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Analogue radio given 10-year stay of execution as the UK U-turns on DAB digital future

It's not a Windows 10 release without something breaking so here's a troubleshooter for your OneDrive woes

AWS attempts to woo devs with new tool aimed at porting .NET applications to Linux

The good news: Vodafone switches on first full-fat, real-life 5G network in the UK. The bad news: it only got sent to Coventry

Microsoft takes tweaking tongs to Windows 10's Start Menu once again

Scala contributor: Open source and diversity key to tackling dev skills shortage

'90s retro resurrection PowerToys hits 0.19, bringing raft of fixes and a final flash from the desktop

Firefox 78: Protections dashboard, new developer features... and the end of the line for older macOS versions

Barclays Bank appeared to be using the Wayback Machine as a 'CDN' for some Javascript

Fighting BEC and EAC: Why whack-a-mole won’t work

F5 emits fixes for critical flaws in BIG-IP gear: Hopefully yours aren't internet-facing while you ready a patch

Holy Guacamole! Researchers find Apache remote desktop software was silently pwnable for snooping on sessions

Languishing lodash library loophole finally fitted for a fix: It's only taken since October to address security bug

Continuous Lifecycle Online: Just like our London conference – but in your own home. Grab tickets now

Containers to capture 15% of all enterprise apps across 75% of business by 2024

HashiCorp Cloud Platform unveiled – but in private beta for AWS only

Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users. It's meant to work like that, right?

Brit MPs vote down bid to delay IR35 reforms, press ahead with new tax rules for private-sector contractors

No one can compete with Google... unless it opens its click-and-query data to rivals, says UK markets watchdog

Happy privacy action day in California: If you don't have 'Do not sell my information' in your website footer, you need to read this story right now

Like a Bolt from the blue, Huawei's fledgling AppGallery signs a ride-sharing platform

Cool IT support drones never look at explosions: Time to resolution for misbehaving mouse? Three seconds

'Google cannot stop it, control it or curtail it...' Inside the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam

Purism's quest against Intel's Management Engine black box CPU now comes in 14 inches

Geek's Guide

UK government shakes magic money tree, finds $500m to buy a stake in struggling satellite firm OneWeb

Don't beat yourself up for overeating in lockdown. This black hole scoffs equivalent of our Sun every day

UK space firms forced to adjust their models of how the universe works as they lose out on Copernicus contracts

Remember that black hole just 1,000 light years from Earth? Scientists queue up to say it may not exist after all

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free

It's a tough time for digital transformation in the financial services world – but fret not, there’s help at hand

Huawei develops epidemic prevention and control solutions for safer travel

Rental electric scooters to clutter UK street scenes after Department of Transport gives year-long trial the thumbs-up

Verity Stob

E-scooter fanboy so hyped for Teesside to host UK's first trial

Erudite, insightful, self-aware and almost human: Give your local database admin a hug – it's DBA Appreciation Day

Well bork me sideways: A railway ticket machine lies down for a little Windoze

Hey, Boeing. Don't celebrate your first post-grounding 737 Max test flight too hard. You just lost another big contract

Business

Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users. It's meant to work like that, right?

Brave browser's policy officer questions efficacy of personalised ads

03 Jul 09:27 | 31

Policy

Brit MPs vote down bid to delay IR35 reforms, press ahead with new tax rules for private-sector contractors

Amendment aimed to push back introduction to 2023/24, but it'll go ahead as planned next year

02 Jul 10:45 | 64

Business

No one can compete with Google... unless it opens its click-and-query data to rivals, says UK markets watchdog

Sharing's caring

02 Jul 10:00 | 1

Policy

Happy privacy action day in California: If you don't have 'Do not sell my information' in your website footer, you need to read this story right now

Golden State AG prepares crackdown

01 Jul 23:06 | 22

Business

Never knowingly under-digitally transformed: Retailer John Lewis outsources tech function to Wipro

244 workers TUPE'd to new employer

01 Jul 16:08 | 76

Business

Capgemini bags £40m to provide IT and dev support for the UK's Financial Services Compensation Scheme

Outsourcer charged with bolstering PPI chaser's business transformation

01 Jul 13:16 | 4

Analysis

The internet becomes trademarkable, sort of, with near-unanimous Supreme Court ruling on Booking.com

Lawyers lick their lips at litigation to come

30 Jun 21:36 | 34

Business

Imagination Technologies sued over £27m Russian SoC contract invoice brouhaha

IMGworks' new owner Sondrel demands £1.4m handed over tout suite

29 Jun 10:45 | 2

Business

Google to 'surface' friendly banks' business loans through Pay app

To help Indian small businesses cope with COVID crunch

26 Jun 02:57 | 2

Policy

We're no longer helping UK Post Office persecute postal workers with our shonky system, says Fujitsu

