And the cost of hitching their HR and finance system to the cloud? $52.5m over half a decade The good people of Iowa can breathe a sigh of relief as their state government has found a more conventional way of funding a new Workday-based HR and finance project than raiding coronavirus federal aid funds.… …read…

Researchers have discovered new “highly malleable, highly sophisticated” malware from a state-backed Chinese hacker group, according to Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 threat intelligence team. From a report: The malware “stands in a class of its own in terms of being one of the most sophisticated, well-engineered and difficult-to-detect samples of shellcode employed by an…

Elon Musk’s heavy-lifting launcher has been tapped for a pivotal assignment. …read more Source:: CNet

McLaren gave us a shadowy look at the upcoming car beforehand, however. …read more Source:: CNet

Presidents Day sales have started and you can find deep discounts on laptops, including a pair of budget Gateways, Dell and Lenovo 2-in-1s, the Asus ZenBook Duo and a large but impossibly thin-and-light LG Gram. …read more Source:: CNet

Twitter held firm when the Indian government demanded last week that the social media platform take down hundreds of accounts that criticized the government for its conduct during protests by angry farmers. On Wednesday, under threat of prison for its local employees, Twitter relented. From a report: The company, based in San Francisco, said it…

Google is rolling out its bundled VPN to iPhone users on its Fi network. …read more Source:: ZDNet

Super-spy 007 is never without a lifesaving gadget, plus a few that may not seem so immediately useful. CNET staff members pick their favorites. …read more Source:: CNet

The story of Redwall Abbey and its woodland inhabitants is coming to Netflix. …read more Source:: CNet

For the last 11 years [Gunnar Kanold] has run the annual BASIC 10 Liner contest, and the rules for the 2021 edition are now available. There are four categories and each category has specific definitions of what constitutes a line. All entries must run on an 8-bit computer system that can be emulated. The first…