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Google Cloud rolls up in an AMD second-gen Epyc test car, looks you in the eye, pats the passenger seat

Hard Disk Dri, er, Connive: Two sales execs accused by Uncle Sam of bumping up HDD component prices

Japan would like to offer 5G firms cheap loans – because subsidies are only bad when Huawei gets them

Google lives in an Orange submarine: Transatlantic cable will get by with a little help from some friends

Red Hat tips its Fedora at CoreOS Container Linux stans: Hop onto something else, folks, cos this one's on a boat to Valhalla

Oracle gets a bit touchy-feely as CEO Catz shares a digital transformation bedtime story

OK, which Dombås stuffed Windows 10 to bursting at Swedish flatpack flinger?

Chrome 81 beta hooks browser up to Web NFC, augmented-reality features

$2.07bn? That's one Dell of a deal to offload infosec biz RSA

Shipping is so insecure we could have driven off in an oil rig, says Pen Test Partners

Tutanota cries 'censorship!' after secure email biz blocked – for real this time – in Russia

Severe vuln in WordPress plugin Profile Builder would happily hand anyone the keys to your kingdom

Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors to deliver keynote at our fabulous Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Hey GitLab, the 1970s called and want their sexism back: Saleswomen told to wear short skirts, heels and 'step it up'

Get up to speed fast: Sign up now for the DevOps Essentials workshop at our brilliant Continuous Lifecycle London

Everything's coming up Kubernetes: Google Cloud adds support for Windows Server Containers

Auf wiedersehen, pet: UK Deutsche Bank contractors plan to leave rather than take 25% pay cut for IR35 – report

That'll take the spring out of your step: Apple warns of iPhone shortages, revenue miss due to coronavirus

Xerox hopes wining and dining HP shareholders will convince them of takeover

Please, sir, we want some more! TSMC pumps extra $6.7bn into chip fabs to meet demand for new gadgetry

Is it OPPOsites day? Chinese smartphone giant expected to develop its own silicon

Don't Flip out or anything, but the 'flexible glass display' on Samsung's latest pholdable doesn't behave like glass

Samsung gives China wide berth over coronavirus woes, uses sea and air freight to ship smartphone bits to Vietnamese factories

Mi first! Latest Xiaomi flagship storms DxOMark rankings with quartet of powerful cameras

Geek's Guide

Got a few million burning a hole in your back pocket? Why not hitch a ride with SpaceX for orbital hols in 2021-ish?

Jeff Bezos bungs $10bn at climate change after chump change for Oz bush fires

SpaceX's next Starlink volley remains stuck on Earth to glee of astronomers everywhere

'That's here. That's home. That's us': It's 30 years since Voyager 1 looked back and squinted at a 'Pale Blue Dot'

Microsoft to bravely defend US democracy for a slack handful of voters in Fulton, Wisconsin

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a flying solar panel: BAE Systems' satellite alternative makes maiden flight in Oz

Please check your data: A self-driving car dataset failed to label hundreds of pedestrians, thousands of vehicles

Good news: Neural network says 11 asteroids thought to be harmless may hit Earth. Bad news: They are not due to arrive for hundreds of years

Verity Stob

Instagram influencer fools followers into thinking Ikea photoshoot was Bali holiday

Oracle staff say Larry Ellison's fundraiser for Trump is against 'company ethics' – Oracle, ethics... what dimension have we fallen into?

You'll never select all and mark as read again after this tale of peril... Oh, who are we kidding? Of course you will

Bloke forks out £12m, hands over keys to tropical island to shoo away claims that his web marketing biz was a scam

Software

Red Hat tips its Fedora at CoreOS Container Linux stans: Hop onto something else, folks, cos this one's on a boat to Valhalla

Support ends May 26. Users fretting over Fedora CoreOS's limitations might want to jump into Flatcar

18 Feb 14:15 | 1

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Oracle gets a bit touchy-feely as CEO Catz shares a digital transformation bedtime story

Just what is it you lot actually do anyway?

18 Feb 10:31 | 5

Bork!Bork!Bork!

OK, which Dombås stuffed Windows 10 to bursting at Swedish flatpack flinger?

If only there was some way of organising the space

18 Feb 09:15 | 63

Software

Chrome 81 beta hooks browser up to Web NFC, augmented-reality features

'Web apps should be able to do anything native apps can'

17 Feb 16:10 | 26

Software

Microsoft's coding for noobs hits 1.0, decompiling to C# in Visual Studio, and Windows 10X makes its debut... on Mac

RoundupAlso: No HoloLens 2 at Barcelona

17 Feb 14:01 | 6

Software

Early adopters delighted as Microsoft pulls plug on Mobile Backend as a Service. Haha, only joking – they're fuming

'Horrible news' for invested devs

17 Feb 11:45 | 45

Software

Windows Terminal and Azure Data Studio both get a tickle from the Microsoft update fairy

Also: Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 eyes its operating system shackles

14 Feb 18:26 | 8

Software

Another week, another bunch of Windows 10 machines punched by a patch

As 1809 is nudged toward the darkness, the Baron of Bork has plans for 1903 and 1909

14 Feb 14:30 | 52

Software

25 years of Delphi and no Oracle in sight: Not a Visual Basic killer but hard to kill

AnalysisProductivity or performance? Hey, why not both?

