Altair pays $79m to SAS in software license spat, will sell rival product
Epic copyright saga goes on as US giant vows to keep fighting UK data analytics firm
Software28 Jun 2022 |
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HPE thinks your next GreenLake deploy will be a private cloud
Plus: IT giant expands relationship with Red Hat and SUSE, tackles hybrid data fabrics
On-Prem28 Jun 2022 |
Databricks promises cheap cloud data warehousing at an eighth of the cost of rivals
Inertia of embedded BI and analytics a limiting factor, however
Storage28 Jun 2022 |
Visual Studio adds ability to edit code in All-in-One Search
Just one more wafer-thin feature to pop in Microsoft's swelling dev suite
Devops28 Jun 2022 |
VMware reveals vSphere-as-a-service – but not the price
Cloudy vSphere+ can manage multiple on-prem environments but not VMw-powered public clouds… for now
Virtualization28 Jun 2022 |
Arm jumps on ray tracing bandwagon with beefy GPU design
British chip designer’s reveal comes months after mobile RT moves by AMD, Imagination
Systems28 Jun 2022 | 1
Soviet-era tech could change the geothermal industry
Gyrotrons can super heat plasma, maybe vaporize 20km of rock, too
Science28 Jun 2022 | 17
Customized malware coded to target OT systems
Protection starts with having the right network design, says Rockwell Automation
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AMD targeted by RansomHouse, cybercrims claim to have '450Gb' in stolen data
Relative cybercrime newbies not clear on whether they're alleging to have gigabits or gigabytes of chip biz's data
Cyber-crime28 Jun 2022 | 1
Restructure at Arm focused on 'non-engineering' roles
Updated Meanwhile, CEO wants to vacuum up engineering talent amid return to stock market
Systems28 Jun 2022 | 8
Have you modelled the attack paths into your organization? Because an attacker already has
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YugabyteDB tempts devs with read-committed isolation levels
It's easier than retraining PostgreSQL devs, says distributed relational database startup
Databases28 Jun 2022 | 1
Activist investors join Toshiba board to pave the way to sale
Appointments said to 'strengthen the alignment between shareholders and management'
Systems28 Jun 2022 |
NASA's mini-spacecraft CAPSTONE just launched on its journey to the Moon
25kg CubeSat the size of a bar fridge will plot course for Gateway space station, pave way for human boots on Moon
Science28 Jun 2022 | 3
Not much of this actually from 'China anymore,' says Northern Light Motors boss
UK outfit's all-electric 630 three-wheeler is eccentric, but supply chain issues are less whimsical
Personal Tech28 Jun 2022 | 44
Returning to the Moon on the European Service Module
Interview Moving to series production and dealing with the US, where things are done slightly differently
Science28 Jun 2022 | 12
Running DOS on 64-bit Windows and Linux: Just because you can
FOSS Fest DOS isn't dead. You can still run it and its apps, even now
OSes28 Jun 2022 | 19
China's blockchain boosters slam crypto as Ponzi scheme
Communists reckon Bill Gates and Warren Buffet got it right
Software28 Jun 2022 | 44
Cisco compresses Catalyst switches to compact size
Fanless fun for the whole family (if the supply chain functions)
Networks28 Jun 2022 | 11
To Washington's relief, GlobalWafers to spend $5 billion on Texas plant
Cash had been burning a hole in company's pocket after deal to buy Siltronic fell through
On-Prem28 Jun 2022 | 4
Tencent admits to poisoned QR code attack on QQ chat platform
Could it be Beijing was right about games being bad for China?
