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by Dan Robinson on (#5YDPF)
I mean, there's still so many, many IT depts to suck up into our cloud Amazon is not planning to spin off its Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud division. Instead, AWS is likely to make acquisitions of its own in order to keep ahead in the cloud services market, according to its chief executive Adam Selipsky.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5YDGM)
Commercial life in Putin Land not exactly a bed of roses, warns Russia's Google Yandex, Russia's Google, has withdrawn its financial guidance for 2022 due to uncertainty over what this year will yield for the corporation.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YDE2)
Azure trusted with food giant's sauce code US food behemoth Kraft Heinz has signed a multi-year agreement with Microsoft to shift much of its datacenter assets to Azure.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5YDE3)
Tests in Belgium might mean carbon-free backup power for its other DCs The pilot of a new emergency battery power system at a Google datacenter in Belgium may be the first of many steps toward eliminating diesel generators from similar facilities around the world.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5YDAZ)
While heaping praise on Big Red, analysts find room to criticize licensing, negotiations, and integration Oracle's pricing models and contracts can be "challenging to navigate" and "frustrating for customers," according to a Gartner report that otherwise heaps praise on the omnipresent enterprise software company.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5YDB0)
It's hoping CSPs will consume platform as a service via public or private cloud HPE has revealed details of its HPE RAN Automation, a service management and orchestration platform created to help network operators implement a disaggregated radio access network (RAN).…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5YD85)
Google cites US sanctions while Beijing and John Lee Ka-chiu are miffed YouTube has blocked the campaign account of Hong Kong's only candidate for the Special Administrative Region's (SAR) head of government, John Lee Ka-chiu, citing US sanctions.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YD86)
The last LTS before a Canonical float in 2023? Canonical has finally pushed "go" on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, making the Linux distribution generally available and a handy update for careful users still running 20.04 LTS.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YD5H)
SpaceX and Kuiper in the $278.5m mix to replace space agency's Tracking Data and Relay Satellite fleet NASA is lavishing a combined $278.5m on six US companies for near-Earth space communication services.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#5YD3V)
We've passed peak chip shortage, though, insists Gartner analyst A large industrial conglomerate is being forced to take increasingly desperate measures to satisfy their needs for chips, according to ASML, a manufacturer of chip-making equipment.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5YD3W)
UK prime minister visits country to 'welcome' contract, namecheck commercial pacts, talk up trade OneWeb has agreed with the commercial arm of Indian Space Research Organization, New Space India Limited, to deploy its Low Earth Orbit (LEO) broadband satellites from the country's launch pad outside Chennai.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5YD03)
Software? Ticked. Hardware? Ticked. Kitchen sink? Oh go on then, why not The British government is looking to speak with suppliers in preparation for a multi-year procurement that could be worth up to £8 billion in technology products and services.…
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by Lindsay Clark on (#5YCYM)
Meanwhile, Elon Musk says we need to crack real-world AI to get fully autonomous cars to work The UK government has confirmed planned revisions to the Highway Code to accommodate self-driving vehicles, including allowing drivers to watch TV while an AI takes the wheel.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5YCX9)
It's 2036 and another hijacked AI betrays its operators Boffins from UC Berkeley, MIT, and the Institute for Advanced Study in the United States have devised techniques to implant undetectable backdoors in machine learning (ML) models.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5YCXA)
Someone's got to keep, say, Nvidia on its toes In the race to provide the best machine-learning accelerators, one of Nvidia's top challengers has claimed a victory in the biotech space, London firm LabGenius, which said Graphcore's intelligence processing units (IPUs) provide significantly faster performance for AI-based drug discovery than some unidentified traditional GPUs.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5YCS1)
Cannot confirm reports of Tim Cook on the Midnight Train to Georgia Workers in Atlanta, Georgia, have become the first US Apple Store staff to file an official request to hold an union vote with America's National Labor Relations Board.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5YCRD)
If this is surprising to operators, we are doomed The Five Eyes nations' cybersecurity agencies this week urged critical infrastructure to be ready for attacks by crews backed by or sympathetic to the Kremlin amid strong Western opposition to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5YCQP)
Webpage acceleration tech deemed harmful by rivals Brave, the browser maker, and DuckDuckGo, the web search service, have both taken aim at AMP, Google's controversial web publishing framework.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5YCPM)
James Baugh faced trial over campaign against newsletter couple A now-former eBay security director accused of harassing a couple who wrote a critical newsletter about the internet tat bazaar is set to plead guilty to cyberstalking.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5YCM2)
Remote code exec is so 2014. Have this container escape and privilege escalation, instead Amazon Web Services has updated its Log4j security patches after it was discovered the original fixes made customer deployments vulnerable to container escape and privilege escalation.…
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by Liam Proven on (#5YCGK)
Whole new meaning for zero consequences Java versions 15 to 18 contain a flaw in its ECDSA signature validation that makes it trivial for miscreants to digitally sign files and other data as if they were legit organizations.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5YCC0)
Production talent isn't here, costs are high ... so how's that multi-billion-dollar Arizona plant coming, eh? TSMC founder Morris Chang, a key player in the semiconductor industry since its inception, thinks America's attempt to grow its domestic chip production will be "a wasteful, expensive exercise in futility."…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YC9F)
Joining RHEL 9 in the preview barn AlmaLinux has released a beta for version 9 of its eponymous Linux distribution aimed at RHEL refuseniks still reeling from the dumping of CentOS by Red Hat.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5YC6W)
