Simon Sharwood

Pro-China campaign targeted YouTube with AI avatars

Asia In Brief PLUS: Beijing wants ten-minute reporting of infosec incidents; Infosys CFO bails; TikTok's Indonesia comeback approved, for now

Security18 Dec 2023 | 9

Indian military ready to put long-range quantum key distribution on the line

Local startup can make it happen over 150km

Security15 Aug 2022 | 2

Apple says 2017 MacBooks don't have FlexGate defect. Aussie tribunal orders a fix anyway

Presiding officer was not impressed by Cupertino's arguments or behavior

Legal15 Aug 2022 | 73

India to revisit hardware incentives after struggling to move manufacturers out of China

Minister laments Dell, HPE and pals have the market locked up and little incentive to change

Systems08 Aug 2022 | 10

China allows robo taxis – without backup drivers – in parts of two major cities

Baidu gets the fare in Chongqing and Wuhan

AI + ML08 Aug 2022 | 22

Critical flaws found in four Cisco SMB router ranges – for the second time this year

At least Switchzilla thinks they're salvageable, unlike the boxes it ordered binned back in June

Security05 Aug 2022 | 14

Citrix adds Hypervisor Cloud to bring more and faster updates

Years after the company quit server virtualization, but may be handy for hybrid work

Virtualization05 Aug 2022 | 3

China's internet companies are decelerating cloud consumption, says Alibaba

Starts chasing industrial digitization as its next big opportunity

Off-Prem05 Aug 2022 | 4

GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash

Updated Now makes vague pledge to shove inactive repos into slow object storage

Devops05 Aug 2022 | 41

Obscure Asian fintech AMTD Digital becomes the new GameStop

Social media suspected as shares surge 20,000 percent and company admits there's no good explanation

Offbeat04 Aug 2022 | 16

UK Parliament bins its TikTok account over China surveillance fears

Plan to educate the children turned out to be a 'won't someone think of the children?' moment

Security04 Aug 2022 | 43

Financial exchange's efforts to replace core systems with blockchain founder – again

Accenture roped in to find the weakest link

Software04 Aug 2022 | 15

GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

Exclusive Hopes to save a quarter of hosting costs by binning repos that haven't been touched for a year

Devops04 Aug 2022 | 103

China's Xiaomi teases tech to control smart homes with brain waves

You'd wear a big clunky headband instead of invoking an assistant … why exactly?

Offbeat03 Aug 2022 | 14

Windows 11 comes to AWS EC2 as a VM import option

UEFI is sorted, but BYO licenses are required

Virtualization03 Aug 2022 |

Toyota's truck brand Hino admits faking and fudging emissions data for 20 years

Oh what a failing!

Legal03 Aug 2022 | 26

Nancy Pelosi ties Chinese cyber-attacks to need for Taiwan visit

And as if to confirm the link, a DDoS takes out Taiwan's presidential website ahead of senior politico's arrival

Security03 Aug 2022 | 113

Last week Intel killed Optane. Today, Kioxia and Everspin announced comparable tech

Rumors of storage-class memory's demise may have been premature

Storage02 Aug 2022 | 19

Chromebooks are here to stay thanks to COVID, even though shipments crashed: IDC

Tablet sales tumble, too – except at Amazon

Personal Tech02 Aug 2022 | 14

Tencent Cloud expands CDN using its own security tools

Cloudflare may well feel flattered by this offering

Off-Prem02 Aug 2022 |

Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years

Banks billions by making gear last even longer than AWS or Google

Off-Prem02 Aug 2022 | 24

Google: We had to shut down a datacenter to save it during London’s heatwave

Can't say what caused cooling failure, admits to re-routing traffic away from working resources

Off-Prem01 Aug 2022 | 46

Indonesia sparks outrage by blocking PayPal, gaming sites, for compliance oversight

Yahoo! was blocked too, but … meh

Legal01 Aug 2022 | 18

India signs local server-maker to build nodes for home-grown supercomputers

Local manufacturer to build modest kit for modestly sized supers

HPC01 Aug 2022 | 2

Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.19 – using Asahi on an Arm-powered Mac

Hails the combo as finally making Arm 'usable as a development platform'

OSes31 Jul 2022 | 49

VMware’s subscriptions start at 16 cores, prices won't be made public

Prepaid one-, three-, or five-year terms preferred for big bundles

Virtualization29 Jul 2022 | 29

Microsoft to offer app-store-like experience to distribute and update bespoke apps

Behold the mutant offspring of the Microsoft Store, Endpoint Manager, and Package Manager

Software29 Jul 2022 | 3

US court system suffered 'incredibly significant attack' – sealed files at risk

Effects still being felt today across US government

Security29 Jul 2022 | 15

China's IT minister under investigation for violating law

Xiao Yaqing had been steering China's chip industry

Legal29 Jul 2022 | 6

Google brings Street View back to India following 2016 ban

This time local companies provide the images and there's no mention of national security worries

Security28 Jul 2022 | 12

Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot'

Videos Our ancestors made tools from bones … so why not freeze a spider instead of 3D printing parts?

