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Scre-EE-m if you wanna go faster: BT's mobile network reigns supreme in UK-wide speed and latency tests

Meet the ‘DPU’ – accelerated network cards designed to go where CPUs and GPUs can’t be bothered

Join us in the cloud, breathes Microsoft as it gifts Azure SQL Managed Instance customers a surprise horsepower boost

Won't duke, duke, duke the URLs: AWS backtracks on plans to block old-style S3 paths

Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April

Key API management platform for UK public sector scrapped: DWP ends £5m MuleSoft project

HubSpot must prove core sales features to be taken seriously in enterprise CRM market

Epic, Spotify, ProtonMail and pals rise up as one against Apple's 30% cut, call for end to Cupertino-style markets

Microsoft claims to love open source – this alleged leak of Windows XP code is probably not what it had in mind, tho

Spain's highway agency is monitoring speeding hotspots using bulk phone location data

Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real

Want to stop cybercrimes tearing through your network? First check your privileges

Not Particularly Mortifying: IEEE eggheads probe npm registry, say JavaScript libs not as insecure as feared

Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'

Imagine working for GitHub and writing a command-line interface for the platform, then GitHub makes an 'official' one

Anglian Water fishes for on-trend laundry list – including low-code work – in £24m trawl

Looking for a new tech job? Just browsing? This week's list includes roles for devs, engineers, and Perl maestros

'Robbery, economic plunder, victim of larcenous cronyism and a heist'

WeWork Won’tWork in China, at least not as majority owner

Azure DevOps Services reminds users that, yes, it really is time to pull the plug on Internet Explorer 11

Sweetheart tax deal appeal: European Commission takes €13bn Apple state aid claim to the EU's highest court

Help! My printer won't print no matter how much I shout at it!

Hootsuite melts ICE deal after staff revolt: CEO vows not to divide biz like agents divided families at the US border

Facebook is the internet's cigarette: Addictive and laced with nasty stuff – 'shocking images, graphic videos, headlines that incite outrage'

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Bennu Jerry's, anyone? OSIRIS-REx probe to attempt 3 scoops of asteroid next month before bringing samples home

NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet

Moonshot: Making spaceships with Microsoft's refreshed HoloLens 2 nerd goggles

And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time

SharePoint Syntex: Microsoft rolls out AI that automatically categorises documents

All those ‘teleworking is the new normal’ predictions? Not so much, say bosses

It's powered by a mega-corp AI, it has a Liquid Mode, but it's not a T-1000. It's Adobe's PDF auto-reflow for mobile

Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam

Verity Stob

First-world problems: The pumpkin spice latte is here, but the Starbucks loyalty card app has wiped my balance

Can The Register run Crysis Remastered? Yes, but we don't see why you would want to

Onwards! To the airport and adventure! And this rather lachrymose Linux screen

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of 'Advanced Night Repair' skin cream helping NASA to commercialise space

Not Particularly Mortifying: IEEE eggheads probe npm registry, say JavaScript libs not as insecure as feared

Oh sure, there are plenty of flaws in those packages though not even one in ten are anything to worry about

25 Sep 20:03 | 1

Microsoft claims to love open source – this alleged leak of Windows XP code is probably not what it had in mind, tho

Software giant is 'investigating', infosec gurus reckon it looks legit

25 Sep 18:39 | 6

Spain's highway agency is monitoring speeding hotspots using bulk phone location data

Local reports suggest individuals can't be identified... yet

25 Sep 17:21 | 6

SharePoint Syntex: Microsoft rolls out AI that automatically categorises documents

IgniteStarts trying to make fetch happen... build your own models to parse corporate content

25 Sep 16:26 | 3

First-world problems: The pumpkin spice latte is here, but the Starbucks loyalty card app has wiped my balance

Coffee giant brews UK customers a double shot of cock-up

25 Sep 15:24 | 15

Sweetheart tax deal appeal: European Commission takes €13bn Apple state aid claim to the EU's highest court

Contesting decision of General Court that Irish set-up was kosher

25 Sep 14:31 | 13

Brexit travel permits designed to avoid 7,000-lorry jams come January depend on software that won't be finished till April

Beta means fully operational? Haha! Good one!

