Facebook to surround all of Africa in optical fibre and tinfoil
(2020/05/15)
Plans new sub cable running from the UK to Spain on just-about the longest route possible
UK housing association Places for People hands £21m to Salesforce to look after CRM and job scheduling
(2020/05/15)
Tender loving care
Vint Cerf suggests GDPR could hurt coronavirus vaccine development
(2020/05/15)
Essay on role of internet during plague times also suggests online schooling may not be the finished article
Mirror mirror on the wall, why will my mouse not work at all?
(2020/05/15)
On Call Fault finding fail via the friends and family helpline
Swedish data centre offers rack-scale dielectric immersion cooling
(2020/05/15)
And reckons it can crack 100kw per rack with help from Yorkshire company Iceotope
Worried about the magnetic North Pole sprinting towards Russia? Don't be, boffins say, it'll be back sooner or later
(2020/05/15)
Satellite data shows two huge iron blobs tussling under the surface
TSMC to build new 5nm chip factory in Arizona with US government backing
(2020/05/15)
Ticks plenty of diplomatic and supply chain security boxes with build in State tipped to be less MAGA-happy in 2020
Brit defense contractor hacked, up to 100,000 past and present employees' details siphoned off – report
(2020/05/15)
Outsourcer Interserve holds a number of UK defense contracts, among others
VMware completes the native hybrid hyperscale set as Google turns on managed vSphere
(2020/05/15)
As IBM becomes only cloud partner permitted to use Virtzilla's special subscription licence scrip
There's a new comet in town and you don't need a fancy multi-million-dollar telescope to see it. Just regular eyeballs
(2020/05/15)
One other minimum requirement: You need to be in the southern hemisphere
Back from the dead: Appeals court resurrects lawsuit claiming IBM stiffs its own salespeople on commissions
(2020/05/14)
Big Blue accused of making 'promises to sales reps it never intended to keep'
Better late than never... Google Chrome to kill off 'tiny' number of mobile web ads that gobble battery, CPU power
(2020/05/14)
Could have done with this years ago to stave off rise of advert blockers but fine, OK, whatever, now it's coming
NHS contact tracing app isn't really anonymous, is riddled with bugs, and is open to abuse. Good thing we're not in the middle of a pandemic, eh?
(2020/05/14)
Analysis Plus: There are some worrying data protection implications
You overstepped and infringed British sovereignty, Court of Appeal tells US in software companies' copyright battle
(2020/05/14)
Angry judgments fly as SAS and World Programming spat rolls on
Have you ever mapped your organisation’s attack surface? Now’s the time to start
(2020/05/14)
It’s like cartography, but with infosec. Probably
Node.js creator delivers Deno 1.0, a new runtime that fixes 'design mistakes in Node'
(2020/05/14)
Please help us rewrite the TypeScript compiler in Rust
Google says it'll pick up the tab – and stick it in a lovely colour-coded Chrome group
(2020/05/14)
A desktop browser spring clean can do the soul a power of good
Let's slip into something a bit more relational: SQL database crowd strikes back with brace of cloudy releases
(2020/05/14)
And you thought this was purely a NoSQL release this week?
AWS pulls its Red Hat on with managed OpenShift collab
(2020/05/14)
Plus: AWS tool for defining Kubernetes apps without having to write YAML
Got a few spare terabytes of storage sitting around unused? Tardigrade can turn that into crypto-bucks
(2020/05/14)
Just not very many – don't go all Bitcoin farming on this
In a museum in Havana, there are two skulls of Christopher Columbus,
"one when he was a boy and one when he was a man."
-- Mark Twain