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There's a lot of manual work to do from now to March to make sure you don't break the cloud bank Microsoft has warned its partner community that real-time tracking and notifications of customers' Azure spend is broken until mid-March, creating the possibility that spending overruns will go undetected.…

Also cuts import duties to attract EV-battery makers and keep smartphone factories humming India has sidelined Big Tech in its pursuit of a cloud for its agricultural industry.…

More supposition than superposition as local media goes on Sci-Fi journey Quantum computers have started rolling off the production line in China, according to local media reports.…

But the code creator has revived the abandoned code for OpenTelemetry After a delay of over a year, an open source code contribution to enable the export of data from Datadog's Application Performance Monitoring (APM) platform finally got merged on Tuesday into a collection of OpenTelemetry components.…

ACLU, EFF, public defenders say that's a hard no Updated Evidence collected in a Google geofence dragnet warrant that's being used to prosecute a Virginia man accused of robbing a bank is unconstitutional and should be thrown out of court, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and eight federal public defenders. …

OK Google, whatever you're doing, please don't Git-based code host SourceHut will not have to block the Go Module Mirror as planned, after Google took notice of its complaints.…

Microsoft and friends happy to assuage Uncle Sam's anxiety — for a price Fujitsu may not be worried about encryption busting quantum computers showing up anytime soon, but that doesn’t mean the US government is willing to risk missing out.…

Max reward per project integration is now $30k Google sweetened the potential pot to $30,000 for bug hunters in its open source OSS-Fuzz code testing project.…

Here's your new desk, phone, security card, and an unpleasant missive for some OpenText marked the completion of its $6bn purchase of Micro Focus by setting out plans to shed 8 percent of the combined workforce, equating to circa 2,000 people joining the dole queue.…

If it walks like a Ponzi, quacks like a Ponzi, guess what it is? A court-appointed examiner investigating the collapse of cryptocurrency biz Celsius has issued a report of her findings, which are wrapped up in the very first sentence of its executive summary.…

Vendor lock-in: savings of up to $750m a year possible if Uncle Sam didn't predetermine the victor Oracle and Microsoft – two companies receiving most of the US government's off-the-shelf software spending over the last decade – get at least 25 percent and 30 percent of their respective government revenue through purchase processes which are not competitive.…

XPS doc display issues fixed – until the next patch, at least Microsoft this week rolled out fixes to issues caused by security updates released in December 2022 that botched how XPS documents are displayed in various versions of .NET and .NET Framework.…

Updated Galaxies dive into Apple territory Samsung Electronics has unveiled its first premium PC, the Galaxy Book 3 Ultra, and positioned it very much as a MacBook alternative for professional creative types who need to work with colossal image files.…

Yes, we may end up being criminally charged, but we haven't been yet Tesla has confirmed the Department of Justice asked it to hand over documents related to Autopilot and Tesla Full Self-Driving (FSD), as the US government's criminal probe into hype surrounding the software continues.…

Plus Xfce flavor desktop based on latest version 4.18 The latest blog post from the Linux Mint project announces new features coming in 21.2 – and some of them are surprisingly big changes for a point release.…

They're a 'liquid engineering' biz, and applications include bit barns Lubricants company Castrol has hooked up with the Research Institutes of Sweden (RISE) to help develop next-generation immersion cooling fluids for datacenters.…

Chip giant holding out hope that demand rebounds once supplies dry up Memory chipmaker SK hynix saw its first operating loss in 10 years for calendar Q4 of 2022 amid a sharp fall in prices, although it's forcasting a gradual recovery later this year.…

SaaS provider Workday also among those laying off employees Online payment service PayPal says it intends to cut about 7 percent of its workforce, or around 2,000 jobs, in the latest cull to hit the tech sector.…

Cargo airline Atlas Air takes delivery of 1,547th and last Queen of the Skies After what is actually a longer farewell than Elton John's five-year final tour, Boeing is finally, for real this time, saying goodbye to the 747 as it delivers the last one to the world's largest 747 operator, American cargo airline Atlas Air.…

Giving windows a transmissive metasurface can improve coverage from a single base station Japanese mobile operator NTT Docomo has opened up on its endeavors to make sure 5G and successor wireless technology generations continue to function, despite humans – or perhaps the companies that employ them – insisting they work indoors.…

Insiders claim investment trust demanded design changes but didn't adjust deadlines, job cuts loom Exclusive The UK's National Employment Savings Trust (Nest), an occupational pensions scheme, has ended its £1.5 billion ($1.8 billion) deal with French IT services supplier Atos just two years into its potential 18-year term.…

Big Red 'will always start with a large number and negotiate down' The best time to prepare for exiting an Oracle Unlimited License Agreement is the day after the user organization signs up to one, according to software asset management experts.…

As for privacy concerns about the Topics API? We'll get back to you Google's delayed disposal of third-party cookies – data stored in web browsers for advertising and analytics, among other things – will kick off the third quarter of 2024.…

Pas le visage, merci A bill to allow real-time video surveillance of vistors to the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics was approved by France's Senate on Tuesday and now advances to the National Assembly – but crucially bans the use of facial recognition technology.…

Malicious OAuth apps were the tickets into victims' systems Miscreants using malicious OAuth applications abused Microsoft's "verified publisher" status to gain access to organizations' cloud environments, then steal data and pry into to users' mailboxes, calendars, and meetings.…

