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Friday July 19, 2024. 10:43 AM
Love affair between HMRC and French outsourcer set to last 25 years The UK tax collector is awarding Capgemini a contract worth up to £574 million ($741 million) to run legacy tax management systems until 2029, one of which was first built under a controversial arrangement...
A software update from cybersecurity company CrowdStrike appears to have inadvertently disrupted IT systems globally.
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AV tech was left alone, locked down, and under severe pressure On Call Welcome again to On Call, The Register's weekly reader-contributed tale of being asked to hold in your rage while dealing with the effluent of tech support.…
Microsoft grappled with a major service outage, leaving users across the world unable to access its cloud computing platforms and causing airlines to cancel flights. From a report: Thousands of users across the world reported problems with Microsoft 365 apps and services to...
NASA reports in an article for Phys.Org: Scientists were stunned on May 30 when a rock that NASA's Curiosity Mars rover drove over cracked open to reveal something never seen before on the Red Planet: yellow sulfur crystals. Since October 2023, the rover has been exploring a ...
Falcon Sensor putting hosts into deathloop - but there's a workaround Updated An update to a product from infosec vendor CrowdStrike is bricking computers running Windows globally.…
Member nations aren't on the same page, investors are confused, and nobody understands the real costs The European Court of Auditors (ECA) has found the European Union's program to develop a renewable hydrogen program needs a reality check due to use of 'overly ambitious'...
Firm halts trades after seeing $230 million disappear Indian crypto exchange WazirX has revealed it lost virtual assets valued at over $230 million after a cyber attack that has since been linked to North Korea.…
Run by the NSA, the FBI, and Five Eyes nations, who fooled infosec researchers, apparently China has asserted that the Volt Typhoon gang, which Five Eyes nations accuse of being a Beijing-backed attacker that targets critical infrastructure, was in fact made up by the US...
Startup Ola slashes prices to zero for a year in apparent response Google has slashed the prices for access to its Maps API in India, the week after a competitor entered the market.…
An anonymous reader quotes a report from 404 Media: A group of researchers, academics, and hackers are trying to make it easier to break AI companies' terms of service to conduct 'good faith research' that exposes biases, inaccuracies, and training data without fear of being ...
The FBI was given access to unreleased technology to access the phone of the man identified as the shooter of former President Donald Trump, Bloomberg reported late Thursday, citing people familiar with the investigation. From the report: As the FBI struggled to gain access...
Central US region is back in business but Office apps still in trouble Updated Microsoft's 365 subscription services are down for some users, as the software titan also reports the Central US region of its Azure cloud is experiencing problems.…
Plus: Meta Euro model drama; Mistral and Nvidia find NeMo; and more AI Roundup OpenAI has made available GPT-4o Mini – a smaller and cheaper version of its GPT-4o generative large language model (LLM) – via its cloud.…
J. Michael Cline, the co-founder of Fandango, died from suicide this week after falling from the twentieth floor of a Manhattan hotel. The New York Times reports: Mr. Cline, who was 64, co-founded Fandango in 2000 and left the company in 2011, according to his LinkedIn...
UT-Austin lab gets the job, and five years to do it The Pentagon's boffinry nerve center DARPA has doled out $840 million to develop next-generation semiconductor microsystems for America's military.…
Longtime Slashdot reader schwit1 shares a report from Ars Technica, written by Scharon Harding: Since the acquisition closed in 2021, the Google-fication of Fitbit has largely meant a reduction in features and a focus from Google on getting people onto the Fitbit app....
Longtime Slashdot reader SonicSpike shares an op-ed from Reason, written by Sen. Rand Paul: In America, we do not punish businesses for their success. We certainly do not punish businesses because their competitors are struggling to keep pace. Sadly, that is exactly what the ...
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