Korea's NAVER Cloud outlines global ambitions, aim to become Asia's third-biggest provider (2021/09/17) Alibaba is number two in much of the region, but is a bit on the nose right now
Build it fast and they will come? Yeah, but they’ll only stay if you build it right (2021/09/17) Here’s where to start
Royal Navy will be getting autonomous machines – for donkey work humans can't be bothered with (2021/09/17) No robot killers 'in my lifetime' says admiral
WTF? Microsoft makes fixing deadly OMIGOD flaws on Azure your job (2021/09/17) Clouds usually fix this sort of thing before bugs go public. This time it's best to assume you need to do this yourself
Businesses put robots to work when human workers are hard to find, argue econo-boffins (2021/09/17) The lure of shiny new tech isn't a motivator, although in the USA bots are used to cut costs
After eight years, SPEC delivers a new virtualisation benchmark (2021/09/17) Jumps from single-server tests to four hosts – but only for vSphere and RHV
Forget that Loon's balloon burst, we just fired 700TB of laser broadband between two cities, says Alphabet (2021/09/17) Up to 20Gbps link sustained over the Congo in comms experiment
Apple's M1 MacBook screens are stunning – stunningly fragile and defective, that is, lawsuits allege (2021/09/17) Latest laptops prone to cracking, distortions, owners complain
Microsoft's Azure Virtual Desktop now works without Active Directory – but there are caveats (2021/09/17) General availability of Azure AD-joined VMs
It's bizarre we're at a point where reports are written on how human rights trump AI rights (2021/09/16) But that's what UN group has done
Aviation-themed phishing campaign pushed off-the-shelf RATs into inboxes for 5 years (2021/09/16) Not all promises of international flight itineraries are real, warns Cisco Talos
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81 (2021/09/16) From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond
The age of the Service Pack is over. The time of the Modern Servicing Model has come (2021/09/16) It's CUs and GDRs here on out for Microsoft's SQL Server
CityFibre scores extra £1bn+ of funding to plumb in up to 8 million British homes by 2025 (2021/09/16) Ikea parent Interogo Holding among the investors
Hack yourself before someone else does it for you (2021/09/16) Breach and attack simulation tools help you raise your game, Keysight says
Bepanted shovel-toting farmer wins privacy payout from France TV (2021/09/16) Unwitting star of #Slipgate viral images awarded reduced damages, tempts Streisand effect
OpenSilver throws Microsoft Silverlight devs a lifeline as end of support looms – or you could forget it ever happened (2021/09/16) Open-source project migrates deprecated apps to WebAssembly
Ransomware-hit law firm secures High Court judgment against unknown criminals (2021/09/16) You tell 'em, 4 New Square chambers
Dowden out, Dorries in: Is UK data protection in safe hands? (2021/09/16) It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new life... for Dorries
If it were possible to evade facial-recognition systems using just subtle makeup, it might look something like this (2021/09/16) Interested in poking away at machine-learning models? This academic study could be a good start