Case study in why price-performance matters in server chips AMD claims its Epyc CPUs played a role in the Mercedes-AMG Petronas Formula One team winning last year's Constructors' Championship race.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5YC4B)
Months after spinning out infrastructure service division, IBM not bigger but feeling less blue Freed from the financial anchor that was its infrastructure services division - spun out as Kyndryl in November - IBM kicked off calendar Q1 of 2022 with something that has eluded it for years: decent growth.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5YC22)
If you want to retain customers, Big Red recommends putting AI in charge The pandemic has made people more concerned about sustainability than ever, and businesses are the focuses of their collective ire, with most saying they don't take enterprise sustainability goals (ESGs) seriously. The solution, Oracle says, is to put AIs in charge.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YBZH)
Yet another nail in the coffin for aged and unsecure file-sharing protocol Microsoft has taken another step toward the final eradication of the venerable SMB1 protocol with plans to disable it by default in all editions of Windows 11.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5YBZJ)
Goal is to make natural language processing available in all the world's tongues Amazon released an open-source speech dataset supporting 51 languages on Wednesday, encouraging developers to build more third-party apps and services for its AI speaker device Alexa.…
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by Dan Robinson on (#5YBVT)
Growing enterprise demand for more complex cloud-native services carries a higher price tag Global spending on public cloud services will come close to $500 billion this year, according to research firm Gartner.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5YBVV)
Streaming giant plans to grow by adding new subscription tier and building up games unit Following a serious slump in subscriber numbers, Netflix execs are trying to boost financial growth by converting account sharers into paying users and building up its game division.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5YBQC)
Friends are always tellin' me, you're a user ... Just be good to free() Google's bug hunters say they spotted 58 zero-day vulnerabilities being exploited in the wild last year, which is the most-ever recorded since its Project Zero team started analyzing these in mid-2014.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YBP3)
UK High Court beckons for Windows vendor and reseller amid claims of on-prem software license skullduggery The ValueLicensing case against Microsoft is set to proceed in the UK after a judge dismissed the Windows vendor's jurisdictional challenge and strike-out application.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5YBMK)
After years of Apple's agitation to 'Move to iOS,' the Chocolate Factory has a reply Google has started rolling out an iOS app to help those using Apple devices move their data to Android systems.…
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by Laura Dobberstein on (#5YBKE)
On-prem software may remain, albeit without support or maintenance SAP announced on Tuesday it was exiting Russia after 30 years of operations in the country, leaving on-prem customers with no software support.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5YBCP)
US military must 'ride the wave of commercial innovation ... or risk drowning under its own weight' The outgoing first chief architect officer of the US Air and Space Force urged the Pentagon to lay off wasting time building everything itself, and use commercial kit if available and appropriate to upgrade its technological capabilities quickly.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#5YBBJ)
Amazon staff success spurs similar spirit in NYC for a sporting share of super-profits Apple Store staff in New York City are attempting to form a union – and want the minimum wage to be increased to $30 per hour.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#5YB80)
CEO removes mention of company from LinkedIn profile Internet-of-Things biz Insteon appears to have shut down its servers down without notifying its customers, who are now wondering what they will do with various "smart" home accessories that are looking rather dumb.…
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by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle on (#5YB5Y)
Step one, get some scrambled files back. Steps two through 37... Kaspersky has found a vulnerability in the Yanluowang ransomware encryption algorithm and, as a result, released a free decryptor tool to help victims of this software nasty recover their files.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5YB3W)
CEO memo confirms ex-AMD veteran's bump up to executive veep Exclusive Intel has promoted its top graphics executive, ex-AMD veteran Raja Koduri, signaling the chipmaker's satisfaction so far with its fledgling – yet strategically important – discrete GPU business.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5YAYY)
Samsung, Apple gain market share while everyone else loses amid economic uncertainty For the smartphone industry, the first quarter of 2022 is looking like a repeat of Q1 2020, in which economic uncertainty triggered by world events led to a double-digit shipment slump. …
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by Dan Robinson on (#5YAWK)
Prevision.io wants to 'democratize machine learning innovation' for smaller organizations Google Cloud is offering users access to an AI platform that allows them to build, deploy, and manage AI projects in the cloud without needing extensive data science knowledge.…
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by Dylan Martin on (#5YAWM)
First business chips from AMD to include Microsoft's Pluton security processor, stock is available says chip biz AMD claims its new Ryzen Pro 6000 CPUs for laptops are better suited for a variety of work-related tasks than Intel's latest chips and provide better battery life, though it's not a grand slam.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5YAWN)
LiquidStack CEO says we're in a perfect storm for the growth of two-phase immersion cooling A datacenter being built in Ohio will reportedly be the first in the US to deploy two-phase immersion cooling – but only a portion of the facility will be used for HPC colocation with rest used to mine cryptocurrency.…
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by Richard Speed on (#5YASH)
Firmware updates incoming in response to UEFI threats Updated Got a Lenovo laptop? You might need to do a swift bit of patching judging by the latest set of vulnerabilities uncovered by security researchers at ESET.…
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by Brandon Vigliarolo on (#5YASJ)
Robots need to learn to adapt to chaotic humans, says German researcher A German doctoral student's research is moving us ever closer to an AI skill that, as of yet, has been unrealized: improvisation.…
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