Open Source Summit Europe
Upcoming Linux 5.10 release will love you longterm, pushing support out to 2026
PSA: Maintaining the open-source OS can turn your beard grey
Personal Tech
What will you do with your Raspberry Pi 4 this week? RISC it for a biscuit perhaps?
Open-source RISC OS 5.28 brings support for latest ickle 'puter as well as hundreds of fixes
Personal Tech
Facebook tells academics to stop monitoring its political ads for any rule-breaking.... on privacy grounds
Irony overload as social media giant accuses NYU of bulk data collection
DevOps
Your IT department should behave like a jellyfish, says Gartner
Analyst firm asserts coordinated action without central brain is the way to cope with turmoil
Latest News
Security
Zoom finally adds end-to-end encryption for all, for free – though there are caveats
Perhaps we can talk about extra security and compromises honestly
27 Oct 20:09 |
Personal Tech
Touchscreen holdout? This F(x)tec Pro1 X phone with sliding QWERTY keyboard might push your buttons
Choice of LineageOS and Ubuntu Touch as well as Android
27 Oct 17:38 | 15
Software
5 months later, 37.7% of Windows 10 PCs are running the May 2020 Update... Wait, people are still on 1809?
We'll see how long it lasts as 20H2 starts doing the rounds
27 Oct 16:36 | 10
Security
Brit accused of spying on 772 people via webcam CCTV software tells court he'd end his life if extradited to US
'I've seen programmes on American prisons' says wife
27 Oct 15:41 | 72
Data Centre
Advanced Money-making Devices: AMD inks multibillion stock deal for FPGA specialist Xilinx
Intel rival up 50%+ in profits just a week after Chipzilla 30% plunge
27 Oct 13:02 | 5
Software
Office 365 for the iPad will feel a little more desktop-ish now Microsoft has tossed it trackpad, mouse support
Which is proof such fripperies are down to the developer, rather than Apple
27 Oct 12:30 | 8
Open Source Summit Europe
Upcoming Linux 5.10 release will love you longterm, pushing support out to 2026
PSA: Maintaining the open-source OS can turn your beard grey
27 Oct 11:46 | 1
Artificial Intelligence
Want to build an AI app but don't know where to start with training? Take a Lobe off your mind with this low-code tool
Microsoft program outputs ready-to-roll model from image input set
27 Oct 11:11 | 2
Bork!Bork!Bork!
SNAFU: Clairvoyant train brings warning of what was coming down the line for 2020
Situation: The New Normal?
27 Oct 10:44 | 14
Security
Brit startup would like to beam 5G connectivity down at you from hydrogen-fuelled drones
And Deutsche Telekom's happy with this airborne base station plan
27 Oct 10:10 | 10
Personal Tech
What will you do with your Raspberry Pi 4 this week? RISC it for a biscuit perhaps?
Open-source RISC OS 5.28 brings support for latest ickle 'puter as well as hundreds of fixes
27 Oct 09:02 | 19
Artificial Intelligence
Can't afford an AI-accelerating Nvidia Jetson Nano? Open-source emulator lets you prototype Python apps for it
Get a feel for the gizmo's programming environment
27 Oct 08:08 | 6
DevOps
Your IT department should behave like a jellyfish, says Gartner
Analyst firm asserts coordinated action without central brain is the way to cope with turmoil
27 Oct 07:28 | 27
Sponsored
SDS or HCI? How to figure the right fit for the right workloads
Scale and predictability are key things to consider
27 Oct 07:00 |
Personal Tech
Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network
Hotel Zuckerfornia: You can check in but you can never check out... without losing everything
27 Oct 06:28 | 63
In brief
Santander downplays 'hack' of PagoFX cash transfer biz, says nothing to worry about
Plus: US govt sanctions Russia for refinery-bothering malware
27 Oct 06:02 | 2
Software
WeChat wins right to stay in US app stores for at least a couple more months as court denies US govt appeal
Injunction against Trump ban upheld, case to return in January 2021
27 Oct 05:18 | 7
Business
Alibaba’s Ant Group aims to carry away $34 billion with imminent listing
Alipay operator prices itself as most expensive IPO of all time
27 Oct 03:58 | 2
Cloud
Microsoft brings Azure to Taiwan, therefore steps into a geopolitical cauldron
Taiwanese president says this is about ‘strengthening Taiwan-US cooperation’
27 Oct 02:25 | 3
Personal Tech
Facebook tells academics to stop monitoring its political ads for any rule-breaking.... on privacy grounds
Irony overload as social media giant accuses NYU of bulk data collection
27 Oct 01:22 | 33
Emergent Tech
President Trump's H-1B visa crackdown wiped $100bn off market value of America's largest corps, top study finds
White House immigration restrictions knock less than half a per cent off
26 Oct 23:56 | 36
Sponsored
A bridge over troubled water? Infrastructure truly essential for crisis-time business health
Connectivity, cloud-based management help resilient enterprises transform digitally, harness data, engage virtually
26 Oct 23:00 |
Software
Microsoft drives users to the Edge: Internet Explorer to redirect to Chromium-based browser in November
'Hey, you folks heard that there's this virus starting to spread?' – IE, probably
26 Oct 22:31 | 58
Science
Did Arthur C. Clarke call it right? Water spotted in Moon's sunlit Clavius crater by NASA telescope
Fly me to the Moon, let me swim among the stars
26 Oct 21:32 | 58
Emergent Tech
Uber drivers take ride biz to European court over 'Kafkaesque' algorithmic firings by Mastermind code
Lawsuit challenges robo-dismissals, Uber insists it manually reviewed cases
26 Oct 19:58 | 29
Open Source Summit Europe
Linux kernel's Kroah-Hartman: We're not struggling to get new coders, it's code review that's the bottleneck
Plus: 'Intel is not doing well with disclosures. I’m not happy. It’s not getting better'
26 Oct 19:09 | 53
Popular
Software
Linus Torvalds hails 'historic' Linux 5.10 for ditching defunct addressing artefact
Memory-handling oddity from the age of the 286 has been around since 'pretty much the original release of Linux'
Who, Me?
