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Cloud'n'server hosting giant OVH more like OMG: Data center hardware failure knocks out services in France

BT reopens £90m UK High Court case over 1970s VAT 'overpayments'

Lost in translation and adrift in cloud storage

UK big five carriers bin wired broadband download quotas for as long as we're all stuck indoors

Microsoft qualifications will pad the CV for another year, Teams for ventilator boffins, and Windows 10 threatened with very retro news app

Adobe PhoneGap falls between the cracks thanks to new Apple requirements, developers fume

Official tailored Swift for Windows support promised in 5.3

'Social distancing champ' Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.6, tells devs to put health before next release

Poured your info out on a call to 118 118 Money? Bad luck. Credit provider 'fesses up that hacker nabbed customer service phone recordings

You know all those stories of leaky cloud buckets taken offline? Well, some may still be there, just badly hidden

First-ever SANS Women in Cybersecurity survey reveals significant mentorship gaps

Yeah, that Zoom app you're trusting with work chatter? It lives with 'vampires feeding on the blood of human data'

Who the heck even owns this company? Where is it? Biz risk outfit uses graphDBs to build mammoth compliance network

Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit

Kubernetes is 'still hard' so VMware has gone all-in on container-related tech with expanded Tanzu, vSphere 7

How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, and a strong team

UK civil service has a new boss: Alex Chisholm dubbed permanent secretary for the Cabinet Office

BT providing free meals to coax its healthy customer support staff back into office as calls rocket amid pandemic

Leaving Las Vegas... for good? IT industry conference circuit won't look the same on other side of COVID-19 pandemic

Tech's big names start to disclose possible bottom-line coronavirus impacts

Planet Computers has really let things slide: Firm's third real-keyboard gizmo boasts 5G, Android 10, Linux support

What's a Google Play? Huawei talks up fledgling AppGallery store, shows off another voice assistant with a female name

Things that make you go zoom: Huawei rolls out pictastic P40 phones, no Google Play Store in sight

2020 MacBook Air teardown shows in graphic detail how butterfly keyboards were snipped for scissor switch

Geek's Guide

Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Hailing frequencies open, sir... America's Space Force hurls its first military comms satellite into Earth's orbit

Want to see through walls? Electroboffins build tiny chip in the lab that vibrates at just the right frequency to do it

BEHOLD! Japan's Hayabusa2 probe left human imprints on ASTEROID SAND

Call for netizens to demand scraped pics from Clearview, ML weather forecasts, and Star Trek goes high def with AI

Delivery drones: Where are they when we really need them?

Drones intone 'you must stay home,' eliciting moans from those in the zone: Flying gizmos corral Brits amid coronavirus lockdown

Don't believe the hype: Today's AI unlikely to best actual doctors at diagnosing patients from medical scans

Verity Stob

Astroboffin gets magnets stuck up his schnozz trying and failing to invent anti-face-touching coronavirus gizmo

Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman

Lockdown ain't easy. And that's without snoring, burping, hair-shedding seals outside your house

Instagram, YouTube 'iron man' marketer first to be nabbed by Feds cracking down on fake coronavirus web cures

Articles about Cybercrime

Google ads from the po-po can prevent vengeful gamer nerds going full script kiddie – research

'At the exact moment you get curious about getting involved in cybercrime, you get a little tap on the shoulder'

Cybercrook hands cops £923k in Bitcoin made from selling phished deets on the dark web

27-year-old also shipped weed, flogged 'how-to' fraud guides

Hackers seed StatCounter with nasty JavaScript in elaborate Bitcoin cyber-heist caper

UpdatedGate.io exchange believed to be target of embedded attack

UK.gov teams up with Five Eyes chums to emit spotters' guide for miscreants' hack tools

Crouching tiger, hidden APT

China's clampdown on Tor pushes its hackers into foreign backyards

Comparing Middle Kingdom's hacker forums to Russia's? Apples and pears

Payment-card-skimming Magecart strikes again: Zero out of five for infecting e-retail sites

Customer ratings plugin treated to a malicious rewrite to swipe entered banking info

Whose line of attack is it anyway? Cyber-assault whodunnits harder than ever to solve

Sophisticated groups not always so easy to pick out

Sunny Cali goes ballistic, this ransomware is atrocious. Even our IT bill will be something quite ferocious

Stay decrypted, San Diego

Oh Smeg! Hacked white goods maker resurfaces after system shutdown

'No reason to believe' customer deets compromised

Brit airport pulls flight info system offline after attack by 'online crims'

No flight delays at Bristol base, miraculously*

Sextortion scum armed with leaked credentials are persistent pests

If you're going to batter 8,497 folk with over 60,000 threats, odds are someone will crack

Vodafone hounds Czech customers for bills after they were brute-forced with Voda-issued PINs

Crooks cracked phone number accounts with passcode '1234'

Silence! Cybercrime's Pinky and the Brain have nicked $800k off banks

One does dev, the other ops, and they're believed to be former white hats

Fourth 'Fappening' celeb nude snap thief treated to 8 months in the clink

Porridge for pic purloiner

Cobalt cybercrooks phry up phishing campaign to phling at phinance orgs

Emails hiding dodgy scripts designed to plant backdoors

Hackers faked Cosmos backend to hoodwink bank out of $13.5m

Researchers dissect methods behind Indian cyber-heist

Back to school soon – for script kiddies as well as normal kids. Hackers peddle cybercrime e-classes via Telegram

Bitcoin rather than student loan required for fraud classes

Baddies of the internet: It's all about dodgy mobile apps, they're so hot right now

Report lift veil on online fraudsters' current habits

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