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Micro Focus COVID-19 costs: Carry the one, decimal 9 places to the right... hmm. Holy cow, it's a $1bn+ loss
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Microsoft integrates Azure Functions with Dapr - for when you run Azure Functions outside Azure. Confused yet?
It's all about Kubernetes, Program Manager Jeff Hollans tells The Reg
07 Jul 15:01 |
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We'll pay £400k for a depth charge-proof robot submarine, says UK's Ministry of Defence
British military continues push for new autonomous tech
07 Jul 14:15 | 5
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Virtualization
That's infotainment, that's infotainment: Android Automotive OS goes virtual with new reference platform
The screech of brakes and lamplights blinking... Google and pals tackle heterogeneous hardware subsystems
07 Jul 13:30 | 3
Business
Manchester, UK seeks IT-slinger: £235m for number-plate-and-fines system to clean up vehicle emissions
Contract could be repurposed kit and services to support 'other uses' besides clean air...
07 Jul 12:45 | 13
Cloud
Microsoft? AWS? Nein und nein. Deutsche Bank signs up with Google Cloud for its latest crack at digital transformation
5 months after request for proposal, Satya and Jeff left to languish on sidelines
07 Jul 12:00 | 7
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Plus: SpaceX launches another GPS satellite, the next Mission Extension Vehicle arrives in French Guiana and.... come ON, Tim!
07 Jul 11:20 | 7
Security
Social media giants move to defy Hong Kong's new national security law
Plus: US govt says it's 'looking at' banning Chinese social media apps, including TikTok
07 Jul 10:45 | 18
In Brief
Microsoft to take a break from Edge releases: Hits pause button to align with Chromium
Plus: A release candidate for Azure DevOps, Pylance gallops into VS Code and hairdressing in Teams
07 Jul 10:00 | 2
Review
Utilitarian, long-bodied Nokia 5.3 has budget basic specs - but it does cost £150
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07 Jul 09:15 | 28
Column
Mind the airgap: Why nothing focuses the mind like a bit of tech antiquing
Slower than an iPhone, faster than a 2019 MacBook Air: It's an iBook that's over a decade old
07 Jul 08:30 | 45
Science
University ordered to stop running women-only job ads
Experiment to diversify academic workforce falls foul of human-rights watchdog
07 Jul 07:14 | 37
Security
Hundreds of forgotten corners of mega-corp websites fall into the hands of spammers and malware slingers
DNS entries left pointing to Azure-hosted server names snatched by miscreants for mischief
07 Jul 06:35 | 6
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When Facebook says you're not a good 'culture fit', it means you're not White or Asian enough – complaint
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Baroness Dido Harding lifts the lid on the NHS's manual contact tracing performance: 'We contact them up to 10 times over a 36-hour period'
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06 Jul 17:15 | 46
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Oracle sued by a shareholder who alleges its lack of progress in diversity amounts to 'dishonesty'
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You don't have to go home, but you can't stay here. Fujitsu tells 80,000 of its Japan employees: From now on, you work remotely
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06 Jul 15:55 | 28
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Think of a number: A tale of iffy discount codes, supermarket loyalty cards and Hotels.com
Points-powered getaways could cost booking site dear
06 Jul 15:15 | 9
Science
A bad day in New Zealand: Rocket Lab's 13th mission ends in failure
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Linux kernel coders propose inclusive terminology coding guidelines, note: 'Arguments about why people should not be offended do not scale'
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£40m wasna enough for ink and toner cartridges in public sector, says Scottish government
Like most other things these days, COVID-19 blamed for extension to framework agreement
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