Comcast working toward 10Gbps to your home

Are you still waiting for Gigabit to your home? Comcast wants to go one better: 10Gbps to your home using cable, not fiber. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft Office 365, Outlook down again

Yes, Office 365, Outlook, and all the rest of Microsoft's Software-as-a-Services are down yet again. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Supreme Court takes on Google vs. Oracle: Biggest software development case ever

More than a decade in the marking, the Supreme Court may finally decide if application programming interfaces (APIs) can be copyrighted. If the court decides they are, everything you know about making programs will change for the worse. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft says Iranian hackers are exploiting the Zerologon vulnerability

Microsoft links back the attacks to an Iranian hacker group known as Mercury, or MuddyWater. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Cafe owners arrested for running no-log WiFi networks in France

A 2006 French law says any person who provides internet access must keep access logs for at least one year. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

NEC snaps up Swiss digital banking solutions provider Avaloq in $2.2B deal

The deal will open up the global digital payments market to NEC. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Packet is now Equinix Metal

Equinix now has a key piece for its cloud platform and aims to move data center infrastructure around "at the speed of software." | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

James Gosling explains his motivations for creating programming language Java

James Gosling explains his motivations for creating programming language Java. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Windows 10 Raspberry Pi rival: Intel Atom chip powers this new Rock Pi X board

Radxa has released a single-board computer that can run Windows 10, but you'll need at least 32GB of storage. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Nextcloud 20: One private cloud to rule them all

It started as a great, open-source Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud, but today Nextcloud is becoming an all-in-one office productivity suite. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

iPhone battery bad after installing iOS 14? Apple offers some help

But I warn you now, this is not a quick and easy fix. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Geoff Huston apologises for bringing the internet to Australia

Huston says the internet is a 'gigantic vanity-reinforcing distorted TikTok selfie' and web security is 'the punchline to some demented sick joke'. But Australia's first Privacy Commissioner thinks he's being optimistic. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Facebook sues two Chrome extension makers for scraping user data

Facebook has sued today the makers of the UpVoice and Ads Feed Chrome extensions. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Linux-based Windows makes perfect sense

Eric S. Raymond, one of open-source's founding fathers, thinks Windows' future is a layer about the Linux kernel. He's got a point. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Windows XP leak confirmed after user compiles the leaked code into a working OS

The Windows XP source code that leaked last week is incomplete, lacking some components, but is authentic. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Starlink internet satellites keep emergency workers online amid wildfires

Washington state emergency responders say they're impressed with Starlink's latency and bandwidth in trials. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Dell Readies a Tiger Lake Refresh on XPS 13 Ubuntu Linux Developer Edition

Arguably the best Linux laptop ever is getting a major speed boost. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Google removes 17 Android apps caught engaging in WAP billing fraud

The 17 apps were infected with the Joker (Bread) malware, which Google described in January 2020 as one of the most persistent threats it dealt with since 2017. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

UHS hospital network hit by ransomware attack

UHS operates more than 400 hospitals across the US and UK. Some US hospitals have been down since Sunday. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

How much top hackers are earning from bug bounties

You might not make a million dollars, but hackers are making good money from reporting vulnerabilities. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Linux graphical apps coming to Windows SubSystem for Linux

Linux on Windows is continuing to grow ever more powerful and functional. Now, graphical Linux programs are being integrated into WSL. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Arm swimming in a sea of uncertainty that could sink its business model

Sitting at the start of an 18-month window to possibly move to Nvidia, the chip design giant's future is extremely foggy. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

The two new features will make it easier to disguise malware operations. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

KuCoin cryptocurrency exchange hacked for $150M

KuCoin said an intruder drained all its hot wallets today. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Windows Source Code Leaked

Source code for several operating systems, including Windows XP and Windows Server 2003, leaked in 42.9 torrent file. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Twitter warns of possible API keys leak

