We can't believe people use browsers to manage their passwords, says maker of password management tools [Mon Aug 2 2021]

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We can't believe people use browsers to manage their passwords, says maker of password management tools

You just save it in Chrome or Firefox? Ugh. And then it autofills when you need it again? Oh the horror

 
 

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'$6 in every $10' spent on cloud infrastructure is with AWS, Microsoft, or Google

Fewer and fewer orgs want to run their own data centre

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Google picked as yet another 'strategic partner' for SAP's RISE but Microsoft still lingers on the scene

German software giant's relationships are anything but exclusive

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Telefónica's cloud limb slurps Cancom's UK&I biz to cash in on Brit enterprise tech market

There's a tasty NHS contract in there

Ordinary salaried Brits: Sweet! Payday! Banking giant HSBC: Oh no it isn't

Customers hacked off as online and mobile service wobbles

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AWS growing so fast its revenue makes it bigger than Cisco or HP

Nobody wants to run their own data centers anymore, says CFO

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Huawei Industrial Digital Transformation Conference highlights innovation and applied scenarios of technologies

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Zero-trust-data

Zero trust data management

Fighting back and recovering from ransomware

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Euro watchdog will try to extract $900m from Amazon for breaking data privacy laws

You miss every shot you don't take, we guess

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UK regulator waves through SK Hynix's $9bn acquisition of Intel's NAND and SSD biz

Number of 'strong remaining competitors' within the market planning expansions of their own, says CMA

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Happy 60th, Sinclair Radionics: We'll remember you for your revolutionary calculators and crap watches

ZX Spectrum was pretty cool too

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Intel scoops out five flavours of Ice Lake Xeons for workstations

They're good for stuff like supporting 4TB of RAM and PCIe 4.0

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The Register just found 300-odd Itanium CPUs on eBay

We mention this because Intel stopped shipping them yesterday, ending a strange story

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Webcast Slide Deck | Remote and branch office and edge IT

Adapt to your new reality outside the data centre

Managing-JSON

Managing JSON workloads at scale without heavy lifting

The advantages of Amazon DocumentDB

Security

Sysadmins: Why not simply verify there's no backdoor in every program you install, and thus avoid any cyber-drama?

Just 'validate third-party code before using it', says Euro body

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Here's 30 servers Russian intelligence uses to fling malware at the West, beams RiskIQ

Biden-Putin summit went well, then

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Malware and Trojans, but there's only one horse the boss man wants to hear about

The company's IT might be on fire, but my needs trump those of the many

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We can't believe people use browsers to manage their passwords, says maker of password management tools

You just save it in Chrome or Firefox? Ugh. And then it autofills when you need it again? Oh the horror

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Webcast Slide Deck | Engineering metrics that matter

Why is it so hard for engineering teams to measure their value?

Software

Tech spec experts seek allies to tear down ISO standards paywall

Open letter drafted against what's seen as unjustified profiteering

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Russia says software malfunction caused Nauka module to unexpectedly fire thrusters, tilt space station

You call this a glitch?

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HP Inc slurps Teradici to get better at delivering remote PCs

Apparently quite a few people haven't been in the office as much lately

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Offbeat

Jack Dorsey's side hustle – payments outfit Square – acquires buy now pay later darling Afterpay for $29B

Plans to make partial payments for almost anything the new normal

Contractors argue umbrella companies need improved regulation, not outright ban

Trades Union Congress proposals miss the point, say campaigners

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On this most auspicious of days, we ask: How many sysadmins does it take to change a lightbulb?

Protip: Don't treat the IT department like this if you value your life

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London class-action sueball against Google is a lot like Epic's case except fandroids might win enough for a pint

Hundreds of millions in damages, Play Store in the sights etc. etc.

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What to do with our leftover Saturn V Lego? Why, build another rocket, of course

This time the Saturn 1B

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You MUST present your official ID (but only the one that's really easy to fake)

I can show you my Three Widths swimming certificate if it helps

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BOFH: They say you either love it or you hate it. We can confirm you're going to hate it

So what you're saying is you updated the new machines from the network – the infected network

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Giant Tesla battery providing explosion in renewable energy – not as intended

Toxic smoke from fire forces Australian residents indoors just two days after COVID lockdown lifted

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Communism never looked so good: China cracks down on pop-up ads

Developers accused of ignoring regulations and adding adware where it's not allowed

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