Cloud and Infrastructure
Computing launches Delta - a new market intelligence service for CIOs
Delta is Europe's first truly independent market intelligence service for senior IT professionals
MySpace (remember that?) loses all music uploaded before 2015
Tens of people inconvenienced in MySpace blunder
WorldPay in £32bn merger with US payments processor FIS
WorldPay: Sold by RBS for £2bn in 2010; scooped up by Fidelity National Information Services nine years later
Facebook claims server configuration change caused 14-hour outage to Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp
BGP protocol shenanigans ruled out as Facebook admits outage was caused by its own engineers
Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp taken down for 14 hours by suspected BGP leak from European ISP
Longest downtime in Facebook's history caused by BGP leak, according to Netscout
NHS Trust launches Robotic Process Automation Centre of Excellence
Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust CFO Sandra Easton said that RPA at the Trust could provide a blueprint for a broader NHS rollout
Google bakes world's largest pi
Google developer Emma Iwao has claimed a Guiness World Record for calculating pi to 31.4 trillion digits using Google Cloud
Spotify files new EU anti-trust complaint against Apple
Apple is abusing control of the iOS platform and App Store, claims Spotify
Scammers steal £113,000 from Bitcoin ATMs by double spending before transactions can be cleared
Attackers took advantage of 'replace by fee' feature that makes 'stuck' transaction become 'unstuck'
Box links are leaking sensitive data and documents from more than 90 companies, warn security specialists
Technology prototypes and design files, bank account numbers and passwords among the data inadvertently publicly shared over Box
Apple to unveil rival service to Netflix on 25 March
'It's show time,' tease invitations to Apple's 'special event' at the Steve Jobs Theater on Monday 25 March
France to forge ahead with three per cent tax on internet and technology giants
France targets 30 internet and technology companies with tax intended to raise €750m annually from 2022
Digital 'store wars' break out as Microsoft Store commission is cut to five per cent
Digital download 'store wars' hots up as Microsoft tries to reinvigorate moribund Microsoft Store
Forty per cent of AI start-ups in Europe aren't involved in AI
Out of 2,830 AI start-ups only 1,580 genuinely are, claims new report
DevOps at Trainline has been a 'great adventure'
Platform operations engineer Sana Essid on working with constant change
Amazon introduces AI-based initiative to help identify counterfeit listings
Project Zero will enable trusted brands to delete fake listings
Peter Cochrane: Governments may try to lock down the internet and AI, but freedom will always out
Endless moral scares may justify ever-more controls on the internet and AI, warns Professor Peter Cochrane, but won't achieve their supposed aim
Warning over critical security flaw in Drupal
'Drupalgeddon' could be coming to websites running popular content management system, security specialists warn
'System failure' blamed for nationwide rail ticket machine outage
Travellers unable to collect pre-paid tickets from machines advised to take confirmation emails as proof of purchase
Oracle cloud growth driven by threats to customers, claims shareholder lawsuit
Oracle executives weren't entirely honest about the company's 2017 cloud growth spurt, claim disgruntled shareholders
Santander strikes five year $700m deal with IBM in money-saving cloud migration move
Spanish banking group to adopt IBM DevOps, Watson AI and other IBM tools as it shifts to hybrid multi-cloud environment
Micro Focus revenues decline less than expected as CEO Stephen Murdoch claims the company has been repaired
Micro Focus posts lower than expected fall in revenues - largely due to SUSE, which it's selling
Peter Cochrane: Tackling fake news and propaganda with AI and machine learning
This year saw the first global 'datathon' to apply natural language processing to identify 'fake news'. Professor Peter Cochrane was there as an advisor
Amazon and Google accused of attempting smart home data grab
Internet giants want to know everything about people's smart homes from their lights and locks to (presumably) their CCTV cameras
