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Kudos given to Signal. Not so much for Facebook and Whatsapp Interview Matrix-based communications and collaboration app Element has continued its mission to make bridges into the decentralised network a little more commercially acceptable with connectivity for Signal.…

'Technology has been a source of pain,' CIO admits to investors UK construction supplier Travis Perkins has picked Oracle Fusion Cloud's Financials solution for its core corporate system of record following the failed implementation of Infor ERP.…

I fought the bork and the bork won Bork!Bork!Bork! With travel restrictions set to ease, bork has skipped lightly across the Atlantic after a brief sojourn in France and into the New York Civil Court, where the long arm of the law appears unable to reach Ctrl, Alt or Delete.…

Sovereign cloud meets hyperscale Google and French defence and industry titan Thales have cooked up an interesting arrangement that will see the latter create a sovereign version of the G-Cloud.…

Singapore pulls plug on 'Ask Jamie' after it also suggested polio jabs and other 'misaligned replies' A chatbot used by Singapore's Ministry of Health (MOH) has been switched off after providing inappropriate answers to residents' queries on COVID-related matters.…

But will 'examine options that allow us to maintain the service fees that keep Android free' Google's South Korean operation has decided to comply with the nation's new law that prohibits it from restricting payments to its own Play Store, either to pay for apps or for in-app purchases.…

Explains mega-outage with boilerplate response: We try hard, we're sorry we failed, we'll try to do better Facebook has admitted buggy auditing code was at the core of yesterday's six-hour outage – and revealed a little more about its infrastructure to explain how it vanished from the internet.…

Uh, cool? Google is going to automatically enroll 150 million users and two million YouTube creators into using two-factor authentication for their accounts by the end of the year, it announced on Tuesday.…

Lawmakers urged to solve 'this crisis' of corporate America putting profits before people Whistleblower Frances Haugen today urged Congress to regulate Facebook and its algorithms that she said put immense profit before safety and society.…

And if it works, you could play with it in a cloud around 2024 D-Wave calls quantum computers "solvers." And as with PCs today, these solvers are going to segmented into fast, faster, and fastest.…

Not quite business as usual for Microsoft Microsoft has released Windows 11, a refreshed version of the operating system with internal improvements but tarnished by onerous system requirements and usability shortcomings.…

Still plans to raise €350m and aim for non US-cloud fans OVHcloud, the French cloud services provider, has trimmed roughly €50m off its IPO target as it seeks a capital injection from the financial markets.…

Just when I thought I was out, they pull me back in Google Cloud's UK and Ireland boss Pip White has quit to return to Salesforce and take control of the EMEA operations at collaboration division Slack.…

Poor securing of Elasticsearch cluster strikes again Updated The Telegraph newspaper managed to leak 10TB of subscriber data and server logs after leaving an Elasticsearch cluster unsecured for most of September, according to the researcher who found it online.…

Hardware compatibility, testing fury... though under the hood there are things to like Microsoft has launched a new operating system today, but whether you'll be able to run it is open to question. As is if you'll want to run it.…

vSphere as-a-service on the way too, along with software-defined memory VMworld VMware will move its whole stack to the Arm architecture, as part of a new offering aimed at what it's labelled "edge-native apps".…

Undisclosed information allegedly shared earns one $350k, but he doesn't get to keep it Two tech execs, one at Infosys and another at Wipro, are in trouble with the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI) after they were accused of insider trading of Infosys stock, according to a late September filing.…

Back-to-analogue computing model designed to mimic emergent properties of the brain Researchers in Italy have developed a physical system to mimic properties of human brains that they hope will massively reduce the power costs of neural networks fundamental to AI development.…

'Don't tell us you're about the community and then go do the business of Microsoft' Interview The role of Microsoft's .NET Foundation, set up for the governance and support of open-source .NET and related projects, has been questioned by a former board member who resigned in frustration.…

As replacement system faces delays, the incumbent reaps rewards Airwave, the company behind the supposed-to-be-defunct legacy data and voice network for the UK emergency services, is on track for projected profits of £1.2bn for the technology's extension period.…

Strategy shift to double down on Asia's continued digital economy boom nets a cool $1.38B from AustralianSuper Singapore-based telecoms provider Singtel is selling a huge chunk of its Australia Tower Network (ATN) to fund its 5G rollout, and beef up its data centre holdings.…

Freebie can manage production container workloads in rival clouds VMworld VMware's biggest admirers are also among its biggest challenges to growth.…

Stuff that’s already pretty much sorted with real money – like scaling transactions, security, and stopping crooks – need work The Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) has issued a technical perspective paper on central bank digital currencies (CBDCs), suggesting two viable designs but also finding seven issues that need to be nailed down before it would be comfortable implementing the "e-HKD".…

Automaker accused of using software to cover up defects. Regulator says non-crash blazes are 'rare events' America's National Highway Traffic Safety Administration on Monday denied a request to investigate the safety of Tesla’s electric car batteries following a series of vehicle fires in 2018 and 2019.…

It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s just DNS. It was BGP Updated Facebook has struggled back online today, though at the time of writing glitches are still very much a part of The Social Network™ experience.…

Blown up like a Death Star The US Supreme Court has brushed off Oracle’s complaint that it wasn't awarded the Pentagon's $10bn winner-takes-all Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract.…