Security28 Jun 2022 | 6
Carnival Cruises torpedoed by US states, agrees to pay $6m after wave of cyberattacks
Now those are some phishing boats
Cyber-crime28 Jun 2022 | 13
India extends deadline for compliance with infosec logging rules by 90 days
Helpfully announced extension on deadline day
CSO28 Jun 2022 | 6
Hangouts hangs up: Google chat app shuts this year
How many messaging services does this web giant need? It's gotta be over 9,000
Personal Tech28 Jun 2022 | 12
OpenSSL 3.0.5 awaits release to fix potential worse-than-Heartbleed flaw
Though severity up for debate, and limited chips affected, broken tests hold back previous patch from distribution
Patches27 Jun 2022 | 6
Not enough desks and parking spots, wobbly Wi-Fi: Welcome back to the office, Tesla staff
Don't worry, the tweetings will continue until morale improves
On-Prem27 Jun 2022 | 23
LGBTQ+ folks warned of dating app extortion scams
Uncle Sam tells of crooks exploiting Pride Month
Cyber-crime27 Jun 2022 | 5
5G C-band rollout at US airports slowed over radio altimeter safety fears
Well, they did say from July, now they really mean from July 2023
Networks27 Jun 2022 | 9
IBM settles age discrimination case that sought top execs' emails
Just days after being ordered to provide messages, Big Blue opts out of public trial
Legal27 Jun 2022 | 34
FTC urged to probe Apple, Google for enabling ‘intense system of surveillance’
Ad tracking poses a privacy and security risk in post-Roe America, lawmakers warn
Personal Tech27 Jun 2022 | 9
Behold this drone-dropping rifle with two-mile range
Confuses rather than destroys unmanned aerials to better bring back intel, says Ukrainian designer
Bootnotes27 Jun 2022 | 28
TSMC may surpass Intel in quarterly revenue for first time
Fab frenemies: x86 giant set to give Taiwanese chipmaker more money as it revitalizes foundry business
Systems27 Jun 2022 | 1
Misguided call for a 7-Zip boycott brings attention to FOSS archiving tools
Analysis It's good to highlight some alternatives, but security issues are overblown
Software27 Jun 2022 | 132
Toyota, Subaru recall EVs because tires might literally fall off
Toyota says 'all of the hub bolts' can loosen even 'after low-mileage use'
Personal Tech27 Jun 2022 | 18
Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise adds Wi-Fi 6E to 'premium' access points
Company claims standard will improve performance in dense environments
Networks27 Jun 2022 | 1
Will Lenovo ever think beyond hardware?
Analysis Then again, why develop your own software à la HPE GreenLake when you can use someone else's?
Systems27 Jun 2022 | 1
Intel is running rings around AMD and Arm at the edge
Analysis What will it take to loosen the x86 giant's edge stranglehold?
Edge + IoT27 Jun 2022 | 14
NASA's Psyche mission: 2022 launch is off after software arrives late
Launch window slides into 2023 or 2024 for asteroid-probing project
Applications27 Jun 2022 | 4
Rise in Taiwanese energy prices may hit global chip production
National provider considering cost increase of 15%, which could be passed on to tech customers
Systems27 Jun 2022 | 4
Can SONiC be the Linux of Networking?
Hear how Dell’s latest open source NOS offers Linux for deployment on any scale
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Tech companies ready public stances on Roe v. Wade
Some providing out-of-state medical expenses, others spout general pro-choice statements
Personal Tech27 Jun 2022 | 25
Cloudflare menaces virtual desktops with isolated browser access to internal networks
Gives cloudy email a kicking, too – but VDI should be safe in its bastions
Virtualization27 Jun 2022 | 3
Oracle lands London council deal for £12m ERP project
Evosys bags £2m in bid to replace SAP at Borough of Waltham Forest
PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2022 | 4
Contractor loses entire Japanese city's personal data in USB fail
In brief Also, Chrome add-ons are great for fingerprinting, and hacked hot tubs splurge details
CSO27 Jun 2022 | 14
Cloudflare's outage was human error. There's a way to make tech divinely forgive
Opinion Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge. And the edge is safer if you can take a step back
PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2022 | 23
You need to RTFM, but feel free to use your brain too
Who, Me? But I was only following the procedures!
Systems27 Jun 2022 | 176
Manufacturers realize quantifiable gains - Analytics, cloud, edge intelligence & 5G
It’s time for factories to get smart
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Tropical island paradise ponders tax-free 'Digital Nomad Visa'
Live and work in Bali, pay tax at home
Offbeat27 Jun 2022 | 24
Small in Japan: Hitachi creates its own (modest) cloud
VMware-powered sovereign cloud not going to challenge hyperscalers, but probably won't be the last such venture
PaaS + IaaS27 Jun 2022 | 1
Beijing probes security at academic journal database
It's easy to see why – the question is, why now?
