Nvidia shares tumble as China lockdown, Russia blamed for dent in outlook Sure, stonking server and gaming sales, but hiring and expenses to slow down, too AI + ML26 May 2022 | 1
As Microsoft's $70b takeover of Activision nears, workers step up their organizing This week: Subsidiary's QA staff officially unionize, $18m settlement disputed, and more Personal Tech26 May 2022 | 3
Mitsubishi Electric again admits to widespread quality control cheating Nifty slogan and more software suggested as the rectification Legal26 May 2022 | 12
Ransomware grounds some flights at Indian budget airline SpiceJet Incident comes a week after 'SAP glitch' kept some planes on the taxiway Cyber-crime26 May 2022 | 5
UK opens national security probe into 2021 sale of local wafer fab to Chinese company Government has power to unwind transactions such as sale of Newport facility to China-controlled Nexperia Legal26 May 2022 | 40
Ex-spymaster and fellow Brexiteers' emails leaked by suspected Russian op A 'Very English Coop (sic) d'Etat' Research26 May 2022 | 166
Broadcom buying VMware could create an edge infrastructure and IoT empire Comment Hypervisor giant too big to be kept ticking over like CA or Symantec. Instead it can wrangle net-connected kit Edge + IoT26 May 2022 | 9
Suspected phishing email crime boss cuffed in Nigeria Interpol, cops swoop with intel from cybersecurity bods Cyber-crime26 May 2022 | 7
Internet went offline in Pakistan as protestors marched for ousted prime minister Two hour outage 'consistent with an intentional disruption to service' said NetBlocks Networks26 May 2022 | 1
UK government having hard time complying with its own IR35 tax rules This shouldn't come as much of a surprise if you've been reading the headlines at all On-Prem26 May 2022 | 29
Slack-for-engineers Mattermost on open source and data sovereignty Interview Control and access are becoming a hot button for orgs Networks26 May 2022 | 1
Verizon: Ransomware sees biggest jump in five years We're only here for DBIRs Research26 May 2022 | 6
Minimal, systemd-free Alpine Linux releases version 3.16 A widespread distro that many of its users don't even know they have OSes26 May 2022 | 46
UK government reviewing stake in BT owned by French tycoon Patrick Drahi First use of National Security and Investment Act powers as Altice owner looks poised to increase stake further Networks26 May 2022 | 17
Elon Musk needs more cash for Twitter buy after Tesla margin loan lapses Entrepreneur now looking at $33.5b bill if he wants to complete $44b purchase Networks26 May 2022 | 49
'Sharp' chip inventory correction looms on horizon, warns investment banker Double ordering, overheating of semiconductor sector, inflation, growing stockpiles = trouble ahead Systems26 May 2022 | 16
Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 splashes down on Win Server 2022 I don't think it's going to happen, I don't think it's going to happen... It happened Software26 May 2022 | 7
Campaigners warn of legal challenge against Privacy Shield enhancements Schrems III on the cards unless negotiators protect better oversight of US data access requests Security26 May 2022 | 21
Perl Steering Council lays out a backwards compatible future for Perl 7 Sensibly written code only, please. Plus: what all those 'heated discussions' were about Devops26 May 2022 | 42
Confirmed: Broadcom, VMware agree to $61b merger Unless anyone out there can make a better offer. Oh, Elon? Virtualization26 May 2022 | 12
Amazon investors nuke proposed ethics overhaul and say yes to $212m CEO pay Workplace safety, labor organizing, sustainability and, um, wage 'fairness' all struck down in vote Off-Prem26 May 2022 | 89
Snowflake stock drops as some top customers cut usage You might say its valuation is melting away Storage26 May 2022 | 3
Twitter founder Dorsey beats hasty retweet from the board As shareholders sue the social network amid Elon Musk's takeover scramble Personal Tech26 May 2022 | 13
Cheers ransomware hits VMware ESXi systems Now we can say extortionware has jumped the shark Research26 May 2022 | 3
New York City rips out last city-owned public payphones Y'know, those large cellphones fixed in place that you share with everyone and have to put coins in. Y'know, those metal disks representing... Bootnotes26 May 2022 | 33
Microsoft Azure to spin up AMD MI200 GPU clusters for 'large scale' AI training Microsoft Build Windows giant carries a PyTorch for chip designer and its rival Nvidia AI + ML26 May 2022 |
Ransomware encrypts files, demands three good deeds to restore data Shut up and take ... poor kids to KFC? Research26 May 2022 | 16