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I was screwed over by Cisco managers who enforced India's caste hierarchy on me in US HQ, claims engineer

US govt warns foreign hackers 'will likely try to exploit' critical firewall bypass bug in Palo Alto gear – patch now

The first rule of NoSQL DBaaS club is: You must talk about NoSQL DBaaS club. And Couchbase is in

MongoDB snares ex-Oracle engineering veep and AWS database guru as new CTO

'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

UK lawmakers welcome Microsoft's sack of training pressies for hard-pressed Brits as jobs searches spike

Germany is helping the UK develop its COVID-19 contact-tracing app, says ambassador

Details of Beijing's new Hong Kong security law revealed: Signals end to more than two decades of autonomy

Tune in and watch live right here this week – it's your email encryption wake-up call

Things that happen every four years: Olympic Games, Presidential elections, and now new Mac ransomware

After six months of stonewalling by Apple, app dev goes public with macOS privacy protection bypass

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

Microsoft snubs Service Fabric as it plots to switch Teams infrastructure to Kubernetes

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

Hats off to the brave 7%ers who dived into the Windows 10 May 2020 Update within a month of release

Chinese mobe flinger OPPO aims £219 A72 handset at penny-pinching Brit youth

MediaTek trumpets cheap gaming chipsets for strange subset of people who enjoy PUBG on their smartphone

Leaked benchmarks from developer kit for Apple's home-baked silicon appear to give Microsoft a run for its money

Geek's Guide

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

The Moon certainly ain't made of cheese but it may be made of more metal than previously thought, sensor shows

Born slippy: NASA Mars rover Perseverance to persevere on Earth a little longer as launch date pushed back again

Boffins baffled as supergiant star just vanishes – either it partially blew itself apart or quietly turned into a black hole

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

MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs

Verity Stob

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

Someone must be bricking it: UK govt website for first-time home buyers snapped up for £40,000 after left to expire

Now that's a train delay Upminster with which London travellers shall not put

It's National Cream Tea Day and this time we end the age-old debate once and for all: How do you eat yours?

Personal Tech

Hats off to the brave 7%ers who dived into the Windows 10 May 2020 Update within a month of release

Still outstanding issues but gaining ground faster than previous efforts

01 Jul 17:59 | 13

Personal Tech

Chinese mobe flinger OPPO aims £219 A72 handset at penny-pinching Brit youth

Please, sir. I want some more TikTok

01 Jul 09:03 | 4

Personal Tech

MediaTek trumpets cheap gaming chipsets for strange subset of people who enjoy PUBG on their smartphone

With devices packing Helios G25/G35 coming in at £60-£80 and £1,000+ for a desktop PC, we see the appeal

30 Jun 17:33 | 4

Personal Tech

Leaked benchmarks from developer kit for Apple's home-baked silicon appear to give Microsoft a run for its money

Before you get too excited 1) They're benchmarks 2) New consumer Arm-based Macs might use something else

30 Jun 13:11 | 17

Personal Tech

Apple said to be removing charger, headphones from upcoming iPhone 12 series

Trying to reduce waste or funnelling punters into investing in AirPods?

29 Jun 11:58 | 111

Personal Tech

It's now safe to turn off your computer shop: Microsoft to shutter its bricks-and-mortar retail locations worldwide

'Reimagined' flagships to endure, but that place you used to go to when the Apple Store was too busy is going away

26 Jun 14:29 | 66

Personal Tech

White elephants in the mist: Google's upcoming Pixel 4A may ship without Soli motion recognition, per FCC filing

Stripping radar-based tech would cut price and allow phone's sale in markets where 60GHz spectrum is restricted

26 Jun 12:06 | 31

On Call

Beware the fresh Windows XP install: Failure awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth

There's a rat in my system, what am I gonna do?

26 Jun 07:16 | 188

Personal Tech

After 84 years, Japan's Olympus shutters its camera biz, flogs it to private equity – smartphones are just too good

Oh, snap

26 Jun 05:27 | 101

Personal Tech

Section 230 authors despair of Trump, Barr, Biden, US Congress’ aggressive ignorance of critical tech law

Look, we wrote it! You're all wrong!

