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Welcome to the telco, we've got fun and games: BT inks 5-year deal to outsource mainframe management to IBM
You lot can keep the blinkenlights flashing but you'll have to be TUPEd from BT...
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Amazon says it fired a guy for breaking pandemic rules. Same guy who organized a staff protest over a lack of coronavirus protection
Wow, how convenient
Cloud
Let's get digital... digital: Microsoft Ignite switches to online-only as 2020's tech calendar clears
2021 looking ever more virtual and distant. Did March feel like a year for you too?
Security
Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'
UpdatedFor a biz that prides itself on not censoring the internet, it sure likes censoring the internet
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Maintain business continuity in these challenging times with the Akamai Edge Live Virtual Summit 2020
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02 Apr 16:00 |
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Huawei P40 pricing is in step with previous P-series efforts – but flagship lacks the apps punters have come to expect
£899 and no social media? That's going to be a big ask
02 Apr 15:29 | 4
Software
Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots
US air safety bods call it 'potentially catastrophic' if reboot directive not implemented
02 Apr 14:45 | 16
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Rethinking VPN: Tailscale startup packages Wireguard with network security
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02 Apr 14:00 | 1
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ZX Spectrum prototype ROM is now available for download courtesy of boffins at the UK's Centre for Computing History
Lose yourself in a relic of simpler times
02 Apr 12:45 | 8
Virtualization
VMware plans to give vSphere power to automatically patch everything running in a VM
But first, you get a taste of it with host lifecycle management, and more waiting for K8s integration
02 Apr 12:01 | 1
Software
Soup to nuts? Not quite for SAP asset management as oil drilling firm employs supply-chain add-on to save $6.8m
That's a pretty expensive gap in S4/HANA
02 Apr 11:15 |
Science
Do you want to be an astronaut when you grow up? Yeah, you and 12,000 others: NASA flooded with folks hoping to visit Moon, Mars
Cramped conditions? Not being able to see friends and family? Sounds familiar
02 Apr 10:30 | 13
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Huawei signs non-aggression patent pact with membership of Open Invention Network
Chinese giant plays nice with open source
02 Apr 09:45 | 8
Personal Tech
Fitbit unfurls last new wearable before it's gobbled by Google, right on time for global pandemic lockdown
Track your jogs around the block – while those are still allowed
02 Apr 09:00 | 19
Business
Here's what Europeans are buying amid the COVID-19 lockdown – aside from heaps of pasta and toilet paper
Clue: Home working might have played a bit part, even in return of the desktop
02 Apr 08:31 | 17
Cloud
Google Cloud Engine outage caused by 'large backlog of queued mutations'
Ad giant added memory to servers, restarted, watched things get worse ... is on top of things again now
02 Apr 07:54 | 6
Software
Slack hooks up with Microsoft Teams and Zoom
Maybe the world needs the Pidgin of voice and video right now?
02 Apr 07:31 | 5
Science
If you thought black holes only came in S or XXXL, guess again, maybe: Elusive mid-mass void spotted eating star
Could this candidate be a missing link between small and bonkers-massive?
02 Apr 07:01 | 10
Networks
Cisco rations VPNs for staff as strain of 100,000+ home workers hits its network
Following the moon to find capacity and sticking to safe sites as Chuck Robbins leads new weekly briefings
02 Apr 06:32 | 10
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Does the US CLOUD Act hang darkly over your data privacy?
How to combat the threat and comply with GDPR
02 Apr 06:00 |
Emergent Tech
Well, 2019 finished with Intel as king of the chip world, Broadcom doing OK, everyone else shrinking. Good thing 2020's looking up, eh?
Oh, oh no... oh God
02 Apr 05:07 | 6
Bootnotes
Vietnam bans posting fake news online
About coronavirus or anything else
02 Apr 03:59 | 15
Emergent Tech
Japanese airline ANA spins out telepresence-bot startup for virus-avoiding medicos and fearful tourists
Imagine an iPad running FaceTime clamped to a post stuck into a Roomba and you'll get the idea
02 Apr 02:02 | 9
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Zoom's end-to-end encryption isn't actually end-to-end at all. Good thing the PM isn't using it for Cabinet calls. Oh, for f...
Super-crypto actually normal TLS, lawsuit launched over Facebook API usage, privacy policy rewritten
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NASA mulls restoring Saturn V to service as SLS delays and costs mount
April FoolsFlying a 50-year-old rocket to mark the anniversary of Apollo 13? What could go wrong?
Personal Tech
Internet Archive justifies its vast 'copyright infringing' National Emergency Library of 1.4 million books by pointing out that libraries are closed
Authors, publishers unimpressed
Security
Apple's latest macOS Catalina update mysteriously borks SSH for some unlucky fans. What could be the cause?
