Bank boss hated IT, loved the beach, was clueless about ports and politeness
On Call At the dawn of the dialup age, making a connection could be complicated
Networks01 Dec 2023 | 109
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Thirty-nine weeks: That's how long you'll be waiting for an AI server from Dell
Revenue and net income down, server market flickers, PCs fail to ignite
On-Prem01 Dec 2023 | 11
You're so worried about AWS reliability, the cloud giant now lets you simulate major outages
re:Invent Fake it 'til you break it, for a whole availability zone or WAN FAIL
Off-Prem01 Dec 2023 | 6
Today's 'China is misbehaving online' allegations come from Google, Meta
Zuck boots propagandists, Big G finds surge of action directed at Taiwan
Cyber-crime01 Dec 2023 | 8
OpenAI makes it official: Sam Altman is back as CEO
Microsoft joins the board in non-voting role
AI + ML30 Nov 2023 | 18
China's Loongson debuts processor that 'matches Intel silicon circa 2020'
Best not to dismiss it, as Asus looks to be onboard and advances are promised
On-Prem30 Nov 2023 | 32
Japan's space agency suffers cyber attack, points finger at Active Directory
JAXA is having a tough time in cyberspace and outer space, the latter thanks to an electrical glitch
Cyber-crime29 Nov 2023 | 4
Experienced Copilot help is hard to find, warns Microsoft MVP
Almost nobody has used it, or knows it well, so beware of consultants bearing cred
AI + ML29 Nov 2023 | 40
VMware president Sumit Dhawan out – scores gig as CEO of infosec vendor Proofpoint
Amid accounts of wider layoffs and Broadcom doing a 'strategic review' of end-user compute and Carbon Black products
Virtualization29 Nov 2023 |
Samsung creates a group dedicated to inventing whatever comes next
Exec who led memory and battery businesses to global dominance gets the job of defining Chaebol's future
Personal Tech28 Nov 2023 | 2
X/Twitter booted out of Australia's disinformation-fighting club
Ghosted authorities after complaint during hotly contested referendum
Legal28 Nov 2023 | 60
Datacenter architect creates bonkers designs to illustrate the craft, and quirks, of building bit barns
They’re basically skyscrapers, says Charles Fortin. But they could be ships, cars, or rocks
On-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 36
AWS plays with Fire TV Cube, turns it into a thin client for cloudy desktops
re:Invent $195 a pop, delivered, pre-provisioned ready to stream desktops or apps
Off-Prem27 Nov 2023 | 28
Beijing fosters foreign influencers to spread its propaganda
They get access to both China's internet and global platforms, and cash in on both
Security27 Nov 2023 | 16
User read the manual, followed instructions, still couldn't make 'Excel' work
On Call When is a spreadsheet not a spreadsheet?
Software24 Nov 2023 | 132
Europe's Ariane 6 rocket rated 'ready to rumble' after passing hot fire test
Still not reusable, but at least it's getting closer to long-delayed launch
Science24 Nov 2023 | 44
Stop shaming service providers for outages, argues APNIC chief scientist
Tech companies should behave like the aviation industry and detail failures to improve safety for all
Off-Prem24 Nov 2023 | 24
India diplomatically debuts digital public infrastructure repository with international contributions
Russia's Unified Digital Platform could be yours, along with many other less controversial projects
Software23 Nov 2023 |
New Relic warns customers it's experienced a cyber … something
Users told to hold tight and await instructions as investigation continues
Security23 Nov 2023 | 6
Broadcom re-orgs VMware into four divisions – none of which mention end-user compute products
Community programs retained but CEO waves farewell
Virtualization23 Nov 2023 | 26
Nvidia revenue explodes, led by datacenter products and … InfiniBand?
A certain Big Red Communist country looms as a dampener – but not a big one
On-Prem22 Nov 2023 | 7
Sam Altman set to rejoin OpenAI as CEO – seemingly with Microsoft's blessing
New board includes former Salesforce boss and Treasury Secretary
AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 78
China's regulator paused VMware purchase probe before desired close date
Analysis Competitors predict price gouging as employees await news
Virtualization22 Nov 2023 | 1
Baidu joins Tencent in downplaying impact of US chip bans on AI ambitions
Stockpiled silicon, improving efficiency, and looking for alternative suppliers – while maybe taking a dig at Microsoft and OpenAI
AI + ML22 Nov 2023 | 1
Microsoft adds FPGA-powered network accelerator to Azure
'Azure Boost' vastly speeds cloudy server IOPS and is coming to all new instance types
Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 6
Telco CEO quits after admitting she needs to carry rivals' SIM cards to stay in touch
That, plus an outage, and cyber-mess, do for Optus boss Kelly Bayer Rosmarin
Off-Prem21 Nov 2023 | 48
CEO of self-driving cab outfit Cruise parks his career
Updated After string of self-driving crashes, Kyle Vogt plans to 'spend time with my family and explore some new ideas'
AI + ML20 Nov 2023 | 22
Xen Project improves the art of virtual machine maintenance with annual hypervisor release
Version 4.18 brings first ports to RISC-V and PowerPC, support for next-gen datacenter CPUs
Virtualization20 Nov 2023 |
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's ejection sparks theories as odd as some ChatGPT output
Updated Interim CEO appointed as rumours swirl about comebacks, doing a startup, or even hardware with Jony Ive
AI + ML19 Nov 2023 | 29
Lawyer guilty of arrogance after ignoring tech support
On Call When users decline to answer 'have you tried turning it on?' surely no judge would fail to convict?
