Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

The inevitable coronavirus-inspired cyber-attacks are stepping up. Are you ready?

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications

Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy

Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Geek's Guide

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

Blight the power: Jamming attack cripples wireless signals using clever reflective technology

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

Verity Stob

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

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Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Integration with Azure suits both sides

01 Jun 2020 | 1

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

Windows bod acknowledges project's influence on WinGet

01 Jun 2020 | 4

Got $50k spare? Then you can crack SHA-1 – so OpenSSH is deprecating flawed hashing algo in a 'near-future release'

UpdatedThe price will only go down

28 May 2020 | 26

Embrace and kill? AppGet dev claims Microsoft reeled him in with talk of help and a job – then released remarkably similar package manager

Updated'We appreciated your input and insights'

28 May 2020 | 59

Ardour goes harder: v6.0 brings 'huge engineering changes' to open-source digital audio workstation

Dev sticks with elderly GTK+2 GUI toolkit because 'we would gain nothing' by upgrading

28 May 2020 | 34

Google brews up a fresh pot of Java for its serverless Cloud Functions service

UpdatedStill on Java 8? You'll need to upgrade to 11 to use it

27 May 2020 | 3

'I wrote Task Manager': Ex-Microsoft programmer Dave Plummer spills the beans

'There should be nothing that TaskMgr can't kill' – sadly no longer the case

26 May 2020 | 106

eBay users spot the online auction house port-scanning their PCs. Um... is that OK?

UpdatedFraud is a big issue for etailer, but there are privacy and consent concerns too

26 May 2020 | 99

Microsoft brings WinUI to desktop apps: It's a landmark for Windows development, but it has taken far too long

Hands OnThe look and feel of UWP without all the baggage

26 May 2020 | 56

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

We're trying, says senior dev evangelist

22 May 2020 | 3

Document? Library? A new kind of component? Microsoft had a hard time explaining what its Fluid Framework is

BuildReal-time collaboration in Office 365 but .NET developers sidelined in favour of JavaScript

21 May 2020 | 23

Hands up who wants to listen to Google blather on about cloud stuff? OK, a few of you. How about for nine weeks?

Next on AirMore than you could ever want to NOA about Google Cloud Platform

20 May 2020 |

Microsoft announces official Windows package manager. 'Not a package manager' users snap back

BuildLinux envy? And why not use existing ones like Chocolatey?

20 May 2020 | 74

Microsoft aims to spread JAMstack through Azure App Service via GitHub and Visual Studio Code

BuildDevelopers, get ready to hook into Windows giant's cloud

19 May 2020 | 1

Project Reunion: Microsoft's attempt to tear down all those barriers it's built for Windows developers over the years

BuildPlus: Bye-bye Xamarin Forms, hello Multi-Platform App UI, for when Universal is not universal enough

19 May 2020 | 22

Podcast Addict Play Store ban: Android chief says soz for incorrect removal, developers aren't impressed

Chorus of 'what about my app' protests follow executive intervention

19 May 2020 | 18

Azure-hosted AI for finding code defects emitted – but does it work?

How many defects has it found? Never mind that, check out the architecture flow chart

19 May 2020 | 9

Podcast Addict banned from Google Play Store because heaven forbid app somehow references COVID-19

Meanwhile, Pushbullet pushes back after Chrome extension pulled

18 May 2020 | 59

Node.js creator delivers Deno 1.0, a new runtime that fixes 'design mistakes in Node'

Please help us rewrite the TypeScript compiler in Rust

14 May 2020 | 36

AWS pulls its Red Hat on with managed OpenShift collab

Plus: AWS tool for defining Kubernetes apps without having to write YAML

14 May 2020 |

OpenStack Ussuri flows in: Chief operating officer spies public cloud chip wars ahead

Plus: Python2 slithers away from 21st release of open source cloud infrastructure project

14 May 2020 | 1

Stop tracking me, Google: Austrian citizen files GDPR legal complaint over Android Advertising ID

Claims consent was neither informed, nor specific, nor free – but Google says it cannot identify a user from the ID

13 May 2020 | 58

Researchers spot thousands of Android apps leaking user data through misconfigured Firebase databases

Take care what data you enter into apps, it may be stored insecurely

12 May 2020 | 8

Amazon flicks switch on AI-powered enterprise search service Kendra – but where are all the connectors?

Now out of preview and optimised for 8 more domains

12 May 2020 | 10

Microsoft doc formats are the bane of office suites on Linux, SoftMaker's Office 2021 beta may have a solution

We like finding non-Redmond alternatives, but the free options make it tough for commercial operations

12 May 2020 | 106

Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

The inevitable coronavirus-inspired cyber-attacks are stepping up. Are you ready?

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications

Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy

Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

Blight the power: Jamming attack cripples wireless signals using clever reflective technology

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Tim Anderson

Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

Got $50k spare? Then you can crack SHA-1 – so OpenSSH is deprecating flawed hashing algo in a 'near-future release'

Embrace and kill? AppGet dev claims Microsoft reeled him in with talk of help and a job – then released remarkably similar package manager

Ardour goes harder: v6.0 brings 'huge engineering changes' to open-source digital audio workstation

Google brews up a fresh pot of Java for its serverless Cloud Functions service

'I wrote Task Manager': Ex-Microsoft programmer Dave Plummer spills the beans

eBay users spot the online auction house port-scanning their PCs. Um... is that OK?

Microsoft brings WinUI to desktop apps: It's a landmark for Windows development, but it has taken far too long

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Document? Library? A new kind of component? Microsoft had a hard time explaining what its Fluid Framework is

Hands up who wants to listen to Google blather on about cloud stuff? OK, a few of you. How about for nine weeks?

Microsoft announces official Windows package manager. 'Not a package manager' users snap back

Microsoft aims to spread JAMstack through Azure App Service via GitHub and Visual Studio Code

Project Reunion: Microsoft's attempt to tear down all those barriers it's built for Windows developers over the years

Podcast Addict Play Store ban: Android chief says soz for incorrect removal, developers aren't impressed

Azure-hosted AI for finding code defects emitted – but does it work?

Podcast Addict banned from Google Play Store because heaven forbid app somehow references COVID-19

Node.js creator delivers Deno 1.0, a new runtime that fixes 'design mistakes in Node'

AWS pulls its Red Hat on with managed OpenShift collab

OpenStack Ussuri flows in: Chief operating officer spies public cloud chip wars ahead

Stop tracking me, Google: Austrian citizen files GDPR legal complaint over Android Advertising ID

Researchers spot thousands of Android apps leaking user data through misconfigured Firebase databases

Amazon flicks switch on AI-powered enterprise search service Kendra – but where are all the connectors?

Microsoft doc formats are the bane of office suites on Linux, SoftMaker's Office 2021 beta may have a solution

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