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2 days a week still compulsory but U-turn gives credence to worker concerns Apple has postponed employees' scheduled return to the office for three days a week amid a jump in COVID-19 infections.…

Facility supports a flurry of HPC development, centered in the Czech Republic Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE) expanded its European footprint this week as it revealed plans for a new manufacturing facility in the Czech Republic, dedicated to building high-performance compute (HPC) systems.…

After years of crackdowns, Beijing changing its tune on the industry The vice premier of China and Xi Jinping's economic right hand man, Liu He, has offered a rare show of support to China's tech industry – both domestic and abroad.…

Chip biz bets interconnect tech will cement its cloud claim, one day Fresh off the heels of Marvell Technology's Tanzanite acquisition, executives speaking at a JP Morgan event this week offered a glimpse at its compute express link (CXL) roadmap.…

June debut of zero trust GDAP tool should make it harder for crims to attack through MSPs and resellers Microsoft has advised its reseller community it needs to pay attention to the debut of improve security tooling aimed at making it harder for attackers to worm their way into your systems through partners.…

According to this cybersecurity outfit that wants your business, anyway The fraud industry, in some respects, grew in the first quarter of the year, with crooks putting more human resources into some attacks while increasingly relying on bots to carry out things like credential stuffing and fake account creation.…

French frolics for Chromium browser on Android Automotive Browser-maker Vivaldi has added Renault to the list of users for the Android Automotive OS version of its eponymous web renderer.…

Sysrv-K malware infects unpatched tin, Microsoft warns The latest variant of the Sysrv botnet malware is menacing Windows and Linux systems with an expanded list of vulnerabilities to exploit, according to Microsoft.…

Puny human brains baffled by K8s complexity, leading to blunder fears Kubernetes, despite being widely regarded as an important technology by IT leaders, continues to pose problems for those deploying it. And the problem, apparently, is us.…

Tax portal wobbles, again Services giant Infosys has had a difficult week, with one of its flagship projects wobbling and India's government continuing to pressure it over labor practices.…

Phew! Google has quietly dropped its demand that users of its free G Suite legacy edition cough up to continue enjoying custom email domains and cloudy productivity tools.…

MIPS...ish is on the march in the Middle Kingdom Version 12.1 of the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) was released this month, and among its many changes is support for China's LoongArch processor architecture.…

CEO of e-tail market leader JD perhaps boldly points out wider economic impact of zero-virus stance The CEO of China’s top e-commerce company, JD, has pointed out the economic impact of China’s current COVID-19 lockdowns - and the news is not good.…

Can't say when, where, nor price tag. Has promised 40k wafers a month at between 28nm and 40nm Taiwanese contract manufacturer to the stars Foxconn is to build a chip fabrication plant in Malaysia.…

The little lander that couldn't (any longer) The Martian InSight lander will no longer be able to function within months as dust continues to pile up on its solar panels, starving it of energy, NASA reported on Tuesday.…

With the benefit of maybe revitalizing the x86 giant’s foundry business Analysis Here's something that would have seemed outlandish only a few years ago: to help fuel Intel's future growth, the x86 giant has vowed to do what it can to make the open-source RISC-V ISA worthy of widespread adoption.…

Looking for tech talent? Kim Jong-un's friendly freelancers, at your service Pay close attention to that resume before offering that work contract.…

A stunning surprise to no one in this Solar System Elon Musk said his bid to acquire and privatize Twitter "cannot move forward" until the social network proves its claim that fake bot accounts make up less than five per cent of all users.…

'We're open to all hypotheses, we're open to any conclusions' says official A US House of Representatives subcommittee on Tuesday heard from Pentagon officials on reports of and investigations into unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) – a category that encompasses unidentified flying objects (UFO) and saves room for optical illusions, lens flare, smudges in photos, and other possibilities like meteorological events.…

* Terms, conditions, hardware specs and software may vary – a lot As a slowdown in PC sales brings down prices for graphics cards, AMD is hoping to win over the market's remaining buyers with a bold, new claim that its latest Radeon cards provide better performance for the dollar than Nvidia's most recent GeForce cards.…

A futuristic design won't make people want to come back – just ask Apple After nearly a decade of planning and five years of construction, Google is cutting the ribbon on its Bay View campus, the first that Google itself designed.…

Anything that uses proximity-based BLE is vulnerable, claim researchers Tesla Model 3 and Y owners, beware: the passive entry feature on your vehicle could potentially be hoodwinked by a relay attack, leading to the theft of the flash motor.…

Java and Python packages are the first on the list Google has a plan — and a new product plus a partnership with developer-focused security shop Snyk — that attempts to make it easier for enterprises to secure their open source software dependencies.…

Mission to lunar orbit is further than any Photon satellite bus has gone before Rocket Lab has taken delivery of NASA's CAPSTONE spacecraft at its New Zealand launch pad ahead of a mission to the Moon.…

More Euro-presence than any other Chinese company, but still nowhere near Google or AWS Alibaba has pulled ahead of its Chinese rivals in Europe with the opening of a third datacenter in Germany.…

