Cloud Stories for 2020

Apple Experienced iCloud Issues After Christmas Surge 13
AWS Introduces New Chaos Engineering as a Service Offering 20
CloudLinux To Invest More Than a Million Dollars a Year Into CentOS Clone 85
Amazon Plans To Help 29 Million People Grow their Tech Skills With Free Cloud Computing Training by 2025 44
Xbox Cloud Gaming Coming To iOS and PC in Spring 2021 20
AWS Brings the Mac Mini To Its Cloud 38
AWS Outage Has Taken Down a Big Chunk of the Internet 90
Ask Slashdot: What's the Ultimate Backup System? Cloud? Local? Sync? Dupes? Tape...? 289
Credit Card Numbers For Millions of Hotel Guests Exposed By Misconfigured Cloud Database 46
Amazon Begins Shifting Alexa's Cloud AI To Its Own Silicon 19
Come June 1, All of Your New Photos Will Count Against Your Free Google Storage 63
Amazon To Invest $2.8 Billion To Build Its Second Data Center Region in India 18
iCloud Outage Now Affecting 14 Different Apple Services 36
Google AI Tech Will Be Used For Virtual Border Wall, CBP Contract Shows 76
OpenStack Foundation Transforms Into the Open Infrastructure Foundation 16
EU Shoots For $11.7B 'Industrial Cloud' To Rival US 77
Cloudflare Offers 'Isolated' Cloud-Based Browser, Plus a Network-as-a-Service Solution 52
Developer Says AWS Forked His Project and Launched It As Its Own Service 158
Amazon's Latest Gimmicks Are Pushing the Limits of Privacy 49
Report: Google Plans to Relinquish Control of Open-Source Project Knative 7
IBM To Split Into Two Companies By End of 2021 88
GameStop Forms Strategic Accord With Microsoft 20
Is Streaming Music Worse For the Environment? 63
Microsoft Office 365 Experienced Two Major Outages Within 3 Days 67
Singapore Becomes First Country To Use Facial Verification For a National ID Service 18
You Can Microwave This Notebook When It's Full - Then Reuse It Again 62
Could Smart Technology Help Save the World's Honey Bees? 42
Microsoft Submits Linux Kernel Patches to Make Linux Run as Root Partition on Hyper-V 40
Apple One Bundles iCloud, Music, TV+, Arcade, News+ and Fitness+ for $30 a Month 35
Microsoft Wants To Take on Amazon in Connecting Satellites To the Cloud 8
Apple iCloud, Google Drive and Dropbox Probed Over 'Unfair' Terms and Conditions in Italy 50
AWS Introduces a Rust Language-Oriented Linux for Containers 35
Google Cloud Awarded Defense Contract For Cancer Research 5
Xanadu Launches Quantum Cloud Platform, Plans To Double Qubits Every 6 Months 20
ARM Not Just For Macs: Might Make Weather Forecasting Cheaper Too 41
To Assuage Fears of Google Domination, Istio Restructures Its Steering Committee 10
Microsoft Plans Cloud Contract Push With Foreign Governments After $10 Million JEDI Win 29
New Toyotas Will Upload Data To AWS To Help Create Custom Insurance Premiums Based On Driver Behavior 206
Apple Readies Subscription Bundles To Boost Digital Services 27
Dropbox Launches Password Manager, Computer Backup, and Secure 'Vaults' Out of Beta 19
Xbox Series X Launching In November, But Halo Infinite Is Delayed Until 2021 35
Countering Google, Microsoft Promises Its Own Open Source Service Mesh for the CNCF 13
Apple Confirms Cloud Gaming Services Like xCloud and Stadia Violate App Store Guidelines 68
Microsoft-Owned Minecraft Will Stop Using Amazon's Cloud 22
Is Microsoft Planning To Phase Out Xbox Live Gold? 46
Verizon Has Turned To Google Cloud's Contact Center AI To Automate Phone Calls 5
A Volunteer Supercomputer Team is Hunting for Covid Clues 91
Google Scrapped Cloud Initiative in China, 'Sensitive Markets' 13
Amazon Launches Space Push To Drive Cloud-Computing Growth 20
AWS Launches 'Amazon Honeycode', a No-Code App Building Service 43
Microsoft Is Shutting Down Mixer and Partnering With Facebook Gaming 29
AWS Said It Mitigated a 2.3 Tbps DDoS Attack, the Largest Ever 24
