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Hard luck, Claranet. You managed to go 29 whole days without an incident

You better get a wiggle on then: BT said to be mulling switching off UK's copper internets by 2027

You can't just throw your biz apps, data into the cloud and hope for the best. You gotta optimise those systems, networks

A BOFH's paradise: Tell users raising support tickets they can literally go service themselves

German ministry hellbent on taking back control of 'digital sovereignty', cutting dependency on Microsoft

Huawei to lob devs $1.5bn in apparent effort to Trump-proof cloud and mobile ecosystem

Adobe results show it is still creaming those subscriptions but its share price fell – why?

UK.gov confirms: Yes, our former DWP perm sec will join Salesforce

Chinese students in UK ripe target for scammers exploiting visa concerns

Belgian F-16 pilot rescued from power line after emergency ejection

WannaCry is still the smallpox of infosec. But the latest strain (sort of) immunises its victims

IT now stands for Intermediate Targets: Tech providers pwned by snoops eyeing up customers – report

What is Google up to with Anthos? More toys dropped for Kubernetes-style hybrid cloud

Created to mimic Heroku: Cloud Foundry explained by its chief technology officer

Why would anyone need Cloud Foundry when we have Kubernetes? Um, 'cos K8s is really hard!

Do you work at a non-profit? Would you like to be non-servers, too? We've got 20 conf tix up for grabs if you're quick

Google engineer sues for sex discrimination: Claims she was paid less than men, passed over for promotion

UK taxman wins tribunal case against BBC presenters

UK launches online VAT inquiry following fears of Brexit fraudster surge

Ebuygumm doesn't break t' Nominet rules, eBay and Gumtree told

Gasp! Google Chrome kills uBlock, Adblock ad filters – grab the pitchfo- no wait, it's OK: They were evil fraud clones

Class-action sueball over refurbed iThings will ask Apple what 'as good as new' means

How long is a lifetime? If you’re Comcast, it’s until a rival quits a city: ISP 'broke' price promise

Woman sues Lyft, says driver gang-raped her at gunpoint – and calls for app safety measures we can't believe aren't already in place

Geek's Guide

The Central Telegraph Office was serving spam 67 years before vikings sang about it on telly

NASA's lunar spy looks for hide-and-seek champ Vikram, Starliner test success, and more

You look like a fungi. Got mushroom in your life to build stuff with mycelium computers?

Magnetic cockroaches, dirty money, wombat poo and posties' balls: It's the Ig Nobels 2019

Five NHS trusts do DeepMind data deal with Google. One says no

IBM cuts ribbon on quantum computing centre wherein a 53-qubit monster lurks

We trained an AI to predict how bad a forest fire will be. It's just as good as a coin flip!

MPs call for 'immediate' stop to facial recog in UK as report underlines bias risks in 'pre-crime' algos used by coppers

Verity Stob

Byte Night 2019 just weeks away: Ready to sleep on the streets for charity?

Flying priests crop-dust Russian citizens with holy water to make them stop boozing and bonking

World's oldest human was a 122-year-old French smoker after all

Au my bog: Bloke, 66, on bail after 'solid-gold' crapper called 'America' stolen from stately home

Software

German ministry hellbent on taking back control of 'digital sovereignty', cutting dependency on Microsoft

'Pain points' include data collection, lock-in and uncontrollable costs

19 Sep 16:40 | 4

Huawei to lob devs $1.5bn in apparent effort to Trump-proof cloud and mobile ecosystem

Connect 2019Nugget dropped in keynote focused on cloud and AI announcements

19 Sep 13:50 | 3

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Adobe results show it is still creaming those subscriptions but its share price fell – why?

Q3 figures = good, Q4 targets = vague

18 Sep 17:00 | 18

UK.gov confirms: Yes, our former DWP perm sec will join Salesforce

No lobbying for at least another five months

18 Sep 14:45 | 10

You know SAP's doing a great job when a third of German users say they 'have no confidence in it'

18 Sep 11:34 | 29

Microsoft to improve Azure networking with private links to multi-tenant services

Preview of private endpoints accessible both in the cloud and on premises

18 Sep 11:01 | 1

DevOps darling GitLab pockets another $268m to be valued at $2.75bn

Drops Enterprise (Core) into VMware Cloud Marketplace, misspells own name

17 Sep 18:30 | 3

.NET Core 3.0 thought it was all ready for release. And it would have been too, if it weren't for those pesky Visual Studio kids

Hi, remember us? We share a toolset. And have another preview to do?

