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Federal judge temporarily neutralizes President Trump's blockade against visas for foreign techies, other workers

Earlier ban on H-1B, H-2B, J and L passes ruled an overstep of presidential power, middle-finger to Congress

02 Oct 01:11 | 21

Tokyo Stock Exchange breaks new record. Sadly, not a good one... its longest ever outage

Fujtisu kit on the floor tho bourse takes the blame for day-long dead zone

02 Oct 02:14 | 5

How's this for overachieving? Man accused of running software outfit as a Ponzi scheme while on parole from previous fraud

He masterminded $7m scam from halfway house, Feds claim

02 Oct 03:10 | 16

US govt wins right to snaffle Edward Snowden's $5m+ book royalties, speech fees – and all future related earnings

Big blow to big whistleblower

02 Oct 03:56 | 55

XCP-ng starts thinking long-term, for support, UEFI, storage and more

Properly FOSS version of XenServer promises at least five years of support for next release, maybe more

02 Oct 04:56 | 1

Google adopts ‘value-neutral’ language to make selfies less about ‘beauty’

Kids are being horrible about photo filters, so developers are being asked to help protect mental health

02 Oct 06:29 | 32

There ain't no problem that can't be solved with the help of American horsepower – even yanking on a coax cable

Playing tug o' war with a 1970s IBM mainframe

02 Oct 07:15 | 201

Talk about working smarter: NASA scientists searching for craters on Mars train AI software to do the job for them

Forty minutes of picture peering slashed to just five seconds

02 Oct 07:57 | 14

Microsoft Exchange 2010 support ends in a matter of days and there are 139,000 internet-facing servers still up

Research finds orgs taking big chances with unpatched email relays

02 Oct 08:31 | 25

Russia and China's 'digital authoritarianism' means we need to better arm our cyber troops, warns top UK general

New era, new weapons needed, says Chief of the Defence Staff

02 Oct 09:15 | 28

Couchbase set to bring app multi-tenancy to its NoSQL document-store database

7.0 release will give devs power to lay out their microservice architecture

02 Oct 10:00 | 8

GitHub users speak their brains on Microsoft's open-source efforts: ASP.NET shines, but WPF is 'a disaster'

An open-source project that can't handle pull requests isn't a good look

02 Oct 10:45 | 22

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And if you're looking to hire techies, send us your job ads for free

02 Oct 11:31 | 3

If the Samsung Galaxy S20 Fan Edition doesn't make you a fan, we don't know what will

Why buy the full-fat version when you can have this?

02 Oct 12:15 | 77

SAP swallows Emarsys whole in quest for customer-facing software... with a personal touch

Meanwhile, similar buy Qualtrics continues to enjoy quasi-independence

IBM unleashes AI on two space problems: How to map all the junk in Earth's orbit, and how to put more up there

Open-source projects aim to give researchers, startups a helping hand

02 Oct 13:45 | 5

ISS? More like HISS, am I right? Space station air leakage narrowed down to Russia's Zvezda module

Also: Scrubtember becomes Abortober, and the worm returns once more to NASA

02 Oct 14:30 | 37

Complexity has broken computer security, says academic who helped spot Meltdown and Spectre flaws

Graz University of Tech's Daniel Gruss thinks natural sciences can save us

02 Oct 15:15 | 61

Revenues from in-app purchases swelled 32% to almost $30bn for Q3 2020 – and Apple snaffled most of it

Despite Android dwarfing the iPhone ecosystem

02 Oct 17:03 | 16

Aussie telco Telstra says soz after accidentally diverting traffic meant for encrypted email biz through its servers

Resource Public Key Infrastructure now, bellows ProtonMail

02 Oct 18:01 | 9

Adventures in SQL Server 2019: Microsoft updates the update that broke the update

I don't know why she swallowed the fly...

02 Oct 19:06 | 4

Red Hat tips its Fedora 33: Beta release introduces Btrfs as default file system, .NET on ARM64, plus an IoT variant

RHEL 7.9 also here – last major version in the 7.x family?

02 Oct 20:00 | 50

Microsoft says bug, sorry, 'a latent defect' in Safe Deployment Process system downed Azure Active Directory

We're taking steps to prevent this from happening again, says Redmond

02 Oct 21:15 | 28

And you thought Fuzzilli was a pasta... Google offers up $50k in cloud credits to fuzz the hell out of JavaScript engines

And don't forget the paperwork after, says Chocolate Factory

02 Oct 22:50 | 8

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