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UK government marks 'at least' £115m for new Brexit systems against backdrop of chequered IT project history in customs and border control

HPE shifts further out onto the edge, plans to weld $925m Silver Peak buy to Aruba Networks

UK's University of Manchester has its head in all the clouds as it rains £50m on integrators

GitHub is just like all of us: The week has just started but it needed 4 whole hours of downtime

Pretend your holiday wasn't cancelled from next month: Microsoft Flight Simulator cleared for take-off

Rust code in Linux kernel looks more likely as language team lead promises support

Microsoft Visual Studio gets .NET Core debugging – on WSL2

Drupal drops first big upgrade in five years and looks forward by looking backwards

Sueball locked, loaded and pointed at LinkedIn over iOS privacy naughtiness

Better get Grandpa off Windows 7 because zero-day bug in Zoom allows remote code execution on vintage OS

Trump reveals US cyber-attack on Russian election-misdirection troll farms

How to make your IT security go beyond your network – and make people your perimeter

Continuous Lifecycle Online is this Thursday: Get your ticket while you can, and tune into these fantastic sessions

Rancher rides off into the SUSE-set after acquisition by Linux outfit

Microsoft integrates Azure Functions with Dapr – for when you run Azure Functions outside Azure. Confused yet?

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

Mixed signals? Yes and no: Analog Devices snaps up rival Maxim Integrated for $20.9bn

Reporting live from Gartner pandemic watch: IT spending is shrinking by X this year, I mean Y

Software biz Advanced set to lay off 6% of its workforce, blames that virus

South Korea joins the ‘we’re going to be self-sufficient in more tech and then export bucketloads’ club

Apple: Don't close MacBooks with a webcam cover on, you might damage the display

Oh what a cute little animation... OH MY GOD. (Not acceptable, even in the '80s)

Soft press keys for locked-down devs: Three new models of old school 60-key Happy Hacking 'board out next month

Pandemic proves just the tonic for PC sales as shipments shoot upwards

Geek's Guide

The world's nonsense keeping you awake in middle of the night? Good news. Go outside and see this two-tail comet

Spotted the ISS in the sky yet? How about pulling out some spare kit and giving it a listen?

If the Solar System's 'Planet Nine' is actually a small black hole, here's how we could detect it... wait, what?

Mars InSight to stretch its arm and look around as mole-mashing ops are paused

Detroit Police make second wrongful facial-recog arrest when another man is misidentified by software

Microsoft says ciao to Xiaoice: Formerly unpatriotic Chinese teenager sim flies the nest

We've paused Sigfox roof aerial payments, says WND-UK, but we'll make you whole after COVID

Privacy watchdogs from the UK, Australia team up, snap on gloves to probe AI-for-cops upstart Clearview

Verity Stob

All in all it's just another bork on the wall: For pity's sake, begs signage, climb onto the pub's roof and boot me up

Hungry? Please enjoy this delicious NaN, courtesy of British Gas and Sainsbury's

Cereal Killer Cafe enters hipster heaven, heads online: Coronavirus blamed for shutters being pulled down

Boolean bafflement at British Airways' Executive Club: Sneaky little Avioses - Wicked, Tricksy, False!

Policy

Indeed sued by account exec who said she was raped by male coworker amid misogynistic, sexually charged culture

UpdatedJobs biz accused of pressuring women into sleeping with managers, discrimination, ignoring complaints

20 May 2020 | 4

Indonesia imposes 10% digital services tax

To boost the post-pandemic tax base

18 May 2020 | 18

Philippines government to its agencies: You're not seriously going to do post-pandemic online services with that old stuff, are you?

