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Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm, price caps axed

Cloud nine to cloud nein: Google beefs up punters' data encryption to fend off cyber-thieves

Sage still waiting for cloudy investments to make it rain as operating profit tumbles 10.5%

London cops seeking £600m mega IT contract to knock 'towers' sprawl into 'one throat to choke'

WinUI and WinRT: Official modern Windows API now universal thanks to WebAssembly

IBM, Microsoft and Linux Foundation link arms to fight patent trolls with 'multimillion' scheme

Security giants line up behind push to stop stalkerware being used on smartphones

AWS shoves Java 11 support into Lambda serverless toy box

Amnesty slams Facebook, Google over 'pervasive surveillance' business model

UK public sector IT chiefs shrug off breach threats: The data we hold isn't that important

Video-editing upstart bares users' raunchy flicks to world+dog via leaky AWS bucket

Half of Oracle E-Business customers open to months-old bank fraud flaw

HPE has only gone full Kubernetes, pops open new Container Platform

Google promises to be good with Knative as it releases Cloud Run serverless containers

If you've wanted to lazily merge code on GitHub from the pub, couch or beach, there's now a mobile app for that

Just Docker room talk: Container upstart's enterprise wing sold to Mirantis, CEO out, Swarm support faces ax

DXC Technology to enter its purple period as monochrome corporate branding is cast out

Getronics confirms – finally – that CEO has quit following HMRC VAT payment debacle

'Big Bang': Great for creating the universe, but not as an approach to IT migration, TSB told

Royal Bank of Scotland IT contractor ban sparks murmurs of legal action

We lose money on repairs, sobs penniless Apple, even though we charge y'all a fortune

No wonder cops are so keen on Ring – they can slurp your doorbell footage with few limits, US senators complain

Apple's latest keyboard travels back in time to when they weren't crap

Intel end-of-lifing BIOS and driver downloads for dusty hardware

Geek's Guide

Space-wrecks: Elon's prototype Moon ferry Starship blows its top during fuel tank test

50 years on: Apollo 12 failed at selfies but succeeded at dismantling a probe

Anomaly-free SpaceX fires up SuperDracos, ISS astros go iFixit in orbit, and Buran turns 31

NASA told to get act together on commercial crew vendors as chance of US-free ISS rises

Questions hang over Gatwick Airport after low level drone near-miss report

Magic Leap's CFO and creative director quit, and it's not a harbinger of doom or anything

Five new players – including Blue Origin and SpaceX – are now in NASA's race to send landers to the Moon

The US Army recruits WALL-E Chris H as its next-generation bomb disposal robot

Verity Stob

What a load of bollards! Object of bloke's street furniture romp run over

What a boar! Wild pigs snort and snuffle €20k worth of marching powder stashed in Tuscan forest

I've had it with these motherflipping eggs on this motherflipping train

All bets are Hoff: DXC exec is standing for Brexit Party in UK General Election

Emergent Tech

Questions hang over Gatwick Airport after low level drone near-miss report

Whither the £4m drone detection system? Police? Security? Bueller?

20 Nov 16:28 | 59

Emergent Tech

Magic Leap's CFO and creative director quit, and it's not a harbinger of doom or anything

AR hypebeast 'has moved from being an IF company to a WHEN company,' claims outgoing director

19 Nov 20:17 | 34

Emergent Tech

Five new players – including Blue Origin and SpaceX – are now in NASA's race to send landers to the Moon

Pool of companies itching for a slice of the $2.6bn contracts has now grown to 14

19 Nov 07:01 | 27

Emergent Tech

The US Army recruits WALL-E Chris H as its next-generation bomb disposal robot

Terminator it ain't, but should prove useful and a little lovable

18 Nov 22:21 | 28

Emergent Tech

The Bloodhound Gang hits 1,010kph, retreats to lab to work on smashing the land speed record

Supersonic air detected

18 Nov 11:01 | 47

Emergent Tech

Rapid-fire Windows 10 builds, Azure on Arm not for the eyes of mortals, and Teams at 10,000ft

RoundupAll the Microsoft excitement you missed while installing 19H2

18 Nov 10:03 | 8

Artificial Intelligence

Twitter wants help with deepfakes, and Microsoft Azure will rent out new AI chips for its cloud users, and more

RoundupPlus a deepfake video that will freak you out

18 Nov 06:01 | 7

Emergent Tech

Welcome to cultured meat – not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter

The meatball that shook the world has investors salivating

16 Nov 10:03 | 203

Emergent Tech

Can't you hear me knocking? But I installed a smart knocker

Something for the Weekend, Sir?I'll huff and I'll puff...

