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Upgrading what might be the world's oldest running Linux install [Tue Jul 26 2022]

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Upgrading what might be the world's oldest running Linux install

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Couldn't connect to West Europe SQL Databases last week? Blame operator error

Clouds form over PICNIC (Problem In Chair Not In Computer)

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India's big four services giants bemoan rising labor costs

Business is good at TCS, Wipro, Infosys and HCL – but margin pressure and staff attrition are big problems

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AWS sales boss claims Microsoft's softened cloud licensing regime is a sham

Claims Redmond still prices rivals out of the market even after allowances for Euro-clouds

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After config error takes down Rogers, it promises to spend billions on reliability

Routers flooded with internet traffic in filter blunder, watchdog told

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Chinese chipmaker workers told to sleep at their factories

'Closed loop' ordered to keep fabs and manufacturing plants running amid COVID-19 outbreaks

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Japanese space agency to put massive HPC cloud to the test

If only we'd had this kind of compute before we launched Hubble

Price, lead times and scarcity of fiber optics may derail projects

Cost of optical cable more than doubles in 16 months as demand goes through roof

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Intel’s smartNICs probably aren’t for you (yet) says Intel

'Right now, the focus is on the super-high volume'

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Honor moving team out of India for 'obvious reasons,' says CEO

Small market share there anyway or Indian regulatory crackdown?

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Intel bags deal to make chips for MediaTek, that other Android processor designer

This will be the x86 giant's first major foundry customer

A character catastrophe for a joker working his last day

Or: How to give 1,000 workers an extended lunchbreak

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Node.js prototype pollution is bad for your app environment

Boffins find common code constructs that may be exploitable to achieve remote code execution

T-Mobile US to cough up $550m after info stolen on 77m customers

Oops, did the Un-carrier under-count by 29m punters?

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Twitter launches probe after miscreants claims to have swiped 5.4m users' details

And yes, Musk is back in the headlines, denying another affair

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Cyber-mercenaries for hire represent shifting criminal business model

Emerging threat group offers a broad range of attack services

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DoJ approves Google's acquisition of Mandiant

Plus: Ukrainian fake news and Uber admits covering up data breach

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Infosec not your job but your responsibility? How to be smarter than the average bear

Many of last week's security stories tell the same tale

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Nvidia gets down with low code in AI Enterprise update

GPU giant promises to make ML accessible to even the most modest biz

Fedora sours on Creative Commons 'No Rights Reserved' license

Lack of patent rights waiver in CC0 cited as problematic

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Upgrading what might be the world's oldest running Linux install

If you use Putty, there's a good chance you've visited Chiark

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Windows Start Menu not starting? You're not alone

Known Issue Rollback for affected Windows 11 users

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Oracle to hike support fees in line with inflation

US looks forward to 8% increase while consumer prices spike around the globe

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Russian ChessBot breaks child opponent's finger

But don't get all 'Rise of the Machines' on this one – Russian media says the 'bot has played for years without problems

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Apple v Chicago streaming service tax battle ends in hushed settlement

A 9% levy on content slingers will stand in The Windy City – are others next?

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Aviation body wants views on rocket plans of Virgin Orbit

The race for first space launch from UK soil (or airspace) continues

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Browsers could face two regimes in Europe as UK law set to diverge from EU

British government wants to boost innovation but lawyers warn of risk to adequacy ruling

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DARPA seeks portable muon-making machine to see through almost anything

We currently make muons at CERN, so this is quite the miniaturization job

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South Korean regulator fears Meta's collecting too much data with revised T&Cs

Probes to see if Facebook and Insta could operate with less info than required by revised legalese

 
 
  
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