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Global network outage hits Microsoft: Azure, Teams, Outlook all down

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Kinda.

You can't do email and chat voice without a server somewhere.

CTS who? AMD brushes off chipset security bugs with firmware patches

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If rapid release of patches causes issues for AMD customers, could they sue CTS?

He's coming home, he's coming... Hutchins' coming home: British Wannacry killer held in US on malware dev rap set free by judge

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Re: Not exactly Lord Copper

Plea barganing is a miscarriage of justice every time.

Google to offer users a choice of default search engine on Android in the EU – but it's pay to play

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Re: Meh

May you be fucked up the arse by google's big dick.

I could throttle you right about now: US Navy to ditch touchscreens after kit blamed for collision

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Re: Touch screens

Brex-o-politico-nonsense-bot you just failed the Turing test.

State of Maine orders review of $54.6m Workday project as it alleges delivery failure and threatens cancellation

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Re: There must be a better way to build these systems

http://cobolcowboys.com/

China welcomed its billionth netizen in the first half of 2021

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Re: "Average use times are down [..] – probably reflecting lockdowns"

Maybe they meant WWW usage?

India reportedly asks smartphone makers to add local satnav silicon

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Re: "reduce dependence on foreign systems while improving accuracy"

Don't you use WiFi?

Global network outage hits Microsoft: Azure, Teams, Outlook all down

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Re: Teams outage

Unfortunately I wasn't affected. Seems only some people got lucky

Node.js sees Windows compatibility as key to success

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short answer.

closures. They make event driven code in a single thread easy to write.

Cisco patch day fixes CGI script blunder, hard-coded credentials

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where is vulture south?

That OZ? we get 300mbs as standard domestic adsl in Barcelona

Slack apologises to Europe for TITSUP* services

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All emojis are featured in utf-8.

Irc beat the hipsters to it years ago ☺

Global race for 5G heats up with latest US Congress bill

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Better Internet videos on teenagers mobile phones, I wonder what will drive demand for that?

UC Berkeley reacts to 'uni Huawei ban' reports: We unplugged, like, one thing no one cares about

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Re: UC Berkeley Stazi

I'm all for zuperfluuz zeez in ze german zounding wordz.

China trade tariffs? Fuhgeddaboudit, say Cisco execs. We, er, shifted some production

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Re: Screwdriver job

Yeah, you wonder how else Cisco can move production in six months.

Vivaldi opens up an exciting new front in the browser wars, seeks to get around blocking with cunning code

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And if you want to use bleeding edge features do feature sniffing with a fallback.

Maybe there is hope for 2020: AI that 'predicts criminality' from faces with '80% accuracy, no bias' gets in the sea

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Re: Fizzog

Those who are treated as criminals, have nothing to loose by being one.

England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data

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Re: Never mind

If you use Amazon, initially it came into the country via Aliexpress.

Imagine things are bad enough that you need a payday loan. Then imagine flaws in systems of loan lead generators leave your records in the open... for years

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Use of SSN presumable makes this US specific. GDPR will not come in to it.

Talk about a Blue Monday: OVH outlines recovery plan as French data centres smoulder

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Re: Disaster recover?

Don't ovh generally rent boxen, rather than iaas or saas solutions?

The Audacity of it all: Version 3.0 of open-source audio fave boasts new file format, 160+ bug fixes

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Re: Detecting track breaks

I do find the vinyl version sounds much more worn.

ftfy

Lenovo says it’s crammed a workstation into a litre of space – less than three cans of beer

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pictures or it didn't happen

with three cans of Punk IPA (for scale, natch).

Gartner Gartner on the wall, which is the hypest cycle of them all?

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Re: Gartner's Hype Cycle report is useful...

Remove @oracle.com from your spam filter?

Nvidia starts laying groundwork for future open and parallel code

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As a Linux user

NVidia talking up open source always sounds weak to my ears.

Mozilla says 80 percent of Google Play's app safety labels are inaccurate

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Re: RBS are just as bad

For the record Deutsche Bank is a disgrace too.

