ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Microsoft bulks up Linux on Windows at the IoT edge in Azure

(2022/11/22)

EFLOW makes the open source OS a full partner of Windows at the far reaches of the cloud



New SI prefixes clear the way for quettabytes of storage

(2022/11/22)

Why I yotta... be happy there's somewhere to ronto when I need to express 10^−27



FAA asks for vendor feedback on $10b tech contract

(2022/11/22)

But keen to avoid any mf bespoke software on the mf planes (and other hardware)



Software company wins $154k for US Navy's licensing breach

(2022/11/22)

Court lands on less than the millions asked for after sailors made copies of 3D modeling suite 'hundreds of thousands' of times



IBM sues Micro Focus, claims it copied Big Blue mainframe software

(2022/11/22)

Updated It's all kicking off around company's CICS service



Amazon to spend $4.4b in India as it adds second AWS region

(2022/11/22)

Meanwhile, Microsoft eyes subcontinent for cloud growth



Watchdog warns UK health data platform could damage patients' trust

(2022/11/22)

'This store of confidential data is a national treasure that must never be compromised or treated carelessly'



Locked out of Horizon Europe, UK commits half a billion to post-Brexit research

(2022/11/22)

EU still fixated with Britain keeping its word on trading arrangement



Jaguar Land Rover courts coders caught in big tech layoffs

(2022/11/22)

Got the boot from Musk or Zuck? Automaker has 800 techie vacancies to fill



France says non to Office 365 and Google Workspace in school

(2022/11/22)

Hey, teacher, leave those apps alone



Asia's superapps follow another hot tech trend: mass layoffs

(2022/11/22)

Grab reveals caps on car numbers make ride-sharing miserable



Europe to have 2 of the 4 most powerful supercomputers as Leonardo comes online

(2022/11/22)

Pre-exascale system will be officially inaugurated at the Bologna Technopole in Italy on November 24



AWS gives older EC2 instances a legacy lifeline

(2022/11/22)

Preserves pre-2017 servers on its newer Nitro hardware



UK authorities open preliminary probe into Broadcom's VMware acquisition

(2022/11/22)

Hard to see multi-cloud management, hypervisors, or enterprise security triggering public interest test to can the deal



Time Lords decree an end to leap seconds before risky attempt to reverse time

(2022/11/22)

Remember that one time the Linux kernel couldn't cope for a moment? That sort of thing should be behind us now



After years without data privacy rules, India floats two sets in a week

(2022/11/22)

And ponders subsidies to attract big datacenter and content delivery network builds



Azure extends DDoS attack protection down to small business users, for a fee

(2022/11/22)

Microsoft moves IP Protection into public preview



Two arrested in massive $575m cryptocurrency 'Ponzi scheme'

(2022/11/22)

Yet another cautionary tale of diving into crypto investment opps



Chinese Loongson chips coming in 2023, on par with 2020 x86 kit

(2022/11/22)

Homegrown chips remain behind for now, but for how much longer?



Microsoft's attempts to harden Kerberos authentication broke it on Windows Servers

(2022/11/22)

Emergency out-of-band updates to the rescue



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