Gaming kit vendor Razer gives away face masks in Singapore – after signup to its payment system
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CEO says it’s to stop fraud and the public seems to be on his side
Sadly, 111 in this story isn't binary. It's decimal. It's the number of security fixes emitted by Microsoft this week
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Patch Tuesday Nothing too scary. Plus updates from SAP, Adobe, VMware
Azure low-priority VMs become non-existent VMs, replaced by new Spot VMs
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‘This workload will self-destruct in 30 seconds’ - now with variable pricing
Lawyers hail 'superb result' in Facebook biometric privacy battle: They'll get 25% of $550m, Illinois gets the rest
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Sure, they should have got more, but let’s not get greedy here
Australians can demand visitors to their homes run contact-tracing app
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As opposition MP criticises slow and incomplete source code release, saying 'Public health messaging shouldn't require citizens to follow GitHub forks'
It's not you, it's Slack: Chat app falls down – and at such a very convenient moment
(2020/05/13)
Updated Experienced ‘degraded performance’ earlier in the day, now seems to just be TITSUP
US govt can talk about the end of lockdown, but Silicon Valley says 'as long as it takes' – and Twitter says 'WFH forever'
(2020/05/13)
Social isolation, meet real estate, hardware, HR savings
Breaking virus lockdown rules, suing officials, threatening staff, raging on Twitter. Just Elon Musk things
(2020/05/12)
What was really behind Tesla CEO's reopening of factory while daring cops to arrest him?
Nine in ten biz applications harbor out-of-date, unsupported, insecure open-source code, study shows
(2020/05/12)
Free-as-in-speech software is wildly popular – keeping libraries, components up to date is not
Sorry if this seems latency obvious, but... you can always scale out your storage with end-to-end NVMe
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Comment Here's how you might go about building an infrastructure for modern workloads
Researchers spot thousands of Android apps leaking user data through misconfigured Firebase databases
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Take care what data you enter into apps, it may be stored insecurely
Press F2 to pay respects. New Xiaomi Poco Pro has 5G, top-drawer Snapdragon chippery, 64MP camera
(2020/05/12)
Flagship killer at a lower cost, though €500+ isn't exactly budget
Amazon flicks switch on AI-powered enterprise search service Kendra – but where are all the connectors?
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Now out of preview and optimised for 8 more domains
Microsoft's Family Safety app drills into kids' screen time, browsing habits to help 'facilitate a dialogue'
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That discussion you were dreading has to happen sometime
From pair to p-AI-r programming: Kite floats paid-for spin of its GitHub-trained code autocomplete assistant
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Too lazy to type out Python? But not too tight to pay $20 a month?
Facebook-for-suits puts on a fresh jacket. 'Classic' Yammer is so 2018. Behold, a public preview of 'New' Yammer
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Didn't a soft drinks company try a similar stunt a few years ago?
Psst... Wanna buy some stock in a spaceplane company? Virgin would like a word
(2020/05/12)
Roundup Also: China trumpets the return of its new capsule and Cygnus has left the station
Yes sir, no sir, 3 bags NoSQL: Aerospike, DataStax, ScyllaDB all freshen up as community preps for cloudy future
(2020/05/12)
'An entire database can be in one rack'
Mad dash for webcams with surge in videoconferencing has turned out rather nicely for Logitech
(2020/05/12)
'The pandemic hasn't changed these trends: it has accelerated them'
We maintained or increased IT spending, say seven-in-ten pros, execs polled mid-crisis. PS: We love Microsoft most
(2020/05/12)
Coronavirus focused minds on desktop kit, networking, security, cloud, Register reader survey finds
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