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24 February 2025

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' It woz The Reg wot won it ... or maybe just common sense prevailed among management

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Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech

Digital services taxes, network build levies, touted as violations of US sovereignty

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Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash

Extremely Low Resource Optical Identifier no brighter than LED, but readable with telescopes

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T-Mobile US puts NYC emergency services in the 5G fast lane with network slicing

911 gets VIP treatment in 'one of the most congested and demanding environments for connectivity'

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ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics

It's Friday. Quit the doomscrolling. Distract yourself with IT infra news

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HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

It woz The Reg wot won it ... or maybe just common sense prevailed among management

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DIMM techies weren’t allowed to leave the building until proven to not be pilferers

Who knew a script could make RAM re-appear?

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Lenovo isn't fussed by Trumpian tariffs or finding enough energy to run AI

Enterprise hardware biz produced record revenue, just $1M of profit, but execs think losses are behind it

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Numerix, Leading Provider of Capital Markets Technology, Migrates to AWS with RapidScale Case Study

The Art of Auto Scaling: Learn the Latest Best Practices And Avoid Common Mistakes With Sample Architecture Diagrams and CloudFormation Templates

Security

Experts race to extract intel from Black Basta internal chat leaks

Researchers say there's dissent in the ranks. Plus: An AI tool lets you have a go yourself at analysing the data

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Ivanti endpoint manager can become endpoint ravager, thanks to quartet of critical flaws

PoC exploit code shows why this is a patch priority

Thailand ready to welcome 7,000 trafficked scam call center victims back from Myanmar

It comes amid a major crackdown on the abusive industry that started during COVID

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How Data Scientists Are Using the AWS Cloud to Help Consumers Save Money Case Study

HIPAA Compliance on AWS Checklist

Software

As China embraces big tech again, Alibaba plans vast spend to push for artificial general intelligence

PLUS: Samsung exec jailed for selling DRAM secrets; ASUS launches sweetly scented mouse; Toyota’s smart city nears opening; and more

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If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them

Aleph Alpha's Jonas Andrulis on the challenges of building sovereign AI

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Docker delays Hub pull limits by a month, tweaks maximums, stalls storage billing indefinitely

Image fetches to be capped on hourly basis for Personal, unauthenticated use, paid-for plans get unlimited access

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Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say

After fifteen years of big hype, less than 25% of orgs measure value of data, analytics

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Hey programmers – is AI making us dumber?

If you don't need to think about easy questions, will you be able to answer complex questions?

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MAeHC Migrates Quality Data Center Application to AWS with RapidScale

Case Study

Offbeat

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

Earth is running a fever. That's not news. What's surprising is exactly how fast its temperature is rising

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California goes ape with bill to crown Bigfoot official state cryptid

Beast remains as mythical as the return on AI investment

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BOFH: The USB stick always comes back – until it doesn't

The soldering iron will see to that

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Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027

Plus: ESA astronaut Andreas Mogensen not happy with SpaceX chief for 'lie' about 'abandoned' Starliner crew

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National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future

An inside tale: Probation extended, tenure revoked, a scramble to merge research portfolios, and more

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HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback' [Mon Feb 24 2025]

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HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

On-Prem

Trump administration threatens tariffs for any nation that dares to tax Big Tech

Los Alamos boffins slap blinkers on satellites so we know who to blame in a crash

T-Mobile US puts NYC emergency services in the 5G fast lane with network slicing

ST Micro skips in, arm in arm with AWS, bearing a chip for 1.6 Tbps pluggable optics

HP ditches 15-minute wait time policy due to 'feedback'

DIMM techies weren’t allowed to leave the building until proven to not be pilferers

Lenovo isn't fussed by Trumpian tariffs or finding enough energy to run AI

Numerix, Leading Provider of Capital Markets Technology, Migrates to AWS with RapidScale

The Art of Auto Scaling: Learn the Latest Best Practices And Avoid Common Mistakes

Security

Experts race to extract intel from Black Basta internal chat leaks

Ivanti endpoint manager can become endpoint ravager, thanks to quartet of critical flaws

Thailand ready to welcome 7,000 trafficked scam call center victims back from Myanmar

How Data Scientists Are Using the AWS Cloud to Help Consumers Save Money

HIPAA Compliance on AWS

Software

As China embraces big tech again, Alibaba plans vast spend to push for artificial general intelligence

If you thought training AI models was hard, try building enterprise apps with them

Docker delays Hub pull limits by a month, tweaks maximums, stalls storage billing indefinitely

Data is very valuable, just don't ask us to measure it, leaders say

Hey programmers – is AI making us dumber?

MAeHC Migrates Quality Data Center Application to AWS with RapidScale

Offbeat

Here's the ugliest global-warming chart you'll ever need to see

California goes ape with bill to crown Bigfoot official state cryptid

BOFH: The USB stick always comes back – until it doesn't

Elon Musk calls for International Space Station to be deorbited by 2027

National Science Foundation staff axed by Trump fear for US scientific future

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