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Google emits Network Intelligence Center to help untangle misconfigured cloud networks

That chill in the air isn't just autumn, it's Cisco's cooling finances: CEO warns of slipping sales

Player three has entered Cray's supercomputing game: First AMD Epyc, now Fujitsu's Arm chips

TalkTalk keeps results under wraps citing 'advanced negotiations' over FibreNation biz

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

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

Infosec boffins pour cold water on claims Home Office Brexit app can be easily hacked

UK Info Commish quietly urged court to swat away 100k Morrisons data breach sueball

Londoner accused of accessing National Lottery users' accounts

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

Senior GitLab exec resigns over plan to stop hiring engineers in China and Russia

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

Icahn smell money! Corporate raider grabs $1.2bn of HP stock to push for Xerox merger

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

They terrrk err jerrrbs! Vodafone replaces 2,600 roles with '600 bots' in bid to shrink €48bn debt

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

Complete with keyboard and actual, literal, 'physical' escape key: Apple emits new 16" $2.4k+ MacBook Pro

Facebook iOS app silently turns on your phone camera. Ah, relax – it's just a bug, lol!?

Geek's Guide

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

Astroboffins baffled as Curiosity rover takes larger gasps of oxygen in Martian summers

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

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

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

Thanks, Brexit. Tesla boss Elon Musk reveals Berlin as location for Euro Gigafactory

Is this paragraph from Trump or an AI bot? You decide, plus buy your own AI for $399

Verity Stob

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

Beardy biologist's withering takedown of creationism fetches $564,500 at auction

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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 | 3

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Fancy renting your developer environment? Visual Studio goes online

Or you could try Gitpod...

13 Nov 10:00 | 25

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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

Software

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 | 25

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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 | 70

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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

Software

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

Software

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

Software

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

Software

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

RoundupPlus: Your Phone makes do without Bluetooth, Azure Sphere release date

04 Nov 10:15 | 23

Software

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

New global site permissions but rivals still ahead on privacy

31 Oct 15:15 | 15

Software

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

Software giant joins OpenJDK for the second time

31 Oct 12:22 | 21

Google emits Network Intelligence Center to help untangle misconfigured cloud networks

That chill in the air isn't just autumn, it's Cisco's cooling finances: CEO warns of slipping sales

Player three has entered Cray's supercomputing game: First AMD Epyc, now Fujitsu's Arm chips

TalkTalk keeps results under wraps citing 'advanced negotiations' over FibreNation biz

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

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

Infosec boffins pour cold water on claims Home Office Brexit app can be easily hacked

UK Info Commish quietly urged court to swat away 100k Morrisons data breach sueball

Londoner accused of accessing National Lottery users' accounts

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

Senior GitLab exec resigns over plan to stop hiring engineers in China and Russia

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

Icahn smell money! Corporate raider grabs $1.2bn of HP stock to push for Xerox merger

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

They terrrk err jerrrbs! Vodafone replaces 2,600 roles with '600 bots' in bid to shrink €48bn debt

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

Complete with keyboard and actual, literal, 'physical' escape key: Apple emits new 16" $2.4k+ MacBook Pro

Facebook iOS app silently turns on your phone camera. Ah, relax – it's just a bug, lol!?

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

Astroboffins baffled as Curiosity rover takes larger gasps of oxygen in Martian summers

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

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

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

Thanks, Brexit. Tesla boss Elon Musk reveals Berlin as location for Euro Gigafactory

Is this paragraph from Trump or an AI bot? You decide, plus buy your own AI for $399

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

Beardy biologist's withering takedown of creationism fetches $564,500 at auction

Software

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

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?

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Fancy renting your developer environment? Visual Studio goes online

Shock! US border cops need 'reasonable suspicion' of a crime before searching your phone, laptop

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

Complete with keyboard and actual, literal, 'physical' escape key: Apple emits new 16" $2.4k+ MacBook Pro

Astroboffins baffled as Curiosity rover takes larger gasps of oxygen in Martian summers

Thanks, Brexit. Tesla boss Elon Musk reveals Berlin as location for Euro Gigafactory

Section 230 supporters turn on it, its critics rely on it. Up is down, black is white in the crazy world of US law

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

UK Info Commish quietly urged court to swat away 100k Morrisons data breach sueball

They terrrk err jerrrbs! Vodafone replaces 2,600 roles with '600 bots' in bid to shrink €48bn debt

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?'

Annoyed by too many kernel testing projects? Good news. Linux Foundation anoints chosen one – KernelCI

Engineer grumbles and user gripes do little to slow down Nadella's trillion-dollar Microsoft

Oracle's cloud to net sweet customers as NetSuite sinks ever deeper into the fold