“A damn stupid thing to do”—the origins of C
Enlarge / As hard as it may be to believe, C was not simply born in wellworn paperback form. In one form or another, C has influenced the shape of...
IPL beats Corona in Indian Google search
Indians take their cricket seriously, sometimes even more seriously than they take the Coronavirus. Well, Indians searched for more info on the "Indian Premier League" than even "Coronavirus", though the latter...
Weighing up the pros and cons for enterprises
Serverless computing or serverless architecture has become one of the big trends in enterprise IT over the past several years. Along with other cloud-native development models, it has grown in...
Opinion: Why India’s 5G journey could a bumpy one in the short-term
India's richest man Mukesh Ambani declared that Reliance Jio would pave the fifth generation communication technology (5G) journey starting 2021. None would question this statement as the company today boasts...
Covid, the US election and crumpets: Google reveals Australia’s top searches for 2020
Google has released Australia’s top trending searches of 2020, and the data shows how Australians navigated our way through a year unlike any other.The overall searches reveal our collective worries...
Security powerhouse FireEye says it was breached by nation-state hackers
FireEye, a $3.5 billion company that helps customers respond to some of the world’s most sophisticated cyberattacks, has itself been hacked, most likely by a well-endowed nation-state that made off...
Cloudflare, Apple, and others back a new way to make the Internet more private
For more than three decades, the Internet’s most key underpinning has posed privacy and security threats to the billion-plus people who use it every day. Now, Cloudflare, Apple, and content-delivery...
GE puts default password in radiology devices, leaving healthcare networks exposed
Dozens of radiology products from GE Healthcare contain a critical vulnerability that threatens the networks of hospitals and other health providers that use the devices, officials from the US government...
Societe Generale latest banking giant to cut costs and increase digital investment
France’s Societe Generale (SocGen) bank is merging two of its French retail brands to cut costs and enable it to focus on a single IT system. At the same time,...
China removes over 100 apps, including TripAdvisor, in ‘cleansing’ operation
China’s internet regulator has suddenly removed more than 100 apps from one of the country’s online stores, including one associated with the US travel website TripAdvisor. The Cyberspace Administration of...