25 Sep 13:31 | 92

Looking for a new tech job? Just browsing? This week's list includes roles for devs, engineers, and Perl maestros

Job AlertAnd if you're keen to place an ad, get in touch – it's free

25 Sep 12:50 |

Big US election coming up, security is vital and, oh look... a federal agency just got completely pwned for real

Hacker had set up shop on network using stolen Office 365 accounts

25 Sep 12:15 | 24

Bennu Jerry's, anyone? OSIRIS-REx probe to attempt 3 scoops of asteroid next month before bringing samples home

VideoDress rehearsals done, nice shingly crater chosen – it's go time

25 Sep 11:33 | 9

Can The Register run Crysis Remastered? Yes, but we don't see why you would want to

The RPGIt's the 'gaming funk' edition, also starring Wasteland 3, Crusader Kings 3, and Among Us

25 Sep 10:58 | 12

Key API management platform for UK public sector scrapped: DWP ends £5m MuleSoft project

UpdatedLegacy app 'asset reuse' left hanging for now

25 Sep 10:01 | 5

HubSpot must prove core sales features to be taken seriously in enterprise CRM market

To compete against Salesforce, Oracle and co, software slinger needs to do more, says analyst

25 Sep 09:15 | 1

Scre-EE-m if you wanna go faster: BT's mobile network reigns supreme in UK-wide speed and latency tests

But Vodafone's not far behind

25 Sep 08:30 | 13

'Robbery, economic plunder, victim of larcenous cronyism and a heist'

That’s China’s view of the Oracle/Walmart TikTok takeover. Now to see if that translates into a ban on the sale

25 Sep 07:52 | 27

Help! My printer won't print no matter how much I shout at it!

On CallMAYBE IF I PRINT EVERYTHING IN CAPS?

25 Sep 07:15 | 122

Meet the ‘DPU’ – accelerated network cards designed to go where CPUs and GPUs can’t be bothered

You may know them as SmartNICs and they’re touted as making AI, clouds and 5G scale

25 Sep 06:30 | 20

Want to stop cybercrimes tearing through your network? First check your privileges

SPONSOREDYour most powerful admins are the weakest links. But CyberArk are here to help

25 Sep 06:00 |

WeWork Won’tWork in China, at least not as majority owner

Local partner splashes $200m to take control

25 Sep 04:37 | 4

All those ‘teleworking is the new normal’ predictions? Not so much, say bosses

Australian government survey's post-plague adoption prediction finds only tiny future increase in usage

25 Sep 02:33 | 32

Hootsuite melts ICE deal after staff revolt: CEO vows not to divide biz like agents divided families at the US border

Contract would have run for up to three years, bagged $500,000, it seems

25 Sep 00:59 | 24

Facebook is the internet's cigarette: Addictive and laced with nasty stuff – 'shocking images, graphic videos, headlines that incite outrage'

So says ex-director of monetization, adding this led to 'unprecedented engagement and profits'

25 Sep 00:15 | 23

You know that Microsoft ZeroLogon bug you've been dragging your feet on? It's getting pwned in the wild now

Scan servers for signs of compromise and patch if you haven't already

24 Sep 22:34 | 5

Epic, Spotify, ProtonMail and pals rise up as one against Apple's 30% cut, call for end to Cupertino-style markets

This revolution will be televised... on the internet

24 Sep 20:57 | 20

Now Nvidia's monster GeForce RTX 3090 cards snaffled up by bots, scalpers – if only there had been a warning

If at first you don't succeed, fail again

24 Sep 20:06 | 46

Join us in the cloud, breathes Microsoft as it gifts Azure SQL Managed Instance customers a surprise horsepower boost

IgniteAnd if you don't like it, managed instances maybe aren't for you

24 Sep 19:01 |

We need to talk about criminal hackers using Cobalt Strike, says Cisco Talos

Pentesting tool showing up in the hands of baddies, warns threat intel biz

24 Sep 18:22 | 4

Microsoft sprinkles a little Skype Meet Now integration on Windows 10 for Insiders

