Enterprise Technology News and Analysis

In-space engine reignition paves way for orbital missions SpaceX has notched up another test flight of its Starship behemoth, but chose not to try catching the Super Heavy Booster this time.…

Vendor offers 20% discount on new model, but not patches Owners of older models of D-Link VPN routers are being told to retire and replace their devices following the disclosure of a serious remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability.…

IT giant aims to end revenue slide by March, former employees have doubts Special report  Kyndryl, the managed infrastructure services business spun out of IBM in 2021, earlier this month repeated its somewhat glum prediction that its revenue will shrink by two to four percent for its fiscal 2025, the year ending March 31.…

GreenLake update dangles juicy carrot for VMware refugees HPE is continuing its GreenLake push with availability of its own virtualization product, plus disconnected operations for regulated environments, while touting an object storage platform intended to deliver greater performance and scale for modern workloads.…

If only the company in the title knew how to scale servers in the cloud The debut of Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 yesterday was met with severe turbulence as servers struggled to keep up with user demand.…

Pioneering Dartmouth College mathematician died last week Obit  Professor Thomas Eugene Kurtz, co-inventor of the BASIC programming language, has died aged 96.…

Don't say you weren't warned The latest Steam client finally delivers on the warning from January, dropping support for several older OS versions.…

Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13 A pair of researchers say they've determined that July 13 was likely the day that X, formerly known as Twitter, made platform-level algorithm changes that increased the visibility of posts made by Elon Musk and Republican-leaning accounts in the run-up to the US election.…

CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value Column  I recently got to play a 'fly on the wall' at a roundtable of chief information security officers. Beyond the expected griping and moaning about funding shortfalls and always-too-gullible users, I began to hear a new note: data has become a problem.…

Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium Exclusive  The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) consortium has launched the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) to keep an eye on software licensing practices in the sector.…

Seeks grand alliance between manufacturers, developers and content providers – all in the name of socialism The Cyberspace Administration of China last week released guidelines that suggest mobile devices be equipped with "minors mode" that enforces both censorship and automatic usage time limits.…

Version 16 developer preview starts the new cycle, with warnings for devs to test sooner rather than later Google on Monday delivered the first developer preview of Android 16 – a release notable for both its status as the first step towards a new version and its release date signalling a change in the release cycle for the OS.…