
Microsoft Altra-based Azure servers are Arm ready
First cloud provider to manage it
Microsoft Ampere Altra-based Azure servers are now Arm SystemReady SR certified making them the first cloud solution provider (CSP) server to do so.

Google goes bankrupt
At least in Russia
Google is going to file for bankruptcy in Russia, although to be fair was only after Tsar Putin seized the company’s bank account and did a “special operation” on its funds.

Cisco slashes earnings forecast
Blames Covid and Putin
Cisco cut its full-year earnings forecast on Wednesday after COVID lockdowns in China and the war in Ukraine dragged sales below estimates in the third quarter, sending shares down 13 per cent in extended trading.

Apple in a panic after key staffers revolt
We don’t want to come back to the flying saucer
Yesterday we reported out Apple backpedalled over its insistence that its staff return to the flying saucer and stop working from home.

Napster sold again
Metallica fans still hunting it down
Napster has been acquired again by Hivemind and Algorand.

Ukraine’s IT sector going great guns
Still coding when half your team have to dodge artillery and shoot Russians
Ukraine’s IT sector did better than last year despite Russia’s invasion of the country.

Boston kids weaponise Chromebooks
Bullies have no other use for them
Boston City-issued Chromebooks were a feature in three Boston school assaults recently.

Lenovo wants its Thinkpad to match a desktop
ThinkPad P16 mobile workstation
Lenovo has just announced the ThinkPad P16 mobile workstation, which it thinks is as good as a desktop.

Video games boost kids IQs
Bad news for those who want a new generation to grow up as stupid as them
Researchers have linked spending more time playing video games with a boost in intelligence in children, which goes some way to contradict the narrative that gaming is bad for young minds.

Apple decides not to force its workers back to work
Tells them it fears new Covid outbreak
After making a big thing about forcing its workers back to the Office, fruit and nutty cargo cult Apple appears to have realised that a lot of its staff will just leave instead.