Google hits undo on Chrome browser alert change that broke websites, web apps [Fri Aug 6 2021]

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Google hits undo on Chrome browser alert change that broke websites, web apps

'This is peak Chrome; a reasonably good idea hampered because it was pushed out thoughtlessly'

 
 

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Fastly CEO opens up on that June outage that crippled so many websites

Admits some customers, including one in top ten yet to return its network

SK hynix to create US-HQ'd NewCo for Intel's outgoing $9bn NAND biz

Chipzilla exec and vineyard owner Robert Crooke to run operation … in between picking grapes

Paperless office? 2.8 trillion pages printed in 2020, down by 14% or 450 billion sheets

Big brands might take solace that in 2025, 4.4 million pages will still be printed every minute

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Ch-ch-ch-Chia! HDD sales soar to record levels as latest crypto craze sweeps Europe

Knock-on effect for NAS and SSD devices too

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Please, no Moore: 'Law' that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into a cul-de-sac

Are we approaching peak computing? What are the alternatives?

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AWS taps up Singapore scientists to overcome hurdles facing quantum computing

'Some forms of encryption used today can be broken by future large-scale quantum computers, which drives a search for alternatives'

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Remember Google Plus? Remember its privacy blunder? Remember applying for a slice of a settlement?

Congrats, $2.15 is on its way to you. And millions on lawyers and admin costs

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US 'dropped the ball' on security by going it alone claims Huawei US CSO

Where there's a will, there's Huawei

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Apple is about to start scanning iPhone users' devices for banned content, warns professor

For now it's child abuse material but the tech has mission creep written in

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Got a cheap Cisco router in your home office? If it's one of these, there's an exposed RCE hole you need to plug

Patches issued for two CVE-rated vulns

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Das tut mir leid! Germany's ruling party sorry for calling cops on researcher after she outed canvassing app flaws

Party denies naming activist to police but apologises anyway

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Remote and branch office and edge IT

Adapt to your new reality outside the data centre

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Managing JSON workloads at scale without heavy lifting

The advantages of Amazon DocumentDB

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US proposes tracking digital cash and taxing it to pay for, you know, roads and stuff

Uncle Sam wants digital asset brokers to log customer info but didn't clarify who counts as a broker or not

Mozilla slams post-cookie ad tech proposals SWAN and UID2 - needs much more work

Replacements for cookie-based tracking still pose privacy problems

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Do you have what it takes to turn adversity into software innovation?

Prepare to take the NextStep at this free virtual event in November

Full Stream ahead: Microsoft will end 'classic' method of recording Teams meetings despite transcription concerns

'All meeting recordings will be saved to OneDrive and SharePoint' from 16 August

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A little Dataiku haiku for you: Hungry investors / throw data management firm / even more money

$400m Series E values outfit at $4.6bn

Google hits undo on Chrome browser alert change that broke websites, web apps

'This is peak Chrome; a reasonably good idea hampered because it was pushed out thoughtlessly'

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Engineering metrics that matter

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

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8 years ago another billionaire ploughed millions into space to harvest solar power and beam it back down to Earth

Caltech received $100m for the project and is only just telling us now

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