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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, studying AI while writing about everything from hardware to infosec policy.

"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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