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5G SIM-swap attacks could be even worse for industrial IoT than now

TalkTalk says it's yet to close deal on FibreNation as UK telecoms industry reels over Labour's nationalisation plans

Use the courts, Jeff: Amazon to contest Microsoft scooping $10bn JEDI contract

Labour: Free British broadband for country if we win general election

Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java, AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes

White Screen of Death: Admins up in arms after experimental Google emission borks Chrome

Like a BAT outta hell, Brave browser hits 1.0 with crypto-coin rewards for your fave websites

GitHub gathers friends for a security code cleanse to scrub that software up to spec

Denial of service kingpin hit with 13 months denial of freedom and a massive bill to pay

1Password hopes to cross some items off its todo list with help from $200m in venture capital

Try as they might, ransomware crooks can't hide their tells when playing hands

What a pair of Massholes! New England duo cuffed over SIM-swapping cryptocoin charges

Google promises to be good with Knative as it releases Cloud Run serverless containers

If you've wanted to lazily merge code on GitHub from the pub, couch or beach, there's now a mobile app for that

Just Docker room talk: Container upstart's enterprise wing sold to Mirantis, CEO out, Swarm support faces ax

Redis releases automatic cluster recovery for Kubernetes and RedisInsight GUI tool

Uncle Sam prepping order to extradite ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch from the UK

Tonight on Tales from the Crypto: It lives! GPU flinger Nvidia bouncing back after miner affair

High Court dismisses nameless Google Right To Be Forgotten sueball man... yes, again

In your face! US Senate mulls bipartisan federal law on police facial recognition use

Huawei's first Google-free phone stripped and searched: Repair not too painful... once you're in

Feds indict 14 over alleged scheme to get Apple to replace fake iPhones with real ones

Weird flex but OK... Motorola's comeback is a $1,500 Razr flip-phone with folding 6.2" screen

Judge shoots down Trump admin's efforts to allow folks to post shoddy 3D printer gun blueprints online

Geek's Guide

Physicists are rather giddy after creating a rare type of laser using laughing gas

Boffins show the 2017 Nork nuke can move, move, move any mountain (by a meter)

50 years ago, someone decided it would be OK to fire Apollo 12 through a rain cloud. Awks, or just 'SCE to Aux'?

NASA boffins tackle Nazi alien in space – with the help of Native American tribal elders

Welcome to cultured meat - not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter

Can't you hear me knocking? But I installed a smart knocker

Boffins harnessed the brain power of mice to build AI models that can't be fooled

NASA spanks $34bn on a disposable rocket – likely to top $50bn by 2024 moon landing

Verity Stob

What a load of bollards! Object of bloke's street furniture romp run over

What a boar! Wild pigs snort and snuffle €20k worth of marching powder stashed in Tuscan forest

I've had it with these motherflipping eggs on this motherflipping train

All bets are Hoff: DXC exec is standing for Brexit Party in UK General Election

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Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java, AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes

The case that just won't die

15 Nov 21:09 | 42

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White Screen of Death: Admins up in arms after experimental Google emission borks Chrome

Change rolled back, but it's not a good look

15 Nov 16:00 | 36

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Like a BAT outta hell, Brave browser hits 1.0 with crypto-coin rewards for your fave websites

*Cough cough*

15 Nov 09:15 | 46

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GitHub gathers friends for a security code cleanse to scrub that software up to spec

Rallies partners and shares tools to reduce software bugs

14 Nov 22:02 |

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Microsoft's first build of Armium Edge now lurks in Canary channel – go have a play if you dare

Plus: Windows 10 19H2 quietly shuffles out of the shadows

14 Nov 17:07 | 5

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Fancy renting your developer environment? Visual Studio goes online

Or you could try Gitpod...

13 Nov 10:00 | 29

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Four go wild for wasm: Corporate quartet come together to build safe WebAssembly sandbox

Chipzilla, Mozilla, Fastly, and IBM's red-hatted stepchild plot browser-breakout

13 Nov 08:01 | 12

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Next year's Windows 10 comes bounding into the Slow Ring, which means 19H2 waits in the wings

Insiders can no longer jump off the testing train

12 Nov 12:07 | 26

Software

Without any apparent irony, Google marks Chrome's 'small' role in web ecosystem

Chrome Dev Summit also brings resolution of tabs vs. spaces fight, for now

12 Nov 08:01 | 76

Software

What's that, Skippy? A sad-faced Microsoft engineer has arrived with an axe? Skippy?

