The trendline doesn’t look good for hard disk drives
Feature Sales of HDDs to non-hyperscale outfits increasingly rare, say analysts
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Lenovo thought it could surf geopolitics, until Trump's sudden tariff changes
Worries about uncertainty, even as AI pushes revenue and profit higher
On-Prem23 May 2025 | 29
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
Linux 6.0 debuts, missing some Rusty bits and a magic mushroom reference
Don't read the diffstat too closely, says Linus Torvalds – it's mostly another massive AMD update
OSes15 Aug 2022 | 16
After eleven-year wait, Atlassian customers promised custom domains in 2023
Updated Some got so cranky waiting they made a t-shirt celebrating the 'CLOUD-6999' Jira ticket
SaaS12 Aug 2022 | 14
VMware offers cloudy upgrade lifeline to legacy vCenter users
But warns 'upcoming major release of vSphere' will break some plugins
Virtualization12 Aug 2022 | 9
Court voids 34,000 unfair Fuji Xerox contracts
Required customers to pay for software they did not receive, among other sins
Legal12 Aug 2022 | 26
Intel, Amazon, and SpaceX asked to tuck into DARPA's Space-BACN
Internetwork of satellite networks advances to 'actually building' stuff stage
Science11 Aug 2022 | 12
SoftBank offloads part of Alibaba stake to raise much-needed cash
Invested $20 million in 2000 and will pocket $34 billion and keep a slice worth more than that – for now
Off-Prem11 Aug 2022 | 9
Microsoft joins India's monopoly-busting e-commerce multi-mart
The Open Network for Digital Commerce could hardly ask for a more credible participant
Software11 Aug 2022 | 3
Unity game engine attracts big cash from China's tech titans
Chinese game devs targeted – maybe data protection laws too
Personal Tech10 Aug 2022 | 3
Clouds lift Lenovo ISG to third consecutive profit
Sees sunlit uplands ahead with plans for factory and ITaaS expansions
On-Prem10 Aug 2022 |
Iran cheerfully admits using cryptocurrency to pay for imports
Trade minister says to expect more of this sanctions-busting stuff starting in September
Software10 Aug 2022 | 33
Burger King just sent spam receipts to customers
Updated Have it your way – whether you want it or not
Software09 Aug 2022 | 59
Aussies crowdsource a business case for central bank digital currencies
Ring-fenced tests planned, despite previous regulatory skepticism about the need for fiat digi-dollars
Software09 Aug 2022 | 20
Electrical explosion at Google datacenter injures three
Search, Maps and YouTube later suffer brief outages - nothing as concerning as the injuries suffered by workers
Off-Prem09 Aug 2022 | 16
Digital Ocean customers back away from blockchains
Junior cloud growing nicely, but calls out customers' easing ardor for distributed ledgers
Off-Prem09 Aug 2022 | 17
Chinese scammers target kids with promise of extra gaming hours
Cyberspace regulator's fraud report finds all is not well behind the Great Firewall
Cyber-crime09 Aug 2022 | 5
Google's ChromeOS Flex turned my old MacBook into new frustrations
Desktop Tourism Google says this is ‘modern’ computing – if so it feels like a backward step
Personal Tech08 Aug 2022 | 57
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 | 102
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 | 27
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
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