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Can't decide which OS to run today? Why not Linux inside Windows inside macOS?

Wi-Fi 6 isn't signed off yet, but boffins are already teasing us with specs for venerable wireless tech's next gen

Softbank confirms talks to offload Arm as it posts rebound profit

Appeals judges toss out FTC win: What Qualcomm did to its rivals was 'hypercompetitive, not anticompetitive'

Some lucky web developer just scored $20k to scour Facebook out of Neil Young’s website

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

Microsoft: The UK is facing an AI skills gap. If only there were a humble cloud giant that could help

Programming pioneer Fran Allen dies aged 88 after a career of immense contributions to compilers

If you haven't yet patched this critical hole in SAP NetWeaver Application Server, today is not your day

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

Citrix warns of patch-ASAP-grade bugs in its working-from-home products, just as we're all working from home

We spent way too long on this Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, SAP, Red Hat Patch Tuesday article. Just click on it, pretend to read it, apply updates

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in

What looks like a global pay freeze, sounds like a global pay freeze, but isn't a global pay freeze? Ask IBM

UK.gov to propose new rules for online political campaigns after last election marred by an avalanche of fake news

Pakistan aims to quadruple IT exports to $5bn, with freelancing youth to the fore

UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals

Just how is Prez Trump's anti-Chinese rhetoric playing out? 70% of smartphones sold in the Land of the Free are made in China

Microsoft spills beans on release, pricing for folding fancyphone: Start your Surface Duo engines now

Xiaomi turns 10 and celebrates by sitting down to relax in front of its new transparent television

Nokia licensor HMD Global scores $230m from Google, Qualcomm, and, er... Nokia

Geek's Guide

Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons

Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?

NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects

The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR

India explores blockchain-powered voting but not to enable online elections

Googlers show off AI that can help developers protect crypto code from key-slurping side-channel attacks

Uncle Sam says it's perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to 'dominate' battlefields

Whoops, our bad, we may have 'accidentally' let Google Home devices record your every word, sound – oops

Verity Stob

The future of signage is here, and it wants an update

Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck

What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes

UK lockdown easing heralds the return of burgers... and bork

Business

Exclusive

What looks like a global pay freeze, sounds like a global pay freeze, but isn't a global pay freeze? Ask IBM

HR boss warns staff Big Blue will 'suspend' salary reviews, moving rises to 2021

12 Aug 09:15 | 4

Policy

UK.gov to propose new rules for online political campaigns after last election marred by an avalanche of fake news

Voters need to know who they are being targeted by, says MP

12 Aug 08:30 | 32

Business

Pakistan aims to quadruple IT exports to $5bn, with freelancing youth to the fore

Which would leave it about four percent of neighboring India’s exports

12 Aug 02:27 | 1

Business

UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals

Just how 'digital' does an H₂O supplier have to be?

11 Aug 09:25 | 14

Business

Apple's at it again: Things go pear-shaped for meal planner app after iGiant opposes logo

It's all in the 'right-angled leaf', people

10 Aug 11:12 | 122

Business

As hospital-based infections set to rise, best not change the vendor behind the system that tracks them, hm?

Now's not the time for competition, says Public Health England

10 Aug 08:30 | 18

Policy

Ancestry.com: Let arbitrator decide on auto-enrolling membership lawsuit

This is not a matter for the San Diego court, says digital family history service

07 Aug 17:38 | 33

Business

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

'Not the most glorious of returns to public market' says analyst

05 Aug 12:45 | 5

Business

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

Public and voluntary sector welcome to buy from framework agreement winners

05 Aug 08:30 | 5

Policy

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

'New investigation casts fresh uncertainty over the deal,' says analyst

04 Aug 17:47 | 10

Policy

You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing

Modelling suggests massive second wave without major improvements

04 Aug 13:00 | 177

Business

Workplace Technology latest division to be jettisoned from Capita – back into the hands of its original owner

Outsourcing giant's boss Jon Lewis continues to swing the axe

04 Aug 11:19 | 4

Policy

Trump bans Feds from contracting H-1B workers and makes telehealth the new normal

Also touts scheme to have USA to pocket finder’s fee for allowing TikTok sale

04 Aug 02:59 | 26

Business

In the halcyon days before Brexit, takeover attempts, and COVID-19, HP made 1.3% pre-tax profit on sales at UK limb

PC giant blames restructure costs

03 Aug 12:40 | 6

Business

Struggling company pleads with landlords to slash rents as COVID-19 batters UK high street. The firm's name? Apple

Yes, the one with a $193.8bn cash pile

03 Aug 11:08 | 69

Business

Architect of tech contractor tax fraud scheme jailed for at least five years

Payroll company kept over $70m of tax and founders spent it lavishly

03 Aug 06:32 | 35

Policy

Australia to force Google and Facebook to pay for news and reveal algorithm changes before they whack web traffic

And is willing to fine them hundreds of millions if they don't play nice

31 Jul 04:06 | 28

Business

Congratulations Peebles. Felicitations Queenzieburn. Openreach is bringing you FTTP (yes, they're real places)

Full-fibre connections coming to (some of) the UK's 'final third' by 2026

30 Jul 09:25 | 46

Business

Qualcomm signs new IP licencing deal with Huawei despite US-China trade tensions

The cash will come in handy after COVID kicked a colossal hole in Q3 revenue

30 Jul 05:02 | 3

Updated

Arm China brands itself a 'strategic asset', calls for Beijing's help in boardroom dispute with Brit HQ

'We just wanna design chips without distractions', say staff in open letter

29 Jul 03:49 | 20

Can't decide which OS to run today? Why not Linux inside Windows inside macOS?