RoundupPlus: New toys for Teams, a fresh Visual Studio Code, and more

11 Nov 10:01 | 19

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Microsoft's phrase of the week was 'tech intensity' and, no, we're not sure what it means either

Ignite(Tech adoption x tech capability ) ^ trust, anyone?

08 Nov 15:04 | 20

Software

Google throws new version of Dart at the desktop, will be hoping it sticks with app devs

Reformed JavaScript killer now useful on the command line

08 Nov 05:00 | 15

Software

Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

Data analytics helps to boost contributions by 151%

07 Nov 18:00 | 14

Software

Microsoft looks to React Native as a way to tackle the cross-platform development puzzle

IgniteWindows and Office teams shun Xamarin in favour of JavaScript/C++ solution

07 Nov 15:00 | 16

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Chrome OS: Yo dawg, I heard you like desktops so we put a workspace in your workspace

So you can work on something while you work on something

06 Nov 17:42 | 49

Software

What is this, 1989? Laplink is still a thing and wants to help with Windows 7 migrations

Software survivor celebrates middle age with facelift

06 Nov 15:09 | 78

Software

NPM today stands for Now Pay Me: JavaScript packaging biz debuts conduit for funding open-source coders

Like a particular module? You're one command away from being able to donate some dosh for it

06 Nov 08:09 | 27

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Hey, corporate types. Microsoft would really love to pick your brains about Project Cortex

IgniteIt's like an automatic knowledgebase creator for enterprise intranet

05 Nov 13:26 | 6

Software

Bad news, developers: Apple Mac App Store tells cross-platform Electron apps to get lost

Programmers who reoffend risk permanent exile from the fondleslab empire

05 Nov 08:02 | 49

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PowerPoint! Word! Excel! Lens! By your powers combined, I am Captain Mobile Office

IgniteMicrosoft revamps suite as single application

04 Nov 15:05 | 19

Software

Pencil 15 Jan 2020 in your diary: That's when Microsoft hopes you'll be at the cutting Edge... Chromium style

IgniteDay after termination of Windows 7 support. Plus: First Release Candidate arrives

04 Nov 14:04 | 10

5G SIM-swap attacks could be even worse for industrial IoT than now

TalkTalk says it's yet to close deal on FibreNation as UK telecoms industry reels over Labour's nationalisation plans

Use the courts, Jeff: Amazon to contest Microsoft scooping $10bn JEDI contract

Labour: Free British broadband for country if we win general election

Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java, AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes

White Screen of Death: Admins up in arms after experimental Google emission borks Chrome

Like a BAT outta hell, Brave browser hits 1.0 with crypto-coin rewards for your fave websites

GitHub gathers friends for a security code cleanse to scrub that software up to spec

Denial of service kingpin hit with 13 months denial of freedom and a massive bill to pay

1Password hopes to cross some items off its todo list with help from $200m in venture capital

Try as they might, ransomware crooks can't hide their tells when playing hands

What a pair of Massholes! New England duo cuffed over SIM-swapping cryptocoin charges

Google promises to be good with Knative as it releases Cloud Run serverless containers

If you've wanted to lazily merge code on GitHub from the pub, couch or beach, there's now a mobile app for that

Just Docker room talk: Container upstart's enterprise wing sold to Mirantis, CEO out, Swarm support faces ax

Redis releases automatic cluster recovery for Kubernetes and RedisInsight GUI tool

Uncle Sam prepping order to extradite ex-Autonomy boss Mike Lynch from the UK

Tonight on Tales from the Crypto: It lives! GPU flinger Nvidia bouncing back after miner affair

High Court dismisses nameless Google Right To Be Forgotten sueball man... yes, again

In your face! US Senate mulls bipartisan federal law on police facial recognition use

Huawei's first Google-free phone stripped and searched: Repair not too painful... once you're in

Feds indict 14 over alleged scheme to get Apple to replace fake iPhones with real ones

Weird flex but OK... Motorola's comeback is a $1,500 Razr flip-phone with folding 6.2" screen

Judge shoots down Trump admin's efforts to allow folks to post shoddy 3D printer gun blueprints online

Physicists are rather giddy after creating a rare type of laser using laughing gas

Boffins show the 2017 Nork nuke can move, move, move any mountain (by a meter)

50 years ago, someone decided it would be OK to fire Apollo 12 through a rain cloud. Awks, or just 'SCE to Aux'?

