Hackers are going after U.S. hospitals with a fresh wave of cyberattacks this week just as coronavirus cases surge around the country. From a report: Eskenazi Health, a health-care service provider that operates a 315-bed hospital, inpatient facilities…
Can You Recycle a Hard Drive? Google is Quietly Trying To Find Out
Rare earth magnet recycling is about so much more than sustainable data centers. From a report: The U.S. alone generates nearly 17 percent of all used hard disk drives — the largest share globally — and researchers have estimated that if all of these…
Facebook’s WhatsApp Takes Aim At Apple Over Child Safety Software Plan
Facebook’s WhatsApp messaging unit blasted Apple’s plan to monitor sexually exploitative images of children on iPhones as bad for privacy, opening a new front in the battle between two of the world’s biggest tech companies. From a report: “This approac…
Google is Planning a New Silicon Valley Campus With Hardware Hub, Plans Show
Google announced arguably its most serious attempt at hardware this week when it said it will be ditching Qualcomm chips and creating its own, including those used for its flagship Pixel phone. From a report: It also has been using its own chips for it…
T-Mobile Will Shut Down Sprint’s 4G LTE Network on June 30, 2022
T-Mobile has been moving to integrate Sprint into its operations since completing its merger last April. This week the next step was detailed, with a support page on the carrier’s website revealing that T-Mobile plans to shut down Sprint’s 4G LTE netwo…
Musk: ‘Dream Come True’ To See Fully Stacked SpaceX Starship Rocket During Prep for Orbital Launch
Elon Musk’s SpaceX stacked a Starship prototype rocket on top of a Super Heavy rocket booster for the first time on Friday morning, giving a look at the scale of the combined nearly 400-foot-tall vehicle. From a report: Musk, asked by CNBC what he thou…
Moderna Recommends Covid-19 Vaccine Booster To Protect Against New Variants
Moderna says it expects people who received its two-dose Covid-19 vaccine to need a booster shot in the fall [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled; alternative source] to keep strong protection against newer variants of the coronavirus. From a repo…
Microsoft is Merging Its OneNote Apps for Windows
Over the next 12 months, Microsoft is rolling out a series of updates for its OneNote apps on Windows with the intention of creating a single user experience. From a report: At the moment, there are two versions people can use: The OneNote app installe…
Google Considered Buying ‘Some or All’ of Epic During Fortnite Clash, Court Documents Say
Google considered buying Epic Games as the companies sparred over Epic’s Fortnite Android app, according to newly unsealed court filings. From a report: Last night, Google lifted some of its redactions in Epic’s antitrust complaint against Google, whic…
Motherboard Vendor GIGABYTE Hit By RansomExx Ransomware Gang
Taiwanese computer hardware vendor GIGABYTE has suffered a ransomware attack, and hackers are currently threatening to release more than 112 GB of business data on the dark web unless the company agrees to their ransom demands. An anonymous reader shar…