Apple sent my data to the FBI, says boss of controversial research paper trove Sci-Hub
Former Sun boss Scott McNealy offers interesting response
17 May 2021 | 42
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Indonesian web giants Gojek and Tokopedia merge to create Asian super-app
Combine as ‘GoTo Group’, will represent two percent of GDP and say scale will help them grow
17 May 2021 | 1
Indian telcos giving away services as customers fear going outside to top up their accounts
Over 150 million people given freebies or generous top-up deals
17 May 2021 | 1
China signals dissatisfaction with gig economy impact on ride-share drivers
Also puts brakes on data collection by carmakers
17 May 2021 | 9
Chinese AI censors live-streamed Alpacas – beasts with a very NSFW and political back story
Be alert, not a-llam-ed
14 May 2021 | 15
Cloudflare launches campaign to ‘end the madness’ of CAPTCHAs
Poll Testing dongle-driven ‘Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood’ and WebAuthn as alternative
14 May 2021 | 103
Alibaba Cloud growth slows after mystery international customer - maybe ByteDance - quits over ‘non-product related’ factors
UPDATE First loss as a listed company thanks to Beijing’s $2.8bn antitrust fine
14 May 2021 |
Japan to start stamping out rubber stamps and tearing up faxes as new digital agency given Sept. 1 start date
'My Number' identifier to become central to myriad government services if the plan works
13 May 2021 | 48
Microsoft bins Azure Blockchain without explanation, gives users four months to move
Says picking a replacement is your next step. Seriously, that’s Redmond's first piece of advice. Eventually it recommends Quorum
13 May 2021 | 24
India’s vaccination-booking API criticised for excluding millions, containing bugs, and overflowing with elitism
It’s faulty, struggling to scale, lacks a dedicated privacy policy
13 May 2021 | 9
Elon Musk hits the brakes on taking Bitcoin for Tesla purchases
CEO wakes up to BTC's connection to coal, holds onto the stash until mining becomes more eco friendly
13 May 2021 | 98
Fibre Channel is still around. And now it's end-to-end at a sizzling-ish 64Gbit/s
Broadcom unveils an HBA to complete the set of seventh-gen kit
12 May 2021 | 5
Google gets into the international money transfer business, one-way out of the USA
India and Singapore are first destinations, teams with Western Union and Wise to target 200 nations
12 May 2021 | 15
Beijing twirls ban-hammer at 84 more apps it says need to stop slurping excess data
Online lending apps and more given fifteen days to ‘rectify’ behaviour
12 May 2021 | 7
South Korea orders urgent review of energy infrastructure cybersecurity
No prizes for guessing why, as Colonial Pipeline outage stretches patience and looks like lasting a week
12 May 2021 | 11
Intel throws sand in the face of 'musclebooks' with 10nm Tiger Lake tech
11th-gen Core H has nice new touches, but pitch is usual 'a new PC will be faster and smaller and lighter than an old PC' promise
11 May 2021 | 29
Samsung reveals DDR5 memory module that’s ready for Compute Express Link
Suggests terabyte-packing servers that move data at astounding speed aren’t far off
11 May 2021 | 8
China’s digital currency adds support for AliPay – the Alibaba payment app with over 700 million users
And just like that, the Digital Yuan has its route into the mainstream
11 May 2021 | 7
Indian government says 5G doesn’t cause COVID-19. Also points out India has no 5G networks
But won’t reveal who it wants banned from social media over less obvious disinformation
11 May 2021 | 23
Trend Micro hosted email service is down, inboxes still stuck in cloudy limbo
Blames spam filters for brownout, warns fix could be 'disruptive'
11 May 2021 | 5
Microsoft reveals what a growth mindset does to the letter ‘A’
Logowatch Azure icon gets the Fluid Design treatment
10 May 2021 | 21
‘Staggering’ cost of vintage Sun workstations sees OpenSolaris-fork Illumos drop SPARC support
Dev team doesn’t have necessary hardware, and even if they could afford it eBay is empty
10 May 2021 | 72
China to enforce social distancing on peak of Mount Everest
At least you won’t have to check in with a QR Code
10 May 2021 | 12
China’s top three telcos advise of imminent delisting from New York Stock Exchange
Trump-era Executive Order gets China Telecom, China Unicom, and China Mobile kicked off bourse
10 May 2021 | 5