Still plans a ‘competitive dividend’ for investors Intel’s foul financials have flowed into senior workers’ pay packets, which will reportedly be lightened by at least five percent.…

Piracy-as-a-service, 'bulletproof' ISPs, fake influencers, and big Chinese e-tailers turned a blind eye The combination of digital technology and COVID-19 caused a shift in the world's trade in counterfeit goods, according to the Office of the United States Trade Representative's annual Review of Notorious Markets for Counterfeiting and Piracy.…

CEO Lisa Su's job is vastly more fun that Pat Gelsinger's right now, at least on the balance sheet Intel's pain is apparently AMD's gain as the chip design company looks to steal more share from its long-time rival in 2023.…

As 17 percent of customers see Virtzilla's short term strategic significance shrinking Broadcom has signalled its intention to take on hyperscale datacenter operators once its acquisition of VMware concludes.…

Dashboard your DevOps data and see where your team has been slacking Boston-based software biz Jellyfish believes it can help devs write better code by focusing on the adjacent processes to avoid software slowdowns.…

You're holding staff meetings wrong? The United States' National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) - the federal agency that protects workers' right to organize - has "found merit" in allegations that Apple's rules, handbook, confidentiality policy, and executives, are on the wrong side of labor laws. …

ChatGPT: Please explain the difference between 'token efforts' and 'putting the genie back in the bottle' OpenAI has released a free online tool designed to predict whether a passage of text was generated by AI or written by a human.…

Let customers opt-out, or start adding zeros to compliance fines California's attorney general has put mobile app developers on notice: comply with the state's privacy laws and consumer opt-out requests, or get ready to paybig time.…

So much for being 'Unbreakable' say developers Oracle may offer its own Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) compatible operating system, but clearly not all public cloud developers are happy with the company's "Unbreakable" kernel and would prefer the real thing.…

Ballmer thought this kernel was cancer, Nadella may disagree Organizations using Microsoft's Defender for Endpoint will now be able to isolate Linux devices from their networks to contain intrusions and whatnot.…

Genius move: You can't lose money if you don't pay your bills Elon Musk's strategy of cutting expenses at Twitter by not paying bills is coming home to roost. The company's landlords at its iconic Market Square HQ in San Francisco have sued for two months of back rent – and more.…

Cupertino commentators split over foldable fondleslab predictions When Apple soothsayer Ming-Chi Kuo tweets, the tech world pays attention. This time he's predicting a folding iPad to hit the market next year, which means some accompanying bad news for those hoping to get a new Apple tablet in 2023.…

Cloud backup outfit finds that older HDDs fail more – who knew? Cloud storage and backup provider Backblaze has released a report on its hard drive failure rates for 2022 which appears to verify that the age of a drive is a key metric for predicting potential failure.…

Not complete yet, but getting closer to welcoming Mac migrants and systemd scorners After almost a year, version 0.8 of the helloSystem is here: an easy-to-use graphical distribution based on FreeBSD 13.1 aiming to offer a different way forward for people looking to leave Apple's macOS – or contemporary Linux.…

210,000+ people in IT now lost their job since start of 2022 NetApp is laying off roughly eight percent of its workforce following the downturn in customer spending, adding to the employment bonfire raging across the tech industry.…

Welsh city of Wrexham has a reputation to uphold You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy than British McDonald's branches, so the burger joint is trying a new tactic to curb its patrons' bad behavior – by blasting classical music at them.…

Beijing watching developments closely as death knell rings for company's foreign supply chain The US government is reportedly going to halt all Amercian technology export licenses to Huawei as the Biden administration inflicts a total ban on the sale of goods to the Chinese business.…

Discounts coming to clear inventory as device makers hit by inflation, interest rates and conflict in Ukraine Businesses are likely to sweat device assets for longer this year as they spend conservatively in a weakening economy, and this along with shrinking demand from consumers is leaving manufacturers in a tight spot.…

X2 eVTOL doesn't have wheels but paves the way for sedan-like X3 HT Aero, a subsidiary of Chinese automaker XPeng, says the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) has granted it a flight permit for its two-seater electric "flying car," the XPeng X2.…

Hardened versions of apps and services can handle classified information for government Microsoft's Office 365 Government Secret cloud – a special SKU of the suite that was first talked about almost a year ago when it was being reviewed by the US government for accreditation – has become generally available.…

Bet is to use UAV to plug not-spots in mobile coverage with 150Mbps across 15,000 square km BT is helping to test out antenna technology for a company planning to deliver 4G and 5G coverage from high-flying aircraft. The system is intended to provide connectivity in remote areas that are not well served by terrestrial networks.…

Record income for foundry business offers sole bright spot Samsung Electronics has posted nasty Q4 results and suggested that premium products and a surging foundry business are its way out of a slump.…

Turns out even MI5 has to comply with retention rules An independent tribunal has blasted British spy agency MI5 for "serious failings in compliance" and "unlawful" data collection of British subject dating back to 2014.…

Also, JunoCam malfunctioned again, time to get new kit up there NASA has formally ended the Geotail spacecraft's 30-year mission studying the Earth's magnetosphere after months of repeated attempts to repair its last data recorder failed. …

Well what do you know – plenty of hard-nosed regulation by central authorities actually protected investors Collapsed crypto exchange FTX's Japanese outpost has told customers it will permit them to withdraw assets in February.…