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That Salesforce outage: Global DNS downfall started by one engineer trying a quick fix

'We feel bad about what happened'

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To what do we owe the Honor? Huawei spinout breaks silence with two pro ultraportables

New MagicBook 14 and 15 include 11th-gen Intel chippery, Xe graphics

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iFixit slams Samsung's phone 'upcycling' scheme for falling short of what was promised

Dude, where's my unlocked bootloader?

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Glimpse of 3GHz 128-core Ampere Altra Max server processor emerges as Oracle teases more cloudy Arms

Even World of Warcraft is getting on the RISC-y bandwagon

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Google and Samsung merge their wearable OSes, tease Fitbit baked into the combo

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Miscreants started scanning for Exchange Hafnium vulns five minutes after Microsoft told world about zero-days

Being slow to patch just means you'll get pwned faster

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Uptime funk: Microsoft has lifted availability of Azure Key Vault to 99.99%

But beware the SLA: Just how much would an outage actually cost you?

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Australian Federal Police hiring digital evidence retrieval specialists: Being a very good boy and paws required

Hounds can sniff out SIM cards that a human might miss

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The Microsoft Authenticator extension in the Chrome store wasn't actually made by Microsoft. Oops, Google

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New Zealand hospitals infected by ransomware, cancel some surgeries

Intrusion believed to have entered through email

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Twitter: Our AI image-cropping algorithm is biased toward White people, women

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Freenode IRC staff resign en masse, unhappy about new management

Crown Prince and network boss Andrew Lee disputes claims made by those leaving the internet chat community

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Android 12 beta lands bringing better personalisation, speed upgrades, and some privacy tools borrowed from iOS 14

Google Pixel phone not required

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GitLab tries to address crypto-mining abuse by requiring card details for free stuff

Tweak only affects shared runners and new users signed up after 17 May

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Faster Python: Mark Shannon, author of newly endorsed plan, speaks to The Register

The biggest challenge? 'Backwards compatibility of features that we might not even know we have'

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UK data watchdog fines 'pandemic partner' biz £8k: It sent 84,000 marketing emails to people who'd given info for track and trace

Tested.me Ltd broke the PECR, says Information Commissioner's Office

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Yahoo! Japan! offers! free! comment!-moderation!-as!-a!-service! API!

'Constructive comment ranking model' can detect bias, promote respectful contributions, already zaps 20,000 posts a day

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More power to web apps, cries Google, and more privacy, too

Without harming the ad business, natch

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