“Remote-work numbers have dwindled over the past few years as employers issue return-to-office mandates,” reports USA Today. “But will that continue in 2024?”

The numbers started to slide after spring 2020, when more than 60% of days were worked from …

An anonymous reader writes: Videos collected by 404 Media over months give a peek into the world of spoofing numbers, automated call scripts, and a specific seller of the phones. From the report: “Alright lads,” a man sitting in the passenger seat of a…

Australian telecoms provider Optus said on Monday that a massive outage which effectively cut off 40% of the country’s population and triggered a political firestorm was caused by “changes to routing information” after a “routine software upgrade.” Fro…

Despite having a population of just 1,400, until recently, Tokelau’s .tk domain had more users than any other country. Here’s why: Tokelau, a necklace of three isolated atolls strung out across the Pacific, is so remote that it was the last place on Ea…

An anonymous reader shares a report: A young man sits in a car, pointing a cellphone camera out of the window, seemingly trying to remain undetected. As he breathes heavily in anticipation, he peers at a T-Mobile store across the road from where he is …

An ongoing Cloudflare outage has taken down many of its products, including the company’s dashboard and related application programming interfaces (APIs) customers use to manage and read service configurations. From a report: The complete list of servi…

Negotiations to merge Western Digital’s semiconductor memory business and Japan’s Kioxia Holdings have been terminated, Nikkei reported Thursday. From the report: The companies were aiming to reach an agreement by the end of October. U.S.-based Western…

Unciphered, a Seattle-based startup, claims to have cracked the seemingly unbreakable encryption of IronKey S200, a decade-old USB thumb drive. By exploiting an undisclosed vulnerability in the device, the company says it can bypass the drive’s feature…

Matter — the IOT connectivity standard with ambitions to fix the smart home and make all of our gadgets talk to each other — has hit version 1.2, adding support for nine new types of connected devices. From a report: Robot vacuums, refrigerators, was…