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NTT Data, IBM team on mainframe cloud for banks

SimpliZCloud is only for India right now, based on big Blue's LinuxONE

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No way? Big Tech's 'lucrative surveillance' of everyone is terrible for privacy, freedom

Says Lina Khan in latest push to rein in Meta, Google, Amazon and pals

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Starlink's new satellites emit 30x more radio interference than before, drowning cosmic signals

V2 sats beam 10M times brighter noise, hampering telescopes

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With billions in UK govt IT contracts about to expire, get the next vendors to act right

Poor performers get renewals, new small outfits discouraged from bidding, say researchers

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Broadcom CEO predicts hyperscalers poised to build million-accelerator clusters

Hock Tan reckons the silicon sales cycle is about to swing up, sharply, too

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Lenovo turns to India as source of AI servers

Another win for the Make In India policy, but a small one in terms of product volume

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Valencia Ransomware explodes on the scene, claims California city, fashion giant, more as victims

Boasts 'appear to be credible' experts tell El Reg

Iran's cyber-goons emailed stolen Trump info to Team Biden – which ignored them

To be fair, Joe was probably taking a nap

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1 in 10 orgs dumping their security vendors after CrowdStrike outage

Many left reeling from July's IT meltdown, but not to worry, it was all unavoidable

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Thousands of orgs at risk of knowledge base data leaks via ServiceNow misconfigurations

Better check your widgets, people

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UK activists targeted with Pegasus spyware ask police to charge NSO Group

4 file complaint with London's Met, alleging malware maker helped autocratic states violate their privacy

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Tor insists its network is safe after German cops convict CSAM dark-web admin

Outdated software blamed for cracks in the armor

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CISA boss: Makers of insecure software are the real cyber villains

Write better code, urges Jen Easterly. And while you're at it, give crime gangs horrible names like 'Evil Ferret'

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Europe to force Apple to help rivals connect to iOS, iPadOS

Fail to comply may cost up to 10% of annual revenue

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Torvalds weighs in on 'nasty' Rust vs C for Linux debate

This is like vi vs Emacs with 'religious overtones,’ project chief laughs

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ERP modernization? Admins have heard of it

Back-end systems fail to get the love given to SaaSy customer-facing counterparts

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Dutch watchdog wants more powers after EU drops Microsoft Inflection probe

Concerns over the elimination of a future competitor through acquihiring

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Kelsey Hightower: If governments rely on FOSS, they should fund it

Kubernetes doyen talks to The Reg about keeping coders coding

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SiFive expands from RISC-V cores for AI chips to designing its own full-fat accelerator

Seems someone's looking for an Arm wrestle

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LinkedIn started harvesting people's posts for training AI without asking for opt-in

You'll have to opt out if you don't like it – EU and a few others excepted

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