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What are you doing at quarter past? WebEx wants you on calls then, to ease corona-congestion

Microsoft reveals 775 percent Azure surge, quotas on some resources and ‘significant new capacity’ coming ASAP

Could WFH web traffic topple a Brit telco? Pfff, scoff operators. This has nothing on Liverpool v Everton streaming

Google polishes platinum Cloud Foundry membership badge as foundation takes KubeCF under its wing

'Social distancing champ' Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.6, tells devs to put health before next release

Gresecurity maker finally coughs up $300k to foot open-source pioneer Bruce Perens' legal bill in row over GPL

Exchange some currency you want to? Guess the BIOS setup keyboard combination first you must, young Padawan

A pair of previews from Microsoft for a bit of weekend tinkering: PowerShell 7.1 and Visual Studio 2019 16.6

Yeah, that Zoom app you're trusting with work chatter? It lives with 'vampires feeding on the blood of human data'

AMD dials 911, emits DMCA takedowns after miscreant steals a load of GPU hardware blueprints, leaks on GitHub

Hey, China. Maybe you should have held your hackers off for a bit while COVID-19 ravaged the planet. Just a suggestion

SANS is offering fully certified cybersecurity training – without leaving your bunker

Who the heck even owns this company? Where is it? Biz risk outfit uses graphDBs to build mammoth compliance network

Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit

Kubernetes is 'still hard' so VMware has gone all-in on container-related tech with expanded Tanzu, vSphere 7

How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, and a strong team

Tech companies start to disclose possible bottom-line coronavirus impacts

UK Information Commissioner OKs use of phone data to track coronavirus spread

Infosys fires employee who Facebooked ‘let’s hold hands and share coronavirus’

Capita cuts projects, furloughs workers due to 'unpredictable level of disruption' from COVID-19

What's a Google Play? Huawei talks up fledgling AppGallery store, shows off another voice assistant with a female name

Things that make you go zoom: Huawei rolls out pictastic P40 phones, no Google Play Store in sight

2020 MacBook Air teardown shows in graphic detail how butterfly keyboards were snipped for scissor switch

Huawei P40 Pro: Camera setup really captures the misery of an empty world foods aisle

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Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Hailing frequencies open, sir... America's Space Force hurls its first military comms satellite into Earth's orbit

Want to see through walls? Electroboffins build tiny chip in the lab that vibrates at just the right frequency to do it

BEHOLD! Japan's Hayabusa2 probe left human imprints on ASTEROID SAND

Drones intone 'you must stay home,' eliciting moans from those in the zone: Flying gizmos corral Brits amid coronavirus lockdown

Don't believe the hype: Today's AI unlikely to best actual doctors at diagnosing patients from medical scans

Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft speech-to-text AI systems can't understand black people as well as whites

Self-driving truck boss: 'Supervised machine learning doesn’t live up to the hype. It isn’t C-3PO, it’s sophisticated pattern matching'

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Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman

Lockdown ain't easy. And that's without snoring, burping, hair-shedding seals outside your house

Instagram, YouTube 'iron man' marketer first to be nabbed by Feds cracking down on fake coronavirus web cures

Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm

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'Social distancing champ' Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.6, tells devs to put health before next release

Doesn’t anticipate slowdown because ‘I suspect a lot of us work from home even normally’

30 Mar 03:02 |

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Gresecurity maker finally coughs up $300k to foot open-source pioneer Bruce Perens' legal bill in row over GPL

Failed defamation claim proves pricey

27 Mar 23:07 | 15

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Exchange some currency you want to? Guess the BIOS setup keyboard combination first you must, young Padawan

Things go sideways in Sainsbury's

27 Mar 15:55 | 16

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A pair of previews from Microsoft for a bit of weekend tinkering: PowerShell 7.1 and Visual Studio 2019 16.6

Cross-platform tool aims high while IDE gets stuck into Git

27 Mar 14:44 |

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20 years later, Microsoft's still hammerin' Xamarin: Bunch of improvements on the way for cross-platform coding toolset

Less fashionable than React Native, but a mature solution for .NET developers

27 Mar 10:00 | 19

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That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2

On CallHow to Excel (sorry) on the helldesk

27 Mar 08:15 | 251

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Microsoft tries getting touchy-feely once again with its Windows Insiders

Try the Tablet Experience and pretend the Windows 8 Tablet Mode never happened

26 Mar 13:30 | 15

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What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

What will be the fate of an open-source project relied upon by so many?

