eWEEK Staff

Today’s topics include Intel CEO Brian Krzanich addressing the Meltdown and Spectre CPU flaws at the Consumer Electronics Show; Microsoft updating its Edge and Internet Explorer 11 browsers in response to those flaws; a former Google employee suing for alleged discrimination against white men; and Intel unveiling its “Tangle Lake” 49-qubit quantum chip at CES. […]

Today’s topics include the disclosure of a number of cryptocurrency mining operations; Microsoft investigating a flawed Meltdown patch on AMD PCs; Broadcom appealing to shareholders in its bid for Qualcomm; and Google making Google Pay its single payment service brand. So far in 2018, a number of new attack vectors against cryptocurrencies have already been […]

Today’s topics include HP recalling 50,000 laptops after battery fires and melting; Samsung beating out Intel as the world’s largest semiconductor maker; Google removing 22 malware-laden Android apps from its Play store; and Johnson Controls adding Microsoft’s Cortana to a new smart thermostat. HP is recalling about 50,000 laptops, notebooks and mobile workstations due to […]

Today’s topics include a pair of flaws found in most modern CPUs; a Google Apps Script vulnerability exposing malware risks; Google introducing a new preemptible GPU compute option for cloud customers; and a Microsoft and Adaptive Biotechnologies partnership in AI-enabled immunology. Google’s Project Zero last week revealed details about a pair of severe Intel chip […]

Today’s topics include operating system vendors’ efforts to issue a fix for an Intel chip flaw; Microsoft’s acquisition of Avere Systems for its cloud data management technology; Google’s new Community Connectors that link Data Studio to web data resources; and the potential benefits of T-Mobile’s early tests of commercial-grade 5G wireless systems. Operating system vendors […]

Today’s topics include DMARC email security adoption growing in the U.S. government; Microsoft selling its new Surface Pro tablet with an LTE Advanced option; Microsoft focusing on data privacy and cyber-security in 2018; and Splice Machine launching its own online predictive processing platform. The U.S. government is steadily increasing its adoption of the Domain-based Message […]

Today’s topics include the Huawei router exploit code used in the Satori IoT botnet going public; a rise in GPU sales in 2017; and LinkedIn expanding its job seeker toolkit ahead of the new year. Researchers at NewSky Security reported Dec. 28 that code from the Satori internet of things botnet that exploits a Huawei […]

Today’s topics include Apple’s apology and offer of a replacement deal for tired iPhone batteries; security flaws found in Sonos and Bose internet-connected speakers; IBM’s progress in developing the quantum computing technology in its Q Systems; and the new Kubernetes auto-scaling system that Microsoft developed with partner Litbit to right-size machine learning cloud workloads. In […]

Today’s topics include Digmine malware stealing computer power to mine crypto-currency; Microsoft’s Windows 10 free accessibility upgrade ending Dec. 31; Microsoft releasing an assessment tool to help companies prepare for the GDPR deadline; and analysts predicting smartphones will become even smarter in 2018. New malware was discovered this week that mines crypto-currency in the background […]

Today’s topics include Trend Micro’s warning to Facebook Messenger users about a cryptocurrency mining campaign; Whitehouse.gov’s switch from the Drupal to WordPress website content system; and the release of a new Microsoft Power BI analytics template on Reddit. Security firm Trend Micro has issued a warning about a cyber-attack campaign that abuses Facebook Messenger to […]