Microsoft celebrates undead MS Paint with festive knitwear
Did someone mention multithreading?
Personal Tech
Four or so things we found interesting about Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888, its latest 5G chip for high-end Androids
Samsung 5nm, Cortex-X1, integrated... wait, let's not give it all away
Cloud
Oracle upgrades MySQL with an analytics speed boost albeit only in the Big Red cloud
You're tired of best-of-breed databases, apparently
Cloud
75% of databases to be cloud-hosted by 2022, says Gartner while dishing on the weak points of each provider
AWS 'reluctant to embrace a multicloud world' but Azure 'often more expensive than on-premises'
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Security
ACLU sues US govt, demands to know if agents are buying their way around warrants to track suspects' smartphones
'Cos that would be against the Fourth Amendment, legal team says
03 Dec 13:30 |
Artificial Intelligence
Alphabet's internet Loon balloon kept on station in the sky using AI that beat human-developed control code
Maybe this might work after all
03 Dec 12:30 | 4
DevOps
Docker support deprecated in Kubernetes will break your clusters, says CNCF rep. It's only the runtime, says Docker
Admins have until late 2021 to move away, but Windows containers need caution
03 Dec 11:52 | 1
Bootnotes
Where's the mysterious metal monolith today then? Oh look, it's atop a California mountain
Is this some kind of sick game of alien whack-a-mole?
03 Dec 11:07 | 26
Software
LibreOffice 7.1 beta boasts impressive range of features let down by a lack of polish and poor mobile efforts
Somebody get this project more investment
03 Dec 10:29 | 36
Personal Tech
Bixby users. Yes, both of you! Samsung's unloved voice assistant now works with its unloved DeX desktop mode
Has anyone really ever seen someone else use either of these in the wild?
03 Dec 09:30 | 15
Security
How a nightmare wormable, wireless, automatic hijack-a-nearby-iPhone security flaw was found and fixed
You're probably all patched by now, which is just as well
03 Dec 08:26 | 6
Networks
.org owner Internet Society puts its money where its mouth is with additional IETF funding
Has the TLD debacle forced ISOC back to its roots? Maybe
03 Dec 07:58 | 4
Comment
AWS has just shown its new hybrid cloud ambitions make it an even broader threat
While also making it harder to label dedicated and skilled sysadmins as recalcitrant box-huggers
03 Dec 07:29 | 1
Promo
How do you fund and execute the technology operating model of the future?
Here’s how to prepare your business for the next big disruption
03 Dec 06:30 |
Science
Robot drills hole on Moon, employs robot arm to clean up mess to bring home
We’re talking about China’s Chang’e 5 lunar sample return mission, which has accomplished one of its main jobs
03 Dec 05:57 | 15
Policy
New twist in H-1B saga as US Senate abolishes per-country visa caps
Means India no longer has the same number of visas to bid for as tiny countries
03 Dec 04:34 | 3
Personal Tech
China unleashes fearsome new cyber-weapon: A very provocative meme
This one has Australia, America, even the wine-drinking world angry
03 Dec 02:23 | 28
DevOps
COVID-19 coronavirus captive coders create copious code, claims GitHub: Open-source projects mushroom amid pandemic
Microsoft's cloud repo rental biz finds a silver lining in 2020
03 Dec 00:58 | 2
Analysis
Trumpian politics continue as senators advance controversial Republican FCC commissioner nominee
Telecoms regulator now firmly a part of the burnt partisan landscape
03 Dec 00:12 | 13
Security
Hacker given three years for stealing secret Nintendo Switch blueprints, collecting child sex abuse vids
Ryan Hernandez continued to raid gaming giant's systems even after FBI gave him a warning
02 Dec 20:54 | 3
Servers
Laggardly HPE kisses Joe Biden's ring, whispers Uncle Sam's IT in dire need of modernisation
And HPE is the one to do it, yeah?
02 Dec 19:46 | 12
Webcast
Is your SQL Server installation old enough to go to high school? We need to talk
Join us and Pure Storage online to find out how to pay back borrowed time
02 Dec 19:00 |
Software
Christmas comes early for chameleons: SUSE feels jolly after closing Rancher deal
Kubernetes, Kubernetes, how shalt I manage thou, Kubernetes?
02 Dec 18:10 | 1
Software
Whoa BlackBerry: Firm hooks up with AWS on cloud telematics platform for vehicle data
Ivy league data inhalation as BB vows to grass on teen drivers
02 Dec 17:07 | 5
Cloud
Oracle upgrades MySQL with an analytics speed boost albeit only in the Big Red cloud
You're tired of best-of-breed databases, apparently
02 Dec 16:01 | 4
Personal Tech
Four or so things we found interesting about Qualcomm's Snapdragon 888, its latest 5G chip for high-end Androids
Samsung 5nm, Cortex-X1, integrated... wait, let's not give it all away
02 Dec 15:00 | 18
Cloud
75% of databases to be cloud-hosted by 2022, says Gartner while dishing on the weak points of each provider
AWS 'reluctant to embrace a multicloud world' but Azure 'often more expensive than on-premises'
02 Dec 14:30 | 24
Software
Microsoft celebrates undead MS Paint with festive knitwear
Did someone mention multithreading?
