ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

VMware CEO bats away Broadcom concerns – it’s just ‘the next transition’

(2022/08/30)

VMware Explore And so is vSphere for Arm: CEO tells Reg he’s ‘beating up’ the exec responsible for the port



Googler says she was forced out after opposing $1.2bn cloud contract with Israel

(2022/08/30)

Fears of human-rights abuses overshadow Project Nimbus



Ubuntu Linux 18.04 systemd security patch breaks DNS in Microsoft Azure

(2022/08/30)

Snafu disrupts VMs as cloud giant offers workarounds



Official: Arm-based VMs available on Microsoft Azure

(2022/08/30)

Going live in 10 regions, running Ampere Altra silicon



Tesla faces Autopilot lawsuit alleging phantom braking

(2022/08/30)

Automaker accused of hiding malfunctioning tech from drivers



Teradata takes on cloud-native rivals with data lakes, MLOps

(2022/08/30)

Reworked use of object storage changes footing with competitors but will need to convince devs



Dell intros updated VxRail and dedicated AI platform with VMware

(2022/08/30)

VMware Explore HCI platform now supports vSphere 8, vSAN 8, and VCF 4.5



Chips still down for Toyota: Low semiconductor supplies dampen output

(2022/08/30)

Production dips almost 7% between January and July. COVID-19 disruption also blamed



VMware reckons 20% of server cores can come back to work thanks to vSphere 8 and SmartNICs

(2022/08/30)

VMware Explore Re-composes automation and management tools as ‘Aria’, reduces cloud hardware requirements, tries to reinvent security ... again



Singapore struggles to curb cryptocurrency enthusiasm

(2022/08/30)

City-state can’t beat them, so plans to regulate them, starting with consumer suitability tests



That 'clean' Google Translate app is actually Windows crypto-mining malware

(2022/08/30)

Ah, nothing like a classic Trojan horse



Kylin: The multiple semi-official Chinese versions of Ubuntu

(2022/08/30)

Investigating the world of Chinese Linux



The International Space Station will deorbit in glory. How's your legacy tech doing?

(2022/08/30)

Opinion Your past projects may be a pain, but can they rain fiery death from above?



Microsoft fixes Windows 'idiosyncrasy' that hampered some SMB file transfers

(2022/08/30)

You might find copying data over a network goes at least a little quicker



AI detects 20,000 hidden taxable swimming pools in France, netting €10m

(2022/08/30)

Aerial photo scanning tool to be expanded to catch out other unreported home improvements



Meta picks India for WhatsApp's first e-commerce service

(2022/08/30)

Indian residents will be able to buy their groceries through the chat app – for as long as the government is happy with the idea



AMD refreshes desktop CPUs with 5nm Ryzen 7000s that can reach 5.7GHz with 16 cores

(2022/08/30)

Prices start at $300, you'll also need a new motherboard, RAM, etc



Google Play to ban Android VPN apps from interfering with ads

(2022/08/30)

Developers say this is not the privacy protection it's made out to be



US court backs FCC decision to let SpaceX fly Starlink sats at lower altitudes

(2022/08/30)

Judges just didn't buy Viasat's in-orbit prang fears



FTC sues data broker for selling millions of people's 'precise' location info

(2022/08/30)

Which would be very problematic in this Post-Roe era



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