- AI hiring bias? Men with Anglo-Saxon names score lower in tech interviews
Study suggests hiding every Tom, Dick, and Harry's personal info from HR bots In mock interviews for software engineering jobs, recent AI models that evaluated responses rated men less favorably – particularly those with Anglo-Saxon names, according to recent research.…
- Billionaire food app CEO wants you to pay for the privilege of working with him
Zomato boss Deepinder Goyal leaves a sour taste in the mouth The CEO of Indian restaurant booking and food deliver app Zomato has posted a job ad in which he seeks a chief of staff who is willing to pay for the privilege of working with him.…
- Put your usernames and passwords in your will, advises Japan's government
Digital end of life planning saves your loved ones from a little extra anguish Japan's National Consumer Affairs Center on Wednesday suggested citizens start "digital end of life planning" and offered tips on how to do it.…
- Brazil hooks up with Chinese satellite broadband service that doesn't operate yet
After beefing with Elon Musk, comms minister wants to diversify product choice Brazilian telco Telebras signed to resell satellite broadband services from Chinese satellite internet company SpaceSail as an alternative to Starlink – despite the service not having actually commenced.…
- Pakistan's tech lobby warns that slow internet is strangling IT industry
Low-priced freelancers and call centers are at risk Pakistan's IT Industry Association (P@SHA) – the nation's sole tech biz lobby group – has warned that government policy could lead to business closures and financial losses among its constituents, and damage the nation's IT exports.…
- Five Scattered Spider suspects indicted for phishing spree and crypto heists
DoJ also shutters allleged crimeware and credit card mart PopeyeTools The US Department of Justice has issued an indictment that names five people accused of stealing millions in cryptocurrency – and we are told they are suspected members of cyber-gang Scattered Spider.…
- Chinese cyberspies, Musk’s Beijing ties, labelled ‘real risk’ to US security by senator
Meet Liminal Panda, which prowls telecom networks in South Asia and Africa A senior US senator has warned that American tech companies’ activities in China represent a national security risk, in a hearing that saw infosec biz CrowdStrike testify it has identified another cyber-espionage crew it believes is backed by Beijing.…
- Dell settles with Uncle Sam over Army bid-rigging claims
DoJ alleges merely overpriced offers from reseller followed inflated deals from IT giant The US Department of Justice has reached a $4.35 million settlement with Dell and its reseller Iron Bow over claims that the two businesses colluded to rig bids for business with the US Army.…
- We'll answer any questions DoJ has, HPE CEO tells us as Feds probe $14B Juniper buy
Takeover still expected to close late 2024 or early next year HPE CEO Antonio Neri told The Register today his corporation is working with the US Department of Justice to “answer any questions” officials may have about the IT infrastructure giant's $14 billion acquisition of Juniper Networks.…
- Job seekers call BS on the workplace AI revolution
Survey respondents doubt it boosts performance or even lightens the load Despite all the top-down buzz around enterprise AI, most job seekers are unconvinced that it is making their work lives easier.…
- Mega US healthcare payments network restores system 9 months after ransomware attack
Change Healthcare’s $2 billion recovery is still a work in progress Still reeling from its February ransomware attack, Change Healthcare confirms its clearinghouse services are back up and running, almost exactly nine months since the digital disruption began.…
- Google's AI bug hunters sniff out two dozen-plus code gremlins that humans missed
OSS-Fuzz is making a strong argument for LLMs in security research Google's OSS-Fuzz project, which uses large language models (LLMs) to help find bugs in code repositories, has now helped identify 26 vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw in the widely used OpenSSL library.…
- Microsoft unveils beefy custom AMD chip to crunch HPC workloads on Azure
In-house DPU and HSM silicon also shown off Ignite One of the advantages of being a megacorp is that you can customize the silicon that underpins your infrastructure, as Microsoft is demonstrating at this week's Ignite conference in Chicago.…
- SpaceX claims another Starship success, but fumbles the catch
In-space engine reignition paves way for orbital missions SpaceX has notched up another test flight of its Starship behemoth, but chose not to try catching the Super Heavy Booster this time.…
- D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify
Vendor offers 20% discount on new model, but not patches Owners of older models of D-Link VPN routers are being told to retire and replace their devices following the disclosure of a serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability.…
