Personal Tech Court kills FTC, US states' antitrust complaints against trillion-dollar Facebook Watchdog has 30 days to try again or let it go 29 Jun 01:31 | 13
AI + ML Bitcoin doomed as a payment system and its novelty will fade, says Federal Reserve Board of Governors member US thus doesn’t need a central bank digital currency, says bigwig 29 Jun 03:17 | 80
Security America world’s sole cyber superpower, ten years ahead of China, says Brit think tank UK, Australia, Russia ranked in second tier. North Korea and Iran are a step down but feisty 29 Jun 04:44 | 37
Science Hubble telescope in another tight spot: Between astrophysicists sparring over a 'dark matter deficient' galaxy One team says DF2 is 72m LY away, another disagrees – we speak to both sides 29 Jun 05:32 | 55
Software Singapore crowdsources central bank digital currency development Three teams stand to win US$37,000 and fifteen teams get mentorship and Sandbox toys 29 Jun 05:58 |
On-Prem Indian businesses go on a server-buying spree, largely with HPE Even non-x86 sales grew and SPARC is still selling — but storage sales slipped 29 Jun 07:11 |
Personal Tech The M in M1 is for moans: How do you turn a new MacBook Pro into a desktop workhorse? You'll need two hubs and about £300 29 Jun 08:39 | 114
Bootnotes Study finds crayfish treated with antidepressants become more outgoing, adventurous Clawed critters less depressed as human drugs pollute their freshwater homes 29 Jun 09:16 | 14
Bork!Bork!Bork! We hope this hotel has a nice spa because Windows sure looks like it needs some R&R If you'd like to restart and try ag- 29 Jun 10:06 | 10
Security Watchdog bans crypto super-exchange Binance from 'regulated activities' in the UK But Brits can seemingly keep using the website 29 Jun 10:44 | 6
Software When free and open source actually means £6k-£8k per package: Atos's £136m contract with NHS England 'All software must be safely and securely deployed within guidelines provided to us,' says outsourcer 29 Jun 11:29 | 97
Databases Fujitsu wins £9m contract hike for Oracle HR system running nearly 3 years late at Northern Ireland Education Authority Nice work if you can get it 29 Jun 12:13 | 20
Science Bezos v Branson: Battle of the wannabe Space Barons as Virgin Galactic cleared by FAA to start flying customers Amazon boss's Blue Origin New Shepard launch currently scheduled for 20 July 29 Jun 12:49 | 28
Personal Tech Panasonic's Toughbook G2 comes Windows 11-ready even as TPM 2.0 supplies dwindle Rugged fondleslab ideal for field work starts at £2,218 with lots to configure 29 Jun 13:34 | 6
Offbeat UK artists seek 'luvvie levy' on new gadgets to make up for all the media that consumers access online 'Smart Fund' would be redistributed among creators and performers 29 Jun 14:15 | 101
Networks Rural Scotland, Wales to get £1bn from Shared Rural Network pot, promised huge gains in next four... years Double-digit LTE coverage increases projected for low-population areas 29 Jun 15:00 | 3
Security UK Cabinet Office's spending on cybersecurity training rises by 500% in a year No indication any of it went on preventing theft of CCTV footage, though, eh Matt? 29 Jun 15:45 | 23
Off-Prem Kubernetes a black hole of unpredictable spend, according to new report Companies rely on estimates that are often wrong, says CNCF 29 Jun 16:28 | 21
Applications Five words everyone wants to hear: Microsoft has 'visually refreshed' Office Plus great news for all seven of you: An ARM64 build of its software suite 29 Jun 17:36 | 85
Security Intel sticks another nail in the coffin of TSX with feature-disabling microcode update Plus: 10nm Sapphire Rapids Xeon chips delayed to Q1 2022 29 Jun 18:43 | 17
Science Scientists identify sleep-like slow waves as responsible for daydreaming and... sorry, what were we talking about again? Localised brain sleeping behind wakeful forgetfulness and poor atten 29 Jun 19:27 | 21
HPC AMD opens wallet to lure scientific computing boffins away from Nvidia's CUDA onto its Instinct accelerators Only academics, researchers, nonprofits need apply to AIER initiative 29 Jun 20:10 | 6
Security Samsung commits to 5 years of Android updates... for its enterprise smartphone users at least Impressive, but it's still no Apple 29 Jun 21:01 | 36
Devops Digital delinquent deletes developer's database during disastrous Docker deployment, defaults damned NewsBlur RSS tracker accidentally left MongoDB store facing public internet during migration to containers 29 Jun 22:03 | 7