AWS sent edgy appliance to the ISS and it worked – just like all the other computers up there
Congrats, AWS, you’ve boldly gone where the Raspberry Pi has already been
Edge + IoT24 Jun 2022 | 10
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Cisco quits Moscow
Networking titan to shutter Russia and Belarus presence, after previously stopping operations
Networks24 Jun 2022 | 20
Xi Jinping himself weighs in on how Big Tech should deploy FinTech
Beijing also outlines its GovTech vision and gets very excited about data
Legal24 Jun 2022 | 11
Don't ditch PowerShell to improve security, say infosec agencies from UK, US, and NZ
Use it sensibly instead – which means turning on the useful bits Microsoft doesn't enable by default
Security23 Jun 2022 | 20
Samsung fined $14 million for misleading smartphone water resistance claims
Promoted phones as ready for a dunking – forgot to mention known problems with subsequent recharges
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 41
Broadcom sketches out VMware ambitions that stretch from mainframe to cloud
Engineers, sales teams told to stick around, customers promised more 'choice' – to buy from Symantec or CA
Virtualization23 Jun 2022 | 11
Okta says Lapsus$ incident was actually a brilliant zero trust demonstration
Once former supplier Sitel coughed up its logs, it became apparent the attacker was hemmed in
Security22 Jun 2022 | 4
Tencent's WeChat wants no more talk of cryptocurrency and NFTs
In unrelated news, China's rollout of a central bank digital currency continues
Software22 Jun 2022 | 10
HCL to end all support for old versions of Notes and Domino in 2024
As if users needed any more reminders they’re stuck on a dying platform
Software22 Jun 2022 | 14
Microsoft Surface Laptop Studio: Too edgy for comfort?
Desktop Tourism And perhaps too heavy, which is a weighty issue for a machine that turns into a tablet
Personal Tech21 Jun 2022 | 29
Telegram adds paid tier as it cracks 700 million users
Without so much as a mention of encryption, but with a pastel-hued emoji-heavy nod to ‘sustainable monetization’
Applications20 Jun 2022 | 7
TikTok US traffic defaults to Oracle Cloud, Beijing can (allegedly) still have a look
Alibaba hinted the gig was worth millions each year
Legal20 Jun 2022 | 9
Indian government issues confidential infosec guidance to staff – who leak it
Bans VPNs, Dropbox, and more
Security20 Jun 2022 | 13
Always read the comments: Beijing requires oversight of all reader-generated chat
'Editing and review' teams will be required to read everything and report dissent
Legal20 Jun 2022 | 61
Airbus flies new passenger airplane aimed at 'long, thin' routes
The A321XLR assumes you're happy spending 11 hours in a single-aisle plane
Offbeat17 Jun 2022 | 158
India lets Mastercard issue new cards again
Compliance with onshore data storage laws took almost a year – far longer than India has given the rest of the tech world to comply with infosec changes
Storage17 Jun 2022 | 4
Former chip research professor jailed for not disclosing Chinese patents
This is how Beijing illegally accesses US tech, say Feds
Legal17 Jun 2022 | 16
Tencent completes 50 million core migration of its own apps to its own clouds
Pockets plenty of savings and illustrates success with the cutest cartoon sysadmin ever
Off-Prem17 Jun 2022 | 8
Elasticsearch server with no password or encryption leaks a million records
POS and online ordering vendor StoreHub offered free Asian info takeaways
Security16 Jun 2022 | 22
Japan makes online insults a crime that can earn a year in jail
Law will be reviewed after three years amid debate on free speech vs civility
Legal16 Jun 2022 | 94
South Korea's space ambitions stuck on the launchpad
Second Nuri rocket stalls with problem similar to those that caused first mission to mostly fail
Science16 Jun 2022 | 6
Teeth marks yield clue to widespread internet outage in Canada
The chompers belonged to a beaver and offer a parable on the risks of a shared physical layer
Networks15 Jun 2022 | 57
Adobe apologizes for repeated outages of its Creative Cloud video collaboration service
Frame.io admits it was 'slow to scale as demand rose
Off-Prem15 Jun 2022 | 12
Lenovo to form venture with Hong Kong comms conglomerate PCCW
Gains access to offshoring centers in Malaysia and Philippines
Channel15 Jun 2022 | 2
Malaysia-linked DragonForce hacktivists attack Indian targets
Just what we needed: a threat to rival Anonymous
Research15 Jun 2022 | 5
Intel delivers first discrete Arc desktop GPUs ... in China
Updated Why not just ship it in Narnia and call it a win?
