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Cloudy hardware spending topped cash splashed on conventional data centre kit for first time in Q2, says IDC

So how do you feel about bridging storage and memory to supercharge your data center?

NATO's at risk if you go your own Huawei on 5G, US government warns Germany

With so many cloud services dependent on it, Azure Active Directory has become a single point of failure for Microsoft

Apple, Epic trade barbs in App Store brouhaha while judge pins July for jury time

Oracle gears up to fend off RPA and workflow upstarts by pouring more automation into core enterprise apps

Yet another twist for 2020: Google says Android 12 will make it easier to install alternative app stores

Ignite your SQL Server with a broken Cumulative Update

FYI: If you're running HP Device Manager, anyone on your network can get admin on your server via backdoor

It's 2020 so not only is your mouse config tool a Node.JS Electron app, it's also pwnable by an evil webpage

Plane-tracking site Flight Radar 24 DDoSed... just as drones spotted buzzing over Azerbaijan and Armenia

DuckDuckGo cries fowl after being expunged from Google's Android search preferences menu for most of Europe

Not Particularly Mortifying: IEEE eggheads probe npm registry, say JavaScript libs not as insecure as feared

Looking for a new tech job? Just browsing? This week's list includes roles for devs, engineers, and Perl maestros

Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'

Imagine working for GitHub and writing a command-line interface for the platform, then GitHub makes an 'official' one

Google sees signs of success in its campaign to water down Australian pay-for-news plan

Philippines president threatens Facebook ban after The Social Network™ deleted supportive content

Alphabet promises to no longer bung tens of millions of dollars to alleged sex pest execs who quit mid-probe

'Robbery, economic plunder, victim of larcenous cronyism and a heist'

Atari threatens to hit fourth VCS shipping deadline, provides pictures of boxes as proof of product delivery

Lenovo sheds lockdown pounds with lightweight ThinkPad, reveals pricing for the world's first foldable PC

The perils of building a career on YouTube: Guitar teacher's channel nearly deleted after music publisher complains

Japan unveils new scheme to speed up adoption of cashless payments

Geek's Guide

Casting a teleport spell is out of the question? Next Falcon-powered 'naut trip to space station set for Halloween

Good news: Euro sat spots liquid pools on Mars. Bad news: Under ice, saltier than someone who put last penny into a failed crypto biz

Square Kilometre Array signs off on construction plans – UK last holdout before building phase begins

Not the Southern Rail of the stars: Rocket Lab plans frequent, regular trips to Venus from 2023

Prepare your shocked faces: Crypto-coin exchange boss laundered millions of bucks for online auction crooks

It's 2020, so let's just go ahead and let Amazon have everyone's handprints so it can process payments

Businesses use Square to sell online – we'll show you how

Groq is hard to grok but reckons its AI chips roq: Ex-Googlers' unorthodox design now shipping to customers

Verity Stob

Singapore Airlines turns A380 into a restaurant, delivers plane food to homes

British Army develops AI shotgun drone with machine vision for indoor use

G'day mate, I'll take two tinnies, a packet of Tim Tams, some Vegemite, and a bork

Despite rolling a homegrown translation app with iOS 14, Apple resorts to freebie tool for Dutch Ts-and-Cs waffle

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Guy is booted out of IT amid outsourcing, wipes databases, deletes emails... goes straight to jail for two-plus years

Shifting your tech to outside suppliers? Maybe lock down systems first

That's a sticky Siemens situation: Former coder blows his logic bomb guilty plea deal in court

UpdatedHappy to admit I did a great job, says alleged firefighter-arsonist. Um, nope, says judge

Ex-Samsung man to serve 6+ years in prison for embezzlement

Lee forced to serve full term after eight-year hiatus

Uni IT man stole £22k of Macs to pay for smack

Lawless man sold lifestyle devices at Cash Converters

Rogue IT admin goes off the rails, shuts down Canadian train switches

Grouchy Grupe gets a year and a day behind bars after going loco on network hardware

Funnily enough, no, IT admins who trash biz machines can't claim they had permission

Court makes quick work of techie's long-shot appeal

Foil snack food bags make a decent Faraday cage, judge finds

Chap kept his work PDA in one, slacked off, played golf, lost job, appealed, failed to get job back

Engineer gets 18 months in the clink for looting ex-bosses' FTP server

Chap admits he carried on accessing confidential email, schematics after qutting

US engineer in the clink for wrecking ex-bosses' smart meter radio masts with Pink Floyd lyrics

Why does anyone do anything? I don't know, I was really drunk at the time

Code-thief pleads guilty to pinching file system to sell to China

DoJ isn't naming names but this was probably an attempt to lift IBM's GPFS

Dude hit with $300K bill for faking his hours, hacking boss's website

When your fake invoice strategy is black numbers on a black background, you're gonna fail

Software dev cuffed for 'nicking proprietary financial trading code'

Claims he was scared about losing his job

Yee-hacked! Fired Texan sysadmin goes rogue, trashes boot business

Pays high price for 'elphaser' backdoor antics

I was authorized to trash my employer's network, sysadmin tells court

Michael Thomas' appeal will send shockwaves through IT industry if successful

Paper factory fired its sysadmin. He returned via VPN and caused $1m in damage. Now jailed

34-month sentence and he has to pay his old bosses back

Ex-Citibank IT bloke wiped bank's core routers, will now spend 21 months in the clink

Performance review sparks deletion, 110 offices knackered

PLA sysadmin gets six months house arrest for yanking US Army docs

'Have you ever worked for a foreign army?' 'Uhhh no', clicks eager admin

The insidious danger of the lone wolf control freak sysadmin

He's got your back... along with your passwords, your contacts and your work

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