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Home Office opens AWS cash firehose a little wider with police IT deal

Boss regrets pointing finger at chilled out techie who finished upgrade early

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Blinking internets, Batman! O2 trials 5G over lightbulbs

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Pavilion compares RocE and TCP NVMe over Fabrics performance

The Bash shell running on Windows 10

Windows 10 Linux Distribution Overload? We have just the thing

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I wish I could quit you, but cookies find a way: How to sidestep browser tracking protections

Sam Lambert, GitHub

GitHub goes off the Rails as Microsoft closes in

Distro inferno: Debian's still rocking at 25

Insider Threat

Thumb down to Facebook

Facebook Messenger backdoor demand, bail in Bitcoin, and lots more

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SentinelOne makes YouTube delete Bsides vid 'cuz it didn't like the way bugs were reported

CHiPs

'Oh sh..' – the moment an infosec bod realized he was tracking a cop car's movements by its leaky cellular gateway

Web cache poisoning just got real: How to fling evil code at victims

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Your Twitter app stopped working? Here's why

Serverless? It doesn’t have to be all or nothing

Crypto algorithm selection dial

Here's a fab idea: Get crypto libs to warn devs when they screw up

Thinking of saying goodbye to your servers? We'll show you how

Your ad here, on a movie screen

Facebook flat-out 'lies' about how many people can see its ads – lawsuit

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UK.gov told data-sharing plans need vendor buy-in

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DXC Technology asks field-based techies if they'd like to leave

weeping techie with crumpled coffee cups

Home Office seeks Brexit tech boss – but doesn't splash the cash

Portion of US Patent 6368268

Now you can tell someone to literally go f--k themselves over the internet: Remote-control mock-cock patent dies

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Google responds to location-stalking outcry by… tweaking words on its BS support page

London's Royal Courts of Justice

ZX Spectrum reboot scandal biz gets £35k legal costs delayed

Go Zuck Yourself: Facebook destroys patent suit over timeline

Geek's Guide

planetary_systems

Lo and behold, Earth's special chemical cocktail for life seems to be pretty common

transistor

Boffins build the smallest transistor, controlled by an atom

nao_robot

Kids are more likely than adults to submit to peer pressure from robots

wacky_scientist

Drama as boffins claim to reach the Holy Grail of superconductivity

Jensen Huang of Nvidia

Nvidia shrugs off crypto-mining crash, touts live ray-tracing GPUs, etc

cool

DeepMind AI bots tell Google to literally chill out: Software takes control of server cooling

Lutz AV Pod Reg Illo

Self-driving cars will be safe, we're testing them in a massive AI Sim

Pigeon with note attached

Early bird tickets for our AI and ML Conference end tonight!

Verity Stob

Two people sleeping in a meadow to raise charity

Want to raise cash for Action for Children’s Byte Night? The clock is ticking

wasp

Wasted worker wasps wanna know – oi! – who are you looking at?

Henry Nicholas mugshot

What do a meth, coke, molly, heroin stash and Vegas allegedly have in common? Broadcom cofounder Henry Nicolas

man hugs printer

Devon County Council techies: WE KNOW IT WASN'T YOU!

Software

The Bash shell running on Windows 10

Windows 10 Linux Distribution Overload? We have just the thing

An attempt to cure the headache of a Windows 10 desktop festooned with Linux distributions has arrived in the form of WSLTools from Opsview.

Richard Speed, 17 Aug 2018

web cookie illustration

I wish I could quit you, but cookies find a way: How to sidestep browser tracking protections

Browsers' built-in tools that crumble web cookies that track you around the internet can be bypassed or rendered ineffective by malicious websites.

Thomas Claburn, 17 Aug 2018

Sam Lambert, GitHub

GitHub goes off the Rails as Microsoft closes in

AnalysisRuby shop turns to Go, Java, and Kubernetes for platform makeover

Distro inferno: Debian's still rocking at 25

Sleeker, slimmer and now a bit greyer

Batman. Credit: DC Comics.

Rimini Street slapped with ban in Oracle copyright dispute

Big Red awarded $30m legal fees as judge slams support biz's 'significant litigation misconduct'

Using Microsoft's Hybrid MDM? Er, not for much longer

You will move to Intune on Azure. You have one year to comply

Google shaves half a gig off Android Poundland Edition

Always believe in Go ...

