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Huawei hasn't yet fixed its security vulns, says UK's NCSC overseers

Here's why your next network switch, storage box, or 5G gateway may do more Arm than good: E1, N1 data-center CPU cores aim at future kit

All your ETL pipeline are belong to us: Google snaps up Alooma

Ministry of Defence's new payroll contract is, surprise, surprise, MIA: Missing In Action

Chrome ad, content blockers beg Google: Don't execute our code! Wait, no, do execute our code – just don't kill us!

Germany, US staffers to be hit hardest as SAP starts shedding 4,400 bodies

WWW = Woeful, er, winternet wendering? CERN browser rebuilt after 30 years barely recognizes modern web

CAST links arms with Software Heritage to tease out your open-source ancestry

Check yo self before you HyperWreck yo self: Cisco fixes gimme-root holes in HyperFlex, plus more security bugs

Where's Zero Cool when you need him? Loose chips sink ships: How hackers could wreck container vessels

No RESTful the wicked: If your website runs Drupal, you need to check for security updates – unless you enjoy being hacked

Behold… a WinRAR security bug that's older than your child's favorite YouTuber. And yes, you should patch this hole

Git money, git paid: GitHub waves larger wads of dollar bills to tempt bug hunters

Uptown func: Serverless types Nuweba trouser $4.8m as investors eye faster FaaS

Want to learn how to accelerate your software ops AND save big?

Squarespace's Tanya Reilly to deliver keynote at Continuous Lifecycle London

OK, your boss allegedly called you a lazy n*****, promoted the person you trained ahead of you and paid you less, but you can't PROVE it's racism, Facebook says

What's in a name? Quite a bit when it's the most hated acronym of 2018

Apple reseller Solutions Inc pulls down shutters, calls in administrators

What has an 'open-door policy' with industry and puts the X into NHS? Brits, let app-happy Matt Hancock tell you

Secret mic in Nest gear wasn't supposed to be a secret, says Google, we just forgot to tell anyone

U wot, m8? OMG SMS is back from dead

AGM X3: Swoon at this rugged interloper mobe then throw it on the floor to impress your mates

Turn on, tune in, drop out: Apple's whizz-bang T2 security chips hit a bum note for Mac audio

Geek's Guide

How do you solve a problem like Galileo? With a strap-on L-band payload, of course!

Oldest white dwarf star catches amateur's eye – and its dusty ring leaves boffins baffled

Visited the Grand Canyon since 2000? You'll have great photos – and maybe a teensy bit of unwanted radiation

Surrey Uni mans the space harpoons, and NASA buys more seats on Russian rockets

Europe-style 5G standards testing? Consistent definitions? Who the fsck wants that, asks US mobe industry

Just do IoT? We'd walk a mile in someone else's Nike smart sneakers, but they seem to be 'bricked'

Want to create fake web profile pics? This creepy AI tool makes them on demand. Plus predictive policing, and more

Bloke thrown in the cooler for eight years after 3D-printing gun to dodge weapon ban

Verity Stob

No yoke: 'Bored' Aussie test pilot passes time in the cockpit by drawing massive knobs in the air

'Occult' text from Buffy The Vampire Slayer ep actually just story about new bus lane in Dublin

You know the drill: SAP has asked Joe Public to name Munich arena so go forth and be very silly

Twilight of the sundials: Archaic timepiece dying out and millennials are to blame, reckons boffin

Software

Firing squad

Chrome ad, content blockers beg Google: Don't execute our code! Wait, no, do execute our code – just don't kill us!

Worried devs list Manifest v3 problems they need tweaked

20 Feb 21:02 | 11

Woman packs up contents of desk. Image via shutterstock

Germany, US staffers to be hit hardest as SAP starts shedding 4,400 bodies

ERP biz reportedly ringfencing jobs of machine learning and analytics types

20 Feb 12:59 | 10

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WWW = Woeful, er, winternet wendering? CERN browser rebuilt after 30 years barely recognizes modern web

Berners-Lee's WorldWideWeb code can't handle much, but hey, it now runs in a browser

19 Feb 22:04 | 79

CAST links arms with Software Heritage to tease out your open-source ancestry

Who do you think you are?

19 Feb 15:57 | 5

Splunk does a bunk from Russia: No software and services for you, Putin!

Была́ не была́

19 Feb 12:30 | 12

Down productivity tools: Microsoft Teams takes a Monday tumble

UpdatedIf only Slack would go down too, we could get some work done

18 Feb 16:03 | 28

Windows Subsystem for Linux adds pop to release, SAC-T sacked, crypto-jacking apps: It's Microsoft's week

RoundupMonero? When is this – 2017?

18 Feb 12:20 | 13

After outrage over Chrome ad-block block plan, Google backs away from crippling web advert, content filters

Revised proposals attempt to address worries over Manifest v3 API changes

16 Feb 01:48 | 55

Missed Valentine's Day? Take your beloved to a Visual Studio 2019 launch event instead

Romantic Redmondians pick 14 February to announce April go date for the code wrangler

15 Feb 18:04 | 4

Billionaire Buffett's Berkshire liquidates $2.1bn stake in Oracle – months after buying the shares

Bill Gates' bridge chum's firm buys Red Hat stock

15 Feb 15:51 | 11

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Dratted hipster UX designers stole my corporate app

Reg AppealDo you have a funky makeover horror story? We'd like to know

15 Feb 13:27 | 130

Back to the future

Want to know what 2020 holds? Microsoft has a little something for you

Windows 10 Insiders sent screaming into a future where, er, nothing much has changed right now

15 Feb 10:05 | 19

snail

Why does that website take forever to load? Clues: Three syllables, starts with a J, rhymes with crock of sh...