15 Nov 11:30 | 189

Artificial Intelligence

Boffins harnessed the brain power of mice to build AI models that can't be fooled

How neuroscience can help AI

15 Nov 07:01 | 31

Emergent Tech

NASA spanks $34bn on a disposable rocket – likely to top $50bn by 2024 moon landing

Inspector General's report slams agency for overly optimistic costings

14 Nov 19:37 | 34

Emergent Tech

Magic Leap rattles money tin, assigns patents to a megabank, sues another ex-staffer... But fear not, all's fine

AnalysisWait, wait, wait... there is good news: It has a Spotify app. What a winner

14 Nov 10:17 | 62

Emergent Tech

Thanks, Brexit. Tesla boss Elon Musk reveals Berlin as location for Euro Gigafactory

Was UK even really in the running?

13 Nov 13:58 | 153

Artificial Intelligence

Is this paragraph from Trump or an AI bot? You decide, plus buy your own AI for $399

RoundupAlso Uber to Waymo - I wish I could quit you!

11 Nov 06:01 | 36

Artificial Intelligence

They say lightning never strikes twice, but boffins have built an AI to show where it'll come next

It's like thunder, lightning, the way you code me is frightening

08 Nov 22:31 | 26

Emergent Tech

One man's mistake, missing backups and complete reboot: The tale of Europe's Galileo satellites going dark

Also organizational chaos, secrecy and self-regulation

08 Nov 21:52 | 149

Emergent Tech

Robotics mastermind admits: I pushed over my 1-year-old daughter to understand balance

'We're still good pals,' says Boston Dynamics CEO

08 Nov 17:00 | 24

Artificial Intelligence

Here are some deadhead jobs any chatbot could take over right now

Something for the Weekend, Sir?And how I got blackmailed by a computerised French lesson

08 Nov 10:00 | 107

Artificial Intelligence

Enjoy a tipple or five? You might need this AI system to tell you when it's time for a new liver

Email scans try to spot brain damage before it kills you

08 Nov 07:01 | 23

Emergent Tech

Need a special something on which to spank $3,500? HoloLens 2 is finally shipping

Look like RoboCop, play with holograms

07 Nov 13:13 | 10

Artificial Intelligence

What could go wrong? Redmond researchers release a blabbering bot trained on Reddit chats

But you're going to have to insert a decoder yourself as Microsoft's left the safety on this tech

07 Nov 07:03 | 23

Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm, price caps axed

Cloud nine to cloud nein: Google beefs up punters' data encryption to fend off cyber-thieves

Sage still waiting for cloudy investments to make it rain as operating profit tumbles 10.5%

London cops seeking £600m mega IT contract to knock 'towers' sprawl into 'one throat to choke'

WinUI and WinRT: Official modern Windows API now universal thanks to WebAssembly

IBM, Microsoft and Linux Foundation link arms to fight patent trolls with 'multimillion' scheme

Security giants line up behind push to stop stalkerware being used on smartphones

AWS shoves Java 11 support into Lambda serverless toy box

Amnesty slams Facebook, Google over 'pervasive surveillance' business model

UK public sector IT chiefs shrug off breach threats: The data we hold isn't that important

Video-editing upstart bares users' raunchy flicks to world+dog via leaky AWS bucket

Half of Oracle E-Business customers open to months-old bank fraud flaw

HPE has only gone full Kubernetes, pops open new Container Platform

Google promises to be good with Knative as it releases Cloud Run serverless containers

If you've wanted to lazily merge code on GitHub from the pub, couch or beach, there's now a mobile app for that

Just Docker room talk: Container upstart's enterprise wing sold to Mirantis, CEO out, Swarm support faces ax

DXC Technology to enter its purple period as monochrome corporate branding is cast out

Getronics confirms – finally – that CEO has quit following HMRC VAT payment debacle

'Big Bang': Great for creating the universe, but not as an approach to IT migration, TSB told

Royal Bank of Scotland IT contractor ban sparks murmurs of legal action

We lose money on repairs, sobs penniless Apple, even though we charge y'all a fortune

No wonder cops are so keen on Ring – they can slurp your doorbell footage with few limits, US senators complain

Apple's latest keyboard travels back in time to when they weren't crap

Intel end-of-lifing BIOS and driver downloads for dusty hardware

Space-wrecks: Elon's prototype Moon ferry Starship blows its top during fuel tank test