02 Dec 13:46 | 22
Personal Tech
Sod Crysis, can the 21-year-old Power Mac G4 Cube run Minecraft? The answer is yes
But it's hacks all the way down
02 Dec 12:15 | 32
Software
Microsoft engineer thinking ahead? Troubleshooter doc for Active Directory references 'Florida Retirement System'
If you're mixing that up with File System Replication, maybe it is indeed time
02 Dec 10:27 | 9
Cloud
When it comes to taxing tech giants, America is out, France is in, Canada and Indonesia are going their own way
With Trump on the way out, 2021 is going to be digital levy a-go-go time
02 Dec 08:29 | 51
Cloud
Amazon’s cloudy Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own Mac
Other Mac hosts are rather cheaper. And Azure has had cloudy Macs for months. But AWS still has a play here
02 Dec 07:28 | 35
Cloud
EU, ASEAN trade bloc plan closer digital ties that could make China's Belt and Road offering look rather boring
New customs software that digitises internal trade was just the beginning
02 Dec 06:35 | 13
Artificial Intelligence
Don’t panic, but five jet drones just used their AI to chat and collaborate while in flight
The plan is to make one pilot more potent by having drones follow their lead
02 Dec 05:59 | 40
Virtualization
QEMU brings back its one-OS-a-day virtual advent calendar
Open source emulator wishes you a merry VM every day between now and Christmas
02 Dec 04:29 | 11
Emergent Tech
President Trump's rushed-through H-1B techie visa crackdown halted by federal judge
Super Cali goes ballistic, process was atrocious
02 Dec 02:33 | 47
Cloud
HPE to move HQ from Silicon Valley to Texas, says Lone Star State is 'attractive' for recruitment, retaining staff
Houston, we had a problem... in San Jose
02 Dec 00:41 | 55
Software
Salesforce to buy Slack for $28bn in cash, shares – and vows to make it the new face of Customer 360
If shareholders like the somewhat small-ish premium offered
01 Dec 23:25 | 28
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Cloud
'We've heard the feedback...' Microsoft 365 axes per-user productivity monitoring after privacy backlash
Redmond rips out usernames, says it will focus on customer orgs, not staffers
Science
Arecibo Observatory brings forward 'controlled demolition' plans by collapsing all by itself
Star of science and celluloid is no more
Cloud
Amazon’s cloudy Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own Mac
Other Mac hosts are rather cheaper. And Azure has had cloudy Macs for months. But AWS still has a play here
Software
OpenZFS v2.0.0 targets Linux and FreeBSD – shame about the Oracle licensing worries
Various enhancements but merging still a big no-no
Artificial Intelligence
Don’t panic, but five jet drones just used their AI to chat and collaborate while in flight
The plan is to make one pilot more potent by having drones follow their lead
Security
Ever had a bogus call from someone claiming to be the IRS? A tax scam ringleader just got sent down for 20 years
Hitesh Patel also faces $9m payback for defrauding thousands of US citizens
Emergent Tech
President Trump's rushed-through H-1B techie visa crackdown halted by federal judge
Super Cali goes ballistic, process was atrocious
Bootnotes
Scotch eggs ascend to the 'substantial meal' pantheon as means to pop to pub for a pint during pernicious pandemic
Meanwhile, landlord reckons he's found a loophole in coronavirus restrictions by naming beer 'Substantial Meal'
Personal Tech
Take Note: Samsung said to be thinking about killing off Galaxy phablet series
Flagships are falling out of favour while demand for cheap devices swells
Virtualization
QEMU brings back its one-OS-a-day virtual advent calendar
Open source emulator wishes you a merry VM every day between now and Christmas
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re:Invent
AWS boss calls for racial justice, slams enterprise rivals, unveils a raft of real and promised services
And we're only on week one of December's re:invent conference
01 Dec 22:31 | 17
Security
Ever had a bogus call from someone claiming to be the IRS? A tax scam ringleader just got sent down for 20 years
Hitesh Patel also faces $9m payback for defrauding thousands of US citizens
01 Dec 21:28 | 17
Sponsored
How the human immune system inspired a new approach to email security
AI excels at interpreting high volume, high velocity, complex data – which is just the ticket here
01 Dec 20:30 |
Cloud
'We've heard the feedback...' Microsoft 365 axes per-user productivity monitoring after privacy backlash
Redmond rips out usernames, says it will focus on customer orgs, not staffers
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