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Core blimey... When is an AMD CPU core not a CPU core? It's now up to a jury of 12 to decide

Veeam: Users are crying out for cloud tiers

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

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

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

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

Tens to be disappointed as Windows 10 Mobile death date set: Doomed phone OS won't see 2020

Wow, fancy that. Web ad giant Google to block ad-blockers in Chrome. For safety, apparently

Heads up: Debian's package manager is APT for root-level malware injection... Fix out now to thwart MITM hijacks

En garde! 'Cyber-war has begun' – and France will hack first, its defence sec declares

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

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

Stage fright or Stage light? Depends how far you dare to open your MacBook Pro's lid

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?

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

Software

Microsoft Wallet

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

Look, the platform is dead. Will you just move on already?

22 Jan 16:33 | 22

Internet of things in the cloud

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

Ubuntu here, there, everywhere

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

RoundupPlus: Retail services win for Azure and 365, new toy for XAML UWP devs, and more

21 Jan 10:36 | 19

Tens to be disappointed as Windows 10 Mobile death date set: Doomed phone OS won't see 2020

Microsoft to hang up support on 10 December

18 Jan 23:59 | 79

Red Hat gets heebie-jeebies over MongoDB's T&Cs squeeze: NoSQL database dropped from RHEL 8B over license

'The Server Side Public License v1 does not meet standards'

17 Jan 21:09 | 6

It’s baaack – Microsoft starts pushing out the Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Set to update automatically? Say hello to my little friend…

17 Jan 21:00 | 50

Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open'

'They used to be seen as the good guys, and Oracle was the bad guy'. So that means... everyone is the bad guy now?

17 Jan 16:42 | 49

Like, subscribe and comment: Sage takes a breath as cloud sales bounce

'Ecncouraging' numbers as it switches from licensing to subs push

17 Jan 13:11 | 4

Cortana and Search to innovate separately in an amicable Windows 10 Insider split

Microsoft introduces the Schrödinger Linux Subsystem. (It might work. It might not.)

17 Jan 12:32 | 17

google search page - feeling lucky

Do you feel 'lucky', well, do you, punk? Google faces down magic button patent claim

Israeli company was 'feeling lucky' but lost out

17 Jan 00:48 | 50

Image of missile and pen to evoke peace treaty

Extra life! Unity tries to undo disunity caused by Improbable cloud gaming toolkit ban

Community outcry over exile of cloud networking biz leads to terms of service revision

16 Jan 21:52 | 4

Death

IBM to kill off Watson... Workspace from end of February

Not even using the founder's brand could save Big Blue's Slack for suits

16 Jan 13:03 | 46

Outlook Mobile heads to the White House, passes infosec clearance for federal sector

Need to email an order for a s*$tload of hamburgers from your smartphone? Microsoft has an app for that

16 Jan 11:42 | 18

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Google to yoink apps with an unauthorized Call Log or SMS habit from Android Play Store

'We take access to sensitive data and permissions very seriously...' No giggling, please

15 Jan 21:25 | 21

Google hands out roses to preferred Android MDM vendors

Lucky few get Chocolate Factory's endorsement as Enterprise Mobility Management

15 Jan 17:00 | 4

No more Windows build strings for you: BuildFeed has turned off the lights

Blames 'internal pressures' rather than a software giant getting stroppy about foldables

15 Jan 11:50 | 11

While Windows 7 wobbled, AI continued its relentless march at Microsoft

Plenty of Python news emitted from Redmond in this week's round-up

15 Jan 09:15 | 31

US Department of Defense to fling $1.76bn at Microsoft

Enough to build a Wall.... of Windows consultants around Washington

14 Jan 11:40 | 31

NHS England's chief digital officer goes full digital, ditches health service for GP app biz

Juliet Bauer to join Livi in April

11 Jan 16:09 | 31

It WASN'T the update, says Microsoft: Windows 7 suffers identity crisis as users hit by activation errors

Activation server fiddling on day of monthly update... really?

