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Plus $800m Streamlit acquisition – just don't expect a revenue contribution any time soon Cloud-native data warehouse outfit Snowflake – once valued at a heart-thumping $120bn following its 2020 IPO – saw 30 per cent wiped off its value in after-hours trading yesterday as it lowered guidance on revenue forecasts.…

It's not easy to run standard Linux on a lot of single-board computers, but Armbian can help The latest update to Armbian brings a mainline-kernel based Ubuntu- and Debian-compatible environment to dozens of small single-board computers.…

One day after Roscosmos said 'hostile' UK govt should withdraw stake in satellite firm The board of satellite constellation provider OneWeb this morning said it had voted to suspend all launches from Baikonur, a day after Russia's space agency said this weekend's lift-off was in doubt.…

One-in-ten respondents hadn't even heard of it Reader survey results When we published the questions for this survey, our view was that zero trust, or ZT, has finally begun to become a thing – as a real technology in real companies.…

Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions questions if gains may be negated by data creation Modern 5G network infrastructure is more power efficient than prior generations but the Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions (CREDS) says it isn't clear if this will deliver a cut in overall energy consumption, or whether consumption may in fact rise.…

Potential mass internet surveillance idea dropped after ISP pushback, uncertainty about final measures linger While the world watches Ukraine, the British government has quietly dropped a requirement for mass surveillance of UK internet users by their service providers.…

Today we walk you through the fascinating world of upcoming text-generating rivals Analysis Text-generating language models are difficult to control. These systems have no sense of morality: they can spew hate speech and misinformation. Despite this, numerous companies believe this kind of software is good enough to sell. Are these organizations, and the wider world, ready for it?…

We found some servers? Quick: buy some software! Here’s something a little ironic: Nutanix, a company that first championed abstraction of hardware with software, then backed away from hardware, has now noticed that some customers’ software buying behavior is tied to hardware availability.…

Whitegoods and cars also allowed to cross the border South Korea's Ministry of Trade has revealed that after discussions with the US Department of Commerce, the nation that is home to Samsung is confident that smartphones are exempt from new bans on exporting technology to Russia.…

Infosys and Wipro bet that makers of metaverses and cloudy cars want ready-to-roll platforms Two of India’s global service giants have announced platforms on which to build emerging technologies, continuing their move towards acting as software vendors.…

Payloads stuck at just 1.5kg, but noise has been reduced Alphabet's drone delivery outfit, Wing, has inked a deal with a major Australian supermarket chain that will see it deliver household staples – in small bundles.…

Party invitation lost – or snubbed? Nvidia's absence from an Intel-led effort among industry players to develop next-gen chips with a more vibrant mix of cores is raising questions about the GPU maker's chiplet strategy, particularly regarding the integration of graphics when it comes to future PC processors.…

The further you move from the office, the more wild the product descriptions CrowdStrike is bringing its identity threat prevention technology to its managed detection and response (MDR) service, giving enterprises a chance to blunt the growing threat of identity-based attacks that has accelerated during the COVID-19 pandemic.…

As Moscow tries to retain IT talent with military exemption, a three-year tax suspension for biz Russia, scrambling to deal with economic sanctions imposed in response to its invasion of Ukraine last week and to staunch the hemorrhaging of businesses and talent, will exempt IT companies from taxes for three years and will excuse specialized tech workers from military service.…

Says enterprise open-source house Red Hat The use of proprietary software in enterprise organizations is expected to decline eight percentage points over the next two years, while the use of enterprise open-source software is expected to increase five percentage points.…

'Please stop using your device' Fitbit recalled all models of its Ionic smartwatch on Tuesday after a small number of wearers were left with burns when the gadgets' lithium-ion batteries overheated.…

Verification hit and miss so far Ukrainian news website Ukrainska Pravda says the nation's Centre for Defence Strategies think tank has obtained the personal details of 120,000 Russian servicemen fighting in Ukraine. The publication has now shared this data freely on its website.…

Latest info dump days after anonymous outing of 60,000 messages Infamous ransomware group Conti is now the target of cyberattacks in the wake of its announcement late last week that it fully supports Russia's ongoing invasion of neighboring Ukraine, with the latest hit being the leaking of its source code for the public to see.…

Fresh data transfer pact in the works for spring The State of the Net conference in Washington, DC, has heard officials representing the EU and the US say they believe they are close to reaching a data-sharing agreement to replace Privacy Shield.…

SpyCloud highlights poor password hygiene of consumers and the threat to enterprises Passwords, long a weakness in the tapestry of defenses designed to keep enterprises and individuals more secure, continue to be a problem due in large part to the same issue that has haunted them for years: the users themselves.…

Hopefully a better experience than the 'disastrous' Files On-Demand update Microsoft's cloudy storage service, OneDrive, has gone native on Apple Silicon as Folder Backup arrives in Public Preview.…

State-owned Sberbank's software contracts under scrutiny As of this morning, the EU confirmed it had "agreed to exclude key Russian banks from the SWIFT system, the world's dominant financial messaging system.…

StreetComplete told people how they could fund development, now it's not allowed to StreetComplete, a free Android program designed to help people to contribute to OpenStreetMap, was blocked from Google's Play Store merely for urging users to donate money to the app's development.…

A fascinating firsthand retelling of the technical history of MPLS Systems Approach One of the more satisfying conference experiences in my career was giving a presentation in the SIGCOMM 2003 Outrageous Opinions session, entitled: MPLS Considered Helpful.…

We can still hear the echoes of the launch fanfare from 2020 Microsoft's attempt to put its homegrown Pluton security processor architecture into third-party Windows 11 PCs is right now more work-in-progress than the slam dunk its publicity would have you believe.…

