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X.Org says it's saving a packet with Packet after migrating freedesktop.org off Google Kubernetes Engine
The hidden cost of multi-cloud, and how full open source reduces lock-in The X.Org Foundation has successfully completed a migration from Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) to Packet, which it reckoned "should save us around $30 per day."…
Pakistan’s IT minister objects to tax changes he thinks may harm local IT industry
Crackdown on offshore payments to freelancers hits a nerve Pakistan’s minister for IT and Telecom, Syed Aminul Haque, has protested the government’s new tax treatment for IT companies.…
Android, iOS beam telemetry to Google, Apple even when you tell them not to – study
Search giant insists it's necessary, iTitan didn't have anything to say Android and iOS phones transmit telemetry back to Google and Apple, even when users have chosen not to send analytics data.…
Hitachi slurps GlobalLogic for $9.6bn to bolster IoT prospects
Capitalizing on preparing digitally novice businesses for post COVID era Hitachi announced it will purchase US software deevloper GlobalLogic for US$9.6B.…
Nominet ignores advice, rejects serious change despite losing CEO, chair, half its board in membership vote
Extraordinary response by .uk registry operator effectively dares members to fire the rest of them Nominet has rejected calls for serious change at the .uk registry operator despite losing its CEO, chairman, and three board members to a membership vote earlier this month.…
Wi-Fi slinger Ubiquiti hints at source code leak after claim of ‘catastrophic’ cloud intrusion emerges
Says customer data wasn't touched, doesn't say much about being rooted Wi-Fi kit-slinger Ubiquiti has suggested the attacker that accessed some of its cloud-hosted systems in January 2021 may have made off with source code and employee logins, not the customer data it initially warned could be in peril.…
And the Turing Award for best compilation goes to... Jeffrey Ullman and Alfred Aho
Programming pioneers bag $1m prize This year’s Turing Award has gone to two men who helped create the foundation on which modern software is built.…
Printers used to be a pricey luxury in Asian homes, then along came ... you know what
Best not to go long on printer shares, IDC predicts copy shops will rise again Analyst firm IDC has spotted up an uptick in the Asia Pacific region's printer market, thanks to a certain virus you may read about in the news of late.…
Pentagon pal Microsoft to supply US Army with 120,000+ HoloLens units in contract worth up to $22bn
Gives Blue Screen of Death a whole new meaning Microsoft has agreed to supply at least 120,000 production units of its HoloLens augmented-reality headsets to the US Army.…
IBM, Red Hat face copyright, antitrust lawsuit from SCO Group successor Xinuos
Big Blue and its claret-capped subsidiary accused of nicking UnixWare blueprints, lying, and conspiring Updated Xinuos, formed around SCO Group assets a decade ago under the name UnXis and at the time disavowing any interest in continuing SCO's long-running Linux litigation, today sued IBM and Red Hat for alleged copyright and antitrust law violations.…
Biden's $2tn infrastructure plan includes massive broadband rollout, equates internet access with water and power as essential utilities
Plus $50bn pledge to boost chip R&D and fabbing in Land of the Free A new national infrastructure plan outlined by US President Joe Biden on Wednesday equates fast internet access – broadband – with other utilities including water and power.…
Oracle dangles new cloud lift-and-shift service in the wake of SAP RISE
It's all about driving down costs on OCI... so it can compete with AWS, claims analyst Oracle has launched a free service it hopes will convince more customers to shift their applications to the cloud – Oracle’s cloud, that is.…
Huawei's 2020 financials tied to fortunes of Chinese clients as non-domestic biz shrinks
Global pandemic and sanctions? Yes, they played a bit part too Huawei was forced to rely solely on the buying power of its domestic customers in calendar 2020 as foreign trade melted away in the face of US-led sanctions and a global pandemic.…
'Imagine' if Virgin Galactic actually did sub-orbital tourism: Firm unveils new chrome job on SpaceShip III
That schedule, however, is looking a lot less shiny The ambitiously named Virgin Galactic has unveiled the latest vehicle in its fleet – the Spaceship III named VSS Imagine.…
State of Maine orders review of $54.6m Workday project as it alleges delivery failure and threatens cancellation
Falls back on ancient mainframe as Workday protests state has 'no basis to terminate our agreement' The US state of Maine is requesting an official review of its $54.6m project to renew its HR system, currently being built by Workday under a contract the state is threatening to cancel, a move which could leave the state government continuing to rely on its 30-year-old mainframe-based system.…
Amazon eyes up space startups for an AWS Accelerator, dangles $1m of cloud credits for a chosen ten
Planting that Bezos flag in the newest cloud sector: spaaaaaace Amazon boss Jeff Bezos is known for his proclivity towards all things space, and now the Web Services wing of his empire has earmarked $1m in cloud credits that will be evenly distributed to 10 space startups.…
VMware builds narrow one-way road to move its crown jewels towards cloudy subscriptions
...but only on clouds it controls. Multi-cloud licensing is still all sorts of fun VMware has taken another step towards turning its crown jewels into a subscription service, but the path it has chosen to walk is narrow.…
