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France wants in on the No Huawei Club while Canuck infosec bloke pretty insistent on ban

Cisco and Pure shove mini AI in FlashStack converged systems

French data watchdog dishes out largest GDPR fine yet: Google ordered to hand over €50m

Western Digital deploys heatsink on remodelled M.2 to tempt gamers

We all love bonking to pay, but if you bonk with a Windows Phone then Microsoft has bad news

Canonical brings some bling to the Internet of Things with Snap-happy Ubuntu Core 18 release

Want to spin up Ubuntu VMs from Windows 10's command line, eh? We'll need to see a Multipass

Microsoft's Master Chief calls time on Cortana as a standalone AI platform

French diplomat: Spies gonna spy – there aren't any magical cyberspace laws that can prevent it

Looks like Uncle Sam has pulled its finger out and appointed a Privacy Shield ombudsperson

Stalk my pals on social media and you'll know that the next words out of my mouth will be banana hammock

Get in the bin: Let's Encrypt gives admins until February 13 to switch off TLS-SNI-01

Atlassian barges into the billion dollar club with a cheery G'Day!

The DevOps Salary Report is in, and is great news for American men

Non-profit? Into DevOps, CI/CD, Containers? There’s a CLL ticket with your name on it

Kubernetes co-founder Joe Beda to kick off our Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Dixons Carphone still counting cost of miserly mobile phone sales

Wall St moneymen on IBM Q4 financials: Don't get your hopes up

EU will have agreed a tech tax by March, says French finance minister

Fujitsu says UK Foreign Office can't count in lawsuit over loss of £350m comms contract

Surface: Tested to withstand the NFL. Microsoft firmware updates? Not so much

Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again

Most munificent Apple killed itself with kindness. Oh. Really?

Three quarters of US Facebook users unaware their online behavior gets tracked

Geek's Guide

A Delta IV Heavy heads for space at last while New Horizons' fumes OK for 'future missions'

Holy crappuccino. There's a latte trouble brewing... Bio-boffins reckon 60%+ of coffee species may be doomed

Friday fun fact: If Stegosauruses had space telescopes, they wouldn't have seen any rings around Saturn

RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit

EasyJet boss says pre-Chrimbo Gatwick drone chaos cost it £15m

NHS England digital boss in hot water over 'puff piece' written about her future employer

UK.gov plans £2,500 fines for kids flying toy drones within 3 MILES of airports

Just forget what Gartner said about AI in June 'cos CIOs are all over it now apparently

Verity Stob

Hardworking Americans keep busy during the government shutdown driving up smut traffic

Struggling with GDPR compliance? Don't waste money on legal advice: Buy a shredder

Clone your own Prince Phil, says eBay seller hawking debris left over from royal car crash

Ever feel like all your prayers go unheard? The Catholic Church has an app for that

Personal Tech

Microsoft Surface 3 Windows 8.1 tablet

Surface: Tested to withstand the NFL. Microsoft firmware updates? Not so much

Windows is updating your play-by-play, this may take a while

22 Jan 13:11 | 13

Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again

FeatureThe iPhone time machine takes us back 36 years... to the Apple Lisa

21 Jan 10:00 | 201

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Most munificent Apple killed itself with kindness. Oh. Really?

AnalysisWhy the battery story doesn't add up

17 Jan 10:08 | 106

Three quarters of US Facebook users unaware their online behavior gets tracked

You mean they are collecting our opinions to sell ads? Who would have guessed it?

17 Jan 02:08 | 73

US prosecutors: Hey, you know how we said 'net gambling was OK? LMAO, we were wrong

2011 ban on interstate, foreign sports betting extended to online lotteries, poker, casinos

16 Jan 01:55 | 38

FCC's answer to scandal of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile US selling people's location data: Burying its head in the ground

Congressman warns telco regulator: Must Pai harder

15 Jan 19:42 | 28

Brit comms regulator Ofcom: Disabled left behind by tech

Have fewer phones, less internet access, says report

15 Jan 15:55 | 16

A billion-dollar question: What was really behind Qualcomm's surprise ten-digit gift to Apple?

Is the chip company an abusive monopolist – or tough negotiator?

14 Jan 23:00 | 23

xHamster reports spike in UK users getting their five-knuckle shuffle on before pr0n age checks

Or Jillin' off, for the ladies

11 Jan 12:27 | 120

CES flicks the off switch on massager award… and causes a buzz

Something for the Weekend, Sir?It's not the messiah, it's just very naughty metadata

11 Jan 10:00 | 86

xmas

Gartner: Not a very merry Christmas for PC market as chip shortage bites, small biz vanishes

If you're not Lenovo, HP or Dell it has been a year of shrinkage

10 Jan 23:42 | 5

Tim Cook

Peak Apple: This time it's SERIOUS, Tim

CommentWhat Captain Cook can do next for Cupertino

10 Jan 10:52 | 189

Steamer closets, flying cars, robot boxers, smart-mock-cock ban hypocrisy – yes, it's the worst of CES this year

CES 2019And we're only halfway through the week

10 Jan 00:57 | 47

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Thought Macbooks were expensive? Dell UK unveils the 7 meeeellion pound laptop

Includes a £3m discount. Excludes VAT and delivery

09 Jan 12:36 | 43

Before dipping a toe in the new ThinkPad high-end, make sure your desk is compatible

As in, big enough

09 Jan 09:03 | 61

US trade watchdog, mobe makers queue to smack Qualcomm as antitrust trilogy opens

Will there be a deal or no deal?

