Beta driver turned heads in the hospital On Call A portrait of one medico's contorted digital landscape Personal Tech29 Sep 2023 | 54
Red Hat bins Bugzilla for RHEL issue tracking, jumps on Jira Just in time to get Atlassian’s latest cross-team collab bits Software29 Sep 2023 | 36
Supermicro CEO predicts 20 percent of datacenters will adopt liquid cooling 30th birthday post reveals 2004 disaster movie continues to influence company strategy On-Prem29 Sep 2023 | 5
Indonesia, TikTok's best market, bans social commerce Made-In-China network's attempt to merge sales and socials stalled in the market all web giants covet Legal28 Sep 2023 | 3
China's national security minister rates fake news among most pressing cyber threats He's also worried about alliances that freeze out Chinese tech Security28 Sep 2023 | 5
It looks like you’re a developer. Would you like help upgrading Windows 11? Microsoft adds a PC setup option and tools just for coders in Win 11 23H2, which debuted Tuesday OSes27 Sep 2023 | 49
Alibaba Cloud to bring its AI PaaS out from behind the Great Firewall Meanwhile its parent begins to break up, with float of logistics arm Off-Prem27 Sep 2023 | 1
Doom developer John Carmack thinks artificial general intelligence is doable by 2030 Suggests we might not have AI at all if it weren't for Quake AI + ML26 Sep 2023 | 90
China identifies AI, optoelectric semiconductors, as challenges it wants to crack Underwater comms make list of 14 techs at which Beijing hopes to do better Science26 Sep 2023 | 1
No joke: Cloudflare takes aim at Google Fonts with ROFL Reckons it can deliver Comic Sans faster and keep your shame a secret Software26 Sep 2023 | 38
Microsoft hiring a nuclear power program manager, because AI needs lots of 'leccy Envisions a 'comprehensive small modular reactor and microreactor integration roadmap' Off-Prem25 Sep 2023 | 35
Google killing Basic HTML version of Gmail In January 2024 The blind think this is not a visionary decision Software25 Sep 2023 | 58
Dell allows DPUs to be retrofitted to older PowerEdge servers As VMware emits a significant update to the vSphere suite that wrangles the accelerators Systems25 Sep 2023 | 2
VR headsets to shift 30 million units a year by 2027, vastly behind wearables The eyes don’t have it, but you're all ears Personal Tech23 Sep 2023 | 32
How is this problem mine, techie asked, while cleaning underground computer On Call If you throw enough mud, some of it will stick … and crash a server Systems22 Sep 2023 | 213
ESA gets the job of building Europe's secure satcomms network IRIS2 oversight deal signed as constellation’s schedule slips, and Ariane 6 hits another snag Security22 Sep 2023 | 4
Mastodon makes a major move amid Musk's multiple messes Federated social network adds n00b-friendly features to the 'Fediverse' Software22 Sep 2023 | 48
The iPhone 15 has a Goldilocks issue: Too big or too small. Maybe a case will make it just right Quick look Fanboi numbers are well down – but Apple's queueing system, rather than apathy, is likely the cause Personal Tech22 Sep 2023 | 83
Authors Guild sues OpenAI for using Game of Thrones and other novels to train ChatGPT Class action alleges pirated novels were fed into binary brainbox AI + ML21 Sep 2023 | 54
Data breach reveals distressing info: People who order pineapple on pizza Pizza Hut Australia says 190,000 customers' info – including order history – has been accessed Security21 Sep 2023 | 95
Zuck uses India visit to increase Meta's transactional traction WhatsApp gets better at taking money and so does Meta with verified accounts for biz Software21 Sep 2023 |
Toshiba succeeds at selling itself, delisting set for September 27 Acquiring entity Japan Industrial Partners hasn't said what it plans for the sprawling conglomerate Systems21 Sep 2023 | 2
ServiceNow upgrade goes from AI to Zero Trust You can’t not do GenAI in 2023, and 'Vancouver' release has gone there – but its detours may be more worthy SaaS21 Sep 2023 | 1
AWS spins up more cloudy Mac Minis, now with M2 Pro silicon Andy Jassy's rent-a-Macs have no love for the vanilla M2, and the Max and Ultra aren't used in the Mini PaaS + IaaS20 Sep 2023 | 10
Buiding Excel-like UI for Uber's China ops exposed Microsoft calculation quirks Updated Developer recounts rideshare outfitattempts to crack the Middle Kingdom market Applications19 Sep 2023 | 28
Desktop AI isn’t happening, says AMD, and might not for quite a while Chip designer has extended support for modest desktop CPUs, citing Intel setting expectations for cheap and not-so-speedy silicon Personal Tech19 Sep 2023 | 9
Australia to build six 'cyber shields' to defend its shores Local corporate regulator warns boards that cyber is totally a directorial duty Security19 Sep 2023 | 26
VMware staff reportedly told job cuts may start before Broadcom acquisition CVs are starting to appear on social media because staff think it's a sensible time to be in the shop window Virtualization19 Sep 2023 | 5
Chap blew up critical equipment on his first day – but it wasn't his volt Who, Me? Where there’s smoke, there’s ire On-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 120
37 Signals says cloud repatriation plan has already saved it $1 million CTO David Heinemeier Hansson reckons he’s on track to hit $10 million over five years On-Prem18 Sep 2023 | 52
