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'We're finding bugs way faster than we can fix them': Google sponsors 2 full-time devs to improve Linux security

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Thirsty work: TSMC starts trucking in water amid Taiwan drought to keep chip production lines chugging

Yet more woes for embattled industry

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UKFast founder and ex-CEO Lawrence Jones denies rape and sexual assault charges

Trial date set for February 2022

Pyrrhic victory: Co-Op wins £13m from IBM over collapse of £175m Project Cobalt insurance platform contract

It wanted £128m in wasted spending – but customer wasn't blameless for debacle, rules UK High Court

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The State of Application Security 2020

Applications Remain the Top External Attack Method; Don’t Get Complacent

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Gartner: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations Delivers Improved Business Outcomes

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India dangles billion-dollar incentive scheme for server, PC makers willing to open up shop on the sub-continent

Tablets also sought with call for top builders to diversify operations

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California’s net neutrality rules finally good to go after judge boots Big Cable’s lawsuit

Judge Mendez also suggests trying to use 1934 law in 2021 is... sub-optimal

Federal Reserve falls over in massive hours-long tech outage, knocks down US inter-bank transfer system

Few details beyond 'operational error'

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HPE dips toe into OpenRAN 5G with a software platform and new iron to run it

Should be with carriers in the second quarter

Microsoft unveils swappable SSDs for Surface Pro 7+ but 'strongly discourages' users from upping their capacity

Opted for 128GB? Better hope that software bloat doesn't bite you

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macOS Big Sur muscles onto Amazon's cloudy Macs

AWS flicks the switch on EFS too for those who fancy sharing cloudy volumes

Wave of AMD Epycs and updated Xeons wash up at DigitalOcean

Adds ‘Premium’ tier to ‘You can have any CPU so long as it’s a slightly old Xeon’ cloud

IBM teases new AIX release – the first since 2015

And guess what? Version 7.3 will emphasise hybrid cloud in line with new CEO Arvind Krishna's wishes

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Emergent Tech

Campaigners demand judicial review of NHS deal with Peter Thiel's AI firm Palantir

Report says CEO sipped watermelon cocktails with NHS England chief at cosy party

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Robots that take out your garbage? Oh What A Feeling, says Toyota as it opens its very own smart city

In 'Woven City' human-driven cars aren't allowed, 'personal mobility devices' get their own roads, and sensors tell robots when you need help

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IBM Watson AIOps

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Personal Tech

So, bye-bye mighty nerd haven Fry’s, took Silicon to the Valley... and now you must die

End of an era for iconic electronics shop chain

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Chill out, lockdown ain't over yet – perhaps FUZIX on the Pi Pico could feature in your weekend shed projects

Tiny $4 computer meets tiny OS

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Lenovo's ThinkPad line goes under the knife: X13 models look a bit taller but worry not, the 'nipples' are still intact

AMD or Intel flavours, Wi-Fi 6, and... an antimicrobial component?

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Security

Revealed: The military radar system swiped from aerospace biz, leaked online by Clop ransomware gang

Not a great day for Bombardier, Leonardo and Seaspray customers

'We're finding bugs way faster than we can fix them': Google sponsors 2 full-time devs to improve Linux security

Plus: Why the Chocolate Factory only uses code it builds from source

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Think you know all about security pen-testing in the cloud? Here’s how to prove it

New GIAC qual shows you can put the Sec into DevSecOps and quantify the risk in SRE

Mozilla Firefox keeps cookies kosher with quarantine scheme, 86s third-party cookies in new browser build

Hey man, are your cookies trackin' me? Take 'em out. You gotta keep 'em separated

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What's CNAME of your game? This DNS-based tracking defies your browser privacy defenses

Study sees increasing adoption of cloaking to bypass cookie barriers

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Indian Railways suffers unspecified security 'breaches in various IT applications'

13m passengers a day, a million tickets bought on digital platforms, and yet few details offered on what went wrong

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Software

Tata Consultancy Services wins £4m deal to carry out Oracle 'reimplementation' for University of Manchester

That's an expensive reimplementation

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Science

No fair! Space Launch System gets cool stickers even though monster rocket failed test

They say 'NASA' and 'ESA', not 'You tried'

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Scottish rocketeers Orbex commission Europe's largest industrial 3D printer to crank out 35 engines a year

Single-piece blend of metals to help get company into Prime time

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Bootnotes

Microsoft spearheads a whole new genre with installation on the side of a Lyon tunnel

Ah oui, mais est-ce de l'art?

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Robocall bagmen admit they collected millions of dollars from victims scammed by bogus IRS officials, lenders

Duo picked up sacks of cash sent via FedEx, UPS, USPS etc

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