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The internet giant hit local opposition over more than $2bn in subsidies it had been promised. Source:: BBC News – Technology

The huge cloud computing cluster in Northern Virginia needs to be greener, and soon. That’s the message from environmental group Greenpeace, which says Virginia utility Dominion Energy has not kept pace with the data center industry’s appetite for renewable energy. Greenpeace is specifically calling out Amazon Web Services, the world’s largest cloud provider, saying its …

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AWS Transfer for SFTP (AWS SFTP) is now available in the Asia Pacific (Mumbai) region. AWS SFTP enables you to easily move file transfer workloads to AWS, eliminating the need for you to build and operate Secure Shell File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) infrastructure. Source:: Amazon AWS

We all want to make sure our homes stay safe from intruders and other threats, and a smart security system can provide peace-of-mind and a watchful eye to your connected home. Today, you can get the excellent five-piece Ring Alarm system for $159 on Amazon, down from a list price of $199 and the lowest …

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The US investment bank has created the JPM Coin to handle wholesale payments for some clients. Source:: BBC News – Technology

Devonian Marcus Hutchins is accused of writing virus code and says he was “intoxicated” in an interview. Source:: BBC News – Technology

A new white paper from Aligned Energy — whose mission is in part to make critical infrastructure smart enough to continuously improve both its economic performance and environmental impact — offers a financial analyst update on the company. Aligned Energy is managed by veterans of some of today’s top wholesale cololcation providers. Think names like …

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Jim Witham, CEO of GaN Systems, explores the top 2019 data cent power trends, and highlights new perspectives and approaches to thinking about and addressing the power needs of the diverse technology that surrounds us. Jim Witham, CEO of GaN Systems Energy use is a critical challenge for data centers — not only for individual …

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The final version of the new EU copyright law is agreed after three days of talks in France. Source:: BBC News – Technology

Thousands of US schools were shut down by fake threats involving bombs, allege prosecutors. Source:: BBC News – Technology

Despite what the politicians say, there’s no getting around the fact that last night’s agreement on a new EU Copyright Directive between the European Parliament and Council – particularly Article 11 (“link tax“) and Article 13 (“upload filters“) – is going to harm the sharing of online news and deliver mass automated censorship. According to …

EU Agrees New Copyright Rules – Sends Internet to the Dark Ages Read More »

It’s not exactly news that Android upgrades almost always take a lo-o-o-o-o-ng time to roll out to most users. As in months. Often, many months. Sometimes more than a year. Sometimes never. (There is an exception: Google delivers new versions of Android to its Pixel line right away, and did just that with the release …

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Google acts after YouTubers report users attempting to extort money via fraudulent copyright claims. Source:: BBC News – Technology

The British Basketball League is testing a new way of filming games that picks the action using AI. Source:: BBC News – Technology

Rural focused UK ISP County Broadband, which last year secured £46m from Aviva Investors to help it deploy a new 1Gbps capable Fibre-to-the-Premises (FTTP) broadband network to 30,000 premises across the East of England, has recently updated a new website and prices for the full fibre service. Until now the provider has tended to focus …

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The aircraft manufacturer will cease production of its giant jet after key buyer Emirates cuts orders. Source:: BBC News – Technology

A vulnerability in GNOME Evolution could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to conduct spoofing attacks on a targeted system. The vulnerability exists because the affected software does not properly validate OpenPGP signatures sent to an affected system. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by persuading a user to open a malicious email with valid PGP-signed …

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A vulnerability in the LIVE555 Media Server could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to a memory leak condition in the affected software when multiple instances of a single field exist within a setup packet. An attacker could exploit the …

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A vulnerability in the LIVE555 Media Server could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to cause a denial of service (DoS) condition on a targeted system. The vulnerability is due to a buffer overflow condition in the handleRequestBytes function of the affected software. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability by sending a malicious HTTP packet to …

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Federal authorities this week arrested a North Carolina man who allegedly ran with a group of online hooligans that attacked Web sites (including this one), took requests on Twitter to call in bomb threats to thousands of schools, and tried to frame various online gaming sites as the culprits. In an ironic twist, the accused …

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