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Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet

Phillip de Wet started in journalism as an honest B2B IT-sector reporter, before straying into business, politics, and international affairs. He is currently in recovery.

"Source available" vs "open source": no-SaaS tool triggers OSS definition debate

Ruby on Rails' DHH says definitions are arbitrary and have no enforcers – and the GPL isn't free anyway.

Academics advise German gov: almost no way to stop US accessing cloud data

A newly-released expert opinion suggests Germany was worried just before Donald Trump took office, and with good reason.

Remember Jeep? Porsches got remote-bricked too, in Russia

GPS-linked security systems are probably panicking due to jamming, but sanctions mean there is no post mortem coming.

IBM to buy Confluent for $11 billion  – and hopefully give it the Red Hat treatment

More than $50 billion on OSS acquisitions later, some in the Kafka community hope IBM brings stability, others worry about the impact.

45-day certificates from May, says Let's Encrypt after dismantling OCSP

With 700 million websites affected, a TLS certificate monitoring service is a really good idea, Let's Encrypt tells us.

We'll protect security researchers against ancient cyber laws, UK minister says

Statutory defence – previously rejected as a loophole – is coming for 35-year-old law that chills vulnerability disclosure, says Dan Jarvis.

Samsung says it has cracked low-power NAND – and maybe neuromorphic computing

Research paper says it works under real-world conditions, and may offer a neuromorphic AI solution.

AWS and Google preview managed multi-cloud networking in Europe and US

Near-instant provisioning, low bandwidth if you need it, and built for either AI applications or simple disaster recovery, cloud giants say.

'N+2' data centre cooling outage causes chaos in futures market

CME sold its data centre to CyrusOne, then looked to Google Cloud, but a user revolt kept it on a legacy hybrid.

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