| AI to boost datacenter capex by 28.5% and become the top server workload 2024-06-28 [theregister.co.uk] Cooling tech left to sweat the details
AI is currently the big driver in datacenter investment and will push capital expenditure on the facilities up by nearly 30 percent this year, and is also on track to become the top server workload by deployment within a few years. Details >
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| Meta, Microsoft SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain 2024-06-24 [theregister.co.uk] Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening?
Opinion When two stories from opposite ends of the IT universe boil down to the same thing, sound the klaxons. At the uber-fashionable AI end of tech, Meta has grudgingly complied with a ruling not to feed European social media crap into its training data. Meanwhile, in the industrial slums, 20 percent of running Microsoft SQL Server instances are now past the end of support. Details >
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| Meta and SQL Server make strange bedfellows on a couch of cyber-pain 2024-06-24 [theregister.co.uk] Yanks get food poisoning far more often than Brits. Is American IT just as sickening?
Opinion When two stories from opposite ends of the IT universe boil down to the same thing, sound the klaxons. At the uber-fashionable AI end of tech, Meta has grudgingly complied with a ruling not to feed European social media crap into its training data. Meanwhile, in the industrial slums, 20 percent of running Microsoft SQL Server instances are now past the end of support. Details >
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| Nearly 20% of running Microsoft SQL Servers have passed end of support 2024-06-17 [theregister.co.uk] That beige box running a server is easily forgotten ... until it goes wrong
Exclusive IT asset management platform Lansweeper has dispensed a warning for enterprise administrators everywhere. Exactly how old is that Microsoft SQL Server on which your business depends? Details >
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| Nearly 20% of running SQL Servers have passed end of support 2024-06-17 [theregister.co.uk] That beige box running a server is easily forgotten ... until it goes wrong
Exclusive IT asset management platform Lansweeper has dispensed a warning for enterprise administrators everywhere. Exactly how old is that SQL Server on which your business depends? Details >
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| Apple built custom servers and OS for its AI cloud 2024-06-11 [theregister.co.uk] Mashup of iOS and macOS runs on homebrew silicon, with precious little for sysadmins to scry
Apple has revealed it created its own datacenter stack Details >
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| HPE Stock Trades at Record High On Strong AI Server Sales 2024-06-05 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| HPE Stock Set for Biggest Gain Since 2016 on AI Server Sales 2024-06-05 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| HPE Jumps After Reporting Strong Sales on AI Server Demand 2024-06-05 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| HPE Reports Strong Sales on Boost From AI Server Business 2024-06-04 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| AI Firm Plans Private Credit Fund for Servers With Nvidia Chips 2024-06-03 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Dell Falls Most Since 2018 After AI Server Sales Disappoint 2024-05-31 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Dell Falls Most in Four Years as AI Server Sales Fail to Impress 2024-05-31 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Dell Falls After AI Server Sales Fail to Impress Investors 2024-05-31 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Dell beats first-quarter revenue estimates as AI boom bolster server demand 2024-05-30 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Blame the SSD price hike on enterprise demand for AI servers 2024-05-30 [theregister.co.uk] Samsung, SK, Kioxia and others make bank, booking double digit bounces in Q1 revenue
NAND flash industry revenue is surfing a growth wave thanks to demand for solid state drives (SSDs) in AI servers, meaning increased prices for buyers as OEMs rush to stockpile components. Details >
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| A thump with the pointy end of a screwdriver will fix this server! What could possibly go wrong? 2024-05-27 [theregister.co.uk] No, nothing Details >
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| Microsoft fixes the fix for the Windows Server 2019 NTLM problem 2024-05-24 [theregister.co.uk] Installation problems with non-English language systems resolved
Microsoft has released a fix to fix the fix for NTLM traffic spikes on Windows Server 2019 after the original fix failed to install on some devices where Windows was not set to English language. Details >
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| GitHub Enterprise Server patches 10-outta-10 critical hole 2024-05-22 [theregister.co.uk] On the bright side, someone made up to $30,000+ for finding it
GitHub has patched its Enterprise Server software to fix a security flaw that scored a 10 out of 10 CVSS severity score. Details >
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| Dell deepens AI push with new PCs, Nvidia-powered servers 2024-05-20 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Chip Startup Ampere Teams Up With Qualcomm for AI Server Push 2024-05-16 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Apple Is Reportedly Building Its Own AI Server Chip -- Is This Bad News for Nvidia Stock Investors? 2024-05-09 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Exchange Server SE set to debut just before 2019 version breathes its last 2024-05-08 [theregister.co.uk] Administrators, start your engines
Microsoft has finally broken its silence on the fate of on-premises Exchange, and administrators will need to move quickly to keep their servers supported. Details >
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| Add AI servers to the list of iDevices Apple Silicon could soon power 2024-05-08 [theregister.co.uk] Where have you been, Cupertino?
