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Judge Mendez also suggests trying to use 1934 law in 2021 is... sub-optimal California’s net neutrality rules will finally kick in this year after a judge rejected an effort by the cable industry to stop it.…

Few details beyond 'operational error' The US Federal Reserve's money-transfer systems failed on Wednesday for a number of hours, likely halting the electronic movement of billions of dollars.…

Not a great day for Bombardier, Leonardo and Seaspray customers…

They say 'NASA' and 'ESA', not 'You tried' NASA took its mind off ongoing problems with the testing of its monster Space Launch System by slapping stickers on the fairings.…

Should be with carriers in the second quarter HPE is getting into the OpenRAN game, with the newly minted Communications Technology Group today launching the OpenRAN Solution Stack, which combines network functionality with a suite of management tools.…

Yet more woes for embattled industry As Taiwan grapples with a major drought, local chipmaker TSMC has started ordering water by the truckload to supply its fabrication plants.…

Tiny $4 computer meets tiny OS Those pondering what to do with the latest Raspberry Pi gizmo, the $4 Pico, have a new option in the form of a FUZIX port.…

Plus: Why the Chocolate Factory only uses code it builds from source Interview Worried about the security of Linux and open-source code, Google is sponsoring a pair of full-time developers to work on the kernel's security.…

Single-piece blend of metals to help get company into Prime time A 12 metric tonne 3D printer - one of the largest in Europe - has been commissioned by Orbex, intended to allow the Scottish space launch biz to "print" 35 rocket engines each year.…

Report says CEO sipped watermelon cocktails with NHS England chief at cosy party Campaign groups are seeking a judicial review of the UK government's decision to award a £23m NHS contract to controversial AI company Palantir.…

AMD or Intel flavours, Wi-Fi 6, and... an antimicrobial component? Lenovo is refreshing a large chunk of its ThinkPad line, upgrading specs for its mobile workstations-class devices and redesigning the X13 and X13 Yoga portables.…

Trial date set for February 2022 The multimillionaire former boss of UKFast, Britain's largest homegrown web hosting business, has denied allegations of rape and sexual assault.…

Opted for 128GB? Better hope that software bloat doesn't bite you Microsoft has dashed fanboy hopes that the swappable SSD in its new Surface Pro 7+ might lead to an upgrade or two in the future.…

It wanted £128m in wasted spending – but customer wasn't blameless for debacle, rules UK High Court…

That's an expensive reimplementation Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) has won a £4m contract to bump up the University of Manchester from Oracle Financials version 12.1.3 to 12.2.8 or later.…

Ah oui, mais est-ce de l'art? Bork!Bork!Bork! While a number of factors may be preventing the average tourist from enjoying European travels, bork appears to know no borders.…

In 'Woven City' human-driven cars aren't allowed, 'personal mobility devices' get their own roads, and sensors tell robots when you need help…

New GIAC qual shows you can put the Sec into DevSecOps and quantify the risk in SRE…

AWS flicks the switch on EFS too for those who fancy sharing cloudy volumes Amazon Web Services has levelled up its cloudy macOS offering.…

Hey man, are your cookies trackin' me? Take 'em out. You gotta keep 'em separated…

Study sees increasing adoption of cloaking to bypass cookie barriers…

Adds ‘Premium’ tier to ‘You can have any CPU so long as it’s a slightly old Xeon’ cloud Cloud contender DigitalOcean has upgraded its cloud, adding AMD CPUs, and adopting Intel's latest Xeon Scalable silicon.…

And guess what? Version 7.3 will emphasise hybrid cloud in line with new CEO Arvind Krishna's wishes IBM has formally announced a new version of its AIX operating system.…

13m passengers a day, a million tickets bought on digital platforms, and yet few details offered on what went wrong…

Duo picked up sacks of cash sent via FedEx, UPS, USPS etc Two bagmen who collected cash from thousands of victims of robocall scams have pleaded guilty to conspiracy charges.…

Senate intelligence committee hears ideas in light of SolarWinds disaster The private sector should be legally obliged to disclose any major hacks of their systems, says Microsoft’s president and top lawyer Brad Smith.…

If you don't patch, the hosts driving all your virty servers are at risk. So maybe your to-do list needs a tickle? VMware has revealed a critical-rated bug in the HTML5 client for its flagship vSphere hybrid cloud suite.…

So says Digital Shadows as it puts a price on illicit access methods…

Along with epidemiologists. As for the hospitality industry… not so much The IT industry is heading into boom times, according to the US government’s Bureau of Labor Statistics which has revised its annual jobs report in the face of the pandemic.…

And what may be CAD drawing of a military radar antenna…