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Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

The inevitable coronavirus-inspired cyber-attacks are stepping up. Are you ready?

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications

Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy

Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Geek's Guide

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

Blight the power: Jamming attack cripples wireless signals using clever reflective technology

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

Verity Stob

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Personal Tech

Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series

Chinese giant slips out superslim - 7.49mm - flagship and pals

01 Jun 16:46 | 1

Personal Tech

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

But that's exactly what will happen if you decorate Androids with pretty mountain scene

01 Jun 13:30 | 18

Personal Tech

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

There are perks to starting out as online-only, says Gartner

01 Jun 08:31 | 12

Personal Tech

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Land Of The Free to List All The Websites You Use

29 May 22:24 | 46

Personal Tech

Nokia's reboot of the 5310 is a blissfully dumb phone that will lug some mp3s about just fine

No Wi-Fi, no newsfeeds – just you, 2G, and your awful music taste

29 May 15:00 | 40

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Did nobody tell them about the lockdown? Logitech releases new 'luggable' mechanical keyboard for LAN parties

Wireless kit has 40 hours' battery life, but turn off the RGB fripperies and you might get 135 days

29 May 08:15 | 27

Personal Tech

Trump issues toothless exec order to show donors, fans he's doing something about those Twitter twerps

AnalysisAmid political theater, Section 230 protection loss dangled

29 May 00:26 | 210

Personal Tech

Paying Arizona: Google sued by state for location data revenues after tracking state's citizens via mobiles

Chocolate Factory insists its practices have been mischaracterized

28 May 21:50 | 7

Personal Tech

Raspberry Pi Foundation serves up an 8GB slice of mini-computing goodness

UpdatedDouble the RAM but not double the price

28 May 16:29 | 40

Personal Tech

Pablo Escobar's big bro and former accountant sues Apple for $2.6bn over FaceTime bug

The vulnerability allegedly leaked his location, making him a target for hitmen

28 May 13:00 | 35

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Switzerland 'first' country to roll out contact-tracing app using Apple-Google APIs to track coronavirus spread

Launch comes ahead of UK rolling out its controversial version

28 May 05:02 | 49

Personal Tech

Made-up murder claims, threats to kill Twitter, rants about NSA spying – anything but mention 100,000 US virus deaths, right, Mr President?

OpinionTrump's throwing everything at the social wall to see what will stick

28 May 03:05 | 194

Personal Tech

HP Ink sales are in the red: Total revenue down 11 per cent as CEO says coronavirus knackered supply chain

Demand high, components MIA

28 May 01:33 | 11

Personal Tech

Motorola sticks a suit on Moto G Stylus mobe, pushes it towards European corporate types

Same specs, but now it's a Pro

27 May 17:38 | 2

Personal Tech

Nope, still can't find them. Skullcandy slips Tile's gadget-tracking hardware into individual earbuds

Although perhaps your lockdown digs are tidier than ours

27 May 12:37 | 6

Personal Tech

Rich Communication Services: Nobody uses it, nobody wants it, but analysts reckon it's on the verge of a breakthrough

AnalysisA viable alternative to the platforms with billions of active users between them? There's still work to be done

27 May 10:04 | 28

Personal Tech

Twitter ticks off Trump with new 'Get the facts' alert on pair of fact-challenged tweets

UpdatedTweeter-in-chief responds by alleging bias and electoral skulduggery

27 May 08:31 | 120

Personal Tech

Uber plans to ride out of stable Singapore, move APAC HQ to high-tension Hong Kong

Ride-sharing monster doesn't operate in current home, is illegal in special administrative region

27 May 07:44 | 8

Personal Tech

US cable subscribers are still being 'ripped off' by creeping price increases – and this lot has had enough

AnalysisLawsuit claims Charter's 'fixed' monthly fees are anything but

27 May 02:22 | 37

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Consumer hardware shipments forecast to drop 14% for 2020, but hey, it could be worse, says Gartner

Thank heavens everyone had to start working from home, right?

26 May 18:26 | 4

Microsoft hogs limelight at virtual Docker event as friends with benefits get even cosier

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

Western Digital shingled out in lawsuit for allegedly sneaking RAID-unfriendly tech into drives for RAID arrays

AppGet 'really helped us,' Microsoft says, but offers no apology to dev for killing open-source package manager

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

REvil ransomware gang publishes 'Elexon staff's passports' after UK electrical middleman shrugs off attack

UK.gov dangles £400k over makers of IoT Things: Go on, let's see how you'd make a security cert scheme

The inevitable coronavirus-inspired cyber-attacks are stepping up. Are you ready?

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Unlucky for some, GitLab 13.0 is DevSecOps in a box, but will it play nicely with others?

Guess who’s laughing most of the way to the Splunk, despite revenue miss and nervous customers?