Mullet over: Aussie boys' school tells kids 'business in the front, party in the back' hairstyle is 'not acceptable'
A fine Australian tradition stomped on A school in Perth, Western Australia, has turned arbiter of fashion and declared something we all know deep down to be true – that the mullet is "not acceptable".…
AI recommendations fail fans who like hard rock and hip hop – official science
Welcome to the new bland People who listen to rock or hip hop are harder for music recommendation algorithms to please, according to a study by machine-learning experts and data scientists.…
Long-running age discrimination case against IBM enters discovery, as judge trims off some claims
No new plaintiffs allowed to join IBM will have to face several civil claims of age discrimination filed in a collective action by former workers, a federal judge has ruled, while rejecting Big Blue’s attempt to entirely dismiss the action.…
No payrise for Oracle CEO Safra Catz, but at least there's $76.4m from trading company shares to fall back on
That and the $950k salary Poor old Safra Catz has had to find some way of making ends meet since she was offered no increase in her salary, no bonus, no new equity grant, and no performance-based equity vesting for her role as CEO of $40bn-revenue Oracle.…
Time for an upgrade: Dev of the last modern browser for PowerPC Macs calls it a day
One final update for its 'couple of thousand' users then it's just a hobby It's a bad week for anyone still using a PowerPC-based Mac. The developer of TenFourFox, the last real modern browser for the platform, has thrown in the towel.…
Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 under planned 802.11bf standard
Security and privacy still left to fix, preferably before launch In three years or so, the Wi-Fi specification is scheduled to get an upgrade that will turn wireless devices into sensors, capable of gathering data about the people and objects bathed by their signals.…
South Korean regulator recommends Apple be prosecuted for hampering fair trade probe
Alleges staff took down the internet when investigators visited, even got a little physical South Korea’s Fair Trade Commission has recommended Apple’s local outpost be prosecuted for hampering its investigations into its affairs and slapped it with a 300 million Won (US$264,000) fine.…
Pair accused of turning photos into vids to crack tax dept facial recognition system in China
Then issuing tens of millions in fake invoices A duo in China has been accused of tricking a government-run identity verification system to create fake invoices.…
Xiaomi scoots off to build electric cars, pumps $10bn into the tank to get things rolling
Also reveals first foldable with U-shaped hinge to lighten things up Logowatch Chinese consumer tech enfant terrible has pledged to build electric cars.…
Payment app MobiKwik denies customer data was stolen from it, has no idea how the info ended up on the dark web: Maybe it was your fault?
Talk about living in hope Indian payment app maker MobiKwik has denied its security has been breached, saying that if it's true, as has been claimed, that its customers' information has appeared on the dark web, then some other platform was totally responsible for that.…
Cryptic US Strategic Command tweet reveals dangers of working from home with kids in the way
Was it a coded message? The password for accessing nukes? Nope A cryptic message sent from the Twitter account of the US Strategic Command, then deleted, could have been many things.…
Tools down: Singapore’s training bots and drones to digitize construction work
Research agency and housing board sign a deal as COVID-19 makes manpower and materials scarce Singapore's industrial research agency has started work on 5G-enabled drones that use LiDAR and cameras to monitor construction sites, then send the data they collect to systems that create digital models of buildings that change in real time.…
Amazon’s critical Alabama warehouse workers union vote has started … and may be some time
High stakes battle could go on for days There are a maximum of 6,000 votes to count but the push by workers at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama to unionize could take days as the high-stakes battle acts as a much larger proxy across America.…
US watchdog kills off four-year antitrust complaint against Qualcomm, still insists it was right anyway
FTC cites 'significant headwinds' in trying to fight the San Diego chipmaker Updated The Federal Trade Commission has given up its antitrust lawsuit against Qualcomm although the US watchdog still claims the chip maker violated fair competition laws.…
Browser tracking protections won't stop tracking, warns DuckDuckGo
Privacy don't like it, block the tracker, block the tracker Eliminating third-party cookies will not stop companies from tracking web users, says DuckDuckGo, which claims it can help with its desktop browser extensions and mobile apps.…
Director, deputy director, CTO of Free Software Foundation all resign over Stallman installation impasse
Staff quit as board refuses to budge on controversial decision Updated Three key staff members of the Free Software Foundation (FSF) have resigned in protest at the organization’s decision to reinstall Richard Stallman as a board member.…
Mozilla VPN now nudges users to put shields up on dodgy networks, adds LAN access
Apple fans will need to wait just a little longer Mozilla's attempts to augment its income continued apace with an update to the company's VPN subscription service.…