14 Feb 13:00 | 151

Software

We're afraid it might be terminal: Tesco top-up box looking less than tip-top

Bork!Bork!Bork!Windows XP – the gift that keeps on giving (until you need it to actually do something)

14 Feb 09:15 | 28

Software

Microsoft brings the pane: You'll be looking at Xamarin and React Native to design apps for dual-screen gizmos

Surface Neo is the most interesting new Windows device in years, but will weary devs support it?

13 Feb 15:58 | 35

Software

Microsoft: Yeah, dual screens are pretty rad, but check out our purple calendar

GPU shenanigans and Linux love also headline a Fast Ring build with… wait for it… new stuff

13 Feb 13:45 | 7

Software

Oracle tells Supremes: Fair use? Pah! There's nothing fair about 'Google's copying'

Should they be allowed to grab our stuff just cos it's 'popular' and it works?

13 Feb 12:32 | 50

Software

It's official: In May, Microsoft will close the door, lock the vault, brick over the entrance of dreaded Windows 10 1809

Now let us never speak of this again

12 Feb 23:21 | 41

Software

Another Windows 10 build sneaks out amid all the foldable fandango

Hey kids, put down those folding fondleslabs and get on Slow Ring with Grandpa Windows

12 Feb 16:15 | 6

Software

Dual screens, fast updates, no registry cruft and security in mind: Microsoft gives devs the lowdown on Windows 10X

Huge changes for how apps run but will it win over users?

12 Feb 13:58 | 118

Software

NBD: A popular HTTP-fetching npm code library used by 48,000 other modules retires, no more updates coming

Downloaded 17m times a week, now coders should consider an alternative

12 Feb 07:44 | 25

Software

Ever had a script you just can't scratch? Excel on the web now has just the thing

It won't be like VBA this time, we promise

11 Feb 20:00 | 43

Software

It's a Bing thing: Microsoft drops plans to shove unloved search engine down throats of unsuspecting enterprises

Default-hijacking browser extension pulled from Office Pro Plus installations

11 Feb 17:01 | 55

Software

Microsoft ups the ante with fix-fixing patch that leaves some Windows Server 2008 machines unable to boot

UpdatedShe applied the fix to fix the fix... I don't know why she did the apply. Perhaps it'll die

11 Feb 11:47 | 37

Google Cloud rolls up in an AMD second-gen Epyc test car, looks you in the eye, pats the passenger seat

Hard Disk Dri, er, Connive: Two sales execs accused by Uncle Sam of bumping up HDD component prices

Japan would like to offer 5G firms cheap loans – because subsidies are only bad when Huawei gets them

Google lives in an Orange submarine: Transatlantic cable will get by with a little help from some friends

Red Hat tips its Fedora at CoreOS Container Linux stans: Hop onto something else, folks, cos this one's on a boat to Valhalla

Oracle gets a bit touchy-feely as CEO Catz shares a digital transformation bedtime story

OK, which Dombås stuffed Windows 10 to bursting at Swedish flatpack flinger?

Chrome 81 beta hooks browser up to Web NFC, augmented-reality features

$2.07bn? That's one Dell of a deal to offload infosec biz RSA

Shipping is so insecure we could have driven off in an oil rig, says Pen Test Partners

Tutanota cries 'censorship!' after secure email biz blocked – for real this time – in Russia

Severe vuln in WordPress plugin Profile Builder would happily hand anyone the keys to your kingdom

Honeycomb CTO Charity Majors to deliver keynote at our fabulous Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Hey GitLab, the 1970s called and want their sexism back: Saleswomen told to wear short skirts, heels and 'step it up'

Get up to speed fast: Sign up now for the DevOps Essentials workshop at our brilliant Continuous Lifecycle London

Everything's coming up Kubernetes: Google Cloud adds support for Windows Server Containers

Auf wiedersehen, pet: UK Deutsche Bank contractors plan to leave rather than take 25% pay cut for IR35 – report

That'll take the spring out of your step: Apple warns of iPhone shortages, revenue miss due to coronavirus

Xerox hopes wining and dining HP shareholders will convince them of takeover

Please, sir, we want some more! TSMC pumps extra $6.7bn into chip fabs to meet demand for new gadgetry

Is it OPPOsites day? Chinese smartphone giant expected to develop its own silicon

Don't Flip out or anything, but the 'flexible glass display' on Samsung's latest pholdable doesn't behave like glass

Samsung gives China wide berth over coronavirus woes, uses sea and air freight to ship smartphone bits to Vietnamese factories

Mi first! Latest Xiaomi flagship storms DxOMark rankings with quartet of powerful cameras

Got a few million burning a hole in your back pocket? Why not hitch a ride with SpaceX for orbital hols in 2021-ish?

