Feds brag about hefty Oracle discount – licensing experts smell a lock-in If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is The US General Services Administration (GSA) has announced an agreement with Oracle it claims offers a 75 percent discount on the vendor's license-based technology.… #theregister #IT

US federal deal claims 75% discount on Oracle licensing

: If a deal looks too good to be true, it probably is

Suspected Chinese cybersnoop grounded in Italy after US tipoff Zewei Xu's family reportedly bemused at arrest as extradition tabled A man who US authorities allege is a member of Chinese state-sponsored cyberespionage outfit Silk Typhoon was arrested in Milan last week following a tipoff from the US embassy.… #theregister #IT

Italy arrests alleged Silk Typhoon COVID vaccine cyberspy

: Zewei Xu's family reportedly bemused at arrest as extradition tabled

Britain's 5G experience 'among the worst in Europe' says MedUX Official figures for network performance don't play out in user's reality, says monitoring biz The UK's 5G networks are among the worst in Europe when it comes to measurements such as download speed, upload speed, latency, and packet loss, according to a report published today.… #theregister #IT

Britain

: Official figures for network performance don't play out in user's reality, says monitoring biz

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature Opinion  Dominance does not equal importance, nor is dominance the same as relevance. The snag at Mozilla is a management layer that doesn't appear to understand what works for its product nor which parts of it matter most to users.… #theregister #IT

Firefox is fine. The people running it are not

Opinion: Mozilla's management is a bug, not a feature

UK police dangle £75 million to digitize its VHS tape archives Those pirated video nasties won’t last forever The UK police service is planning to launch a procurement to purchase tech and services worth up to £75 million ($102 million) in order to digitize its VHS archive.… #theregister #IT

UK police dangle £75 million to digitize VHS tape

: Those pirated video nasties won’t last forever

Microsoft developer ported vector database coded in SAP’s ABAP to the ZX Spectrum The mighty Z80 processor ran the code at astounding speed, proving retro-tech got a lot of things right A Microsoft senior software engineer named Alice Vinogradova has ported a database she wrote in SAP’s ABAP language to the venerable Z80 processor that powered the Sinclair ZX Spectrum – and marveled at th… #theregister #IT

Dev ported DB coded in SAP’s ABAP to a ZX Spectrum emulator

: The mighty Z80 processor ran the code at astounding speed, proving retro-tech got a lot of things right

Suspected Scattered Spider domains target everyone from manufacturers to Chipotle Plus: Qantas makes contact with 'potential cyber criminal' While the aviation industry has borne the brunt of Scattered Spider's latest round of social engineering attacks, the criminals aim to catch manufacturing and medical tech companies — and even Chipotle Mexican Grill — in tjeor web, as… #theregister #IT

Suspected Scattered Spider domains target multiple sectors

: Plus: Qantas makes contact with 'potential cyber criminal'

Epic Games settles its antitrust side quest that sought battle royale with Samsung They're both silent on what, if anything, has changed Epic Games has settled the case it brought against Samsung over the Korean giant’s treatment of third-party app stores on its Galaxy handsets.… #theregister #IT

Epic Games and Samsung settle app store competition case

: They're both silent on what, if anything, has changed

Trump administration announces tariffs that may make plenty of tech more expensive from August 1 Memory from Korea, hard disks from Thailand, plenty of stuff from Japan World War Fee  The Trump administration on Monday announced the tariff rates it will impose on fourteen nations starting on August 1st, and several big technology-producing nations made the list.… #theregister #IT

USA announces tariffs that may increase hardware prices

World War Fee: Memory from Korea, hard disks from Thailand, plenty of stuff from Japan

Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e apparently continues to underwhelm Nvidia Markets advised to brace for 45 percent fall from Q1 to Q2 Analysis  During the AI gold rush, the next best thing to selling the shovels – that is, the GPUs –is manufacturing the silicon that makes them possible. But while TSMC and SK-Hynix continue to cash in on Nvidia's successes, Samsung hasn't been nea… #theregister #IT

Samsung predicts profit slump as its HBM3e underwhelms

Analysis: Investors advised to brace for massive fall from Q1 to Q2