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HPE's Black Thursday: Staff face pay cuts or the ax, office closures to save $1bn+ after coronavirus slams IT titan

Biz says it'll be a proper as-a-service outfit by 2022, which means changes to support, supplies, locations

22 May 01:36 | 43

IBM cuts deep into workforce – even its Watson and AI teams – as it 'pivots' to cloud

Services groups bear the brunt as thousands of workers given, in US at least, 30 days' notice, 90 days' pay

22 May 02:02 | 41

Wanna force granny to take down that family photo from the internet? No problem. Europe's GDPR to the rescue

Grandchild Digital Picture Removal

22 May 05:04 | 50

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Oops, spoiler! Suffice to say data-crunching demand remains robust as buyers seek plague-time insight

22 May 05:30 | 2

Well, that's something boffins haven't seen before: A strange alien streaks around Jupiter

We know this sounds like a tall tail but...

22 May 06:11 | 36

India makes contact-tracing app mandatory for passengers as domestic flights resume

By the time you get the status check the app needs, and get through the new check-in process, you'll wish you stayed home

22 May 06:28 | 11

Das reboot: That's the only thing to do when the screenshot, er, freezes

German efficiency was no match for user stupidity

22 May 07:26 | 156

China to slice internet connection costs for locals as part of plan to rebound from recent unpleasantness

More 5G. More e-commerce. More IoT. But no growth target for the first time in ages

22 May 07:43 | 8

Mind your language: Microsoft set to swing the axe on 27 languages in iOS Outlook

Moenie die hoender ruk nie

22 May 08:15 | 77

For the price tag, this iPad Pro keyboard better damn well be Magic: It isn't... but it's not completely useless either

Fondleslab feels like a real laptop, though transition is far from seamless

22 May 09:01 | 71

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Chicago: Why I just grin like a dork... It's my kind of Bork

Even the bus shelters of the windy city cannot escape the borkage

22 May 09:46 | 46

Competition? We've heard of it. MoD snubs cloud rivals to hand Microsoft £17.7m Azure hosted services gig

Only the beast of Redmond could meet 'data sovereignty and reliability' needs, says UK.gov department

22 May 10:30 | 26

Runaway Latvian drone found meditating in tree after shutting down nation's skies

It crashed the same day it went missing despite 3-day closedown and hunt

22 May 11:15 | 37

The longest card game in the world: Microsoft Solitaire is 30

And that means Windows 3.0 is too

22 May 12:10 | 54

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

We're trying, says senior dev evangelist

22 May 13:00 | 4

Virgin Orbit at last ready to live up to its name: Branson's other space adventure set for maiden flight this weekend

If all goes to plan, firm plans to begin commercial operations within months

22 May 14:05 | 14

World moves its desk to the living room, collectively rains $1bn on Nvidia's data centre biz

Automotive driven down, though

22 May 14:07 | 1

Forget BYOD, this is BYOVM: Ransomware tries to evade antivirus by hiding in a virtual machine on infected systems

Like Inception, but expensive and disappointing. So... just like Inception

22 May 16:00 | 36

Microsoft drops a little surprise thank-you gift for sitting through Build: The source for GW-BASIC

Take a trip down memory lane back to when every byte mattered

22 May 17:09 | 64

It wasn't just a few credit cards: Entire travel itineraries were stolen by hackers, Easyjet now tells victims

Unsurpisingly budget airline goes cheap: No payout or credit monitoring

22 May 18:06 | 71

Facebook in a tizzy about 5 million paying users of its suits collab platform Workplace

Zuck has been so good at looking after your data, why not give him more?

22 May 19:15 | 6

Home working is here to stay, says Lenovo boss, and will grow the total addressable PC market by up to 30%

Hang on, didn't analyst just pooh-pooh demand? Yep

22 May 20:08 | 45

Record-breaking Aussie boffins send 44.2 terabits a second screaming down 75km of fiber from single chip

Tech is perhaps five years away from actual deployment, we're told

22 May 22:07 | 59

Lawsuit klaxon: HP, HPE accused of coordinated plan to oust older staff in favor of cheaper, compliant youngsters

IBM isn't the only IT giant said to be unfairly binning elders

22 May 22:59 | 57

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