Biz cites 'unwarranted and unprovoked invasion of Ukraine' ... and also crippling sanctions Cogent Communications has pulled the plug on its connectivity with ISPs and other customers in Russia in response to President Putin's invasion of Ukraine.…
Lees meerDeparture follows GitHub CEO exit Just months after GitHub boss Nat Friedman quit, his Xamarin co-founder has followed him.…
Lees meerMiddle Kingdom gets another Azure region, Putin gets the middle finger Microsoft has opened a fifth Azure region in China with one hand while putting a stop to new sales in Russia with the other.…
Lees meerDon't send a mobile chip to do a high-end CPU, GPU job. Unless you have no choice. With the largest data center chipmakers locking Russia out of next-generation devices, not to mention the withdrawal of mobile and software makers from that market, i…
Lees meerBack to the future with short wave radio, plus Russia drop internet Iron Curtain Russia has reportedly blocked access to Western media outlets including the BBC to netizens within its borders, as suspicions rise that the country has begun implementi…
Lees meerBut warns sample size is a bit small to leap to big conclusions Backblaze has published the first SSD edition of its regular drive statistics report, which appears to show that flash drives are as reliable as spinning disks, although with surprising…
Lees meerNo data or code stored in Moscow and St Petersburg tech operations, bank says International trade sanctions threaten to cut off Deutsche Bank from its near-shore IT support and software development unit in Russia following the invasion of Ukraine.…
Lees meerIT and data arm now part of NHS England, which could be pressured into data sharing without proper oversight Ten months after attempts first began to extract the medical information of 55 million citizens in England, NHS Digital's former chairman is…
Lees meerProbe builds on one already in process for Instagram Reports that ByteDance-owned social media platform TikTok is harmful to children are under investigation by a number of US attorneys general.…
Lees meerSorry about it. You know – supply chains. What is it about dit-dit-dit beep aroogah that you don’t understand? Something for the Weekend, Sir? My laptop has just spoken to me. It said: "Ba-ding!" It hasn't said that before and I don't know what it …
Lees meerThe Words are Perfect, the keyboard action less so On Call Welcome to the weekend, wherein you will doubtless be called upon by friends and family to demonstrate your IT prowess when you'd far rather be sipping on a beverage in a hammock.…
Lees meerFor actual headaches, not tech messes, but hasn't said why its staff have a problem that needed tackling Fujitsu has been hailed as the world's leading company by the International Headache Society's World Patient Support Association.…
Lees meerGoogle's local pal enters JV with contract kit-maker Sanmina – storage and appliance supplier to the stars Indian conglomerate Reliance, which among its many activities is Google's partner for an India-only cut of Android, is getting into contract m…
Lees meerOur R&D is in an occupied nation, Corsair warns investors While the top chip and hardware makers may have moved to minimize the impact of Russia's war against Ukraine on their operations, smaller companies are mapping out their worse-case scenarios …
Lees meerWhat to know and what not to panic about Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant – Europe's largest such facility and one of the biggest of its kind in the world – caught fire on Thursday after being shelled by Russian military, according to Ukra…
Lees meerTo keep FOSS developers and non-commercial users (almost) caught up with continuous release cadence Oracle has created an additional version of the Solaris operating system it acquired in 2009, when it bought Sun Microsystems.…
Lees meerBrowser makers set aside differences Browser makers Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla, along with software consultancies Bocoup and Igalia, have agreed to work together to make web design technologies perform in a more consistent way across diff…
Lees meerHey, who remembers those multi-million-dollar offices, huh? Mountain View remembers Google employees in the United States must be in the office three days a week from April 4 as the internet giant winds down its work-from-home policy.…
Lees meerEven if we wanted to, which we don't, we can't, so we won't, says boss ICANN on Wednesday rebuffed a request from Mykhailo Fedorov, First Vice Prime Minister of Ukraine, to revoke all Russian web domains, shut down Russian DNS root servers, and inva…
Lees meerThis isn't the artificial intelligence we were promised Without a critical update, Amazon Alexa devices could wake themselves up and start executing audio commands issued by a remote attacker, according to infosec researchers at Royal Holloway, Univ…
Lees meerLocal police want to head off any worries about possible sabotage A Swiss data centre operated by financial messaging service SWIFT is under guard by police following the exclusion of key Russian banks from the system.…
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