Month: September 2023
Apple and Microsoft reportedly want iMessage and Bing off the EU’s tech ‘gatekeeper’ list
Microsoft and Apple are reportedly pushing to keep Bing and iMessage, respectively, off a list of “gatekeepers” subject to new European regulations. Financial Times reports that both companies are privately (and separately) arguing that their services aren’t large or powerful enough to justify earning the restrictions of the Digital Markets…
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Meta’s next Quest Pro might be a team-up with LG
A Korean news report suggests Meta is partnering with LG to release a successor to its high-end Quest Pro virtual reality headset in 2025. As spotted by UploadVR, Maeil Business Newspaper writes that Meta has struck a deal for a joint venture with LG. The resulting headset is rumored to…
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Okta warns scammers are going after super admin privileges
Criminals have been targeting Okta’s clients in an attempt to gain access to accounts with administrator privileges. “In recent weeks, multiple U.S.-based Okta customers have reported a consistent pattern of social engineering attacks against IT service desk personnel, in which the caller’s strategy was to convince service desk personnel to…
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Obscure startup plans 10,000 TB cartridges with ‘cheap’ material used in restrooms
(Update: A further presentation from Cerabyte states that it plans to reach sub-$1 per Terabyte prices by 2030 for the cost of the media with the technology enabling a reduction in carbon dioxide emissions of 99%.) Looking to store your 16K video footage on something sturdy? Here’s a candidate. Cerabyte,…
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Obscure startup plans 10,000TB data cartridges with popular material used in restrooms
Looking to store your 16K video footage on something sturdy? Here’s a candidate. Cerabyte, a data storage company based in Munich, Germany, has published an excerpt of a presentation that its CEO and co-founder, Christian Pflaum, will show at the upcoming 2023 Storage Developer Conference in California. As alluded by…
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Windows users warned this important security tool is being removed soon
Microsoft has warned users that TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 will be disabled in future Windows operating systems (OS). TLS, or Transport Layer Security, is a two-decade-old internet protocol that encrypts communications between servers and clients. The protocol, marred with various issues, was updated in 2018 when the Internet Engineering…
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