How are GPUs going to change your working world? It’s AI, everywhere
Join Lenovo at Nvidia's GTC '21 and accelerate your learning Promo Mention GPUs these days, and you’ll naturally think about how they can accelerate the most challenging AI and machine learning workloads in addition to gaming platforms.…
Arm pulls the sheets off its latest Armv9 architecture with added AI support, Realms software isolation
CEO reckons this tech will be used in 300 billion chips Arm has set out its stall for the first major new version of its instruction set architecture – Armv9 – in about a decade, and promised compatible chips will have improved machine-learning and security capabilities.…
Another successful flight for SpaceX's Starship apart from the landing-in-one-piece thing
Explosions in the mist SpaceX continued its rich tradition of destroying Starship prototypes with SN11 succumbing to an explosive end during a high-altitude flight test.…
Microsoft's 0.5 release of Project Reunion dev kit has production support – just don't be touching UWP
Team is 'SUPER EXCITED' but will devs welcome another Windows-only, incompatible framework? Microsoft has released an early version of Project Reunion with support for production use – provided developers do not target Universal Windows Platform (UWP).…
Cisco turns more Catalyst 9000s into application platforms, so devs and NetAdmins can share a view
ThousandEyes agent to run on switches that don't do Docker, hook into AppDynamics to monitor all the things Cisco has baked network monitoring and visibility tools it bought along with ThousandEyes into its Catalyst 9300 and 9400 switches, and integrated ThousandEyes with its AppDynamics application performance monitoring line.…
Island in the Stream: AlmaLinux project issues first stable release of CentOS replacement
New CloudLinux-sponsored distribution hits GA ahead of Rocky Linux The AlmaLinux project, sponsored by CloudLinux, has issued its first stable release along with details of a new open-source foundation set up to manage the project.…
Under threat of judicial review, UK.gov agrees to consultation before extending Palantir's NHS role beyond pandemic
A small victory, but campaigners say they will be keeping a close eye The UK government has caved at the threat of a judicial review into its £23m contract with controversial US AI firm Palantir in setting up the NHS COVID-19 datastore.…
You put Marmite where? Google unveils its latest AI wizardry: A cake made of Maltesers and the pungent black tar
Two ingredients that don't really go together. Like, er, AI and Ethics? RoTM Following Microsoft's 2019 foray into whisky-making, Google has got into the AI-infused consumables game with the frankly horrific-sounding Marmite and Maltesers® cake.…
And that's yet another UK education body under attack from ransomware: Servers, email, phones yanked offline
The Harris Federation learns infosec lessons the hard way The Harris Federation, a not-for-profit charity responsible for running 50 primary and secondary academies in London and Essex, has become the latest UK education body to fall victim to ransomware.…
Money can buy you insurance against network break-ins but investing in infosec hygiene wouldn't go amiss, says new NCSC chief
C-suites need a kick up the proverbial, says Lindy Cameron in first speech So-called cyber-attack insurance "cannot be a substitute for better basic cybersecurity," the National Cyber Security Centre's chief exec has said in her first major speech since taking office.…
Cross-platform Windows Presentation Framework, anyone? The short answer: yes. Unpacking Avalonia
Developers liked WPF but Microsoft neglected it. Avalonia is a possible solution Interview Avalonia, a cross-platform framework for desktop applications, has built up a considerable user community but is it a viable alternative to Microsoft's official solutions?…
Use Windows and POS in the same sentence... Yes, that's right: Point of Sale. What were you thinking?
Microsoft's finest takes a break in the US retail space Bork!Bork!Bork! The column that will not die returns with a bork guaranteed to send shivers down even the most hardened IT pro's spine – not only a sad-looking Windows, but a dread sticky note stuck to the screen.…
UK's Home Office dangles £32m for application support on comms-snooping network
No prior experience of working with the intelligence community? 'Knowledge of the technological landscape' will do The UK's Home Office is on the hunt for a supplier to help support applications running on its counter-terrorism data network to fulfil a contract that could be worth up to £32m.…
Your web application firewall should be more than a firewall – it should be a noise filter too
Tune in and find out more from F5 Networks Webcast A web application firewall (WAF) is your first line of defence when it comes to protecting your organization from an array of potential threats.…
Apple expands third-party repairer program, mostly in Asia
Applicants sought from Afghanistan to Vietnam – even Moscow and Myanmar – with the rest of world allowed later this year Apple has announced an expansion of its Independent Repair Provider program, the scheme that provides authorised third-party companies to repair out-of-warranty iThings.…
What happens when back-flipping futuristic robot technology meets capitalism? Yeah, it’s warehouse work
Boston Dynamics: From Terminator to Amazon worker replacement Analysis Those fearing a takeover of the human race by robots may have failed to adequately account for the drudgery of modern capitalism.…
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