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Microsoft's globally distributed data shack Cosmos DB shoots for sky. Or at least 5 nines

IgniteLower latency, better availability and Cassandra. What's not to like? Maybe the price

Scanning an Exchange server for a virus that spreads via email? What could go wrong?

300,000 BT pensioners await Court of Appeal pension scheme ruling

Powerful forces, bodily fluids – it's all in a day's work

Broadcom, its baffling $19bn CA biz gobble, and the fake Pentagon memo crying about national security

Your RSS is grass: Mozilla euthanizes feed reader, Atom code in Firefox browser, claims it's old and unloved

Microsoft reveals xlang: Cross-language, cross-compiler and coming to a platform near you

Microsoft Windows 10 October update giving HP users BSOD

Microsoft Surface Pro 4 owners: So, about that other broken update…

Azure goes quiet, Huawei Canada ban urged, US Senators are after Google, and more

It's the real Heart Bleed: Medtronic locks out vulnerable pacemaker programmer kit

Now this might be going out on a limb, but here's how a branch.io bug left '685 million' netizens open to website hacks

Facebook mass hack last month was so totally overblown – only 30 million people affected

Serverless? There’s more than one way to run a function

Juniper shows its intent with Dev, er, no, sorry, make that... EngNet

Put on your clogs, take a close look at what DevOps fave Puppet flung out this week

Serverless? Great. Now what about testing, security, observability? Bag a ticket to find out...

Cabinet Office: Forget about Verify – look at our 3,000 designers (and 56 meetups)

That 'Surface will die in 2019' prediction is still a goer, says soothsayer

UK.gov asks: Are sadistic AI price-bots ganging up on you?

HP Ink CEO: That $550m Apogee buy was to stop rivals slurping it

GDPR stands for Google Doing Positively, Regardless. Webpage trackers down in Europe – except Big G's

Samsung: Swanky hardware alone won't save a phone maker

Take my advice: The only safe ID is a fake ID

Samsung Galaxy A9: Mid-range bruiser that takes the fight to Huawei

NASA's Chandra probe suddenly becomes an EX-ray space telescope (for now, anyway)

With sorry Soyuz stuffed, who's going to run NASA's space station taxi service now?

Russian rocket goes BOOM again – this time with a crew on it

Huge ice blades on Jupiter’s Europa will make it a right pain in the ASCII to land on

Amazon's sexist AI recruiter, Nvidia gets busy, Waymo cars rack up 10 million road miles

AI's next battlefield is literally the battlefield: In 20 years, bots will fight our wars – Army boffin

Yale Weds: Just some system maintenance, nothing to worry about. Yale Thurs: Nobody's smart alarm app works

Those Stanford whiz kids have done it again. Now a chatty AI bot to negotiate sales for you with Craigslist riffraff

On the first day of Christmas my true love gave me tea... pigs-in-blankets-flavoured tea

Indiegogo pulls handheld airport pervscanners off crowdfunding platform

On the seventh anniversary of Steve Jobs' death, we give you 7 times he served humanity and acted as an example to others

Sun billionaire Khosla discovers life's a beach after US Supreme Court refuses to hear him out

Software

Microsoft has signed up to the Open Invention Network. We repeat. Microsoft has signed up to the OIN

Microsoft deletes deleterious file deletion bug from Windows 10 October 2018 Update

First it came for your desktop, now Windows 10 1809 is coming for your Things

Microsoft yanks the document-destroying Windows 10 October 2018 Update

On the third day of Windows Microsoft gave to me: A file-munching run of DELTREE

Microsoft's elderly .NET Framework shakes stick at whippersnapper Core while Visual Studio drops another preview

Day two – and Windows 10 October 2018 Update trips over Intel audio

China's going to make a mobile OS and everyone will love it, predict ball-gazing analysts

Apple macOS Mojave: There's goth mode but developers will have to wait for the juicy stuff

Windows 10 1809: Now arriving on a desktop near you (if you want it)

Using Microsoft's Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations? Using Skype? Not for long!

New Orleans! Microsoft emits v2.1 of scaling-for-dummies app platform

Microsoft updates Visual Studio 2017 for devs chewing the CUDA

Google taking action against disguised code in Chrome Web Store

Robot Operating System gets the Microsoft treatment

Opinion

Why are sat-nav walking directions always so hopeless?

Android Phones are 10: For once, Google won fair and square

I want to buy a coffee with an app – how hard can it be?

Microsoft still longs to be a 'lifestyle' brand, but the cupboard looks bare

News

Microsoft liberates ancient MS-DOS source from the museum and sticks it in GitHub

Windows 10 passes 700 million, Office Mobile in a coma and Intune, er, cracks time travel

One Project to rule them all: Microsoft plots end to Project Online while nervous Server looks on

Microsoft gets ready to kill Skype Classic once again: 'This time we mean it'

Why are sat-nav walking directions always so hopeless?

Sync your teeth into power browser Vivaldi's largest update so far

Mega-bites of code: Python snakes into 1st place for cyber-attacks

Microsoft hopes it has a sequel better than Godfather Part II: SQL Server 2019 previewed

Supremes agree to hear Rimini Street's bid to claw back costs in Oracle copyright battle

Android Phones are 10: For once, Google won fair and square

Why did Visual Studio Marketplace go down in the Great Azure TITSUP? Ask Azure DevOps

WLinux brings a custom Windows Subsystem for Linux experience to the Microsoft Store

Oracle pours a mug o' Java 11 for its addicts, tips pot of Binary Code License down the sink

Microsoft flings features at Teams to close the Slack gap

Office 2019 lumbers to the stage once more as Microsoft promises future releases

Linux kernel's 'seat warmer' drops 4.19-rc5 with – wow – little drama

Apple's dark-horse macOS Mojave is out (and it's already pwned)

Open-source alt-droid wants to know if it's still leaking data to Google

Microsoft's globally distributed data shack Cosmos DB shoots for sky. Or at least 5 nines

That syncing feeling when you realise you may be telling Google more than you thought

As one Microsoft Windows product hauls itself out of the grave, others tumble in

Still using Skype? Good news! After HOURS of meetings, Microsoft reckons it knows when you're Not Active

Oracle? On my server? I must have been hacked! Penny drops Oh sh-