Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons
Why 'dont deploy on Frday' is a thnng
How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'
On Call
Settle in for a weighty story with plenty of gravity
BOFH: WELCOME TO COLOSSAL SERVER ROOM ADVENTURE!!
Episode 15
If Health and Safety want to describe Mission Control like a text adventure, they can have a text adventure
Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop
Opinion
Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud
Experiment arrives at the ISS to see if astronauts can keep things cool
No sweat, but this could take us to infinity and beyond
Science05 Aug 2023 | 9
Deutsche Bahn stands to lose €400M if it has to do Huawei with Chinese kit
Telcos also due to get it in the neck unless the government pays up
Networks05 Aug 2023 | 20
Google offers to alert netizens when their personal info shows up in Search
I Have Been Pw, er, Indexed
Personal Tech04 Aug 2023 | 7
Canada's Telus to shed 6K workers as profits plunge 61%
Big cheese asks if anyone wants to take early retirement?
Networks04 Aug 2023 | 8
Two US Navy sailors charged with giving Chinese spies secret military info
'Quite obviously f**king espionage,' one suspect allegedly blabbed
Cyber-crime04 Aug 2023 | 37
Behold, Incus: Check out this fork of Canonical's LXD 'containervisor'
Lead dev Graber quits Ubuntu maker, helps out this new project
OSes04 Aug 2023 | 7
Alarm raised over Mozilla VPN: Wonky authorization check lets users cause havoc
SUSE security engineer goes public on unfixed client hole after disclosure drama
Security04 Aug 2023 | 21
Read lips? Siri wants to feel them, according to fresh Apple patent
We make movements when we talk, and gyro, accelerometer and sensor tech could improve speech recog
Personal Tech04 Aug 2023 | 10
Prepare for plenty more pain from Ivanti's MDM flaws, warn cyber agencies
Patch now Invaders already spent four or more months frolicking inside Norwegian government servers
Big chip players join forces to form another RISC-V venture
Initial drive starts in Germany, pushes automotive blueprints
Systems04 Aug 2023 | 5
Astronaut-menacing sunstorm spotted rippling across inner solar system
Rare coronal mass ejection so powerful it was observed from Earth, Moon, and Mars
Science04 Aug 2023 | 22
Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop
Opinion Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud
OSes04 Aug 2023 | 181
Judge throws out EE's £25M 5G contract suit against Virgin Media
2022's MVNO spat wrapped up as world+dog reminded to check exclusion clauses
Legal04 Aug 2023 | 2
Telecom giants dial up the heat on suppliers: It's not you, it's your CO2
Tackling sneaky Scope 3 emissions with 'best practices' and a 'climate lens'
Networks04 Aug 2023 | 6
BOFH: WELCOME TO COLOSSAL SERVER ROOM ADVENTURE!!
Episode 15 If Health and Safety want to describe Mission Control like a text adventure, they can have a text adventure
BOFH04 Aug 2023 | 82
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LINUX PICKS
Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch
Debian 12-based version should be your first choice for a non-systemd distro
Soft-reboot in systemd 254 sounds a lot like Windows' Fast Startup
Where does Agent P work again?
GNOME project considers adding window tiling by default
Bringing automatic window tiling to the mainstream could be big – but what is it and how do you use it?
Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG
Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all
OctoX is a radical Rust implementation of a very old OS for RISC-V
There's still life in the wider Version 6 Unix family – and 9front too
How to get a computer get stuck in a lift? Ask an 'illegal engineer'
On Call Settle in for a weighty story with plenty of gravity
On-Prem04 Aug 2023 | 139
Official science: People do less, make more mistakes on Friday afternoons
Why 'dont deploy on Frday' is a thnng
Bootnotes04 Aug 2023 | 54
Big Tech's going to love India's new personal data protection bill
Big fines for breaches. Also big powers – including takedowns – for planned Data Protection Board
Legal04 Aug 2023 | 6
Japanese supermarket watches you shop so AI can suggest more stuff to buy
What could possibly go wrong with this Fujitsu tech?
