To have one floppy failure is unlucky. To have 20 implies evil magic or a very silly user [Mon Apr 19 2021]

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To have one floppy failure is unlucky. To have 20 implies evil magic or a very silly user

Not quite what we meant by 'disk capacity'

 
 

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Ex IBM sales manager, fired after battling discrimination against subordinates, wins $11m lawsuit

Big Blue, insisting it doesn't condone retaliation or discrimination, may appeal

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Informatica's Intelligent Data Management Cloud not new tech, but covers hyperscalers' weakness in data integration

Picking up the slack on AWS, Azure, and GCP

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Blueprint For A Future Ready Workforce

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From Dotted Line To Bottom Line.

Remove friction from sales processes with e-signatures and automated workflows.

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Elon Musk's SpaceX bags $3bn NASA contract to, fingers crossed, land first woman on the Moon

And the 13th guy

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Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn't mean they're aliens)

Unless by aliens you mean Russians

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Age discrimination class-action against HP and HPE gets green light to proceed

Old people were let go while the CEO was talking about hiring a bunch of young people, says complaint

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Fridges... in... Spaaaaaaace: Engineers book ride on the Vomit Comet to test astro-refrigerator

It's floaty floaty vom time as boffins plan prototype cooler spin on modded 727

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Home office setup with built-in boiling water tap for tea and coffee without getting up is a monument to deskcess

If only it had a built-in loo and pillow, then we could work 24/7

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Customs raid rumbles black market for primary school e-learning materials in fiercely competitive Hong Kong

Kids have missed almost an entire year of education due to coronavirus so parents have sought help online

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Best of FRANDs: Judge allows Apple retrial following $506m patent infringement ruling

PanOptis was obliged to provide 4G LTE licences – but no one mentioned it

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How not to apply for a new job: Apply for it on a job site

Watch as I channel my digital Yosser Hughes, violence included

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Patent battle over Facebook Live and 'walkie talkie' tech rattles through High Court in London

Sueball sees social network squaring off against app upstart in UK branch of worldwide fight

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We're on our way already: Astroboffins find 5 potentially habitable Tatooine-like systems from Kepler 'scope

Perhaps gigantic puffy exoplanets aren't as hostile to life as previously thought

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Google's FLoC flies into headwinds as internet ad industry braces for instability

Reinventing web advertising tech at a time of heightened privacy concern proves difficult

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Will tech show IFA really return this year as a 'full-scale' shindig? Place your bets now

Announcement light on safety details and the world still doesn't look ready

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To have one floppy failure is unlucky. To have 20 implies evil magic or a very silly user

Not quite what we meant by 'disk capacity'

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Russian infosec firm Positive Technologies trying to stay positive after US sanctions

Company insists it's a legit operator that's here to help

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Microsoft received almost 25,000 requests for consumer data from law enforcement over the past six months

25% were rejected, and it's less than 2013's figure... but be wary of what Redmond does with your information

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Watchdog thinks Google tricked Australians into giving up data, sues. Judge semi-agrees

Filing reveals: Google staff called meeting over data privacy issues the 'Oh Shit' meeting

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Linus Torvalds reluctantly issues one more release candidate for Linux kernel 5.12

We gotta do this again? Really? Oh, alright then. But this eight release candidates thing is not great

Seeing a robot dog tagging along with NYPD officers after an arrest stuns New Yorkers

Plus: 'First civil lawsuit' against police for incorrect facial recognition match in wrongful collaring, and more

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Docker Desktop for Apple Silicon is here, but probe a little deeper and you'll find Rosetta 2 staring back

Prepare yourself for an onslaught of 'you're holding the container wrong'

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Oh hello. Haven't heard much from you lately: Linux veteran Slackware rides again with a beta of version 15

It's time to move on from 2016

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NSA helps out Microsoft with critical Exchange Server vulnerability disclosures in an April shower of patches [Wed Apr 14 2021]

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A floppy filled with software worth thousands of francs: Techie can't take it, customs won't keep it. What to do? [Tue Apr 6 2021]

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Yep, you're totally unique: That one very special user and their very special problem [Mon Apr 5 2021]

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Mullet over: Aussie boys' school tells kids 'business in the front, party in the back' hairstyle is 'not acceptable' [Thu Apr 1 2021]

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Another successful flight for SpaceX's Starship apart from the landing-in-one-piece thing [Wed Mar 31 2021]

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