Microsoft's carefully crafted Surfaces are having trouble with its carefully crafted Windows 10 May 2020 Update
Compatibility hold slapped on affected kit with fixes in 'upcoming release'
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Had a bad weekend? Probably, if you're a Sectigo customer, after root cert expires and online chaos ensues
Web sites and services tied to older versions of OpenSSL and GnuTLS have been dropping like flies
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Tech set responds in wake of American protests, police violence and civil unrest
Cisco cancels Live web conference, Google delays Android Beta, SAP boss voices support for Black Lives Matter
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'Beyond stupid': Linus Torvalds trashes 5.8 Linux kernel patch over opt-in Intel CPU bug mitigation
AWS engineers given a dressing-down after proposing fix for 'paranoid' tasks
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Zealous Zoom's zesty zymotic zone zinger: Zestful zealots zip zillions
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If you bought a CRT monitor, TV 13+ years ago, hold on a little longer, there may be a small check for you
Price-fixing scandal case rumbles on and on, and on and on, and on and on
02 Jun 23:04 |
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As Twitter blocks white supremacists posing as anti-fascists, FBI appeal is flooded with images of cop violence
The confusion of physical and online protests merge
02 Jun 21:33 | 2
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Snapping at Canonical's Snap: Linux Mint team says no to Ubuntu store 'backdoor'
Version 20 will ship without any snap packages, snapd daemon
02 Jun 20:01 | 10
Science
You're 3 billion years too late to see Mars' impressive ring system. The next one will be along in 40 million years or so
Astroboffins say Deimos's wonky orbit suggests slow-burning ring-moon cycle
02 Jun 19:00 | 3
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No, it's just a Mirage: Lenovo's nerd-goggles-for-suits boasts 4K display but no need to be attached to powerful PC
ThinkReality? We'd prefer to think about anything but reality right now, thanks
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Security
Office supplies biz owned by UK council shrugs off ransomware demand for 102 Bitcoin
Firm told customers they'd got a new Gmail address
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Put those GPUs to work: vSphere Bitfusion delivers elastic infrastructure for AI/ML workloads
Find out more at VMware-Dell Technologies joint event on June 2
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Personal Tech
Choose your own adventure: HP's new Omen 15 gaming laptop offers choice between AMD and Intel processors
Are you Team Red or Team Blue?
02 Jun 16:30 | 5
Software
Android 11 Beta 1 leaks on to handful of handsets days after official release postponed
Weird icon shapes, functionality tweaks, and notifications shaken up
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Canonical pushes out MicroK8s installer for Mac and Windows, with Multipass VM tech lurking behind the scenes
Another option for Kubernetes fans not strictly on Linux
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That's just Huawei it is: Ericsson lands O2 Germany's core 5G network deal
Chinese firm's loss is Swedish giant's gain
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Policy
Tech set responds in wake of American protests, police violence and civil unrest
Cisco cancels Live web conference, Google delays Android Beta, SAP boss voices support for Black Lives Matter
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Emergent Tech
All-electric plane makes first flight – while lugging 2 tons of batteries aloft
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Security
'Beyond stupid': Linus Torvalds trashes 5.8 Linux kernel patch over opt-in Intel CPU bug mitigation
AWS engineers given a dressing-down after proposing fix for 'paranoid' tasks
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Microsoft's carefully crafted Surfaces are having trouble with its carefully crafted Windows 10 May 2020 Update
Compatibility hold slapped on affected kit with fixes in 'upcoming release'
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Business
UK.gov dangles £100m for service slingers for back office 'transformation' that'll kill off bespoke systems
We want COTS, industry-standard processes... you know... make yourself replaceable
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Contact-tracer spoofing is already happening – and it's dangerously simple to do
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India reveals plans to make electronics manufacturing its top industry
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02 Jun 07:57 | 7
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Had a bad weekend? Probably, if you're a Sectigo customer, after root cert expires and online chaos ensues
Web sites and services tied to older versions of OpenSSL and GnuTLS have been dropping like flies
02 Jun 06:02 | 19
Policy
Mozilla cautions India's national open digital plan is 'open-washing'
Internet Society also weighs in with worries about vague definition of 'open'
02 Jun 05:06 | 2
Personal Tech
Fujitsu unveils new laptops 'optimized for remote work' – erm, isn't that what laptops have always been for?
Maybe hitting Intel's year-old Project Athena spec counts?
02 Jun 04:15 | 19
Personal Tech
As the US maybe gets serious about coronavirus-tracking apps, Congress wakes up to the privacy risks
Just what will happen to all that tasty location and contact data?
02 Jun 01:57 | 13
Artificial Intelligence
Watch an oblivious Tesla Model 3 smash into an overturned truck on a highway 'while under Autopilot'
VideoDriver braked but it was too late
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Get rich quick! Work from home! Earn $100,000 easy – just find a critical flaw in Apple's sign-in system
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Personal Tech
As anti-brutality protests fill streets of American cities, netizens cram police app with K-Pop, airwaves with NWA
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80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds
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'Beyond stupid': Linus Torvalds trashes 5.8 Linux kernel patch over opt-in Intel CPU bug mitigation
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Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer
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Publishers sue to shut down books-for-all Internet Archive for 'willful digital piracy on an industrial scale'
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Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone
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Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar
Too bad, Craig. Now, about those court costs?
Artificial Intelligence
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Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series
Chinese giant slips out superslim - 7.49mm - flagship and pals
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REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack
Cybercrooks take revenge after planned heist failed
01 Jun 15:59 | 14
Policy
Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades
It's too long a retention period, say digital rights campaigners
01 Jun 15:16 | 32
Software
AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager
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