AI + ML04 Aug 2023 | 40
COOL SCIENCE
Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space
Not all heroes wear capes – some are 50-year-old antennas
After fears that Europe's space scope was toast, its first images look mighty fine
Here's looking at Euclid
MIT geniuses build battery alternative out of cement, carbon black, water
Imagine your home's foundation was its own energy-storing supercapacitor
Japanese eggheads slice semiconductors from diamonds – with lasers!
Chips based on the tech could boost efficiency of electric vehicles
A room-temperature, ambient-pressure superconductor? Take a closer look
It's OK to be skeptical if someone says they found the holy grail
Make quick sense of the data deluge
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Out of nowhere, India requires PC and server makers to get an import license
This is one way to kickstart local manufacturing
On-Prem04 Aug 2023 | 19
Couple admit they laundered $4B in stolen Bitcoins after Bitfinex super-heist
A man, a plan, and Razzlekhan fought the law – and the law won
Cyber-crime04 Aug 2023 | 32
IBM, NASA emit actual open source AI model – for grokking Earth satellite images
Some people just want to watch the world burn
AI + ML04 Aug 2023 | 3
Russia's Cozy Bear is back and hitting Microsoft Teams to phish top targets
Plus: Tenable CEO blasts Redmond's bug disclosure habits
CSO03 Aug 2023 | 7
Blue Origin tells staff to catch next rocket back to their desks
Face colleagues five days a week, Jeff Bezos' space firm says
On-Prem03 Aug 2023 | 38
Old-school hacktivism is back because it never went away
Mysterious Team Bangladesh has carried out 846 attacks since June 2022, mostly DDoS
Research03 Aug 2023 | 6
Microsoft yanks internal Windows 11 testing tool soon after release
Redmond bugs out of that side quest
OSes03 Aug 2023 | 4
Lacros rescues Chromebooks by extending their lifespans
'Play sports and live longer' apparently now applies to ChromeOS as well as sedentary geeks
Software03 Aug 2023 | 28
NASA and pals complete Artemis II recovery dress rehearsal
One more box checked in humanity's quest to return to the Moon
Science03 Aug 2023 | 3
Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search results
There's a word for describing going it alone against huge rivals, starts with a B, just can't put our finger on it
Personal Tech03 Aug 2023 | 39
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NASA mistakenly severs communication to Voyager 2
Thankfully the probe regularly phones home to fix this sort of mess
Soon the most popular 'real' desktop will be the Linux desktop
Opinion Microsoft is moving Windows to the cloud and Apple will be happy to have you run macOS on the cloud
Fed-up Torvalds suggests disabling AMD’s 'stupid' performance-killing fTPM RNG
Some Ryzen Linux machines still stumble along despite efforts to fix it all
AWS: IPv4 addresses cost too much, so you’re going to pay
Perhaps that'll focus your minds on speeding up your adoption of IPv6, eh?
