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Lees meerThe 'good old days' were sometimes ugly, but please let us experience their good bits Feature When the market for proprietary UNIX workstations collapsed, few vendors survived… and those that did seemed not to learn much from it.…
Lees meerThat summer heatwave in Britain? Our servers were just resting Oracle execs are all smiles following a stellar showing for their cloud operations in the latest full quarter, and Larry Ellison is obviously feeling a little dizzy, telling the world – …
Lees meerAmerica: Yeah but they can't help you if it's national security. And it totally is China is fighting back against Washington's semiconductor wars by filing a complaint with the World Trade Organization (WTO) against US chip export controls, claiming…
Lees meerRecommendation from top CNIL advisor claims Cupertino broke EU privacy laws Apple tracked users without their consent and deserves to be fined €6 million, according to a top advisor to France's data privacy watchdog. …
Lees meerOh joy. Effect on software development inevitable, but it's clearly not devs' replacement, says analyst The global market for low-code development technologies is set to grow nearly 20 percent from 2022, to reach $26.9 billion in 2023, according to …
Lees meerDidn't the x86 giant just blow up its data storage biz? The US Department of Energy's Sandia National Labs believes that novel memory tech may be the secret to faster, more accurate nuclear weapon simulations.…
Lees meerAnother Linux OS – but this time it's all about the software packaging NixOS is a distro built with a new sort of software build tool. You can install it and it works, but oddly that isn't really the point.…
Lees meerGerman software giant unlikely to repeat 2020's concession to users pressure SAP is likely to hold firm on the 2027 support deadline for ECC, its earlier-generation ERP solution used by thousands of businesses worldwide, making a repeat of 2020's co…
Lees meerSmells like Russian miscreants A type of cryptomining malware targeting Linux-based systems has added capabilities by incorporating an open source remote access trojan called Chaos RAT with several advanced functions that bad guys can use to control…
Lees meerWhen every nanosecond of latency counts, improvements in the physical layer matter Major cloud providers and hyperscalers go to considerable lengths to secure technical advantages over their rivals, and Microsoft last week made just such a move by a…
Lees meerTracked location and kept records of phone calls, and determined ability to travel. Which China will keep doing with other tech, for other reasons China discontinued operation of its COVID tracking app on Monday as part of the Middle Kingdom's trans…
Lees meerEnhancements around HTTP, QUIC, and WebSocket are on the list A month after unveiling the production release of .NET 7, Microsoft has introduced several networking enhancements that touch on issues including security, the HTTP transport layer, and A…
Lees meerIf Uncle Sam got more power out of a reaction than it put in, it's a new dawn for clean energy The US Department of Energy (DoE) is expected to announce a major milestone in the ongoing effort to generate clean power through nuclear fusion.…
Lees meerIndictment imminent on criminal charges, extradition likely. Grab some popcorn Bahamian authorities have arrested Sam Bankman-Fried, the former CEO of collapsed crypto exchange FTX, after he was indicted on criminal charges.…
Lees meer'Time of transition' – cough, Broadcom – offered as reason cloud, security, and networking bosses bailed VMware has revealed that three senior executives have chosen to leave the company.…
Lees meerFacebook and YouTube among companies that will have to monitor user content Vietnam has celebrated the 25th anniversary of its connection to the internet, and implemented a crackdown on online advertising that sees platforms like YouTube and Faceboo…
Lees meerWhich is pocket change compared to what criminals will pay for zero-days, but thankfully community spirit remains strong Pwn2Own paid out almost $1 million to bug hunters at last week's consumer product hacking event in Toronto, but the prize money …
Lees meerPlus: ChatGPT behaving like a virtual machine, Cohere launches multi-lingual large language model In brief Apple's plans for an autonomous vehicle are being pushed back at least one year to 2026 after Cupertino reportedly scraped its previous desig…
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