A cautionary tale of virtual floppies and all too real credentials
Only a complete banker would map that to... oh dear...
Emergent Tech
President Trump's H-1B visa crackdown wiped $100bn off market value of America's largest corps, top study finds
White House immigration restrictions knock less than half a per cent off
Open Source Summit Europe
Linux kernel's Kroah-Hartman: We're not struggling to get new coders, it's code review that's the bottleneck
Plus: 'Intel is not doing well with disclosures. I’m not happy. It’s not getting better'
In brief
How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers
Plus: Facebook won't get lost in translation, Cruise all set to build fleet of driverless taxis, and more
Feature
Yes, we have a 5G iPhone now. But that doesn't mean 5G has arrived
And please forget about that 4th industrial revolution because most networks only have NSA 5G
Personal Tech
Honey, I shrunk the battery: Something's gotta give as iPhone 12's logic board swells to accommodate 5G chippery
Next-gen connectivity requires reshuffle beneath the surface
Personal Tech
Oculus owners told not only to get Facebook accounts, purchases will be wiped if they ever leave social network
Hotel Zuckerfornia: You can check in but you can never check out... without losing everything
Networks
QUIC! IETF sets November deadline for last comments on TCP-killer spawned by Google and Cloudflare
Next comes all the joy and laughter of the standards process
Software
Microsoft drives users to the Edge: Internet Explorer to redirect to Chromium-based browser in November
'Hey, you folks heard that there's this virus starting to spread?' – IE, probably
STORIES
Software
SAP stock price crashes 23%, €28bn wiped out as firm warns of Klein(er) revenues, profits ahead due to COVID-19
SAP: Look into the cloud, look around the cloud... you're under. Market: Nope
26 Oct 17:53 | 10
Security
Hackers rummaged about in Finnish psychotherapy clinic – now patients extorted with public data dump threats
Details on 300 reportedly already published to Tor website
26 Oct 16:50 | 33
Networks
Seeing as real 5G isn't even here yet, you could just get a OnePlus instead of an iPhone 12 and save loadsamoney
Firm launches cheapest phones yet: £329 5G model, £179 basic handset
26 Oct 16:07 | 9
Open Source Summit Europe
Linux Foundation projects on AI and data merge – because one of these concepts simply can't exist without the other
Combined org hoping to attract more industry support
26 Oct 15:17 |
In Brief
Windows 10 October 2020 Update has arrived... and so have the fixes. Plus: Fancy a discount on a Surface Duo?
Also: Teams migration, Windows 10 on Surface Hub 2S
26 Oct 14:50 | 4
Personal Tech
Honey, I shrunk the battery: Something's gotta give as iPhone 12's logic board swells to accommodate 5G chippery
Next-gen connectivity requires reshuffle beneath the surface
26 Oct 12:29 | 33
In brief
How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers
Plus: Facebook won't get lost in translation, Cruise all set to build fleet of driverless taxis, and more
26 Oct 11:44 | 46
Feature
Yes, we have a 5G iPhone now. But that doesn't mean 5G has arrived
And please forget about that 4th industrial revolution because most networks only have NSA 5G
26 Oct 10:25 | 50
Docker delays dead data delete, pushes on with pull purge
Life in the Fastly lane: Wasmtime devs migrate to edge cloud firm
We’re Loki trying to help log watchers: Grafana rolls out new system health tools to test and trace
13.5 is alive: GitLab makes security tweaks, adds ‘popular’ Group Wikis as this month’s model tiptoes out
Who, Me?
A cautionary tale of virtual floppies and all too real credentials
Only a complete banker would map that to... oh dear...
26 Oct 08:15 | 72
Networks
QUIC! IETF sets November deadline for last comments on TCP-killer spawned by Google and Cloudflare
Next comes all the joy and laughter of the standards process
26 Oct 07:30 | 11
Science
NASA trying to stuff excess baggage into OSIRIS-REx after too-successful asteroid scoop
Collector is leaking regolith, sparking swift stash plan
26 Oct 06:45 | 23
Webcast
Still struggling to support your newly remote workforce? You’re not alone…
Tune in next week to see what VDI can do to help
26 Oct 06:00 |