Plus: Annoying chat show host asks 'What the hell happened to Skype?' and users cry out: Let my People go... or at least banish it from Start

24 Sep 17:35 | 18

Wondering how to tell the world you've been hacked? Here's a handy guide from infosec academics

Pair of England's unis figure out better way of admitting terrible thing

24 Sep 16:46 | 8

NHS COVID-19 launch: Risk-scoring algorithm criticised, the downloads, plus public told to 'upgrade their phones'

So... totally seamless then

24 Sep 15:51 | 107

Won't duke, duke, duke the URLs: AWS backtracks on plans to block old-style S3 paths

As I walk through this world... born-in-the-cloud companies have legacy problems too

24 Sep 14:34 | 10

New Microsoft Exchange, SharePoint, Project Server versions inbound, but only available on subscription

IgniteDinosaurs get one last roar

24 Sep 13:45 | 5

UK ICO fines biz profiteering from COVID-19 crisis by sending unsolicited marketing texts to Joe Public

Digital Growth Experts Ltd hit send on 16k+ messages. The fine? £3.70 per text

24 Sep 13:00 | 14

NASA's hefty Martian rover will use an AI brain on a robot arm to map out signs of ancient life on Red Planet

The tiny X-ray bullets are only the size of a grain of sand. Pew! Pew! Pew!

24 Sep 12:15 | 18

BT cutting contractors' rates by a fifth and halving notice period because 'coronavirus'

ExclusiveTelco tells freelancers it 'isn't immune to the economic volatility and uncertainty' caused by pandemic

24 Sep 11:30 | 53

Ethernet failure on Swiss business jet prompted emergency descent, say aviation safety bods

Solution? A software update, natch

24 Sep 10:45 | 84

Azure DevOps Services reminds users that, yes, it really is time to pull the plug on Internet Explorer 11

IgniteSure, it's still wedged in the OS, but maybe you'd prefer something shiny and Chromier?

24 Sep 10:01 | 21

Remember Entatech? UK liquidators are still trying to seize founder Jason Tsai's assets

High Court hears of offshore assets, tax fraud, and freezing orders

24 Sep 09:16 | 11

Former BT CEO to lead task force that will advise UK.gov on diversifying the nation's telecoms supply chain

Experts from industry and academia tapped to help increase competition

24 Sep 08:30 | 13

It's powered by a mega-corp AI, it has a Liquid Mode, but it's not a T-1000. It's Adobe's PDF auto-reflow for mobile

If you find yourself wrestling with big docs on small screens, Photoshop maker's iOS, Android apps may be able to help

24 Sep 07:57 | 35

England's COVID-tracking app finally goes live after 6 months of work – including backpedal on how to handle data

Just in time for the second wave and new movement restrictions

24 Sep 07:27 | 216

Is your data center straining? The answer isn’t just more processor cores

WebcastJoin us next month to feel the Intel® Optane™ Effect

24 Sep 07:00 |

VMware drops hints that ESXi on Arm is about to become a proper product

Also looks to have security and SaaS news in store for next week’s VMworld

24 Sep 06:31 | 4

In a world where up is down, it's heartwarming to know Internet Explorer still tops list of web dev pain points

Incompatibilities and inconsistent standards support among browsers ensure an ongoing source of headaches

24 Sep 06:03 | 19

India shows off new home-grown CPU – but at 100MHz, 32-bit and 180nm, it’s a bit of a clunker

RISC-V design can play nice with Arduino and was totally home-spun so that’s something

24 Sep 05:30 | 48

Hong Kong wants to teach kids more STEM – once it's defined what that is

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Territory wants to snip subjects to squeeze in coding, but knows its teachers aren't up to the job

24 Sep 05:03 | 13

Braking point: Tesla has had quite enough of Trump's 'unlawful' tariffs on Chinese-made parts, sues Uncle Sam

