Cloud and Infrastructure
UK's Just Eat announces £5bn merger plan with Netherlands-based Takeaway.com
Just Eat shareholders would own 52 per cent of the merged company, under plans revealed today
Google and Facebook could be forced to disclose algorithms by Australia's competition watchdog
The regulator recommends creating a branch with more powers to monitor if tech firms use their algorithms to give precedence to their own products over that of rivals
WannaCry hero Marcus Hutchins spared jail in the US over links to Kronos banking Trojan
Judge sentences Hutchins to one year of 'supervised release' and fines him $100 for each count as restitution for victims of Kronos
Surviving the container revolution
Containers have helped to drive the adoption of open-source technologies, argues SolarWinds 'head geek' Patrick Hubbard
Confirmed: Facebook hit with $5bn FTC fine - but is now facing a new FTC investigation
In addition to the $5bn fine and changes to its corporate structure, Facebook is also facing two US antitrust investigations
China's Security Ministry is running APT17 cyber-espionage group, claims Intrusion Truth
Intrusion Truth has revealed details of three individuals believed to be members of APT17
US launches antitrust investigation into Facebook, Google and Amazon
The agency will examine whether online platforms such as Google, Amazon, and Facebook are abusing their dominance
New client less of a resource hog, Slack claims, following ground-up rewrite
Slack claims new client uses half the memory and launches 33 per cent faster - about time, too
Doing DevOps? Start with the mainframe, suggests Compuware CEO Chris O'Malley
The mainframe is here to stay because it does things better than other platforms in terms of transactions, efficiency, reliability, and security, says O'Malley
Microsoft invests $1bn in OpenAI to develop AI technologies for supercomputers
Non-profit co-founded by Elon Musk secures another $1bn in investment, this time from Microsoft
Thousands of Slack passwords belatedly reset after company admits passwords have been cracked
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Microsoft revenues up by 12 per cent driven by Azure cloud growth
Cloud - and Office 365 in particular - drove revenues up again, but Xbox hardware sales tanked
'Highly intrusive' facial recognition trials should be suspended, urge MPs
MPs question legal basis for facial recognition trials conducted by police forces
Trump concerned about $10bn Pentagon cloud computing contract
Trump could stop JEDI cloud contract over competition concerns as bidding comes down Microsoft versus Amazon
Thousands of Windows users targeted by nation state attacks, says Microsoft
The majority of the attacks originate from Iran, North Korea and Russia, and took place in the past year
Amazon to face European Union antitrust investigation
Amazon accused of abusing its position as both retailer and retail platform
Elon Musk's Neuralink unveils brain-machine interface technology
Elon Musk wants volunteers willing to have their skull drilled in four places to try out Neuralink's brain-machine technology
How a move to AWS has helped AO.com's IT team to sleep at night
It took six months to move the bespoke IT estate to the cloud
Bulgarians' personal and financial data leaked by hackers in attack on tax agency
Hacker describes Bulgarian government as "stupid" for the poor state of public sector security
Impact Engine accuses Google of copying its patented digital advertising technology
Impact Engine claims that Google's online advertising platforms have infringed six of its patents
US federal judge rejects Oracle's lawsuit over $10 billion Pentagon JEDI cloud contract
Oracle had claimed that $10bn Pentagon mega-cloud contract was biased towards Amazon
NCSC issues warning over global DNS hijacking campaign
Warning over upsurge in DNS hijacking campaigns that redirect users to malicious websites
Why BA and Marriott were hit with massive GDPR fines - and how you can avoid one
Coffin Mew's Guy Cartwright explains why BA and Marriott have hit with big GDPR fines - and what you can do to minimise yours if the worst comes to the worst
Sub-OS management tools essential to the coming 'device-as-a-service' revolution, says Intel's Stuart Dommett
Endpoint device management is becoming a more challenging task as the number and range of devices explodes - and more is yet to come with IoT, warns Intel's Stuart Dommett
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