OSes Linus Torvalds banishes masters, slaves and blacklists from the Linux kernel, starting now As a colossal commit count crashes into Linux 5.8-rc5 13 Jul 00:43 | 272
Software IBM job ad calls for 12 years’ experience with Kubernetes – which is six years old Other job ads make similar mistakes, and candidates do worse 13 Jul 03:02 | 192
Databases Cloud swings Chinese database market behind local developers Oracle rules on-prem, but Alibaba owns the cloud ... and here comes Huawei 13 Jul 04:58 | 1
Software Drupal drops first big upgrade in five years and looks forward by looking backwards CMS behind gov.uk and plenty more government sites worldwide promises easy upgrade from current code to new version 9.0 13 Jul 06:47 | 12
Who, Me? Oh what a cute little animation... OH MY GOD. (Not acceptable, even in the '80s) Confessions of a student 13 Jul 07:15 | 90
Security Trump reveals US cyber-attack on Russian election-misdirection troll farms Maybe Donald isn’t in love with Vlad after all – but he did just give Russia attribution and maybe a peek at tradecraft 13 Jul 08:02 | 47
On-Prem Reporting live from Gartner pandemic watch: IT spending is shrinking by X this year, I mean Y Don't even get started on 2021.... please 13 Jul 08:30 | 6
Hands On Microsoft Visual Studio gets .NET Core debugging – on WSL2 'Higher fidelity local debugging experience' than debugging on Windows and deploying to Linux 13 Jul 09:15 | 4
Bork!Bork!Bork! All in all it's just another bork on the wall: For pity's sake, begs signage, climb onto the pub's roof and boot me up (No don't. Don't do that. - Ed) Technology might be transient, but paint on bricks is forever 13 Jul 10:00 | 11
SaaS GitHub is just like all of us: The week has just started but it needed 4 whole hours of downtime Plus: New availability report highlights database issues 13 Jul 10:39 | 19
AI + ML Microsoft says ciao to Xiaoice: Formerly unpatriotic Chinese teenager sim flies the nest Redmond will retain stake in popular chatbot service 13 Jul 11:15 | 3
In brief Better get Grandpa off Windows 7 because zero-day bug in Zoom allows remote code execution on vintage OS Plus: Kazakh man charged with corporate mega-hack, and more 13 Jul 11:50 | 19
Personal Tech Apple: Don't close MacBooks with a webcam cover on, you might damage the display There's a 0.1mm tolerance and OS has built-in tools for managing peep hole 13 Jul 12:26 | 78
SaaS UK's University of Manchester has its head in all the clouds as it rains £50m on integrators Hope is to ease procurement while saving cash 13 Jul 13:06 | 19
Security Sueball locked, loaded and pointed at LinkedIn over iOS privacy naughtiness Company 'aware and reviewing' the lawsuit, not your clipboard. Honest 13 Jul 13:56 | 25
Networks HPE shifts further out onto the edge, plans to weld $925m Silver Peak buy to Aruba Networks To SD or not SD-WAN is the question? 13 Jul 14:30 | 4
In brief Detroit Police make second wrongful facial-recog arrest when another man is misidentified by software Plus: IB students kick up a stink over algorithm grading, and more 13 Jul 15:10 | 35
OSes Rust code in Linux kernel looks more likely as language team lead promises support Torvalds worries about compiler bugs: 'Very rare, but incredibly hard to debug' 13 Jul 15:59 | 81
On-Prem Mixed signals? Yes and no: Analog Devices snaps up rival Maxim Integrated for $20.9bn Still won't be as big as Texas Instruments 13 Jul 16:30 | 6
Updated UK government marks 'at least' £115m for new Brexit systems against backdrop of chequered IT project history in customs and border control CHIEF concerns for customs tech haven't gone away.... 13 Jul 17:31 | 114
In brief Pretend your holiday wasn't cancelled from next month: Microsoft Flight Simulator cleared for take-off Plus: Teams goes Nationwide and gains new hardware, VS Code updates 13 Jul 18:23 | 6
Software When you see PWA, Microsoft and Google want you to think Programs With Attitude: Web app release tool tweaked More native applications we smoke, yo, our rep gets bigger 13 Jul 20:21 | 20
AI + ML You call Verizon. A Google bot answers. You demand a human. The human is told what to say by the bot The only winning move is... not to play? 13 Jul 22:09 | 37
Personal Tech Top Ubisoft execs eject after staff complain of 'toxic' workplace environment for women at Canadian studios Trio quits immediately, workers under investigation 13 Jul 23:44 | 22