One unfortunate side effect from the use of chip cards for in-store purchases has been an increase in online credit-card fraud. Hackers have taken the path of least resistance, moving from in-store fraud to e-commerce fraud, according to security experts. Deterred by the security capabilities of chip cards for in-store payments, thieves have resorted to…
Intel made waves at CES in January with Optane, a new class of memory and storage that will supercharge PCs and servers. But don’t forget that Optane has competition. Memory company Micron is coming out with memory and storage based on the same underlying 3D Xpoint technology. Intel and Micron jointly developed the first-generation 3D Xpoint…
Microsoft is augmenting Windows 10 and the Visual Studio IDE with a file system to assist developers working with large Git repos. The company’s Git Virtual File System (GVFS), appearing in GitHub, allows the Git client to scale to repos of any size. It virtualizes the file system beneath a repo to make it appear…
Mozilla confirmed that it is shuttering a group tasked with creating an operating system for connected devices, the category pegged as the “Internet of things,” or IoT. It was the second defeat in 14 months for Mozilla projects aimed at producing commercial hardware products. “We have shifted our internal approach to the IoT opportunity to…
The U.K.’s defense secretary is accusing Russia of using cyber attacks to “disable” democratic processes across the West, and he’s demanding that NATO fight back. “NATO must defend itself as effectively in the cyber sphere as it does in the air, on land, and at sea,” Defense Secretary Michael Fallon said. “So adversaries know there…
Did Apple purposefully break iOS 6, rendering old iPhones unusable before their time? That’s the question at the heart of a new class-action lawsuit against the Cupertino company, which claims that Apple killed FaceTime in iOS 6 to avoid paying hefty licensing fees. The basis of the lawsuit, first reported by AppleInsider, comes from details…
Microsoft will likely wait until February 14 to fix a publicly disclosed vulnerability in the SMB network file sharing protocol that can be exploited to crash Windows computers. The vulnerability was disclosed Thursday when the security researcher who found it posted a proof-of-concept exploit for it on GitHub. There was concern initially that the flaw…
Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this week, and as the story goes this means six more weeks of winter. If only the critter was carrying a smartphone, perhaps that would give us a better idea of when Nougat would be coming to your favorite device. Fortunately we didn’t need a groundhog to find out about…
The robotic arm manning Cafe X at the Metreon shopping center in San Francisco looks very caffeinated as it frantically swings from one side of its enclosed bar to the other. Along with the help of two fully automatic coffee machines, the arm can whip up anywhere from one to four drinks a minute, depending…
Micron is rushing to release the latest GDDR6 graphics memory by the end of the year, and eSports is a major driver behind the plans. The memory company is speeding up the release of GDDR6 to cope with faster PC and console upgrades. GDDR6 will be significantly faster than its predecessor, GDDR5X, which is still…