Brocade's SDN spinout Lumina Networks to shut down in an orderly fashion
(2020/08/20)
OpenDaylight-based vendor says proprietary networking is still winning and bemoans lack of VC support
Nvidia's data centre biz tops gaming as lead revenue source – and it should enjoy being king while it lasts
(2020/08/20)
Buying Mellanox has paid off, gamers are still the bigger prize
Taiwan turfs out video streamers run by China’s web giants
(2020/08/20)
On regulatory grounds, but it’s hard not to chalk this up as more anti-China action
China testing digital currency, but rollout looks to be slipping
(2020/08/20)
Aim is for tap-to-pay experience to replace cash, but with bonus pervasive surveillance
Thanks for the memories... now pay up or else: Maze ransomware crew claims to have hacked SK hynix, leaks '5% of stolen files'
(2020/08/20)
More expected to leak unless extortionists are paid off
You there. Person, corp, state. Doesn't matter. You better not shoot down or hack a drone. That's our job – US govt
(2020/08/19)
DoJ, FAA, FCC, Homeland Security warning highlights legal mess
FCC: Remember that confidential paperwork you gave us, China Telecom? Yeah, well, we're handing it over to the Feds
(2020/08/19)
Chinese telco's pleas to not be booted out of America will be passed to prosecutors
C++ still rules the Chromium roost though Rust has caught our eye, say browser devs
(2020/08/19)
Chrome engineers experiment with memory-safe language in software that really ought to be memory safe
Backup a sec – is hard drive reliability improving? Annual failure rate from Backblaze comes in at its lowest yet
(2020/08/19)
HGST drives fared best, but vendor was snaffled by Western Digital
While the world pushes back against COVID-19, Facebook has a pandemic of a different sort – medical misinformation
(2020/08/19)
And antisocial network's efforts to stop spread aren't working, says Avaaz
MediaTek pings Italy with '5G' Internet-of-Things data beam from geostationary satellite 35,000 kilometres up
(2020/08/19)
That's a spicy meatball
Not now, Gartner. We've had enough of the future to last a lifetime: Meet 'Formative AI' and 'Algorithmic Trust'
(2020/08/19)
You can call me Al
Better Java than Java: Kotlin 1.4 introduces new compilers for JVM and JavaScript
(2020/08/19)
JetBrains works on improving language for cross-platform targets
Someone please have mercy on this poorly Ubuntu parking machine that has been force-fed maudlin autotuned tripe
(2020/08/19)
Failing in Falkirk
Whoa-o BlackBerry, bam-ba-lam: QWERTY phone had a child. 5G thing's newly styled
(2020/08/19)
New licensor's clean-sheet keyboard design better be good, as analyst notes: 'The mobile business has never been harder'
'Get out of my office, you're being a pest!' Yes, son. Toymaker releases work-from-home-themed play sets
(2020/08/19)
Is this gonna be forever?
Floating COVID incubation tank becomes data-leaking ransomware rustbucket: Carnival admits crims made off with personal data booty
(2020/08/19)
Plus: Cali uni that paid $1.4m to crims had decent backup software, but they didn't use it on the affected systems
Good news: NASA boffins spot closest near-Earth asteroid ever. Bad news: We never saw it coming. Good news: It's also really small
(2020/08/19)
Thing was the size of a car, moved at 12km/sec, missed us by just 2,950km
SQLite maximum database size increased to 281TB – but will anyone need one that big?
(2020/08/19)
An unlikely requirement for an engine popular on Android and iOS
Amazon makes 850,000m2 bet that its people will get off the kitchen table and back to an office
(2020/08/19)
Cloud and e-commerce boom mean it needs more desks and people that originally planned
McGowan's Madison Avenue Axiom:
If an item is advertised as "under $50", you can bet it's not $19.95.