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UK govt office admits ability to negotiate billions in cloud spending curbed by vendor lock-in

Thu, 2024-04-04 12:45
After slew of AWS deals signed under MoUs, CDDO says current approach might weaken its position

Exclusive The UK government has admitted its negotiating power over billions of pounds of cloud infrastructure spending has been inhibited by vendor lock-in.…

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Vodafone and Three's UK merger hits regulatory roadblock

Thu, 2024-04-04 11:30
Watchdog concerns about price hikes and consolidation remain unresolved

Britain's competition regulator is kicking off a deeper investigation into the potential impact caused by the merger of Vodafone and Three in the UK after neither resolved previously expressed concerns.…

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Ransomware gang <em>did</em> steal residents' confidential data, UK city council admits

Thu, 2024-04-04 10:49
INC Ransom emerges as a growing threat as some ex-LockBit/ALPHV affiliates get new gigs

Leicester City Council is finally admitting its "cyber incident" was carried out by a ransomware gang and that data was stolen, hours after the criminals forced its hand.…

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65 years ago, America announced the names of its first astronauts

Thu, 2024-04-04 10:00
The Mercury 7: 'Not one of us knew what he was in for'

Sixty-five years ago this week, NASA introduced its first astronauts, saying they'd be launched into space in the agency's new capsule. They were immediately dubbed The Mercury 7.…

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How HashiCorp's license shakeup seeded a new open source rebel

Thu, 2024-04-04 09:15
We're really just getting started, says OpenTofu community member

Interview HashiCorp might be less than impressed with the rise of the Terraform fork, OpenTofu, but where Hashi sees challenges, the maintainers of the open source project see opportunities.…

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Microsoft thinks bundles are great and customers love them

Thu, 2024-04-04 08:30
Rivals and regulators might disagree, so might users that are paying for software they don't need

It's always interesting to see how technology executives crop their marketing messages to suit the audience.…

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Boffins build world's largest astronomical digital camera to map the heavens

Thu, 2024-04-04 07:33
3.2 glorious gigapixels to make 'the greatest movie of all time'

Construction of the LSST Camera, destined for the Vera C Rubin Observatory in Chile has been completed at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in Silicon Valley.…

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Ethernet advances will end Nvidia's InfiniBand lead in AI networks: Gartner

Thu, 2024-04-04 06:29
Desire to build brainboxes will also see optical interconnects go mainstream

Three imminent improvements to the Ethernet standard will make it a better alternative to host AI workloads, and that will see vendors back the tech as an alternative to Nvidia's InfiniBand kit, which is set to dominate for the next two years.…

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OpenStack pushes its first easy-to-upgrade release out the door

Thu, 2024-04-04 04:58
'Caracal' improves AI capabilities and is pitched as an alternative to VMware

The OpenInfra Foundation has loosed an update of OpenStack on the waiting world and – like everyone else that can spell "virtualization" – has pitched it as fine alternative for those pondering a move away from VMware.…

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TSMC shrugs off impact of Taiwan earthquake

Thu, 2024-04-04 03:28
Nonetheless DRAM prices may yet feel slight aftershocks

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) has shrugged off the impact of yesterday's earthquake.…

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Infosys announces 'In-Person Collab' weeks

Thu, 2024-04-04 01:58
Sounds so much cooler than 'come back to the office or else'

In an effort to get its employees back into the office, Infosys has reportedly instituted mandatory in-person attendance for select roles – but dubbed the program "In-Person Collab" weeks. Because that's how the young people talk, right?…

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Nearly 1M medical records feared stolen from City of Hope cancer centers

Wed, 2024-04-03 23:33
Is there no cure for this cyber-plague?

Nearly one million individuals' personal details, financial account information, and medical records may well have been stolen from City of Hope systems in the United States.…

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PCIe 7.0 first official draft lands, doubling bandwidth yet again

Wed, 2024-04-03 22:15
The downside? You probably won't see kit to use it until 2027

Analysis The PCIe 7.0 spec is on track for release next year and, for many AI chip peddlers trying to push the limits of network fabrics and accelerator meshes, it can't come soon enough.…

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Omni Hotels IT systems down since Friday, hitting bookings, payments, door locks

Wed, 2024-04-03 19:28
As WhatsApp, Facebook Messenger, other Meta bits fall offline today

Luxury resort chain Omni Hotels & Resorts has had its computer systems knocked offline since Friday in what it has described as a "disruption," though sounds a lot like the MGM Resorts ransomware infection over the summer.…

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AWS severs connection with several hundred staff

Wed, 2024-04-03 19:00
'Necessary,' 'focusing our efforts,' 'deliver maximum impact' ... sounds just like all the other tech layoffs lately

Hundreds of Amazon Web Services employees are being shown the door this week - a move the American technology behemoth said is necessary as it, like many others, moves to streamline operations.…

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Uber Eats to rid itself of pesky human drivers with food delivery by robo Waymo

Wed, 2024-04-03 17:30
First they came for the taxis and I did nothing because I was not a taxi driver

Bad news if you're income-boosting, or god forbid trying to make a living, as an Uber Eats delivery career because the robots are coming.…

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FCC to reinstate net neutrality in the US until someone decides to scrap it again

Wed, 2024-04-03 17:00
Pendulum returns to the Obama era – don't be surprised if it swings right back

The Federal Communications Commission has confirmed proposals to vote on rules to restore net neutrality in the United States later this month – whether it'll stick this time is anyone's guess, though.…

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Iowa sysadmin pleads guilty to 33-year identity theft of former co-worker

Wed, 2024-04-03 16:30
Actions sent homeless victim to jail and a mental hospital for more than a year

An Iowa system administrator pleaded guilty to charges related to stealing and assuming a former co-worker's identity over a 33-year period.…

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Software engineer helped put Sam Bankman-Fried behind bars, say prosecutors

Wed, 2024-04-03 16:00
CTO shared code from his laptop with investigation after FTX collapsed

Crypto-crook Sam Bankman-Fried's conviction was expedited by the cooperation of the chief software engineer at his FTX crypto exchange, prosecutors have revealed.…

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US reckons it's about time the Moon had its own time zone

Wed, 2024-04-03 15:34
What's a few milliseconds between friends? Quite a lot actually

NASA, which isn't known for timeliness, has been tasked by the White House with implementing a Coordinated Lunar Time (LTC) zone for the Moon traceable to Coordinated Universal Time (UTC).…

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