Too little, too late – but the inquiry is rolling

25 Jun 17:07 | 46

Business

Capita capital capitulates to COVID-19 coronavirus: Pandemic blamed as top line sags 10%

Well, that and the 'contract losses'

25 Jun 15:07 | 3

Business

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son stops shining on Alibaba's board

'My work here is done, but my day job just got complicated' is the gist of it

25 Jun 07:31 |

Interview

Ex-barrister reckons he has a privacy-preserving solution to Britain's smut ban plans

Content tagging – and I'll give the tech away for free, says Safecast Global chief

23 Jun 09:15 | 93

Policy

ASEAN trade bloc scoops Googlebucks to digitise businesses out of COVID-19 crunch

Hopes to educate 200,000 people in villages and smaller cities

23 Jun 04:04 | 2

Policy

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses... but not your H-1B geeks, L-1 staffers nor J-1 students

US freezes visa applications until the end of the year, cites COVID-19-sparked unemployment

23 Jun 01:58 | 75

Business

Paging technology providers: £3m is on the table to replace archaic NHS comms network

10% of the world's pagers are in use by Britain's health service

22 Jun 12:15 | 38

Business

Can't get your Pi fix online? The Cambridge shop's back open for business, Brits

Doors remain closed at that other hub of nerdery, the Centre for Computing History

19 Jun 16:48 | 12

Policy

IR35 tax reforms for UK freelancers glide through committee stage: D-Day set for 6 April 2021

*Cough* But are they freelancers? *cough* – HMRC

19 Jun 14:45 | 34

Policy

A memo from the distant future... June 2022: The boss decides working from home isn't the new normal after all

Because nobody wants to be the new Yahoo! apparently

19 Jun 12:30 | 121

Policy

Winter is coming, and with it the UK's COVID-19 contact-tracing app – though health minister says it's not a priority

'Focus' now on call centre-based system run by outsourcers, it seems

18 Jun 13:10 | 58

Analogue radio given 10-year stay of execution as the UK U-turns on DAB digital future

It's not a Windows 10 release without something breaking so here's a troubleshooter for your OneDrive woes

AWS attempts to woo devs with new tool aimed at porting .NET applications to Linux

The good news: Vodafone switches on first full-fat, real-life 5G network in the UK. The bad news: it only got sent to Coventry

Microsoft takes tweaking tongs to Windows 10's Start Menu once again

Scala contributor: Open source and diversity key to tackling dev skills shortage

'90s retro resurrection PowerToys hits 0.19, bringing raft of fixes and a final flash from the desktop

Firefox 78: Protections dashboard, new developer features... and the end of the line for older macOS versions

Barclays Bank appeared to be using the Wayback Machine as a 'CDN' for some Javascript

Fighting BEC and EAC: Why whack-a-mole won’t work

F5 emits fixes for critical flaws in BIG-IP gear: Hopefully yours aren't internet-facing while you ready a patch

Holy Guacamole! Researchers find Apache remote desktop software was silently pwnable for snooping on sessions

Languishing lodash library loophole finally fitted for a fix: It's only taken since October to address security bug

Continuous Lifecycle Online: Just like our London conference – but in your own home. Grab tickets now

Containers to capture 15% of all enterprise apps across 75% of business by 2024

HashiCorp Cloud Platform unveiled – but in private beta for AWS only

Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users. It's meant to work like that, right?

Brit MPs vote down bid to delay IR35 reforms, press ahead with new tax rules for private-sector contractors

No one can compete with Google... unless it opens its click-and-query data to rivals, says UK markets watchdog

Happy privacy action day in California: If you don't have 'Do not sell my information' in your website footer, you need to read this story right now

Like a Bolt from the blue, Huawei's fledgling AppGallery signs a ride-sharing platform

Cool IT support drones never look at explosions: Time to resolution for misbehaving mouse? Three seconds

'Google cannot stop it, control it or curtail it...' Inside the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam

Purism's quest against Intel's Management Engine black box CPU now comes in 14 inches

UK government shakes magic money tree, finds $500m to buy a stake in struggling satellite firm OneWeb

Don't beat yourself up for overeating in lockdown. This black hole scoffs equivalent of our Sun every day

UK space firms forced to adjust their models of how the universe works as they lose out on Copernicus contracts

