolls out the Cortex-A320 for small embedded gear that dreams of big-model inference

Networks26 Feb 2025 | 6

Wozniak: I didn't reduce chip count for manufacturing. I wanted to prove I was clever

Plus: Beware of a hotspot called 'spanky'

Personal Tech26 Feb 2025 | 21

Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel

Microsoft CEO is more interested in neural nets boosting GDP than delivering superhuman intelligence

AI + ML26 Feb 2025 | 71

200-plus impressively convincing GitHub repos are serving up malware

Infosec bytes Plus: DOGE staff quit; LastPass PC, Mac gasp; and CISA warns Oracle and Adobe flaws under attack

Security26 Feb 2025 | 9

Incoming deputy boss of Homeland Security says America's top cyber-agency needs to be reined in

Plus: New figurehead of DOGE emerges and they aren't called Elon

Public Sector26 Feb 2025 | 37

Drug-screening biz DISA took a year to disclose security breach affecting millions

If there's something nasty on your employment record, extortion scum could come calling

Cyber-crime26 Feb 2025 | 5

Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans' email, says book

Of course, Microsoft is in the mix, isn't it

Cyber-crime25 Feb 2025 | 30

MITRE Caldera security suite scores perfect 10 for insecurity

Is a trivial remote-code execution hole in every version part of the training, or?

Research25 Feb 2025 | 11

IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax

Big Blue eyes integration with its AI development studio

Databases25 Feb 2025 | 1

The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin

Scientists pool data from ESA and NASA spacecraft to come up with a ferrihydrite theory

Science25 Feb 2025 | 9

Harassment allegations against DEF CON veteran detailed in court filing

More than a dozen women came forward with accusations

Security25 Feb 2025 | 12

Data resilience and data portability

Why organizations should protect everything, everywhere, all at once

Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface

Only a test at the moment, but a sign of things to come?

Applications25 Feb 2025 | 98

Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco

Lack of skills left Birmingham officials unable to challenge suppliers and with a system incapable of managing finances

Databases25 Feb 2025 | 113

China's Silver Fox spoofs medical imaging apps to hijack patients' computers

Sly like a PRC cyberattack

Research25 Feb 2025 | 2

London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world

Plus: Fandroid alert – Android devices sometimes say '5G' when connecting to 4G

Networks25 Feb 2025 | 26

Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?

What is it with high-powered execs and their love for U2?

Offbeat25 Feb 2025 | 81

Malware variants that target operational tech systems are very rare – but 2 were found last year

Fuxnet and FrostyGoop were both used in the Russia-Ukraine war

Research25 Feb 2025 | 4

OBS-tacle course: Fedora and Flathub's Flatpak fiasco sparks repo rumble

Dispute settled, but not the causes

OSes25 Feb 2025 | 21

Southern Water takes the fifth over alleged $750K Black Basta ransom offer

Leaked chats and spilled secrets as AI helps decode circa 200K private talks

Ransomware in Focus25 Feb 2025 | 34

Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs

Bureau of Labor Statics warns lawyers and customer service reps to brace for change, says techies will be fine

Databases25 Feb 2025 | 11

How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit

Analysis Blueprints shared for jail-breaking models that expose their chain-of-thought process

AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 29

If you dip your toes into immersion cooling, watch out for dielectric liquid sharks

APRICOT The small pool of suppliers understand their market power

On-Prem25 Feb 2025 | 1

Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure

Comment Sunk cost fallacy? No, I just need a little more cash for this AGI thing I’ve been working on

AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 10

LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing

Plus: Anthropic rolls out Claude 3.7 Sonnet

AI + ML25 Feb 2025 | 31

Google binning SMS MFA at last and replacing it with QR codes

Everyone knew texted OTPs were a dud back in 2016

CSO25 Feb 2025 | 105

Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over 4 years to swerve Trump import tariffs

Sorry, that should read: Boost US manufacturing and R&D, believe in the American people, etc etc