Security27 Jun 2022 | 6
Cerebras sets record for 'largest AI model' on a single chip
In brief Plus: Yandex releases 100-billion-parameter language model for free, and more
AI + ML27 Jun 2022 | 5
Zendesk sold to private investors two weeks after saying it would stay public
Private offer 34 percent above share price is just the thing to change minds
Software27 Jun 2022 | 10
Singapore promises 'brutal and unrelentingly hard' action on dodgy crypto players
But welcomes fast cross-border payments in central bank digital currencies
Cyber-crime27 Jun 2022 | 3
Software-defined silicon is coming for telecom kit later this year
Interview Startup EdgeQ believes pay-for-what-you-use model will make 5G transition more cost-effective
Networks26 Jun 2022 | 17
We're now truly in the era of ransomware as pure extortion without the encryption
Feature Why screw around with cryptography and keys when just stealing the info is good enough
Research25 Jun 2022 | 22
Trouble hiring? Consider loosening your remote work policy
We're going hybrid or off-prem to retain and lure staff, say polled managers
On-Prem25 Jun 2022 | 30
Whatever hit the Moon in March, it left this weird double crater
Pic NASA probe reveals strange hole created by suspected Chinese junk
Science25 Jun 2022 | 54
US senators seek input on their cryptocurrency law via GitHub – and get some
Those town hall meetings that go off the rails? That's the internet all day, every day
Personal Tech25 Jun 2022 | 19
Big Tech silent on data privacy in post-Roe America
We asked what they will do to prevent cases being built against women. So far: Nothing
Personal Tech24 Jun 2022 | 229
More than $100m in cryptocurrency stolen from blockchain biz
'A humbling and unfortunate reminder' that monsters lurk under bridges
Cyber-crime24 Jun 2022 | 33
NASA circles August in its diary to put Artemis I capsule in Moon orbit
First steps by humans to recapture planet's natural satellite
Science24 Jun 2022 | 19
It's a crime to use Google Analytics, watchdog tells Italian website
Updated Because data flows into the United States, not because of that user interface
Networks24 Jun 2022 | 33
Arm most likely to list on the Nasdaq, says SoftBank CEO
Hopes of securing London listing for UK chip designer may be in vain
Systems24 Jun 2022 | 6
Startup rattles tin for e-paper monitor with display fast enough to play video
In grayscale, though. Optimistic plans for daylight-readable display and long-life laptop
Personal Tech24 Jun 2022 | 12
Microsoft issues fix for Windows 11 Wi-Fi hotspots
Meanwhile, 'search highlights' will tell you 'what's special about each day'
Networks24 Jun 2022 | 18
Inspur joins Arm gang with 2U box running Ampere silicon
Arm ecosystem elbowing its way into third largest server vendor in the world
Systems24 Jun 2022 |
Back-to-office mandates won't work, says Salesforce's Benioff
As industry and governments push to get workers crammed into commuter trains, glass box edifices, tech boss says: 'Why?'
SaaS24 Jun 2022 | 66
Semiconductor boom could be coming to an end – analysts
Record revenues buoyed by surge in demand over the last couple of years, but nothing lasts forever
Systems24 Jun 2022 | 5
Microsoft unboxes Exchange Online certification in bid to push customers off-prem
More support engineers needed to keep the email flowing, it seems
SaaS24 Jun 2022 | 8
Teslasuit demo: Taking a crack at force feedback with the 'Glove'
A virtual world at your fingertips with the idea that you feel something gripping your hand
Personal Tech24 Jun 2022 | 8
Google: How we tackled this iPhone, Android spyware
Watching people's every move and collecting their info – not on our watch, says web ads giant
Research24 Jun 2022 | 25
First steps into the world of thought leadership: What could go wrong?
Something for the Weekend I have decided to become a double-spaced, three-word sentenced, humble-bragtastic genius
Networks24 Jun 2022 | 87
The importance of unifying database backup and recovery…
...and why you don’t necessarily need the help of specialist DBAs
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BOFH: HR's gold mine gambit – they get the gold and we get the shaft
Episode 12 If you step outside, you'll find the unicycle for the practical test
BOFH24 Jun 2022 | 106
The perfect crime – undone by the perfect email backups
On Call And we would have gotten away with it, if it hadn't been for you meddling geeks!
Storage24 Jun 2022 | 193
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
'Universal processor' company Tachyum joins European HPC think tank
Still no closer to releasing timeline for its '128 exaflops' AI super, though – and no one's tested the chips yet
Systems24 Jun 2022 | 7
Beijing-backed attackers use ransomware as a decoy while they conduct espionage
They're not lying when they say 'We stole your data' – the lie is about which data they lifted
Cyber-crime24 Jun 2022 | 2
NSO claims 'more than 5' EU states use Pegasus spyware
And it's like, what ... 12, 13,000 total targets a year max, exec says
Security24 Jun 2022 | 41
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
NASA wants nuclear reactor on the Moon by 2030
Space boffins task engineers with creating 40kW lunar fission plant that can operate for ten years
Science24 Jun 2022 | 86
ZTE intros 'cloud laptop' that draws just five watts of power
The catch: It hooks up to desktop-as-a-service and runs Android – so while it looks like a laptop ...
