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)

NTT finds partner to help accelerate datacenter builds in Europe, North America

(2022/04/04)

Asset management outfit Macquarie will buy existing bit barns. But first, check out the shiny new 15.2MW bit barn in Indonesia



Microsoft debuts System Center 2022

(2022/04/04)

Shame it's not finished – Microsoft has promised more hybrid cloud capabilities are coming real soon now



AI beats top players at Bridge in two-day tournament

(2022/04/03)

Plus: Improving Google Search and open-source software library for more natural computer speech



Crooks use fake emergency data requests to get personal info out of Big Tech – report

(2022/04/02)

Plus: Hive hits health-care org, law enforcement ransomware response is lacking, and orgs can't meet new disclosure rules



Boston Dynamics' latest robot is a warehouse workhorse

(2022/04/02)

When does this thing get to unionize?



Tomorrow Water thinks we should colocate datacenters and sewage plants

(2022/04/02)

If it can cut energy requirements for both, this idea might not stink after all



Scientists repurpose hoverfly vision to detect drones by sound

(2022/04/02)

It's a bug's life



Court erred in Neo4j source license ruling, says Software Freedom Conservancy

(2022/04/02)

If decision is upheld, this 'could seriously harm FOSS and copyleft'



Amazon warehouse workers in New York unionize in historic win against web giant

(2022/04/02)

White House chimes in: Folks 'in every state must have a free and fair choice' to unionize



GitLab issues critical update after hard-coding passwords into accounts

(2022/04/01)

Fixed passphrases for OmniAuth users not such a great idea



Terra Quantum nets $75m for cryptography, security work

(2022/04/01)

Ferroelectric devices key for this qubit-slinging startup



Chinese distro Deepin hits 20.5, complete with browser called Browser

(2022/04/01)

Pretty 'community' version of one of the best-known Linuxes in Middle Kingdom



UK suit over reselling surplus Microsoft licenses rolls on

(2022/04/01)

In the meantime, Windows giant eliminates 'challenged restriction'



More charged in UK Lapsus$ investigation

(2022/04/01)

Two teenagers arrested as part of police probe into extortion group



IDC: Public clouds to surpass non-cloud spending this year

(2022/04/01)

So long as the economy stays healthy, and supply can catch up to demand



SAP hits 50: Entrenched, spread out and fully middle-aged

(2022/04/01)

Tech’s posterchild of German industrial success must face its failures as it succumbs to midlife angst



RISC-V takes steps to minimize fragmentation

(2022/04/01)

Steering body calls for help to 'identify ISA gaps, build plans for future extensions'



The month I worked for DEADHEAD: Yes, that was their job title

(2022/04/01)

We can't have that contractor making us look bad



Google: Russian credential thieves target NATO, Eastern European military

(2022/04/01)

Also: Belarusian miscreants pivot to browser-in-the-browser attacks



Web3 'contains the seeds of a dystopian nightmare' says analyst firm

(2022/04/01)

Forrester Research is DeFi-ing current hype



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Brief History Of Linux (#2)
Hammurabi's Open-Source Code

Hammurabi became king of Babylonia around 1750BC. Under his reign, a
sophisticated legal code developed; Version 1, containing 282 clauses, was
carved into a large rock column open to the public. However, the code
contained several errors (Hammurabi must have been drunk), which numerous
citizens demanded be fixed.

One particularly brave Babylonian submitted to the king's court a stack of
cloth patches that, when affixed to the column, would cover up and correct
the errors. With the king's approval, these patches were applied to the
legal code; within a month a new corrected rock column (Version 2.0) was
officially announced. While future kings never embraced this idea (who
wanted to admit they made a mistake?), the concept of submitting patches
to fix problems is now taken for granted in modern times.