Science28 Jul 2022 | 121

Court allows Huawei India CEO to appeal travel ban

Allegations of financial impropriety continue to swirl

Legal28 Jul 2022 |

Philippines logs on to Starlink for remote area internet services

Comms ministry boss sees space as preferable to messing around with mountaintop builds

Networks28 Jul 2022 | 13

Chinese smartphone sales sink to levels not seen since 2012

Worse than during 2020's lockdowns and less than half 2016 sales

Personal Tech27 Jul 2022 | 7

IBM puts NIST’s quantum-resistant crypto to work in Z16 mainframe

Big Blue says it helped developed the algos, so knows what it's doing

Security27 Jul 2022 | 10

Vietnamese attacker circumvents Facebook security with ‘DUCKTAIL’ malware

Session cookies and 2FA subversion allow takeover of biz and ad accounts, lead to unauthorized ad buys

Research27 Jul 2022 | 8

Google Cloud growth slows, losses grow, bosses unworried

Server spend surges across Alphabet’s empire

Off-Prem27 Jul 2022 | 17

Meta proposes doing away with leap seconds

Are you not enough of a time thief already, Zuckerberg?

Off-Prem26 Jul 2022 | 115

Teradici re-emerges as 'HP Anyware' to replace ZCentral Remote Boost

Expect it to be bundled into managed desktop services from HP Inc.

Virtualization26 Jul 2022 | 2

Alibaba to upgrade its Hong Kong listing to parity with New York

And ponders more listings in China – the day after Beijing announces super-regulator for tech

Legal26 Jul 2022 | 2

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

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 | 55

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 |

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

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Pro-China campaign targeted YouTube with AI avatars

Indian military ready to put long-range quantum key distribution on the line

Apple says 2017 MacBooks don't have FlexGate defect. Aussie tribunal orders a fix anyway

Linux 6.0 debuts, missing some Rusty bits and a magic mushroom reference

After eleven-year wait, Atlassian customers promised custom domains in 2023

VMware offers cloudy upgrade lifeline to legacy vCenter users

Court voids 34,000 unfair Fuji Xerox contracts

Intel, Amazon, and SpaceX asked to tuck into DARPA's Space-BACN

SoftBank offloads part of Alibaba stake to raise much-needed cash

Microsoft joins India's monopoly-busting e-commerce multi-mart

Unity game engine attracts big cash from China's tech titans

Clouds lift Lenovo ISG to third consecutive profit

Iran cheerfully admits using cryptocurrency to pay for imports

Burger King just sent spam receipts to customers

Aussies crowdsource a business case for central bank digital currencies

Electrical explosion at Google datacenter injures three

Digital Ocean customers back away from blockchains

Chinese scammers target kids with promise of extra gaming hours

Google's ChromeOS Flex turned my old MacBook into new frustrations

India to revisit hardware incentives after struggling to move manufacturers out of China

China allows robo taxis – without backup drivers – in parts of two major cities

Critical flaws found in four Cisco SMB router ranges – for the second time this year

Citrix adds Hypervisor Cloud to bring more and faster updates

China's internet companies are decelerating cloud consumption, says Alibaba

GitLab U-turns on deleting dormant projects after backlash

Obscure Asian fintech AMTD Digital becomes the new GameStop

UK Parliament bins its TikTok account over China surveillance fears

Financial exchange's efforts to replace core systems with blockchain founder – again

GitLab plans to delete dormant projects in free accounts

China's Xiaomi teases tech to control smart homes with brain waves

Windows 11 comes to AWS EC2 as a VM import option

Toyota's truck brand Hino admits faking and fudging emissions data for 20 years

Nancy Pelosi ties Chinese cyber-attacks to need for Taiwan visit

Last week Intel killed Optane. Today, Kioxia and Everspin announced comparable tech

Chromebooks are here to stay thanks to COVID, even though shipments crashed: IDC

Tencent Cloud expands CDN using its own security tools

Microsoft extends life of cloud servers from four to six years

Google: We had to shut down a datacenter to save it during London’s heatwave

Indonesia sparks outrage by blocking PayPal, gaming sites, for compliance oversight

India signs local server-maker to build nodes for home-grown supercomputers

Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.19 – using Asahi on an Arm-powered Mac

VMware’s subscriptions start at 16 cores, prices won't be made public

Microsoft to offer app-store-like experience to distribute and update bespoke apps

US court system suffered 'incredibly significant attack' – sealed files at risk

China's IT minister under investigation for violating law

Google brings Street View back to India following 2016 ban

Scientists use dead spider as gripper for robot arm, label it a 'Necrobot'

Court allows Huawei India CEO to appeal travel ban

Philippines logs on to Starlink for remote area internet services

Chinese smartphone sales sink to levels not seen since 2012

IBM puts NIST’s quantum-resistant crypto to work in Z16 mainframe

Vietnamese attacker circumvents Facebook security with ‘DUCKTAIL’ malware

Google Cloud growth slows, losses grow, bosses unworried

Meta proposes doing away with leap seconds

Teradici re-emerges as 'HP Anyware' to replace ZCentral Remote Boost

Alibaba to upgrade its Hong Kong listing to parity with New York

Russian ChessBot breaks child opponent's finger

DARPA seeks portable muon-making machine to see through almost anything

South Korean regulator fears Meta's collecting too much data with revised T&Cs

AWS sales boss claims Microsoft's softened cloud licensing regime is a sham

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