Mass upgrades all-but ordered at all levels of government, even at unis

14 May 2020 | 3

India says its brains saved the world from the last colosso-crisis – cough, Y2K – proving it can become self-reliant

In tech and everything else needed in a post-COVID-19 economy

13 May 2020 | 23

Australians can demand visitors to their homes run contact-tracing app

As opposition MP criticises slow and incomplete source code release, saying 'Public health messaging shouldn't require citizens to follow GitHub forks'

13 May 2020 | 10

Author of infamous Google diversity manifesto drops lawsuit against web giant

James Damore decides he doesn’t need a day in court

11 May 2020 | 59

Does a .com suffix make a trademark? The US Supreme Court will decide as Booking marks its legal spot

Supremes go live on video

06 May 2020 | 36

Ex-Imagination Technologies boss tells UK Foreign Affairs Committee: Britain needs to stop overseas asset stripping

Other countries have it. Why can't we?

05 May 2020 | 56

UK IT contractors slipping back into old ways of working now IR35 tax reforms delayed

And employers that banned personal service companies no longer seem to care. At least not yet, say sources

04 May 2020 | 49

Amazon settles for $11m with workers in unpaid bag-search wait lawsuit

Puts to rest claims staff should've been paid for time spent in security lines

01 May 2020 | 15

Assange should be furloughed from Belmarsh prison, says human rights org. Here's a thought: He could stay with friends!

Totally reliable and worked really well last time

28 Apr 2020 | 68

China strings up red tape barrier that shows businesses they're better off buying local tech

New rules let Beijing review purchases after pondering 'political, diplomatic, and trade factors' for up to three months

28 Apr 2020 | 21

Lords: New IR35 off-payroll tax rules 'riddled with problems, unfairnesses, unintended consequences'

Peers urge review during delay as witnesses call themselves 'zero-rights employees'

27 Apr 2020 | 66

India launches e-government platform for 125,000 villages and drone land surveys to put them on the map

Hello, expanded tax base and access to capital! Farewell, land ownership disputes

27 Apr 2020 | 8

You have one job, Australian PM tells contact-tracing app, and that’s talking to medicos

Still no definitive word on open sourcing or how it will solve Singapore's Apple problem

23 Apr 2020 | 13

Looks like Benioff will go without new Italian shoes for a month: Details of Salesforce's $5m small biz grant emerge

Need $10k off CRM giant? Read on, though it's not a silver bullet

22 Apr 2020 | 1

Just because we're letting Zoom into Parliament doesn't mean you can have fun, House of Commons warns Brit MPs

Formal attire, no 'BBC Dad' episodes, and absolutely no funky backgrounds

22 Apr 2020 | 23

ICE cold: Microsoft's GitHub wrings hands over US prez's Trump immigration ban plan

Yeah, about that contract you signed with Immigration and Customs Enforcement...

22 Apr 2020 | 49

House of Commons agrees to allow Zoom app in Parliament, British MPs will still have to dress smartly

How long till this gets hacked?

21 Apr 2020 | 85

Academics: We hate to ask, but could governments kindly refrain from building giant data-slurping, contact-tracing coronavirus monsters?

Decentralise over Bluetooth, say 300 scholars

20 Apr 2020 | 77

UK government to take equity in struggling startups with £250m 'Future fund'

Borrowers can score between £500k and £5m if they have a track record, co-investors, and can afford eight percent interest

20 Apr 2020 | 21

Data science alliance in talks with UK Cabinet Office to help ease economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic

IBM and Google join the Rolls-Royce programme

17 Apr 2020 | 10

Ex-TalkTalk infosec exec's equal pay and unfair dismissal claims tossed out at tribunal

Job role was scaled back after 2015 hack, rules employment judge

16 Apr 2020 | 28

Trello! It is me... you locked the door? User warns of single sign-on risk after barring self from own account

UpdatedAtlassian awards personal account to bloke's former employer

16 Apr 2020 | 52

UK govt probes Brit chip biz Imagination after growing Chinese ownership sparks national security fears

Ex-CEO raises alarm over Middle Kingdom overlords' plans

16 Apr 2020 | 21

IBM age discrimination lawsuit suddenly ends, suggests Big Blue was willing to pay to avoid discovery process

