Cunningly camouflaged cable routed around WAN-sized hole in project budget
On Call Leaf and spine networks aren't the only way to make a connection with nature
Networks02 Jun 2023 | 70
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You might have been phished by the gang that stole North Korea’s lousy rocket tech
US, South Korea, warn 'Kimsuky' is a very sophisticated social engineer
Security02 Jun 2023 | 11
What supply chain crisis? Supermicro lifts rack-scale system production
Computex CEO Charles Liang and Nvidia's Jensen Huang did the 'locals made good' thing and the crowd loved it
Systems02 Jun 2023 | 1
WTF is solid state active cooling? We’ve just seen it working on a mini PC
Computex Very handy technology, literally
Personal Tech01 Jun 2023 | 58
Amazon Ring, Alexa accused of every nightmare IoT security fail you can imagine
Staff able to watch customers in the bathroom? Tick! Obviously shabby infosec? Tick! Training AI as an excuse for data retention? Tick!
Security01 Jun 2023 | 78
Taiwan's titans bullish on challengers to x86 in the datacenter and beyond
Computex Game on as Nvidia, Arm, Ampere find enthusiastic locals who think buyers are open to alternatives
On-Prem31 May 2023 | 4
Australia fines tech companies for exploiting foreign tech workers
Everything down under wants to either kill you, or underpay you
Legal31 May 2023 | 29
Rackspace datacenter infrastructure took 12-hour nap in London, Sydney, Hong Kong
Updated Borked SANs, not a security SNAFU, identified as the cause. Services are back, but Linux VMs must reboot
PaaS + IaaS30 May 2023 | 23
Qualcomm imagines constellation of Snapdragons sharing AI workloads
Computex PCs to chat with phones, watches, goggles – even the cloud when necessary
Personal Tech30 May 2023 |
The future of digital healthcare could be a two-metre USB cable
Comment Try showing a remote clinician your injured foot without one
Personal Tech30 May 2023 | 73
Singapore's sovereign wealth fund regrets investment in crypto-villain FTX
No fault found, but execs responsible punished with reduced compensation
Software30 May 2023 | 9
Mars helicopter went silent for six sols, imperilled Perseverance rover
Ingenuity's still setting records, but waking it up and chatting are getting harder
Science30 May 2023 | 40
Intel says AI is overwhelming CPUs, GPUs, even clouds – so all Meteor Lakes get a VPU
Computex Movidius tech already sprinkled on some 13th-gen Core silicon goes mainstream in next generation
Personal Tech29 May 2023 | 4
Nvidia creates open server spec to house its own chips – and the occasional x86
Computex Taiwan's big OEMs are all-in on plan to build servers that won't cook when running AI
Systems29 May 2023 | 3
That old box of tech junk you should probably throw out saves a warehouse
On Call When all seemed lost, here comes the Sun … workstation
On-Prem26 May 2023 | 182
India set to regulate AI, Big Tech, with sweeping Digital Act
Big semiconductor R&D strategy in the works, too
Legal26 May 2023 |
After network glitch, South Korea's commercial sat-slinger succeeds
Nuri rocket has done the business – now to get into the business
Science26 May 2023 | 3
Snowflake and Zoom celebrate shrunken cloud bills as margins swell
Analytics outfit gets there by moving customers to Amazon’s Graviton CPUs
Off-Prem25 May 2023 |
Amazon to shutter its Chinese Appstore – the one used by hardly anyone, anywhere
Middle Kingdom users told to acquaint themselves with the Windows Subsystem for Android
Software25 May 2023 | 7
Five Eyes and Microsoft accuse China of attacking US infrastructure again
Defeating Volt Typhoon will be hard, because the attacks look like legit Windows admin activity
Cyber-crime25 May 2023 | 10
Atlassian says 'Don't #@!% the Planet' so it can keep making money
Which when you think about it, is a pretty good reason to build a sustainable business
Devops24 May 2023 | 9
Microsoft finally gets around to supporting rar, gz and tar files in Windows
No more downloading decompressors and dodging malware and payment demands, maybe
Software24 May 2023 | 79
Samsung's screens will check your blood pressure if the movie's too scary
Video Also: phones that fold through 360 degrees, rollable tablets, and an expanded OLED detector
Personal Tech24 May 2023 | 11
Microsoft enables booting physical PCs directly into cloud PCs
Running an OS from local storage is soooo last year
Virtualization24 May 2023 | 84
US bans North Korean outsourcer and its feisty freelancers
They do your work – usually from Russia and China – then send their wages home to pay for missiles
Cyber-crime24 May 2023 | 3
Google Cloud upgrades with next-gen accelerator that embiggens its VMs
Homebrew Infrastructure Processing Unit virtualizes networks and storage to make Sapphire Rapids Xeons sing
Off-Prem23 May 2023 | 1
China hasn't told Micron why it failed security review, or what its ban means
US memory-maker forecasts single-digit revenue impact, and ongoing gloom in PC and smartmobe markets
Security23 May 2023 | 6
VMware again extends formal deadline for Broadcom deal
Meanwhile, rivals circle and the hybrid cloud management market morphs
Virtualization22 May 2023 | 1
One of the world's most prominent blockchain apps looks like being binned
The Australian Securities Exchange became a poster child for seriously serious distributed ledgers, but now wants to walk away
Software22 May 2023 | 49
