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)

Nextcloud boss: You gotta fight … for your right … to 'plug into Windows and offer the exact same service'

(2021/12/02)

It's the browser wars all over again – but this time it's cloud storage



New UK product security law won't be undercut by rogue traders upping and vanishing, government boasts

(2021/12/02)

El Reg asks about phoenixing – but will answer convince world+dog?



European Cybercrime Centre confident it's kicked credit card crims – again

(2021/12/02)

Poised to reveal similar haul to 2020's €40M loss prevention total



Are you a challenger bank or a technically challenged bank?

(2021/12/02)

Equinix: Either way, our digital infrastructure can help



China to create workers' paradise for ride share drivers

(2021/12/02)

Communist China (belatedly) recognises that drivers are people who need food, sleep, bathrooms, and unions



Amazon Appstore melts over Android 12 'Snow Cone'

(2021/12/02)

Running the latest version of Android? Appstore apps no longer work



Three key ransomware actors changed jobs on October 18 – the same day REvil went dark

(2021/12/02)

Underground industry grows in complexity and sophistication, says Santander Group researcher



Meta won't migrate future acquisitions out of AWS

(2021/12/02)

The Artist Formerly Known as Facebook and the cloud colossus become best cloudy buds – especially around PyTorch



Nutanix, VMware end legal fight over CEO Rajiv Ramaswami

(2021/12/02)

Now they can get back to arguing about computers and clouds



All your database are belong to us: AWS wants every data silo on its platform

(2021/12/02)

Also: Custom SQL Server service, free SageMaker ML, and experts on hand to label data



Apple files fresh appeal to stop court order demanding external payment systems in iOS apps

(2021/12/02)

iGiant warned developers it could still charge fees for third-party financial transactions anyway



Amazon accused of grossly underreporting COVID-19 cases to US labor agency

(2021/12/02)

'Yes, we had nearly 20,000 cases last year but only 27 were directly work-related. Honestly.'



Qualcomm makes its own mobile gaming rig, hypes new Windows 11 chips

(2021/12/02)

G3x Handheld Developer Kit born from hookup with Razer



Google sued for firing staff who claim they tried to follow 'Don't be evil' motto

(2021/12/01)

Civil complaint dovetails with ongoing litigation over alleged union busting



Microsoft's Teams Essential tier seems designed to coax people on to Business Basic

(2021/12/01)

Looks like good value, but sorely lacking in some important areas



Russia: It isn't just us – a bit of an old US rocket might get as close as 5.4km to the ISS

(2021/12/01)

Meanwhile, Soyuz Cluedo continues: It was someone, with the drill, in the habitation module



Microsoft: What's that? A patch for make-me-admin vuln? Sorry – can't hear you. Have a new jumper instead

(2021/12/01)

Redmond fiddles with Paint while Windows burns



So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all

(2021/12/01)

That means the 'forseeable future' at Mountain View is... about two years



What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16

(2021/12/01)

Can we just postpone these changes to next year?



Singapore and UK ink digital trade agreements at Future Tech Forum in London

(2021/12/01)

Such memorandums of understanding are all the rage



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