50 years on: Apollo 12 failed at selfies but succeeded at dismantling a probe

Anomaly-free SpaceX fires up SuperDracos, ISS astros go iFixit in orbit, and Buran turns 31

NASA told to get act together on commercial crew vendors as chance of US-free ISS rises

Questions hang over Gatwick Airport after low level drone near-miss report

Magic Leap's CFO and creative director quit, and it's not a harbinger of doom or anything

Five new players – including Blue Origin and SpaceX – are now in NASA's race to send landers to the Moon

The US Army recruits WALL-E Chris H as its next-generation bomb disposal robot

What a load of bollards! Object of bloke's street furniture romp run over

What a boar! Wild pigs snort and snuffle €20k worth of marching powder stashed in Tuscan forest

I've had it with these motherflipping eggs on this motherflipping train

All bets are Hoff: DXC exec is standing for Brexit Party in UK General Election

Emergent Tech

Questions hang over Gatwick Airport after low level drone near-miss report

Magic Leap's CFO and creative director quit, and it's not a harbinger of doom or anything

Five new players – including Blue Origin and SpaceX – are now in NASA's race to send landers to the Moon

The US Army recruits WALL-E Chris H as its next-generation bomb disposal robot

The Bloodhound Gang hits 1,010kph, retreats to lab to work on smashing the land speed record

Rapid-fire Windows 10 builds, Azure on Arm not for the eyes of mortals, and Teams at 10,000ft

Twitter wants help with deepfakes, and Microsoft Azure will rent out new AI chips for its cloud users, and more

Welcome to cultured meat – not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter

Can't you hear me knocking? But I installed a smart knocker

Boffins harnessed the brain power of mice to build AI models that can't be fooled

NASA spanks $34bn on a disposable rocket – likely to top $50bn by 2024 moon landing

Magic Leap rattles money tin, assigns patents to a megabank, sues another ex-staffer... But fear not, all's fine

Thanks, Brexit. Tesla boss Elon Musk reveals Berlin as location for Euro Gigafactory

Is this paragraph from Trump or an AI bot? You decide, plus buy your own AI for $399

They say lightning never strikes twice, but boffins have built an AI to show where it'll come next

One man's mistake, missing backups and complete reboot: The tale of Europe's Galileo satellites going dark

Robotics mastermind admits: I pushed over my 1-year-old daughter to understand balance

Here are some deadhead jobs any chatbot could take over right now

Enjoy a tipple or five? You might need this AI system to tell you when it's time for a new liver

Need a special something on which to spank $3,500? HoloLens 2 is finally shipping

What could go wrong? Redmond researchers release a blabbering bot trained on Reddit chats

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Royal Bank of Scotland IT contractor ban sparks murmurs of legal action

Microsoft joins Google and Mozilla in adopting DNS over HTTPS data security protocol

Brexit bad boy Arron Banks' Twitter account hacked: Private messages put online

DXC is 'fixable', new boss says, unveiling plans to up headcount and tackle red accounts

50 years on: Apollo 12 failed at selfies but succeeded at dismantling a probe

Magic Leap's CFO and creative director quit, and it's not a harbinger of doom or anything

Second time lucky: Sweden drops Julian Assange rape investigation

Five new players – including Blue Origin and SpaceX – are now in NASA's race to send landers to the Moon

Who loves Brexit? Irish distributors ... after their sales jump by a third

Cisco blasts sueball at 3 ex-employees it claims handed trade secrets over to same rival

This news article about the full public release of OpenAI's 'dangerous' GPT-2 model was part written by GPT-2

Remember the Uber self-driving car that killed a woman crossing the street? The AI had no clue about jaywalkers

Heads up from Internet of S*!# land: Best Buy's Insignia 'smart' home gear will become very dumb this Wednesday

OneCoin lawyer trial kicks off in NY as cryptocurrency founder remains on the lam

I cannae do it, captain, I'm giving it all she's got, but she just cannae take another dose of bullsh!t

Watch Waymo's totally driverless self-driving car cruise around, how the US military wants to use AI ethically, etc

Boffins don bad 1980s fashion to avoid being detected by object-recognizing AI cameras

Thought you were good at StarCraft? DeepMind's AI bot proves better than 99.8% of fleshy humans

The Feds are building an America-wide face surveillance system – and we're going to court to prove it, says ACLU

The UK's Civil Aviation Authority asked drone orgs to email fliers' data in an Excel spreadsheet

'Earworn Wearables' will save the day (wireless earbuds, but cool name for your D&D halfling)