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)

A bug introduced 6 months ago brought Google's Cloud Load Balancer to its knees

(2021/11/23)

Another 30 minutes and there would have been nothing to see



UK data guardian challenges government proposals on automated decision-making

(2021/11/23)

Plans to change UK regulations could mean a 'significant departure' from EU law, watchdog says



Joint venture: Uber Eats to offer weed orders in Ontario

(2021/11/23)

O Cannabis! Meanwhile, ride biz back to court in the UK over driver contracts



Economy class: AWS points set-your-own-cap Fleets service at cloudy desktop apps

(2021/11/23)

Do users dream of Elastic fleets?



Patching Windows Server without needing to reboot is a handy feature – but it's only available on Azure

(2021/11/23)

Trampolines and Retpoline: Applying patches at the function level



UK Ministry of Justice secures HVAC systems 'protected' by passwordless Wi-Fi after Register tipoff

(2021/11/23)

There's a default admin password online too



UK Test and Trace finding consultant habit hard to break: More contracts go to Deloitte and Accenture

(2021/11/23)

New agency in charge, still outsourcing like the clappers



Carbon negative supercomputing is closer than it appears

(2021/11/23)

Lenovo: Carbon neutral energy sources and green recycled energy are the key



Qualcomm kinda spins out Snapdragon – as a brand, not a business

(2021/11/23)

Marketing jargon alert: Modernized, streamlined, brand iconography and more prominent fireballs inside



Infosec bods: After more than a year, Sky gets round to squashing hijacking bug in 6m home broadband routers

(2021/11/23)

Plus: DNS cache poisoning again, cops probe property conveyancing group's IT outage, Azure hole addressed, and more



James Webb Space Telescope gets all shook up – launch delayed again

(2021/11/23)

Space agencies have been planning this thing since 1996, so what's four more days?



AWS commits to update its own Linux every other year

(2021/11/23)

Starting with a release called Amazon Linux 2022 that just hit preview



Fancy being an astronaut but didn't go to uni? Your time may have finally come

(2021/11/23)

Japanese space agency wants 'nauts with good eyesight and work experience – no degree required



Microsoft quietly delivers Windows 11 Enterprise VMs for devs

(2021/11/23)

Loaded with all the goodies coders need to run wild with new OS, and packaged for four hypervisors



Indian bank smacks down allegation it exposed 180 million customers' accounts

(2021/11/23)

Infosec firm says it found unpatched software, Bank admits Exchange may not have been in the best shape



China's hypersonic glider didn't just orbit Earth, it 'fired a missile' while at Mach 5

(2021/11/23)

Middle Kingdom suggests US is making it all up to justify arms development. As if!



RISE with AWS? Adidas migrates SAP S/4 HANA to the fluffy white stuff, snubs SAP's lift-and-shift programme

(2021/11/22)

Globo sports brand also interested in AWS analytics systems, data lakes and ML tools as part of upgrade



IBM researcher suing for age discrimination blames CEO Arvind Krishna for his ousting

(2021/11/22)

Attorney for aggrieved scientist urges judge to let the evidence be presented



SSL keys, sFTP passwords and more exposed after someone broke into GoDaddy Managed WordPress using 'compromised password'

(2021/11/22)

Yikes: Up to 1.2 million customers affected



Microsoft previews Azure App Service Automatic Scaling, for when defining your own rules is too much like hard work

(2021/11/22)

What could possibly go wrong?



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