Deal could value chip maker at $25bn GlobalFoundries has filed for an initial public offering in the United States.…

Plus Russia arrests security boss, two Chrome flaws exploited In Brief A hospital that continued to admit patients during a ransomware attack has been sued over claims that a baby died after doctors and nurses failed to spot there was a problem due to networks being shut down.…

Did someone at Menlo Park flick the wrong switch? Updated Facebook and its other social media sites, WhatsApp and Instagram, fell offline today.…

High end workloads with Hyperscale (Citus) Microsoft has pushed PostgreSQL 14 into General Availability on Azure Hyperscale (Citus) regions and the company, famed for the occasional outage of its cloud and desktop platforms, has given an insight into what was involved.…

William Shatner joins crew for Bezos' number two The game of billionaire one-upmanship has continued with the confirmation that Blue Origin's next flight of its New Shepard sub-orbital capsule will contain veteran actor William Shatner.…

How convenient for influx of potential new voters Britain's National Cyber Force will be based in Lancashire, the government has said – though despite obvious clues neither the Ministry of Defence nor BAE Systems will confirm the force's planned new location.…

Was it REvil? We don't (yet) know for sure Ukrainian police have reportedly arrested two members of a ransomware gang – and while some have fingered REvil, no firm details have been published by cops from multiple countries.…

Company says 34.7% women in their workforce is pretty dang good A former office leader for SAP in Southeast Asia has accused the German software company of violating local laws by treating her differently from male counterparts during a corporate restructure and leaving her jobless.…

5 October shaping up to be a big day in Redmond While its licensing plans for enterprises might be infamously byzantine, Microsoft has confirmed pricing and availability of Office 2021 for consumers and small businesses.…

Fourth of nine scheduled planetary assists completed as spacecraft inches closer to releasing its orbiters The European Space Agency (ESA) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency's (JAXA) joint mission BepiColombo sent back its first photos of Mercury on Friday as it completed the fourth of nine planetary flybys enroute to study the solar system's smallest and innermost planet.…

Storage capacity of your hosts could take a hit VMware has warned users it will end support for non-persistent removable storage as a boot medium for its flagship vSphere VM-wrangler.…

Je suis un bork star Bork!Bork!Bork! Bork is continuing its European vacation with a French train ride through Rennes, showcasing the best efforts of Windows to baffle passengers.…

Browser monoculture bad Feature "Browser monoculture" is often bemoaned as a threat to the web. According to Statscounter, which tracks browser use, over 70 per cent of the market is made up of people using Google Chrome or another browser based on the underlying Chromium project.…

Like in the pricing department Review Logitech has shrunk its MX Keys wireless keyboard, but does a backlight justify Apple-esque pricing? We put it through its paces to find out.…

Terms and conditions apply, and that’s a good thing Opinion Personal data is the oil of the internet. The great engines of Facebook and Google pump it relentlessly, burning it at will to power their marketing monetisation magic. The pollution it creates in broken privacy, shattered politics and the corrupting force of hidden agendas, is out of control.…

You say 'temporary', they hear 'permanent' Who, Me? Start your week with a warning about those temporary emergency hacks that all too often end up permanent in today's edition of Who, Me?…

Plus: Experts dubious of Apple's AI algorithm being able to detect depression and anxiety In brief Self-driving car startups Cruise and Waymo are one step closer to launching commercial autonomous taxi fleets in California after the US state’s Department of Motor Vehicles granted them both relevant permits.…

Vid filming ended in deadly disaster A 29-year-old man alleged to have been part of a group that blew up at least 15 cash machines in Germany managed to kill himself and injure an associate last year while filming a video tutorial on how to blow up ATMs, according to European authorities.…

You better cough up for all this bandwidth, says broadband biz Netflix should cover bandwidth and maintenance costs of a surge in our network traffic, says South Korean ISP SK Broadband, which has taken legal action after subscribers flocked to watch the streaming giant’s latest Korean-language TV show Squid Game.…

Hand back the money or I'm letting the IRS know, says DeFi biz boss Robert Leshner, founder of decentralized finance biz Compound Labs, has asked for the return of roughly $90m worth of COMP tokens after a smart contract bug distributed more of the cryptocurrency than it should have.…

Stop cheering, you're meant to think this is a bad thing The Internet Archive has launched a campaign against tech regulation by setting up a Wayforward Machine, semi-parodying its famous Wayback Machine archiving site.…

That's the hope as distributed and heavy workloads promised a boost in targeting Oracle for high-end workloads Open-source database fans were given reason to celebrate this week with the release of PostgreSQL 14, an iteration of the RDBMS featuring performance improvements for heavy and distributed workloads.…

Another convocation of confusion from around the world that you may have missed Roundup Welcome to another lash-up of lunacy, as we gather together some odd and unusual stories from the past few days and pass them to you surreptitiously while suggesting "the swallows fly south at sunset" in a bad Hungarian accent.…

Cisco Talos spots early-stage campaign targeting low-info users A malware peddler has created a fake website posing as Amnesty International to serve gullible marks with software that claims to protect users against NSO Group's Pegasus malware. In fact it's a remote access Trojan (RAT).…