Adam Neumann on Tuesday spoke publicly for the first time since being ousted as CEO of WeWork more than two years ago, expressing “regret” for the employees who lost their jobs but not apologizing for making around $1 billion on his way out the door. F…
Microsoft To Kill OneDrive for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 in Early 2022
joshuark writes: Microsoft plans on killing OneDrive support for Windows 7, 8, 8.1 starting on March 1, 2022. “In order to focus resources on new technologies and operating systems, and to provide users with the most up-to-date and secure experience, b…
Microsoft Launches Windows 11 SE Built for Low-cost Education PCs
Microsoft has announced a new edition of Windows 11 designed specifically for the K-8 education sector, dubbed “Windows 11 SE.” This new edition of Windows 11 is designed to address fundamental challenges that schools are facing day to day with improve…
New Bipartisan Bill Takes Aim at Algorithms
A bipartisan group of House lawmakers has introduced a companion to a Senate bill that would let people use algorithm-free versions of tech platforms, according to a copy of the text shared exclusively with Axios. From the report: Recent revelations ab…
Clearview AI Told It Broke Australia’s Privacy Law, Ordered To Delete Data
After Canada, now Australia has found that controversial facial recognition company, Clearview AI, broke national privacy laws when it covertly collected citizens’ facial biometrics and incorporated them into its AI-powered identity matching service –…
Intel Was Rather Misleading in Its Comparisons Between the Core i9-12900K and Ryzen 9 5950X
NotebookCheck: It seems that Intel was not telling the full story when it compared the Core i9-12900K against the Ryzen 9 5950X, currently AMD’s most comparable processor. As it turns out, Intel allowed the Core i9-12900K to consume 2.4x the power of i…
Biden Administration Blacklists NSO Group over Pegasus Spyware
The United States on Wednesday added the Israeli spyware company NSO Group to its “entity list,” a federal blacklist prohibiting the company from receiving some American technologies, after determining the company’s phone-hacking tools had been used by…
Brown University Physics Student Manfred Steiner Earns Ph.D. at Age 89
Brown University: At 89-years-old Manfred Steiner is finally what he always wanted to be: a physicist. On September 15, 2021, Steiner successfully defended his Ph.D. dissertation, “Corrections to the Geometrical Interpretation of Bosonization” in Brown…
Chromebooks on ‘Massive Downturn’ from Pandemic-fueled Heights
Although PCs are still selling at a greater volume than before the COVID-19 pandemic, demand is starting to drop. In Q3 2021, shipments of laptops, desktops, and tablets dropped 2 percent compared to Q3 2020, according to numbers that researcher Canaly…
‘Destructive’ Cyberattack Hits National Bank of Pakistan
The National Bank of Pakistan (NBP) has suffered what two sources have described to The Record as a “destructive” cyberattack. From a report: The incident, which took place on the night between Friday and Saturday, impacted the bank’s backend systems a…