Do not adjust your set: Here are three stories about the IT industry doing some good during COVID-19 pandemic
(2020/04/21)
Roundup Let's stow the snark a mo and acknowledge this helpful tech
What's vexing Linux-loving Gophers? A few things: Go devs want generics, easier debugging
(2020/04/21)
Survey shows preference for Linux, some aversion to Microsoft Azure
Who can we count on to slow Huawei's continuous growth? US prez Donald Trump and COVID-19
(2020/04/21)
The world's crappest superheroes
Microsoft puts a stop to auto-updates of Azure Service Fabric 'until further notice'
(2020/04/21)
Redmond reckons you've probably got enough on your plate right now
Something a bit phishy in your inbox? You can now email suspected frauds straight to Blighty's web takedown cops
(2020/04/21)
National Cyber Security Centre publishes scam-busting address
Self-isolation champions fresh home from a jaunt in orbit wonder if they've returned to the wrong version of Earth
(2020/04/21)
Roundup Also: Asteroid landing dress rehearsal, 'new' Russian module for the ISS, another Starlink volley ready to go
Boffins examine interstellar comet Borisov to find out what its home was like. Pretty unpleasant, it seems
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No wonder it came all the way over to our Solar System
Facebook sort-of blocks anti-quarantine events – how many folks are actually behind these 'massive' protests online?
(2020/04/21)
Opinion Domain names, astroturfing, gun rights, FB groups... and lots and lots of shouting
Typosquatting RubyGems laced with Bitcoin-nabbing malware have been downloaded thousands of times
(2020/04/21)
'Seemingly no transactions were made' but problem highlights risks of software supply chain
There are always two sides to every story – except this one, which is just a big billboard borked in all directions
(2020/04/21)
Bork!Bork!Bork! The apocalypse may have started, but we'll always have artisanal bread... and BSODs
Are you fixing that switch? Or setting it up as a Minecraft server?
(2020/04/21)
Cisco shows off how you can brick it on a Catalyst 9300
Weeks before US oil contract prices went negative, a spear-phishing crew went after oil firms. What did they get?
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Who wants to know about their biz plans? Someone determined
Google productises its own not-a-VPN secure remote access tool
(2020/04/21)
Zero-trust access to web applications with very fine-grained access controls
UK's Cleveland Police: We want to fling our HR wares into the cloud. Oh, and IT can move back in
(2020/04/21)
Outsourcing deal with Sopra Steria ending, and good times ahead for in-sourced tech crew propping up crumbly software
AWS announces new single-purpose on-prem hardware and tie-in storage tier
(2020/04/21)
Cloud colossus has gone very niche with video-shifter
Free demo: See how Comarch plans to ease your cloud journey
(2020/04/21)
Follow a step-by-step guide to the Cloud Infraspace suite
Fomalhaut b exoplanet may have been cloud in a trench coat: Massive 'world' formed after 'mid-space super-prang'
(2020/04/21)
Another one bites the dust
Scaleway disarms its ARM64 cloud, cites unreliable hardware as the reason
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So why not just buy new servers? That’s where this gets curly
China Mobile reveals COVID-19 scarcely touched Q1 revenue and profit
(2020/04/21)
Although it did kick a hole in product sales and put a rocket under TXT
SAP decides one head is better than two in a crisis, parts ways with co-CEO Jennifer Morgan
(2020/04/21)
Christian Klein to fly solo just six months after dual-driver approach was hailed as perfect combination
One of the reasons Perl is faster than certain other unnamed interpreted
languages is that it binds variable names to a particular package (or
scope) at compile time rather than at run time.
-- Larry Wall in <199709050035.RAA29328@wall.org>