Amazon lays off another 9,000, because why not? (2023/03/20) Add another zero or so and soon we're talking real numbers
Microsoft to give more than microsecond's thought about your Windows 11 needs (2023/03/20) Concerns over consistent dialog boxes, pinning, default apps mulled
Apple bags patent for folding phone that closes as it's dropped (2023/03/20) You've gotta protect those butter-soft OLED screens somehow
HPE picks up OpsRamp to sprinkle some AIOps on Greenlake multi-cloud (2023/03/20) Hopes for predictive insights and automation, but no word on what it'll pay for that
AWS wants to cook its datacenter chips with vegetable oil (2023/03/20) Ditching diesel in attempt to shrink its carbon footprint
OpenAI CEO warns that GPT-4 could be misused for nefarious purposes (2023/03/20) In brief ALSO: Discord quietly edited its privacy policy after rolling out new generative AI features, and more
Don't Be Evil, a gaggle of Googlers tell CEO Pichai amid mega layoffs (2023/03/20) Open letter to top brass signed by 1,400+ staff offers 5-point plan to improve redundancy process
UnitedHealth's buyout of UK's EMIS could reduce competition: UK watchdog (2023/03/20) NHS could also be hit with higher prices as a result of the merger, CMA argues in initial investigation
BBC to staff: Uninstall TikTok from our corporate kit unless you can 'justify' having it (2023/03/20) Those with 'sensitive' work-related information told to contact Beeb's security team
Potatoes in space: Boffins cook up cosmic concrete for off-world habitats (2023/03/20) Extraterrestrial regolith biocomposite, you say? I’ll have two
Average Adobe staffer makes $170k a year, and 185 of them = 1 CEO (2023/03/20) Margins in software are enough to let you heat house, eat and buy a car
The Shakespearian question of our age: To cloud or not to cloud (2023/03/20) Opinion Don't need flexibility and scaling? Then don’t pay for what you don’t need
IT phone home: How to run up a $20K bill in two days and get away with it by blaming Cisco (2023/03/20) Who, Me? Badly configured routers ended up costing a bundle
Vessels claiming to be Chinese warships are messing with passenger planes (2023/03/20) Australian airline Qantas warns pilots to keep calm and carry on amid reports of satnav and altimeter jamming
Google Cloud's US-East load balancers are lousy with latency (2023/03/20) Monday morning rush job, anyone? Asking 'cos there's no ETA for a fix other than moving to another region
Police pounce on 'pompompurin' – alleged mastermind of BreachForums (2023/03/20) In Brief Crypto laundering service gets cleaned up by police and SVB mess draws in more criminals
Hong Kong's state-sponsored SEO on national anthem strikes the right note (2023/03/20) Can't get Google to finish the job, though
AWS delivers a – rather late – major release of its homebrew Linux distribution (2023/03/20) 2023 is only one more than 2022, right?
TikTok cannot be considered a private company, says Australian report (2023/03/20) Asia In Brief ALSO: Japan ends chip supply crimp on South Korea, APAC infosec spending surges; Philippines SIM registration stalls
BianLian ransomware crew goes 100% extortion after free decryptor lands (2023/03/19) No good deed goes unpunished, or something like that