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A tiny typo in an automated email to thousands of customers turns out to be a big problem for legal Unexpected consequences of the SQL Slammer worm

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Microsoft previews Azure App Service Automatic Scaling, for when defining your own rules is too much like hard work

What could possibly go wrong?

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UK health secretary confirms end for NHS Digital, architect of the GP data grab debacle

NHSX also doomed in shake-up of 'odd' tech leadership structure

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Modern Analytics Need Fast Storage Solution Brief

Device as a Service The procurement model that lets IT do what it does best

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IBM researcher suing for age discrimination blames CEO Arvind Krishna for his ousting

Attorney for aggrieved scientist urges judge to let the evidence be presented

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IBM tells POWER8 owners: The end is nigh for upgrades

If you want more memory or internal storage, ordering before April 2022 is wise

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Modernise applications with document databases \| Slide Deck The advantages of Amazon DocumentDB

Why your email encryption solution is doomed (And what you can do about it)

Security

SSL keys, sFTP passwords and more exposed after someone broke into GoDaddy Managed WordPress using 'compromised password'

Yikes: Up to 1.2 million customers affected

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Ecommerce platforms (cough, Magento) need patching before Black Friday, warns UK's National Cyber Security Centre

You're your own security team, remember?

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Turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems admits to cyber incident, refuses to confirm if ransomware is at play

Company data compromised but not systems containing customer or supplier information

8 Comments

Nigeria's central bank digital currency is 'same Naira, more possibilities' – if you count government snooping

Privacy challenges and rushed implementation should make this cash alternative much less attractive

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A tiny typo in an automated email to thousands of customers turns out to be a big problem for legal

Unexpected consequences of the SQL Slammer worm

104 Comments

After four bans, TikTok finally passes the Pakistan challenge

Video app promises not to let naughty content cross the border, and to ban those who try

5 Comments

Amazon India execs questioned after sellers allegedly use site to smuggle marijuana

Ganja believe it? Seller claimed to sell 'Stevia leaves', but shifted a tonne of wacky 'baccy before being busted

19 Comments

Modern backup and recovery for modern DBAs

When it does its job, you can do yours

Software

RISE with AWS? Adidas migrates SAP S/4 HANA to the fluffy white stuff, snubs SAP's lift-and-shift programme

Globo sports brand also interested in AWS analytics systems, data lakes and ML tools as part of upgrade

1 Comments

Replaced several times but still live and kicking: Windows Forms updated for .NET 6.0

High DPI continues to be a challenge in ancient desktop framework

17 Comments

Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should: Install Linux on NTFS – on the same partition as Windows

Never mind the practicality, feel the grief

28 Comments

Munich mk2? Germany's Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

Another German region tries to ditch closed code for open source

61 Comments

SAP's Embedded Steampunk little use to those on anything but the most recent system

Effort to bring the ABAP programming language to S/4HANA cloud ERP system attracts criticism

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India hovers over the Pause button for Big Tech's march onto one hundred million farms

By revisiting farm reform, PM Modi has left the future of the contentious 'AgriStack' uncertain

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VMware recalls full vSphere update over driver dramas

Interoperability issues with Ethernet controller sends vSphere 7 Update 3 back to the drawing board

5 Comments

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China's hypersonic glider didn't just orbit Earth, it 'fired a missile' while at Mach 5

Middle Kingdom suggests US is making it all up to justify arms development. As if!

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Russia's orbital insanity is almost beyond redemption – but there's space for improvement

Every debris cloud has a silver lining

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Beijing issues fines for 43 Big Tech M&A deals all the way back to 2012

Alibaba and Tencent racked up more than ten cases – each

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In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done [Thu Nov 18 2021]

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A tiny typo in an automated email to thousands of customers turns out to be a big problem for legal [Tue Nov 23 2021]

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A tiny typo in an automated email to thousands of customers turns out to be a big problem for legal

Off-Prem

Microsoft previews Azure App Service Automatic Scaling, for when defining your own rules is too much like hard work

UK health secretary confirms end for NHS Digital, architect of the GP data grab debacle

Modern Analytics Need Fast Storage

Device as a Service

On-Prem

IBM researcher suing for age discrimination blames CEO Arvind Krishna for his ousting

IBM tells POWER8 owners: The end is nigh for upgrades

Modernise applications with document databases | Slide Deck

Why your email encryption solution is doomed

Security

SSL keys, sFTP passwords and more exposed after someone broke into GoDaddy Managed WordPress using 'compromised password'

Ecommerce platforms (cough, Magento) need patching before Black Friday, warns UK's National Cyber Security Centre

Turbine maker Vestas Wind Systems admits to cyber incident, refuses to confirm if ransomware is at play

Nigeria's central bank digital currency is 'same Naira, more possibilities' – if you count government snooping

A tiny typo in an automated email to thousands of customers turns out to be a big problem for legal

After four bans, TikTok finally passes the Pakistan challenge

Amazon India execs questioned after sellers allegedly use site to smuggle marijuana

Modern backup and recovery for modern DBAs

Software

RISE with AWS? Adidas migrates SAP S/4 HANA to the fluffy white stuff, snubs SAP's lift-and-shift programme

Replaced several times but still live and kicking: Windows Forms updated for .NET 6.0

Just because you can do it doesn't mean you should: Install Linux on NTFS – on the same partition as Windows

Munich mk2? Germany's Schleswig-Holstein plans to switch 25,000 PCs to LibreOffice

SAP's Embedded Steampunk little use to those on anything but the most recent system

India hovers over the Pause button for Big Tech's march onto one hundred million farms

VMware recalls full vSphere update over driver dramas

Offbeat

China's hypersonic glider didn't just orbit Earth, it 'fired a missile' while at Mach 5

Russia's orbital insanity is almost beyond redemption – but there's space for improvement

Beijing issues fines for 43 Big Tech M&A deals all the way back to 2012

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