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)

State of Maine orders review of $54.6m Workday project as it alleges delivery failure and threatens cancellation

(2021/03/31)

Falls back on ancient mainframe as Workday protests state has 'no basis to terminate our agreement'

Amazon eyes up space startups for an AWS Accelerator, dangles $1m of cloud credits for a chosen ten

(2021/03/31)

Planting that Bezos flag in the newest cloud sector: spaaaaaace

VMware builds narrow one-way road to move its crown jewels towards cloudy subscriptions

(2021/03/31)

...but only on clouds it controls. Multi-cloud licensing is still all sorts of fun

Mullet over: Aussie boys' school tells kids 'business in the front, party in the back' hairstyle is 'not acceptable'

(2021/03/31)

A fine Australian tradition stomped on

AI recommendations fail fans who like hard rock and hip hop – official science

(2021/03/31)

Welcome to the new bland

Long-running age discrimination case against IBM enters discovery, as judge trims off some claims

(2021/03/31)

No new plaintiffs allowed to join

No payrise for Oracle CEO Safra Catz, but at least there's $76.4m from trading company shares to fall back on

(2021/03/31)

That and the $950k salary

Time for an upgrade: Dev of the last modern browser for PowerPC Macs calls it a day

(2021/03/31)

One final update for its 'couple of thousand' users then it's just a hobby

How Cybereason is reversing the adversary advantage

(2021/03/31)

Malop provides the context to fend off ransomware attacks

Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 under planned 802.11bf standard

(2021/03/31)

Security and privacy still left to fix, preferably before launch

South Korean regulator recommends Apple be prosecuted for hampering fair trade probe

(2021/03/31)

Alleges staff took down the internet when investigators visited, even got a little physical

Pair accused of turning photos into vids to crack tax dept facial recognition system in China

(2021/03/31)

Then issuing tens of millions in fake invoices

Xiaomi scoots off to build electric cars, pumps $10bn into the tank to get things rolling

(2021/03/31)

Also reveals first foldable with U-shaped hinge to lighten things up

Payment app MobiKwik denies customer data was stolen from it, has no idea how the info ended up on the dark web: Maybe it was your fault?

(2021/03/31)

Talk about living in hope

Cryptic US Strategic Command tweet reveals dangers of working from home with kids in the way

(2021/03/31)

Was it a coded message? The password for accessing nukes? Nope

Tools down: Singapore’s training bots and drones to digitize construction work

(2021/03/31)

Research agency and housing board sign a deal as COVID-19 makes manpower and materials scarce

Amazon’s critical Alabama warehouse workers union vote has started … and may be some time

(2021/03/30)

High stakes battle could go on for days

US watchdog kills off four-year antitrust complaint against Qualcomm, still insists it was right anyway

(2021/03/30)

FTC cites 'significant headwinds' in trying to fight the San Diego chipmaker

Browser tracking protections won't stop tracking, warns DuckDuckGo

(2021/03/30)

Privacy don't like it, block the tracker, block the tracker

Director, deputy director, CTO of Free Software Foundation quit after Stallman installation

(2021/03/30)

Staff eject as board refuses to budge on controversial decision

The only "intuitive" interface is the nipple. After that, it's all learned.
-- Bruce Ediger, bediger@teal.csn.org, on X interfaces