in Brief 'Anomalous surge in DNS queries' knocked Microsoft's cloud off the web last week Plus: Top universities hit by data-stealing extortionists 06 Apr 02:41 | 5
Networks Myanmar junta suspends all wireless broadband networks until further notice As night-time internet cut-offs stretch beyond 50 consecutive days 06 Apr 03:41 | 4
Off-Prem Subaru parks plans to make 58,000 cars due to brakes on silicon supply chain Workers to get earlier, longer, holiday, probably paid (fingers crossed) 06 Apr 04:57 | 21
Legal Australian ponders requiring multiple IDs to sign up for social media, plus more crypto-busting backdoors Yes, this could mean Zuck gets your passport and credit card. We’re sure he’ll take care of them properly … 06 Apr 05:55 | 100
In Brief Twitter nukes AI-generated twits who backed Amazon and pushed anti-union rhetoric Plus: Waymo CEO is standing down, Volvo is partnering with a self-driving startup to stay relevant 06 Apr 06:33 | 20
Virtualization VMware adds support for 80-core Ampere Altra chips to its experimental Arm hypervisor The ‘we think this is mostly for SmartNICs’ stance is looking a little thinner 06 Apr 06:59 | 2
Software Japan tests digital currency, because all the cool kids are doing it already Starts year-long proof of concept for the basics, meanwhile China is already testing cross-border crypto-payments 06 Apr 08:15 | 13
Column Yep, the 'Who owns Linux?' case is back from the dead Not to worry, zombies with a gambling addiction probably won't eat your enterprise brains 06 Apr 08:45 | 107
Science CERN boffins zap antimatter with ultraviolet lasers in the hope of revealing the secret symmetry of the universe If you can't measure it, you can't research it 06 Apr 09:45 | 73
Bootnotes Is that... is that a piece of Unikitty? Remembering Skylab via the medium of Lego Now to recreate re-entry with a short drop onto a hard floor 06 Apr 10:32 | 13
Applications Another SAP in the face for Oracle: Alphabet soups up financial software by moving off Big Red systems Nothing to do with THAT court case or lack of Oracle certification on GCP. Nope. Definitely not 06 Apr 12:22 | 17
Security Their 'next job could be in cyber': UK Cyber Security Council launches itself by pointing world+dog to domain it doesn't own Shouting cyber cyber cyber, mega mega fail thing 06 Apr 13:50 | 110
Servers Ice Lake, Baby: Intel's 10nm 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable server processors to arrive at last Stop, collaborate and listen, Chipzilla's back with its brand new invention 06 Apr 15:00 | 24
Software They said it'd never happen, but here we are in the year of our Lord 2021 and Microsoft has its own OpenJDK flavour Timing is everything 06 Apr 15:45 | 8
Software The JavaScript ecosystem is 'hopelessly fragmented'... so here is another runtime: Deno is now a company Would-be Node.js successor gets $5m cash injection 06 Apr 16:41 | 34
SaaS Think tank report names and shames 'stakeholder capitalist' Salesforce for paying no corporate income tax in the US 'Improving the state of the world'... by not paying the government 06 Apr 18:58 | 36
Personal Tech Sitting idle while global chips fry: US car industry asks Biden to earmark cash for automotive semiconductors Forget smartphones – whaddabout motors? 06 Apr 19:56 | 14
Security SAP: It takes exploit devs about 72 hours to turn one of our security patches into a weapon against customers So please don't delay in applying updates, says, well, everyone 06 Apr 21:04 | 17
On-Prem Imagine your data center backup generator kicks in during power outage ... and catches fire. Well, it happened WebNX facility falls offline in blaze, takes customers down with it 06 Apr 22:30 | 119