Dismissal by both parties almost certainly means a settlement

15 Apr 2020 | 41

Oh ... Fudge This Pandemic! Google walks back on decision to switch off FTP in Chrome 81

Deprecation of venerable protocol postponed 'in light of the current crisis'

15 Apr 2020 | 18

Oh Hell. Remember the glory days of Demon Internet? Well, now would be a good time to pick a new email address

Sub-domain on the move – you have until 29 May to pick a new one

15 Apr 2020 | 100

Indian city floats camera-packing surveillance balloon to zoom in on quarantine-quitters

As Prime Minister calls on citizens to inspire adoption of contact-tracing app

15 Apr 2020 | 4

Philippine government demands telcos deliver a continuity plan by the end of the week

Better late than 'Oh no, our outsourcers are all disconnected from the world'

15 Apr 2020 |

ASEAN economic bloc calls for regional fake news crushing co-operation

And help to take small business digital because of y’know that virus thing we keep hearing about

15 Apr 2020 |

Wanted: An exit strategy from the overt surveillance of smartphone contact tracing

CommentIt’s open source. It will be abused. So we need to design a way out before we dive in

14 Apr 2020 | 55

India kicks off competition for home-grown video conferencing clone

Developers face three-month sprint to the finish line, with big government contract the prize

14 Apr 2020 | 12

Yahoo! Japan! shares! user! location! data! with! government! to! track! coronavirus! clusters!

As LINE named nation's preferred telemedicine tool

14 Apr 2020 | 1

Taiwan may turn traffic advice app into massive tracking system

To offer social distancing advice when people head out to play on a looming long weekend

13 Apr 2020 | 13

Rolls-Royce leads data analytics alliance with its sights set on COVID-19 economic recovery

Aims to limit recessionary impacts, help global pandemic response

08 Apr 2020 | 6

UK government marks 'at least' £115m for new Brexit systems against backdrop of chequered IT project history in customs and border control

HPE shifts further out onto the edge, plans to weld $925m Silver Peak buy to Aruba Networks

UK's University of Manchester has its head in all the clouds as it rains £50m on integrators

GitHub is just like all of us: The week has just started but it needed 4 whole hours of downtime

Pretend your holiday wasn't cancelled from next month: Microsoft Flight Simulator cleared for take-off

Rust code in Linux kernel looks more likely as language team lead promises support

Microsoft Visual Studio gets .NET Core debugging – on WSL2

Drupal drops first big upgrade in five years and looks forward by looking backwards

Sueball locked, loaded and pointed at LinkedIn over iOS privacy naughtiness

Better get Grandpa off Windows 7 because zero-day bug in Zoom allows remote code execution on vintage OS

Trump reveals US cyber-attack on Russian election-misdirection troll farms

How to make your IT security go beyond your network – and make people your perimeter

Continuous Lifecycle Online is this Thursday: Get your ticket while you can, and tune into these fantastic sessions

Rancher rides off into the SUSE-set after acquisition by Linux outfit

Microsoft integrates Azure Functions with Dapr – for when you run Azure Functions outside Azure. Confused yet?

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

Mixed signals? Yes and no: Analog Devices snaps up rival Maxim Integrated for $20.9bn

Reporting live from Gartner pandemic watch: IT spending is shrinking by X this year, I mean Y

Software biz Advanced set to lay off 6% of its workforce, blames that virus

South Korea joins the ‘we’re going to be self-sufficient in more tech and then export bucketloads’ club

Apple: Don't close MacBooks with a webcam cover on, you might damage the display

Oh what a cute little animation... OH MY GOD. (Not acceptable, even in the '80s)

Soft press keys for locked-down devs: Three new models of old school 60-key Happy Hacking 'board out next month

Pandemic proves just the tonic for PC sales as shipments shoot upwards

The world's nonsense keeping you awake in middle of the night? Good news. Go outside and see this two-tail comet

Spotted the ISS in the sky yet? How about pulling out some spare kit and giving it a listen?

If the Solar System's 'Planet Nine' is actually a small black hole, here's how we could detect it... wait, what?

