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Lees meerAdmits some customers, including one in top ten yet to return its network Remember that monster outage in June when Fastly managed to take down huge chunks of the internet? The CEO of the US-based cloud computing services provider has admitted some …
Lees meerChipzilla exec and vineyard owner Robert Crooke to run operation … in between picking grapes SK hynix intends to set up its soon-to-be acquired Intel NAND business as a standalone US-headquartered company.…
Lees meerBig brands might take solace that in 2025, 4.4 million pages will still be printed every minute Around 450 billion fewer pages were printed from home and office devices in 2020 as COVID-19 disrupted the world of work.…
Lees meerKnock-on effect for NAS and SSD devices too The Chia cryptocurrency craze is fuelling record sales growth in Europe among distributors of hard disk drives (HDD), according to calendar Q2 shipment data from venerable number cruncher Context.…
Lees meerAre we approaching peak computing? What are the alternatives? Feature In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits.…
Lees meer'Some forms of encryption used today can be broken by future large-scale quantum computers, which drives a search for alternatives' Amazon Web Services has partnered with the National University of Singapore (NUS) in hope of improving quantum techno…
Lees meerCongrats, $2.15 is on its way to you. And millions on lawyers and admin costs Check your bank accounts this month. A settlement payment from Google, regarding a privacy hole in its now-defunct Google+ social network, may be winging its way to you. A…
Lees meer'Free and fair election was impossible' Amazon interfered with a formal election by its warehouse workers in Alabama to unionize – and staff ought to be given a second chance to vote again, an official at the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)…
Lees meerHeaven forbid someone lifts the lid on social network's disinformation and public manipulation Facebook, which has repeatedly touted its transparency efforts, on Tuesday disabled the accounts of independent ad transparency researchers.…
Lees meerUSENIX will continue to create similar content for SREcon USENIX, the not-for-profit advanced computing association, has decided to put an end to its beloved LISA sysadmin conferences, at least as a standalone event.…
Lees meerNow that's an expensive contract The UK government has let nearly £40m in contracts to a single supplier for a text message, email, and "letter management" platform.…
Lees meerBoffins say their real-world tests show developers can make more of a difference than switching transport protocols Quick UDP Internet Connections (QUIC), the alternative to Transmission Control Protocol advanced as a fine way to speed up web traffi…
Lees meerUnless your doctor or god says you can't have the jab Not for the first time, Microsoft has followed Apple's lead and will not bring staff back to its offices until October at the earliest.…
Lees meerLawsuit, employee walkout elicit reform promises from Diablo goliath Activision Blizzard on Tuesday announced new leadership for Blizzard Entertainment group following a recent sex discrimination and harassment lawsuit filed by California's Departme…
Lees meerCampus, routing, switching, and data centre kit all affected Semiconductor lead times are running at up to 60 weeks or twice the pre-pandemic norms, according to networking biz Arista.…
Lees meerLook at what hanging around the water cooler did for me, says son-in-law of billionaire Infosys founder Getting back into the office after a pandemic spent home working and on video calls would be "really beneficial" to young people's careers, the U…
Lees meerThe kid went on to work for IBM. Awks Wealthy people continue to assign inordinate value to items associated with the rich and/or famous so here's yet another auction of relics touched by our lord and saviour Steve Jobs (peace be upon him).…
Lees meerWe reckon it'd snatch it in extra time thanks to camera Review As England made it way to the final of the Euro 2020 footie tournament, fans of the beautiful game could hardly have failed to notice adverts for Vivo flashing up during matches. The co…
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