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If you can't nail Mike Lynch with fraud claim, judge asks HPE, can he score a win over you?

No, Microsoft's not buying Adobe. ADBE is its edgy take on a smarter network storage gateway

Microsoft trots out Azure Anomaly Detector tech, which oddly enough spots oddities in data

Azure Stack HCI arrives for those who like their apps virtualised rather than cloudy

Ethiopian Airlines boss confirms suspect flight software was in use as Boeing 737 Max crashed

Autonomy paid its own customers to pump up revenues, claims HPE

Builds aplenty, taking calls from the pub with Teams, and Edgy leaks: It's the week at Microsoft

US prosecutors whack another three charges on list against ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch over $11bn HP biz gobble

Asus: Yo dawg, we hear a million of you got pwned by a software update. So we got you an update for the update

DXC Security exec: Yes, I'd have thought we'd spend more on certs and laptop kit for staff, too

Huge news from Apple: No, not mags, games or TV – more than 50 security bugs to patch

Spyware sneaks into 'million-ish' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky

Atlassian bats eyelashes at the enterprise with AgileCraft acquisition

Hey, DevOps fans. We've got another TLA for you to write down: CDF

From on-prem to serverless, here’s how to transform your software ops

Wanna improve your software ops? Need to cut through container hype? Like saving cash?

But we hired a consultant, cries UK pensions biz as it swallows £40k fine for 2 million spam emails

UK pr0n viewers plan to circumvent smut-block measures – survey

Autonomy trial judge gets SaaSy with HPE's lawyer over vital accounts fraud claim

6 days to go, no sweat, just more than a million UK firms still to sign up to Making Tax Digital

Huawei's 2019 flagship smartphones: 'Things nobody else can do' but baby I swear it's déjà vu

NexDock 2: Electric Boogaloo. Crowdfunded laptop shell sequel touts less plastic, more pixels

Netflix wants to choose its own adventure where Bandersnatch trademark case magically vanishes

We fought through the crowds to try Oculus's new VR goggles so you don't have to bother (and frankly, you shouldn't)

Geek's Guide

There are pictures all over the internet of a big dark spot on Uranu... Oh no, wait, it's Neptune

NASA's first all-woman spacewalk outside ISS cancelled – due to lack of spacesuits that fit

NASA 'nauts do what flagship smartphone fans can only dream of: Change the batteries

Boeing big cheese repeats pledge of 737 Max software updates following fatal crashes

Data, mountains and mountains of data, is what drives today's AI. Tune in this week to find out how to juggle it all

With the right training, algorithms can predict Li-ion battery lifetime – with 95% accuracy

What could your biz achieve with machine learning? Find out at our 2019 MCubed AI conf

Dodgy US government facial data grab, self-nannying cars, and a chance for non-techies to learn about AI

Verity Stob

Aussie engineer accuses 'serial farter' supervisor of bullying, seeks $1.8m redress

Google sparks online outcry after its currency converter goes haywire for third time this year

Not quite the Bake Off they were expecting: Canadian seniors served weed-infused brownies

Russian sailors maroon themselves in Bristol Channel after drunken dinghy ride goes awry

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Ethiopian Airlines boss confirms suspect flight software was in use as Boeing 737 Max crashed

Meanwhile American Airlines cancels 90 flights a day

26 Mar 01:04 | 114

Autonomy paid its own customers to pump up revenues, claims HPE

Autonomy TrialHigh Court hears opening shots of long-awaited tech trial

25 Mar 13:09 | 28

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Builds aplenty, taking calls from the pub with Teams, and Edgy leaks: It's the week at Microsoft

RoundupNow with exclusive cult cinema references

25 Mar 11:58 | 21

US prosecutors whack another three charges on list against ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch over $11bn HP biz gobble

What interesting timing

23 Mar 00:37 | 25

Oracle spaffed $30bn on buybacks over the past 9 months, but analysts warn it can't last forever

Big Red in net debt for first time in over a decade – reports

22 Mar 12:37 | 12

Android clampdown on calls and texts access trashes bunch of apps

Users unchuffed, devs pulling bricked wares off Google Play

20 Mar 10:15 | 70

Don't get the pitchforks yet, Apple devs: macOS third-party application clampdown probably not as bad as rumored

AnalysisThe v10.15 will bring tighter security, the escape hatch should remain open for now

20 Mar 01:27 | 40

Microsoft buffs up its open-source halo to fine sheen with PostgreSQL GUI in Azure Data Studio

And an extension for those who prefer Visual Studio Code – but all very preview at the mo

19 Mar 13:55 | 6

Oracle's long-running pension plan class action case: C'mon, judge, reject a jury trial – Big Red

Wants court to decide on accusations it failed to properly police pension investments

18 Mar 11:45 | 12

man gives lecture faces crowd

Apple: Group FaceTime allows up to 32 people! Skype: Hold my beer

RoundupPlus: Builds, Teams, a bit of Xbox and other things Microsoft fiddled with last week

18 Mar 10:42 | 22

man shelters under laptop from mistakes

College student with 'visions of writing super-cool scripts' almost wipes out faculty's entire system

Who, Me?Turns out he probably wasn't smart enough to automate a Unix system update

18 Mar 08:07 | 148

Penguin, photo via Shutterstock

What do WLinux and Benedict Cumberbatch have in common? They're both fond of Pengwin

Distro designed for Windows Subsystem for Linux gains a snappier moniker as 1.2 looms

15 Mar 16:24 | 54

A cat peering through a zipper

Microsoft unzips Zipline, lets world+dog have a go with cloudy storage compression tech