Mars InSight to stretch its arm and look around as mole-mashing ops are paused

Detroit Police make second wrongful facial-recog arrest when another man is misidentified by software

Microsoft says ciao to Xiaoice: Formerly unpatriotic Chinese teenager sim flies the nest

We've paused Sigfox roof aerial payments, says WND-UK, but we'll make you whole after COVID

Privacy watchdogs from the UK, Australia team up, snap on gloves to probe AI-for-cops upstart Clearview

All in all it's just another bork on the wall: For pity's sake, begs signage, climb onto the pub's roof and boot me up

Hungry? Please enjoy this delicious NaN, courtesy of British Gas and Sainsbury's

Cereal Killer Cafe enters hipster heaven, heads online: Coronavirus blamed for shutters being pulled down

Boolean bafflement at British Airways' Executive Club: Sneaky little Avioses - Wicked, Tricksy, False!

Policy

Indeed sued by account exec who said she was raped by male coworker amid misogynistic, sexually charged culture

Indonesia imposes 10% digital services tax

Philippines government to its agencies: You're not seriously going to do post-pandemic online services with that old stuff, are you?

India says its brains saved the world from the last colosso-crisis – cough, Y2K – proving it can become self-reliant

Australians can demand visitors to their homes run contact-tracing app

Author of infamous Google diversity manifesto drops lawsuit against web giant

Does a .com suffix make a trademark? The US Supreme Court will decide as Booking marks its legal spot

Ex-Imagination Technologies boss tells UK Foreign Affairs Committee: Britain needs to stop overseas asset stripping

UK IT contractors slipping back into old ways of working now IR35 tax reforms delayed

Amazon settles for $11m with workers in unpaid bag-search wait lawsuit

Assange should be furloughed from Belmarsh prison, says human rights org. Here's a thought: He could stay with friends!

China strings up red tape barrier that shows businesses they're better off buying local tech

Lords: New IR35 off-payroll tax rules 'riddled with problems, unfairnesses, unintended consequences'

India launches e-government platform for 125,000 villages and drone land surveys to put them on the map

You have one job, Australian PM tells contact-tracing app, and that’s talking to medicos

Looks like Benioff will go without new Italian shoes for a month: Details of Salesforce's $5m small biz grant emerge

Just because we're letting Zoom into Parliament doesn't mean you can have fun, House of Commons warns Brit MPs

ICE cold: Microsoft's GitHub wrings hands over US prez's Trump immigration ban plan

House of Commons agrees to allow Zoom app in Parliament, British MPs will still have to dress smartly

Academics: We hate to ask, but could governments kindly refrain from building giant data-slurping, contact-tracing coronavirus monsters?

UK government to take equity in struggling startups with £250m 'Future fund'

Data science alliance in talks with UK Cabinet Office to help ease economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic

Ex-TalkTalk infosec exec's equal pay and unfair dismissal claims tossed out at tribunal

Trello! It is me... you locked the door? User warns of single sign-on risk after barring self from own account

UK govt probes Brit chip biz Imagination after growing Chinese ownership sparks national security fears

IBM age discrimination lawsuit suddenly ends, suggests Big Blue was willing to pay to avoid discovery process

Oh ... Fudge This Pandemic! Google walks back on decision to switch off FTP in Chrome 81

Oh Hell. Remember the glory days of Demon Internet? Well, now would be a good time to pick a new email address

Indian city floats camera-packing surveillance balloon to zoom in on quarantine-quitters

Philippine government demands telcos deliver a continuity plan by the end of the week

ASEAN economic bloc calls for regional fake news crushing co-operation

Wanted: An exit strategy from the overt surveillance of smartphone contact tracing

India kicks off competition for home-grown video conferencing clone

Yahoo! Japan! shares! user! location! data! with! government! to! track! coronavirus! clusters!

Taiwan may turn traffic advice app into massive tracking system

Rolls-Royce leads data analytics alliance with its sights set on COVID-19 economic recovery

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