Elon Musk wants his money back, Volvo, Ford, Mercedes also pile in

24 Sep 04:25 | 37

TikTok seeks injunction to halt Trump ban, claims it would break America's own First and Fifth Amendments

Video-sharing app appears to have had enough of presidential posturing

24 Sep 02:55 | 39

Four years after Europe sorted this, America is still going around in circles on data privacy in stuffy hearings

Federal versus state action – the endless conundrum for the United States

24 Sep 01:49 | 39

Oracle rejoices as US government's $400m wage discrimination claim gets piped into /dev/null

Winner winner, lawsuit-binner

24 Sep 00:54 | 6

Uncle Sam's legal eagles finally make up their mind on internet giants' Get Out Of Jail Free card – and it's not as bad as you may fear

AnalysisProposed Section 230 overhaul shockingly free of hyperbole

23 Sep 23:52 | 18

Ex-eBay global intel staffers to admit they cyberstalked online tat bazaar's critics – who got pig heads, funeral wreath, and more in the mail

Four to plead guilty, accused senior bosses insist they weren't involved

23 Sep 23:04 | 9

Frames per second? Windows Terminal brings back text animation with the VT100 blink

Tired of all the new at Microsoft's Ignite? Enjoy a bit of DEC goodness

23 Sep 22:00 | 56

It's the year of Linux on the... ThinkPad as Lenovo extends out-of-the-box Ubuntu support to nearly 30 machines

PCs for suited penguins

23 Sep 21:02 | 18

One does not simply walk into supply chain software – but Microsoft is giving it a shot

IgniteNew features announced for Dynamics 365, but is it enough in 'notoriously tricky' market?

23 Sep 20:21 |

Nokia rolls out midrange 5G mobile, but will struggle to fight off Motorola and pals. Plus: New platform for suits with bulk-ordered SIMs

Also two new budget blowers including £99 MicroUSB unit

23 Sep 19:00 | 8

Microsoft's OS joins macOS and Linux at the Flutter party, but guess which one performs best? Hint: It's not Windows

Google's cross-platform development tool targets the Windows desktop with support now in alpha

23 Sep 18:09 | 13

ServiceNow founder Fred Luddy sells $13.2m stake in 'defining enterprise software company of the 21st century'

He either missed the memo or doesn't believe it

23 Sep 17:15 | 7

Doppelpaymer ransomware crew fingered for attack on German hospital that caused death of a patient

Same mob promised not to target healthcare facilities

23 Sep 16:26 | 5

Moonshot: Making spaceships with Microsoft's refreshed HoloLens 2 nerd goggles

IgniteAugment me to the Moon, with AR among the stars

23 Sep 15:30 | 4

Samsung throws more frugal followers a bone* with cheaper Galaxy S20 Fanboi Fan Edition

Chucks in Xbox Live Game Pass and other 'freebies' to sweeten the £599+ deal

23 Sep 14:45 | 9

Microsoft leaks 6.5TB in Bing search data via unsecured Elastic server. Insert 'Wow... that much?' joke here

Not personal info, but there are worries over deanonymisation. Remember that AOL research database?

23 Sep 13:51 | 46

And now for something completely different: Ultraviolet aurora spotted around comet for first time

GIF67P is a gift that keeps on giving

23 Sep 13:10 | 8

Swift tailored for Windows no longer folklore: Apple's programming language available for Microsoft OS

The Redmond-aligned can try the Cupertino-spawned lingo thanks to a Googler's intervention

23 Sep 12:07 | 24

Another body for the Google graveyard: Chrome Web Store payments. Bad news if you wanted to bank some income from these apps

Extension developers told to look elsewhere for a sales provider

23 Sep 11:05 | 12

Proposed US fix for Boeing 737 Max software woes does not address Ethiopian crash scenario, UK pilot union warns

MCAS saga still hasn't ended as reps warn of trim wheel problem

23 Sep 10:02 | 164

With the robotic process automation market taking off, it wouldn't be like Microsoft to not grab a slice of the action

IgniteRedmond to take baby steps on desktop while established vendors turn gaze to enterprise deployments

23 Sep 09:04 |

Tesla to build cars made of batteries and hit $25k price tag about three years down the road

Promises full autonomy and big range boost too

23 Sep 08:26 | 117

Onwards! To the airport and adventure! And this rather lachrymose Linux screen

Bork!Bork!Bork!No flight info, no adverts, just blackness...