Incorrect server settings on the Twitter Developer portal led to browsers caching API keys, account access token and secret. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians and many of them are allegedly making life a living hell for Dalits, those who are classified as the lowest of the low in India, whose horrifying historical persecution has continued in the cradle of tech. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Open-source software transformed the business world

People still think of open-source software as general programs for general problems. And, it is, but it's also become vital for vertical markets and companies as well. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft wants to close the UWP, Win32 divide with 'Windows Apps'

Is Microsoft's UWP going away? Is the Microsoft Store on its way out? Microsoft Corporate VP Kevin Gallo explains the latest twists in Microsoft's long and winding Windows developer platform strategy. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Lenovo goes all in with the Linux desktop with two dozen+ Ubuntu powered PCs

First, Fedora, and now, Ubuntu Linux. Lenovo is getting serious about the Linux desktop, with support for almost 30 ThinkPads and ThinkStations. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

How India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in Silicon Valley

Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians and many of them are allegedly making life a living hell for Dalits, those who are classified as the lowest of the low in India, whose horrifying historical persecution has continued in the cradle of tech. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Russia wants to ban the use of secure protocols such as TLS 1.3, DoH, DoT, ESNI

Amendment to IT law would make it illegal to use encryption protocols that fully hide the traffic's destination. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

India's ancient caste system is ruining lives in the Valley

Over 90% of Indian techies in the US are upper-caste Indians and many of them are allegedly making life a living hell for Dalits, those who are classified as the lowest of the low in India, whose horrifying historical persecution has continued in the cradle of tech. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

What Cassandra users think of their NoSQL DBMS

They love it, but they really, really wish there were more expert Cassandra NoSQL DBMS administrators out there. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

US govt orders federal agencies to patch dangerous Zerologon bug by Monday

DHS CISA tells government agencies to patch Zerologon bug by Monday, citing "unacceptable risk" posed to federal networks. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Starting Oct 1, new GitHub repos will be named “main” instead of “master”

All new Git repositories on GitHub will be named "main" instead of "master" starting October 1, 2020. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

A Young Stanford Grad Tried to Teach Me About Life. It Didn't Go Well

Stanford has emitted many of the most successful tech founders. Yet almost five hours spent with this Stanford graduate made me wonder about the role of technology in our future and who we will become. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Police drones are taking to the skies

The police air force in the UK is trialing drone technologies to help on-the-ground officers. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Mozilla shuts down Firefox Send and Firefox Notes services

Mozilla will shut down Send for good after a ZDNet report over the summer that highlighted the service's popularity with malware operators. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Cloudflare and Internet Archive team up to make sure websites never go offline

Websites that use Cloudflare Always Online can have their URLs automatically archived with Wayback Machine. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Canonical CEO Mark Shuttleworth Makes Peace with Ubuntu Linux Community

After users' complaints, Shuttleworth has agreed to restore the Ubuntu Community Council. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

First death reported following a ransomware attack on a German hospital

Death occurred after a patient was diverted to a nearby hospital after the Duesseldorf University Hospital suffered a ransomware attack. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

New MrbMiner malware has infected thousands of MSSQL databases

A hacker group is brute-forcing MSSQL servers with weak passwords and installing crypto-mining malware. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Anders Hejlsberg: How TypeScript beat Microsoft's open-source fears

After initial internal Microsoft resistance, open-source TypeScript is now a go-to language for building web apps. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

CISA: Chinese state hackers are exploiting F5, Citrix, Pulse Secure, Exchange

CISA says attacks have started a year ago and some have been successful. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Microsoft patches one of the most severe bugs ever reported to the company

Microsoft patches one of the most severe bugs ever reported to the company. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Even cybersecurity companies spill data and passwords

Nobody is immune to data breaches and hacking, not even the professionals. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago

Is software now everybody's job? The implications of low/no code for developers

Some industry experts argue that the time has come for business users to be able to steer their own destinies when it comes to application development. | Continue reading


@zdnet.com | 3 years ago