PaaS + IaaS24 Jun 2022 | 30
Intel withholds Ohio fab ceremony over US chip subsidies inaction
$20b factory construction start date unchanged – but the x86 giant is not happy
Systems23 Jun 2022 | 18
Now Amazon debuts an AI programming assistant – CodeWhisperer
Did they get GitHub Copilot to write it?
AI + ML23 Jun 2022 | 6
SpaceX: 5G expansion could kill US Starlink broadband
It would be easier to take this complaint seriously if Elon wasn't so Elon
Networks23 Jun 2022 | 38
Linus Torvalds says Rust is coming to the Linux kernel 'real soon now'
Maintainer lack of familiarity won't be an issue, chief insists, citing his own bafflement when faced with Perl
OSes23 Jun 2022 | 62
Train once, run anywhere, almost: Qualcomm's drive to bring AI to its phone, PC chips
Software toolkit offered to save developers time, effort, battery power
AI + ML23 Jun 2022 | 2
Ubuntu Touch OTA-23 is coming: Do you have one of the older model phones that can test it?
Linux fondleslab effort continues to update 16.04-based phone/tablet distro
OSes23 Jun 2022 | 12
Lenovo reveals small but mighty desktop workstation
ThinkStation P360 Ultra packs latest Intel Core processor, Nvidia RTX A5000 GPU, support for eight monitors
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 10
Totaled Tesla goes up in flames three weeks after crash
A pit and 4,500 gallons of water were needed to put it out
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 170
Oracle shrinks on-prem cloud offering in both size and cost
Now we can squeeze required boxes into a smaller datacenter footprint, says Big Red
Systems23 Jun 2022 | 2
$6b mega contract electronics vendor Sanmina jumps into zero trust
Company was an early adopter of Google Cloud, which led to a search for a new security architecture
CSO23 Jun 2022 | 1
DMCA can't be used to sidestep First Amendment, court rules
Anonymous speech protections apply online too, and copyright can't diminish that
Legal23 Jun 2022 | 18
Want your data flowing to every part of your company? You need to get it to the cloud first
Join this webinar to hear how HCI can help
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Original Acorn Arthur project lead explains RISC OS genesis
Paul Fellows describes how it beat the overambitious ARX to Acorn's Archimedes computer
OSes23 Jun 2022 | 38
Amazon can't channel the dead, but its deepfake voices take a close second
Megacorp shows Alexa speaking like kid's deceased grandma
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 23
Toshiba shares up as buyers prepare to shell out $22b
Japanese tech conglomerate has reportedly received 10 offers, each with a different idea about how to do things
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 1
Chinese startup hires chip godfather and TSMC vet to break into DRAM biz
They're putting a crew together, and Beijing's tossed in $750m to get things started
Storage23 Jun 2022 | 2
£11.5b in 10 years: UK's government cloud services unit G-Cloud
50% of public sector tech budgets in the cloud by 2015? Well that didn't happen!
SaaS23 Jun 2022 | 5
Windows 11 22H2 is almost here. Is it ready for the enterprise?
The Start Menu has been tweaked, but Smart App Control will appeal to the security conscious
OSes23 Jun 2022 | 48
Having trouble finding power supplies or server racks? You're not the only one
Hyperscalers hog the good stuff
On-Prem23 Jun 2022 | 1
Halfords suffers a puncture in the customer details department
I like driving in my car, hope my data's not gone far
Security23 Jun 2022 | 57
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 | 18
Bipolar transistors made from organic materials for the first time
Move over silicon – digital circuits have a flexible new friend
Science23 Jun 2022 | 71
If you didn't store valuable data, ransomware would become impotent
Column Start by pondering if customers could store their own info and provide access
Storage23 Jun 2022 | 45
Europol arrests nine suspected of stealing 'several million' euros via phishing
Victims lured into handing over online banking logins, police say
Cyber-crime23 Jun 2022 | 7
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 | 40
Brave Search leaves beta, offers Goggles for filtering, personalizing results
Freedom or echo chamber?