Voyager 2 found! Deep Space Network hears it chattering in space
Not all heroes wear capes – some are 50-year-old antennas
Brave cuts ties with Bing to offer its own image and video search results
There's a word for describing going it alone against huge rivals, starts with a B, just can't put our finger on it
Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase
That's not what they meant by 'move fast, break things' ... But maybe brake things
Nobody would ever work on the live server, right? Not intentionally, anyway
Who, Me? Techie installing an upgrade did everything right. But the user was already wrong
Arc: A radical fresh take on the web browser
In an industry that runs on hype, this might just live up to it
Middleweight champ MX Linux 23 delivers knockout punch
Debian 12-based version should be your first choice for a non-systemd distro
STORIES
Google Street View car careens into creek after 100mph cop chase
That's not what they meant by 'move fast, break things' ... But maybe brake things
Offbeat03 Aug 2023 | 85
SAP CEO push for cloud-only 'innovation' shatters users' trust in German-speaking heartlands
UK and German user groups issue strong statements after Klein courts investors with cloud strategy
Databases03 Aug 2023 | 11
UK government's semiconductor brain trust meets for the first time
Actually listening to the experts? We'll believe it when we see it
Systems03 Aug 2023 | 14
Qualcomm's great vanishing act: $2.48B of Q3 profit disappears
Smartphone CPU king talks of 'additional cost actions' as market recovery still out of reach
Systems03 Aug 2023 | 1
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China floats strict screentime limits and content crimps for kids
+Comment Two hours a day maximum and a guarantee of no nasties - parents everywhere might just welcome the Communist approach to this issue
AWS is running a 96-core, 192-thread, custom Xeon server
Amidst all the Graviton chat, cloud colossus still has a soft spot for Chipzilla
Baidu builds AI into cars so you can distract the kids with text-to-image tools
Drawing flying pandas is useful. But Chinese web giant isn't saying how AI on wheels is practical
AMD says it'll jump through Uncle Sam's hoops to sell AI chips to China
Set to join Intel, Nvidia in observing bus speed limits
AI + ML03 Aug 2023 | 2
Playing instruments, musical talent? Psh, this is the 2020s – Meta has models for that now
AudioCraft is for musicians what ChatGPT is for content writers, maybe
AI + ML02 Aug 2023 | 43
We're in the OWASP-makes-list-of-security-bug-types phase with LLM chatbots
Ten ways you can blow a hole in your software by misusing AI tech
AI + ML02 Aug 2023 | 5
Meta says it'll ask Euro peeps nicely before hitting them with personalized ads
UK mulls an 'appropriate response'
Personal Tech02 Aug 2023 | 26
Up to 40% of all Arm servers are deployed in China
At the same time, company pipped to be preparing for IPO
Systems02 Aug 2023 | 4
Beyond the hype, AI promises leg up for scientific research
However boffins in academia need to match the progress made in Big Tech, and always challenge poor data quality
AI + ML02 Aug 2023 | 5
Tesla steering problems attract regulator eyes for second time this year
First some steering wheels were falling off, now others allegedly won't steer
Personal Tech02 Aug 2023 | 77
A data language for a full-stack world
How GraphQL offers a new way of building APIs
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Microsoft concession: You can run our wares in AWS virtual desktop under 'revised policy'
Interest from antitrust regulators spurred action? Still a pricey option, says analyst, and change doesn't help Google or Alibaba customers
PaaS + IaaS02 Aug 2023 | 6
Intel opens chip innovation hub in Nanshan, China
Interesting move against backdrop of US sanctions
Systems02 Aug 2023 | 3
Virgin Media O2 offers plug-in 5G network in a box
Hefty box said to be 'slightly larger than a carry-on' – but likely not for budget flyers
Networks02 Aug 2023 | 11
UK watchdog reopens consultation on Microsoft's bid for Activision Blizzard
CMA admits Sony deal might change the battlefield
Personal Tech02 Aug 2023 | 6
IBM to build biometrics system for UK cops and immigration services
Big Blue scores £54.7M project, taking business from Fujitsu as Home Office consolidates work
Australian Senate committee recommends bans on Chinese social media apps
WeChat accused of 'contempt for Parliament' as transparency rules floated for platforms
Microsoft India poaches former AWS India boss Puneet Chandok
Current boss bails for unspecified non-tech gig
XenServer teases free VMware migration package
Citrix's virtualization spin out goes a bit Musky by revealing its own X-centric logo
Virtualization02 Aug 2023 | 8
Socket moves beyond JavaScript and Python and gets into Go
Interview CEO, fresh with funds, lays out the dependency dilemma
Security02 Aug 2023 | 6
AMD hopes for rebound in the second half of the year as Q2 profits plunge 94%
Don't worry, AI will fix everything, predicts CEO Lisa Su
On-Prem02 Aug 2023 | 2
Social media’s reaction to generative AI proves just how valuable data is
Every organization is data-driven and using AI, which makes protecting your most valuable asset even more important
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