The affected include Oracle, Lenovo, FedEx, a NATO contractor, and Fortinet. Researchers have uncovered a massive breach of Fortinet firewalls that has given Russian-speaking attackers near-unrestricted access to some of the world’s largest and most powerful organizations, including Oracle, Chevron, Lenovo, Federal Express, a NATO defense contractor, and Fortinet…
Tesco claimed Broadcom hiked its VMware prices by about 175 percent in UK court filings. Tesco, a retail conglomerate headquartered in the United Kingdom, is moving 40,000 server workloads off of VMware amid “abusive conduct” from Broadcom, recent legal filings claim. Tesco filed a lawsuit in the UK’s High…
The official launch takes place next week. One of the most hotly anticipated electric vehicles makes its formal debut next week. It’s the Blank Slate, a refreshingly simple pickup truck EV designed by Slate Auto, which is trying to take some of the soaring cost out of a new…
AI models with advanced hacking capabilities will soon be the norm. Late last week, Anthropic took its new Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models offline following a United States government export-control directive barring “any foreign national” from using the services. The company has been in talks with…
Google’s new smart speaker is more about Gemini than audio quality. Good things take time, but not all things that take time are good. The jury is still out on the Google Home Speaker, but it certainly took a while to arrive. After announcing its new speaker last August,…
The bigger battery is standard and there are now simulated “E-Shifts.” Has the allure of the Porsche Taycan waned? The four-door electric sedan that thinks it’s a GT sold well for the first few years after its introduction in 2020, but sales began to slip even before the brand…
What you need to know about the expiration of keys securing your machine’s boot sequence. The clock is ticking for Windows and Linux users to update cryptographic keys that protect their systems against firmware-based UEFI infections, a pernicious form of malware that loads before operating system and anti-malware protections…
Partner tells Ars that HPE should be giving out more free VM Essentials licenses. Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s (HPE) new virtualization software promotion will likely pique the interest of end users and resellers who are unhappy with Broadcom’s pricing of VMware. During its HPE Discover event in Las Vegas this…
Transferring genes across species doesn’t just happen in microbes. Last week, we looked at a new study of the origin of complex cells, one that showed that our ancestors’ genomes were pieced together from bits and pieces of multiple species. It put a spotlight on a phenomenon called horizontal…
Pixels will get their OTA in the coming weeks, but don’t expect monumental changes. Android 17 has been in testing since early this year, with the final beta hitting devices just a couple of weeks ago. Insofar as a mature operating system like Android still has big days, this…
