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Australia to refund $720m in 'debts' determined by dodgy algorithm

May well have been killer algorithm, too

01 Jun 00:32 | 26

Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy

New agency will hustle small retailers onto digital payments and teach seniors how to Internet

01 Jun 02:02 | 2

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

Plus: Amazon mulls snapping up self-driving startup

01 Jun 05:33 | 5

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

As he gives us version 5.7 with support for Apple power tech and better exFAT

01 Jun 06:28 | 159

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

Workstation has one job: running VMs. And now it can do it on Windows with Hyper-V enabled

01 Jun 07:02 | 8

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

Beware the forgotten bit of test text lurking in the application

01 Jun 07:15 | 81

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

Even the aircon worked in the Muskmobile

01 Jun 07:42 | 43

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

There are perks to starting out as online-only, says Gartner

01 Jun 08:31 | 13

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

And if you win, we'll make it into a kitemark

01 Jun 09:16 | 21

Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications

Here's hoping the winner does a better job than Sopra Steria

01 Jun 10:00 | 30

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

You say fintech, they say findom, let's call the whole thing BOFH

01 Jun 10:43 | 21

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Also: Multi-window Teams, Skype does the Blankety Blank dance, and more

01 Jun 11:20 | 8

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

First financial TITSUP* of June goes to...

01 Jun 11:42 | 25

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

Also: Rocket Lab reschedules, ESA probe eats comet exhaust, China shares space station plans

01 Jun 12:14 | 9

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Too bad, Craig. Now, about those court costs?

01 Jun 12:54 | 45

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

But that's exactly what will happen if you decorate Androids with pretty mountain scene

01 Jun 13:30 | 41

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

Windows bod acknowledges project's influence on WinGet

01 Jun 14:13 | 11

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 | 33

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

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

01 Jun 16:46 | 4

Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Integration with Azure suits both sides

01 Jun 17:30 | 2

Blight the power: Jamming attack cripples wireless signals using clever reflective technology

Intelligent Reflecting Surfaces – other IRS that can ruin your day

01 Jun 20:37 | 10

Publishers sue to shut down books-for-all Internet Archive for 'willful digital piracy on an industrial scale'

Copyright infringement claim 'not in anyone’s interest' responds org

01 Jun 21:29 | 76

As anti-brutality protests fill streets of American cities, netizens cram police app with K-Pop, airwaves with NWA

And, oh look, Anonymous returns. Completely forgot all about them

01 Jun 22:43 | 121

Get rich quick! Work from home! Earn $100,000 easy – just find a critical flaw in Apple's sign-in system

Yeah, we know 'just' is doing a lot of hard work, we're being flippant

01 Jun 23:52 | 3

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