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Compromise reached as Linux kernel community protests about treating compiler warnings as errors 'Years of pain' behind the change, said Torvalds, but with Clang a problem it has been weakened

Off-Prem

Lenovo throws everything it's got into TruScale ITaaS – even its in-house AI

CPU cores, memory, and disk now PAYG if you want, and so are new hybrid offerings with VMware and Microsoft

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Amazon Japan to power itself with 450 little solar plants

22-megawatt rig to be built by Mitsubishi – apparently the first direct sale agreement of its sort in Japan

Chinese prosecutors end investigation into rape claim against Alibaba manager

Accused served 15 days for 'molestation', says report

5 Comments

Webcast Slide Deck \| Zero trust data management Fighting back and recovering from ransomware

Cloud Or Colo? The Point When AI Startups Need To Make The Switch Whitepaper

On-Prem

We're going deeper underground: New digital project to map UK's sub-surface 'assets'

4 million holes dug in the UK each year... many in the wrong place

14 Comments

If your storage admin is a bit excitable today, be kind: 45TB LTO-9 tape media and drives just debuted

Fujifilm and HPE selling cartridges, Quantum selling drives, IBM tape libraries add support

14 Comments

Intel may spend up to €80bn on chip plants in Europe over next ten years

CEO also said it'll use its fab in Ireland to crank out parts for automakers amid shortages

11 Comments

IBM's first 7nm Power10 chip arrives in E1080 server system with a wealth of shiny features

Boasts of a world-record SAP SD benchmark result, 'transparent' in-memory encryption

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Webcast Slide Deck \| Engineering metrics that matter Why is it so hard for engineering teams to measure their value?

Webcast Slide Deck \| Remote and branch office and edge IT Adapt to your new reality outside the data centre

Security

New Zealand DDoS wave targets banks, post offices, weather forecasters and more

Nobody from government will say a word about who's behind it

3 Comments

Proton welcomes Sir Tim Berners-Lee to its advisory board – as ProtonMail suffers a privacy backlash

'I am a firm supporter of privacy,' Sir Tim declares - even as the service is lambasted over IP logging

3 years, 17 alphas, 2 betas, and over 7,500 commits later, OpenSSL version 3 is here

What have we learned during that time? Quite a bit, it appears

5 Comments

UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead

You can't reduce such a vital issue to concern over paedophiles and terrorists

55 Comments

AT&T Alien Labs warns of 'zero or low detection' for TeamTNT's latest malware bundle

Chimaera toolkit found on 'thousands' of Windows, Linux, and container systems worldwide

2 Comments

Global pandemic was good for business, say UK infosec pros – but we're still burning out

Chartered Institute of Information Security reveals what you're all thinking

3 Comments

Patch now? Why enterprise exploits are still partying like it's 1999

Am I only dreaming, or is this burning an Eternal Blue?

13 Comments

Managing JSON workloads at scale without heavy lifting

The advantages of Amazon DocumentDB

Software

Google fiddles with cross-platform Flutter and Dart to boost performance, tooling

Devs also urged to ditch 'pedantic' lint rules

Google plays catch-up with JSON support for distributed RDBMS Spanner

Nice if you want to store extra attributes with changing relational schema, but not a threat to NoSQL specialists

Browser-based video editor Clipchamp disappears into the bowels of Microsoft 365

Like Windows Movie Maker on the web

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Intel's Mobileye unveils first 'production-grade fully electric self-driving vehicle,' partners with Sixt for Munich launch

Quietly adds that it hasn't yet received regulatory approval

21 Comments

Compromise reached as Linux kernel community protests about treating compiler warnings as errors

'Years of pain' behind the change, said Torvalds, but with Clang a problem it has been weakened

48 Comments

A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down

Crackdown on open-ended, unfiltered simulations branded 'a hyper-moral stance'

34 Comments

Open-source software starts with developers, but there are other important contributors, too. Who exactly? Good question

