Cloud

US, UK Security Services Deny Knowledge Of China Server Hack Probe

NCSC and the US' Department of Homeland Security both say they support denials by Apple, Amazon and Super Micro as…

6 years ago

EU Set To Approve Microsoft’s $7.5bn GitHub Buy Without Conditions

Microsoft is reportedly set to get a no-strings-attached green light for the surprise deal, which sees Redmond acquiring the internet's…

6 years ago

Facebook Shows Smart Video Device On Heels Of Privacy Scandal

Facebook is emphasising the built-in privacy features of the Alexa-powered Portal, which arrives immediately after a major data breach at…

6 years ago

Xilinx Aims Ultra-Programmable Accelerators At AI, 5G Workloads

Xilinx is looking to take large-scale, cutting-edge workloads to the next level with its upcoming family of programmable hardware accelerators

6 years ago

Apple, Amazon Deny Reported Chinese Server Hack

China is accused of implanting hardware in sensitive servers during the manufacturing process — a feat security experts consider to…

6 years ago

Government Sets £9m Competition For UK Digital Health Projects

New competition looks for tech to solve health issues — including privacy questions around the exploitation of sensitive patient data

6 years ago

Dell Touts Possible IPO If VMware Stock Bid Fails

Dell confirms meeting with investment banks to explore initial public offering options

6 years ago

Instagram Back Online After Worldwide Outage

Normal service resumed after brief worldwide outage for the photo-sharing service

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Amazon Latest In EU Regulatory Spotlight With Commission Data Probe

The Commission's preliminary investigation is to focus on Amazon's use of data from its third-party sellers, and whether it could…

6 years ago

Microsoft, SAP, Adobe To Back Common Data Model

Ignite 2018: The proposed standardised model could make it easier to carry out large-scale analytics on customer data drawn from…

6 years ago

Apple, Salesforce Team On Mobile Business Apps

Dreamforce 2018: The companies are to jointly redesign Salesforce's mobile app and provide business developer tools for apps running on…

6 years ago

IBM Introduces Open Source Tool For Monitoring AI Bias

Cloud-based Fairness 360 toolkit is the latest effort at dealing with transparency and liability issues in corporate AI models

6 years ago

MPs Call For Regulation Of ‘Wild West’ Cryptocurrencies

Regulators must bring in a minimum of oversight to provide consumer protection and stem money-laundering, argues an influential Parliamentary committee

6 years ago

Oracle Results Miss Expectations As Cloud Growth Slows

Software giant blames currency fluctuations for weaker than expected financial results

6 years ago

Google Expands Chilean Data Centre With $140m Investment

Data centre footprint to be expanded in South American country thanks to availability of solar power

6 years ago

Google Signs Wind Farm Deals To Power Finnish Data Centre

The 10-year deals include buying the entire output from a planned wind farm in western Finland, as corporate demand for…

6 years ago

European Parliament Approves Controversial Copyright Reforms

'A good sign for the creative industries in Europe', say those in favour, while opponents call the outcome 'catastrophic'

6 years ago

Researchers Pin BA Hack On Notorious ‘Skimming’ Gang

The Magecart group modified site scripts to steal details directly from BA's site and app, even using a legitimate-looking security…

6 years ago

Europe’s Top Court Considers ‘Right To Be Forgotten’ Cases

Google is contesting efforts to extend the right to be forgotten to non-European search domains, as well as tougher measures…

6 years ago

New Cisco UCS Server Takes Aim At AI With Latest Nvidia GPUs

Nvidia's graphics processing chips can drastically reduce the time needed to train deep learning models, Cisco says

6 years ago

Jack Ma To Hand Over Alibaba Reins Next Year

The Alibaba co-founder, a former English teacher with no technical background, said he is stepping down so that he can…

6 years ago

British Airways Hack ‘Compromises’ Customers’ Financial Details

The incident involved the theft of payment card details over a period of two weeks at the height of the…

6 years ago

Fifteen Years After Launch, Skype Gets Call Recording

Skype gets the built-in ability to record calls into the cloud, with the option of downloading them for permanent storage

6 years ago

Microsoft Warns EU Copyright Proposal Could Stunt Digital Growth

The Windows giant said data-mining limitations could harm economic development and stop Europe from catching up with AI and data…

6 years ago

Amazon Joins Apple After It Reaches $1 Trillion Value

Former bookseller briefly crosses $1 billion market valuation threshold as broadening portfolio drives growth

6 years ago

Google Hands Kubernetes Reins Over To Community

The search giant, which has developed Kubernetes since 2014, is also donating £7m in cloud credits to help defray infrastructure…

6 years ago

Fraud Experts Warn Over Compromise Of Passport Data In Air Canada Breach

Hackers may have accessed detailed passport information on thousands of Air Canada customers after its app was compromised late last…

6 years ago

Document Scanning Firm Exposes More Than 140 Gigabytes Of Corporate Documents

Scanning and optical character recognition firm Abbyy left an Amazon-hosted server open for anyone to access

6 years ago

UK Data Complaints Double Under GDPR

New figures show the Information Commissioner's Office swamped with reports from individuals and companies alike

6 years ago

VMworld: AMD Introduces Radeon Pro V340 For High-Density Data Centres

The graphics board includes two Vega graphics chips along with enough memory to carry out heavy-duty remote workloads for up…

6 years ago