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Semiconductor manufacturer GlobalFoundries (GF) has confirmed that it has sued IBM for sharing trade secrets after GF had acquired the business in question in 2015, at which point “the sole and exclusive right to license and disclose that technology” was handed over to GF. A company press release explains: “The complaint asserts the former semiconductor […]

On of the best VPN providers around has just proven the efficacy of its no-logs claims after being hit by an inconclusive police raid. Mullvad reported that six police officers from the National Operations Department (NOA) of the Swedish Police visited its Gothenburg’s office with a search warrant. The intent was to seize computers containing […]

As promised, Twitter Legacy Blue verification checks started quietly disappearing from user accounts Thursday afternoon. Now the only way to hold onto the coveted Blue Tick is by paying Twitter a $7.99 a month subscription fee. Elon Musk announced the final day to pay up last week and — even as he juggled the first […]

New research from NetApp has claimed nearly all IT leaders (98%) have been affected by increasing cloud complexity, causing negative impacts extending across the entire business. Furthermore, the cloud is widely seen as critical in businesses ESG outcomes, leaving it balancing on a precarious knife-edge of either delivering results quickly or costing companies time and […]

Thanks to the Clop ransomware group and its exploit of a flaw in Fortra’s GoAnywhere MFT secure file transfer tool, March 2023 was a record-breaking month for ransomware attacks. New figures from NCC Group claim there had been 459 ransomware attacks recorded in March 2023 – up 91% compared to February, and up 62% compared […]

Hackers are using a brand new tool to disable antivirus programs installed on devices, before deploying more dubious malware, and sometimes even ransomware, researchers have warned. Cybersecurity researchers from Sophos X-Ops recently observed threat actors using the Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) method to deploy a tool called AuKill, capable of disabling security programs.  […]

Swiss-based cloud hosting provider Virtuozzo has released version 2.0 of its WordPress hosting platform. The new release comes with an upgraded user interface that automates website deployment and cloud infrastructure management for companies running their business on WordPress.  Initially launched in March 2022, Virtuozzo’s application platform allows WordPress deployments to scale up and down automatically, […]

It seems like we’re in the midst of something exciting for AMD when it comes to the creative market. Team Red seems to have gotten a bit of its mojo back after having launched a pair of new graphic cards for workstations (the Navi-3 infused W7900 and the W7800), GPUs may be the precursors to […]

Facebook might owe you some money and now you have the means to collect. Meta, Facebook’s parent company, agreed late last year to pay out $725 million to settle the Cambridge Analytica data privacy leak class-action lawsuit. The now four-year-old case started after journalists discovered the political research firm had collected and shared private data […]