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Posts by Nightkiller
199 publicly visible posts • joined 2 Nov 2009
Google mulled offering paid-for no-logging private Search subscription
It's 2023, so Lenovo made a bendy smartphone concept all about hybrid cloud AI
Amazon to drop a cool $1B on Microsoft 365 cloud suite
Workload written by student made millions, ran on unsupported hardware, with zero maintenance
Undiplomatic Chinese threat actor attacks embassies and foreign affairs departments
Decision to hold women-in-cyber events in abortion-banning states sparks outcry
Australia asks Twitter how it will mod content without staff, gets ghosted
Boffins claim to create the world's first wooden transistor
Tencent Cloud announces Deepfakes-as-a-Service for $145
While Twitter wants to sell its verification, Microsoft will do it for free on LinkedIn
Tupperware looking less airtight than you'd think
Smugglers busted sneaking tech into China
Errors logged as 'nut loose on the keyboard' were – ahem – not a hardware problem
Adidas grapples with $1.3B in unsold Yeezy sneakers after breaking up with Kanye West
Elon Musk yearns for AI devs to build 'anti-woke' rival ChatGPT bot
Home Depot sent my email, details of stuff I bought to Meta, customer complains
LUMI supercomputer puts GPU partition through its paces with hardcore science
Sysadmin infected bank with 'alien virus' that sucked CPUs dry
Here's something communism is good at: Making smartphones less annoying
Study suggests AI cruise control could kill traffic jams by cutting out the 'intuition' factor
Google wins lawsuit against alleged Russian botnet herders
SolarWinds reaches $26m settlement with shareholders, expects SEC action
Yandex CEO Arkady Volozh resigns after being added to EU sanctions list
How ICE became a $2.8b domestic surveillance agency
Google blocks paid apps from Play Store in Russia
China again signals desire to shape IPv6 standards
French court pulls SpaceX's Starlink license
China’s cloud spend to more than triple in four years
China launches test satellites for orbiting broadband service
HPE sees 'no indication' its tech was sold to Chinese military, seeks answers from Uncle Sam on sanctions
US bans Chinese firms – including one linked to HPE’s China JV – for feeding tech to Beijing's military
Rust dust-up as entire moderation team resigns. Why? They won't really say
Alibaba Cloud unveils home-spun 128-core Arm-compatible server processor
Microsoft turns Windows Subsystem for Linux into an app for Windows
Internet Archive's 2046 Wayforward Machine says Google will cease to exist
Windows 11 in detail: Incremental upgrade spoilt by onerous system requirements and usability mis-steps
We have some sad news about Facebook. It has returned to the internet after six-hour mega outage
Tuesday 5th October 2021 17:09 GMT
"Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today – I know how much you rely on our services to stay connected with the people you care about."
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp and Messenger are coming back online now. Sorry for the disruption today – I know how much you missed the targeted ads you care about.
FTFY