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Give 'em SSPL, says Elastic. No thanks, say critics: 'Doubling down on open' not open at all
Open source users warn adoption of copyleft licence could make use of Elasticsearch, Kibana a business risk
Software
Plans for Entity Framework Core 6.0 revealed as Microsoft admits it is unlikely to match Dapper for performance
Redmond wants to improve key database library, but then why not just use Dapper?
Column
The hour grows late, the enemy are at the gates... but could Intel's exiled heir apparent ride to the rescue?
Pat Gelsinger returning to Chipzilla as CEO is another extraordinary stroke of luck for the company
Software
Barbs exchanged over Linux for M1 Silicon ... lest Apple's lawyers lie in wait
DMs at dawn
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Personal Tech
Indian government slams Facebook over WhatsApp 'privacy' update, wants its own Europe-style opt-out switch
Nation's IT ministry wants what Brussels is having
19 Jan 23:57 |
DevOps
Over long US weekend, GitHub HR boss quit after firing Jewish staffer who warned Nazis were at the Capitol
Microsoft-owned code silo admits 'significant errors of judgment and procedure'
19 Jan 22:56 | 2
Software
If my calculations are correct, when Google Chrome hits version 88, you're gonna see some serious... security
Manifest v3 in stable channel release plus JavaScript timer throttling, security fixes
19 Jan 22:01 |
Security
FireEye publishes details of SolarWinds hacking techniques, gives out free tool to detect signs of intrusion
Instructions for spotting and keeping suspected Russians out of systems
19 Jan 20:42 | 5
Science
Engineers blame 'intentionally conservative' test parameters for premature end to Space Launch System hotfire
'If this scenario occurred during a flight, the rocket would have continued to fly'
19 Jan 18:35 | 17
Cloud
Citrix must Wrike what it sees because it's buying project management outfit for $2.25bn
No longer a corpo behemoth holdout
19 Jan 17:45 |
Personal Tech
Brave bets on the decentralized web with IPFS browser support for a more peer-to-peer approach
Peer-to-peer protocol promises availability and resilience, but awaits proof of speed and resource thrift
19 Jan 17:00 | 3
Software
Microsoft claims to have 200 million education users as it pushes new hardware and updated Classroom Pen
Stop sniggering at the back! Today's lesson: Actually getting Teams working – aye, Scotland?
19 Jan 15:50 | 5
Sick of K8s yet? Good, Engine Yard and Hitachi also offer Kubernetes services now
SQL Server temporal tables and JSON columns: Entity Framework Core 6.0 plans laid bare
HashiCorp adds some flourish to managed offering and Terraform portfolio
Elastic restitches its licensing model to account for ‘changed circumstances’
Software
Plans for Entity Framework Core 6.0 revealed as Microsoft admits it is unlikely to match Dapper for performance
Redmond wants to improve key database library, but then why not just use Dapper?
19 Jan 15:05 | 7
Personal Tech
Samsung tones down sticky stuff in the Galaxy S21 series, simplifying repairs massively
Glue you! Well not anymore. Early signs are positive ahead of launch, but it's not without issues
19 Jan 13:31 | 11
Software
Barbs exchanged over Linux for M1 Silicon ... lest Apple's lawyers lie in wait
DMs at dawn
19 Jan 11:48 | 22
Bootnotes
Looking for something on which to spend all that bonus Bitcoin? How about The Hoff's very own KITT?
Back when AI meant William Daniels behind the dashboard
19 Jan 11:05 | 26
Updated
Police drone plunged 70ft into pond after operator mashed pop-up that was actually the emergency cut-out button
Another unfortunate UAV episode for Sussex cops
19 Jan 10:20 | 102
Updated
AnyVan confirms digital break-in, says customer names, emails and hashed passwords exposed
Burglary took place 3 months before biz discovered unauthorised entry
19 Jan 08:45 | 17
Updated
Give 'em SSPL, says Elastic. No thanks, say critics: 'Doubling down on open' not open at all
Open source users warn adoption of copyleft licence could make use of Elasticsearch, Kibana a business risk
18 Jan 19:17 | 20
Security
Scottish Environment Protection Agency refuses to pay ransomware crooks over 1.2GB of stolen data
Which is exactly what you should do
18 Jan 18:35 | 59
Science
Debut firing of NASA's Space Launch System core stage cut short following 'Major Component Failure'
This is why we test
18 Jan 17:48 | 27
Security
Bye bye, said Trump admin to Huawei: You give a cheque-ie to our techies, but there's no licence to ply
And them good ol' boys revokin' sanction to buy, singin', 'Soon will come the day that we fly'
18 Jan 17:00 | 38
Webcast
How can you flip your software delivery ops from own goals to meaningful goals?