Analysis We can add Apple to the list of tech titans developing their own custom AI accelerators Details >
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| Watch out for rogue DHCP servers decloaking your VPN connections 2024-05-08 [theregister.co.uk] Avoid traffic-redirecting snoops who have TunnelVision
A newly discovered vulnerability undermines countless VPN clients in that their traffic can be quietly routed away from their encrypted tunnels and intercepted by snoops on the network. Details >
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| IBM says these back-office, network edge Power 10 servers would be sweet for 2024-05-07 [theregister.co.uk] Short on cores, big on threads and matrix math
Not to be left out of the AI infrastructure game, on Tuesday IBM unveiled a pair of tiny Power 10 servers designed to preprocess data at the network edge. Details >
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| Atlassian loses half its CEOs, but customers stay solid after Server products exit support 2024-04-26 [theregister.co.uk] Discloses ongoing experiments with usage-based pricing
Atlassian co-founder and co-CEO Scott Farquhar has announced he will step down in August, leaving Mike Cannon-Brookes alone at the top of the Australian collaborationware company. Details >
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| Heat from servers to keep university students warm 2024-04-24 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Misconfigured cloud server leaked clues of North Korean animation scam 2024-04-23 [theregister.co.uk] Outsourcers outsourced work for the BBC, Amazon, and HBO Max to the hermit kingdom
A misconfigured cloud server that used a North Korean IP address has led to the discovery that film production studios including the BBC, Amazon, and HBO Max could be inadvertently hiring workers from the hermit kingdom for animation projects. Details >
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| Avoid (Some) Discord Server Chaos With New Polls Feature - CNET 2024-04-21 [news.cnet.com] The new polls feature makes it easier to interact with people on your servers. Details >
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| Google joins the custom server CPU crowd with Arm-based Axion chips 2024-04-10 [theregister.co.uk] Neoverse V2 cores available in GCP later this year
Cloud Next Google lifted the veil on its long-rumored Arm datacenter processor, dubbed Axion, during its Cloud Next event in Las Vegas on Tuesday. Details >
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| These 17,000 unpatched Microsoft Exchange servers are a ticking time bomb 2024-03-28 [theregister.co.uk] One might say this is a wurst case scenario
The German Federal Office for Information Security (BIS) has issued an urgent alert about the poor state of Microsoft Exchange Server patching in the country. Details >
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| Super Micro shares dip as AI server maker looks to raise $2 billion through equity sale 2024-03-19 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Doctor Dies at Disney Restaurant From Allergic Reaction Despite Telling Servers About Severe Allergies 2024-03-02 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Super Micro surges as AI server maker set to join S&P 500 2024-03-02 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Dell Jumps on Server Sales Fueled by Excitement for AI Work 2024-03-01 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Doctor Dies At Disney Restaurant From Allergic Reaction Despite Informing Servers 2024-02-28 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| 40k servers, 400k CPUs and 40 PB of storage later... welcome to Google Cloud 2024-02-27 [theregister.co.uk] Sabre Technology shutters 17 datacenters, says 90% of workloads transferred
Airline reservation technology biz Sabre Corporation has almost completed a mammoth migration to Google Cloud - one that would have tested the nerves of the most steely-eyed IT director. Details >
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| Nginx web server forked as Freenginx to escape corporate overlords 2024-02-16 [theregister.co.uk] Project hails from its original motherland of Russia
Russian developer Maxim Dounin has announced a new fork of the Nginx web server and caching proxy, aimed at avoiding the corporate control of owner F5. Details >
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| AMD bagged more market share in server, desktop, mobile at end of 2023 2024-02-09 [theregister.co.uk] Plus: x86 processor shipments up for the first time in 2 years
AMD is steadily accumulating CPU market share, according to new figures from Mercury Research, and Arm-based systems now account for more than 10 percent of PC client sales. Details >
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| Diia public services app up and running again after Eurovision vote overwhelms servers 2024-02-04 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Amazon extends the life of its servers to six years, expects $900m benefit in 90 days 2024-02-02 [theregister.co.uk] Cloud optimization efforts ebb, and migrations resume
Amazon.com has completed a "useful life study" for its servers and decided they can be used for an extra year Details >
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| Alphabet just banked $3.0 billion by stretching the life of its servers 2024-01-31 [theregister.co.uk] Q4 results reveal AI is the answer to Details >
