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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'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Search for 'things of value' in a bank: Iowa cops allege this bloke broke into one and decided on ... hand sanitiser

Software

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

Plans to ‘disengage from the corrupt social platform’ that ‘is screwing with our election’

12 Aug 06:42 | 5

Software

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 20:09 | 25

In brief

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

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

11 Aug 13:28 | 6

Software

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

First woman to win the Turing Award and be made an IBM Fellow

10 Aug 07:56 | 11

Software

Google offers first part of its in-house M:N thread code as open source to Linux kernel

If this fine-grained thread control tech can run The Chocolate Factory, imagine it unleashed in Android

10 Aug 06:55 | 22

Software

India awards apps that offer citizens Microsoft and Google alternatives

And bans future imports of much military tech

10 Aug 01:16 | 11

Software

Have I Been Pwned to go open source – 10bn credentials, not so much, says creator Hunt

Heavy burden for one valiant man to carry, and it needs sharing

07 Aug 18:39 | 12

Software

British Army does not Excel at spreadsheets: Soldiers' newly announced promotions are revoked after sorting snafu

Those who won lost; those who lost won

07 Aug 14:30 | 61

Software

Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code

Keep up, old-timer

07 Aug 10:10 | 5

Software

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app

Continuum reborn? Not quite, and some features are Sammy-only for now

06 Aug 12:15 | 20

Software

UK insurance biz Direct Line drops 'misrepresentation' claims against IBM in £36m database platform lawsuit

Case continues over failed Project Emerald

06 Aug 08:30 | 20

Software

Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

UK govt portal among those borked

06 Aug 07:03 | 30

Software

Google creates secure file locker for countries where people often share smartphones

Handy service for India and Nigeria, or feature creep that constricts competition?

06 Aug 05:09 | 10

Software

Google reports 80% spike of Flutter-built apps in Play Store as 1.20 is released

Autofill arrives for mobile forms, plus new viewer widget, performance and tooling updates

05 Aug 17:12 | 1

Software

Wrap it before you tap it? No, say Linux developers: 'GPL condom' for Nvidia driver is laughed out of the kernel

Facebook's man told: 'OK, now you are just trolling us'

04 Aug 15:45 | 85

Software

Maker of SonarQube defends DevOps product's security after source code leaks blamed on bad configurations

'Most companies' want to make code 'completely transparent' SonarSource claims – but not outside the firewall

04 Aug 09:26 | 1

Software

China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs

Gotta catch 'em all

04 Aug 07:32 | 36

Software

Apple's big trouble in not-so-little China – culls 30,000 apps from its Middle Kingdom App Store in legal crackdown

Game developers face local license law that could 'devastate' iOS revenues

03 Aug 19:39 | 8

Software

Brit local authority appoints a systems integrator in leap to Oracle cloud, but support time-bomb is already ticking

This should have been started a year ago, Solihull council docs say

03 Aug 08:30 | 6

Software

Linus Torvalds pines for header file fix but releases Linux 5.8 anyway

Lots of love for AMD and POWER 10 and a hint of some Google's operational code making it into future releases

03 Aug 01:24 | 36

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'

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Search for 'things of value' in a bank: Iowa cops allege this bloke broke into one and decided on ... hand sanitiser

Software

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

Google offers first part of its in-house M:N thread code as open source to Linux kernel

India awards apps that offer citizens Microsoft and Google alternatives

Have I Been Pwned to go open source – 10bn credentials, not so much, says creator Hunt

British Army does not Excel at spreadsheets: Soldiers' newly announced promotions are revoked after sorting snafu

Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app

UK insurance biz Direct Line drops 'misrepresentation' claims against IBM in £36m database platform lawsuit

Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

Google creates secure file locker for countries where people often share smartphones

Google reports 80% spike of Flutter-built apps in Play Store as 1.20 is released

Wrap it before you tap it? No, say Linux developers: 'GPL condom' for Nvidia driver is laughed out of the kernel

Maker of SonarQube defends DevOps product's security after source code leaks blamed on bad configurations

China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs

Apple's big trouble in not-so-little China – culls 30,000 apps from its Middle Kingdom App Store in legal crackdown

Brit local authority appoints a systems integrator in leap to Oracle cloud, but support time-bomb is already ticking

Linus Torvalds pines for header file fix but releases Linux 5.8 anyway

Popular

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

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

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

Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs

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

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

Microsoft confirms pursuit of TikTok after Satya Nadella chats to Donald Trump

IT giant CSC coughs up $2m after helping New York City bill Medicaid for child therapy rather than insurance cos

We give up, Progressive Web Apps can track you, says W3C: After 5 years, it decides privacy is too much bother

Venerable text editor GNU Nano reaches version 5.0 and adds the modern frippery that is scrollbars

Intel, boffins invent an AI Clippy for code: Hi, I see you're writing another lock-free bloom filter. Can I help?

Firefox 79: A thin release for regular users, but plenty for developers to devour

Microsoft finally spills the beans on everything you need to know about its low-code platform, Dataflex for Teams

What developers really, really want: Document databases

From a trickle to an Application Stream: Red Hat opens barriers for RHEL 8.3 beta

Oh, you shouldn't have: Microsoft whips up website for devs that makes it easier to moan about Windows issues

It's been five years since Windows 10 hit: So... how's that working out for you all?

GitHub starts publishing roadmap of future features