On-Prem24 Feb 2025 | 28

US Dept of Housing screens sabotaged to show deepfake of Trump sucking Elon's toes

'Appropriate action will be taken,' we're told – as federal HR email sparks uproar, ax falls on CISA staff

Public Sector24 Feb 2025 | 130

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

Updated OEMs blowing dust from the processor stock cupboard, beware

OSes24 Feb 2025 | 126

Intel cranks up accelerators in Xeon 6 blitz to outgun AMD

But you're probably not cool enough for Chipzilla's 288-core monster

Systems24 Feb 2025 | 3

uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

Chrome ad blocker stopped working? Time to look elsewhere

Applications24 Feb 2025 | 130

Shifting the cybersecurity odds

Four domains to build resilience

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Microsoft's drawback on datacenter investment may signal AI demand concerns

Investment bank claims software giant ditched 'at least' 5 land parcels due to potential 'oversupply'

AI + ML24 Feb 2025 | 19

The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t

No matter how deep you are in Apple's 'ecosystem,’ there are ways to stay encrypted in Blighty

Security24 Feb 2025 | 122

SpaceX has an explanation for the Falcon 9 bits that hit Poland

Oxygen leak blamed for a lack of deorbit burn

Science24 Feb 2025 | 53

IBM Consulting workers told management wants to 'more closely align pay, performance'

Exclusive At least they're not having to 'justify' recent work or resign

Software24 Feb 2025 | 54

How's that open source licensing coming along? That well, huh?

State Of Open When a vendor and a community stop loving each other, things can get very forked up

OSes24 Feb 2025 | 13

Beta of Unix version 2 restored to life

What is dead may never die

OSes24 Feb 2025 | 37

Microsoft's Euro-mandated File Explorer surgery shows 'less is more' is still a thing

Opinion Humble but with a huge history, the utility's privacy pare-back points to a productive possible future

Columnists24 Feb 2025 | 21

Untrained techie botched a big hardware sale by breaking client's ERP

Who, Me? 'If I wasn't already taking blood pressure meds, I'm sure I would not have survived'

Columnists24 Feb 2025 | 51

Maps of terrestrial fibre networks aren’t great. The Internet Society wants to fix that

APRICOT Wants regulators and carriers to adopt Open Fibre Data Standard to answer questions like ‘Is that one fibre, or nine?’

Networks24 Feb 2025 | 10

Rather than add a backdoor, Apple decides to kill iCloud encryption for UK peeps

Infosec in brief Plus: SEC launches new crypto crime unit; Phishing toolkit upgraded; and more

Security24 Feb 2025 | 86

Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech

Digital services taxes, network build levies, touted as violations of US sovereignty

Public Sector24 Feb 2025 | 138

As China embraces Big Tech again, Alibaba plans vast spend to push for artificial general intelligence

Asia in Brief Plus: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota’s smart city nears opening; and more

AI + ML23 Feb 2025 | 2

If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them

Interview Aleph Alpha's Jonas Andrulis on the challenges of building sovereign AI

AI + ML23 Feb 2025 | 4

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

Analysis Earth is running a fever. That's not news. What's surprising is exactly how fast its temperature is rising

Science23 Feb 2025 | 261

California goes ape with bill to crown Bigfoot official state cryptid

Beast remains as mythical as the return on AI investment

Offbeat22 Feb 2025 | 66

BOFH: The USB stick always comes back – until it doesn't

Episode 4 The soldering iron will see to that

BOFH22 Feb 2025 | 74

Binned off staff, slashed stock options. What's next? Ah yes, bigger C-suite bonuses

And really, nothing out of the ordinary for Silicon Valley

Bootnotes22 Feb 2025 | 17

Docker delays Hub pull limits by a month, tweaks maximums, stalls storage billing indefinitely

Image fetches to be capped on hourly basis for Personal, unauthenticated use, paid-for plans get unlimited access

Devops22 Feb 2025 | 11

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Tech jobs are now white-collar trades that need apprentices, not a career crawl

Network edge? You get 64-bit Armv9 AI. You too, watches. And you, server remote management. And you...

