Misguided call for a 7-Zip boycott brings attention to FOSS archiving tools [Tue Jun 28 2022]

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Misguided call for a 7-Zip boycott brings attention to FOSS archiving tools

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Intel is running rings around AMD and Arm at the edge

What will it take to loosen the x86 giant's edge stranglehold?

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Oracle lands London council deal for £12m ERP project

Evosys bags £2m in bid to replace SAP at Borough of Waltham Forest

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Cloudflare's outage was human error. There's a way to make tech divinely forgive

Don't push me 'cos I'm close to the edge. And the edge is safer if you can take a step back

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Small in Japan: Hitachi creates its own (modest) cloud

VMware-powered sovereign cloud not going to challenge hyperscalers, but probably won't be the last such venture

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Advantage England: Will data analytics help bring home a trophy?

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Hangouts hangs up: Google chat app shuts this year

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Not enough desks and parking spots, wobbly Wi-Fi: Welcome back to the office, Tesla staff

Don't worry, the tweetings will continue until morale improves

5G C-band rollout at US airports slowed over radio altimeter safety fears

Well, they did say from July, now they really mean from July 2023

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FTC urged to probe Apple, Google for enabling ‘intense system of surveillance’

Ad tracking poses a privacy and security risk in post-Roe America, lawmakers warn

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TSMC may surpass Intel in quarterly revenue for first time

Fab frenemies: x86 giant set to give Taiwanese chipmaker more money as it revitalizes foundry business

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Toyota, Subaru recall EVs because tires might literally fall off

Toyota says 'all of the hub bolts' can loosen even 'after low-mileage use'

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Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise adds Wi-Fi 6E to 'premium' access points

Company claims standard will improve performance in dense environments

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Will Lenovo ever think beyond hardware?

Then again, why develop your own software à la HPE GreenLake when you can use someone else's?

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Rise in Taiwanese energy prices may hit global chip production

National provider considering cost increase of 15%, which could be passed on to tech customers

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Tech companies ready public stances on Roe v. Wade

Some providing out-of-state medical expenses, others spout general pro-choice statements

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You need to RTFM, but feel free to use your brain too

But I was only following the procedures!

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OpenSSL 3.0.5 awaits release to fix potential worse-than-Heartbleed flaw

Though severity up for debate, and limited chips affected, broken tests hold back previous patch from distribution

LGBTQ+ folks warned of dating app extortion scams

Uncle Sam tells of crooks exploiting Pride Month

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Contractor loses entire Japanese city's personal data in USB fail

Also, Chrome add-ons are great for fingerprinting, and hacked hot tubs splurge details

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Beijing probes security at academic journal database

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Misguided call for a 7-Zip boycott brings attention to FOSS archiving tools

It's good to highlight some alternatives, but security issues are overblown

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NASA's Psyche mission: 2022 launch is off after software arrives late

Launch window slides into 2023 or 2024 for asteroid-probing project

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Cloudflare menaces virtual desktops with isolated browser access to internal networks

Gives cloudy email a kicking, too – but VDI should be safe in its bastions

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Cerebras sets record for 'largest AI model' on a single chip

Plus: Yandex releases 100-billion-parameter language model for free, and more

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Zendesk sold to private investors two weeks after saying it would stay public

Private offer 34 percent above share price is just the thing to change minds

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IBM settles age discrimination case that sought top execs' emails

Just days after being ordered to provide messages, Big Blue opts out of public trial

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Tropical island paradise ponders tax-free 'Digital Nomad Visa'

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