Ransomware-hit law firm gets court order asking crooks not to publish the data they stole (2021/07/06) Good luck with that, 4 New Square Chambers
Infor offloads its asset management unit on Swedish 'digital reality' biz to focus on industry-specific cloud ERP (2021/07/06) That's fancy talk for sensors, software, and autonomous technologies btw
Pentagon scraps $10bn JEDI winner-takes-all cloud contract (2021/07/06) Y'know what, a single-vendor IT mega-deal probably isn't the best idea after all, says US military
The most dangerous AI approach could be ‘wait and see’ – here’s why (2021/07/06) Tune in and we'll help you decide when to make the jump
Boffins decide what world really needs is indestructible robot cockroaches (2021/07/06) It's fine: they'll just be used for searching disaster sites, checking structures, spying on people
SQL Server beta for Windows Server Containers terminated 'with immediate effect' (2021/07/06) Microsoft identifies 'ecosystem challenges' as reason for not supporting its own system
Laptop option on the way for ortholinear keyboard hipsters in form of MNT Reform add-on (2021/07/06) Staggered keys, your days are numbered
Audacity users stick the knife – and fork – in to strip audio editor of unwanted features (2021/07/06) New name needed. How about Impudence? Or maybe Pluck?
British Airways data breach lawsuit settled: Airline coughs up potentially millions to make sueball bounce away (2021/07/06) And a third of that's going into the lawyers' pockets
GitHub Copilot auto-coder snags emerge, from seemingly spilled secrets to bad code, but some love it (2021/07/06) Great wow factor but is it legal? Is it ethical? Is code that can't be trusted any use?
UK's financial ombudsman seeks supplier in £22m deal to navigate tricky system rollout (2021/07/06) COVID-hit body implementing multiple interdependent cloud systems to replace on-prem software
Chinese chip designers hope to topple Arm's Cortex-A76 with XiangShan RISC-V design (2021/07/06) Permissively licensed, the processor's second iteration targets 2GHz at 14nm
Radioactive hybrid terror pigs break out of nuclear hellscape home and into people's hearts (2021/07/06) Irradiated boars rampage across the internet, leaving jokes, memes, fan art in their wake
The splitting image: Sufferer of hurty wrist pain? Logitech's K860 a potential answer (2021/07/06) Bumpy ride of a keyboard - but that's kind of the point
Quantum Key Distribution: Is it as secure as claimed and what can it offer the enterprise? (2021/07/06) Er... let's just ask the experts boffins
Dedicated (Local) Cloud Infrastructure-as-a-Service to grow almost 1000 per cent in five years (2021/07/06) IDC says on-prem clouds like AWS Outposts will grow from from $140M annual sales to $14B
Disco classic Rasputin and pop anthem revealed as reasons Twitter suspended Indian politicians (2021/07/06) Straight-up copyright complaints, not Big Tech flexing its muscles
DARPA nails cash to project 'FENCE' — a smart camera that only sends pics when pixels change (2021/07/06) Research agency also open-sources FETT hardware bug bounty platform and tools
Kaseya says it's seen no sign of supply chain attack, sets SaaS restoration target of Tuesday afternoon, on-prem fix to follow (2021/07/06) Hikes numbers of known compromised customers and warns countermeasures will be needed before resuming usage
Big Tech’s Asian lobby warns Hong Kong its anti-doxxing laws could see its members leave town (2021/07/06) Current draft makes staff personally liable and Asia Internet Coalition says that could crimp innovation and hurt the economy