Linus Torvalds tells kernel list poster to 'SHUT THE HELL UP' for saying COVID-19 vaccines create 'new humanoid race'
'Any Linux discussion list isn't going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me'
11 Jun 2021 | 226
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AWS Frankfurt experiences major breakdown that staff couldn’t fix for hours due to ‘environmental conditions’ on data centre floor
Updated Cloud colossus says aircon fail caused kit to shut down, networks dropped out and EC2 instances went dark
11 Jun 2021 | 31
Hong Kong to explore its own digital currency and keep testing China’s Digital Yuan
Plans fintech infusion for local banking sector, plus data-sharing infrastructure
10 Jun 2021 | 5
Ransomware-skewered meat producer JBS confesses to paying $11m for its freedom
Company also says large and well-funded IT department sorted recovery swiftly
10 Jun 2021 | 20
NTT slashes top execs’ pay as punishment for paying more than their share of $500-a-head meals with government officials
None were illegal, but they did put civil servants in awkward ethical territory and execs knew it
10 Jun 2021 | 23
Would-be AWS bomber pleads guilty, faces 5 to 20 years behind bars for plot to take out government servers
FBI reveals undercover employee sold him fake explosives before arrest
10 Jun 2021 | 10
Fastly 'fesses up to breaking the internet with an 'an undiscovered software bug' triggered by a customer
Promises it won't happen again, expresses remorse … all the usual stuff that clouds (and Zuck) say after they stumble around making messes
09 Jun 2021 | 111
Security researcher says attacks on Russian government have Chinese fingerprints – and typos, too
Malware was too loose to have come from a Western nation, according to Sentinel Labs
09 Jun 2021 | 13
US Senate finds $52bn to keep chipmakers working, $195bn for tech R&D
Innovation and Competition Act aims to keep America ahead of China, approved with unusual bipartisan support
09 Jun 2021 | 10
SK Hynix admits to DRAM defects, smacks down rumour it botched big batches
Admits 'potential losses' may result, says they won’t be significant
09 Jun 2021 | 5
Snowflake targets Java and Scala devs, will soon slither after Pythonistas too
Snowflake Summit Cloud data outfit realises SQL-centric approach won’t attract the developers it needs to grow
08 Jun 2021 | 1
Apple's macOS 12 adds improved virtualization though no sign of anything like Boot Camp on M1 silicon
Linux and macOS guests will be doable, and iGiant even appears to have added an XKCD Easter Egg
08 Jun 2021 | 22
Lotus Notes refuses to die, again, as HCL debuts Domino 12
It’s now a cloud-native, low-code product that’s growing and offers a viable Exchange alternative, apparently
08 Jun 2021 | 39
Ethernet standards wonks eye up speeds beyond 400Gb/s
For now you have to cope with 100Gb/s and 400Gb/s over single-mode fiber, and brace for 100Gb/s over 80kms
08 Jun 2021 | 15
Australian cops, FBI created backdoored chat app, told crims it was secure – then snooped on 9,000 users' plots
Hundreds of arrests already in Oz, details of European and US ops to be revealed soon
08 Jun 2021 | 97
South Korean regulator to probe in-app payments, creates new 'team' to look into digital ads
The usual suspects are accused of anti-competitive behaviour, naughtiness with data
07 Jun 2021 |
Indian government to Twitter: Stop offshoring and outsourcing – or risk losing legal protections
Social network lashed for ‘inglorious’, ‘dogged refusal’ to comply
07 Jun 2021 | 22
Linux 5.13 hits rc5, isn’t yet calm, Linus Torvalds is only mildly perturbed
Emperor Penguin hopes ‘fairly average’ release will ‘start shrinking now’
07 Jun 2021 | 33
G7 nations aim for global 15 per cent tax on big tech and bin digital services taxes
Facebook’s Libra project kicked to the kerb until international rules on stablecoins are set
06 Jun 2021 | 38
Twitter’s new subscription service costs the same as a cup of coffee a month – though much less stimulating
First Look Twitter Blue only works properly on iOS and just one feature is useful
04 Jun 2021 | 19
Snakes on a Plane meets The Simpsons as airline creates ‘whacker’ to scare reptiles away from parked A380s
It’s actually just a stick, but maintenance staff love ‘em
04 Jun 2021 | 43
Seagate finds sets of two heads are cheaper than one in its new and very fast MACH.2 dual-actuator hard disks
Looks forward to nicely lowered costs as production ramps up, but they're still hyperscaler-only for now
04 Jun 2021 | 43
LG opens open-source licence compliance tool source
Shine chaebol's FOSSlight on your projects, careful what you find
04 Jun 2021 |
Antivirus that mines Ethereum sounds a bit wrong, right? Norton has started selling it
Down continues to be the new up
03 Jun 2021 | 62
