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Remember Apple's disastrous butterfly keyboards? These lawsuits against the iGiant just formed a super class action

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23 Mar 01:16 | 35

America's Supremes give Facebook nothing but heartaches: Top court won't stop '$15bn wiretap' lawsuit

Class action accusing antisocial media giant of privacy infringement will now move forward

23 Mar 02:25 | 16

Google's boss for the next billion users bails after beating that target handily

Caesar Sengupta says it's time to take off Google's 'training wheels' as he both literally and metaphorically plans his next bike ride

23 Mar 03:58 | 6

SK Hynix boss predicts CPUs and RAM will merge, chipmakers will hold hands to make it happen

Seok-Hee Lee tips Compute Express Link memory to become the next big thing

23 Mar 06:02 | 21

OVH flames scorched cloud customers with pledge to build data centre fire simulation lab

Restoration of some services at destroyed data centre promised for this week, SBG1 data centre status in doubt again

23 Mar 07:01 | 44

Google vows to build its own server system-on-chips, hires Intel veteran

Ad giant’s compute rigs ‘at inflection point’, custom motherboards no longer suffice at G-scale

23 Mar 07:34 | 21

TikTok no worse than Facebook for privacy, says Citizen Lab (although Chinese TikTok is a horror)

App has common code base for three versions: one global edition; one for south-east Asian; one for China

23 Mar 07:58 | 18

Your hardware is end-of-life... and it's in space. Worry not, Anglo-Japanese sat to test new orbital cleanup method

Magnetic tech could be used to deorbit debris

23 Mar 08:32 | 42

The kids aren't all right: Fall in GCSE compsci students is bad news for employers and Britain's future growth plans

Student numbers have plunged 40% since 2015

23 Mar 09:30 | 109

Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole Council awards reseller a multimillion-pound contract for Microsoft services

Sun, sea and software? UK south coast authority goes all in on Redmond

23 Mar 10:15 | 4

Thousands of taxpayers' personal details potentially exposed online through councils' debt-chasing texts

Got a link? Change the last character and bingo, it's blackmail time

23 Mar 11:08 | 70

FreeBSD 13.0 to ship without WireGuard support as dev steps in to fix 'grave issues' with initial implementation

Public spat over code quality, reworked code set for 13.1 release, pfSense firewall also affected

23 Mar 12:00 | 34

Backblaze on the back foot after 'inadvertently' beaming customer data to Facebook

Backup company says tracking code now removed, but what info was sent?

23 Mar 12:51 | 34

Microsoft and Google, sitting in a tree, working on browser compatibility

Software behemoths to spend 2021 fixing CSS pain points

23 Mar 14:06 | 19

UK colleges and unis urged to prepare for ransomware before it's too late

Uptick in attacks since schools reopened, warns National Cyber Security Centre

23 Mar 15:00 | 3

Proof that Surface devices are not a niche product obsessed over by Microsoft fans: A patent lawsuit from Caltech

Well, you wanted to be just like Apple, right?

23 Mar 15:49 | 22

Outsourced techie gets 2-year sentence after trashing system of former client: 1,200 Office 365 accounts zapped

'In my 30-plus years as an IT pro, I have never been a part of a more difficult work situation,' says victim

23 Mar 16:33 | 52

Sure, Dave might seem like he's avidly listening to this morning's meeting, but he's actually doing a yoga routine

Meanwhile, Emma is playing video games, and Daniel... well, Daniel is drunk already

23 Mar 17:48 | 39

Total Eclipse team's new start: New Adoptium working group will promote free open source Java runtimes

AdoptOpenJDK is moving to Eclipse Foundation, but it is a slow process

23 Mar 18:42 | 3

Report: Microsoft is thinking about splashing $10bn on Discord to slot it next to Skype, Mixer...

Chat-room super-app aimed at gamers now used by 140m people a month

23 Mar 19:44 | 28

Google patches WebView component to end unexpected Android crash fest

Snafu tripped up Gmail, Google Pay, and a variety of other Android apps

23 Mar 20:39 | 29

Prince Harry, the Count of Montecito, turns Silicon Valley startup exec with first job based in 21st Century

New post accepted as Chief Impact (on Press Coverage) Officer for BetterUp

23 Mar 21:41 | 58

Guilty: Sister and brother who over-ordered hundreds of MacBooks for university and sold the kit for millions

Castanedas pocketed $2.3m from 800 laptops alone, Feds say

23 Mar 22:38 | 57

Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies

Even FSF seems baffled by the defiant return of RMS

23 Mar 23:34 | 338

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