Ex-Googler reveals study and, yes, we're lookin' at you, WordAds

15 Feb 05:57 | 107

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Oracle's claims of secret deal is a bid to 'distract' from pay bias case, says US Department of Labor

Big Red is red, underpaid staffers are blue. No angry counter-claims can stop that being true

14 Feb 11:57 | 3

Azure Pipelines go Slack while Microsoft frees data breakpoints from the shackles of C++

Redmond opens up the .NET Core 3.0 big box of preview toys

13 Feb 21:00 | 6

Forbidden fruit of smut, gambling iOS apps found flourishing using Apple enterprise certs

13 Feb 15:35 | 3

Ask your data anything, says data viz biz Tableau as it flings 'patent-pending' tech at natural language tool

Plain language questions, automated data prep promised in first release of 2019

13 Feb 09:00 | 3

Ever yearn for the Windows 95 shutdown sound? TADA! There's an Electron app for that

JavaScript emulator gains audio support and proper '90s Doom

11 Feb 13:17 | 30

Skype goes blurry, Office gets a kick in the privacy, and Microsoft takes us back to 1990

RoundupNew Windows 10 build and Small Basic turns 1.0

11 Feb 10:00 | 18

Google's stunning plan to avoid apps slurping Gmail inboxes: Charge devs for security audits

Requirement threatens to break the bank

11 Feb 06:05 | 38

LibreOffice 6.2 is here: Running up a Tab at the NotebookBar? You can turn it all off if you want

A bit last-decade, but there are improvements – and it's free!

08 Feb 15:24 | 147

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Germany tells America to verpissen off over Huawei 5G cyber-Sicherheitsbedenken

A NeXT computer

WWW = Woeful, er, winternet wendering? CERN browser rebuilt after 30 years barely recognizes modern web

Lauri Love outside Westminster Magistrates' Court today. Leaving is building is barrister Andrew Bird for the NCA

Accused hacker Lauri Love loses legal bid to reclaim seized IT gear

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'Occult' text from Buffy The Vampire Slayer ep actually just story about new bus lane in Dublin

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Defaulting to legacy Internet Explorer just to keep that one, weird app working? Knock it off

Microsoft: We know what we said then, listen to what we're saying now

08 Feb 12:10 | 61

Reliable system was so reliable, no one noticed its licence had expired... until it was too late

On Call'Never assume soon means less than lifetime of Universe... in software'

08 Feb 08:10 | 186

Born-again open-source enthusiast Microsoft rucks up at OpenChain

How do you solve a problem like compliance?

07 Feb 19:20 | 12

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Only plebs use Office 2019 over Office 365, says Microsoft's weird new ad campaign

Get with the times, Grandad!

07 Feb 11:58 | 256

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Chrome devs attempt to slip muzzle on resource-guzzling browser beast with 'Never-Slow Mode'

You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain

07 Feb 09:15 | 29

Python code

Website programming? Pffft, so 2011. Python's main squeeze is now data science, apparently

Popular glue coding language sticks to everything

07 Feb 06:04 | 51

Smiling elder man on wheelchair with braided blanket on legs and reads book

Sure, you can keep Grandpa Windows 7 snug in the old code home – for a price

Microsoft turns the screws on those living in the past

06 Feb 15:43 | 159

What matters most to open-source chat plat Mattermost? To shove this fresh $20m into security, privacy

Slack: Cute Series A. Check out our proposed public listing...

05 Feb 15:59 | 1

Windows Defender update: So secure, it wouldn't let Secure-Boot Windows PCs, er, boot

UpdatedOthers still can't even get that far

04 Feb 15:46 | 69

What's that, Skippy? You want a taste of Windows 10 19H2? Oops, too late

RoundupNew exec, new dev toys, and more from the world of Microsoft

04 Feb 11:55 | 24

Using WhatsApp for your business comms? It's either that or reinstall Lotus Notes

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Employers won't provide proper comms and insist it's YOUR fault

01 Feb 09:10 | 127

screenshot of JSON data

A second preview of .NET Core 3? Shucks, Microsoft. You spoil us

JSON writing gets snappier while Remond nails its colours to the IoT mast

31 Jan 18:48 | 21

c++ code

Boffins debunk study claiming certain languages (cough, C, PHP, JS...) lead to more buggy code than others

Hard evidence that some coding lingo encourage flaws remains elusive

30 Jan 21:45 | 154

Scared looking office consultant hides under desk

Want a bit of privacy? Got a USB stick? Welcome to TAILS 3.12

Linux distro image seeks USB drive for private liaison. Discretion assured

30 Jan 16:42 | 33

People celebrating

Stop, collaborate, and listen: Microsoft Teams gets an Atlassian glisten

Forget Skype for Business, we have Jira and Confluence integration

30 Jan 14:42 | 21

Are you a Windows 1 in 10 (1809)? Or a mighty 80 percenter (1803)?

April still on top as Microsoft's difficult October update slowly trickles onto PCs

30 Jan 12:05 | 52

SAP to spend €950m on restructure: The thing is, 'loyal workforce', we want the 'best' minds

Staff 'given the chance' to retire early, overall headcount won't fall

29 Jan 18:00 | 14

Microsoft decides Internet Explorer 10 has had its fun: Termination set for January 2020

Windows Server 2012 admins should crank it up to 11

29 Jan 13:55 | 56

Typescript, PostgreSQL and Visual Studio Code all get slathered with a little Microsoft lovin'

RoundupThere's also another Windows 10 Insider build out

28 Jan 12:05 | 7

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