The White House announced on Friday that the new economic advisers and vocal big tech critic Tim Wu would help the President Joe Biden administration deal with the big tech issues cropping up. Tim Wu is expected to help the president push his agenda on the technology sector. Most of what the adm... Read more
3 years ago
Their new Guidance doc says "America, not China" will set the new world order. The Biden administration has a new Interim National Security Guidance in which it names China as the most threatening nation the United States faces. They claim this is because China can combine its technological and ... Read more
3 years ago
Apple might face an EU antitrust charge sheet in the next few weeks, after Spotify, a big rival, complained that the iPhone maker unfairly pushed its own music streaming service. Reuters broke the news, after speaking with two people familiar with the issue, on Thursday. The European Commission ... Read more
3 years ago
Qualys, a company specialising in cloud security, appears to be the latest victim of the Clop ransomware circulating recently. Internal files of the company have appeared on the blog of the hackers behind Clop. The French website LeMagIT brought the news to light. The attackers behind the ransom... Read more
3 years ago
Microsoft has made the CodeQL queries from the SolarWinds attack open source. Developers can use the queries to check whether their software has been affected by an attack like the one that hit SolarWinds. In a blog post on its website, Microsoft describes how CodeQL works. The software is inten... Read more
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Many employees expect home working to remain a permanent feature of business even after the corona pandemic. This was shown in a survey by Citrix among European office workers. Research bureau OnePoll was commissioned by Citrix to conduct a survey of 3,750 European office workers in the United K... Read more
3 years ago
The brand new Nutanix CEO remains undaunted by flat revenue from recurring subscriptions. In an interview with The Register, Nutanix’s new CEO Rajiv Ramaswami has seemed to say that the company may introduce new bundles in mid-2021. The company announced flat revenue for its second fiscal q... Read more
3 years ago
Google is adding its password checking feature to Android. The move will allow users of the Android OS to have an easy way to check if the passwords they are using have been compromised. Password Checkup checks the credentials used against a list of billions of compromised credentials. In recent... Read more
3 years ago
EU Commissioner Margrethe Vestager has said she would investigate whether the EU can impose fines on tech giants when they withdraw from the market. The companies are threatening to do so following rumours that the EU wants to make the tech giants pay for displaying search results with parts of new... Read more
3 years ago
The pandemic has caused a rush towards digital transformation that is taking its toll. When the COVID-19 hit least year, it caused an earthquake in the world of technology. Companies rushed to adapt to the "new normal" of cloud-based operations, remote working and other transformative changes c... Read more
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