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Understanding the latest AMD data centre chips and what they mean

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Dell gears up to showcase All The New Things

At Dell Technologies World 2023, unfathomable buzzwords, genuinely clever technologies, and "hairy a***" IT managers rub shoulders.

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UK gov't reveals “£1 billion” semiconductor strategy, moans that industry ignored it

Stick that global fire hydrant in ya gob!

telcos

BT to slash workforce by 42%, roll out AWS Wavelength

65,000 jobs to go by 2028-2030

CEO

Cisco CEO: “Every customer on the planet has 5 key priorities”

Take a guess, go on...

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Dynatrace blows the doors off: CEO thanks AI for the tailwind

Downturn? What downturn?

Interviews

The Big Interview: Jinhong Brejnholt, Chief Cloud Architect, Saxo

"We used Istio for our service mesh. Now we're using Linkerd. We are already considering..."

Enterprise IT

How eBay overhauled its similarity algorithms for blistering speed

New matching engines' algorithms return similar items within 25 milliseconds for 95% of searches

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FerretDB goes GA: Gives you MongoDB, without the MongoDB...

A new open source database, FerretDB, aims to make it easy for anyone to use MongoDB, without having to be bound by the latter’s more restrictive Server Side Public Licence (SSPL) – and is now generally available (GA). FerretDB, GA under a permissive Apache 2.0 licence from April 2023,

Enterprise IT

Job of the Week: CIO, DIANA - NATO's newest body

An exciting greenfield CIO role + £9k tax free per month and a real challenge...

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A technology downturn and mass layoffs are having competing effects on FOSS

Fewer funded roles, growing Understanding user behaviour has never been more important.

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IT leaders look ahead to COP26.

As the 26th UN Climate Change Conference will take place in November 2021, at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC) in Glasgow. Q&A - Amanda Brock, CEO, OpenUK / Ali Fenn, President, ITRenew / Lucy Yu, CEO at Octopus Centre for Net Zero 1.) In the run up to COP26, what

Enterprise IT

Disney CEO: AI is going to be “extremely difficult to manage”

Disney CEO Bob Iger says that Artificial Intelligence is going to be “extremely difficult to manage.” Iger highlighted concerns around the control of Intellectual Property (IP) – as AI offers the potential to generate and animate figures from Disney’s protected roster of characters – telling analysts on an earnings call that

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Five Eyes kills Russia’s Snake after FSB used weak crypto

Highly sophisticated malware had been refined for over 20 years

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Interview: CEO Rajiv Ramaswami on nice guy Nutanix’s latest trick

On a grey, chilly, wet Chicago morning your correspondent makes a quick exit on South Michigan Avenue to the American Writers Museum to dodge the rain and to be reminded of Scott Fitzgerald’s famous dictum that “there are no second acts in American lives”. The same can be said

Cybersecurity

Capita ransomware attack will cost it ~£20m in remediation, as the company leaks more data

Qakbot and leaky buckets...

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Cloud

So many bad takes — What is there to learn from the Prime Video "monolith" story?

"The team followed what I consider to be best practice..."

Enterprise IT

Palantir's CEO: New AI platform will make West's adversaries “quiver and scurry away”

LLMs as the West's new generals?

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Cloud

Amazon Prime Video team throws AWS Serverless under a bus

Monoliths are sexy again.

Sponsored

Open-source real-time AI and the lingerie you didn’t know you needed

DataStax open sources event processing engine from Kaskada, releases Luna ML support.

Enterprise IT

Insurance market in mammoth DC migration: 70b rows of data, 200 critical apps, 1 weekend...

Shift is a large step towards an ongoing digital transformation for Lloyd's of London and partners...

Cybersecurity

PowerShell used in 76% of ransomware incidents: Attacks on education sector surge

PowerShell was used in 76% of ransomware incidents in April 2023, according to new data from cybersecurity company BlackFog – a sharp reminder of the extent to which attackers are deploying legitimate tools and platforms to achieve their aims without triggering alarms from many endpoint protection platforms. PowerShell is a task

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AMD creates new unified AI team under Victor Peng

Move comes ahead of pioneering MI300 release

Enterprise IT

Ford's software subscriptions surge, drive data-led decisions..

Telemetry also informing design choices, cost measures

Enterprise IT

The BMW/Mercedes honesty problem - Why are NoSQL people still trotting out myths?

In this month's column for The Stack, former divisional CTO at Worldpay and IT veteran David Walker is a little frustrated with SQL myths and a lack of database category salesperson knowledge. Or is it ethics? Some things in life are complicated: tax; love; the point of Tottenham