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 |
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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
Russia, Iran discuss tech manufacturing, infosec and e-governance collaboration
Proposed working group would see Moscow's miltech conglomerate Rostec operate in Tehran
Security22 Jul 2022 | 20
DiDi in deep doo-doo over 64 billion illegal acts of data collection
Billion-dollar fine for eight billion items lifted from clipboards, 107 million facial recognition files … and more
Legal22 Jul 2022 | 16
Baidu crashes the cost of robo-taxis by 75 percent
Steering wheel not required, if desired – or you could add a coffee machine
AI + ML21 Jul 2022 | 29
Microsoft to blockheads: NFTs and blockchains aren't welcome in Minecraft
Cites flakiness of NFT community and speculative activity as inimical to the game's goals
Personal Tech21 Jul 2022 | 21
Microsoft Teams outage widens to take out M365 services, admin center
Updated Remember: telephones exist, are handy for collaboration, and usually work
SaaS21 Jul 2022 | 51
VMware starts tracking use of experimental Arm hypervisor
By watching how you use it, Virtzilla might figure out how to sell it
Virtualization21 Jul 2022 |
Atlassian reveals critical flaws in almost everything it makes and touches
Fixes issued, warns it 'has not exhaustively enumerated all potential consequences'
Patches21 Jul 2022 | 13
Google, Oracle clouds still affected by UK heatwave
Some hard disks appear to have cooked, along with bit barn designers' best laid plans
Off-Prem20 Jul 2022 | 22
Microsoft lures SMBs to Cloudy PCs by connecting them to Xbox accounts
Windows as a service is getting more mature and manageable
Virtualization20 Jul 2022 | 8
Belgium says Chinese cyber gangs attacked its government and military
China, as usual, says it just wants a peaceful and prosperous internet
Security20 Jul 2022 | 15
Walmart-controlled flight booking service suffers substantial data leak
India's Cleartrip is being very opaque about what happened
Security19 Jul 2022 | 7
VMware president sees some 'anxiety' at customers who've seen Broadcom at work
Virtzilla also thinks SmartNICs can ease your security concerns
Virtualization19 Jul 2022 | 19
SoftBank reportedly moves London IPO out of Arm's reach
Tory turmoil turns off tycoon's Tokyo tech titan theoretically temporarily
On-Prem19 Jul 2022 | 22
Taiwan prosecutors claim Chinese biz swiped IP and R&D team from Apple supplier
Before you could say 'economic espionage', a factory in China was making bits of iThings
Personal Tech18 Jul 2022 | 10
India's Internet Association ends crypto advocacy to do something more productive
Namely working on a central bank digital currency
Software18 Jul 2022 | 6
TikTok's chief security officer steps aside, thanks to Oracle move
Takes up advisory role that might leave time to play with parent company's homebrew cloudy SmartNICs
CSO18 Jul 2022 |
Torvalds: Linux kernel team has sorted Retbleed chip flaw
But tidying things up has contributed to a one week delay on the version 5.19 release
OSes17 Jul 2022 | 5
Global financial stability regulator signals crypto rules are coming soon
The party's over, especially for stablecoins, due to intrinsic volatility and structural vulnerabilities
Legal12 Jul 2022 | 14
Take the day off: Windows Autopatch is live and can even fix cloudy PCs
But first, there's a whole lot of AD and Intune prep to be done
Patches12 Jul 2022 | 13
Cloudy Chinese word processor vendor denies deleting defiant docs
But Kingsoft has admitted to blocking access to some material and Chinese creative types are worried
Software12 Jul 2022 | 9
Twitter claims Elon Musk bailed from sale with 'invalid and wrongful' reasons
Tesla chief seemingly responds with ... a Chuck Norris meme that shows all the brilliance of the CEO mindset
Legal12 Jul 2022 | 54
STMicroelectronics and GlobalFoundries to build wafer fab in France
US and Swiss companies to receive 'significant' French investment
On-Prem11 Jul 2022 | 8
UK response to China's tech ambitions labelled 'incoherent and muted'
Working outside power blocs, without policy, leaves Blighty a likely rule-taker says Foreign Affairs Committee
Security11 Jul 2022 | 40
API rate limits at the core of Elon Musk’s decision to ditch Twitter
Claims he got less access to data than paying customers and was forced to endure the indignity of a PDF
Software11 Jul 2022 | 65
US floats framework for international crypto regulations that cement its power
Crypto-land told it can't disrupt the global economy or financial system
Software08 Jul 2022 | 29
Indian tax authorities raid offices of Chinese smartphone maker Vivo
Why does a smartphone maker have 2kg of gold bars in the office? India reckons it smells tax fraud
Legal08 Jul 2022 | 18
Microsoft rolls back default macro blocks in Office without telling anyone
Updated Based on 'feedback'. Which one of you asked for this, and why?
