What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16 [Thu Dec 2 2021]

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What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16

Can we just postpone these changes to next year?

 
 

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Microsoft's Teams Essential tier seems designed to coax people on to Business Basic

Looks like good value, but sorely lacking in some important areas

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So it turns out Google would like to pass Knative to the Cloud Native Computing Foundation after all

That means the 'forseeable future' at Mountain View is... about two years

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Big challenge with hardware subscriptions? Getting what we need, not what someone else wants us to have

Reject the one-size-fits-all approach offered by the cloud giants

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Amazon accused of grossly underreporting COVID-19 cases to US labor agency

'Yes, we had nearly 20,000 cases last year but only 27 were directly work-related. Honestly.'

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Qualcomm makes its own mobile gaming rig, hypes new Windows 11 chips

G3x Handheld Developer Kit born from hookup with Razer

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Google sued for firing staff who claim they tried to follow 'Don't be evil' motto

Civil complaint dovetails with ongoing litigation over alleged union busting

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Samsung wheels out new silicon that turns cars into 5G-fuelled entertainment hubs

Nice wheels! Thanks, it's got eight Cortex-A76 cores, a 5G modem and 32GB of RAM

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Qualcomm takes a swipe at Apple's build-not-buy culture (because it wants to sell stuff to Apple)

Suggests collaboration with OS suppliers is the best way to innovate, ignoring that Google just designed its own silicon for Pixel 6

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Singapore and UK ink digital trade agreements at Future Tech Forum in London

Such memorandums of understanding are all the rage

UK watchdog's punishment for Blackbaud, Easyjet, other big privacy lawbreakers was slap on the wrist in private

Is this what they call light-touch regulation?

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UK intel chief says MI6 must outsource innovation – and James Bond's in-house 'Q' is nonsense

China is on the march, Russia loves to destabilise, no intelligence agency can stop 'em without help

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Apple files fresh appeal to stop court order demanding external payment systems in iOS apps

iGiant warned developers it could still charge fees for third-party financial transactions anyway

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Microsoft: What's that? A patch for make-me-admin vuln? Sorry – can't hear you. Have a new jumper instead

Redmond fiddles with Paint while Windows burns

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What a cluster fsck: New scheduling code plus Intel's Alder Lake CPU mix equals a slower Linux kernel 5.16

Can we just postpone these changes to next year?

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Pension cold-calling financial services biz cops largest ever fine from UK data watchdog

EB Associates facing £140k penalty for 107,000 illegal calls

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Could we use an LLVM-based cross-compiler to build apps for quantum computers? This alliance says yes

Microsoft, Linux Foundation-backed QIR has a chance to make QC source code portable across different systems

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Brit RPA upstart Blue Prism falls into arms of US tech holdings biz SS&C for £1.24bn

Software automation specialist escaping London Stock Exchange

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On the first day of Christmas, my true love gave to me... a coding puzzle and it's a doozy

2021 Advent of Code prepares for launch

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Last chance: Get hands-on ML experience in Prof Mark Whitehorn’s introductory web workshop

December 3 is the final day to buy tickets – book now or miss out

Beijing wants to level up China's software industry, with an emphasis on FOSS

Plans to build 'two or three open source communities with international influence' in the next five years

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Need a new CEO, Salesforce? Have two – Bret Taylor and Marc Benioff to share the job

Restores twin CEO structure that ended in 2020, no indication this has deeper meaning

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Russia: It isn't just us – a bit of an old US rocket might get as close as 5.4km to the ISS

Meanwhile, Soyuz Cluedo continues: It was someone, with the drill, in the habitation module

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Microsoft shareholders vote for a report into harassment within the company

Median pay gap reporting found less favour

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ESA's Solar Orbiter sails safely past Earth despite orbiting debris concerns

See if you can guess when the spacecraft thrusters took over

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We've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Mega-comets lurking in solar systems, spewing carbon monoxide

Comet BB is not only largest of its type that we know of, it was likely active billions of miles from the Sun

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