A lightbulb moment comes too late to save a mainframe engineer's blushes [Mon Nov 22 2021]

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A lightbulb moment comes too late to save a mainframe engineer's blushes

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US Defense Department invites four cloud firms to seek contracts for JEDI replacement system

Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle deemed worthy

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Workday subscription revenue forecasts leave investors cold, wiping 9% off company value

SaaSy vendor takes comfort in contingent workforce software acquisition

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EU digital sovereignty project Gaia-X opens its summit with the departure of Scaleway

French hosting outfit not keen on status quo, leaving to spend more time with its servers

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Alibaba profits plunge as Beijing's bans – and beefy competitors – bite

Investors are going to have to put up with growth of merely 22 per cent, not the promised 29 or more

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Lawsuit accusing Robinhood and Citadel Securities of colluding to stop GameStop shares from skyrocketing thrown out by judge

There's not enough evidence, judge ruled

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Mediatek unveils its first ARMv9 smartphone chip for advanced handsets

It's moving on up now

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We asked you how your biz introduces new IT systems – and here are the results

Who’d have thought that there could be so many approaches to putting new stuff in?

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Psst. Hey kid. Want a lipstick? Huawei slips new earbuds into cosmetics case

New products out as firm attempts to stay relevant in face of US sanctions

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Nominet names new CEO as new chair promises real reform

But won't be looking into pay deal

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The ideal sat-nav is one that stops the car, winds down the window, and asks directions

It's not quite a Jag-you-arr

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Honor 50 Lite: Google Play Services are back on Huawei's former stablemate but that's nothing to get excited about

Google Assistant? More like Google Insistent

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A lightbulb moment comes too late to save a mainframe engineer's blushes

Throwing light onto a frozen bit of big iron

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Indian PC market sets all-time records as Q3 shipments top 2019 total

Wearables also soared, with Apple pushed out of the charts by local brands like Fire-Boltt

TI will splash out up to $30B on wafer fabs

Definitely building two more, may add another pair

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GPU makers increasingly disengage from crypto miners

Nvidia moves most of production to gaming kit, AMD 'not servicing' the crypto segment

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Web trust dies in darkness: Hidden Certificate Authorities undermine public crypto infrastructure

Boffins measure the black hole of dubious certs and find it troubling

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Server Error 500 sees some Tesla drivers locked out of their MuskMobiles

CEO blames 'Increased verbosity of network traffic'

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AI surveillance software increasingly used to make sure contract lawyers are doing their jobs at home

Plus: GPT-3 is now generally available and one man goes undercover in Amazon to live under AI

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Friday FOSS fest: Franz, RamBox, Pidgin and more

And lo, it was foretold, punter shall speak unto punter from a single app

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Intel audio drivers give Windows 11 the blues and Microsoft Installer borked following security update

Known issues list continues to grow

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UK Department for Education to schools: Maybe delay signing that 3-year licensing deal for MIS with Education Software Solutions

ESS boss says 'longer agreement terms... increasingly standard' in the sector

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The Rust Foundation gets ready to Rumbul (we're sure new CEO has never, ever heard that joke before)

And while we're here, a quick look at why the language is taking off

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Netlify acquires OneGraph: One API to rule them all?

Also: Funding for Jamstack startups, and why Twilio adopted the architecture

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Robo-Shinkansen rolls slowly – for now – across 5km of Japan

Railway wants self-driving bullet trains overseen by staff that aren't trained as drivers

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