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Microsoft's cloud keeps printing cash, Surface not so much as Windows giant pockets $119m profit a day

HP scores $176m win in CD-ROM drive price-fix case – after one biz emailed rival with 'Price Fixing' as the subject

Haunted by Europe's GDPR, ICANN sharpens wooden stake to finally slay the Whois vampire

Chin up. 2019's been tough on IT spending – but next year will be great, Gartner says so

Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

Put on your tech specs: Amazon Web Services has joined the Java Community Process

Nothing's certain except death and patches – so that 'final' Windows 10 19H2 build isn't really

Hell hath GNOME fury: Linux desktop org swings ax at patent troll's infringement claim

Republican senators shoot down a triple whammy of proposed election security laws

Haxis of evil: Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are 'continuous threat' to UK, say spies

Deepfakes, quantum computing cracking codes, ransomware... Find out what's really freaking out Uncle Sam

Messed Western: Vuln hunters say hotel giant's Autoclerk code exposed US soldiers' info, travel plans, passwords...

Soup up your serverless smarts with our practical hands-on workshops: Sign up now and we'll see you next month

GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers

Masters of Puppet say: There's no magical one-size-fits-all answer to doing DevOpsery

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

And we're back with the third review of Privacy Shield: Meh, sighs the European Commission

Everything must go as school IT supplier Gaia Technologies' £5.7m debt burden revealed

US customers kick up class-action stink over Epson's kyboshing of third-party ink

Apple chief Tim Cook ascends to top of tech pantheon on Chinese biz school's advisory board

The Great Data Takeout: Facebook, Google etc may be forced to hand over control of your info via an API (for a fee)

Chinese customers to unfold their Huawei Mate X on 15 November

The sound of silence is actually the sound of a malicious smart speaker app listening in on you

Google ads from the po-po can prevent vengeful gamer nerds going full script kiddie – research

Geek's Guide

Billionaire Bezos unveils plans to land humans on Moon, with a little help from some old friends

Reaction Engines' precooler tech demo chills 1,000°C air in less than 1/20th of a second

Two astronauts conduct a successful spacewalk, world+dog lose minds

Yay! The ozone layer hole the smallest it's ever been seen. That's not necessarily good...

Voice-activated AI in the enterprise? Let’s have a nice chat about that over breakfast next month

Inside the 1TB ImageNet data set used to train the world's AI: Naked kids, drunken frat parties, porno stars, and more

Big Red tells crypto-coin publication: One does not simply call one's website 'OracleTimes'

Er, hi. Small Q. Where's our billion-ish dollars gone? We summarize Bitcoin exchange's subpoena requests

Verity Stob

What simultaneously sucks and doesn't? This new robot vacuum cleaner

I see your blue passport and raise you a green number plate: UK mulls rewards scheme for zero-emission vehicles

Steve Bannon-backed flick attempts to expose evil lurking at heart of Huawei cough Huaxing

I discovered the world's last video rental kiosk and it would make a great spaceship

Software

Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

Move to bin? Or cancel? There are more options on this version of macOS, but it's still a PITA

23 Oct 17:00 | 59

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Put on your tech specs: Amazon Web Services has joined the Java Community Process

Latest Java-friendly move after Amazon's Corretto OpenJDK distro

23 Oct 14:51 |

Software

Nothing's certain except death and patches – so that 'final' Windows 10 19H2 build isn't really

Situation normal, says Microsoft as it runs rings round Insiders

23 Oct 12:53 | 15

Software

Hell hath GNOME fury: Linux desktop org swings ax at patent troll's infringement claim

Rather than settle and make pain just go away, project wants to send a message instead

22 Oct 20:15 | 87

Software

Power to the users? Admins be warned: Microsoft set to introduce 'self-service purchase' in Office 365

Users will be able to buy own licences and administrators cannot prevent it

22 Oct 10:31 | 62

Software

New Teams goodies: Shared calendars? No. Private channels? No. Hold please ♩ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫

RoundupQuickfire Windows 10 Fast Ring release ends a busy week at Microsoft

21 Oct 20:32 | 4

Software

Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket

Mats Järlström's fight shows you never cross an engineer

21 Oct 11:03 | 330

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Like Visual Studio Code and your data lives in SQL Server? Microsoft has something for you