25 Jun 01:58 | 27

Personal Tech

Chime after chime: Apple restores iconic Mac boot sound removed in 2016

Triumphant F#-major to return with upcoming macOS Big Sur

24 Jun 18:30 | 12

Updated

GO on then: Facebook's Oculus to axe its entry-level VR headset

3DoF bad, 6DoF good

24 Jun 15:30 | 1

Review

CSI: Xiaomi. Snappy Redmi Note 9 Pro shows every fingerprint, but at least you get bang for your buck

High-spec £249 blower – but can it play Crysis Call of Duty?

24 Jun 09:15 | 26

Personal Tech

China's internet watchdog freezes 10 too-trashy online video services before they undermine socialism

Scantily-clad presenters and vulgar language 'corrupt the social atmosphere' and 'endanger the healthy growth of young people'

24 Jun 07:28 | 26

Personal Tech

Coming live from Next@Acer in Taipei: Hardware refreshes, new ruggedised line – and, er, an energy drink

A plan to inject life into the flagging PC industry? Meet the Predator Shot: putting the spin in spinach

23 Jun 19:15 | 3

Personal Tech

Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process

Antisocial network floods registrars with unjustified data requests

23 Jun 10:46 | 70

WWDC

Apple to keep Intel at Arm's length: macOS shifts from x86 to homegrown common CPU arch, will run iOS apps

We take a look at Cupertino's one-Arm bandit gambit

23 Jun 00:42 | 171

WWDC

What's the Arm? First Apple laptop to ditch Intel will be 13.3" MacBook Pro, proclaims reliable soothsayer

We'll find out as WWDC rolls on

22 Jun 13:18 | 81

Personal Tech

Folk sure like to stick electric toothbrush heads in their ears: True wireless stereo sales buck coronavirus trends

Shipments soared 86% in Q1, 200 million expected to be shifted this year

22 Jun 10:00 | 41

Personal Tech

Xiaomi's Poco F2 Pro flagship lands in the UK with considerably gentler price tag

£499 nabs early birds 5G, 8GB RAM and 256GB storage

19 Jun 15:25 | 5

I was screwed over by Cisco managers who enforced India's caste hierarchy on me in US HQ, claims engineer

US govt warns foreign hackers 'will likely try to exploit' critical firewall bypass bug in Palo Alto gear – patch now

The first rule of NoSQL DBaaS club is: You must talk about NoSQL DBaaS club. And Couchbase is in

MongoDB snares ex-Oracle engineering veep and AWS database guru as new CTO

'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

UK lawmakers welcome Microsoft's sack of training pressies for hard-pressed Brits as jobs searches spike

Germany is helping the UK develop its COVID-19 contact-tracing app, says ambassador

Details of Beijing's new Hong Kong security law revealed: Signals end to more than two decades of autonomy

Tune in and watch live right here this week – it's your email encryption wake-up call

Things that happen every four years: Olympic Games, Presidential elections, and now new Mac ransomware

After six months of stonewalling by Apple, app dev goes public with macOS privacy protection bypass

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

Microsoft snubs Service Fabric as it plots to switch Teams infrastructure to Kubernetes

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

Hats off to the brave 7%ers who dived into the Windows 10 May 2020 Update within a month of release

Chinese mobe flinger OPPO aims £219 A72 handset at penny-pinching Brit youth

MediaTek trumpets cheap gaming chipsets for strange subset of people who enjoy PUBG on their smartphone

Leaked benchmarks from developer kit for Apple's home-baked silicon appear to give Microsoft a run for its money

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

The Moon certainly ain't made of cheese but it may be made of more metal than previously thought, sensor shows

Born slippy: NASA Mars rover Perseverance to persevere on Earth a little longer as launch date pushed back again

Boffins baffled as supergiant star just vanishes – either it partially blew itself apart or quietly turned into a black hole

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

MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs

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

Someone must be bricking it: UK govt website for first-time home buyers snapped up for £40,000 after left to expire

Now that's a train delay Upminster with which London travellers shall not put

It's National Cream Tea Day and this time we end the age-old debate once and for all: How do you eat yours?

