European cloud infrastructure companies make up just 15 percent of their own market, and the huge investment the US giants can wield makes their dominance “an impossible hill to climb” for any would-be challengers. Details shared by Synergy Research on regional markets show that Euro cloud operators continue to grow, but none comes remotely close Read more about US clouds crush EU clouds in the EU and that won’t change soon[…]
Financial services biz Allianz says the majority of customers of one of its North American subsidiaries had their data stolen in a cyberattack. Lawyers acting on behalf of US-based Allianz Life filed a breach notification with Maine’s attorney general on Saturday, saying the intrusion began on July 16 and was detected a day later. Official Read more about Majority of 1.4M customers caught in Allianz Life data heist[…]
[…] Google Home is at the center of what I would describe as a reputation shitstorm. According to way too many people on Reddit, Google Home is so broken that some people are actually unable to even turn their smart lights on and off properly. And it’s not just lights; if Reddit complaints are anything Read more about Google Assistant Is Basically on Life Support and Things Just Got Worse[…]
The US Senate has granted the Internet Archive federal depository status, making it officially part of an 1,100-library network that gives the public access to government documents, KQED reported. The designation was made official in a letter from California Senator Alex Padilla to the Government Publishing Office that oversees the network. “The Archive’s digital-first approach Read more about Internet Archive is now an official US government document library[…]
Mosquitoes kill more people each year than any other animal. In 2023, the blood-sucking insects infected a reported 263 million people with malaria, leading to nearly 600,000 deaths, 80% of which were children. Recent efforts to block the transmission of malaria have been stalled because mosquitoes have adapted resistance to insecticides and the parasites within Read more about CRISPR Gene Editing in Mosquitoes Halts Malaria Spread[…]
Air pollution isn’t just bad for your lungs—it may be eroding your brain. In a sweeping review covering nearly 30 million people, researchers found that common pollutants like PM2.5, nitrogen dioxide, and soot are all linked to a significantly higher risk of dementia. The most dangerous? PM2.5—tiny particles from traffic and industry that can lodge Read more about 29-million-person study shows air pollution fuels dementia and Alzheimers[…]
[…]In a Tuesday update to the “Rules and Guidelines” section of Steam’s Onboarding Documentation, the company added a new rule prohibiting “Content that may violate the rules and standards set forth by Steam’s payment processors and related card networks and banks, or Internet network providers. In particular, certain kinds of adult only content.” On its Read more about Steam cracks down on some sex games to appease US prim payment processors[…]
[…] Copilot Vision is an extension of Microsoft’s divisive Recall, a feature initially sort of exclusive to the Copilot+ systems with a neural co-processor of sufficient computational power. Like Recall, which was pulled due to serious security failings and subject to a lengthy delay before its eventual relaunch, Copilot Vision is designed to analyze everything Read more about Copilot Vision on Windows 11 next MS spy but now sends data to Microsoft servers[…]
Hacking is hard. Well, sometimes. Other times, you just call up a company’s IT service desk and pretend to be an employee who needs a password reset, an Okta multifactor authentication reset, and a Microsoft multifactor authentication reset… and it’s done. Without even verifying your identity. So you use that information to log in to Read more about After $380M hack, Clorox sues its service desk vendor Cognizant for simply giving out passwords[…]
The collective The New Digital announces the public beta of Sendox: an open source file sharing platform that puts privacy and digital sovereignty at its core. Sendox has been developed as a transparent and independent alternative to services like WeTransfer. “We believe that digital freedom and autonomy are not luxuries, but fundamental rights,” said Frank Read more about WeTransfer faces open source competition by Sendox after controversy over terms of service[…]
Researchers in Italy have developed a way to create a biometric identifier for people based on the way the human body interferes with Wi-Fi signal propagation. The scientists claim this identifier, a pattern derived from Wi-Fi Channel State Information, can re-identify a person in other locations most of the time when a Wi-Fi signal can Read more about WhoFi: Unique ‘fingerprint’ based on Wi-Fi interactions allows reidentification of people being observed[…]
“This estimate shows that there is more plastic in the form of nanoparticles floating in the this part of the ocean, than there is in larger micro- or macroplastics floating in the Atlantic or even all the world’s oceans!,” said Helge Niemann, researcher at NIOZ and professor of geochemistry at Utrecht University. Mid-June, he received Read more about More nanoplastics in tiny part of sea than micro- and macroplastics in all world’s oceans[…]
