Oracle's M8 launch comes in the same month it confirmed large-scale redundancies in both its Sparc and Solaris units
Oracle announces eighth-generation Sparc platform claiming big performance improvements over x86 and Sparc M7
Month: September 2017
Slack valued at $5.1bn after latest $250m funding round
Slack IPO will come in 2018, says CEO Stewart Butterfield
Benchmarks for AMD’s Zen-based APUs indicate 90% performance gains compared to Bristol Ridge
Combination of Zen and Vega microarchitectures expected to provide radical improvement to laptop performance
Optus fibre cable cut in Melbourne
Affecting voice and data services.
Fake Python packages proffered to programmers
Check package names carefully.
Macquarie Bank pilots open banking platform
Customers can connect third-party apps without revealing banking login.
Security.txt standard may help researchers report flaws
Follows example of robots.txt.
CBA signs up to Android Pay
Available by the end of the year.
Equifax’s top tech execs leave ‘effective immediately’
CIO and CSO gone.
Equifax (finally) confirms that 400,000 Brits have been caught up in US data breach
Equifax claims that UK information spillage is insufficient for identity thieves