23 Sep 08:10 | 39

.uk registry operator Nominet responds to renewed criticism – by silencing its critics

It’s always important for us to understand your views. That's why we’re shutting them down

23 Sep 07:36 | 66

Pst... Is that the sound of your Outlook backups leaking?

WebcastJoin us this month to learn how to squeeze 25 years of local backups into the cloud

23 Sep 07:00 |

Your latest security headache? Ed from accounting using his kid as an unpaid helpdesk

Techie teens, not IT support, tasked with helping work-from-home parents sort out vid calls, Word and Excel files, antivirus – survey report

23 Sep 06:12 | 47

China sets out world domination plan for its digital currency

Seeks first-mover advantage and says US dollar ripe to be dethroned

23 Sep 05:28 | 25

FBI boasts of dark-web drug bust: 179 collared around the world, $6.5m in cash and 500kg of narcotics seized

Operation DisrupTor will 'significantly disrupt the online opioid trade'

23 Sep 05:08 | 20

TikTok proposes coalition with other social apps to curb harmful content

Seemingly ignorant of the fact that Microsoft, Google, Facebook and Twitter already operate a similar project

23 Sep 02:58 | 1

Huawei chairman says tech giant's goal is ‘survival’ as it battles ‘non-stop aggression’

UpdatedReleases new Intel-powered server as Chipzilla confirms it won a license to sell .... stuff it won't discuss

23 Sep 02:15 | 7

Get ready for Clippy 9000: Microsoft exclusively licenses OpenAI's mega-brain GPT-3 for anything and everything

Ignite'The scope of commercial and creative potential is profound'

23 Sep 01:06 | 11

Microsoft Arcs up and makes Azure's manage-all-the-servers service a reality

IgniteAnd shows that even Redmond cannot resist the rise of hybrid Kubernetes

22 Sep 23:33 |

Humans suck so much at beating this pandemic that Microsoft has made an AI to enforce social distancing

Ignite'People analytics' tool touted to count folks, measure how close they are via video cameras

22 Sep 22:32 | 26

As you're scrambling to patch the scary ZeroLogon hole in Windows Server, don't forget Samba – it's also affected

Domain controllers at risk of hijacking, depending on version and configuration

22 Sep 21:49 | 6

It's been a vintage year for bug bounty hunters, says HackerOne as it boasts of $40m+ passing through its treasure chests

Big money, says CEO, but what would it cost not to find and fix these vulns?

22 Sep 21:06 | 2

Microsoft muscles in on the comms API space to compete with Twilio and AWS Chime

IgniteAzure Communication Services embeds real-time comms into any app, but sharing tech with Teams not a selling point for everyone

22 Sep 20:02 | 2

Microsoft will release a web browser for Linux next month. Repeat, Microsoft will release a browser for Linux – and it uses Google's technology

IgniteThis means Linus Torvalds has definitely won, doesn't it?

22 Sep 18:42 | 136

To bring data down from the heavens, come to GSaaS, says Microsoft as it launches Azure Orbital

IgniteBirds that aren't geostationary can tap Redmond's Ground-Station-as-a-Service for all their downloading needs

22 Sep 17:54 | 3

Oracle adds Arm-powered servers with up to 160 cores to its cloud – must be why it sunk millions into Ampere

Plans HPC play with AMD, Intel silicon, too

22 Sep 17:03 | 11

Second lockdown? Perfect time to unveil Teams Breakout rooms and another ginormitor – the 85-inch Surface Hub 2S

IgniteVirtual commutes and touchless meetings

22 Sep 15:59 | 12

Royole's no chicken: Chinese firm goes in for another round with sequel to panned foldable

Flexpai may have been a world-first, but it wasn't very good. The follow-up phone straps on 5G

