With competition heating up in the foundry business – India this week approved three new semiconductor plants involving Tata Group and CG Power,, and is looking to achieve dominance in the industry – existing foundries have to up their game. Chief among them is Intel, which has been trying to recover from historical missteps that […]

In Canada, your IP address has the right to remain silent. Elon Musk is suing OpenAI for not being Open. Apple faces a class action not allowing competitive access to backup services and the World Server Throwing Competition in March 2024 is accused of being too violent towards servers.   All this and more on the […]

The ongoing saga of the BlackCat/AlphV ransomware gang continues, with a news report that the crew has shut down its servers after a controversial hack of an American healthcare services provider. Bleeping Computer says the gang’s data leak blog shut on Friday and the sites it uses to negotiate ransom payments closed today. This comes […]

Apple Music gives a whole new meaning to the phrase the hits just keep on coming.  It’s not the opposing candidates, it’s public AI systems that are spreading election disinformation, and LockBit, the cybercriminal gang may be back from the dead and saying so long to the ChatGPT plugins, which went from innovation to legacy […]

Kaseya, a provider of unified IT management and security software for managed service providers (MSPs) and small to midsize business (SMBs), today released its 2024 MSP Benchmark Report, which surveyed close to 1,000 MSPs from the Americas, EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) and APAC (Asia Pacific) regions and includes responses from both IT professionals […]

Imagine a world without Facebook. For just half an hour. A group of AI leaders get together but don’t seem to invite Elon Musk. Amazon takes data centres nuclear. A new competitor for ChatGPT and Google. And public trust in AI is declining.  All this and more on the “just breath, Facebook will be back” […]

Ransomware is behind the cyber attack on the city of Hamilton, Ont., the municipality’s city manager says. Marnie Cluckie told reporters Monday afternoon that the attack, which was detected the evening of Sunday, Feb. 25, was the result of ransomware. She wouldn’t say what strain of the malware the city has been hit with, how […]

Canada’s national anti-money laundering agency has been hit by a cyber attack. The Financial Transactions and Reports Analysis Centre of Canada (FINTRAC) said Tuesday that over the last 24 hours it has been managing a cyber incident. “The incident does not involve the centre’s intelligence or classified systems,” it said in a statement. “As a […]

A pilot program aimed at training women and non-binary persons for careers in cybersecurity will soon start recruiting its third group of students. The program, offered to students in computer science and related courses in seven Canadian post-secondary institutions, should start looking for candidates next month for the fall academic year, said Vivian Lee, team […]

The government of Canada has announced significant investments to improve connectivity in British Columbia and Alberta over the past two days. That includes combined federal and provincial funding of C$112 million to bring high speed internet access to more than 22,500 households in Alta. and another $37 million for 7,500 households in B.C.. The households, […]

Artificial intelligence can be the key to unlocking better relationships with work, HP revealed in its new Work Relationship Index (WRI) report. “AI represents a significant opportunity to transform our work dynamics and unlock a more positive and productive environment for all,” stated Dave Shull, president of HP Workforce Solutions at HP Inc.. “To foster […]

Facing an unprecedented crisis, IT World Canada, a beacon of technology journalism, is on the brink of closure. This poses a critical question: Without IT World Canada, who will narrate Canada’s tech story? After decades of serving the Canadian tech industry, IT World Canada needs help to survive. As of midnight tonight, the company is […]

The annual Perseids meteor shower is expected to continue through September. Astronomers say it's one of the brightest and most visible meteor showers of the year.

The annual Perseid meteor shower is set to peak on Sunday night into early Monday morning, giving stargazers the chance to see hundreds of meteors.

A new study suggests there could be water miles under the dusty surface of Mars, with enough water to fill a global-sized ocean a mile deep.

The asteroid that wiped out dinosaurs after slamming into the Earth 66 million years ago is believed to have come from beyond Jupiter, a new study says.

Scientists in Australia are boosting the country's dwindling freshwater crocodile numbers by getting the animals to stop eating a poisonous toad.

Iowa archaeologists have unearthed a 13,600-year-old mastodon skull in pristine condition during a nearly two-week excavation at an eroding creek bank in Wayne County.

A new species of Jurassic dinosaur related to Tyrannosaurus rex has been discovered by paleontologists in Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia.

NASA discovered the cause of a pulsating noise coming from a speaker on the Boeing Starliner spacecraft after astronaut Butch Wilmore reported the sound.

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft landed on Earth Saturday morning, with two test pilots left behind because of NASA's concerns that their return was too risky.

A stadium-sized asteroid is passing relatively close to Earth on Tuesday, NASA announced. Its distance from Earth and its massive size makes it a "potentially hazardous object."

Scientists in New Mexico conducted several experiments and learned that asteroids can be deflected from Earth using explosions of nuclear warheads above the space rock's surface.

A bold new study in Physical Review suggests that a wobble detected in Mars' orbit could be the result of dark matter made up of primordial black holes.

A coronal mass ejection could strike the Earth's magnetosphere this week and cause a geomagnetic storm due to conditions caused by the autumnal equinox.

A comet that has not been seen for more than 80,000 years is expected to be visible from Earth, potentially during two separate time periods in the next month.

NASA has released the clearest view of Mars seen thus far, with a field of blue rocks seen on the Martian landscape on top of an ancient lake.

Two pioneers of artificial intelligence have won the Nobel Prize in physics for discoveries and inventions that formed the building blocks of machine learning.

The sun blasted a coronal mass at Earth earlier this week, and after back-to-back major hurricanes, some are concerned it could impact the power grid.

A massive NASA spacecraft is ready to set sail for Jupiter and its moon Europa. The craft, named Europa Clipper, will determine if conditions there could support life.

The Orionids meteor shower peaks on Monday, but will continue to light up the sky through Nov. 22, as debris from Halley's Comet enters Earth's atmosphere.

NASA reconnected with Voyager 1, which is located nearly 15 billion miles away from Earth, after a brief pause that triggered the spacecraft's fault protection system.

Police are hunting laughing yobs who filmed themselves hurling a cat off a bridge and posted the video on Snapchat.

Archaeologists have discovered a "remarkable" section of one of Britain's most important Roman roads in southeast London.

As many as 115 Post Office Branches and hundreds of jobs could be at risk following a strategic review held by Post Office Chairman Nigel Railton.

A mum-of-four was tragically found dead at her home following a fire.

Police were in pursuit for half an hour down narrow country lanes

Three people have been taken to hospital after a car mounted the pavement and smashed into a restaurant in Piccadilly Circus, the Metropolitan Police have said.

Greater Manchester Police launched a public appeal to help find Jane Burton on Tuesday morning but have paused the search after a body was found

The broadcaster opened up about how the condition made her late mum, Edna, angry and aggressive.

The spy writing star, whose series has become a huge television hit starring Gary Oldman, is to chair the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival 2025

Jill Parton, 46, suffered fatal injuries when she was hit by a freight train in Heaton Chapel in the early hours of June 3 this year, an inquest heard

Ryzen and Epyc chips have two main issues; L3 cache latency, and 'preferred core' tech.

And the Epic Games Achievements system will start to roll out next week.

It says these components will enable "the industry's highest DRAM bit density".

Micro machines meets Burnout in this surprisingly brilliant little racer.

Its latest roadmap suggests that if you want white fans, you should wait for an announcement in Q1 2022.

$329/£300 graphics card is said to be "future ready" for your 1080p gaming needs.

An unusual and fascinating survival game with one of the most memorable enemies in years.

Alienware was born in a garage near Miami in 1996. The first Aurora arrived in 2004.