Mixin suspends deposits and withdrawals after $200m cryptocurrency heist

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Insider again?

How come we don't here about such heists in non crypto banking

Microsoft wasn't joking about the Dev Channel not enforcing hardware checks: Windows 11 pops up on Pi, mobile phone

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Re: Does anybody

work maybe, but serious work

Mozilla says 80 percent of Google Play's app safety labels are inaccurate

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Fraud would not use real location would it.

Any social media accounts to declare? US wants travelers to tell

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just the username

Thanks, we dont need the password

Microsoft's corporate veep for enterprise puts the boot into boot times

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Whats the betting the "reboot" included a forced update.

Nearly 70 years after America made einsteinium in its first full-scale thermo-nuke experiment, mystery element yields secrets of its chemistry

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Chemist's do it, Pysicists just talk about it.

What Huawei to go: Hundreds of Chinese tech giant's US workers to get pink slips – report

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Re: @AC

Its a reason not fly near its borders.

Market flips switch on Arista share value after 'cloud titan' turns on heel

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Re: Hmmm...

One of the joys of Monopolies dominating markets.

Apple races to patch the latest zero-day iPhone exploit

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Re: That's why we use Signal

Would that help?

Who's that padding down the chimney? It's Puma, with its weird £80 socks for gamers

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Re: PUMA Socks

Sponsored by Puma

Red Hat raises guidance after good Q2

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Re: Red Hat still exists?

Two billion reasons to think they might be here next year.

Surprise! Leading 4-socket server vendor isn’t Dell or HPE

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Re: And the Chinese are known for being truthful, of course.

That is such blatant racism.

Trans-Pacific Partnership returns, without Trump but more 'comprehensive'

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Re: Ask Liam Fox

Chill. The uk will always have that special relationship with America first.

South Wales cops crow about facial recognition arrests on social media

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Re: Nothing more

It is now illegal in the UK to hide your face from cameras.

And THIS is how you do it, Apple: Huawei shames Cupertino with under-glass sensor

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Re: Too good to be true?

Eh? But Huawei phones dont even come with Facebook installed?

'Tesco probably knows more about me than GCHQ': Infosec boffins on surveillance capitalism

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Re: They does

Quite hard to hide the fact that you are pregnant for seven years.

Breaking, literally: Microsoft's fix for CPU-hogging Windows bug wrecks desktop search

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Re: It seems to me

Install Linux's mlocate and grep.

dir is short for dire :)

'No BS' web host Gandi lives up to half of its motto... Some customer data wiped out in storage server meltdown

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Re: Talking about bullshit

OVH, not that I would recommend them, but they do provide backups.

Atlassian sprays more machine learning over its cloudy BitBucket, Jira, Confluence wares

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Less "smarts", where I work Jira needs a little blue pill: so it stays up longer.

Google Chrome's crackdown on ad blockers and browser extensions, Manifest v3, is now available in beta

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Re: If the goal is increased performance

it's css that makes pages beautiful not javascript.

Three things that have vanished: $3.6bn in Bitcoin, a crypto investment biz, and the two brothers who ran it

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Trollface

Re: Surprised?

Nonsense: statistically there is an extremely heavy weighting of stupid + rich living in Florida. ;)

Another Debian dust-up with Firefox dependencies – but there is an annoying and awkward workaround

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Re: Nothing wrong with Debian here..

Build Firefox from source does not resolve dependecy issues, Shirley?

The App Gap and supply chains: Purism CEO on what's ahead for the Librem 5 USA

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Re: The App GAP

There are whole bunch of services that I wish were just websites

Chinese carriers collectively claim to have cracked a billion 5G subs

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Re: I do wonder

Bit of googling: perhaps more in total but 10% power per byte.

Version 252 of systemd, as expected, locks down the Linux boot process

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Re: Then why ?

Three BSODs recently Micro$oft have good reason to drop their own kernel