NASA boffins tackle Nazi alien in space – with the help of Native American tribal elders

Welcome to cultured meat - not pigs reading Proust but a viable alternative to slaughter

Can't you hear me knocking? But I installed a smart knocker

Boffins harnessed the brain power of mice to build AI models that can't be fooled

NASA spanks $34bn on a disposable rocket – likely to top $50bn by 2024 moon landing

What a load of bollards! Object of bloke's street furniture romp run over

What a boar! Wild pigs snort and snuffle €20k worth of marching powder stashed in Tuscan forest

I've had it with these motherflipping eggs on this motherflipping train

All bets are Hoff: DXC exec is standing for Brexit Party in UK General Election

Software

Oracle and Google will fight in court over Java, AGAIN and this time it's going to the Supremes

White Screen of Death: Admins up in arms after experimental Google emission borks Chrome

Like a BAT outta hell, Brave browser hits 1.0 with crypto-coin rewards for your fave websites

GitHub gathers friends for a security code cleanse to scrub that software up to spec

Microsoft's first build of Armium Edge now lurks in Canary channel – go have a play if you dare

Fancy renting your developer environment? Visual Studio goes online

Four go wild for wasm: Corporate quartet come together to build safe WebAssembly sandbox

Next year's Windows 10 comes bounding into the Slow Ring, which means 19H2 waits in the wings

Without any apparent irony, Google marks Chrome's 'small' role in web ecosystem

What's that, Skippy? A sad-faced Microsoft engineer has arrived with an axe? Skippy?

Microsoft's phrase of the week was 'tech intensity' and, no, we're not sure what it means either

Google throws new version of Dart at the desktop, will be hoping it sticks with app devs

Python overtakes Java to become second-most popular language on GitHub after JavaScript

Microsoft looks to React Native as a way to tackle the cross-platform development puzzle

Chrome OS: Yo dawg, I heard you like desktops so we put a workspace in your workspace

What is this, 1989? Laplink is still a thing and wants to help with Windows 7 migrations

NPM today stands for Now Pay Me: JavaScript packaging biz debuts conduit for funding open-source coders

Hey, corporate types. Microsoft would really love to pick your brains about Project Cortex

Bad news, developers: Apple Mac App Store tells cross-platform Electron apps to get lost

PowerPoint! Word! Excel! Lens! By your powers combined, I am Captain Mobile Office

Pencil 15 Jan 2020 in your diary: That's when Microsoft hopes you'll be at the cutting Edge... Chromium style

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If it sounds too good to be true, it most likely is: Nobody can decrypt the Dharma ransomware

Boeing comes clean on parachute borkage as the ISS crew is set to shrink

Hyphens of mass destruction: When a clumsy finger meant the end for hundreds of jobs

50 years ago, someone decided it would be OK to fire Apollo 12 through a rain cloud. Awks, or just 'SCE to Aux'?

20% of UK businesses would rather axe their contractors than deal with IR35 – survey

I've had it with these motherflipping eggs on this motherflipping train

Huawei's first Google-free phone stripped and searched: Repair not too painful... once you're in

Double downtime: Azure DevOps, Google cloud users put the kettle on

Magic Leap rattles money tin, assigns patents to a megabank, sues another ex-staffer... But fear not, all's fine

Fancy renting your developer environment? Visual Studio goes online

Revealed: The new icon you'll click to download an alternative browser, and more from Microsoft

Ask, Allow or Block is like Vivaldi browser's version of Snog Marry Avoid for popups in 2.9

'No more room for wars in the new world'? Who are you and what have you done with Microsoft?

GraphQL a cut above the REST, say query lang's fans: Airbnb, Knotel, others embrace the tech

Just take a look at the carnage on Notepad++'s GitHub: 'Free Uyghur' release sparks spam tsunami by pro-Chinese

You'e yping i wong: macOS Catalina stops Twitter desktop app from accepting B, L, M, R, and T in passwords

GitLab pulls U-turn on plan to crank up usage telemetry after both staff and customers cry foul

Trello starts waving AI around as collab outfit hits 50 million registrations

Linux kernel is getting more reliable, says Linus Torvalds. Plus: What do you need to do to be him?

Microsoft welcomes ancient Project app to the 365 family, meaning bleak future for on-prem

Microsoft explains self-serve Power platform's bypassing of Office 365 admins to cries of 'are you completely insane?'