An anonymous reader quotes a report from BleepingComputer: The Kyoto University in Japan has lost about 77TB of research data due to an error in the backup system of its Hewlett-Packard supercomputer. The incident occurred between December 14 and 16, 2…
How John Madden Became the ‘Larger-Than-Life’ Face of a Gaming Empire
“[John] Madden, who died Tuesday, helped bring to life a series of football video games that have generated $7 billion in revenue since 1988,” reports the New York Times. An anonymous reader shares an excerpt from the report, written by Kellen Browning…
Microsoft Defender Log4j Scanner Triggers False Positive Alerts
Microsoft Defender for Endpoint is currently showing “sensor tampering” alerts linked to the company’s newly deployed Microsoft 365 Defender scanner for Log4j processes. BleepingComputer reports: The alerts are reportedly mainly shown on Windows Server…
US Hits Record Number of New Covid-19 Cases
The seven-day average of COVID-19 cases topped 280,000 this week, according to data from Johns Hopkins University’s tracker. It’s a record number of new cases in the country; the last time the number of cases hit a peak close to that was January. NPR r…
China’s New AI Policy Doesn’t Prevent It From Building Autonomous Weapons
The Next Web’s Tristan Greene combed through a recently published “position paper” detailing China’s views on military AI regulation and found that it “makes absolutely no mention of restricting the use of machines capable of choosing and firing on tar…
Metaverse Property Mogul Touts 10-Fold Appreciation In Virtual Real Estate Portfolio
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Markets Insider: Andrew Kiguel, CEO of crypto-asset investment firm Tokens.com, estimated his metaverse portfolio is valued at 10 times more than his purchase price, USA Today said in a report published Wednesda…
Sweden’s Northvolt Builds First Lithium-Ion Battery Cell In Europe
Swedish battery manufacturer Northvolt announced that on December 28th, it successfully produced the first lithium-ion battery cell to be designed, developed, and built completely in Europe by a homegrown company. Teslarati reports: “Last night, the co…
BlackBerry OS Devices Will Stop Working On January 4, 2022
If you’re still using an older BlackBerry phone running BlackBerry OS, it’s time you upgrade devices. According to BlackBerry, it’s ending support for legacy services for BlackBerry OS and BlackBerry PlayBook OS on January 4, 2022. Liliputing reports: …
Apple Ditched Intel, and It Paid Off
An anonymous reader quotes a report from CNBC, written by Todd Haselton: Apple’s decision to ditch Intel paid off this year. The pivot allowed Apple to completely rethink the Mac, which had started to grow stale with an aging design and iterative annua…
Cyberattack On One of Norway’s Largest Media Companies Shuts Down Presses
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Record: Amedia, the largest local news publisher in Norway, announced on Tuesday that several of its central computer systems were shut down in what it is calling an apparent “serious” cyberattack. The attac…