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| Military intelligence claims it shut down Russian Defense Ministry server 2024-01-31 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Jenkins jitters as 45,000 servers still vulnerable to RCE attacks after patch released 2024-01-30 [theregister.co.uk] Multiple publicly available exploits have since been published for the critical flaw
The number of public-facing installs of Jenkins servers vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical vulnerability is in the tens of thousands. Details >
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| Microsoft confirms Windows Server 2025 is on the way 2024-01-29 [theregister.co.uk] Plus: It kills off WordPad once and for all
Microsoft is unleashing build 26040 of Windows Server and has revealed the official branding for the product: Windows Server 2025. Details >
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| Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users 2024-01-17 [theregister.co.uk] Uninstall the update or edit the Windows registry to restore order
The latest Windows Server 2022 patch has broken the Chrome browser, and short of uninstalling the update, a registry hack is the only way to restore service for affected users. Details >
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| Intel Unveils Server, PC Chips in Bid to Join AI Gold Rush 2023-12-14 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| CISA details twin attacks on federal servers via unpatched ColdFusion flaw 2023-12-05 [theregister.co.uk] Tardy IT admins likely to get a chilly reception over the lack of updates
CISA has released details about a federal agency that recently had at least two public-facing servers compromised by attackers exploiting a critical Adobe ColdFusion vulnerability. Details >
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| HPE Projects Sales Below Estimates With Server Demand Fears 2023-11-29 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Server shipments to fall 20% this year, but AI means vendors still raking it in 2023-11-27 [theregister.co.uk] Less is more, as hyper heterogeneous computing heats up
Server unit shipments for 2023 could crash by up to 20 percent on last year, despite revenue growing. The cause is hyper heterogeneous computing which is driving up the silicon content of systems, according to Omdia. Details >
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| Cloudflare exiles baseboard management controller from its server motherboards 2023-10-17 [theregister.co.uk] Puts Datacenter-ready Secure Control Modules to work in boxen built by Lenovo
Cloudflare has joined the ranks of operators that believe baseboard management controllers (BMCs) no longer belong on server motherboards. Details >
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| Chinese CPUs to feature in servers made by sanctioned Russian company 2023-10-17 [theregister.co.uk] Beijing appears to have lifted its ban on Loongson processors reaching Moscow
If you have an enormous appetite for risk, we have just the hardware for you, from Russian outfit Norsi-Trans, powered by China Details >
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| Samsung nabs contract to produce 3nm server chips for mystery US biz 2023-10-13 [theregister.co.uk] Parts reportedly geared toward high-performance compute and leverage advanced packaging
A mystery US company has tapped Samsung to fabricate datacenter chips using its 3nm manufacturing process. Details >
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| Dell Says Servers, Not PCs, Are Its Main Growth Engine in the AI Era 2023-10-06 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Ukraine accuses Russian spies of hunting for war-crime info on its servers 2023-09-26 [theregister.co.uk] Russian have shifted tactics in the first half of 2023, with mixed results
The Ukrainian State Service of Special Communications and Information Protection (SSSCIP) has claimed that Russian cyberspies are targeting its servers looking for data about alleged Kremlin-backed war crimes. Details >
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| Facing a 30% price rise to park servers in a colo? Blame AI 2023-09-26 [theregister.co.uk] Amygdala analogues are hogging all the rackspace
The rapid adoption of artificial intelligence, particularly by cloud providers, has strained datacenter capacity and led to increased hosting prices, according to a report from property services and investment management company JLL. Details >
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| Dell allows DPUs to be retrofitted to older PowerEdge servers 2023-09-25 [theregister.co.uk] As VMware emits a significant update to the vSphere suite that wrangles the accelerators
Dell has decided that users of its older servers deserve the chance to run data processing units (DPUs, aka SmartNICs) Details >
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| China Accuses US of Hacking Huawei Servers as Far Back as 2009 2023-09-20 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Toyota servers ran out of storage, crashed production at 14 plants in Japan 2023-09-07 [theregister.co.uk] Oh, what a foul-up as database maintenance created a mess
Toyota has revealed a server running out of disk space after botched maintenance was the cause of an outage that forced it to shut down 14 manufacturing plants across Japan last week. Details >
