North American S/4HANA migrations ramping among SAP users Skills access still an issue for organizations hoping to beat the 2027 ECC support deadline
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Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason
NASA needs new ideas and tech to get Mars Sample Return mission off the ground Current plans are too expensive and slow, meaning China could win race to score red rocks Science16 Apr 2024 | 1
Broadcom throws VMware customers on perpetual licenses a lifeline Meanwhile, Gartner predicts massive market share loss and European regulators start asking questions Virtualization16 Apr 2024 |
Alibaba Cloud reveals network telemetry tool that helped cut number of engineers needed by 86% Exclusive Zoonet employs 'elegant generalization of ping and traceroute' among other tricks Off-Prem16 Apr 2024 | 1
OpenAI launches Asian operations in Tokyo to avoid being lost in translation Local customers get early access to Japanese-language GPT-4 AI + ML16 Apr 2024 |
Konica Minolta and Fujifilm ponder JV to cut costs of printer businesses Japanese giants have big brands, but tiny shares of a shrinking market Personal Tech16 Apr 2024 | 3
Los Alamos Lab powers up Nvidia-laden Venado supercomputer Promises up to ten AI exaFLOPs of grunt – if you turn down the resolution a bit Systems16 Apr 2024 | 1
CISA in a flap as Chirp smart door locks can be trivially unlocked remotely Hard-coded credentials last thing you want in home security app Security15 Apr 2024 | 9
What's up with AI lately? Let's start with soaring costs, public anger, regulations... 'Obtaining genuine consent for training data collection is especially challenging' industry sages say AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 2
Linux Foundation is leading fight against fauxpen source Opinion Shifts its transmission from vendor neutral into open source gear
Senator Warren slams Intuit's 'junk fees' as America's Tax Day rolls around again Says the IRS can do this stuff for free Applications15 Apr 2024 | 28
Samsung snags $6.4B in CHIPS Act funds for Texas fabs Work in Austin, Taylor will include new 2nm facility, packaging plant, and Pentagon partnership Systems15 Apr 2024 | 3
US lawmakers rage over Intel Meteor Lake-powered Huawei PC Special export license granted to Intel by President Trump unlikely to be renewed Systems15 Apr 2024 | 6
Japan turns up heat on Apple, Google with threat of hefty fines Antitrust proposals could stretch to 30% of annual revenues for law-breaking app store monopolies Applications15 Apr 2024 | 3
Tesla decimates staff amid ongoing performance woe Shares of the worst performing member of the S&P 500 slide some more as news unlikely to please investors Personal Tech15 Apr 2024 | 42
Backblaze cloud storage buzzes with added Event Notifications If you want open system to automate workflows over platform of your choosing, join the queue Storage15 Apr 2024 | 1
Google is wrong to put AI search features behind paywall 10mins 'A huge amount of responsibility to ensure that there is ethical management'
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Broadcom has willingly dug its VMware hole, says cloud CEO 10mins Civo's Mark Boost says price hikes appear designed to retain whales while tossing back small fry
Roku makes 2FA mandatory for all after nearly 600K accounts pwned Streamer says access came via credential stuffing Cyber-crime15 Apr 2024 | 12
NASA tries to jog Voyager 1's memory from 15 billion miles away Since you can't get a soldering iron out there, the fix will be in software Science15 Apr 2024 | 9
Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11 It probably wasn't only sound driver problems that kept users away OSes15 Apr 2024 | 10
Delinea Secret Server customers should apply latest patches Updated Attackers could nab an org's most sensitive keys if left unaddressed Patches15 Apr 2024 | 3
World is finally buying more phones and prices are rising Someone forgot to tell Apple and Samsung as Chinese brands rebound Personal Tech15 Apr 2024 | 10
US senator wants to put the brakes on Chinese EVs Fears of low-cost invasion and data spies spark call for ban Security15 Apr 2024 | 33
North American S/4HANA migrations ramping among SAP users Skills access still an issue for organizations hoping to beat the 2027 ECC support deadline Databases15 Apr 2024 | 1
Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders This wasn't what most had in mind when Redmond promised to make the feature 'great again' OSes15 Apr 2024 | 73
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What Big Tech's balance sheets this week said – and didn't say – about real-world AI adoption 18mins Is there anything more terrifying than a 'smart' HR chatbot? Well, OK, yes, but ...
