Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration [Wed Aug 4 2021]

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Customers warn Gartner of AWS's high-pressure sales tactics in latest verdict on public cloud providers

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IBM Cloud took the evening off – 23 services were hard to provision for eight hours

Similar problem hit over the weekend, and Google has also had severe recent wobbles

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Microsoft's Cloud PCs debut – priced between $20 and $158 a month

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Blizzard president, HR chief exit games giant in wake of sexual harassment uproar

Lawsuit, employee walkout elicit reform promises from Diablo goliath

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'This is the worst I've seen it' says Arista boss as entire network hardware sector battles component shortages, doubled lead times for semiconductors

Campus, routing, switching, and data centre kit all affected

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UK chancellor: Getting back to the altar of corporate dreams (the office) will boost young folks' careers

Look at what hanging around the water cooler did for me, says son-in-law of billionaire Infosys founder

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'Prophetic' Steve Jobs autograph telling kid to 'go change the world!' among Apple memorabilia at auction

The kid went on to work for IBM. Awks

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Vivo X60 Pro: Branding was plastered all over the Euros, but does the phone perform better than the English team?

We reckon it'd snatch it in extra time thanks to camera

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Ever wondered how much data web giants generate? Singaporean super-app Grab says 40TB a day

Reports record Q1 sales and advances plans for SPAC-ulative IPO

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Russia tells UN it wants vast expansion of cybercrime offenses, plus network backdoors, online censorship

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Do you have a grip on the lifecycle security of your AWS-deployed applications?

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UK's Ministry of Defence coughs up bug bounties for crowdsourced pentesting

Small steps could lead to bigger strides

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Shopping for execs: ID management biz Okta poaches Google's veep of engineering to run product dev activities

Head techie for Chocolate Factory's search ad biz departs Mountain View

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Research finds cyber-snoops working for 'Chinese state interests' lurking in SE Asian telco networks since 2017

Handy way to keep tabs on 'activists, politicians, business leaders, and more'

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WireGuard VPN gets native port to the Windows kernel

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Salesforce follows application rivals into the RPA market with Servicetrace purchase

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International Space Station actually spun one-and-a-half times by errant Russian module's thrusters

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Amazon sets the date for televised return to Middle Earth: September 2022

Big tech gets busy in New Zealand as LoTR TV show wraps filming the same day Google opens Auckland office

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Tesla battery fire finally flamed out after four-day conflagration

Only one Megapack went up, adjacent containers mostly kept their cool

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