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Great to know they 'remain committed'

SAP is trying to tease the market with new features headed to the core database underpinning its enterprise applications.…

Just your Stylus? Pen support moves to latest flagship models

It's flagship Thursday at Samsung, which for the better part of a decade has squatted over the premium sector of the Android market.…

You know that update thing? JFDI

Out of the top five vulnerabilities for 2020 three dated back to 2019 or earlier, according to infosec firm Tenable's annual threat report.…

A combined total of $575m deleted... and counting

A couple of news items about what we'll call "cryptidiots" wriggled into the mainstream media this week, momentarily shedding light on the important topics of e-waste and password hygiene for the masses.…

Join us later this month to see what modern data management looks like

Webcast  There’s been a lot of talk about resilience lately. But while it’s one thing working through mid-pandemic self-care and wellness prescriptions for the individual, what does resilience mean when it comes to your company and its data?…

It's been sloshing around the International Space Station for a while

SpaceX hit another milestone overnight with the return of the upgraded cargo Dragon capsule from the International Space Station (ISS), which splashed down off the Florida coast.…

Security, lack of suitable hardware for testing makes full 32-bit support hard

Debian 11, codenamed "Bullseye", has entered the first freeze stage, meaning no large or disruptive changes, or new package transitions (merging, splitting, renaming or removing) are allowed. The 32-bit i386 architecture is part of the release but may not be in Debian 12, codenamed "Bookworm".…

All that counter-China stuff costs a pretty penny, y'know

The Ministry of Defence's multibillion budget overrun has been caused in part because of its spending splurge on flashy new "cyber" capabilities, according to the National Audit Office.…

The world's favourite language has complex ecosystem in which build tools are now fundamental

The 2020 State of JavaScript report, a survey of over 23,000 developers globally, has revealed growing use of WebPack and Jest, continuing high use of React, Express and TypeScript, and that top of the wishlist is no longer better browser compatibility, but rather static typing.…

Meanwhile, hello Epson drivers?

The Raspberry Pi OS plunged another knife into the dark heart of Flash this week while adding drivers for Epson printers.…

Toxic wastewaster and resource hungry - wafer-fabbing's a mucky biz

South Korean memory biz SK Hynix has issued a $1 billion “green bond” with the funds intended for pay for projects designed to reduce the ecological impact of its manufacturing activities.…

Before you choke on your tea, authority likely won't splash anything near that

Eight resellers have been awarded places on a £5bn framework contract led by the Police, Fire and Crime Commissioner for Northamptonshire, a county in England's East Midlands.…

This one is not just written in Rust – its design is based on Rust features

Rust, a modern system programming language focused on performance, safety and concurrency, seems an ideal choice for creating a new operating system, and several such projects already exist. Now there is a new one, Theseus, described by creator Kevin Boos as "an Experiment in Operating System Structure and State Management."…

Accused pinched them from employer, sold them on eBay, prosecutors claim

A 23-year-old Gloucester IT worker is to stand trial after allegedly stealing more than £30,000 worth of Amazon vouchers before selling them on eBay.…

Juicier payoff for those who do, but employees fear process will become compulsory if numbers aren't met

Fujitsu is looking for hundreds of volunteers in its UK Delivery organisation to leave with an enhanced payoff, though only employees with at least five years' service can currently apply. At the same time it is running a small redundancy process in other areas of the business where contracts are running off.…

Working from home means lots of us might as well be offshore now, suggests CEO

Wipro has both celebrated customers’ use of offshoring for its positive impact on its finances and suggested the concept may have been made obsolete by the pandemic-induced surge in working from home.…

UnArmed to the teeth: Early versions to ship in April, more to follow in September

If you’re looking for a modest RISC-V computer capable of running Linux, with AI and other acceleration thrown in, to evaluate the architecture, the people behind the BeagleBoard have teased such a thing: the BeagleV board, starting from $119 (£87).…

‘I do not celebrate or feel pride in our having to ban @realDonaldTrump’ says @Jack

Twitter founder and CEO Jack Dorsey has posted a long thread in which he laments having to permanently suspend US president Donald Trump’s personal twitter account.…

And can SASE save us?

Webcast  Last year your bosses embraced remote working because, let’s face it, none of us had a choice.…

Torrent search engine is still up after years of whack-a-mole with copyright cops

One of the co-creators of notorious BitTorrent search engine The Pirate Bay has criticised free speech social network Parler for the lack of resilience that saw it go dark after Amazon Web Services booted it out of its cloud.…