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Probe: Worker at speech-recog outfit Nuance wasn't locked out after firing

Updated  American healthcare provider Geisinger fears highly personal data on more than a million of its patients has been stolen – and claimed a former employee at a Microsoft subsidiary is the likely culprit.…

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Scripts turn sus after mysterious CDN swallows domain

The polyfill.io domain is being used to infect more than 100,000 websites with malicious code after what's said to be a Chinese organization bought the domain earlier this year, researchers have said.…

Jonathan Thomas oznámil vydání nové verze 3.2.0 video editoru OpenShot (Wikipedie). Zdrojové kódy OpenShotu jsou k dispozici na GitHubu. Ke stažení je také balíček ve formátu AppImage. Stačí jej stáhnout, nastavit právo na spouštění a spustit.

Byla vydána nová major verze 6.0 neměnné (immutable) distribuce openSUSE Leap Micro určené pro běh kontejneru a virtuálních strojů. S vydáním verze 6.0 byla ukončena podpora verze 5.4.

Další pojišťovna startuje s pojištěním závislosti na péči jiné osoby. Tentokrát vám může kromě pravidelné měsíční renty zařídit přednostní umístění v soukromém pobytovém zařízení.

Dnes se podíváme ne pomocníka pro generování Java a SQL kódu pro nové databázové tabulky, nástroj v terminálu pro sledování ceny akcií, správu dat v MongoDB a nakonec kliknutím zjistíme veřejnou IP adresu.

Více než 20 let byly vyhledávače rozcestníkem Internetu a zajišťovaly hlavní zdroj návštěvnosti pro většinu webů. To se pomalu, ale jistě mění. Čím dál víc slyšíme, že vyhledávače už nejsou, co bývaly.

Nejvýkonnější superpočítače světa jsou vybaveny řádově tisíci až desítkami tisíc akcelerátorů. Podle AMD se ale již zákazníci ptají na o dva řády vyšší počty za desítky až stamiliardy dolarů…

Skelné polymery jsou velmi pevné a tuhé, ale zároveň také křehké. Oproti tomu gely obsahují velký podíl kapaliny, díky které jsou měkké a pružné, ale mnoho nevydrží. Nové skelné gely v sobě spojují přednosti obou těchto materiálů. Vlastně mají tolik podivuhodných vlastností, že jejich tvůrci nepochybují o úspěchu.

Námořní motor Wärtsilä 31, jeden z největších na světě, který doposud poháněl masivní tankery či kontejnerové lodě, podle všeho neskončí jako neptačí dinosauři. Wärtsilä vyvinuli varianty 31SG-H2 a 31H2, které mohou jako generátory buď částečně, nebo výhradně spalovat vodík a v ideálním případě nabídnou energii bez emisí uhlíku. Na trhu se objeví v roce 2026.

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Byly zveřejněny videozáznamy, dostupné také s prezentacemi přímo z programu, a také fotogalerie z open source komunitní konference DevConf.CZ 2024 konané od 13. do 15. června v Brně.

Business is more lucrative than you might think

The FBI says in just 12 months, scumbags stole circa $10 million from victims of crypto scams after posing as helpful lawyers offering to recover their lost tokens.…

Wordfence security researchers recently shed light on an infamous supply chain attack that may have affected as many as 36,000 WordPress websites. Five widely used plugins were infected with malware , which opened a backdoor that allowed attackers to manipulate SEO elements and gain administrative access. This shocking discovery should warn developers, administrators, and website owners about the dangers lurking within software supply chains.

Microsoft broke European Union competition law by bundling Teams with other Office 365 applications, the European Commission said in a preliminary finding published Tuesday. If Microsoft fails to defend itself, the company could face billions of dollars in fines and other penalties.

The EU’s antitrust regulator said it had sent Microsoft a statement of objections outlining its finding that the company had given its Teams communications service an unfair advantage by bundling it with subscriptions to Office 365 and Microsoft 365, the suite of software-as-a-service applications that also includes Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

Teams enables workforce collaboration via video and chat and surged in popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic, reaching over 300 million global users in 2023.

“The Commission preliminarily finds that Microsoft is dominant worldwidein the market for SaaS productivity applications for professional use,” it said in a news release posted Tuesday.

The company’s practice since at least April 2019 to tie Teams to its core SaaS productivity apps has restricted market competition for similar products as well as defended Microsoft’s own “market position in productivity software as well as its suites-centric model from competing suppliers of individual software,” the Commission concluded.

“In particular, the Commission is concerned that Microsoft may have granted Teams a distribution advantage by not giving customers the choice whether or not to acquire access to Teams when they subscribe to their SaaS productivity applications,” the Commission’s said.

Interoperability limits between competing offerings and Microsoft’s apps also bolstered Microsoft’s advantage and prevented its rivals from competing, and in turn innovating, to the detriment of customers in the European Economic Area, the Commission said, referring to the 27 EU countries plus Iceland, Norway and Liechtenstein.

Investigation a year in the making

The decision follows a nearly year-long investigation that started last July and was sparked by a July 2020 competition complaint against the software giant by then enterprise messaging application Slack, which has since been bought by Salesforce.

Microsoft first unbundled Teams from its Office suites in the European Economic Area and Switzerland in August 2023 to try to appease EU officials during the investigation, then extended that move worldwide in April.

Neither effort apparently did anything to dissuade the Commission from considering Microsoft in violation of competition rules, a decision that was foreshadowed when the Competition said in May that it planned to include Teams in its inivestigation of Microsoft for anticompetitive practices despite the company’s concessions.

For its part, Microsoft plans to continue to address remaining concerns the Commission has over Teams as it awaits further decisions by the Commission, such as what, if any, financial consequences the company will face.

“Having unbundled Teams and taken initial interoperability steps, we appreciate the additional clarity provided today and will work to find solutions to address the Commission’s remaining concerns,” Brad Smith, Microsoft vice chair and president, said in a statement emailed to Computerworld.

The road ahead

Microsoft now gets a chance to present its defense. However, if it’s unable to sway the Commission from its preliminary decision, it could be forced to pay a fine of up to 10% of its annual worldwide revenue under EU law, and the Commission may also impose remedies to end the infringement.

“This EU chargesheet proves what was feared: Microsoft didn’t do enough to provide a level playing field to the Team’s competitors,” noted Pareekh Jain, CEO of EIIRTrend & Pareekh Consulting.

It now has its work cut out for it to unbundle Teams and create interoperability for competitors’ software to avoid penalties and damages, Jain noted.

It’s about a decade since EU regulators last levelled anti-trust charges against Microsoft: Its failure to offer Windows 7 users a choice of browser drew a €561 million (then about $731 million) fine.

To date, Microsoft has racked up around €2.2 billion ($2.4 billion) in fines for tying or bundling products together in a way that was deemed anti-competitive by EU regulators.

Kosmické závody studené války byly do značné míry převlečený vojenský souboj. Zbraně ve vesmíru se sice snaží zakazovat mezinárodní smlouvy, ale k jistým testům přece jen došlo. Sověti vynesli na oběžnou dráhu vesmírnou stanici s dělem. A skutečně z něj vystřelili. Od startu Saljutu 3 je to 25. ...