Airbus to help build Mexican Moon-mining automata
Commercial partner's ad-funded expedition plans the ultimate pop-up in 2022
27 Sep 2021 | 13
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Indian state cuts off internet for millions to stop cheating in exams
1.6 million people sat teaching eligibility test, chasing 40,000 jobs
27 Sep 2021 | 24
This won’t hurt a bit, says Veeam, as it flags end of socket-based licensing
Change to universal licenses coming sometime in 2022, says backup vendor, but won't be forced
27 Sep 2021 | 2
'Quad' group seeks to set security standards for global tech industry
USA, India, Australia, and Japan pledge to build own 5G tech, share space data, secure rare earth supply chains, and more
27 Sep 2021 | 24
Stop worrying that crims could break the 'net, say cyber-diplomats – only nations have tried
Global Commission on the Stability of Cyberspace is a bit miffed its 'Don't attack the internet core' norm is misunderstood
24 Sep 2021 | 11
Japanese boffins say they've created plastic optical fibres to reach places that might break glass
Polymers can transmit at 53Gbps without error correction overheads, and could be just the thing for electric cars
24 Sep 2021 | 24
Apple warns of arbitrary code execution zero-day being actively exploited on Macs
Remember iPods? The same bug can bite them, and plenty of older iPhones and iPads too
24 Sep 2021 | 12
Indian broadband connections top 800 million … sort of
'Broadband' is defined as 512kbps – for now – and just 24 million current connections are wired
24 Sep 2021 | 9
Infosys admits it still hasn't fully fixed Indian tax portal
Deadline came and went, but over 750 'resources' are still hard at work
23 Sep 2021 | 14
Imagine a fiber optic cable that can sense it's about to be dug up and send a warning
Forget wiring cities with IoT devices – this could be how wide-scale sensing gets done
23 Sep 2021 | 45
Angry birds ground some Google Wing drones in Australia
Between COVID and corvids, Canberrans can't catch a break
23 Sep 2021 | 23
Memory prices to dive in late 2022, says Gartner
Firm says 40 per cent of a server's bill of material costs are tied to memory
23 Sep 2021 | 6
AWS announces new region in the Land of the Long White Cloud – New Zealand
Hopes three availability zones will be hobbit-forming for local businesses and government agencies
23 Sep 2021 | 9
Nutanix reckons cloud is a concept, not a place – and guess who it reckons has nailed the concept?
Adds security and networking to platform, hoping you use it to repatriate apps
22 Sep 2021 |
Philippines approves digital services tax on streaming services, apps, even SaaS
Digital imports aren't currently taxed at all, and COVID means the government is keen to find new revenue sources
22 Sep 2021 | 5
Break out your emergency change process and patch this ransomware-friendly bug ASAP, says VMware
Update File upload vuln lets miscreants hijack vCenter Server - and is being exploited in the wild
22 Sep 2021 | 8
This is your final warning to re-certify, Red Hat tells tardy sysadmins
No more pandemic-inspired extensions to exam dates or certs, warns Linux-slinging giant
21 Sep 2021 | 25
China discloses new space tech: Coloured cargo labels to replace beige ones taikonauts found fiddly
Slaps 'em on six tonnes of kit – enough to sustain space station crew for six months – and successfully sends it to Tianhe
21 Sep 2021 | 13
3.4 billion people live within range of a mobile network but lack a device to make the connection
ITU and UN think inclusivity may now trump connectivity; Vodafone agrees but fancies more 4G
21 Sep 2021 | 12
Amazon Web Services set to support more Asia-Pacific currencies for customer bills
Australian users told first of plans to create 'Seller of Record' subject to regulatory approval
21 Sep 2021 | 1
Chip glut might start in 2023, says IDC, and auto-chip traffic jam could clear this year
Shortages in today's supply chains persist and capacity is all but booked. But the future looks bright
20 Sep 2021 | 22
China's taikonauts return from heavenly palace after 92-day mission
Plenty more launches planned to attach another couple of modules
20 Sep 2021 | 17
-Werror pain persists as Linus Torvalds issues Linux 5.15rc2
And celebrates Linux's 'true anniversary' – 30 years since upload of version 0.01
20 Sep 2021 | 14
Tick, tick, tick … TikTok China just limited kids to 40 minutes' use each day
And added a bug bounty program to detect any holes in its 'youth mode'
20 Sep 2021 | 25
