China rushes to replace foreign tech
Secret government organisation vetting suppliers
China is speeding up plans to replace American and foreign technology, by empowering a secretive government-backed organisation to vet and approve local suppliers in sensitive areas from cloud to semiconductors.
Vulnerability hits DNS servers
Send victims to spoofed addresses
More than 38 percent of the Internet's domain name lookup servers are vulnerable to a new attack that allows hackers to send victims to maliciously spoofed addresses masquerading as legitimate domains, like bankofamerica.com or gmail.com.
Russian cyber criminals teaming up with Chinese hackers
Meeting with White Rose and the dark army
There's some unusual activity brewing on Russian-speaking cybercrime forums, where hackers appear to be reaching out to Chinese counterparts for collaboration in a move which sounds like a sub plot for Mr Robot.
Fugaku is still officially the number one supercomputer
Will be overtaken next year
The Japanese-made Fugaku captured its fourth consecutive title as the world's fastest supercomputer.
Microsoft wants to keep older games in circulation
Emulation will do the trick
Microsoft's vice president of gaming, Phil Spencer, wants the gaming industry to work toward a common goal of keeping older games available to modern audiences through emulation.
Mainframe based companies want more cloud
Can’t get the staff these days
Faced with staff shortages, companies dependent on mainframes want to lean more on cloud applications.
Activision Blizzard walk out over boss’s “cover-up”
Failed to inform board of abuse allegations
A group of Activision Blizzard employees staged a walkout and demanded the resignation of CEO Bobby Kotick after a Wall Street Journal report claimed Kotick failed to act decisively or inform his board of directors of widespread abuse allegations.
Nokia plans cloud-based software subscription service
For telecoms companies
Nokia plans to launch a cloud-based software subscription service targeting telecom companies for providing software around analytics, security and data management.
VW wants to take on Tesla
Triumph of the will
Vollkswagen is planning to take on Tesla in a key electric vehicle (EV) battleground – power infrastructure.
Qualcomm prepares to give Apple’s chip a good kicking
Let’s see if your marketing can cover this up
Qualcomm’s new plans to beef up its PC processors seem designed to show Apple’s Arm designs up as comparatively steam driven.