The Ministry of Silly Printing: But I don't want my golf club correspondence to say 'UNCLASSIFIED' at the bottom [Mon Nov 15 2021]

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The Ministry of Silly Printing: But I don't want my golf club correspondence to say 'UNCLASSIFIED' at the bottom

Weekend upgrade shows how many MoD staff made personal use of tech

 
 

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BT's Plusnet shows Google how it's done as email woes enter their third day

Call that an outage? Now this is an outage

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Google denies Gmail users an early start to the weekend after problems accessing service

Prolonged outage in Europe and beyond dampens productivity

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WTF is 'Computing First Networking'? Think load balancers for the age of edge

The 'pre-process data on the edge' idea turns out not to be that simple

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He called himself the King of Fraud. Now this bot lord will reign in prison for years

Thousands of servers, hundreds of thousands of IP addresses used by scammer to drum up $7m in fake web advert impressions

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Apple is beginning to undo decades of Intel, x86 dominance in PC market

What a difference a year makes?

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Workplace surveillance booming during pandemic, destroying trust in employers

At the same time, Brit MPs call for tighter regulations on AI snooping

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HP's solution to running GPU-accelerated Linux apps on high-end Z workstations: Rely on Microsoft's WSL2

Because Windows is what Linux users really want, right?

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The Ministry of Silly Printing: But I don't want my golf club correspondence to say 'UNCLASSIFIED' at the bottom

Weekend upgrade shows how many MoD staff made personal use of tech

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ChaosDB: Infosec bods could pull anyone's plaintext Azure Cosmos DB keys at will from Microsoft admin tools

And they had a wildcard cert too. Still feeling secure?

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AMD reveals an Epyc 50 flaws – 23 of them rated high severity. Intel has 25 bugs, too

Think of an attack – DoS, arbitrary code execution, memory corruption – and one of these vulns allows it

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Torvalds releases Linux 5.16 rc1, with performance-enhancing memory tech

Emperor Penguin rates Memory Folios tech – source of that performance bump – as most important new feature in 'not huge' release

Microsoft engineer fixes enterprise-level Chromium bug students could exploit to cheat in online tests

Ability to block 'view source' for specific URLs hasn't actually worked for years

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Microsoft admits Samsung phones under Intune mobile device management are dropping out of compliance

Auto-restart or manual update requires manual interaction to bring a gadget back to the light

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We're making F# more normal as a language, says its creator

Loved by users, impenetrable to others, but 6.0 update aims to change that

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Huawei hands its cloud Linux to China's only open source foundation

OpenEuler now an Open Atom Foundation project, China Telecom has released a cut, tech minister loves the idea

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Apps made with Google's Flutter may fritter away CPU cycles. Here's what the web giant intends to do about it

Chocolate Factory's cross-platform framework seems to struggle to craft efficient desktop software

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Earth's wobbly companion is probably the result of a lunar impact, reckon space boffins

Reflected light points to Moon-like material on recently discovered rock

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Brit analysts formed pact to crash Autonomy's market valuation, ex-CFO tells US court

Eye-catching claim in an eye-catching case

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Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it an Electron rocket descending to the ocean?

Everything but catching the thing: Rocket Lab prepares for recovery

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BOFH: You drive me crazy... and I can't help myself

Service provider? You sure about that second bit?

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