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Ring, Ring, why don't you give me a call? Amazon-owned doorbells aren’t answering after large-scale outage

Turning smart homes into dumb ones

 

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Microsoft backs Australia’s pay-for-news plan, risks massive blowback over a lousy $3bn and change

Promises to grease the skids for small business advertisers who get off Google and bound towards Bing

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Burning platform: Linux Foundation swallows Magma, open source software for mobile networking kit

Liquid hot Facebook project tucked under penguin's wing

Project Bicep: Microsoft muscles in on Terraform's territory to manage Azure resources with code

'We are using the word experimental right now'

UK's Superfast Broadband programme delivered value for money, says report, just don't ask about rural deployments

Which are – you guessed it – behind schedule

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Same old complexity beneath Windows 10 Cloud Config means it's unlikely to compete with the likes of Chrome OS

Modernisation that happens to be an upsell to premium cloudy plans

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UK internet providers told to mind their MANRS and start following Border Gateway Protocol best practices

Advice is nice. But what it isn't is binding, says Akamai

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Video games were 'Eureka!' moment that helped boffins simulate neural activity on a single commodity GPU

'Procedural content' might offer a way forward for projects queueing up to use a supercomputer

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So Jeff Bezos is stepping back from Amazon to play with his space rockets. Who's this Andy Jassy chap?

Cloud supremo to become CEO of one of Earth's biggest super-corps

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Google's cloud services lost $14.6bn over three years – and CEO Sundar Pichai likes that trajectory

Sees businesses signing up for long deals, confident the black ink will come

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Judging from all those packages y'all ordered, this shouldn't be a surprise: Amazon passes $100bn in quarterly sales for first time

Maybe we should start an online bookstore sometime

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Ring, Ring, why don't you give me a call? Amazon-owned doorbells aren’t answering after large-scale outage

Turning smart homes into dumb ones

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Time to start taking machine-learning security seriously, Microsoft boffin insists

Forget academic adversarial attacks and imagine if ML were the weakest link in the chain

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Personal Tech

No, you're not imagining the tech drought: Lenovo PC stocks one third of normal amid pandemic demand

'From US to Europe to China to Asia-Pacific, our channel inventory has never been so low'

ThinkPad T14s AMD Gen 1: Workhorse that does the business – and dares you to push that red button

Thunk: The reassuring sound of a rugged, comfy biz computer

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ByteDance sues Tencent over lack of link love on its messaging services

Is there anywhere in the world TikTok isn’t in trouble?

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Security

Myanmar’s new military government bans Facebook

Oh look, Cloudflare spots a sudden surge in use of other messaging apps

More patches for SolarWinds Orion after researchers find flaw allowing low-priv users to execute code, among others

Probably not used by last year's US government-busting attackers, though

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Tiny Kobalos malware seen backdooring SSH tools, menacing supercomputers, an ISP, and more – ESET

Linux variant studied, dissected in detail in case you want to look out for it

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Location tracking report: X-Mode SDK use much more widespread than first thought

450 Android apps tracked your whereabouts, 1.7bn downloads, 44% used X-Mode code

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Rubbish software security patches responsible for a quarter of zero-days last year

Google wants researchers, vendors to stop making attacks easy

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Software

If you really must have Edge on your Apple M1 silicon, there's a compatible stable build for Microsoft's browser

It works – but the more 'exciting' stuff is in the Dev and Canary Channels

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UK Test and Trace chief Dido Harding tries to convince MPs that £14m for canned mobile app was money well spent

Not like every expert didn't warn it. Also: Queen of Carnage confirms consultants were paid average of £1.1k a day

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Canonical turns to Google framework for new installer, but community asks why not have a Flutter on GTK?

Bye bye Ubiquity, Subiquity: new unified installer will cover both desktop and server

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