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Daniel Radcliffe has responded to JK Rowling’s offensive anti-transgender tweets, with the Harry Potter star calling out the author on “erasing the identity and dignity of transgender people.” Radcliffe contextualised that by noting that Rowling is “unquestionably responsible for the course my life has taken”, but he felt “compelled” ...

The DataON Kepler-47 G2 is a two-node hyperconverged infrastructure offering designed specifically for small and remote offices. In these cases there's a need for enterprise capabilities, at an affordable price point. Kepler-47 G2 delivers by leveraging Microsoft Azure Stack HCI on the software side, on top of twin HCI nodes that use Intel server CPUs and a variety of storage configurations. What's more, Kepler-47 can be configured switchless, where the nodes are direct connected to each other. This reduces complexity in configuration and deployment, while also eliminating the expense of a switch. (more…)

Google CEO Sundar Pichai addressed students worldwide through a virtual graduation ceremony hosted by YouTube where he urged them to “be hopeful”.

Lockdown 4.0 was the top trending search term overall in India during May, Google highlighted while detailing search trends on the coronavirus outbreak in the country.

Microsoft has finally added music controls to the Your Phone app on Windows 10. This feature allows users to control their songs playing on their Android phone from their Windows desktop.

Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling has drawn severe backlash for a series of tweets that were seen as anti-transgender. Rowling seemingly conflated sex with gender. She also questioned the use of the phrase “people who menstruate”.

Mi Notebook is all set to debut as Xiaomi’s first laptop in India on June 11. The laptop will not only mark its India debut next week, but this will also be its global debut. Despite selling several laptop models in China, the company is bringing an India-specific laptop for the country.

Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian on Friday resigned from the social network firm's board and sought to be replaced by a black candidate.

In this week's podcast Brian sits down with Kris Moore from iXsystems. Kris gives an update on the progress of merging FreeNAS and the TrueNAS code bases together, which eventually turns FreeNAS into TrueNAS CORE. CORE is the same software and feature set, with a fancy new name. Kris also gives an update on an announcement from this week, the unveiling of TrueNAS SCALE, which opens up a ton of potential for the TrueNAS platform, highlighted by scalability of course, and an option to run in an HCI configuration. (more…)

This week, NetApp announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Spot, a compute management and cost optimization on the public clouds company, to establish leadership in Application Driven Infrastructure (ADI). Spot, a cloud platform company, provides a combination of tools for visibility and automation, that drive continuous optimization of workloads in a single platform while maintaining both SLA and SLO. (more…)