17 Sep 14:50 | 4

Disney signs on with Microsoft, SQLCMD arrives in Data Studio and Azure goes German

RoundupHeigh-ho, Heigh-ho, it's off to test we go...

17 Sep 09:05 | 4

Stallman's final interview as FSF president: Last week we quizzed him over Microsoft visit. Now he quits top roles amid rape remarks outcry

InterviewGNU man resigns after Minsky email defense 'the final straw' for dev world

17 Sep 05:11 | 204

I got 99 problems but a switch() ain't one: Java SE 13 lands with various tweaks as per Oracle's less-is-more strategy

Code OneAll part of Big Red's regular small-ish release plan as opposed to large infrequent updates

16 Sep 20:02 | 35

Wi-Fi woes and broken browser target both young and old in Microsoft patch land

The last Surface RT user just needs to fill in a web form to... oh heck

16 Sep 18:02 | 10

Linux 5.3 kernel bundles new, cuddlier, swear-free Torvalds with AMD Radeon Navi graphics support

Guv'nor explains regression again, without the expletives

16 Sep 16:38 | 23

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Microsoft plays chicken with Extended Support for Exchange 2010 end date and swerves first

UpdatedExtension to October 2020. But what of Server 2008 or... Windows 7?

16 Sep 15:16 | 10

COBOL: Five little letters that if put on a CV would ensure stable income for many a greybeard coder

EVALUATE COBOL-AGE WHEN 60 CONTINUE

16 Sep 09:09 | 163

I have no mouth and I must scream: You can add audio to wobbles in latest Windows 10 patch

Users find PCs silenced while Microsoft looks into search fix

13 Sep 11:12 | 43

Hold up, ace. Before you strap into Firefox's latest Test Pilot, ask yourself...

How much do I trust Mozilla with my data?

13 Sep 08:00 | 22

Right-click opens up terrifying vistas of reality and Windows 95 user's frightful position therein

On CallA magical journey into the brave new world of Start Menus and Recycle Bins

13 Sep 07:00 | 236

All three of the Insiders on Arm64 can now muck about with Windows Subsystem for Linux 2

New shiny for Fast Ringers. Oh, and Cortana

12 Sep 12:00 | 30

Vulture Central team welcomed to our new nest by crashed Ubuntu that's 3 years out of date

UpdatedWhat Mark Shuttleworth would have wanted?

12 Sep 10:00 | 78

Breaking, literally: Microsoft's fix for CPU-hogging Windows bug wrecks desktop search

One step forward, er, one step back. Nobody gets too far like that

11 Sep 20:17 | 79

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Scotiabank slammed for 'muppet-grade security' after internal source code and credentials spill onto open internet

ExclusiveBlueprints for mobile apps, databases exposed in public GitHub repos

You know SAP's doing a great job when a third of German users say they 'have no confidence in it'

We asked for your Fitbit horror stories and, oh wow, did you deliver: Readers sync their teeth into 'junk' gizmos

'This is the last Fitbit I will buy'

US government sues ex-IT guy for breaking his NDA (Yes, we mean Edward Snowden)

Uncle Sam tries to plug leaker's pay, ends up plugging leaker's book

Gasp! Google Chrome kills uBlock, Adblock ad filters – grab the pitchfo- no wait, it's OK: They were evil fraud clones

Extensions used by nearly 2m people a week pretend to be legit add-ons, stuff cookies to make bank

Seriously, this sh!t again? 24m medical records, 700m+ scan pics casually left online

Whole pile of US data just sitting there with no security

Revealed: The 25 most dangerous software bug types – mem corruption, so hot right now

Tired: SQLi. Expired: Format string exploits. Hired: Anyone who can port code from C/C++

Congratulations! You finally have the 10Mbps you're legally entitled to. Too bad that's obsolete