Connecting to a port greater than 8192 using a hostname now stalls, possibly
Security
Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'
UpdatedFor a biz that prides itself on not censoring the internet, it sure likes censoring the internet
Science
Sun storm probe OK'd: 'Our motivation is a fascinating signal that we have detected for decades but never been able to make an image of'
Space scientist reveals drive behind solar instrument experiment now approved by NASA
Personal Tech
Amazon says it fired a guy for breaking pandemic rules. Same guy who organized a staff protest over a lack of coronavirus protection
Wow, how convenient
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How many days of carefree wiping do you have left before life starts to look genuinely apocalyptic? Let's find out
Web calculator should give you an idea of bog roll, pasta, booze stocks
Science
Soichi to join three-spaceship club, SpaceX is going to the Moon (no, really), and rocket boffins step up COVID-19 fight
RoundupAlso: Satellite comms outfit OneWeb files for Chapter 11
Emergent Tech
Samsung calls it a day on liquid-crystal display, says quantum dot is really hot
Low demand, supply glut. Why bother?
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Amazon says it fired a guy for breaking pandemic rules. Same guy who organized a staff protest over a lack of coronavirus protection
Wow, how convenient
02 Apr 01:08 | 56
Security
Microsoft finds itself in odd position of sparing elderly, insecure protocols: Grants stay of execution to TLS 1.0, 1.1
A few more months to get those servers upgraded 'in light of current global circumstances'
01 Apr 22:04 | 6
Security
For the past five years, every FBI secret spy court request to snoop on Americans has sucked, says watchdog
AnalysisFeeling secure? Sucker
01 Apr 21:24 | 15
Cloud
Access Analysis, GuardDuty and Inspector gadgets not enough? Here comes another AI-driven security tool for AWS
What have you got for us, Detective?
01 Apr 20:55 | 1
Software
Microsoft's PowerToys suite sprouts four new playthings with a final March emission
Today's Window Walk is brought to you by the letters 'R' 'E' and 'G'
01 Apr 20:00 | 3
Security
Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'
UpdatedFor a biz that prides itself on not censoring the internet, it sure likes censoring the internet
01 Apr 19:31 | 65
Security
Cyberscum target Microsoft SQL Server boxen – and some careless sysadmins were reinfected after cleaning it out
Two-year campaign observed by Guardicore
01 Apr 19:02 |
Cloud
Who you gonna call? Google Cloud Platform's beta Service Directory is like a phone book for microservice discovery
Playing catch-up with AWS and not that smart, but some advantages over DNS
01 Apr 18:00 |
Cloud
Let's get digital... digital: Microsoft Ignite switches to online-only as 2020's tech calendar clears
2021 looking ever more virtual and distant. Did March feel like a year for you too?
01 Apr 17:00 | 3
Cloud
Salesforce founder Marc Benioff tossed $2.3m in return for bumper company growth
Enterprise cloud rains bonus down on software supremo... that's this year's holiday sorted then
01 Apr 16:00 |
Personal Tech
Internet Archive justifies its vast 'copyright infringing' National Emergency Library of 1.4 million books by pointing out that libraries are closed
Authors, publishers unimpressed
01 Apr 11:50 | 39
Science
Sun storm probe OK'd: 'Our motivation is a fascinating signal that we have detected for decades but never been able to make an image of'
Space scientist reveals drive behind solar instrument experiment now approved by NASA
01 Apr 11:10 | 9
Security
Apple's latest macOS Catalina update mysteriously borks SSH for some unlucky fans. What could be the cause?
Connecting to a port greater than 8192 using a hostname now stalls, possibly
01 Apr 10:30 | 15
Science
Soichi to join three-spaceship club, SpaceX is going to the Moon (no, really), and rocket boffins step up COVID-19 fight
RoundupAlso: Satellite comms outfit OneWeb files for Chapter 11
01 Apr 09:45 | 14
Software
Half of organisations willing to be led into the first circle of hell, or what Dante might call upgrading an ERP system
Steady now
01 Apr 08:15 | 16
Webcast
Watch online today: Practical tips for Office 365 tenant-to-tenant migration
Three secrets of success you need to know, according to Quadrotech
01 Apr 07:00 |
Emergent Tech
Hong Kong swells tech-buying subsidies for local businesses that buy from local businesses
$25k from you and $75k from the government buys improved productivity and economic diversity
01 Apr 05:49 | 2
Security
Zoom's end-to-end encryption isn't actually end-to-end at all. Good thing the PM isn't using it for Cabinet calls. Oh, for f...
Super-crypto actually normal TLS, lawsuit launched over Facebook API usage, privacy policy rewritten
01 Apr 05:11 | 133
Security
Singapore government scraps physical 2FA tokens for government services
There's an app for that. Or text, if you dare. Or even retail outlets
01 Apr 03:26 | 3