Personal Tech

Hats off to the brave 7%ers who dived into the Windows 10 May 2020 Update within a month of release

Chinese mobe flinger OPPO aims £219 A72 handset at penny-pinching Brit youth

MediaTek trumpets cheap gaming chipsets for strange subset of people who enjoy PUBG on their smartphone

Leaked benchmarks from developer kit for Apple's home-baked silicon appear to give Microsoft a run for its money

Apple said to be removing charger, headphones from upcoming iPhone 12 series

It's now safe to turn off your computer shop: Microsoft to shutter its bricks-and-mortar retail locations worldwide

White elephants in the mist: Google's upcoming Pixel 4A may ship without Soli motion recognition, per FCC filing

Beware the fresh Windows XP install: Failure awaits you all with nasty, big, pointy teeth

After 84 years, Japan's Olympus shutters its camera biz, flogs it to private equity – smartphones are just too good

Section 230 authors despair of Trump, Barr, Biden, US Congress’ aggressive ignorance of critical tech law

Chime after chime: Apple restores iconic Mac boot sound removed in 2016

GO on then: Facebook's Oculus to axe its entry-level VR headset

CSI: Xiaomi. Snappy Redmi Note 9 Pro shows every fingerprint, but at least you get bang for your buck

China's internet watchdog freezes 10 too-trashy online video services before they undermine socialism

Coming live from Next@Acer in Taipei: Hardware refreshes, new ruggedised line – and, er, an energy drink

Facebook accused of trying to bypass GDPR, slurp domain owners' personal Whois info via an obscure process

Apple to keep Intel at Arm's length: macOS shifts from x86 to homegrown common CPU arch, will run iOS apps

What's the Arm? First Apple laptop to ditch Intel will be 13.3" MacBook Pro, proclaims reliable soothsayer

Folk sure like to stick electric toothbrush heads in their ears: True wireless stereo sales buck coronavirus trends

Xiaomi's Poco F2 Pro flagship lands in the UK with considerably gentler price tag

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'It's really hard to find maintainers...' Linus Torvalds ponders the future of Linux

MIT apologizes, permanently pulls offline huge dataset that taught AI systems to use racist, misogynistic slurs

It’s happened again: AT&T sued for allegedly transferring victim's number to thieves in $1.9m cryptocoin heist

LibreOffice slips out another 7.0 beta: Spreadsheets close gap with Excel while macOS users treated to new icons

After six months of stonewalling by Apple, app dev goes public with macOS privacy protection bypass

Beijing's tightening grip on Hong Kong could put region's future as an up-and-coming tech hub in jeopardy

One does not simply repurpose an entire internet constellation for sat-nav, but UK might have a go anyway

Someone must be bricking it: UK govt website for first-time home buyers snapped up for £40,000 after left to expire

Stinker, emailer, trawler, spy: How an engineer stole top US chip designs, smuggled them to China to set up a rival fab

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

PC printer problems and enraged execs: When the answer to 'Hand over that floppy disk' is 'No'

Xiaomi and NXP ride a bus to Moscow with a wearable Mastercard

Health Sec Hancock says UK will use Apple-Google API for virus contact-tracing app after all (even though Apple were right rotters)

By emptying offices, coronavirus has hastened the paperless office

The incumbent President of the United States of America ran now-banned Facebook ads loaded with Nazi references

Ryzen shine, kids: Huawei buries AMD silicon in latest laptop, hopes to lure 'young professionals'

Smartwatches win the consumer tech sector for Q1 2020 as locked-down folk take up fight against corona-carbs

If Fairphone can support a 5-year-old handset, the other vendors could too. Right?

Bad Audio Dynamite: How poor sound and vision messes up the working day

Google’s Fitbit lift strains competition laws says Australian regulator

For years, the internet giants have held on dear to their get-out-of-jail-free card. Here are those trying to take that away

Huawei's EMUI 10.1 update shows Chinese mobile giant hunkering down for the long haul without Google wares