Where should I sit? 'Don't bother me with details, just do it' Something for the Weekend A mouse mat is delivering a speech. "I would like to thank my mom and dad, my trainer Brian, and to my recycled polyester silky surface that ensures unobstruct…
Lees meerWhy would you make carbon copies with a laser printer? On Call "Because that's how we've always done it" is a mantra we've heard all too often. But what happens when you suggest something different? Take a trip back to the days of carbon paper with…
Lees meerAnd throws some cold water on the 'K8s works best inside a VM' argument Amazon Web Services has made a small but important change to its EKS Anywhere on-prem Kubernetes offering – the option to install it on bare metal servers instead of exclusively…
Lees meerStalled marketshare seems to be creeping upwards again in consumer, enterprise – but adoption still a slog Advertising company AdDuplex has published its latest set of Windows usage figures and it looks like there might be light at the end of the tu…
Lees meerSomewhat counterintuitively, this is being done to improve security Microsoft has created a window of time in which its partners can – without permission – create new roles for themselves in customers' Active Directory implementations.…
Lees meerIt's called 'i-Care' and it screams 'I don't, actually' Tencent Cloud has released an odd robot-adjacent device designed to provide telemedicine services.…
Lees meerHe had one job ... One of Apple's most senior legal executives, whom the iGiant trusted to prevent insider trading, has admitted to insider trading.…
Lees meeriPhone seller makes changing to a third party payment platform expensive and difficult. We're shocked. Shocked A crack in Apple's walled garden appeared yesterday as the iPhone vendor opened up an option for alternative in-app payment processing wit…
Lees meerWalks away from enormous but parochial market, while leaving global development teams in place Accounting software colossus Intuit has decided to pull its QuickBooks product from India.…
Lees meerPaid-for Copilot trained on FOSS code final straw for Software Freedom Conservancy The Software Freedom Conservancy (SFC), a non-profit focused on free and open source software (FOSS), said it has stopped using Microsoft's GitHub for project hosting…
Lees meerSocial media giant reportedly plans to get ‘leaner,' needs boatloads of graphics chips Comment Facebook parent Meta has reportedly said it needs to increase its fleet of datacenter GPUs fivefold to help it compete against short-form video app and p…
Lees meerWorse, imagine someone finding out you bought one of its NFTs The choppy waters continue at OpenSea, whose security boss this week disclosed the NFT marketplace suffered an insider attack that could lead to hundreds of thousands of people fending of…
Lees meerRelax, most of the vulnerabilities so far have, er, no fix Jenkins, an open-source automation server for continuous integration and delivery (CI/CD), has published 34 security advisories covering 25 plugins used to extend the software.…
Lees meerAnd some of it may have been leaked on social media A California state website exposed the personal details of anyone who applied for a concealed-and-carry weapons (CCW) permit between 2011 and 2021.…
Lees meerChipmaker finally ahead of schedule only to find it arrived too late Comment Intel has begun shipping its cryptocurrency-mining "Blockscale" ASIC slightly ahead of schedule, and the timing could not be more unfortunate as digital currency values co…
Lees meerNo security alert fatigue here Google has added API security tools and Workspace (formerly G-Suite) admin alerts about potentially risky configuration changes such as super admin passwords resets.…
Lees meerURL query parameters won't work in version 102 of Mozilla's browser Firefox has been fighting the war on browser cookies for years, but its latest privacy feature goes well beyond mere cookie tracking to stop URL query parameters.…
Lees meerAll of the famed user-friendliness and ease of use, but 'drastically' better performance Old school editor fans rejoice: some two-and-a-half years after version 8.2, Vim 9 is here, with a new, much faster scripting language.…
Lees meerStandard datacenter kit just needs a few tweaks, like pulling off the fans Liquid cooling specialist Iceotope claims its latest system allows customers to easily convert existing air-cooled servers to use its liquid cooling with just a few minor mod…
Lees meerLower power consumption, improved performance, and a second generation of the technology on the way Samsung has started production of chips using its 3nm fabrication process, beating rival TSMC, which expects to begin making chips with its N3 node g…
Lees meerStark contrast to 11 percent increase year-over-year in 2021 shipments The party is over for PC makers as figures from Gartner suggest the market is on course for a breathtaking decline this year.…
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