Scientists at Rice University and the University of Houston have created a powerful new material by guiding bacteria to grow cellulose in aligned patterns, resulting in sheets with the strength of metals and the flexibility of plastic—without the pollution. Using a spinning bioreactor, they’ve turned Earth’s purest biopolymer into a high-performance alternative to plastic, capable Read more about Goodbye plastic? Scientists create new supermaterial that outperforms metals and glass[…]
[…]The practice allows malicious scripts and early-stage malware to fetch binary files without having to download them from suspicious sites or attach them to emails, where they frequently get quarantined by antivirus software. That’s because traffic for DNS lookups often goes largely unmonitored by many security tools. […] Researchers from DomainTools on Tuesday said they Read more about Hackers exploit a blind spot by hiding malware inside DNS records[…]
Microsoft has warned users of SharePoint Server that three on-prem versions of the product include a zero-day flaw that is under attack – and that its own failure to completely fix past problems is the cause. In a July 19 security note, the software giant admitted it is “… aware of active attacks targeting on-premises Read more about Microsoft warns on-prem SharePoint users of a zero-day, won’t patch it though[…]
As numerous Walled Culture posts attest, site blocking is in the vanguard of the actions by copyright companies against sites engaged in the unauthorised sharing of material. Over the past few months, this approach has become even more pervasive, and even more intrusive. For example, in France, the Internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was forced to Read more about As site blocks pile up, European Commission issues subtle slapdown to Italy’s Piracy Shield[…]
In 2010, he and his colleague Konstantin Novoselov — who were by then working in England — won the Nobel Prize in Physics for their experiments creating graphene, the world’s thinnest and strongest material. His list of honors goes on and on, and Mr. Geim has the unique distinction of having been awarded both a Read more about Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Is Stripped of Dutch Citizenship due to stupid xenophobic Dutch rules[…]
Airbus’s Silicon Valley-based innovation center, Acubed, and artificial intelligence and quantum-focused Google spinout SandboxAQ are on a mission to demonstrate an alternate way. It involves a small, toaster-size box, lasers, a single GPU chip and a deep knowledge of the Earth’s magnetic field. The technology, known as quantum sensing, has been in development for decades Read more about Better Airplane Navigation Using Quantum Sensing of a map of the Earth’s Crust[…]
There was a disturbance in the force on July 14 after Cloudflare borked a configuration change that resulted in an outage, impacting internet services across the planet. In a blog post, the content delivery network services biz detailed the unfortunate series of events that led to Monday’s disruption. On the day itself, “Cloudflare’s 1.1.1.1 Resolver Read more about Cloudflare: Config change borked net access for all[…]
The F-35 stealth fighter is not meeting its potential in British service because of availability issues, a shortage of support personnel, and delays in integrating key weapons that are limiting the aircraft’s effectiveness. The various problems are highlighted in a reality check from the UK’s National Audit Office (NAO) that offers a contrast to the Read more about UK F-35 fleet poorly supported, can’t use vital weapons, shows NAO[…]
what if, by spraying something akin to a nasal spray, you could thwart the onslaught of those pesky allergens before they latch onto your sensitive nasal passages? This was the “simple but powerful idea” that inspired Kaissar Tabynov, who led the efforts to create a “molecular shield” that intercepts allergens the moment they approach our Read more about This ‘Molecular Shield’ Might Stop Pollen Before It Wrecks Your Nose[…]
A recruitment platform used by McDonald’s is alleged to have had such poor cybersecurity that researchers were able to log into it using a non-password and thus gain access to information on tens of millions of job applicants, including contact details and chat logs between the user and the restaurant’s AI bot. The platform in Read more about Bug Hunters Gain Access to 64 Million McDonald’s Job Applicants’ Info by Using the Password ‘123456’[…]
Cisco has issued a patch for a critical 10 out of 10 severity bug in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and ISE Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC) that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to run arbitrary code on the operating system with root-level privileges. ISE is a network access control and security policy management platform, Read more about Watch out, another max-severity Cisco bug on the loose[…]
The Met collection allows you to access 5,000 years of history through 490,000+ works of art online. Source: The Met Collection – The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Google has been ordered by a court in the U.S. state of California to pay $314 million over charges that it misused Android device users’ cellular data when they were idle to passively send information to the company. The verdict marks an end to a legal class-action complaint that was originally filed in August 2019. Read more about Google Ordered to Pay $314M for Misusing Android Users’ Cellular Data Without Permission – calling home 389 times per day even when completely idle and all google apps closed![…]