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OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable SBG2 just gone. SBG1 damaged. SBG3 at risk. SBG4 safe. Customers told to activate DR plans

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Imagine Amazon, Uber and PayPal merging. Indonesia's rough equivalents are probably doing it

Tokopedia and Gojek deal reportedly close, as Indonesia courts Tesla and wrestles SpaceX

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OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable

SBG2 just gone. SBG1 damaged. SBG3 at risk. SBG4 safe. Customers told to activate DR plans

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China Telecom to seek Shanghai listing after US investment ban

Plans to build 100,000 servers for 5G industrial edge cloud play

IBM Watson AIOps An AI-powered IT incident resolution application, fueled by your own data.

Webcast Slide Deck \| Protect and recover your NAS and unstructured data Faster, more reliable, more compatible

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Microsoft settles £200,000+ claims against tech support scammers who ran global ripoff from cottage in Surrey

Bare-faced cheek of Barewire using our trademarks, say Redmond legal eagles

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A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it

There’s always someone to blame for bad infosec, but never a willingness to make meaningful change

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LinkedIn China pauses new member signups ‘to ensure compliance with local law’

Doesn’t say which law it’s worried about (but if China is cracking down on inspirational infographics that may not be a bad thing)

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Gartner: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations Delivers Improved Business Outcomes Whitepaper

Protect and recover your NAS and unstructured data Faster, more reliable, more compatible

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First Australia, maybe Europe, now America mulls effort to potentially make Google, Facebook pay for news

Journalism Competition and Preservation Act has been proposed twice already. Will it survive this time?

Russia botches Twitter throttling, cripples anything with t-dot-co in the name – including Reddit, Microsoft

See, regular expressions are hard

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Privacy purists prickle at T-Mobile US plan to proffer people's personal web, app pursuits to ad promoters

Moz urges ISPs told to commit to opt-in data usage – as if one more scolding might make a difference in decades of opt-out

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Apple announces €1bn Munich semiconductor R&D facility focused on wireless comms

Claims campus will be home to 'Europe's largest mobile technologies engineering team'

Talk about a Blue Monday: OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder

Servers affected include those used by ESA, Villarreal football club, and some misused by malware miscreants

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UK draft legislation enshrines the right to repair in law – but don't expect your mobile to suddenly be any easier to fix

Plus Brexity energy efficiency labelling standards thrown in

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Atos handed £1.5bn to run IT for UK government-founded pension trust Nest

French outsourcer will handle software, networking, and infrastructure

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As battle for future of .UK's Nominet draws closer, non-exec director hits a nerve with for-profit proposal

Suggestion to hand out shares in new registry dismissed as a non-starter

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Building A Large-Scale Migration Program With Google Cloud

Google Cloud's four-stage approach to migration

Security

Hacktivists breach Verkada and view 150,000 CCTV cams in hospitals, prisons, a Tesla factory, even Cloudflare HQ

Life in the 21st century is great

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Belgian cops crack down on encrypted phone network Sky ECC in 200 overnight raids as firm denies criminal ties

Shades of the Encrochat bust all over again

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Brit cybercops issue tender to rip and replace their formerly flaw-ridden CyberAlarm tool

Plus: Where did their original logo come from?

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Missing colleagues in cybersecurity? That’s no surprise – the world is missing 3.5 million

SANS Institute lines up webcast guide to managing your cybersec talent

India pauses blockchain-powered SMS spam-scrubber after it swallows people's one-time login codes

Tardiness by stakeholders, rather than over-optimistic blockheads, blamed

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Software

This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders

Multiple Object Versionless Architecture is as popular now as it was two decades ago

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Fear the Walking Edge: Desktop support pulled, but legacy browser lingers on in Surface Hub, Xbox, HoloLens

Say goodbye to icon on Windows 10

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Microsoft lines its UserVoice forums up against the wall, readies firing squad of '1st party solutions'

Customers directed to howl into the wind of the Microsoft Store

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FYI: A smart-speaker box can monitor your heartbeat using high-pitch beeps and a pinch of algorithm – study

Alexa, am I having a heart attack?

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MPs slam UK's £22bn Test and Trace programme for failing to provide evidence that it slows COVID pandemic

'Most wasteful and inept public spending programme of all time'

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License to thrill: Ahead of v13.0, the FreeBSD team talks about Linux and the completed toolchain project that changes everything

'For many ... vendors, the BSD license is very important compared to the GPL'

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Surprise: Automated driving biz finds automated driving safer than letting you get behind the wheel

Waymo recreated 72 fatal crashes and it turns out its simulated AI driver isn't a careless, distracted jerk

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Wednesday, March 10, 2021

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OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable [Thu Mar 11 2021]

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OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable

Off-Prem

Imagine Amazon, Uber and PayPal merging. Indonesia's rough equivalents are probably doing it

OVH data centre destroyed by fire in Strasbourg – all services unavailable

China Telecom to seek Shanghai listing after US investment ban

IBM Watson AIOps

Webcast Slide Deck | Protect and recover your NAS and unstructured data

Offbeat

Microsoft settles £200,000+ claims against tech support scammers who ran global ripoff from cottage in Surrey

A Code War has replaced The Cold War. And right now we’re losing it

LinkedIn China pauses new member signups ‘to ensure compliance with local law’

Gartner: Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations Delivers Improved Business Outcomes

Protect and recover your NAS and unstructured data

On-Prem

First Australia, maybe Europe, now America mulls effort to potentially make Google, Facebook pay for news

Russia botches Twitter throttling, cripples anything with t-dot-co in the name – including Reddit, Microsoft

Privacy purists prickle at T-Mobile US plan to proffer people's personal web, app pursuits to ad promoters

Apple announces €1bn Munich semiconductor R&D facility focused on wireless comms

Talk about a Blue Monday: OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder

UK draft legislation enshrines the right to repair in law – but don't expect your mobile to suddenly be any easier to fix

Atos handed £1.5bn to run IT for UK government-founded pension trust Nest

As battle for future of .UK's Nominet draws closer, non-exec director hits a nerve with for-profit proposal

Building A Large-Scale Migration Program With Google Cloud

Security

Hacktivists breach Verkada and view 150,000 CCTV cams in hospitals, prisons, a Tesla factory, even Cloudflare HQ

Belgian cops crack down on encrypted phone network Sky ECC in 200 overnight raids as firm denies criminal ties

Brit cybercops issue tender to rip and replace their formerly flaw-ridden CyberAlarm tool

Missing colleagues in cybersecurity? That’s no surprise – the world is missing 3.5 million

India pauses blockchain-powered SMS spam-scrubber after it swallows people's one-time login codes

Software

This developer created the fake programming language MOVA to catch out naughty recruiters, résumé padders

Fear the Walking Edge: Desktop support pulled, but legacy browser lingers on in Surface Hub, Xbox, HoloLens

Microsoft lines its UserVoice forums up against the wall, readies firing squad of '1st party solutions'

FYI: A smart-speaker box can monitor your heartbeat using high-pitch beeps and a pinch of algorithm – study

MPs slam UK's £22bn Test and Trace programme for failing to provide evidence that it slows COVID pandemic

License to thrill: Ahead of v13.0, the FreeBSD team talks about Linux and the completed toolchain project that changes everything

Surprise: Automated driving biz finds automated driving safer than letting you get behind the wheel

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