Jeff Bezos bungs $10bn at climate change after chump change for Oz bush fires

SpaceX's next Starlink volley remains stuck on Earth to glee of astronomers everywhere

'That's here. That's home. That's us': It's 30 years since Voyager 1 looked back and squinted at a 'Pale Blue Dot'

Microsoft to bravely defend US democracy for a slack handful of voters in Fulton, Wisconsin

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a flying solar panel: BAE Systems' satellite alternative makes maiden flight in Oz

Please check your data: A self-driving car dataset failed to label hundreds of pedestrians, thousands of vehicles

Good news: Neural network says 11 asteroids thought to be harmless may hit Earth. Bad news: They are not due to arrive for hundreds of years

Instagram influencer fools followers into thinking Ikea photoshoot was Bali holiday

Oracle staff say Larry Ellison's fundraiser for Trump is against 'company ethics' – Oracle, ethics... what dimension have we fallen into?

You'll never select all and mark as read again after this tale of peril... Oh, who are we kidding? Of course you will

Bloke forks out £12m, hands over keys to tropical island to shoo away claims that his web marketing biz was a scam

Software

Red Hat tips its Fedora at CoreOS Container Linux stans: Hop onto something else, folks, cos this one's on a boat to Valhalla

Oracle gets a bit touchy-feely as CEO Catz shares a digital transformation bedtime story

OK, which Dombås stuffed Windows 10 to bursting at Swedish flatpack flinger?

Chrome 81 beta hooks browser up to Web NFC, augmented-reality features

Microsoft's coding for noobs hits 1.0, decompiling to C# in Visual Studio, and Windows 10X makes its debut... on Mac

Early adopters delighted as Microsoft pulls plug on Mobile Backend as a Service. Haha, only joking – they're fuming

Windows Terminal and Azure Data Studio both get a tickle from the Microsoft update fairy

Another week, another bunch of Windows 10 machines punched by a patch

25 years of Delphi and no Oracle in sight: Not a Visual Basic killer but hard to kill

We're afraid it might be terminal: Tesco top-up box looking less than tip-top

Microsoft brings the pane: You'll be looking at Xamarin and React Native to design apps for dual-screen gizmos

Microsoft: Yeah, dual screens are pretty rad, but check out our purple calendar

Oracle tells Supremes: Fair use? Pah! There's nothing fair about 'Google's copying'

It's official: In May, Microsoft will close the door, lock the vault, brick over the entrance of dreaded Windows 10 1809

Another Windows 10 build sneaks out amid all the foldable fandango

Dual screens, fast updates, no registry cruft and security in mind: Microsoft gives devs the lowdown on Windows 10X

NBD: A popular HTTP-fetching npm code library used by 48,000 other modules retires, no more updates coming

Ever had a script you just can't scratch? Excel on the web now has just the thing

It's a Bing thing: Microsoft drops plans to shove unloved search engine down throats of unsuspecting enterprises

Microsoft ups the ante with fix-fixing patch that leaves some Windows Server 2008 machines unable to boot

Popular

It is with a heavy heart we must inform you, once again, folks are accidentally spilling thousands of sensitive pics, records onto the internet

Good news: Neural network says 11 asteroids thought to be harmless may hit Earth. Bad news: They are not due to arrive for hundreds of years

Early adopters delighted as Microsoft pulls plug on Mobile Backend as a Service. Haha, only joking – they're fuming

C'mon SPARCky, it's just an admin utility update. What could possibly go wrong?

SpaceX's next Starlink volley remains stuck on Earth to glee of astronomers everywhere

Don't Flip out or anything, but the 'flexible glass display' on Samsung's latest pholdable doesn't behave like glass

Microsoft's coding for noobs hits 1.0, decompiling to C# in Visual Studio, and Windows 10X makes its debut... on Mac

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a flying solar panel: BAE Systems' satellite alternative makes maiden flight in Oz

Please check your data: A self-driving car dataset failed to label hundreds of pedestrians, thousands of vehicles

Auf wiedersehen, pet: UK Deutsche Bank contractors plan to leave rather than take 25% pay cut for IR35 – report

Windows 7 will not go gentle into that good night: Ageing OS refuses to shut down

Starliner snafu could've been worse: Software errors plague Boeing's Calamity Capsule

A new entry in the franchise: Microsoft Windows and the Goblet of Meh

HPE's orders to expert accountant in Autonomy trial revealed

Ex-Autonomy CFO Sushovan Hussain was accused of sexual misconduct against Darktrace staff – report

Come to Five Guys, where the software is as fresh as the burgers... or maybe not

Canary-build Microsoft browser blocks Microsoft extension from inflicting Microsoft search engine

Maker of Linux patch batch grsecurity can't duck $260,000 legal bills, says Cali appeals court in anti-SLAPP case

Oi! You got a loicence for that Java, mate? More devs turn to OpenJDK to swerve Oracle fee

Wake me up before you go Go: Devs say they'll learn Google-backed lang next. Plus: Perl pays best, Java still in demand

Bada Bing, bada bork: Windows 10 is not happy, and Microsoft's search engine has something to do with it

Git takes baby steps towards swapping out vulnerable SHA-1 hashing algo for SHA-256