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IBM HR made me lie to US govt, says axed VP in age-discrim legal row: I was ordered to cover up layoffs of older workers

Veritas bowls two for Tooley, not out: Northern Europe role split

WD you like to know the damage? Analyst predicts sales dip ahead for Western Digital

Black Horse slowed down: Lloyds Banking Group confirms problem with 'Faster' payments

Tens to be disappointed as Windows 10 Mobile death date set: Doomed phone OS won't see 2020

Red Hat gets heebie-jeebies over MongoDB's T&Cs squeeze: NoSQL database dropped from RHEL 8B over license

It’s baaack – Microsoft starts pushing out the Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open'

US midterms barely over when Russians came knocking on our servers (again), Democrats claim

Microsoft partner portal 'exposes 'every' support request filed worldwide' today

I used to be a dull John Doe. Thanks to Huawei, I'm now James Bond!

Microsoft blue biz bug bounty bonanza beckons

Atlassian barges into the billion dollar club with a cheery G'Day!

The DevOps Salary Report is in, and is great news for American men

Non-profit? Into DevOps, CI/CD, Containers? There’s a CLL ticket with your name on it

Kubernetes co-founder Joe Beda to kick off our Continuous Lifecycle London conference

Protestors beg Google not to build censored Project Dragonfly search engine

Say GDP-aaaRrrgh, streamers: Max Schrems is coming for you, Netflix and Amazon

Vodafone signs $550m deal with IBM to offload cloud biz

Tech giant to spend $500m dealing with housing crisis caused by tech giants

Most munificent Apple killed itself with kindness. Oh. Really?

Three quarters of US Facebook users unaware their online behavior gets tracked

US prosecutors: Hey, you know how we said 'net gambling was OK? LMAO, we were wrong

FCC's answer to scandal of AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile US selling people's location data: Burying its head in the ground

Geek's Guide

Friday fun fact: If Stegosauruses had space telescopes, they wouldn't have seen any rings around Saturn

RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit

Iran satellite fails: ICBM test drive or microsat test? Opinion is divided...

The Large Hadron Collider is small beer. Give us billions more for bigger kit, say boffins

DNAaaahahaha: Twins' 23andMe, Ancestry, etc genetic tests vary wildly, surprising no one

Watch an AI robot program itself to, er, pick things up and push them around

Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito

McKinsey’s blockchain warning irks crypto hipsters

Verity Stob

Oracle boss's Brexit Britain trip shutdown due to US government shutdown

Fake news? More like ache news. Grandma, grampa 'more likely' to share made-up articles during US election

Smartphones gateway drug to the Antichrist, says leader of Russian Orthodox Church

Reg Standards Bureau introduces the Devon fatberg as coastal town menaced by oily blob

Software

Windows 10 Mobile Build 10149

Tens to be disappointed as Windows 10 Mobile death date set: Doomed phone OS won't see 2020

Microsoft to hang up support on 10 December

18 Jan 23:59 | 3

Dev Ittcheria, President and CEO of MondoBG

Red Hat gets heebie-jeebies over MongoDB's T&Cs squeeze: NoSQL database dropped from RHEL 8B over license

'The Server Side Public License v1 does not meet standards'

17 Jan 21:09 | 5

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It’s baaack – Microsoft starts pushing out the Windows 10 October 2018 Update

Set to update automatically? Say hello to my little friend…

17 Jan 21:00 | 45

Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open'

'They used to be seen as the good guys, and Oracle was the bad guy'. So that means... everyone is the bad guy now?

17 Jan 16:42 | 38

Like, subscribe and comment: Sage takes a breath as cloud sales bounce

'Ecncouraging' numbers as it switches from licensing to subs push

17 Jan 13:11 | 4

Cortana and Search to innovate separately in an amicable Windows 10 Insider split

Microsoft introduces the Schrödinger Linux Subsystem. (It might work. It might not.)

17 Jan 12:32 | 16

Do you feel 'lucky', well, do you, punk? Google faces down magic button patent claim

Israeli company was 'feeling lucky' but lost out

17 Jan 00:48 | 43

Extra life! Unity tries to undo disunity caused by Improbable cloud gaming toolkit ban

Community outcry over exile of cloud networking biz leads to terms of service revision

16 Jan 21:52 | 3

IBM to kill off Watson... Workspace from end of February

Not even using the founder's brand could save Big Blue's Slack for suits

16 Jan 13:03 | 43

Outlook Mobile heads to the White House, passes infosec clearance for federal sector

Need to email an order for a s*$tload of hamburgers from your smartphone? Microsoft has an app for that

16 Jan 11:42 | 18

Google to yoink apps with an unauthorized Call Log or SMS habit from Android Play Store

'We take access to sensitive data and permissions very seriously...' No giggling, please

15 Jan 21:25 | 21

A rose

Google hands out roses to preferred Android MDM vendors

Lucky few get Chocolate Factory's endorsement as Enterprise Mobility Management

15 Jan 17:00 | 4

Stop sign in front of a bush. Image via Shutterstock

No more Windows build strings for you: BuildFeed has turned off the lights

Blames 'internal pressures' rather than a software giant getting stroppy about foldables

15 Jan 11:50 | 11

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While Windows 7 wobbled, AI continued its relentless march at Microsoft

Plenty of Python news emitted from Redmond in this week's round-up

15 Jan 09:15 | 31

US Department of Defense to fling $1.76bn at Microsoft

Enough to build a Wall.... of Windows consultants around Washington

14 Jan 11:40 | 30

NHS England's chief digital officer goes full digital, ditches health service for GP app biz

Juliet Bauer to join Livi in April

11 Jan 16:09 | 29

It WASN'T the update, says Microsoft: Windows 7 suffers identity crisis as users hit by activation errors

Activation server fiddling on day of monthly update... really?

