Breaching China's Great Firewall is hard. Pushing packets faster than 1Mbps once through is the Boss Fight
Network boffin finds packets headed into China go AWOL yet packets coming out do just fine
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Microsoft nudges latest TypeScript iteration out onto the mean streets of JavaScript
Alright! Variadic tuple types
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We've heard some made-up stories but this is ridiculous: Microsoft Flight Simulator, Bing erect huge skyscraper out of bad data
Normally, Windows has plenty of bugs. This bug has plenty of windows
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Microsoft's Azure Cosmos DB dips toe in serverless waters with pay-as-you-go preview
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Putting the d'oh! In Adobe: 'Years of photos' permanently wiped from iPhones, iPads by bad Lightroom app update
Sorry we nuked your data with a bad update, here's another update to fix it!
21 Aug 05:06 |
Software
India anoints little-known Zoom clone as its home-grown videoconf tool of choice
Alappuzha's Techgentsia Software has a golden ticket for government work
21 Aug 04:24 |
Science
Tired: Cheap space launch outfits. Wired: Software-and-data-as-a-service for cheap space launch outfits
Japan’s iSpace has put itself in the second column but also plans lunar landers of its own
21 Aug 02:57 |
Cloud
Alibaba and its cloud are growing like a weed, but the cloud is losing money
‘Fluid situation’ with USA not overly worrying CEO, who says company will comply with any new rules
21 Aug 01:56 |
Science
Space station update: Mystery tiny but growing air leak sparks search for hole
Terror at 1,340,000 feet – if this was anything to truly worry about right now
21 Aug 00:45 | 5
Cloud
What legacy is IBM really shooting for? Cheating its own salespeople out of millions? Here we go again, allegedly
Big Blue insists commission 'adjustments' aren't caps
20 Aug 23:58 | 2
Security
Ex-Uber chief security officer charged, accused of covering up theft of personal info from databases by hackers
Say it ain't Joe?
20 Aug 23:27 | 4
Personal Tech
Reap it in the family: Four brothers accused of cheating Amazon out of $19m in wholesaler fraud caper
Homeland Security swoops on quad who allegedly committed worst US crime of all: Defrauding Big Business
20 Aug 21:49 | 9
Personal Tech
That's ride on time: Lyft, Uber to continue taxi app service in Cali after appeals court hits pause on AB5 brouhaha
Fight over driver employment rights to rumble into October amid threats to pull plug on Golden State
20 Aug 20:37 | 4
Bootnotes
We've heard some made-up stories but this is ridiculous: Microsoft Flight Simulator, Bing erect huge skyscraper out of bad data
Normally, Windows has plenty of bugs. This bug has plenty of windows
20 Aug 19:26 | 16
Personal Tech
iFixit horses around with Galaxy Note 20 Ultra 5G to discover glue in abundance
Something to consider if you splash out on Samsung's new hotness
20 Aug 17:59 | 5
Prometheus, isn’t it? CNCF rounds off community shindig by slipping Thanos and Cortex into incubator
For data scoffers: Elastic slings workplace search into free tier, trials query language, flexible ingestion
TensorFlow Lite pulls throttle, adds speed as it puts OpenCL in the sidecar
In a new foundation we trust: Rust programming language to continue under fresh org
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Software
Microsoft nudges latest TypeScript iteration out onto the mean streets of JavaScript
Alright! Variadic tuple types
20 Aug 16:00 | 6
Security
Experian says it recovered and deleted data on 24 million South Africans after giving it to random 'marketing' person
Credit giant admits to handing over info after 'fraudulent data enquiry'
20 Aug 15:20 | 8
DevOps
Microsoft's Azure Cosmos DB dips toe in serverless waters with pay-as-you-go preview
You're only billed for what you use, so keep an eye on those numbers, OK?
