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Sources: Oracle Commerce Cloud devs laid off as platform struggles to gain traction, move to modern architecture

COVID-19 has done what Microsoft and Intel couldn't – given people a reason for a PC upgrade

VMware 'rebalances' with layoffs that converge hyperconverged team

Tencent’s gaming surge trumps potential loss of the one or two percent of cash it makes in America

Google Apps Scripts debugger is buggered for devs using V8 runtime: Fix coming... in Q4

Deep-root database: Kew Garden's 8 million specimen collection to find new life through data management

Splunk sales ace wins sex discrimination case after new boss handed her key accounts to blokes deemed 'flight risks'

Just can't let go of those Windows CE apps? Microsoft has a container for that

This NSA, FBI security advisory has four words you never want to see together: Fancy Bear Linux rootkit

Vivaldi composes sweet ad-blocking symphony for users of browser's Android version

You weren't hacked because you lacked space-age network defenses. Nor because cyber-gurus picked on you. It's far simpler than that

Irony, thy name is SANS: 28k records nicked from infosec training org after staffer's email account phished

AWS Marketplace webinar: Learn how to automate and scale continuous integration to boost your business

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?

Made in China? Not for much longer, reckons Foxconn boss

eBay won't pass UK Digital Service Tax costs on to third-party sellers – unlike Amazon, which simply can't afford it

Ink tanks park themselves all over the lawns of Western Europe as orders flood in

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

Epic Games gets itself epically banned, launches epic Fortnite death match with Apple over App Store's epic 30% cut

Intel talks up its 10nm Tiger Lake laptop system-on-chips as though everything is going according to plan

ZX Spectrum reboot promising – steady now – 28MHz of sizzling Speccy speed now boasts improved Wi-Fi

We have bad news for non-US Microsoft fans: The incoming Surface Duo is underspecced, overpriced, and over there

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I've seen things you people wouldn't believe. Winking red supergiants sneezing hot gas 650 light years away

America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish

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?

Single-line software bug causes fledgling YAM cryptocurrency to implode just two days after launch

It's cool, claims Samsung as it pushes 3D IC SoC tech at overheated world

Bratty Uber throws tantrum, threatens to cut off California unless judge does what it says in driver labor rights row

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

Verity Stob

US govt proposes elephant showers for every American after Prez Trump says trickles dampen his haircare routine

Snortical warfare: Wild boar launches amphibious assault against German beachgoers

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

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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

Cash-strapped privacy devs face determined miscreants who keep coming back for more

12 Aug 2020 | 34

Softbank confirms talks to offload Arm as it posts rebound profit

Might float chip-designer, sell it all or sell chunks. Whatever happens, server CPU sales are the upside

12 Aug 2020 | 23

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

Verifying wandering voters in the world’s largest and most complex elections is the aim

12 Aug 2020 | 6

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 2020 | 1

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

Expect Citrix Endpoint Management gear to come under attack soon

12 Aug 2020 | 4

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

Chip designer ruled not a monopolistic strangler after all

12 Aug 2020 | 16

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

Patch TuesdayPlease, thanks, good show, cheers, ta

11 Aug 2020 | 16

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

The Yin to Steve Jobs' Yang celebrates another orbit around the Sun

11 Aug 2020 | 77

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

250 'true Mozillians' laid off, Taiwan office completely shuttered

11 Aug 2020 | 55

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

Phone maker to plough cash into 5G, cracking US market, and diversification

11 Aug 2020 | 11

Yes, you can spin up a hybrid multi-cloud in just one hour – and we’ll show you how

WebcastIt’s the best way to lead your cloud migration. Watch our next RegCast to learn more

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

In briefAlso: Scottish rocketeers to launch from Iceland, and SpaceX lobs more Starlinks

11 Aug 2020 | 8

Dreams feel real while we're in them, don't they Salesforce? 'Critical' virtual event Dreamforce faces the axe

'Obviously a critical brand' says CEO Benioff as he calls off online occasion

11 Aug 2020 | 1

UK Home Office dishes out contracts to 999 control room vendors after wasting cash on network tech it abandoned

Another chapter in the sorry Emergency Services Network saga

11 Aug 2020 | 15

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

Exclusive'Inhouse crt rigs to solve... book before ur exam' as firm claims 'some' of the content wasn't theirs

11 Aug 2020 | 30

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

Spudger-flingers rate it 4 out of 10, note an 'artificially short lifespan'

11 Aug 2020 | 45

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

In briefAlso: TypeScript 4.0 goes RC, Azure Functions support for PowerShell goes GA and DoH gets easier for Insiders

11 Aug 2020 | 6

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

While remote-working adults adhere to 'business in the front, party in the back'

11 Aug 2020 | 62

Police face-recog tech use in Welsh capital of Cardiff was unlawful – Court of Appeal

Judges went out of their way not to set a nationwide precedent, though

11 Aug 2020 | 33

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

Bork!Bork!Bork!Eat out to BSOD?*

11 Aug 2020 | 19

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

Dawn probe's last data shows surprising results from asteroid belt

11 Aug 2020 | 7

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 2020 | 14

Huawei Matebook X Pro 2020: Nothing too crazy but at least it's more fixable and cheaper than comparable Apple wares

ReviewWhich might help convince your stingy purchase manager

11 Aug 2020 | 23

Cluster-struck Nutanix bares all for new AWS alliance

Catching up on elastic and hybrid options, but not for cloudy first-timers

11 Aug 2020 | 2

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

DEF CONDeep-learning model pinpoints the pain in your AES

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

And needs a very blunt instrument to do the job, because the protocol works as planned

11 Aug 2020 | 55

Equinix enters India by purchasing pair of Mumbai bit barns

Traffic among tenants in financial capital looks to be as tasty as renting racks

Three Facebooks, four more Amazons and one Apple to collect Indonesia’s digital services tax

And so will TikTok and Disney, with more to come

11 Aug 2020 | 5

India connects submarine cable to islands where some still live in the stone age

But others live on colossal military bases that extend the range of India’s armed forces

11 Aug 2020 | 13

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

Don't panic... still in the testing phase

11 Aug 2020 | 69

Super Cali COVID count is somewhat out of focus, server crash and expired cert makes numbers quite atrocious

Computer glitch followed by senior public health resignation in Golden State

10 Aug 2020 | 28

Publishers signed up to Apple's premium News may be less than 'appy to discover the iGiant snatching readers

Safari links redirected by default into Cupertino's walled garden

10 Aug 2020 | 24

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

DEF CONIn-depth dive into protocols exposing countless gadgets to miscreants

10 Aug 2020 | 27

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

Gutted Sears, JC Penney locations could become 'fulfillment centers'

10 Aug 2020 | 58

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

Now that's a stretch: 'Work Yoga' memo tells folks to ignore calls, emails to 'stay in the zone'

10 Aug 2020 | 17

Why you need much more than a zero-trust strategy to nail your security provision

WebcastAdd a little hyperconverged infrastructure, and you’re on to a winner. We'll explain all this month

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