AWS sales boss claims Microsoft's softened cloud licensing regime is a sham Claims Redmond still prices rivals out of the market even after allowances for Euro-clouds Off-Prem25 Jul 2022 | 12
South Korean regulator fears Meta's collecting too much data with revised T&Cs Probes to see if Facebook and Insta could operate with less info than required by revised legalese Legal25 Jul 2022 |
DARPA seeks portable muon-making machine to see through almost anything We currently make muons at CERN, so this is quite the miniaturization job Science25 Jul 2022 | 54
India's big four services giants bemoan rising labor costs Business is good at TCS, Wipro, Infosys and HCL – but margin pressure and staff attrition are big problems Channel25 Jul 2022 | 24
Russian ChessBot breaks child opponent's finger But don't get all 'Rise of the Machines' on this one – Russian media says the 'bot has played for years without problems AI + ML25 Jul 2022 | 60
A character catastrophe for a joker working his last day Who, Me? Or: How to give 1,000 workers an extended lunchbreak On-Prem25 Jul 2022 | 128
Intel bags deal to make chips for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer This will be the x86 giant's first major foundry customer On-Prem25 Jul 2022 | 4
Browsers could face two regimes in Europe as UK law set to diverge from EU British government wants to boost innovation but lawyers warn of risk to adequacy ruling Legal25 Jul 2022 | 128
Honor moving team out of India for 'obvious reasons,' says CEO Small market share there anyway or Indian regulatory crackdown? Personal Tech25 Jul 2022 | 3
Infosec not your job but your responsibility? How to be smarter than the average bear Opinion Many of last week's security stories tell the same tale Security25 Jul 2022 | 20
Intel’s smartNICs probably aren’t for you (yet) says Intel 'Right now, the focus is on the super-high volume' Networks25 Jul 2022 | 6
Price, lead times and scarcity of fiber optics may derail projects Cost of optical cable more than doubles in 16 months as demand goes through roof Networks25 Jul 2022 | 9
Oracle to hike support fees in line with inflation US looks forward to 8% increase while consumer prices spike around the globe Applications25 Jul 2022 | 15
Couldn't connect to West Europe SQL Databases last week? Blame operator error Clouds form over PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer) PaaS + IaaS25 Jul 2022 | 5
Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone Known Issue Rollback for affected Windows 11 users OSes25 Jul 2022 | 39
DoJ approves Google's acquisition of Mandiant In Brief Plus: Ukrainian fake news and Uber admits covering up data breach Security25 Jul 2022 | 2
Upgrading what might be the world's oldest running Linux install If you use Putty, there's a good chance you've visited Chiark OSes25 Jul 2022 | 71
Aviation body wants views on rocket plans of Virgin Orbit The race for first space launch from UK soil (or airspace) continues Science25 Jul 2022 | 11
Apple v Chicago streaming service tax battle ends in hushed settlement A 9% levy on content slingers will stand in The Windy City – are others next? Personal Tech25 Jul 2022 | 9
Cyber-mercenaries for hire represent shifting criminal business model Emerging threat group offers a broad range of attack services Security25 Jul 2022 | 9
Japanese space agency to put massive HPC cloud to the test If only we'd had this kind of compute before we launched Hubble HPC25 Jul 2022 |
Chinese chipmaker workers told to sleep at their factories 'Closed loop' ordered to keep fabs and manufacturing plants running amid COVID-19 outbreaks On-Prem25 Jul 2022 | 22
After config error takes down Rogers, it promises to spend billions on reliability Routers flooded with internet traffic in filter blunder, watchdog told Networks25 Jul 2022 | 20
Twitter launches probe after miscreants claim to have swiped 5.4m users' details And yes, Musk is back in the headlines, denying another affair Cyber-crime25 Jul 2022 | 8
T-Mobile US to cough up $550m after info stolen on 77m customers Oops, did the Un-carrier under-count by 29m punters? CSO25 Jul 2022 | 8
Node.js prototype pollution is bad for your app environment Boffins find common code constructs that may be exploitable to achieve remote code execution Research25 Jul 2022 | 5
Fedora sours on Creative Commons 'No Rights Reserved' license Lack of patent rights waiver in CC0 cited as problematic OSes25 Jul 2022 | 19