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Bunch of mugs keep risking life and limb to 'crockery bomb' sad little roundabout
Highways England seems to be losing the war
20 Aug 13:44 | 32
Networks
They're 'clean': SoftBank gets thumbs-up from Uncle Sam for keeping Chinese gear off its Japanese 5G network
Seal of approval handed out for supply chain security in various tech sectors
20 Aug 12:58 | 12
Security
Warehouse management software biz SnapFulfil hit by ransomware: It's not just the big dogs getting KO'd
I get knocked down, but I get up again... eventually
20 Aug 12:00 | 3
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Aw, Snap! But you should see the other guy – they're in dire need of a good file system consistency check
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20 Aug 10:58 | 23
Security
Sloppy string sanitization sabotages system security of millions of Java-powered 3G IoT kit: Patch me if you can
IBM's X-Force Red X-reveals X-flaw in Thales X-wireless X-module X-thing
20 Aug 10:02 | 8
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Worldwide Google services – from GCP to G Suite – hit with the outage stick
Not all users affected, but it's not a great start. Oh and Slack's out too. Good morning everyone
20 Aug 09:18 | 17
Reader research
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20 Aug 08:06 | 35
Personal Tech
Global network controlled by erratic billionaire Qracks down on Qanon Qranks
We’re talking about Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg here, so the crackdown has cracks
20 Aug 07:27 | 21
Data Centre
Marketing: Wow, that LD8 data centre outage was crazy bad. Still, can't get worse, can it? Finance: HOLD MY BEER
Outraged outage-struck Equinix customer billed for dead rack check
20 Aug 07:01 | 24
Networks
Breaching China's Great Firewall is hard. Pushing packets faster than 1Mbps once through is the Boss Fight
Network boffin finds packets headed into China go AWOL yet packets coming out do just fine
20 Aug 06:29 | 12
Networks
Nominet promises .uk owners it'll listen to feedback on plan to award itself millions... as long as it agrees with it
We haven’t made up our mind, registry claims, we just won’t accept changes
20 Aug 06:06 | 27
Networks
Brocade's SDN spinout Lumina Networks to shut down in an orderly fashion
OpenDaylight-based vendor says proprietary networking is still winning and bemoans lack of VC support
20 Aug 05:02 |
Data Centre
Nvidia's data centre biz tops gaming as lead revenue source – and it should enjoy being king while it lasts
Buying Mellanox has paid off, gamers are still the bigger prize
20 Aug 04:02 | 3
Personal Tech
Taiwan turfs out video streamers run by China’s web giants
On regulatory grounds, but it’s hard not to chalk this up as more anti-China action
20 Aug 02:58 | 11
Emergent Tech
China testing digital currency, but rollout looks to be slipping
Aim is for tap-to-pay experience to replace cash, but with bonus pervasive surveillance
20 Aug 02:05 | 6
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Good news: NASA boffins spot closest near-Earth asteroid ever. Bad news: We never saw it coming. Good news: It's also really small
Thing was the size of a car, moved at 12km/sec, missed us by just 2,950km
Bork!Bork!Bork!
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Failing in Falkirk
Bootnotes
Ex-Apple engineer lifts lid on Uncle Sam's top-secret plan to turn customized iPod into 'Geiger counter'
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Personal Tech
Whoa-o BlackBerry, bam-ba-lam: QWERTY phone had a child. 5G thing's newly styled
New licensor's clean-sheet keyboard design better be good, as analyst notes: 'The mobile business has never been harder'
Software
Better Java than Java: Kotlin 1.4 introduces new compilers for JVM and JavaScript
JetBrains works on improving language for cross-platform targets
Security
Pretty wild that a malicious mailto: link might attach your secret keys and files from your PC to an outgoing message
Some OpenPGP, S/MIME-capable email clients vulnerable to attack
Security
Floating COVID incubation tank becomes data-leaking ransomware rustbucket: Carnival admits crims made off with personal data booty
Plus: Cali uni that paid $1.4m to crims had decent backup software, but they didn't use it on the affected systems
Security
Thanks for the memories... now pay up or else: Maze ransomware crew claims to have hacked SK hynix, leaks '5% of stolen files'
More expected to leak unless extortionists are paid off
Software
SQLite maximum database size increased to 281TB – but will anyone need one that big?
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Cloud
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Security
Thanks for the memories... now pay up or else: Maze ransomware crew claims to have hacked SK hynix, leaks '5% of stolen files'
More expected to leak unless extortionists are paid off
20 Aug 00:27 | 11
Emergent Tech
You there. Person, corp, state. Doesn't matter. You better not shoot down or hack a drone. That's our job – US govt
DoJ, FAA, FCC, Homeland Security warning highlights legal mess
19 Aug 22:21 | 31
Networks
FCC: Remember that confidential paperwork you gave us, China Telecom? Yeah, well, we're handing it over to the Feds
Chinese telco's pleas to not be booted out of America will be passed to prosecutors
19 Aug 21:29 | 9
Software
C++ still rules the Chromium roost though Rust has caught our eye, say browser devs
Chrome engineers experiment with memory-safe language in software that really ought to be memory safe
19 Aug 20:01 | 35
Storage
Backup a sec – is hard drive reliability improving? Annual failure rate from Backblaze comes in at its lowest yet
HGST drives fared best, but vendor was snaffled by Western Digital
19 Aug 17:52 | 42
Personal Tech
While the world pushes back against COVID-19, Facebook has a pandemic of a different sort – medical misinformation
And antisocial network's efforts to stop spread aren't working, says Avaaz
19 Aug 16:42 | 35
Internet of Things
MediaTek pings Italy with '5G' Internet-of-Things data beam from geostationary satellite 35,000 kilometres up
That's a spicy meatball
19 Aug 15:33 | 11
Emergent Tech
Not now, Gartner. We've had enough of the future to last a lifetime: Meet 'Formative AI' and 'Algorithmic Trust'
You can call me Al
19 Aug 14:29 | 23
Software
Better Java than Java: Kotlin 1.4 introduces new compilers for JVM and JavaScript
JetBrains works on improving language for cross-platform targets
19 Aug 13:23 | 12
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Someone please have mercy on this poorly Ubuntu parking machine that has been force-fed maudlin autotuned tripe
Failing in Falkirk
19 Aug 12:39 | 36
Personal Tech
Whoa-o BlackBerry, bam-ba-lam: QWERTY phone had a child. 5G thing's newly styled
New licensor's clean-sheet keyboard design better be good, as analyst notes: 'The mobile business has never been harder'
19 Aug 12:01 | 45
Bootnotes
'Get out of my office, you're being a pest!' Yes, son. Toymaker releases work-from-home-themed play sets
Is this gonna be forever?
19 Aug 11:15 | 43
