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The DevOps dance has new steps, but Virtzilla thinks it can teach ops folks to tango

Private clouds are all about keeping developers happy and productive, according to Krish Prasad, senior veep and general manager of Broadcom's VMware Cloud Foundation division.…

Also, not one but two new models of the classic 1200

The new native 68K AmigaOS web browser leans on the machines' underlying emulation system to offer modern facilities on a retro OS.…

VMware tweaked its licenses to suit submarines

VMware has tweaked its software licensing so submarines can keep their computers running when they’re beneath the waves.…

Think BYOC will solve all your sovereignty and privacy worries? You might be missing the point

INTERVIEW  Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) is a concept gaining traction as companies seek ways to resolve sovereignty and privacy issues, but its implementation can vary widely depending on interpretation.…

Because not every bot wants to live inside Microsoft's walled garden

Google and code editor company Zed Industries have introduced the Agent Client Protocol (ACP) as a standard way for AI agents to integrate with an IDE, with the idea that this will prevent developers getting locked into VS Code.…

Regulator points to lack of 'basic access controls' between internet-facing systems, internal network

South Korea's privacy watchdog has slapped SK Telecom with a record ₩134.5 billion ($97 million) fine after finding that the mobile giant left its network wide open to hackers through a catalog of bungles.…

Fast-glob is widely used in government, security lab says

updated  A Node.js utility used by thousands of public projects - and more than 30 Department of Defense ones - appears to have a sole maintainer whose online profiles identify him as a Yandex employee living in Russia.…

Company cleared to launch again after April failure

Firefly Aerospace has been given the green light to resume launches after its April failure.…

Credit agency offers own services as compensation

Credit scoring and monitoring biz TransUnion says that it recently suffered a breach affecting nearly 4.5 million individuals.…

Stolen painting still missing, sadly

Police in Argentina reportedly raided a home in a coastal town on Monday after someone spotted a real estate ad that included images of art the Nazis looted in the Second World War.…

Shadowserver counts more than 13,000 appliances still wide open – including thousands in US, Germany, and UK

Thousands of Citrix NetScaler appliances remain exposed to a trio of security flaws that the vendor patched this week, one of which is already being actively exploited in the wild.…

Microsoft blames incoming UK Online Safety Act, says you have until 2026

Microsoft has begun emailing users of its Xbox gaming platform with likely unwelcome news: users will need to verify their age if they want to keep access to the company's various social services, and it's blaming the UK Online Safety Act.…

Miljödata meltdown leaves 200 local authorities scrambling over 1.5 BTC

Sweden's municipal governments have been knocked offline after ransomware crooks hit IT supplier Miljödata, reportedly demanding the bargain-basement sum of $168,000.…

US payments platform back in action, says it's informing affected customers

Shoppers and merchants in Germany found themselves dealing with billions of euros in frozen transactions this week, thanks to an apparent failure in PayPal's fraud-detection systems.…

Apology issued after names tied to redress scheme revealed in mass mailing

A London law firm leaked the details of nearly 200 people who requested to receive updates about the redress scheme set up for victims of abuse at the hands of the Church of England (CoE).…

Labor group says new technologies could increase inequality if we're not careful

AI-Pocalypse  Over half of the British public are worried about the impact of AI on their jobs, according to employment unions, which want the UK government to adopt a "worker first" strategy rather than simply allowing corporations to ditch employees for algorithms.…

UK starts early warning system combing through stuff that folks flush away

The UK Health Security Agency is looking to set up an early warning system ahead of future pandemics, launching a £1.3 million (around $1.75 million) program to identify "cutting-edge technologies" which could turn people's pee and poop into valuable data on the spread of viruses.…

Idit Levine on going from startup to a billion-dollar valuation

Interview  "I feel that a founder always needs to be a little bit stupidly optimistic." Solo.io CEO Idit Levine has been on an interesting journey in cloud computing since starting the networking and API management company in 2017.…

Bringing DBaaS back on board in face off with Oracle

It's less than two years since MariaDB spun out SkySQL, but it's already unspinning the database-as-a-service outfit, which has since been marinated in AI sauce.…

If regulators heed the lessons of Fukushima, testing will have to jump Godzilla-sized hurdles

Japan’s Nuclear Regulation Authority has requested extra funds to experiment with AI-powered nuclear plant inspectors.…