Microsoft employees revolt over army contracts
Published in News


Didn't sign on to kill people

Microsoft is having problems with some of its little Voles who do not want software they are developing to be used by the US army to kill people.

Xilinx had a record quarter
Published in AI


Things to get better

Xilinx is a company that makes great products and technology but in the past didn’t manage to penetrate the mainstream IT media’s due to the complexity of its products. That is all changing now, the company with its Datacenter, AI, 5G and Automotive aspirations managed to grab a lot of attention and score 34 percent year on year growth.

Google drops out of defence cloud
Published in Cloud


Claims being a Jedi is against its corporate values

 Google has decided not to compete for the Pentagon's $10 billion cloud computing contract claiming that it is against its corporate values.

China hacked US satellite operators, defence contractors and telcos
Published in News


Taking out the satellites

Insecurity experts Symantec have uncovered a sophisticated hacking campaign launched from computers in China burrowed deeply into satellite operators, defence contractors and telecommunications companies in the United States and southeast Asia.

Microsoft scores a spooky cloud deal
Published in News


Spooks get Azure for normally black ops.

Microsoft has scored a lucrative cloud deal with the US intelligence community worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

Israelis give small robots Glocks
Published in News


What could possibly go wrong?


Israel's General Robotics has developed tiny 'combat robots' that can climb stairs, traverse difficult terrain, and nail anything that moves with a nine millimetre Glock.

UK’s doomsday subs rely on Windows XP
Published in News


40 nuclear warheads under the control of ancient OS


While most of the world would be insane to rely on Windows XP to provide them with security, the UKs 40 nuclear weapons are dependent on the ancient OS.

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