Why do IT projects like the UK's scandal-hit Post Office Horizon end in disaster? 17mins Lack of skills, funding, and scrutiny – pick three
Feline firewall woke developer to declaw DDoS disaster System alerts were pinging but cat had no way of knowing what was happening Offbeat15 Apr 2024 | 16
Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins Opinion Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 83
After delay due to xz, Ubuntu 24.04 'Noble Numbat' belatedly hits beta Kernel 6.8, GNOME 46, and more apps in Snap packages OSes15 Apr 2024 | 23
MIT breakthrough means there's no material too weird for 3D printing Thanks to sensors and math, machines can 'learn' to adapt to new mediums OSes15 Apr 2024 | 16
Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it who, me? If you're too exhausted to think, maybe you shouldn't be doing tech support On-Prem15 Apr 2024 | 53
Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason SaaS15 Apr 2024 | 13
Hyundai picks Palantir to help it build automated navy ships Reconaissance vessels first, then set a course for armed drones AI + ML15 Apr 2024 | 6
Salesforce apparently poised to slurp data management outfit Informatica Investors get excited about using AI to make AI easier Software15 Apr 2024 |
US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all Infosec in brief PLUS: Chinese chipmaker Nexperia attacked; A Microsoft-signed backdoor; CISA starts scanning your malware; and more Security15 Apr 2024 | 9
Australian operation of web host BlueVPS laid low by storage failure Asia In Brief PLUS: AWS expands India payment options; Alibaba co-founders unite in criticism; Korea invests in AI; and more Off-Prem15 Apr 2024 | 3
How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future 'Something is stopping it, even though it clearly can do it'
China orders its telcos to rip and replace US chips with homegrown silicon by 2027 There's no Huawei we saw that coming
75% of enterprise coders will use AI helpers by 2028. We didn't say productively Dev teams must beware inflated expectations of tech leadership, Gartner warns
Loongson CPU that performs like 2020 Core i3 makes its way to Chinese mini PCs Slow but bona fide made in China Personal Tech13 Apr 2024 | 71
Intel preps export-friendly lower-power Gaudi 3 AI chips for China Beijing will be thrilled by this nerfed silicon AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 5
Zero-day exploited right now in Palo Alto Networks' GlobalProtect gateways Out of the PAN-OS and into the firewall, a Python backdoor this way comes Cyber-crime12 Apr 2024 | 11
Google One VPN axed for everyone but Pixel loyalists ... for now Another one bytes the dust Personal Tech12 Apr 2024 | 7
Industrial systems integrating digitalisation Huawei solutions designed to speed up digital and intelligent transformation across key vertical industries
Protecting distributed branch office environments from ransomware As ransomware becomes more sophisticated, detection tools should be upgraded to cover every site and location
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Apple's failure to duck UK antitrust probe could bring £785M windfall for devs That 30% app tax may turn out to be a hefty liability Legal12 Apr 2024 | 16
Adobe will fork over cash for clips to train text-to-video AI Not touching copyrighted material with a barge pole AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 2
OpenBSD 7.5 locks down with improved disk encryption support and syscall limitations The most secure Unix-like OS to date? OSes12 Apr 2024 | 49
Amazon search results now less self-centered, boffin says Self-preferencing pushback in Europe and US seems to have had some effect Networks12 Apr 2024 | 8
Microsoft breach allowed Russian spies to steal emails from US government Affected federal agencies must comb through mails, reset API keys and passwords
Microsoft gives Hyper-V ceilings a Herculean hike Windows Server 2025 will let you run a VM with 2,048 vCPUs, 240 TB RAM, and 68 network adapters
IT biz trials gadget deliveries by drone to sidestep traffic and emissions It's a bird! It's a plane! It's a hard drive!
UK county council misses deadline for £7.3M RISE with SAP system launch Gloucestershire reluctant to set new date in S/4HANA migration saga PaaS + IaaS12 Apr 2024 | 15
GCC 14 dropping IA64 support is final nail in the coffin for Itanium architecture Linux kernel cut it loose, now leading FOSS compiler lands depth-charge on Itanic Applications12 Apr 2024 | 77
BOFH: The new Boss, Aiman, is suspiciously good – for now Episode 7 Of course our unfriendly neighborhood sysadmin has nothing to do with it BOFH12 Apr 2024 | 56
Why it’s time to rethink your cloud strategy Organizations must rethink where and how they are placing their workloads as applications and data become more distributed Commissioned
Open source versus Microsoft: The new rebellion begins Opinion Neither side can afford to lose, but one surely must
Tired techie 'fixed' a server, blamed Microsoft, and got away with it who, me? If you're too exhausted to think, maybe you shouldn't be doing tech support
US House approves FISA renewal – warrantless surveillance and all Infosec in brief PLUS: Chinese chipmaker Nexperia attacked; A Microsoft-signed backdoor; CISA starts scanning your malware; and more
Microsoft to use Windows 11 Start menu as a billboard with app ads for Insiders This wasn't what most had in mind when Redmond promised to make the feature 'great again'
Why making pretend people with AGI is a waste of energy Interview Industrial revolution didn't give us human mimics, so why should AI think like us, this computer scientist wonders
Microsoft lifts years-old compatibility hold for Windows 11 It probably wasn't only sound driver problems that kept users away
How to coax ChatGPT into making better predictions: Get it to tell tales from the future 'Something is stopping it, even though it clearly can do it'
Roku makes 2FA mandatory for all after nearly 600K accounts pwned Streamer says access came via credential stuffing
Microsoft hikes Dynamics 365 prices by around ten percent or more First rise in five years varies between 9.26 and 16.67 percent for different products – for no apparent reason
Feline firewall woke developer to declaw DDoS disaster System alerts were pinging but cat had no way of knowing what was happening
Support contract required techie to lounge around in a $5,000/night hotel room On Call And be paid danger money while he did it
British watchdog has 'real concerns' about the staggering love-in between cloud giants and AI upstarts Billions in investment? Yeeeah, right – looks more like ensuring only select few developers thrive
French issue alerte rouge after local governments knocked offline by cyber attack Embarrassing, as its officials are in the US to discuss Olympics cyber threats
Apple stops warning of 'state-sponsored' attacks, now alerts about 'mercenary spyware' Report claims India's government, which is accused of using Pegasus at home, was displeased Security12 Apr 2024 | 10
VMware's end-user compute products probably have a new brand: Omnissa As the rest of Virtizilla's users face a pause in support and education services due to apparent SAP-to-Oracle migration Virtualization12 Apr 2024 | 13
OpenAI CEO wants UAE into his plan for a global AI cabal Asking for emir few billion bucks to pay for lots of fabs, datacenters, and nuclear power plants AI + ML12 Apr 2024 | 6
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