UK.gov policy slammed for not keeping pace with technology

Scott McNealy gets touchy feely with Trump: Sun cofounder hosts hush-hush reelection fundraiser for President

Commander-in-Chief jets into Silicon Valley under cloud of secrecy

Artificial Intelligence

This image-recognition roulette is all fun and games... until it labels you a rape suspect, divorcee, or a racial slur

If we could stop teaching AI insults, that would be great

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Care for a Flutter? Google emits fresh version of all-things-app-platform, plus a tart-up for Dart

iOS 13, macOS Catalina and calling C code in Mountain View's bundle of joy

11 Sep 10:25 | 3

Enterprise Java spec packs bags, ready for new life under assumed name – Jakarta

Oops, hope we haven't blown Java EE 8's cover

10 Sep 12:00 | 13

Thinking about processing a payment, Sage Group? Biz confirms mulling sale of Sage Pay

A farewell to merchant services arm?

10 Sep 11:15 | 12

For real this time, get your butt off Python 2: No updates, no nothing after 1 January 2020

'Let's not play games,' says lang dad Guido van Rossum

09 Sep 15:00 | 125

D'aw! They still have hope! Interns make a song and dance of their summer at Microsoft

RoundupWhile browbeaten oldies try to focus on Windows 10, .NET Core, Visual Studio

09 Sep 11:01 | 10

Phone home: Indie Chromium browser Vivaldi goes mobile

Hands OnDesktop browser fans – and Vulture Central – get an Android client to play with

09 Sep 08:06 | 14

Everyone's a winner as Microsoft turns on new Windows 10 19H2 toys for all Slow Ring testers

Some Insiders are more equal than others (sorry, Release Preview)

06 Sep 14:10 | 6

Opal Fruits, Princess Diana and... PowerToys? Microsoft is dragging Windows 10 back to '95

Desktop layout suite granted 2019 reboot

06 Sep 12:06 | 28

Another sign of the End Times: Free software guru Richard Stallman speaks at Microsoft HQ

PhotoFirebrand in town to give Redmond a GNU lease of life

05 Sep 21:04 | 42

Loss-making $15bn hipster chat biz Slack suddenly less appetising to investors as it predicts deeper losses

Battle with Microsoft not letting up

05 Sep 09:38 | 57

After banning adverts in command-line terminals, NPM floats idea of Patreon-style donations to open-source devs

Cash-burning biz sees itself following in the footsteps of GitHub Sponsors

04 Sep 07:04 | 24

Mozilla says Firefox won't defang ad blockers – unlike a certain ad-giant browser

Extensions still free to use uber-powerful webRequest API to filter crap out of webpages

03 Sep 22:32 | 42

Allowlist, not whitelist. Blocklist, not blacklist. Goodbye, wtf. Microsoft scans Chromium code, lops off offensive words

Redmond suggests nuking 'profanity, geopolitical, diversity' terms from browser source

03 Sep 21:45 | 259

Today in tortured tech analogies: Mozilla lets Firefox loose in the hen house, and by hen house, we mean the tracking cookie jar, er...

Remember when people didn't use browsers from the one of world's biggest adtech giants?

03 Sep 19:57 | 59

Cortana makes your PC's heart beat faster: Windows 10 update leaves some processors hot under the cooler

Updated1903 patch turns Redmond's virtual assistant into a very power hungry bot

03 Sep 18:13 | 38

HPE lawyer claims key associates of Autonomy boss Mike Lynch 'refuse' to testify to High Court

Autonomy TrialWe don't actually need them, says Lynch's camp

03 Sep 14:15 | 30

Good news Flash lovers! Microsoft won't be disabling it by default (so long as you use IE or old Edge)

Axe to still fall at the end of 2020 as planned

03 Sep 08:15 | 35

Call Windows 10 anything you like – Microsoft seems to

RoundupAlso: Hololens 2 peekaboo and the not-so-mysterious decline of 1803

02 Sep 10:15 | 65

Developer reconsiders npm command-line ad caper after outcry

Effort to help fund open-source projects proves too much

30 Aug 23:08 | 34

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