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)

The rise of the cloud data warehouse

(2021/11/15)

Performance at the right price is key, says AWS



Google wants US government to help develop chiplet design standards, so they're easier to make and buy

(2021/11/15)

Submission to USA's call for chip supply chain warns on 'blunt interventions', making it far more colorful than most



There's only one cure for passive-aggressive Space Invader bosses, and that's more passive aggression

(2021/11/15)

For when a terse email just won't do



Boffins use nuclear radiation to send data wirelessly

(2021/11/15)

Shall we call it Die-Fi? Or NoTooth? Either would be unkind, as this experiment used little radiation, but much exotic hardware



Toshiba to become Threeshiba – company split to spur growth as strife persists

(2021/11/15)

One company for devices, one for office kit, another for infrastructure, batteries & tech services, Kioxia stake to be sold



FBI spams thousands with fake infosec advice after 'software misconfiguration'

(2021/11/15)

Looks like feuding hackers wanted to expose Feds' failings as a public service. We want to believe



Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.16 rc1 with new performance-enhancing memory tech

(2021/11/15)

Emperor Penguin rates Memory Folios tech – source of that performance bump – as most important new feature in 'not huge' release



ZTE’s Zero Carbon energy network empowers E2E ICT infrastructure for sustainable 5G development

(2021/11/14)

Transformed infrastructure promotes intelligent solar energy and lithium battery, simplified power supply, modular DCs



He called himself the King of Fraud. Now this bot lord will reign in prison for years

(2021/11/13)

Thousands of servers, hundreds of thousands of IP addresses used by scammer to drum up $7m in fake web advert impressions



Microsoft engineer fixes enterprise-level Chromium bug students could exploit to cheat in online tests

(2021/11/12)

Ability to block 'view source' for specific URLs hasn't actually worked for years



Apple is beginning to undo decades of Intel, x86 dominance in PC market

(2021/11/12)

What a difference a year makes?



ChaosDB: Infosec bods could pull anyone's plaintext Azure Cosmos DB keys at will from Microsoft admin tools

(2021/11/12)

And they had a wildcard cert too. Still feeling secure?



Microsoft admits Samsung phones under Intune mobile device management are dropping out of compliance

(2021/11/12)

Auto-restart or manual update requires manual interaction to bring a gadget back to the light



Earth's wobbly companion is probably the result of a lunar impact, reckon space boffins

(2021/11/12)

Reflected light points to Moon-like material on recently discovered rock



BT's Plusnet shows Google how it's done as email woes enter their third day

(2021/11/12)

Call that an outage? Now this is an outage



Workplace surveillance booming during pandemic, destroying trust in employers

(2021/11/12)

At the same time, Brit MPs call for tighter regulations on AI snooping



We're making F# more normal as a language, says its creator

(2021/11/12)

Loved by users, impenetrable to others, but 6.0 update aims to change that



Dell: Make sure you get the right server for your unique needs

(2021/11/12)

Why general purpose compute is general in name only



Brit analysts formed pact to crash Autonomy's market valuation, ex-CFO tells US court

(2021/11/12)

Eye-catching claim in an eye-catching case



Google denies Gmail users an early start to the weekend after problems accessing service

(2021/11/12)

Prolonged outage in Europe and beyond dampens productivity



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