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 8
Meta agrees to tweak ad system after US govt brands it discriminatory
And pay the tiniest of fines, too
Personal Tech23 Jun 2022 | 11
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
Zscaler bulks up AI, cloud, IoT in its zero-trust systems
Focus emerges on workload security during its Zenith 2022 shindig
Networks22 Jun 2022 |
Amazon shows off robot warehouse workers that won't complain, quit, unionize...
Mega-corp insists it's all about 'people and technology working safely and harmoniously together'
Science22 Jun 2022 | 57
Mega's unbreakable encryption proves to be anything but
Boffins devise five attacks to expose private files
Research22 Jun 2022 | 39
Cisco warns of security holes in its security appliances
Bugs potentially useful for rogue insiders, admin account hijackers
Patches22 Jun 2022 | 11
RISC-V International emits more open CPU specs
Embedded World First edicts of 2022 include firmware, hypervisor-level specifications
Systems22 Jun 2022 | 11
WSL2 on Windows Server 2022 hits Windows Update
Devs who like a Linux flavor to their server code get a gift from Redmond
OSes22 Jun 2022 | 1
Israeli air raid sirens triggered in possible cyberattack
Source remains unclear, plenty suspect Iran
Cyber-crime22 Jun 2022 | 2
Castrol, Submer shift gears to datacenter immersion cooling
Just us who see 'liquid engineering' and think three pints at lunch on a Thursday? OK, got it, just us
On-Prem22 Jun 2022 | 10
A miserable work week spent toiling inside 'the metaverse'
Nausea, eye strain, inability to take notes, migraines are just a few of Metaverse work 'perks'
Offbeat22 Jun 2022 | 68
PCIe 7.0 pegged to arrive in 2025 with speeds of 512 GBps
Although PCIe 5.0 is just coming to market, here's what we can expect in the years ahead
Networks22 Jun 2022 | 10
TypeScript joins 5 most used languages in 2022 lineup
Stackoverflow survey: JavaScript still in lead. Plus, you may hate COBOL, but users saw a salary jump
Software22 Jun 2022 | 15
NASA ignores InSight's battery woes in pursuit of data
Space boffins: Nevermind ekeing out the battery, let it go out in a blaze of glory!
Science22 Jun 2022 | 6
Amazon fears it could run out of US warehouse workers by 2024
Internal research says the hiring pool has already dried up in a number of locations stateside
Personal Tech22 Jun 2022 | 81
DARPA study challenges assumptions about distributed ledger (and Bitcoin) security
Blockchain not as decentralised as many assume, finds Pentagon sponsored research
Security22 Jun 2022 | 11
UK govt considers invoking national security in Arm IPO saga
Reportedly dropping hints it may use legislation to push a London listing
Systems22 Jun 2022 | 24
Rows, columns, and the search for a database that can do everything
Analysis Snowflake last week promised analytics and transactions in the same system. For some it was déjà vu all over again
Databases22 Jun 2022 | 6
Meta now involved in making metalevel standards for the metaverse
So are Microsoft, Adobe, W3C, Huawei, and… IKEA? Not Apple, though
Personal Tech22 Jun 2022 | 17
Graphical desktop system X Window just turned 38
Down but not yet on its Way(land) just yet
Software22 Jun 2022 | 74
This startup says it can glue all your networks together in the cloud
Or some approximation of that
Networks22 Jun 2022 | 9
Yodel becomes the latest victim of a cyber 'incident'
British parcel delivery firm 'working around the clock' to get systems back and running
Security22 Jun 2022 | 37
Leading Arch Linux derivative Manjaro puts out version 21.3
A simpler, easier remix sounds like a good thing, but glitches like these shouldn't be in a point release
OSes22 Jun 2022 | 8
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
Spain, Austria not convinced location data is personal information
Privacy group NOYB sues to get telcos to respect GDPR data access rights
Personal Tech22 Jun 2022 | 50
Mars Express orbiter to get code update after 19 years
And over millions of miles, too. Piece of cake!?
Science22 Jun 2022 | 51
Liftoff at last for South Korean space program
Satellite-deploying rocket finally launches – after a few setbacks
Science22 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 | 13
AWS buys before it tries with quantum networking center
Fundamental problems of qubit physics aside, the cloud giant thinks it can help
Science22 Jun 2022 | 5