On-Prem17 Nov 2023 | 212
Tencent shrugs off effect of US sanctions and says Chinese suppliers will fill GPU gap
Ordered enough Nvidia kit to keep evolving its AI and has plans to work around bans
On-Prem17 Nov 2023 |
Cisco has a new problem: You take too long to implement its products and stop buying more kit
Supply chain is back to pre-COVID normal, just in time for big clouds to spend $1 billion on networks for AI
Networks16 Nov 2023 | 8
Hundreds of websites cloned to run ads for Chinese football gambling outfits
Linked to org that UK authorities found once failed its anti-money-laundering obligations
Security16 Nov 2023 | 1
VMware revealed Symantec SASE integration plan before Broadcom finished buying it
Still no word on when the deal will happen, or what’s holding it up
Virtualization14 Nov 2023 | 1
NTT and NEC use vibrating optic fibres to figure out if there's snow on the road
Japan’s short of workers and limiting overtime, so it needs stuff like this – and remote-controlled excavators
Networks14 Nov 2023 | 1
48-nation bloc to crack down on using crypto assets to avoid tax
Blockheaded cheats given four years to find new schemes
Legal13 Nov 2023 | 28
Foxconn launches its first satellites on a SpaceX rideshare, to advance Microsoft space plan
Musky launch outfit teases possible Friday fling for its colossal Starship
Science13 Nov 2023 | 1
China’s annual e-tail frenzy broke records – trust us, say government, Alibaba and JD.com
5.26 billion packages shipped, 639 million on Saturday alone. But nobody's puffing up the cash pile
Channel13 Nov 2023 | 6
Suits ignored IT's warnings, so the tech team went for the neck
On Call Causing pain can be so much more effective than a rational explanation
Networks10 Nov 2023 | 111
While it waited for Broadcom, VMware set out to do to data services what it did to storage
And decided Intel's GPUs are worthy of on-prem AI action
Virtualization07 Nov 2023 | 1
CompSci academic thought tech support was useless – until he needed it
On Call 'They were basically using Emacs for their OS, and a custom LISP script to read email' – what could possibly go wrong?
Software03 Nov 2023 | 244
Apple's year ends with surging services, a billion subscribers, and a view of generation next
Hardware (other than iPhones) is not so hot, but 'emerging markets' are getting Apple fever
Personal Tech03 Nov 2023 | 2
Atlassian predicts its on-prem products will grow faster than cloud
That is not the plan – nor was a larger loss – so investors whacked the Aussie’s share price
Software03 Nov 2023 | 19
FTX crypto-villain Sam Bankman-Fried convicted on all charges
Jury took just four hours to reach guilty verdicts
Cyber-crime03 Nov 2023 | 112
Microsoft warns it may ‘throttle’ its generative AI services for ‘excessive’ users
Updated T&Cs reveal intent to restrict access under undefined circumstances
AI + ML02 Nov 2023 | 11
Lenovo’s phantom ThinkPad X1 foldable laptop finally materializes
The day after Halloween, at a slightly less scary price than LG, HPE, and ASUS charge for their folding laptops
Personal Tech02 Nov 2023 | 17
Indian politicians say Apple warned them of state-sponsored attacks
Nobody knows which state, but government never quite shrugged off claims it uses spyware
Security01 Nov 2023 |
IBM outlines Asian growth ambitions with acquisition of Indonesian ERP consultancy
SAP and Oracle services provider Equine Global becomes part of Big Blue
Software01 Nov 2023 | 2
Google formally gets to work on Android on RISC-V
Emulators coming in 2024, first for wearables
Personal Tech31 Oct 2023 | 3
Canada to remove China’s top messaging app WeChat from government devices
Kaspersky also on the way out due to ‘unacceptable level of risk to privacy and security'
Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2023 | 10
Australian video-streamer lets users opt out of ads for burgers, booze, and betting
All without reducing the effectiveness of data-driven targeting, dammit
Software31 Oct 2023 | 31
Stop what you’re doing and patch this critical Confluence flaw, warns Atlassian
Risk of ‘significant data loss’ for on-prem customers
Patches31 Oct 2023 | 2
SolarWinds charged after SEC says biz knew IT was leaky ahead of SUNBURST attack
Developer labels action 'unfounded' after company and CISO slapped with suit for misleading investors
Cybersecurity Month31 Oct 2023 | 9
Boston Dynamics teaches robo-dog to recognise speech, respond using ChatGPT
Video The result is a very odd mechanical tour guide that thinks it has parents – sure, no problem
AI + ML30 Oct 2023 | 24
As uncertainty swirls, VMware closes its home for experimental software
Broadcom buy set to wrap any moment now – probably
Virtualization30 Oct 2023 | 2
Linus Torvalds releases Linux 6.6 after running out of excuses for further work
Removes references to the NSA, adds KSMBD in-kernel server SMB networking
OSes30 Oct 2023 | 21
Fujitsu public cloud to be absorbed into main biz, then refreshed
Asia In Brief PLUS: Hikvision accused of targeting minorities; Australia's 'cyber-shield'; Huawei's superchip source revealed?
Off-Prem30 Oct 2023 | 5
Ask a builder to fix a server and out come the vastly inappropriate power tools
On Call Sure, go ahead, make more dust while I deal with a client who doesn't care about redundancy
On-Prem27 Oct 2023 | 134
Airbus commissions three wind-powered ships to sail the Atlantic
To move parts while making less CO2, so it can build more planes that make plenty
Offbeat27 Oct 2023 | 55
Microsoft enlists iFixit to extend Surface spare parts program
Appears to have expanded coverage to at least 30 nations
Personal Tech27 Oct 2023 | 9
Biting the hand that feeds IT