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| Toyota says plant shutdown last week due to server malfunction 2023-09-06 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Nvidia Partner Expects AI Server Sales to Double in 2024 2023-08-31 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| This Beverly Hills steakhouse server says she made $2,500 in just one week 2023-08-20 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Az Exchange Server sebezhetőségét sejtik a brit adatlopás mögött 2023-08-11 [hwsw.hu] 40 millió választópolgár adatai kerültek ki a brit választási bizottságtól. Details >
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| Electoral Commission had internet-facing server with unpatched vuln 2023-08-11 [theregister.co.uk] ProxyNotShell vulnerability could be how UK body got pwned, suggests infosec expert
The hacking of the UK Details >
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| Amazon has more than half of all Arm server CPUs in the world 2023-08-08 [theregister.co.uk] They kept that quiet
Amazon is the most successful manufacturer of Arm server chips, accounting for just over half of Arm-based server CPUs currently deployed, while some chipmakers are also now betting on Arm-based Windows PCs. Details >
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| Another thing you can blame AI for: Cloud grows but server shipments are down 2023-08-07 [theregister.co.uk] Investment shifts to meet demand, say analysts. And demand is based on FOMO. WCGW?
The cloud market continues to grow, but at a slowly declining rate, while investment is shifting to meet the demand for AI services, diverting spending away from other projects. Details >
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| Out of nowhere, India requires PC and server makers to get an import license 2023-08-04 [theregister.co.uk] This is one way to kickstart local manufacturing
India yesterday changed its trade rules to require manufacturers of many types of computers to secure an import license to bring their goods into the country. Details >
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| Restaurant ignored reports about lead server sexually harassing SC workers, feds say 2023-08-03 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Up to 40% of all Arm servers are deployed in China 2023-08-02 [theregister.co.uk] At the same time, company pipped to be preparing for IPO
Servers powered by Arm chips are on the rise, especially in China, where new figures estimate that 40 percent of Arm-based servers are now deployed. Details >
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| Nobody would ever work on the live server, right? Not intentionally, anyway 2023-07-31 [theregister.co.uk] Techie installing an upgrade did everything right. But the user was already wrong
Who, Me? Greetings and felicitations, dear reader-folk, and welcome to the soft landing to the working week that we at The Reg call Who, Me? in which we share tales of readers like you who found themselves in unfortunate circumstances Details >
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| HPE prepares for spicy affair with India to churn out $1B worth of servers 2023-07-06 [theregister.co.uk] Middle Kingdom suddenly a less appealing destination for manufacturing
HPE is planning to start manufacturing some of its high-volume servers in India, with the aim of turning out $1 billion worth of kit in the next five years. Details >
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| Server shipments fall ... just as AI drives demand for costlier kit 2023-06-27 [theregister.co.uk] Conflicting feedback makes 2023 an especially difficult year to predict
Changing priorities among enterprise and cloud providers are driving apparently conflicting trends, according to research outfit Omdia, with demand for compute resources remaining high, especially as ChatGPT has spurred interest in AI training, yet at the same time server shipments are declining. Details >
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| Security? Working servers? Who needs those when you can have a shiny floor? 2023-06-26 [theregister.co.uk] The root cause was a buffer error Details >
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| AWS makes its hybrid cloud behave a bit more like normal, boring, on-prem servers 2023-06-21 [theregister.co.uk] At last you can pick a dedicated host to run your Amazonian workload
Amazon Web Services has made a small change that causes its on-prem Outposts to behave a bit more like boring old on-prem servers. Details >
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| Amazon server outage makes some websites go dark 2023-06-14 [bbci.co.uk] The outage is being resolved and affected web services for some fast food apps, airlines and others. Details >
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| Amazon server outage makes some website go dark 2023-06-14 [bbci.co.uk] The outage is being resolved and affected web services for some fast food apps, airlines and others. Details >
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| How do you boost server efficiency? Buy new kit, keep it busy 2023-06-11 [theregister.co.uk] Increase in efficiency between 2017 and 2019 hardware is 34% for Intel servers, 140% for AMD, claims report
