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FYI: NASA appears to have scooped dirt from an asteroid 200 million miles away and plans to bring it back home

Would be nice if civilization could hold out for 2023 to see its return

21 Oct 01:10 | 62

OpenStack haven OpenDev yanks Gerrit code review tool after admin account compromised for two weeks

Source warehouse asks users to verify recent project commits to ensure they’re not malicious

21 Oct 02:08 | 1

Qualcomm and India’s top telco strike 5G pact, hit 1Gbps in trials

This goes some way towards explaining the 5G network kit Jio suddenly announced it had built and would sell

21 Oct 02:58 | 1

Dell aims to become APEX creditor under new ITaaS plan

Promises one portal to drive cloud and on-prem workloads, with built-in kit-and-code-mart

India floats superior ship-management software as a route to regional relevance

If ever there was a job for Docker and containers, this is it

21 Oct 05:02 | 12

Is Google fudging search rankings to benefit pages that embed YouTube vids? Or is this just another ‘bug’?

Websites featuring get super-fast rating despite slower reality

21 Oct 06:56 | 30

Kick Google all you like, Mozilla tells US government, so long as we keep getting our Google-bucks

In case you've forgotten: Google sends Mozilla about $400m a year

21 Oct 08:02 | 35

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Got an irritating itch you just can't scratch? That'll be Windows wanting an update

No, we're a chemist. We don't sell that sort of patch.

21 Oct 08:30 | 13

Vivo Las Blowers: Chinese smartphone brand hops into Europe's crowded mobe market

Well, there's a Huawei-shaped opening thanks to Mr Trump and co

21 Oct 09:15 | 8

AWS open sources porting assistant for .NET: Early days for 'a broad problem'

Microsoft says no need to move but gap between .NET Framework and .NET Core is growing

21 Oct 10:01 | 3

Logitech breezes past $1bn sales barrier in its Q2. That's a hell of a lot of mice, keyboards and web cams

Pandemic? Only in that not enough webcams are being made. CEO talks WFH trend, video calls and eSports

21 Oct 10:52 | 3

Windows 10 October 2020 Update arrives: Nothing that will drop your jaw, but we've had enough of 2020's fun surprises anyway

Steady as she goes for Microsoft as Edge turns up and Start gets a buffing

21 Oct 11:30 | 32

Who knew? Hadoop is over, says former Hortonworks guru Scott Gnau

Teradata veteran talks up his new home at InterSystems as best of both worlds

21 Oct 12:15 | 22

Another Chromium browser for Linux? Microsoft Edge arrives in preview form, no love for Arm yet

One question: Why Redmond, why? Ah, you need to meet developers wherever they are...

21 Oct 13:00 | 30

Run Windows on a Chromebook: All the details. Not so fast, home user...

Parallels' Windows on Chrome OS solution is Enterprise-only, but why?

21 Oct 13:57 | 28

UK state of the Internet report: Virgin Media 'fast', BT's PlusNet last

Plus: Crowd-sourced data sniffer Ookla hits out at rivals' methodologies

21 Oct 14:45 | 53

SiFive reminds everyone you don't always need to offload vector math: Here's a RISC-V CPU that can process it, too

VIU75 core is 64-bit, runs Linux, supports RV vector extension

21 Oct 15:30 | 1

State of Iowa told no, you can’t use $21m coronavirus federal aid to help fund your $52m Workday roll-out

...even if your 18-year-old mainframe keeps getting flooded and falling over

21 Oct 16:27 | 25

Developer survey: C# losing ground to JavaScript, PHP and Java for cloud apps, still big in gaming

Plus: What puts off developers from adopting cloud? Price

21 Oct 17:24 | 69

How much does Oracle love you? Thiiiis much: Latest patch bundle has 402 fixes

How many times do you want to read the CVSS rating 9.8 today?

21 Oct 18:32 | 3

Coronavirus outbreak triggered a rush of online attacks against retail loyalty schemes, Akamai reckons

Digital souks are sitting ducks for identity fraudsters

21 Oct 20:25 | 6

Big Telco freaks out as unknown operator with great political connections vies for valuable 5G space in America

The swamp is full to the brim as usual in Washington DC, it seems

21 Oct 21:53 | 27

Thought the FBI were the only ones able to unlock encrypted phones? Pretty much every US cop can get the job done

Massive public records request reveals scale of warrantless surveillance

21 Oct 23:34 | 150

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