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Server broke because it was invisibly designed to break

Cause of weeklong outage was under tech support's nose – but not on their mind

 
 

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Adobe confirms UK looking into its $20b Figma deal, EU probe 'expected'

Options? Customers have heard of them. Software giant reports record $17b+ revs, with biggest growth in ... PDFs?

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Meta axes two Danish datacenters amid shift to AI infrastructure

Cancelled bit barns the latest casualties following mass layoffs last month

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Latest US blacklist spells trouble for China’s biggest domestic 3D NAND supplier

One research firm thinks YMTC may have to exit 3D NAND altogether

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Amazon to settle Euro antitrust probes by Christmas

Cloud souk reportedly ready to play a little more fairly with its own merchants

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Apple 'created decoy labor group' to derail unionization

You're holding your staff meetings the wrong way

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With pay strikes ending, BT merges divisions to save £100m in annual costs

A day after Openreach engineers overwhelmingly accept new compensation, telco says it will merge Enterprise and Global businesses

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Corporate execs: Get back, get back, to the office where you once belonged

Sing it in the key of C-suite, because operations truly doesn't care

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Server broke because it was invisibly designed to break

Cause of weeklong outage was under tech support's nose – but not on their mind

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To the Banmobile! Huawei inks deal to create global high-end automotive brand

Surely it must realize regulators aren't going to go for this?

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Meta, Google, TikTok and friends sue California to block kids privacy law

Free speech? Or 'roving internet censors'

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Email hijackers scam food out of businesses, not just money

Also, TLC gets schooled by Karakurt, and Cloudflare is offering free zero trust stuff to some small companies

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Let's spend $22m supporting survivors of tech-enabled abuse, lawmakers suggest

And the corporations making the tools for stalking and harassment in the first place? Anyone?

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Twitter staffer turned Saudi spy jailed for 3.5 years

Tweeter, tailor, soldier, bye

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Microsoft Teams: A vector for child sexual abuse material with a two-day processing time for complaints

Redmond and Cupertino criticized for slow and weak responses by Australian regulator

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US adds 36 Chinese entities to naughty list, drops 25 after checking it twice

Some are suspected of helping other banned suppliers get around sanctions

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NIST says you better dump weak SHA-1 ... by 2030

How about right now? Right now is good

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Helps if you're teetering on the edge

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openSUSE Tumbleweed team changes its mind about x86-64-v2

Tumbleweed hits some turbulence, but there's no reason to be alarmed… 'By the way, does anyone know how to fly a plane?'

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GCC 13 to support Modula-2: Follow-up to Pascal lives on in FOSS form

Niklaus Wirth's lesser known programming language still kicking around

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Xen project goes for VM Hyperlaunch with version 4.17

More ways to boot, with less overhead – just what's needed in the embedded market

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Toshiba breaks its silence on sales rumors, to quash them

PLUS: FTX may be sold in Japan and Singapore; Binance busted in Australia; India won’t limit gaming time

Amazon, Games Workshop announce Warhammer 40k film deal

In the grim darkness of the far future there is only Bezos. Oh, and Henry Cavill

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Plaice in spaaace: NASA boosts astronauts' cognition with piscine diet

Study finds fruit and veg also help improve health and performance, even during space hops

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BBC is still struggling with the digital switch, says watchdog

It brought you Monty Python and Jimi Hendrix, but Auntie Beeb must compete with digital monsters like Netflix

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