Wi-Fi 6 isn't signed off yet, but boffins are already teasing us with specs for venerable wireless tech's next gen

Softbank confirms talks to offload Arm as it posts rebound profit

Appeals judges toss out FTC win: What Qualcomm did to its rivals was 'hypercompetitive, not anticompetitive'

Some lucky web developer just scored $20k to scour Facebook out of Neil Young’s website

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

Microsoft: The UK is facing an AI skills gap. If only there were a humble cloud giant that could help

Programming pioneer Fran Allen dies aged 88 after a career of immense contributions to compilers

If you haven't yet patched this critical hole in SAP NetWeaver Application Server, today is not your day

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

Citrix warns of patch-ASAP-grade bugs in its working-from-home products, just as we're all working from home

We spent way too long on this Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, SAP, Red Hat Patch Tuesday article. Just click on it, pretend to read it, apply updates

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in

What looks like a global pay freeze, sounds like a global pay freeze, but isn't a global pay freeze? Ask IBM

UK.gov to propose new rules for online political campaigns after last election marred by an avalanche of fake news

Pakistan aims to quadruple IT exports to $5bn, with freelancing youth to the fore

UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals

Just how is Prez Trump's anti-Chinese rhetoric playing out? 70% of smartphones sold in the Land of the Free are made in China

Microsoft spills beans on release, pricing for folding fancyphone: Start your Surface Duo engines now

Xiaomi turns 10 and celebrates by sitting down to relax in front of its new transparent television

Nokia licensor HMD Global scores $230m from Google, Qualcomm, and, er... Nokia

Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons

Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?

NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects

The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR

India explores blockchain-powered voting but not to enable online elections

Googlers show off AI that can help developers protect crypto code from key-slurping side-channel attacks

Uncle Sam says it's perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to 'dominate' battlefields

Whoops, our bad, we may have 'accidentally' let Google Home devices record your every word, sound – oops

The future of signage is here, and it wants an update

Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck

What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes

UK lockdown easing heralds the return of burgers... and bork

Business

What looks like a global pay freeze, sounds like a global pay freeze, but isn't a global pay freeze? Ask IBM

UK.gov to propose new rules for online political campaigns after last election marred by an avalanche of fake news

Pakistan aims to quadruple IT exports to $5bn, with freelancing youth to the fore

UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals

Apple's at it again: Things go pear-shaped for meal planner app after iGiant opposes logo

As hospital-based infections set to rise, best not change the vendor behind the system that tracks them, hm?

Ancestry.com: Let arbitrator decide on auto-enrolling membership lawsuit

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing

Workplace Technology latest division to be jettisoned from Capita – back into the hands of its original owner

Trump bans Feds from contracting H-1B workers and makes telehealth the new normal

In the halcyon days before Brexit, takeover attempts, and COVID-19, HP made 1.3% pre-tax profit on sales at UK limb

Struggling company pleads with landlords to slash rents as COVID-19 batters UK high street. The firm's name? Apple

Architect of tech contractor tax fraud scheme jailed for at least five years

Australia to force Google and Facebook to pay for news and reveal algorithm changes before they whack web traffic

Congratulations Peebles. Felicitations Queenzieburn. Openreach is bringing you FTTP (yes, they're real places)

Qualcomm signs new IP licencing deal with Huawei despite US-China trade tensions

Arm China brands itself a 'strategic asset', calls for Beijing's help in boardroom dispute with Brit HQ

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Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks

NCC Group admits its training data was leaked online after folders full of CREST pentest certification exam notes posted to GitHub

China now blocking ESNI-enabled TLS 1.3 connections, say Great-Firewall-watchers

Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear

We've reached the endgame: Bezos 'in talks' to turn shuttered department stores into Amazon warehouses

Brit bank Barclays probed amid claims bosses used high-tech to spy on staff, measure productivity

What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes

Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck

Can I get some service here? The new 27-inch iMac forgoes replaceable storage for soldered innards

Transport for London asks Capita to fling Congestion Charge system into the cloud

Australia sues Google over data collection practices that merged DoubleClick data to create single user profiles

Ex-boss of ICANN shifts from 'advisor' to co-CEO of private equity biz that tried to buy .org for $1bn+

IBM CEO and Indian prime minister talk about yoga … and unspecified further investment

Alibaba's financial arm, Ant, files for monster IPO ahead of march on the world's merchants and shoppers

India drops the bar on e-commerce seller's listings: You want to sell it? Tell us where it came from from then

Fujitsu re-orgs Fujitsu Japan by making more parts of Fujitsu Fujitsu

Lock down your data – or get the cheque book out: ICO privacy violation fines are rising, say lawyers

Japan plans massive national tech modernisation program

Forget about Wipro chairman saying no one would lose their job due to COVID-19: UK staff told they're facing redundancy

HCL hardly noticed COVID – revenue and profit rose and further growth predicted

SMIC, SMIC, boom: China's homegrown chip foundry raises £5.27bn as it hits Shanghai Stock Exchange

UK's Ministry of Justice puts out feelers for SaaS ERP with up to £100m on the table