Security08 Jul 2022 | 31
AWS starts renting cloudy M1 Mac minis
They're cheaper than cloudy x86 Apples, but not entirely tempting
PaaS + IaaS08 Jul 2022 | 3
Security vendor splits – not quits – to address Russia's invasion of Ukraine
Singapore's Group-IB was once a Moscow startup and will now conduct 'regional diversification'
Security07 Jul 2022 | 1
Vendors are hiking prices up to 30 percent and claiming 'it's inflation'
No it's not, says Gartner – it's a hardcore sales tactic you can easily counter
Software07 Jul 2022 | 27
Microsoft, AWS awarded Ukraine peace prize for cloudy services
Google has one already, and Ukraine now has a ‘drone army’
Off-Prem07 Jul 2022 | 6
SK hynix pitches tents at Chinese factory to house workers in case of lockdowns
City of Wuxi trying its best to keep factories open amid COVID outbreak
On-Prem07 Jul 2022 | 3
UK, South Korea strike data-sharing pact
Time to bone up on Hancom Office, the productivity suite that's big in Korea – and nowhere else
Software06 Jul 2022 | 22
Near-undetectable malware linked to Russia's Cozy Bear
The fun folk who attacked Solar Winds using a poisoned CV and tools from the murky world of commercial hackware
Research06 Jul 2022 | 64
Twitter sues Indian government over content takedown orders
Local carriers are also upset with the laws, which they say will break encryption
Legal06 Jul 2022 | 3
Dutch University retrieves Bitcoin ransomware payment and makes a profit
Promises funds will be used to support struggling students
Cyber-crime05 Jul 2022 | 5
CAPSTONE mission is Moon-bound, after less rocketry than expected
Final update China rubbishes NASA suggestion it wants Luna all to itself
Science05 Jul 2022 | 31
Google updates Chrome to squash actively exploited WebRTC Zero Day
How sad – this looks like a fine excuse to avoid video conferences for a while
Patches05 Jul 2022 | 9
India shares its e-government tools with all as India Stack
Identity, payments, data management – the lot – as digital public goods
Software05 Jul 2022 | 2
Microsoft teases Outlook Lite for Android
What are the 'main benefits' of Outlook? Whatever they are, that's all you'll get
Applications04 Jul 2022 | 33
Cloud infrastructure spend to crack $90b and overtake non-cloud in 2022
Buyers other than cloud operators remain the dominant source of dollars
Off-Prem04 Jul 2022 | 1
British Army Twitter and YouTube feeds hijacked by crypto-promos
If you can't defend against crypto bros…
Security04 Jul 2022 | 60
AWS adds bare metal support to EKS Anywhere
And throws some cold water on the 'K8s works best inside a VM' argument
On-Prem01 Jul 2022 | 3
Microsoft gives its partners power to change AD privileges on customer systems – without permission
Updated Somewhat counterintuitively, this is being done to improve security
Security01 Jul 2022 | 11
Intuit pulls QuickBooks from India, uncomfortably quickly
Walks away from enormous but parochial market, while leaving global development teams in place
Applications01 Jul 2022 | 4
Central bank: Crypto 'derives value based on make believe', threatens financial stability
India's Reserve Bank no fan of digi-dollars – even its own planned central bank digital currency
Software01 Jul 2022 | 12
Taiwan creates new challenge for tech industry: stern content regulation laws
Big tech asked to be more transparent by logging what it took down and why
Legal30 Jun 2022 | 10
Alibaba spins out a biz to productize home-grown data tools
Business intelligence and analytics as a service, for marketers and techies
Software30 Jun 2022 | 1
Israel plans ‘Cyber-Dome’ to defeat digital attacks from Iran and others
Already has 'Iron Dome' – does it need another hero?
Security30 Jun 2022 | 19
Microsoft postpones shift to New Commerce Experience subscriptions
The whiff of rebellion among Cloud Solution Providers is getting stronger
Channel29 Jun 2022 | 8
China's clouds slow server buying – US clouds and Facebook may, too
Hyperscalers have ordered more than they need, and the ripples are nasty
Systems29 Jun 2022 |
IBM’s first cloudy mainframes scheduled to launch this week
It’s not IaaS, it's reserved for test and dev – and will feed the golden goose that is the z/OS ecosystem
PaaS + IaaS29 Jun 2022 | 8
VMware reveals vSphere-as-a-service – but not the price
Cloudy vSphere+ can manage multiple on-prem environments but not VMw-powered public clouds … for now
Virtualization28 Jun 2022 | 5
Cisco compresses Catalyst switches to compact size
Fanless fun for the whole family (if the supply chain functions)
Networks28 Jun 2022 | 16
Tencent admits to poisoned QR code attack on QQ chat platform
Could it be Beijing was right about games being bad for China?
Security28 Jun 2022 | 8
India extends deadline for compliance with infosec logging rules by 90 days
Updated Helpfully announced extension on deadline day
CSO28 Jun 2022 | 9
Cloudflare menaces virtual desktops with isolated browser access to internal networks
Gives cloudy email a kicking, too – but VDI should be safe in its bastions
Virtualization27 Jun 2022 | 3
Biting the hand that feeds IT
