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No, really. Look at the evidence

Opinion  One of the knee-jerk arguments made by companies abandoning their open source roots is that they can't make money because the bad hyper-cloud companies "steal" their open source services. True, at one time, the hyper-clouds took more than they gave. That's often no longer the case.…

Continues to expand EMEA HQ in existing buildings instead

SaaS biz application vendor Workday has pulled out of a new-build development in Dublin as it rethinks plans to expand EMEA HQ.…

Laser beam comms are fast, so long as the weather cooperates

NASA's optical communications demonstration has hit 25 Mbps in a test transmitting engineering data back to Earth from 140 million miles (226 million kilometers) away.…

Shareholders are loving it. What are customers getting out of it all?

Kettle  This week a chunk of Big Tech reported its latest quarterly financial figures, and our beady eyes were on whether the ongoing AI obsession will pay off for these mega corporations.…

Under Flight Rules, the crew should have turned back to Earth

Former Space Shuttle Program Manager Wayne Hale has posted a correction to NASA's history of STS-109, which he claims "is a lie" - although that may be a slight exaggeration.…

Stacking the deck – we've heard of it

Leaders of the world's most prominent AI companies are being recruited for the Homeland Security Department's new advisory group.…

Not even maintenance is OK in the eyes of the Uncle Sam

Under US pressure, Dutch photolithography giant ASML will no longer service certain chipmaking equipment purchased by Chinese customers.…

Nobody's favorite operating system is now available for inspection

In partnership with IBM, Microsoft has released the source code for MS-DOS 4.0, more than 35 years since the operating system made a muted appearance ahead of Windows 3.x.…

One Chinese national arrested in Chicago while another suspect thought to be abroad

Two Chinese nationals were this week accused by the US of attempting to illegally export chipmaking kit to a company back home, in another twist in the tech wars between the two nations.…

Ouch!

Millions of Kaiser Permanente patients' data was likely handed over to Google, Microsoft Bing, X/Twitter, and other third-parties, according to the American healthcare giant.…

Cloud giant directs users to pack their bags for DropBox, gives them a year to get affairs in order

Updated  Amazon is killing its WorkDocs document sharing and content collaboration service, notifying users that sign-ups are no longer available and giving them a year to migrate any data stored.…

Getting their hands on AI memory one Huawei or another...

A group of Chinese semiconductor firms including Huawei are reportedly looking to get domestic production of high bandwidth memory (HBM) up and running by 2026.…

Analysts brand deal a 'nail in the coffin' for UK tech investment

Private equity investor Thoma Bravo has successfully completed a second acquisition attempt of UK-based cybersecurity company Darktrace in a $5.3 billion deal.…

Yes, they are harder to solder, but there's way more potential

Feature  The Z80 has a long series of successor models – some compatible and some not. There are multiple options for hobbyist computer builders.…

Tuta cries foul, Chocolate Factory denies service unreachable

Tutao, known for the encrypted email service Tuta Mail, has filed a Digital Markets Act (DMA) complaint to the EU over an alleged de-ranking in Google Search.…

Doing business in Beijing? 'You need to do a what-if scenario'

interview  It didn't seem America's divest-or-ban bill for TikTok was going to make it into law when we last spoke with former White House chief information officer Theresa Payton – but law it now is. …

Only minor changes from original proposals that kicked up privacy storm

The UK's contentious Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill (IPB) 2024 has officially received the King's nod of approval and will become law.…

Plus the system builder says an Arm-based system is already in the works

Exclusive  Canadian systems builder 45 Drives is perhaps best known for the dense multi-drive storage systems employed by the likes of Backblaze and others, but over the last year the biz has expanded its line-up to virtualization kit, and now low-power clients and workstations aimed at enterprises and home enthusiasts alike.…

Already facing off against each other in Texas over separate reverse engineering claims

IBM and LzLabs are to lock horns in a London court next week over Big Blue's claim of breach of contract relating to mainframes and the development of software to allow mainframe applications run on x86 server clusters.…

Defra is counting contractors like sheep

The UK agriculture department is "working towards" getting consultant and contractor numbers down to less than a quarter of its tech and digital transformation teams and reducing contingent labor to 12 percent of headcount by the end of the financial year.…