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Google slides text message 2FA a little closer to the door

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A big ask for any nerd, but going outside (your usual data sets) can be good for you

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You can't find tech staff – wah, wah, wah. Start with your ridiculous job spec

Tell us what you're doing in DevOps, Containers, and Agile

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Windows 10 Fall Creators Update tackles IT's true menace: Cheating gamers

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Jeff Bezos fires off a blue dart, singes Elon Musk and SpaceX

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Once more, with feeling: Dawn to take a closer look at Ceres

Plants in SPAAAAAAACE are good for you

Linux Foundation wants to do to data what it's done for software

Google and Intel cook AI chips, neural network exchanges – and more

Do fear the Reaper: Huge army of webcams, routers raised from 'one million' hacked orgs

Mastercard blockchain: MEEELLIONS. Opening up the API: Priceless

Verity Stob

'Screaming' man fined $149 for singing 'Everybody Dance Now'

We talk to Tron artist Syd Mead: On the other side of the screen, it all looks so easy

Tell the public how much our tram tickets cost? Are you mad?

Please replace the sword, says owner of now-hollow stone

Software

What’s the real point of being a dev? It's saving management from themselves

CommentWhat’s the point of being a developer ? My experience of being one taught me that it isn’t primarily the coding – it’s actually much more important than that.

Andrew Orlowski, 20 Oct 2017

aardvark

Ubuntu 17.10: We're coming GNOME! Plenty that's Artful in Aardvark, with a few Wayland wails

For the first time in recent memory, there are some very big changes in the latest release of Ubuntu: 17.10. And it's not all to do with going, er, GNOME.

Scott Gilbertson, 20 Oct 2017

Speed

Facebook tackles race hate problem head on with programming tool

Clashing threads put in their place by RacerD

Let's dig into how open source could KO the Silicon Valley chat silos

InterviewOpen Xchange boss maps out IMAP scheme

Linux on multiple devices

Samsung to let proper Linux distros run on Galaxy smartmobes

Even penguintastic desktops when lodged in DeX dock

Microsoft concedes to Mozilla: Redmond will point web API docs at Moz Dev Network

Firefox, IE, Chrome makers: One manual to rule them all

Windows Fall Creators Update is here: What do you want first – bad news or good news?

Hands OnCortana is broken, intrusive, but still a must-have upgrade

So the 'Year of Linux' never happened. When is it Chrome OS's turn?

Seeing that the Pixelbook costs $999, don't hold your breath

Programming bootcamp compiles $375,000 check after triggering New York AG's error handlers

AnalysisFlatiron School accused of operating without license, cocking up grad claims

Microsoft faces Dutch crunch over Windows 10 private data slurp

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Euros angry over privacy policy

I love disruptive computer jargon. It's so very William Burroughs

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Let's all affirmerate our modes of acceptancy

Open source sets sights on killing WhatsApp and Slack

ExclusiveSee this IMAP, Zuck? It's pointing right at you

Fear the SAP-slap? Users can anonymously submit questions about licensing naughtiness

Better than having to stump up £54.5m in back payments

Outlook, Office 2007 slowly taken behind the shed, shots heard

Farewell, you're out of extended support: No more updates, security fixes from Microsoft

Visual Studio Team Services having some 'performance issues'

Microsoft suspects 'code change' behind slow calls

Kotlin's killin' Java among Android devs

By the end of 2018, says Realm, Kotlin will overtake Java for Android apps

Cortana, please finish my sentences in Skype texts for me

Redmond's AI assistant can now scan your messages and make your more eloquent

Man closes his eyes and crosses fingers

Frustrated Britons struggle to locate their packages: Royal Mail tracker smacked

UpdatedSome might have to wait a bit longer...

Cliqz recommendations

German Firefox users to test recommendation engine 'a bit like thought-reading'

POLLData capture tool that analyses 'surfing activity' will land in ~1% of browsers

Hammer, spanner and screw

PostgreSQL says SCRAM to MD5 authentication

Version 10 improves replication, simplifies partitioning

Opinion

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New coding language Fetlang's syntax designed to read like 'poorly written erotica'

If you fancy whipping up a bondage loop under a BSDM licence this is the language you've been gagging for

Oracle’s automated database is a minimum viable release - analyst

OPENWORLD WRAPLarry's revolution is incremental change that DBAs need not fear

Onwards to Valhalla: Java ain't dead yet and it's only getting bigger

That is, if the sheer amount biz uses is anything to go by

Mozilla extends, and ends, Firefox support for Windows XP and Vista

Even Extended Support Releases will be naked and alone as of June 2018

Web uni says it will get you a tech job or your money back. So our man Kieren signed up...

Special reportParisian e-learning outfit launches in US

The URL of sandwich: Microsoft Office blogs redirect snafu foils users

A pox on your proxy, seethe Excel-wranglers

FreeBSD gains eMMC support so … errr … watch out, Android

Gadgets that need Flash now have another alternative OS

Ignite: Microsoft drops veil on Honolulu, releases SQL Server on Linux into the wild

What went down last week in Florida?

The axeman strikes again: Microsoft has real commitment issues

CommentYet another product cull raises questions about Microsoft's commitment to... anything, really

Introducing EE4J – Java EE's fling with the Eclipse Foundation

Developers hoping move will reinvigorate the community

Blockchain, AI, chatbots, cloud … Oracle bingo!

OpenWorld 2017Big Red has all this year's big buzzwords covered

Linux kernel long term support extended from two to six years

Google wants Android devices to survive four OS upgrades, even if LTS releases make Linus a bit grumpy

Oracle OpenWorld/JavaOne

Java EE 8 takes final bow under Oracle's wing: Here's what's new

OpenWorldLong-delayed update adds support for modern web tech

Larry Ellison on stage at Oracle's cloud pricing announcement

Oracle promises ‘highly automated’ security in self-driving database

OpenWorld 2017Larry Ellison is keen on ‘Anything we can possibly do to reduce human intervention’

3D selfies

3D selfies? What could possibly go wrong?

AI boffins find box marked 'Pandora', whack it with the AI-hammer

Surgery

MapR to do real-time analytics on your operational data

StrataConfIt's as if the data warehouse never happened. Which may not be a bad thing

SQL Server 2017 runs on Windows and Linux

SQL Server 2017: What's new, what's missing on Linux, and what's next?

IgniteMicrosoft's general manager talks to Reg about cross-platform SQL Server

SPARC will fly: Your cheat sheet for cocktail banter at Oracle's upcoming shindig

OpenWorldOr a little historical insight for those not going

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