Software SAP to list Qualtrics, less than two years after convincing it not to list Plans to retain sales and dev umbilical cord to CX outfit 27 Jul 00:42 | 5
Legal Australia sues Google over data collection practices that merged DoubleClick data to create single user profiles Alleges opt-in that promised “more control” actually sent more data without informed consent. Google 'strongly disagrees' 27 Jul 01:37 | 15
Science USA seeks Moon and Mars nuke power plant designs ready to fly in 2027 Wants 10kw delivering 120V DC because solar cells have limitations and we can’t schlep fuel up there 27 Jul 02:57 | 103
Virtualization No, boss, I'm not playing Minecraft. Minecraft is where I run VMs on the desktop now Game mod pipes VirtualBox into virtual blockputers 27 Jul 04:57 | 34
Science If you think you've got problems, pal, spare a thought for these boffins baffled by 'oddball' meteorites Chondritic and achondritic? Back to the drawing board, then 27 Jul 06:04 | 28
Who, Me? Are you sitting comfortably? Then we'll begin. Hang on, the PDP 11/70 has dropped offline Beware the wandering buttock 27 Jul 07:09 | 126
Bootnotes Google search trends used to calculate floating prophylactic prices The more you worry about what's going on below the belt, the further the price drops. Now to short the market 27 Jul 07:33 | 19
Security UKIP blackmail, data breach sueball allegations were groundless, rules High Court Tawdry political scuffle over database access binned for lack of evidence 27 Jul 08:07 | 20
On-Prem WTF is cloud-tethered compute? We're not sure either, but it just made a hype cycle for the first time Edge and serverless about to slide into the trough of disillusionment 27 Jul 08:29 | 28
In brief Is that croaky voicemail of your CEO just a Fakey McFake Fake – or does he normally ask you to wire him $1m? Plus: AI finance software house reportedly outsourced paperwork processing to... humans 27 Jul 09:08 | 16
Bootnotes What the duck? Bloke keeps getting sent bathtime toys in the post – and Amazon won't say who's responsible 'I don't even have a bath' 27 Jul 10:59 | 101
Personal Tech Chinese tat bazaar Xiaomi to light a fire under Amazon's Kindle with new e-book reader Is there room for another player in the Western market? 27 Jul 12:01 | 51
Interview Cloudflare's new serverless platform lets its Workers run for 15 minutes before giving them the boot Instant startup, expanded execution, and more programming languages 27 Jul 13:00 | 3
Updated Garmin staggers back to its feet: Aviation systems seem to be lagging, though. Here's why Somebody light that pilot light 27 Jul 14:37 | 45
Science Eye see you're having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon Research showed 'reduced deviation' when it made a 0.5mm x 0.5mm slice 27 Jul 15:10 | 13
Bootnotes EU orders Airbus A350 operators to install anti-coffee spillage covers in airliner cockpits Wouldn't a child's sippy cup be cheaper? 27 Jul 16:01 | 54
Software Named arguments squeak into PHP 8.0, 7 years after first RFC How about inheritance? 'One of the bigger open questions' says author of proposal 27 Jul 17:01 | 15
SaaS SAP takes a punch to its software licensing revenue but Ellison's promise of customer exodus to Oracle seemingly fails to materialise Nothing to say, Larry? Makes a change 27 Jul 18:03 | 1
On-Prem US IT staffing biz accused of abusing student visa program now forced to stop advertising only to immigrants DoJ unhappy with ASTA CRS but not as much as former employees 27 Jul 19:48 | 5
Security Data-stealing, password-harvesting, backdoor-opening QNAP NAS malware cruises along at 62,000 infections If you're still using a vulnerable box, you ought to factory reset it before patching 27 Jul 21:07 | 19
Science Intel couldn't shrink to 7nm on time – but it was able to reduce one thing: Its chief engineer's employment What, or rather, who's that going under wheels of Chipzilla's bus? 27 Jul 23:45 | 87