In a scathing indictment of Microsoft corporate security and transparency, a Biden administration-appointed review board issued a report Tuesday saying “a cascade of errors” by the tech giant let state-backed Chinese cyber operators break into email accounts of senior U.S. officials including Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo. The Cyber Safety Review Read more…
President Joe Biden has become the first sitting U.S. president to post on a decentralized networking protocol. President Biden’s Threads account “has begun using Meta’s ActivityPub integration,” which allows for content, data, and followers to be ported between networks — the basis that makes up the “fediverse.” The account turning Read more…
404 Media claims to have identified “the fundamental flaw with the age verification bills and laws” that have already passed in eight state legislatures (with two more taking effect in July): “the delusional, unfounded belief that putting hurdles between people and pornography is going to actually prevent them from viewing Read more…
Global bank messaging network SWIFT is planning a new platform in the next one to two years to connect the wave of central bank digital currencies now in development to the existing finance system, it has told Reuters. The move, which would be one of the most significant yet for Read more…
Tech companies are serving up million-dollar-a-year compensation packages, accelerated stock-vesting schedules and offers to poach entire engineering teams to draw people with expertise and experience in the kind of generative AI that is powering ChatGPT and other humanlike bots. They are competing against each other and against startups vying to Read more…
Apple today announced that its 35th annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) is set to take place June 10 through 14, 2024. It’ll be an online event open to all developers at no cost. MacRumors reports: Apple will hold a WWDC 2024 keynote event on Monday, June 10 to show off Read more…
China has introduced new guidelines that will mean US microprocessors from Intel and AMD are phased out of government PCs and servers, as Beijing ramps up a campaign to replace foreign technology with homegrown solutions. The stricter government procurement guidance also seeks to sideline Microsoft’s Windows operating system and foreign-made Read more…