Irish privacy watchdog investigates Twitter after massive data breach
Ireland's privacy watchdog is demanding answers from Twitter about a data scraping incident that leaked user information of millions of Twitter accounts.
Last August, Twitter acknowledged that hackers took advantage of a system flaw that has since been repaired to access profiles linked to email... Read more
Atos closes five-year deal with AWS for customer cloud migrations
Atos has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its preferred partner for migrating customer workloads to the cloud.
The French IT giant committed to a five-year collaboration with AWS. The company will use AWS for its infrastructure services, DevOps and machine learning initiatives.
The part... Read more
NTT Data adopts datacenter inspection robots
NTT Data plans to install datacenter robots to automate human inspection work.
The robots will initially be deployed to the facilities of NTT Data's Japanese operations. The company plans to make them available as-a-service at a future time.
The company trialled the bots from August 2022 to... Read more
Bullitt and MediaTek announce satellite-to-mobile smartphone
Bullit Group has started a partnership with MediaTek to launch the world’s first smartphone to include two-way satellite messaging technology.
Over the past 18 months, MediaTek and Bullitt have collaborated to integrate satellite communications in a 5G smartphone designed by Bullitt. The pho... Read more
Intel states that the economy is bad right now, but they need more fabs
Intel says it will alter its spending for plants based on ‘market needs’
Despite a weakening global economy, Intel has stated it will keep constructing new chip production facilities because it is crucial to expand supply chains and increase capacity when it anticipates a recovery in semicon... Read more
‘Amazon may settle EU antitrust probes by the end of the year’
After making concessions to address concerns over the use of seller data, US retail giant Amazon may be able to settle two EU antitrust probes by the end of the year, two people familiar with the matter told Reuters.
If it manages to conclude the probes, Amazon escapes a fine of up to 10 percent... Read more
Linus Torvalds warns that Linux 6.2 merge will clash with Christmas
Linux chief Linus Torvalds has warned contributors that the project's development cycle will clash with Christmas. Developers are advised to have their work ready prior to the holidays.
The warning was included in Torvalds' weekly development update, where he also announced the release candidate... Read more
‘The future of UK tech rests on developing high-end companies’
The president of the Confederation of British Industry (CIB) said that the future of UK tech rests on the development of high-end companies.
In a recent speech, CIB president Brian McBride urged the United Kingdom to emulate the US and explore the development of "decacorns" — companies with t... Read more
Major smartphone manufacturers fail to patch Android vulnerabilities
Google Project Zero disclosed that several smartphone manufacturers have failed to provide patches for vulnerabilities in Android GPUs.
Google Project Zero, a security division focussed on identifying vulnerabilities, warns that several Android smartphone manufacturers have yet to release fixes... Read more
Europe needs ‘unwavering unity’ against China and US in space
French Economy minister Bruno Le Maire stated that Europe must stand together to compete with China and the US in space.
According to Le Maire, Europe has to increase its strategic autonomy in order to challenge countries like the United States and China.
The minister said that governments ne... Read more