Google employee James Damore has been reportedly fired for âperpetuating gender stereotypes.â The senior software engineer authored a 10-page âmanifestoâ condemning Googleâs diversity efforts and claiming men are biologically more predisposed to working in the tech industry than women. In an internal memo to Google employees, CEO Sundar Pichai says […]
Microsoft Releases Long-Awaited Security Tool “Project Springfield.”, Sets Linux Preview
Microsoft has released its long-awaited cloud-based bug detection tool, previously code-named “Project Springfield.” The Windows version became generally available, and a new Linux version became available as a preview last week. The tool, Microsoft Security Risk Detection, uses artificial intelligence to hunt down security vulnerabilities in software that is about […]
Microsoft is Googlebombing âLinuxâ This Week in Order to Sell Proprietary Software That Does Not Run on GNU/Linux
We really donât want to write about those sorts of things, but the GNU/Linux/FOSS news feeds are getting stuffed with marketing of proprietary Microsoft software which neither runs on GNU/Linux (it runs on DrawBridge) nor is final (itâs just some RC). Itâs all about promoting surveillance of database by the […]
Techâs High-Stakes Arms Race: Costly Data Centers
Amazon.com Inc. upped the ante this week, announcing plans to plunk down a massive collection of data centers in Stockholm. It is the latest move in a high-stakes race to own the biggest piece of a market that is expected to reach into the hundreds of billions of dollars. Amazon […]
CIA steals SSH credentials from Windows and Linux with BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon tools
The latest addition to WikiLeaks’ Vault 7 cache of CIA tools and documents gives details of tools used by the agency to attack Windows and Linux computers. The BothanSpy and Gyrfalcon projects can be used to intercept and exfiltrate SSH (Secure Shell) credentials. BothanSpy is used to target Windows, while […]