Remember that black hole just 1,000 light years from Earth? Scientists queue up to say it may not exist after all

If you wanna make your own open-source chip, just Google it. Literally. Web giant says it'll fab them for free

It's a tough time for digital transformation in the financial services world – but fret not, there’s help at hand

Huawei develops epidemic prevention and control solutions for safer travel

Rental electric scooters to clutter UK street scenes after Department of Transport gives year-long trial the thumbs-up

E-scooter fanboy so hyped for Teesside to host UK's first trial

Erudite, insightful, self-aware and almost human: Give your local database admin a hug – it's DBA Appreciation Day

Well bork me sideways: A railway ticket machine lies down for a little Windoze

Hey, Boeing. Don't celebrate your first post-grounding 737 Max test flight too hard. You just lost another big contract

Business

Dutch national broadcaster saw ad revenue rise when it stopped tracking users. It's meant to work like that, right?

Brit MPs vote down bid to delay IR35 reforms, press ahead with new tax rules for private-sector contractors

No one can compete with Google... unless it opens its click-and-query data to rivals, says UK markets watchdog

Happy privacy action day in California: If you don't have 'Do not sell my information' in your website footer, you need to read this story right now

Never knowingly under-digitally transformed: Retailer John Lewis outsources tech function to Wipro

Capgemini bags £40m to provide IT and dev support for the UK's Financial Services Compensation Scheme

The internet becomes trademarkable, sort of, with near-unanimous Supreme Court ruling on Booking.com

Imagination Technologies sued over £27m Russian SoC contract invoice brouhaha

Google to 'surface' friendly banks' business loans through Pay app

We're no longer helping UK Post Office persecute postal workers with our shonky system, says Fujitsu

Capita capital capitulates to COVID-19 coronavirus: Pandemic blamed as top line sags 10%

SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son stops shining on Alibaba's board

Ex-barrister reckons he has a privacy-preserving solution to Britain's smut ban plans

ASEAN trade bloc scoops Googlebucks to digitise businesses out of COVID-19 crunch

Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses... but not your H-1B geeks, L-1 staffers nor J-1 students

Paging technology providers: £3m is on the table to replace archaic NHS comms network

Can't get your Pi fix online? The Cambridge shop's back open for business, Brits

IR35 tax reforms for UK freelancers glide through committee stage: D-Day set for 6 April 2021

A memo from the distant future... June 2022: The boss decides working from home isn't the new normal after all

Winter is coming, and with it the UK's COVID-19 contact-tracing app – though health minister says it's not a priority

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Microsoft sees the world has moved on, cranks OneDrive file size upload limit from 15GB to more useful 100GB

Euro police forces infiltrated encrypted phone biz – and now 'criminal' EncroChat users are being rounded up

Microsoft takes tweaking tongs to Windows 10's Start Menu once again

UK space firms forced to adjust their models of how the universe works as they lose out on Copernicus contracts

'Google cannot stop it, control it or curtail it...' Inside the murky world of fake addiction treatment center search spam

Barclays Bank appeared to be using the Wayback Machine as a 'CDN' for some Javascript

F5 emits fixes for critical flaws in BIG-IP gear: Hopefully yours aren't internet-facing while you ready a patch

Purism's quest against Intel's Management Engine black box CPU now comes in 14 inches

Holy Guacamole! Researchers find Apache remote desktop software was silently pwnable for snooping on sessions

Cool IT support drones never look at explosions: Time to resolution for misbehaving mouse? Three seconds

Yahoo! owes! us! one! billion! dollars! in! back! taxes! say! US! govt! beancounters!

Electronic health records firm Epic Bristol bags £454m in UK deals as creaking care sector chases digital transformation

Meatspace meetup Web Summit reckons you'll be ready to revisit the world in November

Not so nice, we investigated them twice: EU opens double whammy of inquiries into Apple's biz practices

It's June, and you guessed it! Pork barrel time for resellers as £500m public sector framework gets go-ahead

Infosys denies former head of diversity recruitment's accusations of racial bias and visa fraud

Facebook caves to Australia's call for explanations of News Feed algo changes

Brit council tosses Serco a £50m contract extension as coronavirus pandemic leaves in-sourcing plans in tatters

UK.gov announces review – not proper inquiry – into Fujitsu and Post Office's Horizon IT scandal

Two COVID tests, five-day quarantine, limited expense account abuse opportunities: Taiwan sets new rules for business travel

UK spending watchdog blasts £792m STEM school scheme over low student numbers, deficits, education quality

Germany to fund development of edge CPUs as part of 'tech you can trust' plan to home-brew more kit