SQL Object Explorer, SQLCMD and more IntelliCode arrive for VS Code

18 Oct 14:46 | 5

Software

This fall, Ubuntu 19.10 stars as Eoan Ermine in... Dawn of the Stoats

Out today: Experimental ZFS on root, diminished compatibility with 32-bit applications

17 Oct 11:23 | 35

Software

OAMigod! Microsoft has a cloud app spec for you – and hopes Rudr can't fail

The Open Application Model isn't a standard, but it could be

17 Oct 06:04 | 4

Software

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Includes setting to turn ads off – stop hissing at the back, Google

16 Oct 14:37 | 137

Software

Microsoft says .NET Framework porting project is finished: If your API's not on the list, it's not getting in

Unless you ask really nicely

15 Oct 15:36 | 28

Software

Is AWS sponsoring Rust? Only a bit – and so is Microsoft Azure

A confusing announcement from the cloud giant

15 Oct 12:03 | 10

Software

Dodging derailment by SUSE, OpenStack Train is scheduled to arrive this week

Choo choo mothertruckers

15 Oct 10:41 | 1

Software

Google unplugs AMP, hooks it into OpenJS Foundation after critics turn up the volume

You want this web tech to be independent? Sure, we'll just put it in an org we bankroll

14 Oct 18:08 | 20

Software

Visual Studio Code gets more touch-feely, new Windows Server builds arrive for brave admins

RoundupApple flogs Microsoft hardware and Puppet's CTO has a... notepad.exe tattoo?

14 Oct 13:41 | 8

Software

Remember, remember, it's now called November: Windows 10 19H2 update has a name

And a release date – sort of

14 Oct 10:58 | 27

Software

Microsoft Teams: The good, the bad, and the ugly

AnalysisWhy Teams is a key product despite its frustrations – and yes, a Linux client is on the way

14 Oct 09:19 | 77

Software

Lies, damn lies, and KPIs: Let's not fix the formula until we have someone else to blame

Who, Me?When 95 + (5 * RAND()) is all your spreadsheet needs

14 Oct 07:10 | 173

Software

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

Perl 6 set to be reincarnated as Raku, as favored by Larry Wall

11 Oct 22:51 | 44

Software

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

CommentDevs lament 'trash fire' 'Windows Vista-like' release

11 Oct 20:27 | 156

Microsoft's cloud keeps printing cash, Surface not so much as Windows giant pockets $119m profit a day

HP scores $176m win in CD-ROM drive price-fix case – after one biz emailed rival with 'Price Fixing' as the subject

Haunted by Europe's GDPR, ICANN sharpens wooden stake to finally slay the Whois vampire

Chin up. 2019's been tough on IT spending – but next year will be great, Gartner says so

Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

Put on your tech specs: Amazon Web Services has joined the Java Community Process

Nothing's certain except death and patches – so that 'final' Windows 10 19H2 build isn't really

Hell hath GNOME fury: Linux desktop org swings ax at patent troll's infringement claim

Republican senators shoot down a triple whammy of proposed election security laws

Haxis of evil: Russia, China, Iran and North Korea are 'continuous threat' to UK, say spies

Deepfakes, quantum computing cracking codes, ransomware... Find out what's really freaking out Uncle Sam

Messed Western: Vuln hunters say hotel giant's Autoclerk code exposed US soldiers' info, travel plans, passwords...

Soup up your serverless smarts with our practical hands-on workshops: Sign up now and we'll see you next month

GitLab reset --hard bad1dea: Biz U-turns, unbans office political chat, will vet customers

Masters of Puppet say: There's no magical one-size-fits-all answer to doing DevOpsery

Blood money is fine with us, says GitLab: Vetting non-evil customers is 'time consuming, potentially distracting'

And we're back with the third review of Privacy Shield: Meh, sighs the European Commission

Everything must go as school IT supplier Gaia Technologies' £5.7m debt burden revealed

US customers kick up class-action stink over Epson's kyboshing of third-party ink

Apple chief Tim Cook ascends to top of tech pantheon on Chinese biz school's advisory board

The Great Data Takeout: Facebook, Google etc may be forced to hand over control of your info via an API (for a fee)

Chinese customers to unfold their Huawei Mate X on 15 November

The sound of silence is actually the sound of a malicious smart speaker app listening in on you

Google ads from the po-po can prevent vengeful gamer nerds going full script kiddie – research

Billionaire Bezos unveils plans to land humans on Moon, with a little help from some old friends

Reaction Engines' precooler tech demo chills 1,000°C air in less than 1/20th of a second

Two astronauts conduct a successful spacewalk, world+dog lose minds

Yay! The ozone layer hole the smallest it's ever been seen. That's not necessarily good...