Looking beyond the programmers

20 Comments

Offbeat

Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos fraud trial begins: Defense claims all she did was fail – and that's not a crime

Her attorney argues she made mistakes ... like trusting her former partner and COO Sunny Balwani

SAP 'investigating' after viral video allegedly shows anti-mask employee coughing on shoppers

COVIDiot caught on film harassing others for following pandemic precautions

4 Comments

Australia rules Facebook page operators are legally liable for user comments under posts

Good news for chap abused by online mob. Not so much for page admins

17 Comments

Council culture: Software test leads to absurd local planning SNAFU

Swale Borough Council faced with hefty bill for junior IT hero's whimsical afternoon's work

29 Comments

With a Lidl bit of luck, this Windows installation will make it through the night

Microsoft's finest just needs a nudge

14 Comments

UK splashes out £30m on improving antiquated patent system, Deloitte and NTT Data are the lucky winners

Plans to cut patent renewal time from five days to five minutes

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Wednesday, September 8, 2021

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UK VoIP telco receives 'colossal ransom demand', reveals REvil cybercrooks suspected of 'organised' DDoS attacks on UK VoIP companies [Fri Sep 3 2021]

Friday, September 3, 2021

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Compromise reached as Linux kernel community protests about treating compiler warnings as errors [Thu Sep 9 2021]

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Compromise reached as Linux kernel community protests about treating compiler warnings as errors

Off-Prem

Lenovo throws everything it's got into TruScale ITaaS – even its in-house AI

Amazon Japan to power itself with 450 little solar plants

Chinese prosecutors end investigation into rape claim against Alibaba manager

Webcast Slide Deck | Zero trust data management

Cloud Or Colo? The Point When AI Startups Need To Make The Switch

On-Prem

We're going deeper underground: New digital project to map UK's sub-surface 'assets'

If your storage admin is a bit excitable today, be kind: 45TB LTO-9 tape media and drives just debuted

Intel may spend up to €80bn on chip plants in Europe over next ten years

IBM's first 7nm Power10 chip arrives in E1080 server system with a wealth of shiny features

Webcast Slide Deck | Engineering metrics that matter

Webcast Slide Deck | Remote and branch office and edge IT

Security

New Zealand DDoS wave targets banks, post offices, weather forecasters and more

Proton welcomes Sir Tim Berners-Lee to its advisory board – as ProtonMail suffers a privacy backlash

3 years, 17 alphas, 2 betas, and over 7,500 commits later, OpenSSL version 3 is here

UK.gov is launching an anti-Facebook encryption push. Don't think of the children: Think of the nuances and edge cases instead

AT&T Alien Labs warns of 'zero or low detection' for TeamTNT's latest malware bundle

Global pandemic was good for business, say UK infosec pros – but we're still burning out

Patch now? Why enterprise exploits are still partying like it's 1999

Managing JSON workloads at scale without heavy lifting

Software

Google fiddles with cross-platform Flutter and Dart to boost performance, tooling

Google plays catch-up with JSON support for distributed RDBMS Spanner

Browser-based video editor Clipchamp disappears into the bowels of Microsoft 365

Intel's Mobileye unveils first 'production-grade fully electric self-driving vehicle,' partners with Sixt for Munich launch

Compromise reached as Linux kernel community protests about treating compiler warnings as errors

A developer built an AI chatbot using GPT-3 that helped a man speak again to his late fiancée. OpenAI shut it down

Open-source software starts with developers, but there are other important contributors, too. Who exactly? Good question

Offbeat

Elizabeth Holmes' Theranos fraud trial begins: Defense claims all she did was fail – and that's not a crime

SAP 'investigating' after viral video allegedly shows anti-mask employee coughing on shoppers

Australia rules Facebook page operators are legally liable for user comments under posts

Council culture: Software test leads to absurd local planning SNAFU

With a Lidl bit of luck, this Windows installation will make it through the night

UK splashes out £30m on improving antiquated patent system, Deloitte and NTT Data are the lucky winners

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