Meet ScrAPIr, MIT's Swiss army-knife for non-coders to shake data out of APIs (It's useful for pro devs, too)

Watch on-demand, online here: Secure development during digital transformation

Privacy activists prep legal challenge against UK plan to keep coronavirus contact-tracing data for two decades

Not the Wright stuff: Bitcoin 'inventor' loses bid to sue YouTuber who called him a liar

Home Office waves a cool £1bn to outsource handling of British visa, citizenship applications

Singapore to accelerate digitalisation of COVID-kicked economy

Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Beware, space Chuck Norris inside: Wacky flight rules for Chris Cassidy's first mission unearthed as Navy SEAL greets Dragon crew

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Watch SpaceX's Starship SN4 prototype accidentally self-destruct in a rocket test burn

Blight the power: Jamming attack cripples wireless signals using clever reflective technology

Thought GPT-2 was powerful? OpenAI teases GPT-3. Meanwhile, Microsoft dumps human journos for robots

HP's hoping it'll be second time lucky with launch of Reverb G2 nerd goggles

AR flop Magic Leap's 'pivot' spins CEO right off his throne

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Guess who came thiiis close to signing off a €102k annual budget? Austria. Someone omitted 'figures in millions'

VirtuaVerse: Cyberpunk point-and-click throwback with ace chiptune soundtrack put out by... a metal record label?

Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

Personal Tech

Another attempt at a Big Brand Killer: Oppo daddy BBK hits global smartphone market with Vivo X50 series

Nice wallpaper you've got there. It would be a shame if it bricked your phone

75 million smartphone sales up in smoke in Q1: Let's drill down into which brands took the most pain

Twitter, Reddit and pals super unhappy US visa hopefuls have to declare their online handles to Uncle Sam

Nokia's reboot of the 5310 is a blissfully dumb phone that will lug some mp3s about just fine

Did nobody tell them about the lockdown? Logitech releases new 'luggable' mechanical keyboard for LAN parties

Trump issues toothless exec order to show donors, fans he's doing something about those Twitter twerps

Paying Arizona: Google sued by state for location data revenues after tracking state's citizens via mobiles

Raspberry Pi Foundation serves up an 8GB slice of mini-computing goodness

Pablo Escobar's big bro and former accountant sues Apple for $2.6bn over FaceTime bug

Switzerland 'first' country to roll out contact-tracing app using Apple-Google APIs to track coronavirus spread

Made-up murder claims, threats to kill Twitter, rants about NSA spying – anything but mention 100,000 US virus deaths, right, Mr President?

HP Ink sales are in the red: Total revenue down 11 per cent as CEO says coronavirus knackered supply chain

Motorola sticks a suit on Moto G Stylus mobe, pushes it towards European corporate types

Nope, still can't find them. Skullcandy slips Tile's gadget-tracking hardware into individual earbuds

Rich Communication Services: Nobody uses it, nobody wants it, but analysts reckon it's on the verge of a breakthrough

Twitter ticks off Trump with new 'Get the facts' alert on pair of fact-challenged tweets

Uber plans to ride out of stable Singapore, move APAC HQ to high-tension Hong Kong

US cable subscribers are still being 'ripped off' by creeping price increases – and this lot has had enough

Consumer hardware shipments forecast to drop 14% for 2020, but hey, it could be worse, says Gartner

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80-characters-per-line limits should be terminal, says Linux kernel chief Linus Torvalds

They've only gone and bloody done it! NASA, SpaceX send two fellas off to the International Space Station

Cisco hacked: Six backend servers used by customer VIRL-PE deployments compromised via SaltStack

Bite me? It's 'byte', and that acronym is Binary Interface Transfer Code Handler

Building society caught in middle of high street sharing a little too much on TeamViewer

Australia to refund $720m in 'debts' determined by dodgy algorithm

Microsoft and VMware end ancient grudge with new VM privilege workaround

SpaceX Crew Dragon docks at International Space Station

After all the excitement of Windows 10 2004, Insider builds go back to square one

Black horse down: UK banking giant Lloyds suffers an online wobble

HTC co-founder Peter Chou's new startup picks great time to tease super-social VR headset

TCL 10L: Remember the white goods flinger that had a licence to make BlackBerrys? It made a new own-name phone

Linus Torvalds drops Intel and adopts 32-core AMD Ryzen Threadripper on personal PC

Home working is here to stay, says Lenovo boss, and will grow the total addressable PC market by up to 30%

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Capture the horrors of war in razor-sharp quality with this ruggedised Samsung phone – or just lob it at enemy forces

Vodafone woes far from over for Xiaomi Mi 9 owners amid complaints of leaky batteries and voicemails in Romanian

COVID-19 sparks new wearables to push the pandemic away

Apple, Google begin to spread pro-privacy, batt-friendly coronavirus contact-tracing API for phone apps

Alibaba to serve up Kentucky Fried smart speaker, with a $1.4bn side of e-commerce integration

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