11 Jan 11:55 | 69

Amazon takes aim at MongoDB with launch of Mongo-compatible DocumentDB

Move comes after database upstart mooted new licence to stop cloud giants ripping off its tech

10 Jan 14:59 | 11

MOST READ

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

Oops expression by IT admin

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

coffee_addict

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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Windows 10 Insiders sent on quest deep into Registry to fetch goblet of Reserved Storage

It's dangerous to go alone, take these WSL tweaks too

10 Jan 12:36 | 37

This July, Google will weep for there are no more worlds to banhammer: 'Bad ads' to be blocked globally

Advertising giant insists annoying banners are rare... and killable by Chrome

09 Jan 22:22 | 22

Microsoft wins today's buzzword bingo with empowering set of updates to Teams

I have to celebrate you baby, I have to praise you like I should

09 Jan 18:27 | 17

Just updated Windows 7? Can't access network shares? It isn't just you

UpdatedMicrosoft's workaround: Stop using local admin accounts, dammit!

09 Jan 16:57 | 95

Microsoft Hard Hats (pic: Microsoft)

Microsoft vows to destroy Office, er, offices: Campus to be demolished and rebuilt

Alternative headline: Redmond smashes windows to bits

09 Jan 13:56 | 37

Bash

Bish, Bash... gosh! Good ol' Bourne Again Shell takes a bow as it reaches version five-point-zero

Trusty command interpreter gains some new toys and a jolly good buffing

09 Jan 06:26 | 45

Restaurant table reserved

Excuse me, sir. You can't store your things there. Those 7 gigabytes are reserved for Windows 10

Buying a new PC in 2019? You may have a bit less disk space than you were expecting

08 Jan 12:27 | 206

Microsoft pulls Office 2010 updates because they're big in Japan. As in, big pain in the ASCII

Software performance tweaks have opposite effect

08 Jan 06:24 | 11

This is the final straw, evil Microsoft. Making private GitHub repos free? You've gone too far

First Redmond takes over code hotel, now it's telling us: You will, er, won't pay for this

07 Jan 19:48 | 126

Linux reaches the big five (point) oh

Torvalds has run out of fingers and toes, so version 5.0 RC1 is here

07 Jan 14:12 | 43

Ballyhoo about Bali, Azure Migrations and Mac OneDrive users get some on-demand love

RoundupMicrosoft had a busy first week of the year. How about you?

07 Jan 10:19 | 3

Two baby boys playing with sand in a sandbox

Grab a bucket and spade: Sandbox open for Insiders again with fresh Windows 10 build

Oh, and Cortana? STFU

04 Jan 16:09 | 13

Encryption? This time it'll be usable, Thunderbird promises

A generation that tried the PGP plugin weeps

04 Jan 10:30 | 89

Cat in tupperware image via Shutterstock

Insiders! The good news: Windows 10 Sandbox is here for testing. Bad news: Microsoft has already broken it

New hotness turned to old and busted in record time thanks to Internet Explorer update

03 Jan 12:44 | 24

Mats Jarlstrom, pointing to a traffic light camera

Oregon can't stop people from calling themselves engineers, judge rules in Traffic-Light-Math-Gate

Licensing red-tape violate First Amendment, says court in battle over timing algorithm

02 Jan 20:33 | 152

Microsoft's 2018, part 2: Azure data centres heat up and Windows 10? It burns! It burns!

Remains of the year laid bare as we flay July to December

28 Dec 09:23 | 32

Racing at the speed of light, Sage superhero bursts through the door...

On Call...And reveals rather too much to the staffer in the room

27 Dec 11:40 | 67

Microsoft's 2018, part 1: Open source, wobbly Windows and everyone's going to the cloud

The Vulture picks over the remnants of January to June

25 Dec 11:00 | 24

Slap for Slack chat app after US, Canada chaps zapped in Iranian IP address map whack

Export ban compliance turns into geo-location gaffe fest

21 Dec 01:52 | 26

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