Technology

  Last week, Windows Update stopped working properly for many users. The global outage was an odd one, and user investigations soon discovered it appeared to be linked to DNS services. Changing one’s DNS settings to Google’s publicly provided DNS service often restored Windows Update’s functionality. US Comcast and UK …

  Apple’s lawyers have come up with a novel new argument for why people shouldn’t be allowed to sue the company for slowing down their devices with iOS updates: Apple, you see, actually operates in a role analogous to that of a construction contractor and cannot be held liable for …

  A second Apple engineer has been caught stealing trade secrets with the intent of selling them to a Chinese-based company. This is the second time Apple has caught one of its employees stealing information to sell to a Chinese company since July. Jizhong Chen was caught taking photos with …

  Yesterday, Apple killed Facebook’s access to internal iOS applications after it discovered the company was abusing its enterprise software applications to run aggressive data monitoring collection on teenagers. Today, it did the same thing to Google. Google’s application, dubbed Screenwise Meter, appears to have been very similar to what …

  The Authors Guild is America’s oldest and largest professional organization for authors. It’s also been fighting a 14-year battle to restrict books from being digitized. It’s now extending that fight to the library level — and in the process, essentially arguing that libraries shouldn’t be allowed to modernize or …

  YouTube is by far the world’s largest video sharing site with users uploading hundreds of hours of content every minute. It’s impossible for humans to vet every video that goes up, so Google has turned to automated systems that cannot be reasoned with. Some particularly unscrupulous people have realized …

  Unless you work on the Windows team at Microsoft, the error messages in Windows 10 are probably incomprehensible gibberish. If you’re lucky, the operating system might cite a knowledge base article, but it’s more likely error messages just throw up strings of numbers that don’t help explain the issue. …

  Foxconn’s original deal with Wisconsin to build a manufacturing plant in exchange for mammoth subsidies was controversial from the outset. Originally, the Wisconsin facility was to serve as a major hub for Foxconn in the United States, building high-end TV panels. Now, the firm has announced it will drastically …

  AMD announced its Q4 2018 results earlier this week, and the data was fairly positive for the company. Revenue was up 6 percent, quarter-on-quarter, to $1.42B. For the year, AMD recorded revenue of $6.48B, up 23 percent from the same period a year ago. Client CPU shipments grew more …

  Intel’s early efforts at marketing its 28-core desktop Xeon processor didn’t get off to a great start. The company was dragged for demonstrating a 5GHz CPU at Computex without immediately disclosing that the CPU in question was being cooled with a 1.7kW water chiller. The final product to come …