- Kyndryl insiders say there's little new business
IT giant aims to end revenue slide by March, former employees have doubts Special report Kyndryl, the managed infrastructure services business spun out of IBM in 2021, earlier this month repeated its somewhat glum prediction that its revenue will shrink by two to four percent for its fiscal 2025, the year ending March 31.…
- HPE lets loose VM Essentials to run on third-party platforms
GreenLake update dangles juicy carrot for VMware refugees HPE is continuing its GreenLake push with availability of its own virtualization product, plus disconnected operations for regulated environments, while touting an object storage platform intended to deliver greater performance and scale for modern workloads.…
- Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off
If only the company in the title knew how to scale servers in the cloud The debut of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 yesterday was met with severe turbulence as servers struggled to keep up with user demand.…
- BASIC co-creator Thomas Kurtz hits END at 96
Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week Obit Professor Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, has died aged 96.…
- Steam cuts the cord for legacy Windows and macOS
Don't say you weren't warned The latest Steam client finally delivers on the warning from January, dropping support for several older OS versions.…
- Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season
Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13 A pair of researchers say they've determined that July 13 was likely the day that X, formerly known as Twitter, made platform-level algorithm changes that increased the visibility of posts made by Elon Musk and Republican-leaning accounts in the run-up to the US election.…
- Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous
CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value Column I recently got to play a 'fly on the wall' at a roundtable of chief information security officers. Beyond the expected griping and moaning about funding shortfalls and always-too-gullible users, I began to hear a new note: data has become a problem.…
- European Cloud Competition Observatory created to keep an eye on software licensing
Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium Exclusive The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) consortium has launched the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) to keep an eye on software licensing practices in the sector.…
- China wants mobile devices to limit usage time for minors, ensure they only see nice content
Seeks grand alliance between manufacturers, developers and content providers – all in the name of socialism The Cyberspace Administration of China last week released guidelines that suggest mobile devices be equipped with "minors mode" that enforces both censorship and automatic usage time limits.…
- Google changes Android release cycle so new versions arrive in Q2
Version 16 developer preview starts the new cycle, with warnings for devs to test sooner rather than later Google on Monday delivered the first developer preview of Android 16 – a release notable for both its status as the first step towards a new version and its release date signalling a change in the release cycle for the OS.…
- Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom
Shuttered reactor's operator says it's needed - once giant seawall is finished The president of Japanese energy company Hokkaido Electric Power wants to restart one of its nuclear reactors due to a surge in demand from local datacenters.…
- Healthcare org Equinox notifies 21K patients and staff of data theft
Ransomware scum LockBit claims it did the dirty deed Equinox, a New York State health and human services organization, has begun notifying over 21 thousand clients and staff that cyber criminals stole their health, financial, and personal information in a "data security incident" nearly seven months ago.…
- China-linked group abuses Fortinet 0-day with post-exploit VPN-credential stealer
No word on when or if the issue will be fixed Chinese government-linked snoops are exploiting a zero-day bug in Fortinet's Windows VPN client to steal credentials and other information, according to memory forensics outfit Volexity.…
- Russian suspected Phobos ransomware admin extradited to US over $16M extortion
This malware is FREE for EVERY crook ($300 decryption keys sold separately) A Russian citizen has been extradited from South Korea to the United States to face charges related to his alleged role in the Phobos ransomware operation.…
- Microsoft 365 Copilot trips over angle brackets, frustrating coders
Chatbot seems to choke when fed tricky less-than character Microsoft 365 Copilot appears to have developed an allergy to the less-than typographical symbol, which is preventing users from pasting HTML markup and programming code into the text area for Copilot prompts.…
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