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ServiceNow confirms relational-ship with MariaDB: We're protecting our toolchain

Michael Dell

Dell in-houses production, dumps Celestica in Ireland

broadband

Big Cable tells US government: Now's not the time to talk about internet speeds – just give us the money

FCC's 5G masterstroke little more than big biz cash giveaway – expert

Penguins line up to dive into the icy water from the ice floe.

Ubuntu flings 14.04 LTS users a security lifeline, chats some more about Hyper-V

Windows 10 by Anton Watman, image via Shutterstock

Upgrade without tears: Download the Windows 10 crash course eBook

A spot of Python in your Azure automation? Step right this way, sir

Microsoft tries a thinking cap on its cloud – voila, Dynamics 365 gets AI!

Insider Threat

Sealed with an XSS: Lloyds Group should avoid cross talk, say IT pros

Wall Street Charlie Sheen

Congrats on keeping out the hackers. Now, you've taken care of rogue insiders, right? Hello?

hacker

No, the Mirai botnet masters aren't going to jail. Why? 'Cos they help Feds nab cyber-crims

What's that smell? Oh, it's Newegg cracked open by card slurpers

Dive deep into AWS Lambda, FaaS and more

Stack of cash

GitLab gets it, grabs $100m to become $1bn firm

Money cloud

Kick-Kaas: NetApp gobbles cloudy Kubernetes upstart StackPointCloud

JavaScript code

NPM not tied in knots over Yarn rival project

Tech to solve post-Brexit customs woes doesn't exist yet, peers say

Wine photo via Shutterstock

Intel co-founder's Silicon Valley pad goes on the market for $22m

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EU watchdog sniffing around Amazon's merchant data collection

Fujitsu building in the Czech Republic

Fujitsu says sayonara to UK exec heavyweights

Young "creatives" whip out their mobile phones. Photo by Shutterstock

Brits pay £490m extra for mobes they already own – Citizens Advice

Amazon Fire

GG n00b lol! Amazon frags support for its own games controllers

A basement of broken kit, zero budget – now get the team running

Probably for the best: Apple makes sure eSIMs won't nuke the operators

Geek's Guide

The White STork 5 space truck at Tanegashima Space Center. Pic: JAXA

Bad weather, baulky booster keep ISS 'naut snacks on the ground

Astronaut on mars . Photo by shutterstock

Flying to Mars will be so rad, dude: Year-long trip may dump 60% lifetime dose of radiation on you

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Garbage collection – in SPAAACE: Net snaffles junk in first step to clean up Earth's orbiting litter

pasta

Holy macaroni! After months of number-crunching, behold the strongest material in the universe: Nuclear pasta

China keyboard, image via Shutterstock

Alibaba wants to ship its own neural network silicon by H2 2019

cody

Renegade 3D-printing gunsmith Cody Wilson on the run in Taipei from child sex allegations

Microsoft's Surface Hub

Microsoft's collaboration software Teams works on its collaboration hardware Surface Hub

Mobile, on wheels, or in the cloud... how do you want to do AI?

Verity Stob

OK, I've got a smoothie for Alistair, one organic orange for Dave and a whole pineapple for Dante. Dante?

Deliveroo to bike food to hungry fanbois queuing to buy iPhones

Verity Stob gloved with pearls

30-up: You know what? Those really weren't the days

Huawei P8

Man cuffed for testing fruit with bum cheek pre-purchase

Boeing 777-267 B-HNL, ex-N7771, the first production 777 airliner

First Boeing 777 (aged 24) makes its last flight – to a museum

Software

Penguins line up to dive into the icy water from the ice floe.

Ubuntu flings 14.04 LTS users a security lifeline, chats some more about Hyper-V

Ubuntu-slinger Canonical has assured us that 14.04 LTS users need not fear the impending end of life of the OS next year, and confirmed it will keep security fixes flowing a little while longer.

Richard Speed, 20 Sep 2018

Windows 10 by Anton Watman, image via Shutterstock

Upgrade without tears: Download the Windows 10 crash course eBook

PromoAlthough Windows 10 has been on the scene since 2015, users were at first reluctant to abandon their familiar and usable Windows 7 for the attractions of the bigger and better operating system.

David Gordon, 20 Sep 2018

A spot of Python in your Azure automation? Step right this way, sir

Python 2 support for runbooks slithers out of preview

Microsoft tries a thinking cap on its cloud – voila, Dynamics 365 gets AI!