26 Mar 11:24 | 98

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Chart-topper Neo4j makes connections in effort to nudge graph DBs into the mainstream

Java Database Connectivity built in to hook up easily with analytics tools

26 Mar 10:45 |

Software

Borky shark: A deserted airport and a Raspberry Pi feeling poorly at baggage claim. Welcome to 2020

Bork!Bork!Bork!Zoomarine: Oceans of fail

26 Mar 09:15 | 38

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Apple: Relax, we're not totally screwing web apps. But yes, third-party cookies are toast

Sure, we'll delete local data after seven days but there's a way to avoid that

26 Mar 07:59 | 10

Software

Singapore to open-source national Coronavirus encounter-tracing app and the Bluetooth research behind it

Team explains privacy preservation plan and how smartphones' wireless prowess is wildly variable

26 Mar 01:58 | 7

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Informatica flings a phone directory of new features at fearless data fettlers

Having trouble wrangling your data? It can probably automate that

25 Mar 19:58 |

Software

Collabora working on making any DirectX 12 driver able to support open graphics and parallel programming APIs

OpenCL and OpenGL wrappers in development for Microsoft's platform

25 Mar 12:56 | 11

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Microsoft goes into Windows lockdown for builds from May, citing 'public health situation' (yes, the coronavirus spread)

Security updates immune to freeze, we note

25 Mar 08:03 | 24

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Where's our software, Langowski? Windows Insider Program gets new leader

RoundupAlso: Edge hits the pause button and F# 5 Preview 1 is here

24 Mar 13:02 | 4

Software

SAP opens up certain online courses to locked-down tech learners

Free for 90 days as more and more people told to go into lockdown

24 Mar 11:50 | 7

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The shelves may be empty, but the disk is full: Not even Linux can resist the bork at times

Bork!Bork!Bork!Walmart Canada takes a break from slinging ads

24 Mar 09:17 | 59

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Make haste slowly when deploying tools to cope with global coronavirus pandemic

Step one: Check if you really need new tools. If yes, prioritise and take small steps. And don't assume users are in great shape to learn new tricks

24 Mar 08:45 | 7

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Techie collective to whip together official WHO-backed COVID-19 app within a week to meet 'urgent, global need'

But will it be any better than the up-and-running WhatsApp effort?

23 Mar 21:07 | 9

What are you doing at quarter past? WebEx wants you on calls then, to ease corona-congestion

Microsoft reveals 775 percent Azure surge, quotas on some resources and ‘significant new capacity’ coming ASAP

Could WFH web traffic topple a Brit telco? Pfff, scoff operators. This has nothing on Liverpool v Everton streaming

Google polishes platinum Cloud Foundry membership badge as foundation takes KubeCF under its wing

'Social distancing champ' Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.6, tells devs to put health before next release

Gresecurity maker finally coughs up $300k to foot open-source pioneer Bruce Perens' legal bill in row over GPL

Exchange some currency you want to? Guess the BIOS setup keyboard combination first you must, young Padawan

A pair of previews from Microsoft for a bit of weekend tinkering: PowerShell 7.1 and Visual Studio 2019 16.6

Yeah, that Zoom app you're trusting with work chatter? It lives with 'vampires feeding on the blood of human data'

AMD dials 911, emits DMCA takedowns after miscreant steals a load of GPU hardware blueprints, leaks on GitHub

Hey, China. Maybe you should have held your hackers off for a bit while COVID-19 ravaged the planet. Just a suggestion

SANS is offering fully certified cybersecurity training – without leaving your bunker

Who the heck even owns this company? Where is it? Biz risk outfit uses graphDBs to build mammoth compliance network

Docker disguises itself as a development pipeline service as it stalks the IT world for its elusive target – profit

Kubernetes is 'still hard' so VMware has gone all-in on container-related tech with expanded Tanzu, vSphere 7

How does Monzo keep 1,600 microservices spinning? Go, clean code, and a strong team

Tech companies start to disclose possible bottom-line coronavirus impacts

UK Information Commissioner OKs use of phone data to track coronavirus spread

Infosys fires employee who Facebooked ‘let’s hold hands and share coronavirus’

Capita cuts projects, furloughs workers due to 'unpredictable level of disruption' from COVID-19

What's a Google Play? Huawei talks up fledgling AppGallery store, shows off another voice assistant with a female name

Things that make you go zoom: Huawei rolls out pictastic P40 phones, no Google Play Store in sight

2020 MacBook Air teardown shows in graphic detail how butterfly keyboards were snipped for scissor switch

Huawei P40 Pro: Camera setup really captures the misery of an empty world foods aisle

Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Hailing frequencies open, sir... America's Space Force hurls its first military comms satellite into Earth's orbit

Want to see through walls? Electroboffins build tiny chip in the lab that vibrates at just the right frequency to do it

BEHOLD! Japan's Hayabusa2 probe left human imprints on ASTEROID SAND

Drones intone 'you must stay home,' eliciting moans from those in the zone: Flying gizmos corral Brits amid coronavirus lockdown

Don't believe the hype: Today's AI unlikely to best actual doctors at diagnosing patients from medical scans

Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft speech-to-text AI systems can't understand black people as well as whites

Self-driving truck boss: 'Supervised machine learning doesn’t live up to the hype. It isn’t C-3PO, it’s sophisticated pattern matching'

Announcing the official Reg-approved measure of social distancing: The Osman

Lockdown ain't easy. And that's without snoring, burping, hair-shedding seals outside your house

Instagram, YouTube 'iron man' marketer first to be nabbed by Feds cracking down on fake coronavirus web cures

Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm

Software

'Social distancing champ' Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.6, tells devs to put health before next release

Gresecurity maker finally coughs up $300k to foot open-source pioneer Bruce Perens' legal bill in row over GPL

Exchange some currency you want to? Guess the BIOS setup keyboard combination first you must, young Padawan

A pair of previews from Microsoft for a bit of weekend tinkering: PowerShell 7.1 and Visual Studio 2019 16.6

20 years later, Microsoft's still hammerin' Xamarin: Bunch of improvements on the way for cross-platform coding toolset

That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2

Microsoft tries getting touchy-feely once again with its Windows Insiders

What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

Chart-topper Neo4j makes connections in effort to nudge graph DBs into the mainstream

Borky shark: A deserted airport and a Raspberry Pi feeling poorly at baggage claim. Welcome to 2020

Apple: Relax, we're not totally screwing web apps. But yes, third-party cookies are toast

Singapore to open-source national Coronavirus encounter-tracing app and the Bluetooth research behind it

Informatica flings a phone directory of new features at fearless data fettlers

Collabora working on making any DirectX 12 driver able to support open graphics and parallel programming APIs

Microsoft goes into Windows lockdown for builds from May, citing 'public health situation' (yes, the coronavirus spread)

Where's our software, Langowski? Windows Insider Program gets new leader

SAP opens up certain online courses to locked-down tech learners

The shelves may be empty, but the disk is full: Not even Linux can resist the bork at times

Make haste slowly when deploying tools to cope with global coronavirus pandemic

Techie collective to whip together official WHO-backed COVID-19 app within a week to meet 'urgent, global need'

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'Azure appears to be full': UK punters complain of capacity issues on Microsoft's cloud

What happens when the maintainer of a JS library downloaded 26m times a week goes to prison for killing someone with a motorbike? Core-js just found out

Internet samurai says he'll sell 14,700,000 IPv4 addresses worth $300m-plus, plow it all into Asia-Pacific connectivity

Remember that clinical trial, promoted by President Trump, of a possible COVID-19 cure? So, so, so many questions...

Yeah, that Zoom app you're trusting with work chatter? It lives with 'vampires feeding on the blood of human data'

Microsoft staff giggle beneath the weight of a 52,000-person Reply-All email storm

That awful moment when what you thought was a number 1 turned out to be a number 2

SAP opens up certain online courses to locked-down tech learners

PC owners borg into the most powerful computer the world has ever known – all in the search for coronavirus cure

IT services sector faces armageddon as COVID-19 lockdown forces project cancellations – analysts

Forget about those pesky closures, Windows 10 has an important message for you

First impressions count when the world is taken by surprise by an exciting new (macro) virus

Linus Torvalds ponders: Is Linux 5.6 going well because it's bug-free, or thanks to that other bug?

Microsoft drops a seemingly innocuous Windows Insider build, teases the future

Line-of-business folk will have bigger role in growing robotic process automation revolution

All roads lead to Bork in Kansas as Windows puts on a show for motorists

Surge in home working highlights Microsoft licensing issue: If you are not on subscription, working remotely is a premium feature

Watching you, with a Vue to a Kill: Wikimedia developers dismiss React for JavaScript makeover despite complaints

Captain Caveman rides to the rescue, solves a prickly PowerPoint problem with a magical solution

Finally – news that something is guaranteed to be healthy and well looked-after for the next six months. That something is Windows 10 1709

7 years after hooking up, SAP gets much, much cosier with Ariba's supply chain and procure-to-pay software

Beyond JAMstack: Next.js creator on hybrid rendering, TypeScript and Visual Studio Code