Samsung sprints past Intel to become world's semiconductor sales leader (2021/08/20) Q2 saw Sammy lean into the booming memory market while Intel’s chip sales remain stagnant
Cisco warns supply chain delays could persist until this time next year (2021/08/20) Current issues aren't stopping it from growing fast – or 400Gbit Ethernet sales booming
Microsoft, flush with cash, raises cloud office suite prices for businesses (2021/08/20) Microsoft 365, Office 365 to cost a little bit more from next March
GlobalFoundries confidentially files paperwork for $25bn IPO – report (2021/08/20) Plus: Toyota, Volkswagen to cut production due to component drought
Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious (2021/08/19) Yes, it involves VR. Meanwhile, in the real world, the FTC would like a chat about competition
Apple's bright idea for CSAM scanning could start 'persecution on a global basis' – 90+ civil rights groups (2021/08/19) Letter to Cook & Co warns image-probing tech could also harm kids
JSON shouldn’t be a trial ... if you plot the right course at the outset (2021/08/19) Join us online and your next migration could be plain sailing
Only one software giant to make impact on the robotic process automation market, says analyst (2021/08/19) Yep. It's Microsoft. Other big guns investing might see it as 'check-off item or loss leader,' claims Forrester
Another big year for tape as ... oops. 2020 sales dropped 8% thanks to 'global shutdowns' (2021/08/19) Massive shift requiring masses of backup... not backed up in cold storage medium's numbers
Microsoft slips out Windows Server 2022 with extended support for 10 years (2021/08/19) Company keen to flog Azure and subscription licensing even for on-premises
Buyout of British defence supplier Ultra Electronics paused by UK.gov over competition concerns (2021/08/19) Regulator sends out one more ping
Pick a core, any core, says Intel – we'll magically put the right workload onto one in a hybrid SoC or accelerator (2021/08/19) Reveals new Efficient and Performance cores, blended on Alder Lake chips, Sapphire Rapids multi-CPUs for servers and clouds
LibreOffice 7.2 brings improved but still imperfect Microsoft Office compatibility (2021/08/19) Also: Native for Apple Silicon but with health warning
Edgy: HPE's first message from the International Space Station to Microsoft's Azure? 'hello world' (2021/08/19) Supercomputing above the clouds
UK's National Data Guardian warned about GP data grab being perceived as going 'under the radar' (2021/08/19) And oh look.... 1.27 million extra opt-outs in July
Baidu unveils AI chip to go in its fancy-pants robocar – and anywhere else someone may want to use it (2021/08/19) Second-gen silicon to be more accessible for devs and applications
Eight-year-old bug in Microsoft's 64-bit VBA prompts complaints of neglect (2021/08/19) 'It blocks a migration to Office 64 here, because we cannot get our code out'
New on Netflix: A corporate drama in which staff are sued for abusing early access to financial data (2021/08/19) Plus: Pearson settles case for $1m alleging it misled investors over data spillage
Big questions about Cognitive Search? We’ve got the answers you need (2021/08/19) Sometimes you need a little help with those big questions
Chinese web giant Tencent predicts Beijing has more internet regulations coming – and welcomes them (2021/08/19) China is ahead of US and Europe on regulation, says company prez