AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type
(2021/03/17)
Claims Graviton2 thrashes x86 on price/performance, touts lowest-priced memory on the Amazonian cloud
Following Supreme Court ruling, Uber UK recognizes drivers as workers, offers min wage, holiday pay, pension
(2021/03/17)
Nice but still not good enough, says union
Chinese government yanks Alibaba’s browser from Chinese app stores
(2021/03/17)
Another rough day for Jack Ma as Beijing continues big tech crackdown
Sharp’s smartphone camera lens biz Kantatsu blurred its finances, invented deals worth $84m
(2021/03/17)
Foxconn-owned outfit claimed non-existent sales as revenue. Apologies and promises to do better all ‘round
US Office of National Intelligence says Russia, Iran tried to mess with 2020 elections, China sat it out
(2021/03/17)
Security precautions held up, but Putin himself signed off on efforts to scare the public with claims of voting system compromise
California bans website 'dark patterns', confusing language when opting out of having your personal info sold
(2021/03/17)
State privacy rules add pressure on lawmakers to craft national standards
Google fails to neutralize lawsuit that complains Chrome's incognito mode isn't very private at all
(2021/03/17)
Judge Lucy Koh allows legal challenge to move forward
ICYMI: A mom is accused of harassing daughter's cheerleader rivals with humiliating deepfake vids
(2021/03/17)
Awesome, oh wow, like totally freak me out ... with this unexpected use of AI
Ex-Microsoft exec admits he tried to swindle $5.5m out of taxpayers with COVID-19 relief loans for bogus biz
(2021/03/16)
Mukund Mohan invented employees, financial figures in application forms
Obtaining US 5G supremacy is easy as Pai, says FCC commish Brendan Carr. It's all in the spectrum
(2021/03/16)
America ranks behind China, South Korea and even.... Great Britain in spectrum availability
Google halves Android app fee to 15% for lower-earning devs... who aren't responsible for majority of revenue anyway
(2021/03/16)
Epic Games CEO slaps PR move ahead of court case
JumpCloud attempts to cash in on work-from-home era with Zero Touch Mac enrolment
(2021/03/16)
Zero Touch? Probably the only way to use a Mac keyboard
Security pro's time-travelling Twitter bot suspended after posting download link for Adobe Acrobat for MS-DOS
(2021/03/16)
'This is of historical interest. Adobe isn’t really worried about this, it is automation'
Your customers went digital in 2020. How do you hold onto them in 2021?
(2021/03/16)
Learn how to balance customer experience, transformation, and clients' changing needs
Fancy doing a little... experiment? Chaos comes to AWS as Fault Injection Simulator goes live
(2021/03/16)
Complete with nervous warnings: how much chaos is too much?
Got a need for speed? New report claims iPhone 12's 5G performance lags behind that of rival Android models
(2021/03/16)
Baked-in mmWave support may improve figures with more deployments
Qualcomm closes acquisition of chip designer Nuvia: First custom cores to launch next year
(2021/03/16)
2022 Snapdragon chipset aimed at high-performance ultraportables
Not an off-by-one error: Java 16 brings 17 enhancements to Oracle's JDK. We chat to Big Red about what's new
(2021/03/16)
'Other languages may claim that they're vying for the top dog position, but at the end of the day Java is just so prevalent'
Of course Linode would say Linode is a cloud-hosting hotshot, but it also says its AMD hardware beats Intel's
(2021/03/16)
[Insert benchmark disclaimer here] but the tl;dr is 'shop around'
Apple's app transparency rules: Google's privacy labels for Chrome and Search on iOS highlighted by DuckDuckGo
(2021/03/16)
Google reveals how much personal data' collected in Chrome, Google app. 'No wonder they wanted to hide it'
"I dislike companies that have a we-are-the-high-priests-of-hardware-so-you'll-
like-what-we-give-you attitude. I like commodity markets in which iron-and-
silicon hawkers know that they exist to provide fast toys for software types
like me to play with..."
-- Eric S. Raymond