Google Blocks Rogue Certificates After Three Country Domains Were Hijacked
Attackers who seized control of three small country domain registries used that access to obtain digital certificates that would let them impersonate Google and other companies online, Google disclosed this…
A Researcher’s Death at a Siberian Plague Lab Tests the WHO’s Patience
The woman who died was 28 years old, a laboratory technician at an institute built to study plague and other dangerous pathogens. She fell ill and died on October 2…
Nvidia-Backed Firmus’ Record Float Sours as Investors Balk
The books closed on schedule, and that was about the only thing that went to plan. Firmus Grid, an Australian data-center operator, finished bookbuilding for its initial public offering Thursday…
Sony Sells Its XR Patents to Meta
The paperwork moved quietly through the U.S. patent office between June and September. Forty-three American patent properties, filed by Sony over more than a decade, changed hands and landed with…
A Ransomware Hit Silences a Corner of Japan’s Cloud
Around 3:40 a.m. on Wednesday, an automatic shutdown system inside a data center in Shirakawa, a city in Japan’s Fukushima prefecture, sensed something wrong and cut the network. By morning,…
SpaceX Wins Approval for 15,000 Phone-Service Satellites
The order from the Federal Communications Commission ran long on technical language — spectrum bands, orbital altitudes, leasing rules. Buried in the middle was a sentence that framed the whole…
Micron’s Taiwan Workers Vote to Authorize a Strike Over Bonuses
The vote was almost unanimous, and that is what gave it force. When the union representing workers at Micron Technology’s plant in Taoyuan, Taiwan, counted its ballots this week, 1,994…
Apple’s Doorbell Will Say LG on the Box
When Apple’s long-awaited smart-home devices reach store shelves, the name printed on the box will not be Apple’s. The video doorbell, the deadbolt lock and the thermostat that Bloomberg reported…
Germany Gives Musk the Push He Wanted in Brussels
Elon Musk’s reply was two words. “Danke schoen,” he wrote on X on Wednesday, after Germany’s transport minister said he would push for prompt European Union approval of Tesla’s driver-assistance…
Google Fights a £1 Billion Bill Over App Store Fees
The case opened with a number that has become familiar in British competition law: £1 billion. On Tuesday, in a hearing room of the Competition Appeal Tribunal in London, a…