UpdatedZipline, George and Bungle: It's a Rainbow* of open-sourcing at Redmond

15 Mar 12:38 | 18

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Just look at Q! Watch out Microsoft, the next Android has a proper desktop PC mode

Foldable support too

15 Mar 11:03 | 41

Brit prisoners to be kept on the straight and narrow with JavaScript and CSS

That's the sound of the men, working on the blockchain gang

15 Mar 09:35 | 70

Can't do it the US way? Then we'll do it Huawei – and roll our own mobile operating system

Just a plan B, claims Chinese giant, in case we get cut off from Android, Windows

14 Mar 21:26 | 38

Latest Fast Ring build grazes big red button, unintentionally ejects some Windows Insiders

Meanwhile, Skip-Ahead testers glimpse Notepad of the future

14 Mar 12:32 | 14

Boeing... Boeing... Gone: Canada, America finally ground 737 Max jets as they await anti-death-crash software patches

Mad Max airline grudgingly backs decision 'out of an abundance of caution'

13 Mar 19:54 | 142

Nippier blob copying in Azure Storage Explorer? You bet your Az

Command line smarts leave blobs all a bit GUI, thanks to AzCopy

They're BAAACK: Windows 10 nagware team loads trebuchet with annoying reminders to GTFO Windows 7

UpdatedHail of notifications incoming... just be thankful 8 passed you by

13 Mar 10:50 | 163

Windows XP point-of-sale machine gets nasty sniffle. Luckily there's a pharmacy nearby

XP lingers like that cold you just can't shake

13 Mar 10:16 | 64

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Spyware sneaks into 'million-ish' Asus PCs via poisoned software updates, says Kaspersky

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Ethiopian Airlines boss confirms suspect flight software was in use as Boeing 737 Max crashed

Axe, image via Shutterstock

Oracle swings axe on cloud infrastructure corps amid possible bloodbath at Big Red

Dead battery

NASA 'nauts do what flagship smartphone fans can only dream of: Change the batteries

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On the eve of Patch Tuesday, Microsoft confirms Windows 10 can automatically remove borked updates

Install. Uninstall. Boot. Repeat

12 Mar 10:55 | 81

Burn an offering and backup your system cuz Windows 10 19H1 might actually arrive for spring

RoundupPlus: C# editor for Mac fans, Chredge browser news, and more

12 Mar 09:15 | 14

Airlines in Asia, Africa ground Boeing 737 Max 8s after second death crash in four-ish months

Software may have played a grim role in both fatal accidents

11 Mar 18:50 | 155

Small Brit firms beg for 'light touch' as only half are ready for digital tax reforms due next month

We also have Brexit to be utterly unprepared for, yo

11 Mar 15:05 | 53

Glue image, via Shutterstock

Microsoft tweaks Windows 10 on Arm64 to play nicely with KVM

Put away the glue and duct tape, and luxuriate in virtualised goodness

11 Mar 12:38 | 15

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Ubuntu 14.04 LTS media released with APT fix as end of support nears

Canonical will keep Trusty Tahr fixes flowing... for a fee

08 Mar 17:08 | 12

Kylie Jenner attends the MTV Video Music Awards at Radio City Music Hall on August 20, 2018, in New York

Still fewer Windows 10 devices out there than Instagrammer Kylie Jenner has dollars

Microsoft now only 200 million short of that tricky first billion

08 Mar 13:46 | 30

Skype for Web arrives to bring the world together. As long as the world is on Chrome and... Edge?

Hello? Is this thing on?

08 Mar 12:05 | 38

Oracle UK tweaks financial reporting, sees revenues rise

Ah, nice move, Big Red – but what's the plan for next year?

Raspberry Pi 3 Model A+ support to arrive in Linux 5.1

Bonzer Arm update SoCs it to 'em

07 Mar 17:01 | 29

.NET Core 3 Preview 3 takes a bow, but best not hold your breath for the final release

Faint hopes of a Visual Studio 2019 treat dashed on the rocks of 'late 2019'

07 Mar 14:10 | 17

Trisha Gee demonstrates Java 11 features at QCon London - but most developers still use Java 8

'Java 9, it did break some things,' Oracle bod admits to devs still clinging to version 8

'I want to explain why it was necessary'

07 Mar 11:39 | 70

man happy with his calculator

Microsoft flings the Windows Calculator source at GitHub

Something about calc.exe bugging you? Get in there and fix it

07 Mar 10:28 | 56

Oracle to lure boffins with cloud credits, see if enterprise-grade tech can speed up research

Big Red puts name on $3m NSF project: Because academics love a good cloud credit, amirite?

06 Mar 12:08 | 4

ReactOS 0.4.11

ReactOS 0.4.11 makes great strides towards running Windows apps without the Windows

Just nothing too recent, OK?

05 Mar 17:05 | 88

Linux 5.0 is out except it's really 4.21 because Linus 'ran out of fingers and toes' to count on

Ohhh, Torvalds! You are a card!

05 Mar 14:20 | 39

UK.gov's Verify has 'significantly' missed every target, groans spending watchdog

Unclear what risks come with flinging it at the private sector

05 Mar 11:07 | 48

What links US Supreme Court, copyright legal bills, and stadium hot dog prices? A: Oracle

You can't full me, Larry: Rimini swerves $13m invoice in crucial ruling on 'full' versus 'all'

04 Mar 20:44 | 7

Band banned, Tarka arrives on Windows 10 and Visual Studio hits RC status

RoundupJust another week at Microsoft then

04 Mar 10:02 | 22

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