Tune in and we'll take you from benchmarking to insight
18 Jan 16:15 |
Cloud
Euro cloud slingers fight for niches on their own doorstep as AWS, Microsoft and Google inhale market share
Just 16% of cloud spending in Q3 went to local tech services shops, says analyst
18 Jan 15:31 | 21
Software
AWS is creating a 'new open source design system' with React
No documentation yet, but big ambitions for UI components tailored for AWS services
18 Jan 14:44 | 8
Business
Heir today, in the slammer tomorrow: Samsung head honcho Lee Jae-Yong back in jail on bribery charges
Only been out 2 years
18 Jan 14:01 | 1
Storage
150,000 lost UK police records looking more like 400,000 as Home Office continues to blame 'human error'
That technical issue the department said it had fixed? It didn't exist
18 Jan 13:15 | 132
In brief
Microsoft updates Dev Channel Windows 10, breaks Arm x64 emulation
Also: Departures from Redmond, going big with Surface Hub, and celebrating third place
18 Jan 12:28 | 1
Policy
Back to the office with you: 'Perhaps 5 days is too much family time' – Workday CEO
Zoom is great for status update meetings, says big cheese, but as for inspiring a workforce...
18 Jan 11:30 | 127
In brief
US gov sets up the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Office at the last minute before Trump's presidency ends
Plus: Google trains 1.6-trillion-parameter AI model, popular software used for job screenings scraps facial-recognition feature
18 Jan 10:32 | 29
Column
The hour grows late, the enemy are at the gates... but could Intel's exiled heir apparent ride to the rescue?
Pat Gelsinger returning to Chipzilla as CEO is another extraordinary stroke of luck for the company
18 Jan 09:30 | 51
Who, Me?
Two clichés, one headline: 'No good deed goes unpunished' and 'It's always DNS'
Oh good, you fixed it. Now, if you could just put your head on that plate...
18 Jan 08:15 | 73
In brief
Hallowed Bugtraq infosec list killed then resurrected over the weekend: We heard your feedback, says Accenture
Plus: Watch out for NTFS-corrupting folder, Mimecast hack, and more
18 Jan 07:05 | 8
Personal Tech
Facebook tells Portuguese court that a biz called Oink And Stuff makes profile-harvesting browser extensions
Not a machine-generated headline, we swear
17 Jan 08:42 | 29
Emergent Tech
Hollywood drone pilot admits he crashed gizmo into cop chopper, triggering emergency landing
Idiot faces up to a year in the cooler after FBI tracks him down from SD card found in prang wreckage
16 Jan 11:09 | 126
Personal Tech
Apple reportedly planning to revive the MagSafe charging standard with the next lot of MacBook Pros
While the Touch Bar is to be banished
15 Jan 23:07 | 103
Software
Wine pops cork on version 6.0 of the Windows compatibility layer for *nix systems
We'll drink to that
15 Jan 21:59 | 35
Policy
Xiaomi hit by US sanctions: Can't list on stock exchanges and investors can't invest
Parting shot by Trump – but 'bi-partisan' push against China will continue, says analyst
15 Jan 21:02 | 26
Science
NASA pulls the plug on InSight's mole after Martian surface bests boffins
A blue day on the Red Planet
15 Jan 20:06 | 44
Updated
Signal boost: Secure chat app is wobbly at the moment. Not surprising after gaining 30m+ users in a week, though
Install base explodes following WhatsApp 'privacy' update, Musk endorsement
15 Jan 19:30 | 116
Interview
20 years of Drupal: Founder Dries Buytaert on API first, the end of breaking compatibility, and JavaScript bloat
Commercial involvement in open source is essential, says CMS boss
15 Jan 18:12 | 6
Cloud
Epic Games files competition lawsuit against Google in the UK over Fortnite's ejection from Play Store
Epic by name, epic (lawsuit) by nature
15 Jan 17:19 | 45
Software
SAP offers mixed preliminary results at the 'top end' of its downwardly revised outlook
Uphill battle shifting business applications to the cloud laid bare
15 Jan 16:24 | 1
Business
Dell CTO shares his hottest trends for 2021: Four interesting technologies, one of which is still borderline sci-fi for now
Spoiler: It's quantum. And who knew? 5G isn't for the peasants
15 Jan 14:15 | 21
Cloud
IBM still spending its way to cloud relevance with Taos purchase
Hybrid? Multi-cloud? Big Blue has a consultant for that
15 Jan 13:10 | 6
Storage
Dratted 'housekeeping', eh? 150k+ records deleted off UK’s Police National Computer database
This has got to be the Who Me? story of all time...
15 Jan 12:09 | 99