08 Jan 02:50 | 21

Low-power chips are secret sauce behind long-life wearables

CES 2019Fancy that – dumb is the new smart

07 Jan 14:58 | 34

My 2019 resolution? Not to buy any of THIS rubbish

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Simply the best! Worse than all the rest!

04 Jan 09:26 | 218

Full frontal vulnerability: Photos can still trick, unlock Android mobes via facial recognition

Dutch consumer club names 42 easy-to-fool cameras

04 Jan 06:01 | 51

Chip-for-tat escalates: Qualcomm's billion-Euro bond to block Apple iPhone sales in Germany

Some mobes off the shelves pending appeal in international patent battle drama

04 Jan 05:06 | 17

Found yet another plastic nostalgia knock-off under the tree? You, sir, need an emulator

Version 8 of Amiga Forever arrives to save the gadget drawer from yet more junk

03 Jan 08:57 | 59

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Apple hardware priced so high that no one wants to buy it? It's 1983 all over again

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Ooh, my machine is SO much faster than yours... Oh, wait, that might be a bit of a problem...

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Holy crappuccino. There's a latte trouble brewing... Bio-boffins reckon 60%+ of coffee species may be doomed

French data watchdog dishes out largest GDPR fine yet: Google ordered to hand over €50m

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Apple blew my mind – literally, says woman: MagSafe plug sparked face-torching blaze, lawsuit claims

Defective kit caused oxygen mask conflagration, court told

03 Jan 07:48 | 43

Nobody in China wants Apple's eye-wateringly priced iPhones, sighs CEO Tim Cook

Peak AppleWho could have guessed the $1,100 phone and $800 watch wouldn't sell?

03 Jan 02:28 | 161

FCC tosses aside rules, treats Google to a happy ending following request for handy tech

Comms watchdog lets Chocolate Factory power up with special waiver

03 Jan 01:50 | 18

Gilets jaunes protests in marseille on 1 december 2018. Pic: GERARD BOTTINO / Shutterstock.com

It's a lot of work, being popular: Apple, Tim Cook and the gilets jaunes

CommentNo phones for the sans-culottes? It's an interesting strategy

21 Dec 18:57 | 34

Apple yanks iPhones from sale in Germany – and maybe China, too – amid Qualcomm spat

Courts crack down on Cupertino idiot-tax operation as tech patent war explodes

20 Dec 22:40 | 25

Lt Commander All Your Data

Mark Zuckerberg did everything in his power to avoid Facebook becoming the next MySpace – but forgot one crucial detail…

CommentNo one likes a lying asshole

20 Dec 00:09 | 224

suunto

Suunto settles scary scuba screwup for $50m: 'Faulty' dive computer hardware and software put explorers in peril

Divers claimed biz knew of defective kit, failed to fix it

19 Dec 07:09 | 99

Newsflash: Twitter still toxic place for women, particular those of color, Amnesty study finds

Journos, politicos trolled, abused 'once every 30 secs'

18 Dec 20:24 | 48

The Palm Palm: The Derringer of smartphones

ReviewA wearable crossed with a mobile? Sounds terrible, but it's lovely

18 Dec 12:00 | 104

Apple iPhone X screen falls short of promises, lawsuit says

Complaint argues false pixels, notch, and measurements don't fit with ad claims

15 Dec 00:45 | 74

Razer offers freebies to gamers who descend into its coin mine

Generate made-up currency in exchange for a different made-up currency

14 Dec 07:01 | 26

grave

Sidecar drags itself out the grave, sues Uber for putting it there

Cab hailing app accuses rival of predatory prices and fake bookings

14 Dec 01:09 | 8

Telcos enlist Google, Amazon to help protect Europe's data from Big Tech

CommentOrange, DT's plan to take on firms that create 'competitive asymmetries'

13 Dec 16:26 | 11

Metaboard with three smartphones

Oxford startup magics up metamaterials for next-gen charging

It doesn't make you invisible, but it could make powerups less painful

13 Dec 09:10 | 29

Limbo dancing skeleton

Microsoft to rule the biz chat roost – survey

Slack off, hipsters

11 Dec 15:30 | 23

College PRIMOS prankster wreaks havoc with sysadmin manuals

Who, Me?Claims it was all for the greater good

10 Dec 07:28 | 120

Google: I don't know why you say Allo, I say goodbye

Sidelined messaging app given end-of-life date of March 2019

07 Dec 12:55 | 35

And the next 7nm laptop processor will be designed by In, er, AM, um, Qualcomm: The 64-bit Arm Snapdragon 8CX

UpdatedThe X is for extreme. Dude?

06 Dec 21:00 | 26

Wintel dust up: Intel supply woes vs Win10 demand

Sorry suits, PC sales set to slide this year despite OS excuse to refresh computer tin

06 Dec 10:17 | 9

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