22 Sep 15:31 | 2

Microservices guru says think serverless, not Kubernetes: You don't want to manage 'a towering edifice of stuff'

Sam Newman speaks to devs at GOTOpia Europe

22 Sep 14:41 | 24

By the beard of Zeus! Arm takes another tilt at serious servers with SVE-capable 96-core Neoverse V1

Also makes itself denser, in a good way, with 128-core N2 upgrade

22 Sep 13:36 | 1

Adidas now stands for All Day I'm Disconnecting All Servers as owners of 'smart' Libra scales furious over bricked kit

You can only use it to weigh yourself now... how disgustingly low-tech

22 Sep 12:35 | 49

Apple Watch Series 6 isn't a step back for repairability but in its own way that's a leap forward

Fitness fans get more battery capacity in thinner case, and replacing it is doable for the brave

22 Sep 11:26 | 10

UK Ministry of Justice dangles £20m, seeks paper-free payroll services – this time for the judiciary

Yes, why not haul the system into the 21st century?

22 Sep 10:45 | 6

SpaceX scuppered by weather once more as skygazers win a Starlink reprieve

In BriefAlso: Rocket Lab rehearses for a US debut while Firefly fires up an Alpha

22 Sep 10:00 | 1

Happy Hacking Professional Hybrid mechanical keyboard: Weird, powerful, comfortable ... and did we mention weird?

ReviewOnce you're over the learning curve, it's a cross-platform all-rounder

22 Sep 09:15 | 66

UK Parliament's human rights committee pushes for better protections of coronavirus contact-tracing data in law

Decentralised app rolling out soon, but manual process remains problematic

22 Sep 08:30 | 15

UK govt urged to bolt tough legal protections onto Arm and protect jobs – or simply veto Nvidia's £31bn acquisition

Ambitions to see the rise of a Brit equivalent to Apple is cool and all but that strategy must include safeguarding chip designer, says union

22 Sep 06:29 | 48

Cisco bets on real-world events with overseas audiences resuming in late 2021

Branded tat and disrupto-talks could return - albeit nine months later than usual in Oz plague capital

22 Sep 05:57 | 2

'I don’t want to see another computer for the rest of my life'... Brit Dark Overlord cyber-extortionist thrown in an American clink for five years

Scumbag sobs in court as judge orders him to cough up $1.5m

22 Sep 05:37 | 44

Contractor convicted of pinching supercomputer cycles to mine cryptocurrency

Court sends him into lockdown that’s not a whole lot nastier than some used to control a certain virus

22 Sep 04:23 | 15

India orders 180-day sprint to wire 46,000 villages

At least one WiFi access point and five FTTP connections in each

22 Sep 02:01 | 6

She was praised by the CEO and promoted. After her brother and mom died, she returned from compassionate leave. IBM laid her off

Nancy is among 15 former Big Blue workers now suing the mega-corp for age discrimination

22 Sep 00:30 | 77

Have no idea WTF is going on with the Oracle-Walmart TikTok deal? Don’t sweat it, here’s our latest rundown

AnalysisTL;DR: Trump is confusing everything to stay in the spotlight

21 Sep 21:33 | 35

Another reminder that bias, testing, diversity is needed in machine learning: Twitter's image-crop AI may favor white men, women's chests

Strange, it didn't show up during development, says social network

21 Sep 20:47 | 32

Before you buy that managed Netgear switch, be aware you may need to create a cloud account to use its full UI

You will be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, and numbered

21 Sep 19:55 | 46

Remember those Salesforce layoffs after that bumper Q2? Yeah, forget that, SaaS player set to hire 12,000 staff

What goes up must come down. Or is it the other way round?

21 Sep 19:00 | 6

Future airliners will run on hydrogen, vows Airbus as it teases world-plus-dog with concept designs

Comes not long after firm ditched hybrid-electric propulsion demonstrator

21 Sep 18:01 | 195

Won't somebody think of the Oracle execs? No pay rises, bonuses, equity awards for top brass until 2022 at earliest

How will CEO Safra Catz manage on her $950k salary in this environment?