Organizations looking to cut power usage within datacenters should find that newer servers can offer decent energy efficiency improvements, but that efficiency increases with processor utilization, so those servers need to be kept busy. Details >
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| Fed up with slammed servers, IT replaced iTunes backups with a cow of a file 2023-06-05 [theregister.co.uk] Pigs might fly before youngsters listened to IT instructions Details >
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| Apple Supplier Foxconn Rides the AI Wave, Doubles Down on Server Business Amid ChatGPT Frenzy 2023-05-31 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Asus to Sell Nvidia AI Servers You Can Install in Your Office 2023-05-30 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Nvidia creates open server spec to house its own hardware, and the occasional x86 2023-05-29 [theregister.co.uk] Taiwan Details >
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| With AI hype driving up server GPU prices, will cloud costs rise next? We reckon so 2023-05-11 [theregister.co.uk] And what next for cooling, datacenter placement, and more Details >
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| Global Server Market Forecast Report 2023-2027 Featuring AMD, AWS, Dell, Google, HPE, Intel, Nvidia, Supermicro 2023-04-28 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Amtrak back on track after server breakdown forces dozens of cancellations 2023-03-28 [theregister.co.uk] Sounds like some IT teams are due for some training
Amtrak trains across the US are back on schedule after a server breakdown forced the rail service to cancel dozens of routes across the American Midwest and parts of California. Details >
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| Techie wiped a server, nobody noticed, so a customer kept paying for six months 2023-03-13 [theregister.co.uk] A missed migration mitigated the mistake
Who, me? Why hello, Monday! You beastly harbinger of another week of work and associated woes, which The Register each week welcomes with an instalment of Details >
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| US Races to Close Loophole in Ban on Chinese Server Maker Inspur 2023-03-10 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Patches to make WINE work on Wayland display server protocol are being merged 2023-02-28 [theregister.co.uk] Code update will remove the need for translation layer in Linux distros
With WINE 8 out, the team is merging in the code changes to add support for the Wayland display server protocol. Details >
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| Microsoft: For better security, scan more Exchange server objects 2023-02-26 [theregister.co.uk] Software giant takes some files and processes off the exclusion list
Microsoft is recommending that Exchange server users scan certain objects for viruses and other threats that until now had been excluded. Details >
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| Taking notes from AWS, Google prepares custom Arm server chips of its own 2023-02-15 [theregister.co.uk] Aim of the game is to match Intel and AMD on performance
Google is understood to be developing its own custom Arm server processors, following in the footsteps of cloud rival AWS. Details >
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| Nvidia-Certified GPU Servers and Clusters Integrated with Nvidia Quantum-2 Infiniband Networking Platform from Koi Computers 2023-02-08 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| HeadCrab bots pinch 1,000+ Redis servers to mine coins 2023-02-06 [theregister.co.uk] We devoting full time to floating under /etc
A sneaky botnet dubbed HeadCrab that uses bespoke malware to mine for Monero has infected at least 1,200 Redis servers in the last 18 months. Details >
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| AMD Shares Climb as Server Market Helps Sales Forecast 2023-02-01 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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| Microsoft to enterprises: Patch your Exchange servers 2023-01-29 [theregister.co.uk] If you want to keep the miscreants out, put the updates in, Redmond says
Microsoft is urging organizations to protect their Exchange servers from cyberattacks by keeping them updated and hardened, since online criminals are still going after valuable data in the email system. Details >
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| Microsoft squashes Windows 11, Server 2022 bugs with preview patches 2023-01-29 [theregister.co.uk] Remote Desktop, domain controllers giving you gyp? Gamble on these fixes
Microsoft has fixed a problem caused by the Windows 11 version 22H2 update that crashed the Remote Desktop application on some systems. Details >
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| Ransomware attack severs 1,000 ships from their on-shore servers 2023-01-19 [theregister.co.uk] Get your eyepatch out: Cyber attacks on the high seas are trending
A Norwegian maritime risk management business is getting a lesson in that very area, after a ransomware attack forced its ShipManager software offline and left 1,000 ships without a connection to on-shore servers. Details >
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| Malaysia VPS Server Hosting Provider TheServerHost Introducing Its Linux and Windows Plans with Kuala Lumpur Based IP 2022-12-17 [news.yahoo.com] Details >
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