Also in news that will shock no one: HoloLens headgear a must, says Redmond

A woman in a fur coat looking surprised

Early bird access to .NET Framework 4.8? Microsoft, you spoil us

Old dog still has life in it yet

App-y, app-y, joy, joy: Pain-free software installer Flatpak (kinda) works on Windows Subsystem for Linux

'This is just a bit of fun to see if it can work' says dev

First 'issue-free' build of Windows 10 October 2018 Update arrives

Plus: Machine Learning for .NET, banks call time on Windows Phone, and more

Git it girl! Academy tries to tempt women into coding with free course

School in Blighty's capital warns diversity can't be afterthought for digital economy

Linux kernel's Torvalds: 'I am truly sorry' for my 'unprofessional' rants, I need a break to get help

Project chief vows to learn to 'understand people’s emotions' after F-bomb explosions

Google Chrome 69 gives worldwide web a stay of execution in URL box

Meanwhile, Chrome 70 Beta rolls out dev and security goodies

Microsoft tickles devs with a Release Candidate for TypeScript 3.1

Type declarations? What wizardry is this?

Redis does a Python, crushes 'offensive' master, slave code terms

Campaign to rid programming of hurtful words finds a sequel in noSQL database project

SAP faces further South African corruption probe

Reports of $2m kickback for deal with water ministry

Microsoft lights a fire under .NET Core teams, just in time for Ignite

Devs left bored to Tiers while Entity Framework flies out into the Cosmos

Microsoft accidentally let encrypted Windows 10 out into the world

Insider builds sometimes just don't work. Who knew?

C++ devs take a Step Back, let the UWP guy play with Visual Studio

Preview 2 of 15.9 promises speed, stability and new APIs

Microsoft: You don't want to use Edge? Are you sure? Really sure?

UpdatedWindows 10 preview build app suggestions attract internet's ire

Chromebooks gain faff-free access to Windows file shares via Samba

SMB built in from ChromeOS 70. At its best without passwords. Oops

Blurry image of people

Cisco loses focus over TelePresence blurry videoconferencing bug

You had one job, Precision 40

Master and Slave on circuit board

Python joins movement to dump 'offensive' master, slave terms

Programming language bites its tongue to be more inclusive

Opinion

News

Guys, you need to sit down and have a chat: Skype rolls out SMS a week after Microsoft

UpdatedSkype also does MMS. Your Phone also does photos. Neither talks to iOS

Dust off that old Pentium, Linux fans: It's Elive

Distro emerges blinking after 8-year hibernation

Yada yada, take my money: Firms do not scrutinise software support spend – report

$250bn market ripe for savings

Volkswagen faces fresh Dieselgate lawsuit in Germany – report

Angry investors want to know why they weren't told before everyone else

Microsoft's next Windows 10 release creeps closer with a cluster of builds

Also: Your Phone gets a bit more useful

make all relocate... Linux kernel dev summit shifts to Scotland – to fit Torvald's holiday plans

Edinburgh's in Canada, right? No? Oh … umm … sorry?

Official: Google Chrome 69 kills off the World Wide Web (in URLs)

Chocolate Factory cuts characters from address bar for the sake of brevity (yeah right)

Microsoft tells volume customers they can stay on Windows 7... for a bit longer... for a fee

Made the jump to Win10? Have an extra 12 months of September support

Cover up your privates: Linux distro Tails drops a new version

Tin-foil retailers expecting a windfall as hat-makers arrive en-masse

Windows Server 2019 Essentials incoming – but cheapo product's days are numbered

Look on the bright side, there’s always the cloud. What could go wrong?

Using Python in Visual Studio Code? Microsoft has new toys for you

You will use the new debugger and you will like it, OK?

UK.gov's no-deal plans leave HMRC customs, VAT systems scrambling to keep up

Pity the external software devs – they only just found out about this!

scissors

Microsoft sharpens its claws to cut Outlook UI excess, snip Ribbon

Office 2019 users need not apply

Illustration of developer writing code at desk with three monitors

Gitpod git-bolts git-IDE onto GitHub for in-browser code git-editing

Devs can deal with pull requests from Chrome

Skype's redesignd mobile UI

Microsoft takes a pruning axe to Skype's forest of features

Say farewell to Highlights ... if you even noticed it was there

Usborne intro to programming

Microsoft gives Windows 10 a name, throws folks a bone

'Crashy McCrashface' sadly not an option this time around

privacy

Apple to require privacy policy on all apps

October iOS change reflects broader societal shift

Man at desk overwhelmed by flood of messages

Apple pushes new iOS 12 beta build to silence notification spam

Twelfth time's a charm

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