21 Sep 17:13 | 5

OnePlus to drop slightly better version of latest flagship next month ... and that's the T

Robert Downey Jr's back to tell everyone how great it is

21 Sep 16:15 | 8

Halloween approaches and the veil between worlds wears thin – the Windows 10 October 2020 Release walks among us

In BriefAlso: Darkness beckons for Dev Channel Insiders, TypeScript 4.1 beta arrives, Xbox swallows Bethesda

21 Sep 15:40 | 17

We're not getting back with Galileo, UK govt tells The Reg, as question marks sprout above its BS*

*Brexit Satellite. What did you think we meant? GPS continues to rule the roost in Blighty for now

21 Sep 15:00 | 215

MP promises to grill UK.gov over revelations that Uber handed '2,000 pieces' of user data to London cops a year

Where are the search warrants for this? asks ex-Brexit Secretary

21 Sep 14:00 | 35

Imagine working for GitHub and writing a command-line interface for the platform, then GitHub makes an 'official' one

It's avoiding the 'constraints of 10 years of design decisions' apparently

21 Sep 13:20 | 29

Russians charged for $16.8m crypto-coin heist, but traders warned their cash is only as safe as their security is tight

In briefPlus: Lazarus Group joins the big league, ex-Aussie PM doxxed, new flaw found in Bluetooth, and more

21 Sep 12:33 | 4

Anglian Water fishes for on-trend laundry list – including low-code work – in £24m trawl

Citizen app, reporting for duty

21 Sep 11:45 | 12

Tesla wins defamation counterclaim against Gigafactory whistleblower

Tripp's off the hook for Tesla's supposed $167.37m market cap damages, though

21 Sep 11:00 | 8

Coding unit tests is boring. Wouldn't it be cool if an AI could do it for you? That's where Diffblue comes in

A big time saver – but 'we can't tell if the current logic that you have in the code is correct or not.' Oh

21 Sep 10:15 | 30

Ready to slip into your suitca... or not: Logitech wheels out new 'travel-sized' version of MX Master 3

Optimistically aimed at airport-bound folk

21 Sep 09:30 | 17

Ports in a storm: The Matebook 14 won't set your world on fire, but it's still a half-decent laptop

ReviewWhy is it that ultrabook-makers can't give us more places to stick our USBs?

21 Sep 08:30 | 26

Space. The final frontier. These are the voyages of 'Advanced Night Repair' skin cream helping NASA to commercialise space

Estée Lauder’s pricey goop gets seat on next ISS resupply mission as Japanese companies pledge zero-G cosmetics

21 Sep 08:01 | 47

We don't need maintenance this often, surely? Pull it. Oh dear, the system's down

Who, Me?You've been visited by the Don Corleone of code

21 Sep 07:15 | 95

US cybersecurity agency issues super-rare emergency directive to patch Windows Server flaw ASAP

Government sysadmins given weekend to fix ZeroLogon elevation of privilege bug, rest of us given stern warning

21 Sep 05:56 | 13

Dying software forces changes to VMware’s vSphere Clients

Imminent demise of IE 11 and Angular JS means upgrades are incoming

21 Sep 04:27 | 17

Amazon staffers took bribes, manipulated marketplace, leaked data including search algorithms – DoJ claims

Banned merchants restored, rivals’ stores binned, cash sent around town in an Uber, it is alleged

21 Sep 02:13 | 31

Tencent in talks for 'longterm solution' to WeChat mess as injunction keeps the app alive

Ban on app ruled a restriction on free speech

20 Sep 23:30 | 11

Oracle Zooms past rivals to run TikTok’s cloud, take stake alongside WalMart and ByteDance investors

Deal dilutes Chinese stake enough for Trump to tentatively approve

20 Sep 03:50 | 34

Wanna live on the edge and play with a multi-core system crammed with 5G, AI? Here's a dev kit Qualcomm has in mind

In briefPlus: Machine-learning software and another Power processor core opened up by IBM

19 Sep 13:13 | 6