China bans Micron products after security review finds unspecified flaws
Alleges major risks to national security, but is happy for chips to remain in place
Legal21 May 2023 | 24
Cheapest, oldest, slowest part fixed very modern Mac
On Call Making different generations of tech work in harmony sometimes requires a strange dance
Personal Tech19 May 2023 | 160
What's your Mean Time To Innocence – the time needed to prove that mess is not your problem
ServiceNow reckons it can shrink it with integrated cloudy observability
Software19 May 2023 | 25
Apple warns of three WebKit vulns under active exploitation, dozens more CVEs across its range
High school student and Amnesty International named among bug-finders
Security19 May 2023 | 13
Baidu boss says good luck talking AI to Beijing if you don't understand censorship
Unlike AI's output, the web giant's profits are not hallucinatory
AI + ML18 May 2023 | 5
Multicloud isn't necessary, says Gartner … until it is
The downside is complexity. The upside, if you strategize properly, is specialist services and diversity
Off-Prem18 May 2023 | 13
Search the web at least once every two years or risk losing your Google account
Updated inactivity policy may nix accounts, and data. Even Workspaces data and your precious pics
Off-Prem18 May 2023 | 52
North Korea shows off surveillance satellite it claims it can launch
To counter the 'US imperialists and the South Korean puppet villains'
Science17 May 2023 | 13
Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted
Now the minister responsible has threatened regulation
Legal17 May 2023 | 59
Samsung's Galaxy S23 Ultra is a worthy heir to the Note
First Look And just about worth the pain of a cross-platform migration. Eventually
Personal Tech16 May 2023 | 60
AFRINIC warns members of fake news campaign, voting rights grab
Mysterious society fingered as source
Networks16 May 2023 | 2
Big Tech mainstays named as targets of PwC tax law leak
Consultancy's Australian arm is in deep trouble after offering advice on how to avoid rules its people helped write
Legal15 May 2023 | 3
Ransomware corrupts data, so backups can be faster and cheaper than paying up
Smash and grab raids don’t leave time for careful encryption
Cyber-crime15 May 2023 | 31
Gartner: Stop worrying and love the cloud, with all its outages and lock-in
Yes, there are risks. But you can address them without huge multi-cloud failover rigs
Off-Prem15 May 2023 | 35
OPPO abandons custom chip design ambitions
Asia In Brief PLUS: India gets blood from a drone; Toshiba sets a date; Australia floats metaverse standards
Personal Tech15 May 2023 | 2
Is there anything tape can’t fix? This techie used it to defeat the Sun
On call In cloudy Yorkshire, a ray of light can become the enemy
Personal Tech12 May 2023 | 125
Microsoft signs up to buy electricity produced by fusion, perhaps in 2028
How complicated can fusion be, really?
Science12 May 2023 | 18
India to send official whassup to WhatsApp after massive spamstorm
In a weird way, we can blame this on AI being a better bet than blockchain
Security12 May 2023 | 5
India calls for all mobile phones to include FM radios
Where feature phones remain prevalent, Spotify is not an option and the 'net is little use in an emergency
Personal Tech11 May 2023 | 57
So much for Pakistan’s plan for digital economy – it’s turned off the internet
As protests roil, connectivity has been cut with no relief in sight
Networks11 May 2023 | 10
Cisco to manufacture telecoms gear in India – but not much and not soon
‘To further strengthen and diversify the supply chain’ which is just what India loves to hear
Networks11 May 2023 | 2
Cisco: Don't use 'blind spot' – and do use 'feed two birds with one scone'
Switchzilla takes a stab at inclusive language. Sorry, that should be 'makes a first pass'
Bootnotes10 May 2023 | 218
Google Cloud's watery Parisian outage enters third week, with no end in sight
To make matters worse, other bits of the same region have wobbled
Networks10 May 2023 | 20
Japan's ubiquitous convenience stores now serving up privacy breaches
Fujitsu in the frame for foul up with government document dispersal app
Security10 May 2023 | 10
Nutanix de-converges by allowing dedicated nodes for compute and storage
This could be the way to get HCI out of its ghetto
Systems09 May 2023 | 1
Cloudflare opposes Europe's plan to make Big Tech help pay for networks
Prefers open peering – from which it profits
Networks09 May 2023 | 14
India bans open source messaging apps for security reasons. FOSS community says good luck
One banned tool is already working on Android-to-Android meshes that survive internet outages
Software09 May 2023 | 36
Vietnam to require registration of social media, even on global platforms
Show some ID or your Facebook feed might not make it across the border
Legal09 May 2023 | 5
You'll [BZZ] like Intel’s [BZZ] NUC 13 Pro once the fan [BZZ] stops blowing
Desktop Tourism Big i7 performance, tiny, tiny size
Personal Tech08 May 2023 | 40
Datacenter fire suppression system wasn't tested for years, then BOOM
On Call Jumping Jack had a gas, gas, gas when his wires crossed at the worst moment
On-Prem05 May 2023 | 162
Zoho creates browser with 'Open Season Mode' for when you don't care about privacy
Indian software giant thinks you’ll ignore that in favor of the many tracker-killers
Software05 May 2023 | 17
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