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)

Google to build cut of its cloud operated by France’s Thales, for French government clients

(2021/10/06)

Sovereign cloud meets hyperscale



User to chatbot: Help! My kid has COVID! Chatbot to user: Always wear a condom

(2021/10/06)

Singapore pulls plug on 'Ask Jamie' after it also suggested polio jabs and other 'misaligned replies'



Google won't fight South Korea's new app store payment laws requiring third-party payments

(2021/10/06)

But will 'examine options that allow us to maintain the service fees that keep Android free'



Facebook rendered spineless by buggy audit code that missed catastrophic network config error

(2021/10/06)

Explains mega-outage with boilerplate response: We try hard, we're sorry we failed, we'll try to do better



Google to auto-enroll 150m users, 2m YouTubers with two-factor authentication

(2021/10/06)

Uh, cool?



Facebook far too consumed by greed to make itself less harmful to society, whistleblower tells Congress

(2021/10/06)

Lawmakers urged to solve 'this crisis' of corporate America putting profits before people



D-Wave claims it can build a gate-model quantum computer

(2021/10/05)

And if it works, you could play with it in a cloud around 2024



Why have one on-prem database, when you could have 15 in the cloud?

(2021/10/05)

It really is time to declare your Database Freedom



Windows 11 in detail: Incremental upgrade spoilt by onerous system requirements and usability mis-steps

(2021/10/05)

Not quite business as usual for Microsoft



OVH drops IPO target against figure mooted a month ago

(2021/10/05)

Still plans to raise €350m and aim for non US-cloud fans



Google Cloud UK boss boomerangs back to Salesforce to run freshly acquired Slack's EMEA ops

(2021/10/05)

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in



Telegraph newspaper bares 10TB of subscriber data and server logs to world+dog

(2021/10/05)

Poor securing of Elasticsearch cluster strikes again



Microsoft's problem child, Windows 11, is here. Will you run it? Can you run it? Do you even WANT to run it?

(2021/10/05)

Hardware compatibility, testing fury... though under the hood there are things to like



VMware’s stack heads to Arm architecture – out on its new two-faced edge

(2021/10/05)

vSphere as-a-service on the way too, along with software-defined memory



Infosys and Wipro employees charged with insider trading

(2021/10/05)

Undisclosed information allegedly shared earns one $350k, but he doesn't get to keep it



Italian researchers' silver nano-spaghetti promises to help solve power-hungry neural net problems

(2021/10/05)

Back-to-analogue computing model designed to mimic emergent properties of the brain



Microsoft's .NET Foundation under fire as resigning board member questions its role

(2021/10/05)

'Don't tell us you're about the community and then go do the business of Microsoft'



Competition watchdog? We've heard of it. But emergency comms firm still on track to Airwave hello to £1.2bn

(2021/10/05)

As replacement system faces delays, the incumbent reaps rewards



How the GOAST in the machine takes the fear out of genomics computing

(2021/10/05)

Webinar highlights GPU performance at CPU costs



Singtel outlines ambitions to become an ASEAN data centre power player

(2021/10/05)

Strategy shift to double down on Asia's continued digital economy boom nets a cool $1.38B from AustralianSuper



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A woman physician has made the statement that smoking is neither
physically defective nor morally degrading, and that nicotine, even
when indulged to in excess, is less harmful than excessive petting."
-- Purdue Exponent, Jan 16, 1925