Why One of Kubernetes' Creators Moved From Google To Microsoft 23
Google Meet Rolls Out Impressive New Background Noise Cancellation Feature 32
The Future of Xbox Isn't Just a Console 24
France, Germany Back European Cloud Computing 'Moonshot' 78
Google's 'Overpromising' Led To Stadia 'Disappointment,' Says RDR2 Publisher 44
Docker Expands Relationship With Microsoft To Ease Developer Experience Across Platforms 9
What Happens When Software Development Environments Move to the Cloud? 117
Google Cloud Earns Defense Contract Win For Anthos Multi-Cloud Management Tool 21
Gartner Predicts $300 Billion Less IT Spending, More Spending on Cloud Services and Automation 33
Belkin Criticized For Its Upcoming Bricking of NetCams 88
Microsoft VP Asks AWS To 'Stand Down' On JEDI Cloud Protests 74
Copyleft and the Cloud: Where Do We Go From Here? 40
Google Wants Australia To Remove Civil Penalties From CLOUD Act-Readying Bill 9
Zoom Taps Oracle For Cloud Deal, Passing Over Amazon, Microsoft 62
After Prolonged Service Outage, Petnet Shuts Down, Citing Coronavirus 66
Alibaba To Invest $28 Billion In Cloud Services After Coronavirus Boosted Demand 21
Pentagon Watchdog Clears Microsoft's $10 Billion Win Over Amazon 53
Unqork CEO: Anything Java Coders Can Do, No-Code Can Do 200x Faster 206
Microsoft Reports a 775 Percent Increase In Usage of Azure Cloud Services 29
NASA To Launch 247 Petabytes of Data Into AWS, But Forgot About Egress Costs Before Lift-Off 121
Data of Millions of eBay and Amazon Shoppers Exposed 39
Pentagon 'Wishes To Reconsider' $10 Billion JEDI Contract Given To Microsoft 22
D-Wave: Quantum Computing and Machine Learning Are 'Extremely Well Matched' 15
Chrome OS To Get Native App For Printing and Scanning Documents 37
Judge: Amazon 'Likely To Succeed' on Key Issue in Pentagon Lawsuit 24
VMware Embraces Kubernetes in Its Biggest Product Blitz in a Decade 27
Epic Games' Tim Sweeney Rips Google and Apple In Defense of Nvidia's GeForce Now 71
The 'Go' Team Releases Version 1.14 13
Petnet's Smart Pet Feeder Goes Offline For a Week, Can't Answer Customers At All 102
Google Cloud CEO Called Oracle Cloud a 'Disgrace' 40
Breach of MGM Hotels' Cloud Server Exposed Data on 10.6 Million People 15
Google Stadia Is Coming To Samsung, Asus, and Razer Phones On February 20th 20
Do We Need To Talk About 'Cloud Neutrality'? 116
Judge Temporarily Blocks Microsoft Pentagon Cloud Contract After Amazon Suit 59
Nvidia's GeForce Now Is Losing All Activision Blizzard Games 75
Amazon Wants Trump To Testify in Battle Over $10 Billion Pentagon Contract 82
Nvidia Launches Cloud Gaming Service GeForce Now for $5 Per Month 53
Apple Brings iCloud Photos and More To Android With New Web-Based Apps 12
Google Photos Trialing Monthly Subscription To Get Your Best Pictures Auto-Printed 23
Cringely Predicts IBM 'Disappears Into Red Hat' 81
Move Over, Silicon Valley: St. Louis, Atlanta, Small Cities Gaining Tech Jobs 72
Do Emails Contribute to Global Warming? 169
Amazon Asks Court To Halt Microsoft's Work on Pentagon 'War Cloud' 65
Telnet Passwords Leaked For More Than 500,000 Servers, Routers, and IoT Devices 60
Is Google Facing a Backlash From Medical Record Vendors? 12
Why Did Red Hat Drop Its Support for Docker's Runtime Engine? 70
DigitalOcean Is Laying Off Staff 23
Coral Is Google's Quiet Initiative To Enable AI Without the Cloud 8
Amazon To Ask Court To Block Microsoft From Working On $10 Billion JEDI Contract 44
Adobe Brings One of Its Last Legacy Products To the Cloud 25
Microsoft's Azure Cloud Service Is Becoming More Popular Than Amazon's AWS At Big Companies 82
Open Source Initiative Co-Founder Bruce Perens Resigns, Citing Move Toward License 'That Isn't Freedom Respecting' 69
Energy Consumption at Data Centers Will Become 'Unsustainable', Researcher Predicts 121