Voice-activated AI in the enterprise? Let’s have a nice chat about that over breakfast next month

Inside the 1TB ImageNet data set used to train the world's AI: Naked kids, drunken frat parties, porno stars, and more

Big Red tells crypto-coin publication: One does not simply call one's website 'OracleTimes'

Er, hi. Small Q. Where's our billion-ish dollars gone? We summarize Bitcoin exchange's subpoena requests

What simultaneously sucks and doesn't? This new robot vacuum cleaner

I see your blue passport and raise you a green number plate: UK mulls rewards scheme for zero-emission vehicles

Steve Bannon-backed flick attempts to expose evil lurking at heart of Huawei *cough* Huaxing

I discovered the world's last video rental kiosk and it would make a great spaceship

Software

Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

Put on your tech specs: Amazon Web Services has joined the Java Community Process

Nothing's certain except death and patches – so that 'final' Windows 10 19H2 build isn't really

Hell hath GNOME fury: Linux desktop org swings ax at patent troll's infringement claim

Power to the users? Admins be warned: Microsoft set to introduce 'self-service purchase' in Office 365

New Teams goodies: Shared calendars? No. Private channels? No. Hold please ♩ ♪ ♫ ♪ ♫

Traffic lights worldwide set to change after Swedish engineer saw red over getting a ticket

Like Visual Studio Code and your data lives in SQL Server? Microsoft has something for you

This fall, Ubuntu 19.10 stars as Eoan Ermine in... Dawn of the Stoats

OAMigod! Microsoft has a cloud app spec for you – and hopes Rudr can't fail

Tinfoil-hat search engine DuckDuckGo gifts more options, dark theme and other toys for the 0.43%

Microsoft says .NET Framework porting project is finished: If your API's not on the list, it's not getting in

Is AWS sponsoring Rust? Only a bit – and so is Microsoft Azure

Dodging derailment by SUSE, OpenStack Train is scheduled to arrive this week

Google unplugs AMP, hooks it into OpenJS Foundation after critics turn up the volume

Visual Studio Code gets more touch-feely, new Windows Server builds arrive for brave admins

Remember, remember, it's now called November: Windows 10 19H2 update has a name

Microsoft Teams: The good, the bad, and the ugly

Lies, damn lies, and KPIs: Let's not fix the formula until we have someone else to blame

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

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Bezos DDoS'd: Amazon Web Services' DNS systems knackered by hours-long cyber-attack

Power to the users? Admins be warned: Microsoft set to introduce 'self-service purchase' in Office 365

Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

Yay! The ozone layer hole the smallest it's ever been seen. That's not necessarily good...

Japanese hotel chain sorry that hackers may have watched guests through bedside robots

Hell hath GNOME fury: Linux desktop org swings ax at patent troll's infringement claim

Google: We've achieved quantum supremacy! IBM: Nope. And stop using that word, please

Reaction Engines' precooler tech demo chills 1,000°C air in less than 1/20th of a second

UK tech freelancer numbers down for first time in 5 years since IR35 tax reforms hit public sector

Just say the 'magic password': Boffins turn up potential backdoor in SQL Server 2012, 2014

SAP's CEO Bill McDermott quits: Will hand over to co-captains for Next Generation reboot

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

Creators Update meets its maker: It's 1903 or bust for those clinging to Windows 10 1703

Father of Unix Ken Thompson checkmated: Old eight-char password is finally cracked

You rang? Windows 10 gets ever cosier with Android, unleashes Calls on Insiders

MacOS wakes to a bright Catalina sunrise – and broken Adobe apps

Euro ISP club: Sure, weaken encryption. It'll only undermine security for everyone, morons

MacOS 'Catalina' 10.15 comes packed with exclusive security fixes – gee, thanks, Apple

GNU means GNU's Not U: Stallman insists he's still Chief GNUisance while 18 maintainers want him out as leader

Windows 10 update panic: Older VMware Workstation Pro app broken

Android dev complains of 'Orwellian' treatment as account banned after 6 years on Play store

Steve Bannon-backed flick attempts to expose evil lurking at heart of Huawei cough Huaxing