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Internal letter reveals detailed strategy for combining with TIBCO can wait until deal is done Vista Equity Partners and Evergreen Coast Capital, the two private equiteers behind the plan to take Citrix private and merge it with TIBCO have given assurances to Citrix staff their benefits aren't in immediate peril – but warned workers on H-1B visas they'll likely face a review…

Warns that foreign interference needs more attention than terrorism Nations running online foreign influence campaigns have turned to dating apps to recruit people privy to sensitive information, according to the director general of the Australian Security and Intelligence Organisation (ASIO), the nation's security agency directed against external threats and a key partner in the Five Eyes security alliance.…

Vietnam, India, Philippines set to outpace Middle Kingdom China's tech market growth will slow from 9.7 per cent in 2021 to 8.2 per cent in 2022, in large part thanks to the Middle Kingdom's zero-COVID strategy, analyst firm Forrester predicted in a report released this week.…

Won't say why world's fastest-growing region doesn't deserve its own management nor detail impact on customers Data management and protection software vendor CommVault has merged its Asia-Pacific and Japan (APJ) region into its Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) operations.…

Video killed the radio star, pictures came and broke your car In January, drivers of older model Mazdas in the area around Seattle, Washington, started seeing their HD Radio receivers crash upon tuning to the local public radio station.…

Windows giant will say anything at this point to protect $69bn deal – and stick boot into Google, Apple Microsoft, a monopolist of yore that recently disallowed third-party browsers from handling a protocol associated with its Edge browser, has pledged to uphold a set of Open App Store Principles for the Microsoft Store on Windows and future game marketplaces.…

UEFI support adds attractions for the security-minded, GUI goes fully virtual The Qubes compartmentalised operating system developers have put out version 4.1.0. The new version has experimental support for running the GUI and audio server in their own VMs, and an optional remote-support facility.…

I want to be your SledgeMAMR Toshiba plans to use its proprietary recording technologies, FC-MAMR, MAS-MAMR, and disk stacking tech to lift nearline HDD capacities to 30TB from the end of its 2023 fiscal year. …

New version of the desktop brings in major new features to rival GNOME The new release of KDE's Plasma desktop brings a GNOME Shell-like instant overview and other improvements.…

Don't pay extortionists? Firms shelled out $5bn in Bitcoin in 6 months Ransomware attacks are proliferating as criminals turn to gangs providing turnkey post-compromise services, Britain's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has warned.…

Shiny new kit a bit more environmentally conscious Samsung sought to show off its eco credentials as it released the latest set of smartphones and tablets ahead of the Mobile World Congress.…

£500m tech consultancy procurement in the offing The UK health secretary has invoked "the latest technology" to clear a 6-million-strong waiting list in England as the National Health Service struggles with a patient backlog caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.…

UK.gov flings cash at software solution to local planning problem New 5G cell sites will be sprouting from streetlights, traffic signals, and CCTV poles across the country as part of Britain's plans to spread low-latency mobile connectivity to the masses.…

Don't all rush to sign up, DC operators Data centre operators could deploy uninterruptible power supply (UPS) systems which link up with the electricity grid so as to increase its reliability by smoothing out the unpredictability of renewable energy resources, according to research firm Omdia.…

Next stop, ITER? Scientists and engineers running the Joint European Torus (JET) facility in Oxford have announced a record-breaking 59 megajoules of heat energy from fusion, more than double the previous record achieved by JET.…

How could you put down a chapter that intones: The information here is not of great interest to most users Systems Approach If, like me, you were a computer-science graduate student who cut your teeth on Berkeley Unix – complete with the first open-source implementation of TCP/IP – you know Section 8 as the cryptic System Maintenance Commands section of the Unix User's Manual.…

Finds half of public-sector orgs determine contractors' IR35 tax status without outside help Britain's tax collection agency has released a survey whose results downplay the impact of IR35 tax reforms in the public sector, apparently showing those in the private sector that everything went swimmingly.…

Devs and maintainers getting paid – but not to concentrate on security Column Open-source software has always been more secure than proprietary software, but that doesn't mean it's "secure." To lock it down, we need to invest serious cash in developers and maintainers.…

This is the final software update from Google for the Pixel 3, 3 XL, too The February edition of Google's monthly Android security update tackles, among other vulnerabilities, an eyebrow-raising critical flaw in Android 12.…

Biometric IDs for all, cross-border interoperability not on the table Sri Lanka has decided to adopt a national digital identity framework based on biometric data and will ask India if it can implement that nation’s Aadhaar scheme.…

Beta for now, but Pi from the cloud will eventually become a factory option The minds behind the Raspberry Pi have revealed a beta version of its bootloader that allows network installation of an OS.…

SpaceX launched even though the space weatherman predicted tricky conditions could follow a solar flare SpaceX last week launched 49 shiny new Starlink broadband-beaming satellites, which is good. But 40 of them have already, or will shortly, meet their demise due to a geomagnetic storm that struck a few days after their ascent. Which is bad.…

ByteDance's Douyin strikes up a conversation with Apple's digital assistant The publisher of TikTok, China's ByteDance, has revealed it has enlisted Apple's Siri digital assistant to power its first voice search service.…

Excitement this month can be found in SAP code, with critical Log4j repairs and a CISA warning Patch Tuesday Microsoft for its February Patch Tuesday gave Windows admins just 51 fixes to apply, the smallest number of patches since the meager ration of 44 in August 2021.…

