Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91
Fred P. Brooks, the founder and long-time chair of the department (and a major influence on my professional outlook) passed away a few hours ago. Steve Lohr / @stevelohr : Remember...
Frederick P. Brooks Jr., a Turing Award recipient who co-led IBM's System/360 and wrote a book cited as gospel by computer scientists, died last week at 91
He was a lead designer of the computers that cemented IBM's dominance for decades. He later wrote a book on software engineering that became a quirky classic.
EU lawmakers provisionally agree on the DMA, which mandates messaging service interoperability, limits bundling services, prohibits self-preferencing, and more
The European Union today adopted landmark rules clamping down on anti-competitive abuses by the world's largest technology platforms …
Apple and Google criticize the newly unveiled Digital Markets Act that will force companies designated as gatekeepers to open up their platforms to competitors
the apps ATT matters the most for will just leave the App Store, rendering ATT effectively useless Alex Stamos / @alexstamos : @matrixdotorg ... If your messaging standard does not...
Twitter terminated its head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko this week, and CISO Rinki Sethi will depart in the coming weeks; both execs joined Twitter in 2020
Market summary: 📊 — Brutal week in the market finally ends. Steve Zurier / scmagazine.com : What's it mean? Making sense of Twitter's decision to oust ‘Mudge’ Zatko and Rinki Set...
Twitter terminated its head of security Peiter “Mudge” Zatko this week, and CISO Rinki Sethi will depart in the coming weeks; both execs joined Twitter in 2020
Market summary: 📊 — Brutal week in the market finally ends. Steve Zurier / scmagazine.com : What's it mean? Making sense of Twitter's decision to oust ‘Mudge’ Zatko and Rinki Set...
Report: European carriers voice opposition to Apple's Private Relay, as T-Mobile and others begin blocking the VPN-like service in the US and parts of Europe
Earlier today, a report indicated that some European carriers were blocking the Private Relay feature introduced by Apple with iOS 15.
FBI email servers were hacked to send spam warning of a “sophisticated chain attack”, with a likely goal to discredit security researcher Vinny Troia
The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) email servers were hacked to distribute spam email impersonating FBI warnings …
Top US Catholic Church official resigns after a Catholic media site obtained his alleged Grindr app and phone location data from an undisclosed data broker
The top administrator of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops resigned after a Catholic media site told the conference it had access …
In a privacy policy update, T-Mobile says it will automatically enroll all subscribers in an ad program informed by their online activity, starting on April 26
Wireless carrier tells subscribers it could share their browsing, app data and other online activity with advertisers unless they opt out
After reports of all of Parler's data being downloaded by third parties, analysis shows Parler lacked basic security measures to prevent such a data breach
GPS metadata from videos posted to Parler on Jan. 6 shows several users deep inside the Capitol; source: FBI has expressed interest in examining the data
At least several users of the far-right social network Parler appear to be among the hoard of rioters that managed to penetrate deep inside …
FireEye says some internal systems were hacked by nation state actors, compromising its Red Team tools, used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers
The cybersecurity company said the attack compromised its software tools used to test the defenses of its thousands of customers
A look at MANRS, a group of ~600 participants including Google, which aims to add safeguards to the Border Gateway Protocol, improving internet routing security
Efforts to secure the Border Gateway Protocol have picked up critical momentum, including a big assist from Google.
Many Mac users experienced app slowdowns during the launch of Big Sur, possibly due to issues with Apple's OCSP service being unable to validate certificates
Even Macs that didn't upgrade to Big Sur had problems. — Mac users today began experiencing unexpected issues …
Comprehensive macOS 11.0 Big Sur review: the end of OS X era
Talking With Apple! Chance Miller / 9to5Mac : Apple VPs talk M1 Macs, Rosetta 2 translation, and more in new interviews Erik Engheim / The Startup : PC Users in Denial About Apple ...
Many Mac users experienced app slowdowns during the launch of Big Sur, possibly due to issues with Apple's OCSP service being unable to validate certificates
Even Macs that didn't upgrade to Big Sur had problems. — Mac users today began experiencing unexpected issues …
IBM announces that it plans to spin off its managed infrastructure services unit, with $19B in sales and 90K staff, to help it focus on hybrid cloud apps
Researchers who flagged TikTok and 55 other iOS apps for clipboard snooping in March say the majority of apps they identified still continue the practice
despite it being inconspicuous to the naked eye—can be regularly accessed by apps that in many cases aren't even installed locally on the device.” https://arstechnica.com/... Steve...
Researchers who flagged TikTok and 55 other iOS apps for clipboard snooping in March say the majority of apps they identified still continue the practice
Passwords, bitcoin addresses and anything else in clipboards are free for the taking. — In March, researchers uncovered …