Google bod wants cookies to crumble and be remade into something more secure

Shifting session identifiers into HTTP works, but Facebook and others won't be happy

Visual Studio gains some go-faster stripes for Android emulation

F#, TypeScript 3.0 and more go from preview to release with 15.8

Linux 4.18 arrives fashionably late while Zorin OS shines up its Windows

Wanting some Linux love, but just can't let that Windows 10 desktop go? Come this way...

Apple pulls iOS 12 beta 7 after less than 24 hrs

Devs reported performance issues then...

Hello darkness my old friend, what happened last week in Redmond?

For Skype Classic, not the sound of silence

Dropbox plans to drop encrypted Linux filesystems in November

UpdatedPenguinistas mobilise against decision to support only EXT4

Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer

Location, location, location!

Windows is coming to Chromebooks… with Google’s blessing

The host with the most

Database ballsup: NHS under pressure over fresh patient record error

Thousands of discrepancies reported between two databases

Oracle-botherer Rimini Street throws off credit shackles, plans 'aggressive' sales drive

Revenues, clients up in Q2 2018

Julia Roberts, not the programming language

Julia 0.7 arrives but let's call it 1.0: Data science code language hits milestone on birthday

You-hoo, Pythonistas and Rsters

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For all the excitement, Pie may be Android's most minimal makeover yet – thankfully

AnalysisLess disruptive and accessible, with added Clippy

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Researcher found Homebrew GitHub token hidden in plain sight

'Kid, take a nap, I have a project to save'

Opinion

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Pleasant programming playground paves popular Python path

Shrew'd thinking: Code Shrew helps peeps who want to, or need to, gobble a slice of Py

Edge, Azure and Windows Phone receives a Telegram. Yup, it's the week at Microsoft

Managed Disks? Pick a size, any size...

Well, this makes scents: Kotlin code quality smells better than Java

Google-backed language seeps into Android apps, improves programming craftmanship

Amazon, ditch us? But they can't do without us – Oracle

Battle of database rivals fuelled by reports marketplace monster is flying off Big Red

Apple takes an axe to its App Affiliate Program

Review sites? Who needs 'em! Fanbois need never leave the App Store again

Peace pays dividend for OpenWRT as 'baseline' release lands on servers

Libre Linux for wireless, embedded kit unforks OpenWRT and LEDE

2TB or not 2TB: Microsoft fiddles with OneDrive as competition offers twice the storage

But they'll throw in copy of Excel to work out when space'll run out

Microsoft: We've almost dug Your Phone out behind sofa. But will it make Insiders app-y?

More a 'Droid photo-copier than an iMessage slayer... for now

Linux kernel 4.18 delayed: Bug ate my rc7, says Linus Torvalds

Kernel broken, so Penguinista-in-Chief reverted 4.18-rc7

Riddle me this: TypeScript's latest data type is literally unknown

Version 3.0 improvements in Microsoft's lang also include pumped up tuples

Brit competition bods to probe Experian and ClearScore merger

£275m credit-check borg must wait for watchdog approval

Span hits F#, LinkedIn gets mumbly, and UWP (yes, it's still clinging on) furnished with new toys

Microsoft wants everyone to be Fluent in this week's round-up

Vintage PC with floppy drive, dot matrix printer and old school desk phone, steaming coffee: a still life. photo by Shutterstock

Microsoft devises new way of making you feel old: Windows NT is 25

Absurd hardware requirements and compatibility problems aplenty. Sound familiar?

Business man with suitcase jumping over urban obstacles

Early experiment in mass email ends with mad dash across office to unplug mail gateway

Who, me?'So if I pressed Send now, it would go to all of them?' asks trigger-happy tech

Man surprised by calculator

Microsoft celebrates a bumper financial year ... by making stuff pricier

On-premises and cloud users, prepare to be adjusted

This is the contract you've been looking for: Pentagon releases JEDI bids

Single-award contract could run for up to a decade, worth a possible $10bn

Baby crying over feeding time

Some of you really don't want Windows 10's April 2018 update on your rigs

It's been three months and 16% have their heels firmly planted

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Another German state plans switch back from Linux to Windows

Lower Saxony says 'auf wiedersehen, pinguin'

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