September 2020: An affiliate of the ransomware company REvil reveals the details of a cyber attack he carried out a few months earlier against the French company Elior. At the time, ransomware was already a significant threat, but nowhere near the scale it was about to take on. It was at this time, however, that…
Ransomware: from REvil to Black Basta, what do we know about Tramp? Read More »
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hit out at the UK competition watchdog for presenting “no credible evidence” to support its claims the public cloud giant’s anti-competitive behaviour is harming how the domestic cloud infrastructure market operates. The Competition and Markets Authority’s (CMA) published the provisional findings from its multi-year antitrust investigation into the inner workings…
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Solid-state drive (SSD) prices per gigabyte (GB) dropped over the last two quarters – since the beginning of September 2024 – while SAS hard disk drive (HDD) prices increased over the same period. Flash drive prices (MLC, TLC and QLC) fell from an average of $0.085/GB to just under $0.079/GB. That’s a 7% decrease. At…
Flash drive prices bump along, as SAS HDDs gain mystery bounce Read More »
In this storage supplier profile, we look at Dell storage, which is part of the infrastructure solutions group of the Texas-based giant Dell Technologies. Since the last profile we did on Dell, its acquisition of EMC, which formed such an important part of its storage portfolio, has been eclipsed as the tech world’s largest ever. But…
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Apple has withdrawn from providing its UK smartphone and computer users with encrypted cloud storage following a secret government order to require the company to provide back-door access to encrypted data. The tech firm confirmed it will no longer offer UK users its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) service which allows users to store data in…
A few weeks after the UK government demanded Apple to create a backdoor on users’ encrypted iCloud accounts to retrieve the content any Apple user has uploaded to the cloud, Apple decided to pull out Advanced Data Protection from the region.As previously reported by BGR, the UK government requested access to the company’s encryption technology…
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With a deal between Apple and Alibaba now official, Bloomberg brings more details about this partnership. The publication explains how Apple Intelligence will actually work in China compared to the rest of the world, when this platform is expected to launch, and how Apple’s other partner will handle some AI tasks.According to the report, several…
An unprecedented letter from the US Congress, released today, accuses the UK of “a foreign cyber attack waged through political means”. The claim refers to a Home Office secret demand last month (reported by Computer Weekly here, here and here) that Apple break the security protecting its Advanced Data Protection cloud security system to let…
Over 100 cyber security experts, companies and civil society groups have signed a letter calling for home secretary Yvette Cooper to drop demands for Apple to create a backdoor that would allow the UK government access to encrypted communications and data stored on Apple’s iCloud service. The letter follows disclosures this week that the Home…
The smarter AI programs like ChatGPT and Gemini become, the more we’ll want to use them as the virtual assistants they can be. For that to happen, we’ll need the AIs to access information about us from all sorts of apps and remember details about us. We’ll also need to be able to trust companies…
Gemini AI just got a new feature ChatGPT can’t match yet Read More »