Perpetual software and hardware licenses dive in Q4, consultancy withers on vine Teradata is still working to shake off its image as an on-premises data warehouse provider by highlighting annual recurring revenue in public cloud of $202m for calendar 2021, nearly doubling from $106m in the prior year.…

Ilya Lichtenstein (yes really) and partner cuffed via blockchain records Updated Two New York-based "tech entrepreneurs" were arrested on Tuesday for allegedly conspiring to launder $4.5bn in stolen cryptocurrency, the US Department of Justice said, adding it's so far recovered $3.6bn in purloined digicash - based on current prices.…

Crim has 80 months to think on choices made in life A Canadian who used the Netwalker ransomware to attack 17 organisations and had C$30m (US$23.6m) in cash and Bitcoin when police raided his house has been jailed for more than six years.…

Quantum computing biz takes the easy route to IPO and future capital Quantum computer company D-Wave will go public after reaching a deal to merge with the SPAC (special purpose acquisition company) DPCM Capital, in a deal that values the advanced-computing firm at $1.2bn.…

Memories are made of this Microsoft has increased the lifetime of Azure Site Recovery points from 72 hours to 15 days.…

Additional €43bn in the pipeline, but it's still chickenfeed, say critics The European Commission has presented its European Chips Act with an initial investment of €11bn to strengthen research and development, and drive greater self-reliance in the semiconductor market.…

Age verification for large chunks of WWW to be mandatory Adults will have to hand over credit card or passport details before they can access social media sites, the British government threatened this morning.…

Onehouse's Apache Hudi managed service makes sense but has a long way to go, analysts say Tiny Californian startup Onehouse has won $8m in seed funding from which it hopes to grow a business worthy of taking on the giants of data engineering.…

Women, on the other hand, haven't seen much difference The internet is a lovely place? Perhaps not, but online civility has improved since 2016, according to research from Microsoft.…

UK government farming department interested in the technology supply market's view of its strategy The UK's Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) is looking to have a cosy chat with application development and support companies as it prepares up to £750m in new contracts.…

As Optionis Group CEO confirms to contractors their data was leaked online Optionis, the group that includes umbrella and accountancy companies providing services to tech contractors, has confirmed that following last month's digital break-in customer data is being leaked online.…

Shadow foreign secretary says work is visibly overdue The shadow foreign secretary for UK's opposition Labour party, David Lammy MP, has asked why the reform of the Computer Misuse Act appears to have stalled in an open letter to government.…

SoftBank Group opts to take Arm stock public again as CEO Simon Segars announces departure SoftBank Group and Nvidia are terminating the sale of Brit-based chip designer Arm to the US tech firm due to "significant regulatory challenges" amid concerns from the tech industry that a deal would stifle competition.…

Move comes ahead of draft law to turn continent into a center of semiconductor expertise Efforts in Europe to devise sovereign chips has picked up the past two months, with the European Union now coordinating three separate campaigns to make homegrown processors and supercomputer-grade systems.…

The chances of anything coming from Mars are a million to one, they said – but Perseverance samples just might make it NASA has picked Lockheed Martin Space as the developer of the Mars Ascent Vehicle (MAV), one of the vehicles that will retrieve samples collected by the Perseverance rover on the Red Planet.…

Strategy to make printer co. its flagbearer dropped, hands that job to infrastructure mega corp Japanese tech giant Toshiba has abandoned its plan to break the company into three parts, opting for a strategy to split into two parts.…

Lured workers with bigger pay. Workers walked – then they talked Update The US Department of Justice announced on Monday that Chinese walkie-talkie manufacturer Hytera had been indicted on 21 counts related to an alleged theft of trade secrets from US-based competitor Motorola Solutions.…

Aims to make life harder for miscreants Microsoft Office will soon block untrusted Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) macros sourced from the internet by default – a security measure users can still circumvent, permissions allowing.…

Developers fume while competition watchdog issues a third puny €5m fine Apple's idea of complying with the law in the Netherlands offers a glimpse of what developers elsewhere have to look forward to if regulators elsewhere succeed in challenging the company's control of its iOS App Store.…

Strictly Intel and AMD for these hyperscale systems Apple has tipped its hand by posting a job advert that reveals some details of the "next-generation" storage and server equipment it is building in its data centers.…

Uncle Sam takes security, privacy concerns seriously, it says here The Internal Revenue Service has abandoned its plan to verify the identities of US taxpayers using a private contractor's facial recognition technology after both Democrats and Republicans actively opposed the deal.…

Now that's a shot in the Arm Intel is establishing a $1bn fund to support early-stage and established chip companies to develop innovative chip and packaging technologies.…

Lack of endpoints mean firms are ordering 6 or 7, but not 6E Supply chain woes with Wi-Fi 6E products could see organisations miss on deploying network kit with the new standard and instead wait on availability of Wi-Fi 7 equipment expected next year, says Dell'Oro Group.…

Detail emerges on who's funding it ... and for how much Google has partly won a legal bid to uncover the budget behind a not-quite-class-action lawsuit pursuing it for £920m in Britain's Competition Appeal Tribunal.…

Nearly 6 years after previous version It's been a long time coming but version 15 of Slackware finally showed up at the weekend.…

Companies focus on 'broader' ecosystem Organisations are shifting their priorities in cloud procurement as they look beyond the COVID-19 pandemic, with "trust" now apparently the biggest issue.…