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IBM profits cratered 46% last quarter. But its share price is up ~5% because Wall Street expected that to be worse

Execs peg Big Blue's big blues to global pandemic recovery

21 Jul 00:48 | 13

World Health Organisation AI chatbot goes deaf when asked for the latest COVID-19 figures for Taiwan, Hong Kong

21 Jul 02:41 | 15

India drops the bar on e-commerce seller's listings: You want to sell it? Tell us where it came from from then

Inform people in case they go Chinese and ignore self-sufficiency drive

21 Jul 03:21 | 17

Alibaba's financial arm, Ant, files for monster IPO ahead of march on the world's merchants and shoppers

Payments giant could be worth $200 billion

21 Jul 04:57 | 4

The volcanoes on Venus aren't dead, say astroboffins, they're merely resting, pining for the planet's lava fjords

We may not know the answer until the 2030s, though

21 Jul 06:09 | 13

IBM CEO and Indian prime minister talk about yoga … and unspecified further investment

Big Blue may have an in on new healthcare plans

21 Jul 06:28 | 3

UK formally abandons Europe’s Unified Patent Court, Germany plans to move forward nevertheless

But will the UPC be legal – or even worthwhile – without Britain?

21 Jul 06:54 | 122

Networking boffins detect wide abuse of IPv4 addresses bought on secondary market

Suggests poorly-regulated address-marts are favorites of folks who want ‘clean’ addresses that give botnets a break

21 Jul 07:29 | 24

It's a process: Nokia pushes out its first private 5G standalone product, eyes industrial types

Fancy integrating next-gen tech into your IoT, cameras, sensors, and robots? Well do you?

21 Jul 08:03 | 7

Linux Foundation starts new group to build pandemic-popping software

Decentralised contact-tracing apps from Ireland and Canada are first off the rank

21 Jul 08:32 | 20

Motorola Moto G 5G Plus: It won't blow your mind, but at £300 we're struggling to find much to grumble about

Conservative, competent entry-level blower for the next-gen networks

21 Jul 09:19 | 27

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Did you see that ludicrous display last night? Bork pays a visit to London's Silicon Roundabout

Ramen, katsu curry and a side of finest BSOD

21 Jul 10:02 | 14

Brit telcos deliberately killed Phones 4u, claim admins in £1bn UK High Court sueball

One-time retailer has a problem: Key evidence is on a lost fondleslab

21 Jul 10:54 | 59

Apple was the only Fortune 50 company to foresee COVID-19 pandemic risk and properly insure against it – Forrester

Nugget nestled in report on how outbreak will change the tech biz

21 Jul 11:39 | 27

My life as a criminal cookie clearer: Register vulture writes Chrome extension, realizes it probably breaks US law

Could paywall-dodging browser aid fall foul of DMCA rules? We ask the experts

21 Jul 12:15 | 116

960 LinkedIn employees will be let go... If only there was some kind of 'social network for suits' to assist job hunts

It looks like your CV needs updating. Would you like help?

21 Jul 12:59 | 23

Predictably grim Q2 for mobe sales, but iPhone SE proves pretty moreish as gateway drug for Android defectors

Samsung suffered least as pandemic battered US market

21 Jul 13:57 | 12

UK intel committee on Russia: Social media firms should remove state disinformation. What was that, MI5? ████████?

Also (yikes): A 'complicated wiring diagram of responsibilities amongst ministers' in the event of cyber attack

21 Jul 15:09 | 56

Windows Server spotted behind cloudy curtain as Microsoft unveils the next generation of Azure Stack HCI

Use your old-school skills while having native Azure integration

Stick that in your named pipe and smoke it: Flaw in Citrix Workspace app could let remote attacker pwn host

Patch out for Pen Test Partners-spotted vuln – you know what to do

Uncle Sam adds fresh group of 11 Chinese firms to Entity List over human rights abuses

Two tech suppliers on list, just a week after America 'restricted' visas for Huawei and pals' foreign staffers

21 Jul 17:32 | 11

Don'tcha just LOVE meetings? Microsoft does, too, so here are some new Teams features, you lucky, lucky people

Plus: Security tweaks for Microsoft 365

21 Jul 18:23 | 14

Bad: US govt says Chinese duo hacked, stole blueprints from just about everyone. Also bad: They extorted cash

Including COVID-19 research, it is claimed. And they'll almost certainly never face an American court

21 Jul 19:02 | 27

It's July 2020, and your PC or Mac can be pwned by a dodgy Photoshop file – Adobe emits critical patch batch

Major fixes for Bridge and Prelude, too, plus Reader Android updated

21 Jul 20:19 | 4

Ex-boss of ICANN shifts from 'advisor' to co-CEO of private equity biz that tried to buy .org for $1bn+

Chehade paved the way for domain price cap removal, now shows up at Ethos Capital

21 Jul 21:13 | 49

Don't strain yourself, Zuck, only democracy at stake... Facebook makes half-hearted effort to flag election lies by President Trump

Here, have a link to something vaguely related

21 Jul 22:27 | 90

Twilio: Someone waltzed into our unsecured AWS S3 silo, added dodgy code to our JavaScript SDK for customers

API dev kit remained modified for hours, says source

21 Jul 23:10 | 22

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