US giant wants 20% of the world's chips from EU Intel's doing a European version of Amazon HQ2: enticing governments to pledge more and more funds to subsidize the construction of chip mega-plants along with ever-growing packages of benefits.…

Underwater sediment surges sliced several segments, required extreme splicing to fix Two boffins from New Zealand's University of Auckland have detailed the extraordinary repair job performed to reconnect the submarine cable connecting the Kingdom of Tonga to the world.…

Beijing and Moscow are suddenly BFFs, and that's already seen one Chinese firm reverse a Russia ban As big tech companies from the West swiftly and happily comply with new rules that prohibit interactions with Russia, Chinese companies will soon feel pressure to do likewise – and counter-pressure to resist such calls.…

State of the Union features call for Congress to pass law that could see Intel spend $100B on chip factories United States president Joe Biden has used his first State of the Union speech to call for a ban on social networks serving ads targeted at children.…

AI cloud business booms, but not at levels – or in locations – that will worry rivals Chinese web giant Baidu has revealed plans to introduce its autonomous taxi service to 65 cities by the year 2025, then add another 35 cities by 2030.…

Where in the world is Carm, sorry, Satish Kumbhani? Satish Kumbhani, who is accused of scamming people out of $2.4bn in a cryptocurrency Ponzi scheme, has disappeared while evading an American watchdog, a court was told this week.…

Who says organic chemistry doesn't have its drama? The US Patent Office's appeal board on Monday sided with Harvard University and MIT by upholding a set of the group's patents covering CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing in plants and animals.…

You couldn't read this article online without using his network tech David Boggs, a computer networking pioneer best-known for co-inventing Ethernet, has died. He was 71.…

While Apple halts all sales in Russia, Visa and Mastercard block banks The disk-wiping malware that tore through at least hundreds of Ukrainian Windows systems at the start of Russia's occupation wasn't alone. Slovakian infosec firm ESET has found a second similar strain in Ukraine.…

Plus: Namecheap tells customers in Russia they are no longer welcome, citing 'war crimes' In response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine last week, Mykhailo Fedorov, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, on Monday asked the head of DNS overlord ICANN to disable country code top-level domains associated with Russia.…

Just because it's on Github doesn't mean you can read it. Vendors of the FOSS hardware and software communities are voicing their concerns about closed-source firmware.…

Virtualization giant keen to cash in on cloud-native tech MWC VMware has detailed products and partnerships at Mobile World Congress (MWC) involving service providers and others using its tech to build next-generation networks and services covering applications, the radio access network (RAN), and the network edge.…

Expect to hear more from it as Putin's war wears on As Russia's invasion of Ukraine continues, the name Maxar has suddenly taken on more significance with detailed eye-in-the-sky images of military movements on the ground being passed to media – including a 40-mile convoy headed for Kyiv. But what is Maxar, and where did it come from?…

Stick a fork in this Socket and zap malicious NPM packages Socket, the biz behind the Wormhole file transfer web app, on Tuesday plans to introduce a security scanning app also called Socket to defend against supply-chain attacks in the JavaScript ecosystem.…

German veteran Software AG buys StreamSets while private equity firm takes over ERP slinger Forterro European mid-market ERP specialist Forterro was bought by Partners Group this morning for €1bn and Germany's Software AG has acquired data integration platform vendor StreamSets for €524m.…

Oh the irony! Insurance companies, even those selling cyber insurance, are attack targets Aon, the British-American provider of insurance and pension administration, has brought in external specialists to help probe a "cyber incident".…

Delivered as a service to reduce risks for enterprises despite lukewarm channel takeup for similar products Cisco has disclosed further details for a dedicated 5G network-as-a-service that customers will pay for based on what they consume – a week after Hewlett Packard Enterprise released its own package.…

Big Red product to become more unstable, unreliable, and less secure after 20 years' use Hull City Council has launched procurement for a £6m SaaS-based ERP system after deciding to ditch an Oracle E-Business Suite it has relied on for 20 years.…

COVID-19 turned many of us into media producers, but the tools favour Windows Column The pandemic changed the way I used computers. For most of the 20 years before 2020, I rarely needed or used more than the browser, the mail app, messaging, and a word processor. Other than that I made the occasional foray into image and/or video editing or PDF preparation tools.…

Azure Operator Distributed Services designed to let telcos run workloads on a single carrier-grade hybrid platform Microsoft has updated its Azure for Operators portfolio aimed at telecoms providers, with Azure Operator Distributed Services enabling those customers to run workloads on a single carrier-grade hybrid platform.…

Rosalind Franklin still can't catch a break The joint ESA-Roscosmos Mars rover Rosalind Franklin is "very unlikely" to launch this year after Russia was hit with fresh economic sanctions for invading Ukraine.…

Architect of rejected three-way split passes the baton as decision day looms Toshiba has made a raft of new executive appointments as its reform plan meets with renewed opposition.…

When he retired with stuff left on his to-do list, he expected fixes would flow. They haven't Early internet pioneer Jack Haverty has described the early structure of the internet as experimental – and said not much has changed since.…

'Daxin' malware creates backdoors and may have been used since 2013 The United States' Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), working with security vendor Symantec, has found an extremely sophisticated network attack tool that can invisibly create backdoors, has been plausibly linked to Chinese actors, and may have been in use since 2013.…

Purple! Palace! has! nothing! left! behind! the! Great! Firewall! – not! even! users’! mail! troves! Yahoo has stopped providing email services in China – a decision that means the venerable web company has ceased operations behind the Great Firewall.…