11 Jan 11:55 | 69

Amazon takes aim at MongoDB with launch of Mongo-compatible DocumentDB

Move comes after database upstart mooted new licence to stop cloud giants ripping off its tech

10 Jan 14:59 | 11

Windows 10 Insiders sent on quest deep into Registry to fetch goblet of Reserved Storage

It's dangerous to go alone, take these WSL tweaks too

10 Jan 12:36 | 37

This July, Google will weep for there are no more worlds to banhammer: 'Bad ads' to be blocked globally

Advertising giant insists annoying banners are rare... and killable by Chrome

09 Jan 22:22 | 22

Microsoft wins today's buzzword bingo with empowering set of updates to Teams

I have to celebrate you baby, I have to praise you like I should

09 Jan 18:27 | 17

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two women look disgusted at what they see on a phone screen

Happy Thursday! 770 MEEELLLION email addresses and passwords found in yuge data breach

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos

Oh snap: AWS has only gone and brought out its own Backup

Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open'

South Korea reckons mystery hackers cracked open advanced weapons servers

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Just updated Windows 7? Can't access network shares? It isn't just you

UpdatedMicrosoft's workaround: Stop using local admin accounts, dammit!

09 Jan 16:57 | 95

Microsoft vows to destroy Office, er, offices: Campus to be demolished and rebuilt

Alternative headline: Redmond smashes windows to bits

09 Jan 13:56 | 37

Bish, Bash... gosh! Good ol' Bourne Again Shell takes a bow as it reaches version five-point-zero

Trusty command interpreter gains some new toys and a jolly good buffing

09 Jan 06:26 | 45

Restaurant table reserved

Excuse me, sir. You can't store your things there. Those 7 gigabytes are reserved for Windows 10

Buying a new PC in 2019? You may have a bit less disk space than you were expecting

08 Jan 12:27 | 205

unpatch

Microsoft pulls Office 2010 updates because they're big in Japan. As in, big pain in the ASCII

Software performance tweaks have opposite effect

08 Jan 06:24 | 11

This is the final straw, evil Microsoft. Making private GitHub repos free? You've gone too far

First Redmond takes over code hotel, now it's telling us: You will, er, won't pay for this

07 Jan 19:48 | 126

Five emperor penguins

Linux reaches the big five (point) oh

Torvalds has run out of fingers and toes, so version 5.0 RC1 is here

07 Jan 14:12 | 43

Ballyhoo about Bali, Azure Migrations and Mac OneDrive users get some on-demand love

RoundupMicrosoft had a busy first week of the year. How about you?

07 Jan 10:19 | 3

Grab a bucket and spade: Sandbox open for Insiders again with fresh Windows 10 build

Oh, and Cortana? STFU

04 Jan 16:09 | 13

Encryption? This time it'll be usable, Thunderbird promises

A generation that tried the PGP plugin weeps

04 Jan 10:30 | 89

Insiders! The good news: Windows 10 Sandbox is here for testing. Bad news: Microsoft has already broken it

New hotness turned to old and busted in record time thanks to Internet Explorer update

03 Jan 12:44 | 24

Mats Jarlstrom, pointing to a traffic light camera

Oregon can't stop people from calling themselves engineers, judge rules in Traffic-Light-Math-Gate

Licensing red-tape violate First Amendment, says court in battle over timing algorithm

02 Jan 20:33 | 152

Microsoft's 2018, part 2: Azure data centres heat up and Windows 10? It burns! It burns!

Remains of the year laid bare as we flay July to December

28 Dec 09:23 | 32

Superhero businessman rips off shirt

Racing at the speed of light, Sage superhero bursts through the door...

On Call...And reveals rather too much to the staffer in the room

27 Dec 11:40 | 67

Microsoft's 2018, part 1: Open source, wobbly Windows and everyone's going to the cloud

The Vulture picks over the remnants of January to June

25 Dec 11:00 | 24

Slap for Slack chat app after US, Canada chaps zapped in Iranian IP address map whack

Export ban compliance turns into geo-location gaffe fest

21 Dec 01:52 | 26

Microsoft: Come and play in our Windows SandBox

We've got buckets, spades and isolated apps

19 Dec 12:12 | 25

Is Google purposefully breaking Microsoft, Apple browsers on its websites? Some insiders are confident it is

AnalysisGoogle's doing to Microsoft what Microsoft did to everyone in the 1990s... allegedly, cough

18 Dec 22:53 | 121

Microsoft flings untested Windows 10 updates to users! (Oh no it doesn't!)

RoundupIt's panto season in this week's Microsoft roundup

18 Dec 11:03 | 51

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