SK hynix vice-chair denies selling to Huawei, calls for memory probe Asia In Brief PLUS: Hong Kong’s CoinEx crypto exchange frozen; Uber eyes off India; and more! Personal Tech18 Sep 2023 | 2
Techie labelled 'disgusting filth merchant' by disgusting hypocrite On Call For once, the boss rescued IT from a revolting customer Offbeat15 Sep 2023 | 100
HP reveals bonkers $5k foldable tablet/laptop/desktop There’s a weird one-and-a-half screen laptop mode, too Personal Tech15 Sep 2023 | 27
Oracle cloud hardware to reside in Azure datacenters – and Microsoft's good with that Larry Ellison and Satya Nadella find a common enemy: latency that alows data moving from DBs to AIs Off-Prem15 Sep 2023 | 7
Amazon unleashes Gen AI for product descriptions, curbs it for Kindle When you’re shopping from 'TBMPOY' or 'CARWORNIC' will you even notice the difference? AI + ML14 Sep 2023 | 18
Airbus takes its long, thin, plane on a ten-day test campaign Those of you happy to spend ten hours in a single-aisle A321, take note Offbeat14 Sep 2023 | 100
China kind-of-mostly denies it’s banned iPhones from use in government Security is important, so is fair trade, says Foreign Ministry Personal Tech14 Sep 2023 | 5
Cisco dumps its Hyperflex hyperconverged infrastructure To Nutanix go the spoils, to VMware users comes a compatibility nightmare Systems14 Sep 2023 | 6
Guess what? Ask clouds to behave like old-school vendors, they will – and you lose Same salespeople and same lock-in, which may actually help this time Cloud Infrastructure Week13 Sep 2023 | 7
Billions of 'custobots' are coming online. Marketers may need to learn SEO for AI You can't take a machine to lunch or put it to sleep with PowerPoint, but you can try to shape its worldview AI + ML12 Sep 2023 | 14
GenAI proponents exploring its use alongside infrastructure-as-code It’s not 'Alexa: build me a K8s cluster' but could become Ansible or Chef using models trained on log files to recommend what your app needs AI + ML11 Sep 2023 | 3
China iPhone curbs reportedly extend to local government and state-owned businesses Asia In Brief ALSO: Alibaba Cloud succession plan overturned; Fujtisu’s Thai takeaway; Australia takes on PayPal Legal11 Sep 2023 | 7
PEBCAK problem transformed young techie into grizzled cynical sysadmin On Call Banks aren't very creative, which became an issue for one customer Software08 Sep 2023 | 143
Microsoft, recently busted by Beijing, thinks it's across China's ever-changing cyber-offensive Sometimes using AI to make hilariously wrong images that still drive social media engagement Security08 Sep 2023 | 13
SK hynix says no Huawei its memory should be in Chinese wonder-phone The Mate 60 Pro keeps making waves – this time worrying Korean chipmaker Legal08 Sep 2023 | 21
India warns ecommerce 'basket sneaks' and 'confirm shamers' their days are numbered Amazon, Google, and Meta helped it to draft guidelines on preventing 'dark patterns' Software08 Sep 2023 | 19
DXC Technology named as participant in bid-rigging cartel Agreed bid prices in advance with local rival for work in Australian mining camps Legal07 Sep 2023 | 3
China reportedly bans iPhones from more government offices Analysis So what? Smartphones are routinely restricted in, or excluded from, sensitive locations Security07 Sep 2023 | 19
Japan's 'Moon sniper' and its two ejectable landers make it into space Now for the hard part: testing its ability to pick a safe landing spot Science07 Sep 2023 | 6
Toyota servers ran out of storage, crashed production at 14 plants in Japan Oh, what a foul-up as database maintenance created a mess On-Prem07 Sep 2023 | 58
Google rebrands 'android' as 'Android' to remove any doubt about its affiliations LOGOWATCH 'Bugdroid' goes a bit 'Village People' to become 'as dynamic as Android itself' Software06 Sep 2023 | 32
Microsoft tells partners unbundling Teams is a 'compromise' with the EU Meanwhile, Zoom boss calls on US authorities to consider adopting Europe's breakout policy Channel06 Sep 2023 | 16
ASEAN bloc starts work on Digital Economy Framework Who needs India or China when ten booming economies form a gang? Legal06 Sep 2023 |
IBM Cloud to 'uplift' prices by up to 29 percent All PaaS, including OpenShift, gets a three-point bump. IaaS users outside the US get the nastiest numbers Off-Prem05 Sep 2023 | 20
Guild behind actors' strike fears video game workers also at risk from AI Authorizes strike for voice and motion capture talent at major game studios AI + ML05 Sep 2023 | 35
AWS shuts down its first-gen compute and network infrastructure The legacy lives on even though EC2-Classic and its flat network are no more PaaS + IaaS05 Sep 2023 | 1
Want tunes with that? India-made POS terminal includes a speaker You read that right: a speaker. Because merchants like music, electronic payments, and $8.50 hardware On-Prem05 Sep 2023 | 19
Microsoft admits slim staff and broken automation contributed to Azure outage Just three people were on duty in Australia when 'power sag' struck and software failures left them blind Off-Prem04 Sep 2023 | 32
2023 World Solar Challenge entrant welcomes clouds – not the fluffy white ones Special Projects Bureau Revisited Solar roller on Australia-spanning race packs an Nvidia Jetson, radio link to an AWS edge box, and Starlink uplink Offbeat04 Sep 2023 | 14
Farewell WordPad, we hardly knew ye Microsoft ends development of free basic word processor bundled with Windows Software04 Sep 2023 | 143