Windows 11 24H2 goes back to the drawing board over AutoCAD 2022 glitch

Workday talks up AI agents platform that will reap rewards of staff cuts

Framework guns for cheap laptops with upgradeable alternative

Under Trump 2.0, Europe's dependence on US clouds back under the spotlight

Microsoft's updated Windows battery indicator rollout runs out of juice

Signal will withdraw from Sweden if encryption-busting laws take effect

SpaceX says bad vibes most likely cause of Starship 7 flop

Murena kicks Google out of the Pixel Tablet

HP CEO pay for 2024 = 261,658 toner cartridges

Wozniak: I didn't reduce chip count for manufacturing. I wanted to prove I was clever

Satya Nadella says AI is yet to find a killer app that matches the combined impact of email and Excel

200-plus impressively convincing GitHub repos are serving up malware

Incoming deputy boss of Homeland Security says America's top cyber-agency needs to be reined in

Drug-screening biz DISA took a year to disclose security breach affecting millions

Xi know what you did last summer: China was all up in Republicans' email, says book

MITRE Caldera security suite scores perfect 10 for insecurity

IBM plans to buy open source Cassandra wrangler DataStax

The red color of Mars might have an earlier, wetter origin

Harassment allegations against DEF CON veteran detailed in court filing

Data resilience and data portability

Ad-supported Microsoft Office bobs to the surface

Mega council officers had no idea what they were buying ahead of Oracle fiasco

China's Silver Fox spoofs medical imaging apps to hijack patients' computers

London is bottom in Europe for 5G, while Europe lags the rest of the world

Are you cooler than ex-Apple design guru Sir Jony Ive?

Malware variants that target operational tech systems are very rare – but 2 were found last year

OBS-tacle course: Fedora and Flathub's Flatpak fiasco sparks repo rumble

Southern Water takes the fifth over alleged $750K Black Basta ransom offer

Hurrah! AI won't destroy developer or DBA jobs

How nice that state-of-the-art LLMs reveal their reasoning ... for miscreants to exploit

If you dip your toes into immersion cooling, watch out for dielectric liquid sharks

Despite Wall Street jitters, AI hopefuls keep spending billions on AI infrastructure

LLM aka Large Legal Mess: Judge wants lawyer fined $15K for using AI slop in filing

Google binning SMS MFA at last and replacing it with QR codes

Apple promises to spend $500B, hire 20K over 4 years to swerve Trump import tariffs

US Dept of Housing screens sabotaged to show deepfake of Trump sucking Elon's toes

Microsoft trims more CPUs from Windows 11 compatibility list

Intel cranks up accelerators in Xeon 6 blitz to outgun AMD

uBlock Origin dead for many as Google purges Manifest v2 extensions

Shifting the cybersecurity odds

Microsoft's drawback on datacenter investment may signal AI demand concerns

The software UK techies need to protect themselves now Apple's ADP won’t

SpaceX has an explanation for the Falcon 9 bits that hit Poland

IBM Consulting workers told management wants to 'more closely align pay, performance'

How's that open source licensing coming along? That well, huh?

Beta of Unix version 2 restored to life

Microsoft's Euro-mandated File Explorer surgery shows 'less is more' is still a thing

Untrained techie botched a big hardware sale by breaking client's ERP

Maps of terrestrial fibre networks aren’t great. The Internet Society wants to fix that

Rather than add a backdoor, Apple decides to kill iCloud encryption for UK peeps

Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech

As China embraces Big Tech again, Alibaba plans vast spend to push for artificial general intelligence

If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

California goes ape with bill to crown Bigfoot official state cryptid

BOFH: The USB stick always comes back – until it doesn't

Binned off staff, slashed stock options. What's next? Ah yes, bigger C-suite bonuses

Docker delays Hub pull limits by a month, tweaks maximums, stalls storage billing indefinitely

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