The third of three former ransomware negotiators accused of assisting the ALPHV/BlackCat ransomware gang in extorting US businesses has pleaded guilty, months after his two co-workers did the same. Angelo Martino, 41, was a former ransomware negotiator at what is only referred to in court documents as Company-1 – Chicago-based incident response company DigitalMint. The…
Opinion It might look like a map of the London Underground designed by a madman, but Gartner’s newly-completed DBMS Market Share Ranks: 2011-2025 has an important message. The change may be glacial, but (most of the) dominant database vendors are slowly losing their grip on the market. Author Adam Ronthal, vice president analyst at Gartner,…
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Season three of Silo continues the saga of a dystopian society of 10,000 people living underground under mysterious circumstances, while revealing an origin story set centuries earlier. In the present, Juliette Nichols (Ferguson) survives her forced “cleaning” but returns with memory loss as the silo recovers from rebellion and faces a dangerous new threat. Meanwhile,…
Less than a year ago, Apple made headlines for a lack of AI announcements at its annual WWDC event. Ten months later, the company has announced that hardware executive John Ternus will succeed longtime CEO Tim Cook as chief executive — and the official release doesn’t mention AI once. Ternus, currently Apple’s SVP of hardware…
The squid kids will be back this summer. Nintendo announced this morning that Splatoon Raiders, a single-player spinoff of its competitive shooter series, will launch on the Nintendo Switch 2 on July 23rd. It’ll be the first new entry in the series since Splatoon 3 in 2022. In addition to the date, Nintendo also released…
The great SpaceX IPO is looming, allowing outside investors — including regular Joe Schmoes, or retail investors — to buy a stake in one of the buzziest and most controversial companies on the planet for the first time. Depending on who you ask, it’s either the best investment opportunity you’ll see this decade or a…
Vercel’s CEO reckons the crooks behind its recent breach likely had a helping hand from AI, saying the attackers moved with “surprising velocity” and a deep understanding of the company’s infrastructure. In a public update following the incident, Guillermo Rauch reckons the intrusion began with a compromised employee account linked to Context.ai. An attacker used…
John Ternus is going to be Apple’s next CEO. And while outgoing CEO Tim Cook was lauded for his approach to logistics, Ternus’ history is that of a product person. Ternus, Apple’s SVP of hardware engineering before being officially tapped to take over the top job, has been increasingly in the public eye to help…
A Mexican IT infrastructure and digital transformation biz is on clean-up duty after a criminal posted screenshots of what they claimed was company video surveillance footage to a cybercrime forum. Monterrey-based Be Prime confirmed that it was the victim of a “cybersecurity incident” on Thursday, after the criminal, who used the alias “dylanmarly,” made sweeping…