Still a 'nimble idea factory' under the gaze of the Chameleon Kubecon SUSE acquisition Rancher is growing up, with a decidedly enterprise-friendly 2.6.5 release and version 5.0 of NeuVector.…

Pain points plugged in open-source vector art package Open-source vector drawing package Inkscape has resolved at least one user pain point with v1.2 – multiple-page documents.…

PostgreSQL, MongoDB, MySQL tools for overly busy DBAs, less experienced devs Percona Live Open-source database services biz Percona has confirmed general availability of a database management platform initially targeted at PostgreSQL, MySQL, and MongoDB.…

Investors want compensation-performance link, but manufacturing plan will dent bottom line Intel shareholders voted to reject the compensation packages for the chipmaker's top execs, according to regulatory documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), although the vote was non-binding on the company.…

Go host yourself with a tiny low-powered Arm cluster in a box for $219 The Turing Pi 2 crowdfunding campaign has soared past its $64,000 goal in single a day, currently standing at $1,027,428 with more than 3,400 backers.…

Show us that benefits outweigh the cost, BCS challenges government BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, has warned that proposed changes to Britain's data protection rules must not put the flow of data between the EU and the UK at risk.…

It should just run like x86, pair basically stress Arm is this week celebrating passing a few of its own self-set milestones in its long quest to compete against x86 stalwarts Intel and AMD in the server processor space.…

You look like Windows, and you look like Windows and you look like Windows ... Analysis As a mainstream desktop OS, Linux is doing better than ever. The Year of Linux on the Desktop came some time ago, and it is ChromeOS (Chromebooks were outselling Macs until recently). But there's a problem – there is almost no diversity of design.…

Singapore's safety scheme measures scam-combatting capability A newly implemented e-commerce rating system in the city-state of Singapore has rated Facebook's Marketplace as the least trustworthy e-commerce platform, behind Amazon and its Alibaba-owned Asian analogue Lazada.…

More types of biz fall under expanded rules – and fines for those who fall short Europe has moved closer toward new cybersecurity standards and reporting rules following a provisional network and information systems agreement dubbed NIS2 by the European Council and Parliament. …

The GSMA would say that, yet Big Tech is making it harder for carriers to turn a quid Telcos risk missing out on revenue needed to fund new networks, despite demand for their services soaring – and Big Tech is to blame.…

If his surgery was as bad as his opsec, this chap has caused a lot of trouble The US Attorney’s Office has charged a 55-year-old cardiologist with creating and selling ransomware and profiting from revenue-share agreements with criminals who deployed his product.…

'Brushing' tops the list, as quantity of forbidden content continue to rise China’s Ministry of Public Security has revealed the five most prevalent types of fraud perpetrated online or by phone.…

Appeal petition as doomed as the Itanic chips at the heart of decade-long drama The US Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear Oracle's appeal to overturn a ruling ordering the IT giant to pay $3 billion in damages for violating a decades-old contract agreement.…

Estimated $42bn vanished with collapse of UST, Luna – we explain what all this means TerraUSD, a so-called "stablecoin," has seen its value drop from $1 apiece a week ago to about $0.09 on Monday, demonstrating not all that much stability.…

Cloud biz says it is reacting to customer mix largely shifting from lone devs to SMBs DigitalOcean attempted to lessen the sting of higher prices this week by announcing a cut-rate instance aimed at developers and hobbyists.…

Fine-print crucially deemed contractual agreement as well as copyright license in smartTV source-code case The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC) has won a significant legal victory in its ongoing effort to force Vizio to publish the source code of its SmartCast TV software, which is said to contain GPLv2 and LGPLv2.1 copyleft-licensed components.…

Citizen allegedly moved $10m-plus in BTC into banned nation US prosecutors have accused an American citizen of illegally funneling more than $10 million in Bitcoin into an economically sanctioned country.…

Why be a customer when you can develop your own custom semiconductors Analysis Here's something that should raise eyebrows in the datacenter world: Facebook parent company Meta has hired a veteran networking chip engineer from Intel to lead silicon design efforts in the internet giant's infrastructure hardware engineering group.…

Report says $42b will need to be poured into industry over next decade Growing demand for lithium for batteries means the sector will need $42 billion of investment to meet the anticipated level of orders by the end of the decade, according to a report.…

Still think we're ready for that autonomous future? Autonomous cars may be further away than believed. Testing of three leading systems found they hit a third of cyclists, and failed to avoid any oncoming cars.…

Catching compromise attempts before kicking off that recovery plan Kubecon Veeam acquisition Kasten kicked off this year's Kubecon with an updated version of its K10 product, aimed at securing the Kubernetes container orchestration platform.…

'Most challenging element of migration likely remains' warns analyst Spanish financial giant Santander has migrated 80 percent of its core banking IT infrastructure to the cloud as part of its $20.8 billion (€20 billion ) modernization programme, with the help of in-house software created by resident developers.…

<5% figure was based on 100 accounts, if you're wondering Updated Last week Elon Musk hit pause on his Twitter acquisition over the platform's "less than 5 percent" bot figure.…

Instagram, Microsoft responsible for lifts coming in version 3.11 and beyond The next version of the standard Python interpreter, CPython, is expected in October. It will include significant performance improvements and support for running inside the browser.…