Like life for a lot of us, Google's 2020 was going relatively fine until March hit. Ad sales nosedive, but yay for cloud and Chromebooks?
(2020/04/29)
Does anything really matter when you have $100bn in the bank and pocketing nearly $7bn a quarter in profit?
Florida man might just stick it to HP for injecting sneaky DRM update into his printers that rejected non-HP ink
(2020/04/28)
World crosses fingers
San Francisco trial of Russian bloke extradited and accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring stalls again amid pandemic lockdown
(2020/04/28)
Case that has rumbled on since 2016 may have to be started again from scratch
Guess which cloud giant Zoom picked to handle millions more video calls? Bzzt, wrong answer: It's Oracle
(2020/04/28)
No wonder Larry Ellison went on YouTube to heap praise on the web-conferencing upstart
Talk about physical to virtual translation: Red Hat officially emits OpenShift 4.4, Fedora 32 in online conference
(2020/04/28)
Red Hat Summit Linux distro giant gets cosy with Microsoft among other announcements
Assange should be furloughed from Belmarsh prison, says human rights org. Here's a thought: He could stay with friends!
(2020/04/28)
Totally reliable and worked really well last time
Rust core devs mull adoption of alternative compiler front-end for improved IDE support
(2020/04/28)
'I move that we merge this RFC,' says Moz's Nico Matsakis
Aussie immunology legend consults Twitter for his local off-licence opening hours
(2020/04/28)
Even Nobel Prize-winning boffins need to take the edge off sometimes
Outages batter UK's Virgin Media into wee hours as broadband failures spike 77% globally
(2020/04/28)
'Not caused by a spike in usage or a lack of network capacity,' says Brit ISP
Regarding the unification of block and file storage for the hybrid cloud
(2020/04/28)
New data architectures for new workloads
Hey bud – how the heck does that stay in your ear? Google emits latest Pixel Buds, plus extra bloatware if you have the matching phone
(2020/04/28)
Lucky old Pixel owners, eh?
Thought Microsoft's licence plans were Kafkaesque? How about a Kafka extension for Azure Functions?
(2020/04/28)
Also: Java 8 support? Linux? Ah yes – that would be the new Microsoft
CFOs are crossing fingers and hoping a second wave of COVID-19 does not appear, says Gartner
(2020/04/28)
On the plus side, fears about revenue losses and meeting payroll have subsided
Pimp my PostgreSQL: Swarm64 paints go-faster stripes on open-source database challenger
(2020/04/28)
Legacy data warhouse wheezing? It could be an option
Windows 10 gets a little more G-shaped: G Suite admins can now manage Microsoft's OS, and that includes remote wipe
(2020/04/28)
Google shores up security for biz users
Wakey-wakey! A quarter of IT pros only get 3-4 hours' kip – and you won't believe what's being touted as the 'solution'
(2020/04/28)
Going to bed earlier? Getting more exercise? Don't be ridiculous. It's 'the adoption of cloud technologies'
Nine million logs of Brits' road journeys spill onto the internet from password-less number-plate camera dashboard
(2020/04/28)
Exclusive Democratising mass surveillance, one snafu at a time
SpaceX's Elon Musk high on success after counting '420' Starlinks in orbit and Frosty the Starship survives cryo test
(2020/04/28)
Roundup Also: Russia sends another freighter filled with astro goodies to ISS
Snapchat domain squatter loses comedy £1m URL sellback attempt
(2020/04/28)
'Take legal action' he told the firm. So it (sort of) did
We're going on a vuln hunt. We're going catch a big one: Researchers find Windows bugs dominate – but fixes are fast
(2020/04/28)
'The average Windows 10 PC has 14 weaponized bugs'
I had another dream the other day about music critics. They were small
and rodent-like with padlocked ears, as if they had stepped out of a
painting by Goya.
-- Stravinsky