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

Alternative headline: Jun Murai remembers he has a /8 under the fridge

26 Mar 00:06 | 63

Stockholders, assemble. HP's latest argument: Do you really trust Xerox to take us over during a pandemic recession?

Execs make new plea to shareholders in hostile takeover battle

26 Mar 00:56 | 8

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 | 9

Cops charge prankster who 'corona-coughed' on aged officer and had it filmed

And that's perhaps not the worst of viral idiocy in Australia: One minister made up a cyber-attack to cover for inadequate web provisioning

26 Mar 02:48 | 74

Sharp gobbles NEC as Japan's display giants team up to take on Europe and North America

Terms not revealed, but hopes are high that consolidation will be a good thing

26 Mar 03:58 | 6

Corona coronavirus hiatus: Euro space agency to put Sun, Mars probes in safe mode while boffins swerve pandemic

Spacecraft instruments switched off after COVID-19 outbreak forces mission control to send workers home

26 Mar 05:54 | 11

There's no Huawei a virus can stop us! 90% of our staff in China are already back at work, says CEO

And ready to build the stuff that the rest of the world needs to stay online during the CoronaCrisis

26 Mar 07:28 | 27

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

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

Sure, the bullet couldn't shift a big boulder, but it may have learned Ryugu's composition and birthday

26 Mar 08:31 | 17

Bork!Bork!Bork!

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

Zoomarine: Oceans of fail

26 Mar 09:15 | 39

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No snark, just something to help an IT industry in need

26 Mar 10:00 | 36

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

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 | 108

Meeemories, fuel our revenue's incline: Micron sees uptick in PC and data centre demand as WFH becomes new normal

Pyjama party for NAND and DRAM flinger

26 Mar 11:58 | 1

Drones, apps and packed lunches: The latest on big tech's COVID-19 response

Microsoft makes sandwiches and Intel empties its factories of protective gear

26 Mar 12:28 | 4

Give us a reason... not to buy a new handset? Samsung back-ports Galaxy S20 photo features to Galaxy 10 range

Erm, guys, this is lovely. But isn't selling new kit pretty important?

26 Mar 13:00 | 15

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

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

Citrix, Cisco and Zoho-pwning APT41 attack wave seems in awfully bad taste

26 Mar 14:03 | 40

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

Flagship's snappers would be great if we weren't under lockdown

26 Mar 14:33 | 11

Brits swarm Dixons Carphone for laptops, printers, games consoles, fridges, freezers to weather out COVID-19 storm

Online sales up 72%, but retailer warns of impact of store closures

26 Mar 15:05 | 20

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

Was 0.5mm of laptop really worth five years of pain, Tim?

26 Mar 16:00 | 53

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

Chocolate Factory's software souk still Trumped, so you'll have to make do with AppGallery

26 Mar 18:24 | 6

From Gmail to Gfail: Google's G-Suite topples over for unlucky netizens, rights itself

East Coast looks to be hardest hit. C'mon, Chocolate Factory, we're relying on you to pull us through

26 Mar 18:40 | 13

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

'We believe the stolen graphics IP is not core to the competitiveness or security of our graphics products'

26 Mar 19:10 | 23

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

Oh Ce-Celia, I'm down on my knees, I'm begging you please to phone home

26 Mar 20:22 | 20

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

Team Redmond stokes the flames as an exercise in black humor

26 Mar 22:46 | 81

ISP Monkeybrains cries foul over coronavirus fees after requesting more bandwidth. Zayo says it was all a mistake

Presumed pandemic profiteering may be just confused staff

26 Mar 23:31 | 7

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