Open source at America's famous Los Alamos Lab: Pragmatism as its nucleus (2023/05/10) Its 20,000-node cluster uses outdated MariaDB – for very good reasons
Twitter adds new DM features, and Musk claims encryption is here, starting today (2023/05/10) Updated We'll believe our DMs are secure when someone provides proof, thanks
Developers now able to 'customize' their Azure Virtual Desktop experience (2023/05/10) Build your own ‘golden images’ and then connect 'em to more stuff, says Microsoft
Dell reneges on remote work promise, tells staff to wear pants at least 3 days a week (2023/05/10) Some say return to the office is a soft layoff, others blame Gen Z
MariaDB's Xpand offers PostgreSQL compatibility without the forking drama (2023/05/10) Play designed to swat CockroachDB and tempt users over from hyperscaler DBaaS systems
23-year-old Brit linked to 2020 Twitter attack and SIM-swap scheme pleads guilty (2023/05/10) Admits to cyberstalking, wire fraud charges as Feds take $700k off him
The world of work is broken and it's Microsoft's fault (2023/05/10) Employees are wasting literal days on meetings and email – but in rides AI like a knight in shining armor, right?
Capita looking at a bill of £20M over breach clean-up costs (2023/05/10) Analyst says expense 'no small drop in ocean' but reputational damage could be 'far greater'
Money starts to flow as liquid cooling gets hot in datacenters (2023/05/10) Global investment company KKR picks up CoolIT Systems for $270M
Brexit Britain looks to French company to save crumbling borders and immigration tech (2023/05/10) Building a wall... of code
Microsoft Azure CTO believes confidential computing is the future of targeted advertising (2023/05/10) Wait... what?
Korea hopes US will extend sanction exemptions for SK hynix and Samsung (2023/05/10) Stuck in the middle or not, supply chains – and the Korean economy – must carry on
Cisco: Don't use 'blind spot' – and do use 'feed two birds with one scone' (2023/05/10) Switchzilla takes a stab at inclusive language. Sorry, that should be 'makes a first pass'
Google Cloud's watery Parisian outage enters third week, with no end in sight (2023/05/10) To make matters worse, other bits of the same region have wobbled
Japan's ubiquitous convenience stores now serving up privacy breaches (2023/05/10) Fujitsu in the frame for foul up with government document dispersal app
Meta wheels out Deloitte to plug the metaverse. Is anyone actually convinced? (2023/05/10) Comment All these analysts know is that their gut says... maybe
Apple finally pro giving Pro iPads these Pro apps (2023/05/10) Final Cut, Logic to land on fondleslabs – in subscription form
IBM launches Watsonx to help enterprises streamline workers out the door (2023/05/10) Let's face it, Big Blue has plenty of experience in that area
Two Microsoft Windows bugs under attack, one in Secure Boot with a manual fix (2023/05/10) Patch Tuesday On the plus side, this month's update batch is a bit smaller than usual
Show us the sauce code... Wendy's and Google to test drive-thru order-taking bot (2023/05/10) What's worse for humanity: The slow, cruel eradication of labor, or those square patties?