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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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
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
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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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 | 3
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 |
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 | 2
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 | 2
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 | 9
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 | 1
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 | 16
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 | 9
Software
Microsoft celebrates undead MS Paint with festive knitwear
Did someone mention multithreading?
02 Dec 13:46 | 20
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 | 31
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 | 8
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 | 38
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 | 34
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 | 12
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 | 37
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 | 7
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 | 43
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 | 49
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 | 25
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 | 18
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
01 Dec 19:57 | 60
Not reinventing the wheel: AWS debuts its own K8s distro, looks to make ML more accessible
Icinga for Windows v1.3 experiments with code cache, improves testing
Weaveworks makes push for GitOps anywhere with WKP 2.4 release
Pip gets disruptive in 20.3 release, while SymPy looks for enhanced usability
Science
China's Chang'e-5 lands on the Moon to scratch surface
Mission aims to bring home 2kg of stones and soil from up to 2m down
01 Dec 18:30 | 43
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
01 Dec 17:45 | 24
Science
Arecibo Observatory brings forward 'controlled demolition' plans by collapsing all by itself
Star of science and celluloid is no more
01 Dec 17:00 | 122
Cloud
Zoom records another bumper quarter as pandemic rumbles on, but Wall Street types quiz execs on how long it can last
Though COVID-19 vaccine coming, video chat is here to stay, claims chief bean counter
01 Dec 16:10 | 6
Software
OpenZFS v2.0.0 targets Linux and FreeBSD – shame about the Oracle licensing worries
Various enhancements but merging still a big no-no
01 Dec 15:25 | 44
Security
As if Productivity Score wasn't creepy enough, Microsoft has patented tech for 'meeting quality monitoring devices'
Speech patterns consistent with boredom?! Minus 10 points!
01 Dec 14:30 | 20
Software
Are You Experienced? Microsoft packs up features developed independent of OS to flash at Windows Insiders
Windows Feature Experience Pack attempts to make beast more modular
01 Dec 13:01 | 6
Analysis
Supreme Court mulls whether a cop looking up a license plate for cash is equivalent to watching Instagram at work
America's outdated Computer Fraud and Abuse Act gets a roasting
01 Dec 12:16 | 57
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Cayman Islands investment fund left entire filestore viewable by world+dog in unsecured Azure blob
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Six months after Oracle trumpeted Zoom as a cloud customer, AWS says it is Zoom’s ‘preferred’ cloud
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Amazon’s cloudy Macs cost $25.99 a day. 77 days of usage would buy you your own Mac
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