Software
India awards apps that offer citizens Microsoft and Google alternatives
And bans future imports of much military tech
10 Aug 01:16 | 11
10th > August > 2020 Archive
On-Prem
VMware discontinues Datrium hardware and hyperconverged OS, effective immediately
No new orders, limited support options and a very sketchy roadmap
10 Aug 03:00 | 11
Personal Tech
Huawei running out of smartphone CPUs as US sanctions begin to bite
Chinese giant suggests current Kirin SoC could be last of its kind
10 Aug 05:02 | 21
Science
NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects
‘Horsehead Nebula’ is okay, ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’ is not
10 Aug 06:07 | 181
OSes
Google offers first part of its in-house M:N thread code as open source to Linux kernel
If this fine-grained thread control tech can run The Chocolate Factory, imagine it unleashed in Android
10 Aug 06:55 | 24
Who, Me?
You had one job... Just two lines of code, and now the customer's Inventory Master File has bitten the biscuit
You're so BASIC
10 Aug 07:15 | 123
Software
Programming pioneer Fran Allen dies aged 88 after a career of immense contributions to compilers
First woman to win the Turing Award and be made an IBM Fellow
10 Aug 07:56 | 11
On-Prem
As hospital-based infections set to rise, best not change the vendor behind the system that tracks them, hm?
Now's not the time for competition, says Public Health England
10 Aug 08:30 | 18
SaaS
With this Uber get-to-work-safe app, you are really spoiling us, ServiceNow
The. Defining. Enterprise. Software. Company. Of. The. 21st. Century
10 Aug 09:15 | 16
In brief
Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs
Plus: Sec wizard shows another way to pwn Mac users
10 Aug 10:04 | 41
On-Prem
Apple's at it again: Things go pear-shaped for meal planner app after iGiant opposes logo
It's all in the 'right-angled leaf', people
10 Aug 11:12 | 126
SaaS
Transport for London asks Capita to fling Congestion Charge system into the cloud
For that and other work, hard-pressed integrator cops 5-year £355m contract. What the worst that could happen?
10 Aug 12:17 | 25
DEF CON
Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks
Industry binning old aircraft is an opportunity for aviation infosec
10 Aug 14:01 | 95
Networks
Overbudget and behind schedule, UK's Emergency Services Network reaches 500th base station milestone
4G connectivity in bonny Glencoe, but clock on project deadline is ticking
10 Aug 15:24 | 12
Security
Brit bank Barclays probed amid claims bosses used high-tech to spy on staff, measure productivity
Now that's a stretch: 'Work Yoga' memo tells folks to ignore calls, emails to 'stay in the zone'
10 Aug 19:06 | 17
Personal Tech
We've reached the endgame: Bezos 'in talks' to turn shuttered department stores into Amazon warehouses
Gutted Sears, JC Penney locations could become 'fulfillment centers'
10 Aug 20:19 | 59
DEF CON
Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear
In-depth dive into protocols exposing countless gadgets to miscreants
10 Aug 21:28 | 29
Personal Tech
Publishers signed up to Apple's premium News may be less than 'appy to discover the iGiant snatching readers
Safari links redirected by default into Cupertino's walled garden
10 Aug 22:11 | 24
Servers
Super Cali COVID count is somewhat out of focus, server crash and expired cert makes numbers quite atrocious
Computer glitch followed by senior public health resignation in Golden State
10 Aug 23:41 | 28
Biting the hand that feeds IT
