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Trumpian politics continue as senators advance controversial Republican FCC commissioner nominee

Telecoms regulator now firmly a part of the burnt partisan landscape

03 Dec 00:12 | 35

COVID-19 coronavirus captive coders create copious code, claims GitHub: Open-source projects mushroom amid pandemic

Microsoft's cloud repo rental biz finds a silver lining in 2020

03 Dec 00:58 | 4

China unleashes fearsome new cyber-weapon: A very provocative meme

This one has Australia, America, even the wine-drinking world angry

03 Dec 02:23 | 63

New twist in H-1B saga as US Senate moves to abolish per-country visa caps

Means India no longer has the same number of visas to bid for as tiny countries

03 Dec 04:34 | 12

Robot drills hole on Moon, employs robot arm to clean up mess to bring home

We’re talking about China’s Chang’e 5 lunar sample return mission, which has accomplished one of its main jobs

03 Dec 05:57 | 30

AWS has just shown its new hybrid cloud ambitions make it an even broader threat

While also making it harder to label dedicated and skilled sysadmins as recalcitrant box-huggers

03 Dec 07:29 | 2

.org owner Internet Society puts its money where its mouth is with additional IETF funding

Has the TLD debacle forced ISOC back to its roots? Maybe

03 Dec 07:58 | 11

How a nightmare wormable, wireless, automatic hijack-a-nearby-iPhone security flaw was found and fixed

You're probably all patched by now, which is just as well

03 Dec 08:26 | 14

Bixby users. Yes, both of you! Samsung's unloved voice assistant now works with its unloved DeX desktop mode

Has anyone really ever seen someone else use either of these in the wild?

03 Dec 09:30 | 19

LibreOffice 7.1 beta boasts impressive range of features let down by a lack of polish and poor mobile efforts

Somebody get this project more investment

03 Dec 10:29 | 166

Where's the mysterious metal monolith today then? Oh look, it's atop a California mountain

Is this some kind of sick game of alien whack-a-mole?

03 Dec 11:07 | 87

Docker support deprecated in Kubernetes will break your clusters, says CNCF ambassador. It's only the runtime, says Docker

Admins have until late 2021 to move away, but Windows containers need caution

03 Dec 11:52 | 9

Alphabet's internet Loon balloon kept on station in the sky using AI that beat human-developed control code

Maybe this might work after all

03 Dec 12:30 | 21

ACLU sues US govt, demands to know if agents are buying their way around warrants to track suspects' smartphones

'Cos that would be against the Fourth Amendment, legal team says

03 Dec 13:30 | 20

'Massive game-changer for UK altnet industry': BT-owned UK comms backbone Openreach hikes prices on FTTP-linked leased line circuits

Alternative networks have Ofcom on speed-dial

03 Dec 14:30 | 81

Android devs: If you're using the Google Play Core Library, update it against this remote file inclusion CVE. Pronto

You should have done that in April anyway, says Check Point, but lots of you haven't. *Cough* Cisco Teams

03 Dec 15:01 | 8

Salesforce's Dreamforce shindig hits new levels of nauseating online as... Oh god. Is that James Corden?

An event we will never forget, says dreamweaver-in-chief Marc Benioff

03 Dec 15:45 | 22

Snowflake Q3 losses almost double, stock market flinches, then reckons: Nah, it's fine

Undereaction a sign of investor 'confidence/insanity' in the Snowflake sales engine, says analyst

03 Dec 16:29 | 9

Crooks posing as COVID-19 'cold chain' company phished EU for vaccine intel, says IBM

Medical fridge firm finagling carries hallmarks of state-sponsored hack dogs

03 Dec 18:05 | 12

AWS Babelfish for PostgreSQL: A chance to slip the net of some SQL Server licensing costs?

New project allows connection to PostgreSQL using SQL Server drivers

03 Dec 19:22 | 12

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