IBM said to be binning off more staff as 'workforce rebalance' continues

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European human rights court says no to weakened encryption

"The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ruled that laws requiring crippled encryption and extensive data retention violate the European Convention on Human Rights." This renders some of the EU's own proposed legislation illegal. More importantly, client-side scanning and … | Continue reading


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Software fix coming – that'll be a braking change we'd actually like to see | Continue reading


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RSS pioneer Dave Winer sees Mastodon as a positive sign | Continue reading


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Closes takeover of One Medical, has your shopping habits and medical data | Continue reading


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Big three clouds tighten grip as overall spend slows

Enterprise spending on cloud infrastructure services slowed in the fourth quarter of 2022, but that didn't stop the big three platforms from taking two-thirds of the entire market. Cloud spending for the quarter surpassed $61 billion worldwide, which was actually up by more than … | Continue reading


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John Deere signs right to repair agreement

In what looks like a victory for farmers in the United States, the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF) has struck a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with equipment vendor John Deere regarding the repairability of its machines. As farming has become more technology-driven, Dee … | Continue reading


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7.5 megawatt digs in Marseille and Los Angeles sites for floating, sustainable DCs | Continue reading


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RIP: Kathleen Booth, the inventor of assembly language

Builder and programmer of the ARC and SEC turned 100 this year | Continue reading


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The Gnome Project is closing all its mailing lists

Everyone has to join Discourse… although you can still participate via email | Continue reading


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Nvidia RTX 4090: So hot they're bursting into actual flames

Reports of melting power adapters, a problem Nvidia may have known about | Continue reading


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Rent-calculating biz(RealPage and and9) accused of colluding with landlords

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DHL named most-spoofed brand in phishing

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Could you not? BlackByte ransomware slinger twists the knife with data stealer

Your IT storage may go from terabytes to Exbytes | Continue reading


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Firefox points the way to eradicating one of the rudest words online: PDF

The ghosts of dead trees haunt us still | Continue reading


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Most Metaverse business projects will be dead by 2025

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OpenBSD 7.2: The other other FOSS xNix released with Apple M2 support

Plus better support for some newer Intel wireless and graphics chipsets | Continue reading


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TikTok accused of covert plot to track specific US citizens' every move

China-owned boredom-killing biz issues precision-engineered denial | Continue reading


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TikTok accused of covert plot to track specific US citizens' every move

China-owned boredom-killing biz issues precision-engineered denial | Continue reading


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Biden wants SpaceX to beam internet to Iran amid uprising

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Oops, web trackers may have leaked 3M patients' info

Scream with us: Aaaaaa-AAH | Continue reading


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Windows Subsystem for Android declared ready for prime time

Works well, but selection of available apps is meagre | Continue reading


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Oracles Ellison shares fears of bankrupting Western civilization with healthcare

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'Fully undetectable' Windows backdoor gets detected

SafeBreach supposedly spots somewhat stealthy subversive software | Continue reading


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Team Interpol: Metaverse Police

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Health insurer's infosec incident diagnosis goes to emergency

Australia's Medibank says it's been shown stolen data that includes details of treatments administered to customers | Continue reading


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Tear in Microsoft Azure Service Fabric can give attackers full admin privileges

Orca Security disclosed the bug, and older versions remain vulnerable | Continue reading


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AI programming assistants mean rethinking computer science education

Boffins say educators need to deal with opportunities and risks of GitHub Copilot and pals | Continue reading


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DisplayPort standards bods school USB standards bods with latest revision

Video Electronics Standards Association shows the USB Implementers Forum how it's done | Continue reading


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Hardware makers criticized for eco double standards

Don't penalize resellers for selling refurbished kit, educate shareholders on being Earth's friend | Continue reading


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California wildfires undo 18 years of CO2e removal efforts

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BlueBleed: Microsoft customer data leak claimed to be largest in years

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Musk grumbles about 'overpaying' for Twitter but says he's excited

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Basecamp decamps from cloud: 'Renting computers is (mostly) a bad deal’

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FreeBSD comes to Amazon's lightweight hypervisor

"Serverless" microVMs further blur the line between containers and virtual machines | Continue reading


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Amid losses, Uber driven to become advertising network

Don't want to see ads during your trip? Sorry, no app for that | Continue reading


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Broadcom to argue VMware takeover is good for cloud choice

Chip giant flutters eyelashes at Europe in hope of early acqusition | Continue reading


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IBM Consulting orders staff back to the office for at least three days a week

And would you believe it, employees are not thrilled | Continue reading


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Intel sued over future of historic DEC chip site

Everyone cool with us plonking down a massive warehouse here? No? Oh well | Continue reading


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GitHub Copilot could steer Microsoft into a copyright storm

AI-driven coding tool might generate other people's code – who knew? Well, Redmond, for one | Continue reading


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Oracle opens up internal dev tools so customers can build their own apps

Big Red rolls out DB document handling, white-label cloud package – but customers warned to check out terms of service first | Continue reading


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YouTube loves recommending conservative vids regardless of your beliefs

There goes Woke Big Tech again, downplaying traditional liberal views | Continue reading


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The great semiconductor drought may be about to break

Or maybe we've just lost our appetite. Either way, lead times are very slowly on the mend | Continue reading


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Manufacturers could be forced to include repair instructions

Fix-it guides among changes mulled by FTC for home appliances and potentially other stuff | Continue reading


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FOSS digital audio workstation Ardour reaches version 7

An open source rival to Ableton | Continue reading


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US election workers slammed with phishing, malware-stuffed emails

It's almost like there's some midterms coming up | Continue reading


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China dumps dud chips on Russia, Moscow media moans

What? Sanctions-busting sellers aren't interested in your complaints? That's a shame | Continue reading


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Classiq works with Rolls-Royce on quantum boost for simulations

It's plane to see it wants more info on fluid dynamics of flying engines | Continue reading


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