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 | 34
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 | 21
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 | 64
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 | 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 | 116
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 | 54
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
Microsoft sunsets Windows built-in data leak prevention The alternative is a paid subscription service. What's the bet it's more expensive than the current offering? Software22 Jul 2022 | 10