Big Bang? More like Big Bork thanks to a warning shouted too late Who, Me? This week's Who, Me? is dedicated to that moment when you realise you're about to do something silly but are unable to stop yourself.…
Lees meerDoomed bill seems to forget municipal broadband exists due to failures of private sector House Republicans this week proposed legislation that would ban the creation of municipal broadband networks at a federal level, and shutter networks in areas w…
Lees meerTraditional architectures = performance bottlenecks Sponsored It wasn’t too long ago, perhaps only a few years, when the most data-intensive workloads and the infrastructure required to run them effectively weren’t even on the radar for the average…
Lees meerWorth a try, eh, chums? Huawei has lost its novel endeavour to use a 1879 law in London as part of its efforts to get CFO Meng Wanzhou out of a US extradition tussle in Canada.…
Lees meerA 48-month, £41m hyperscale cloud service deal done with HMRC The UK's tax collection agency might not have had much luck squeezing money out of Amazon Web Services but the cloud division of Jeff Bezos' empire has managed to convince HMRC to sign of…
Lees meerMiserly? No, they'll throw in a loan for a season train ticket too The UK's Ministry of Justice is hiring a director of technology, offering £130,000 plus a season ticket loan for whoever wins the chance to "fix the basics" of Britain's disintegrati…
Lees meerLittle love for a return to the five-days-on-campus week, Blind survey shows Poll It seems workers at big-name technology companies aren't that displeased at last year's pandemic-induced work-from-home rule – and, while popping into the office ever…
Lees meerAlso lifts lid on allegations former workers paid staffers of 'state-owned enterprises' Cisco is investigating a “self-enrichment scheme” among several former employees in China, the firm told investors earlier this week. Switchzilla said it had als…
Lees meer18 months of dispute over new grading structure and counting... The Communication Workers Union (CWU) is trying to crank up the pressure on Openreach top brass ahead of next week's planned strike action by adding three more days to the protest campa…
Lees meerWell, that's a new one Anyone familiar with contacting a tech support helpdesk has heard the groan-inducing line: "Have you turned it on and off again?" For that reason, we can't help but doff our cap to indie ISP Zen Internet, which instructed one …
Lees meerAnd the COVID-19 precaution? A negative test 72 hours before In what is either going to be seen as hopeless optimism or a heavily telegraphed super-spreader event, the CEO of the Mobile World Congress has said he intends to run its annual mega tech …
Lees meerDe facto one-party state decrees censorship scheme that sounds a lot like China's Great Firewall Cambodia has formally announced a National Internet Gateway that will filter all traffic coming into the country, or traversing networks within its bord…
Lees meerWants big players to build locally for locals, then build export capability India has created a new tech manufacturing investment attraction fund, this time for telecom equipment and enterprise networking kit.…
Lees meerNothing says urgency like non-binding future reports The new acting head of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Jessica Rosenworcel has emerged from her first meeting in charge of America's telecoms regulator stressing urgency and the need t…
Lees meerState legal filing answers Amazon's preemptive federal lawsuit last week Five days after Amazon filed a federal lawsuit against New York Attorney General Letitia James to preempt anticipated state legal action, James has answered with a complaint ag…
Lees meerNew views, card types, and branding as 10th anniversary nears Australian dev tools supplier Atlassian has unveiled a new look and new views for its Kanban-bothering application, Trello.…
Lees meerNext step in Redmond's 'complete virtualization stack with Linux' Patches submitted by Microsoft for the next version of the Linux kernel, 5.12, add the ability to boot the OS as the root partition on its Hyper-V hypervisor.…
Lees meerHold up, just a few more questions... The US Department of Justice has written to Salesforce and Slack to ask a few questions about December's $28bn merger announcement.…
Lees meerDo y'all think Samsung might rethink plans to spend $20bn down there? As winter storms cause power outages across the United States, a lack of juice in Texas has led Austin’s fabs to shut down.…
Lees meerLet’s back up, and talk about data protection Sponsored It’s less than a year since the Covid-19 pandemic forced technology leaders into crisis mode. Workforces worldwide moved out of their offices into their homes, and their data from physical ser…
Lees meerHaving apparently lost, UK registry operator tries desperate legal gambit The UK’s internet registry operator Nominet has claimed that an effort to remove members of its board and replace them with two caretaker directors is not legal and is refusin…
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