Personal Tech15 Jun 2022 | 9
Splunk dabbles in edgy hardware, lowers data ingestion
'Puck' hardware demoed with customers including Royal Dutch Shell to address big concern: cost
Edge + IoT14 Jun 2022 | 3
Giant outsourcer keeps work from home, loses tax breaks. Government says 'good riddance'
Philippines says subsidies inflate profits, not local economy
Off-Prem14 Jun 2022 | 17
Xen patches three bugs that allow guest-host takeover
Paravirtualized guests on old x86s are the risk – just the sort of thing that gets forgotten
Virtualization14 Jun 2022 | 3
Indian government signals changes to infosec rules after industry consultation
Reports suggest SMBs will get more time, but core elements including six-hour reporting requirement remain
Legal14 Jun 2022 | 7
Warning: Colleagues are unusually likely to 'break' their monitors soon
Wave of replacements needed as Samsung and Microsoft team to stream Xbox games to smart displays and tellies
Personal Tech10 Jun 2022 | 26
Chinese 'Aoqin Dragon' gang runs undetected ten-year espionage spree
Researcher spots it targeting Asian government and telco targets, probably with Beijing's approval
Research10 Jun 2022 | 12
Russia, China warn US its cyber support of Ukraine has consequences
Countries that accept US infosec help told they could pay a price too
Security10 Jun 2022 | 17
Indian developer educator Scaler moves to America with $11k online courses
MOOC dropouts, boot camp avoiders, and college-averse students sought
Software09 Jun 2022 | 5
Google calculates Pi to 100 trillion digits
Claims world record run took 157 days, 23 hours … and just one Debian server
Off-Prem09 Jun 2022 | 119
Five Eyes alliance’s top cop says techies are the future of law enforcement
Crims have weaponized tech and certain States let them launder the proceeds
Cyber-crime09 Jun 2022 | 15
VMware customers fear Broadcom acquisition will stall innovation, increase cost
Gartner advises renegotiating subscriptions now to avoid ‘dramatic’ and ‘extraordinary’ price rises
Virtualization09 Jun 2022 | 21
Beijing-backed baddies target unpatched networking kit to attack telcos
NSA, FBI and CISA issue joint advisory that suggests China hardly has to work for this – flaws revealed in 2017 are among their entry points
Security08 Jun 2022 | 3
Another VPN quits India, as government proposes social media censorship powers
New Delhi now fighting criticism of eroding free speech and privacy with two proposed regulations
Legal08 Jun 2022 | 13
IETF publishes HTTP/3 RFC to take the web from TCP to UDP
Maps HTTP to QUIC to speed the web
Networks07 Jun 2022 | 83
Japan's asteroid probe reportedly found 20 amino acids
They're the stuff of life, so the fact they're floating around out there is very exciting
Science07 Jun 2022 | 70
US tweaks requirement for investors to dump Chinese tech stocks
Stockholders can keep shares in Huawei, SMIC, and Inpsur - they're just not allowed to sell
Legal07 Jun 2022 | 10
Microsoft delays next Exchange Server release to 2025
Four years later than planned – maybe that's how long it will take to make it secure?
Applications06 Jun 2022 | 33
Multiplatform Linux kernel 'pretty much done' says Linus Torvalds
Debuts version 5.19rc1, which includes HPE's next-gen server ASIC and much more
OSes06 Jun 2022 | 11
Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh resigns after being added to EU sanctions list
Updated Russia's top tech CEO accused of material support to Moscow
Security06 Jun 2022 | 39
Amazon’s Kindle bookstore to quit China
Local authorities insist the next chapter is not a collapse in foreign investment
Personal Tech03 Jun 2022 | 24
46 years after the UN proclaimed the right to join a union, Microsoft sort of agrees
Redmond is open to its staff organizing, but feels they don't need to
Legal03 Jun 2022 | 40
BSA kicks multiple holes in India's infosec reporting rules
Strongly suggests extensive re-writes and consultation - backed up by Microsoft, Intel, AWS, and friends
Legal03 Jun 2022 | 16
Atlassian: Unpatched years-old flaw under attack right now to hijack Confluence
Updated One option: Take the thing offline until Friday patch applied
Patches03 Jun 2022 | 20
ExpressVPN moves servers out of India to escape customer data retention law
Privacy service will keep working, just beyond the reach of India's government
Security02 Jun 2022 | 8
AWS launches fresh challenges to on-prem hardware vendors
Offers alternative to vanilla servers and recruits world's biggest tech distributors to push hybrid storage appliance
Off-Prem02 Jun 2022 | 4
Reg hack attends holographic WebEx meeting, blows away Zoom fatigue
Far from the finished product and not obviously a game-changer, but intriguing nonetheless
Personal Tech01 Jun 2022 | 27
Azure Active Directory logs are lagging, alerts may be wrong or missing
Updated We have questions: Who's logged in lately? How would you know? Ain't it grand that Microsoft wants you in Azure AD?
Off-Prem01 Jun 2022 | 25
India probes ZTE and Vivo over finances, sparking Chinese protests
Clever asymmetrical economic warfare makes Beijing very uncomfortable
Legal01 Jun 2022 | 5
VMware customers have watched Broadcom's acquisitions and don't like what they see
It's not hard to find unpleasant precedents for what might happen to Virtzilla
Virtualization31 May 2022 | 39
Samsung and Intel bosses discuss silicon cooperation
Details? Nope. Potential? Enormous.
On-Prem31 May 2022 | 2
France levels up local video game slang with list of French terms to replace foreign words
Goodbye cloudy retro-gaming, bonjour ‘rétrojeu video en nuage’
Personal Tech31 May 2022 | 168
China’s top court calls for blockchain to record vast number of transactions
Leases, IP rights, ownership of goods … it’s almost easier to list things the Supreme People’s Court doesn’t want on a blockchain
Software31 May 2022 | 21
Broadcom's stated strategy ignores most VMware customers
Focuses on 600 users, lets smaller outfits slide, trims R&D spend, slashes sales expenses
Virtualization30 May 2022 | 35
Shanghai lockdowns to end, perhaps easing tech supply chain woes
China needs this as much as the rest of the world
Personal Tech30 May 2022 | 21
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