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Seeing a robot dog tagging along with NYPD officers after an arrest stuns New Yorkers

Plus: 'First civil lawsuit' against police for incorrect facial recognition match in wrongful collaring, and more

17 Apr 15:05 | 23

Docker Desktop for Apple Silicon is here, but probe a little deeper and you'll find Rosetta 2 staring back

Prepare yourself for an onslaught of 'you're holding the container wrong'

16 Apr 19:01 | 6

Oh hello. Haven't heard much from you lately: Linux veteran Slackware rides again with a beta of version 15

It's time to move on from 2016

16 Apr 15:43 | 29

Zorin OS 16 beta claims largest built-in app library 'of any open source desktop ever'

Linux for Windows switchers: smooth user experience, if users steer clear of Windows apps on Wine

15 Apr 20:15 | 61

Ever wondered what it's like working for Microsoft? Leaked survey shines a light on how those at the code coalface feel

Lowest scoring sections were 'performance' and 'deal', but it looks like it could be a lot worse

15 Apr 19:02 | 48

Deno 1.9 update includes proposal cold-shouldered in February, now hyped as '3x faster' performance bump

Plus HTTP/2 web server written in Rust

15 Apr 18:08 | 3

Oracle pumps $1.2bn into Nashville campus as search for southern comfort goes on

Mayor thrilled with $175m up front for Guitar Town infrastructure projects

15 Apr 17:19 | 2

Google proposes Logica data language for building more manageable SQL code

COBOL-inspired caps lock English just don't add up when dealing with large SQL codebases

15 Apr 10:25 | 91

Microsoft calls time on Timeline: Don't worry, more features that nobody asked for coming your way

Activity history tracker over mobile devices set to become history

15 Apr 09:40 | 28

IBM signs up to Eclipse Foundation's Adoptium working group to push out free, certified JDK binaries

Makes a change from the waves of redundancies

15 Apr 08:58 | 2

Windows comes to Apple M1 silicon as Parallels delivers native desktop hypervisor

Meanwhile, ESXi on Arm spotted booting Windows

15 Apr 04:04 | 16

Dell to spin out remaining VMware stake, cements Friends With Benefits status for at least five years

‘Market does not appreciate hardware/software combo’ says Big Mike. So virty giant gets freedom, customers are promised no change

15 Apr 01:28 | 9

SAP's operating profits might be down but cloud-fixated ERP biz thinks things are looking up enough to hike full-year guidance

Shrugs off 21% slump – that's just infra shift, share awards

14 Apr 16:01 | 2

A keyboard? How quaint: Logitech and Baidu link arms to make an AI-enabled, voice-transcribing mouse

Dictates 3 languages, translates into 6, available only in China

14 Apr 14:56 | 30

There's no place like GNOME: System 76 introduces COSMIC desktop GUI for its Pop!_OS Linux

Private preview for now, Windows and macOS users sought for testing

14 Apr 13:03 | 48

US Homeland Security sued for 'stonewalling' over use of Clearview facial recognition

Potential surveillance nightmare could be unfolding in secret, civil-rights warriors fear

14 Apr 12:15 | 13

Neural networks give astronomers huge boost in identifying galaxies: 27 million done, 600 million to come

AI algorithms in large-scale astronomy are mandatory, study says

14 Apr 07:27 | 21

Grab, the superapp that made Uber quit Southeast Asia, to go public through controversial 'SPAC'

Ride-sharing, food-delivering, payment-processing, home-insuring and money-lending org thanks COVID for pumping up its financials

14 Apr 07:01 | 6

In the enterprise, Kubernetes has to play by the same rules as other platforms

Shortcuts? What shortcuts!

You know what? Fork this: AWS renames its take on Elasticsearch to OpenSearch following trademark fight

Beta expected in a matter of weeks, production release planned for summer

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Pentagon confirms footage of three strange craft taken by the Navy are UFOs (no, that doesn't mean they're aliens)

Unless by aliens you mean Russians

Home office setup with built-in boiling water tap for tea and coffee without getting up is a monument to deskcess

If only it had a built-in loo and pillow, then we could work 24/7

Ex IBM sales manager, fired after battling discrimination against subordinates, wins $11m lawsuit

Big Blue, insisting it doesn't condone retaliation or discrimination, may appeal

Oh hello. Haven't heard much from you lately: Linux veteran Slackware rides again with a beta of version 15

It's time to move on from 2016

Watchdog thinks Google tricked Australians into giving up data, sues. Judge semi-agrees

Filing reveals: Google staff called meeting over data privacy issues the 'Oh Shit' meeting

Seeing a robot dog tagging along with NYPD officers after an arrest stuns New Yorkers

Plus: 'First civil lawsuit' against police for incorrect facial recognition match in wrongful collaring, and more

Microsoft received almost 25,000 requests for consumer data from law enforcement over the past six months

25% were rejected, and it's less than 2013's figure... but be wary of what Redmond does with your information

Russian infosec firm Positive Technologies trying to stay positive after US sanctions

Company insists it's a legit operator that's here to help

Elon Musk's SpaceX bags $3bn NASA contract to, fingers crossed, land first woman on the Moon

And the 13th guy

Docker Desktop for Apple Silicon is here, but probe a little deeper and you'll find Rosetta 2 staring back

Prepare yourself for an onslaught of 'you're holding the container wrong'

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Unity devs warned of breaking changes ahead in video game engine as team gets to grips with mutating face of .NET

Support has fallen behind and fixing it is a challenge

13 Apr 13:15 | 11

Key Perl Core developer quits, says he was bullied for daring to suggest programming language contained 'cruft'

'After saying this, I immediately received hostile messages' says pumpking of version 5.x

13 Apr 11:48 | 66

Joint UK government procurement seeks supplier to support controversial Clean Air Zone system

A hot £22m for a bit of CAZ-ual software support

13 Apr 10:15 | 11

So how's .NET 6 coming along? Oh wow, Microsoft's multi-platform framework now includes... Windows

BlazorWebView arrives on desktop applications. Too convoluted?

13 Apr 08:30 | 21

AWS adds local webcam passthrough to both of its remote desktop tools

NICE DCV also gets support for Apple's M1 silicon

NHS COVID-19 app update blocked by Apple, Google over location privacy fears

New version for England dead on arrival just as UK eases lockdown rules

13 Apr 06:27 | 32

FSF doubles down on Richard Stallman's return: Sure, he is 'troubling for some' but we need him, says org

And we're so sorry for not warning staff or anyone else about his board reelection, adds foundation

12 Apr 23:46 | 134

Microsoft digs deep for chatty AI specialist Nuance, bids $19.7bn to bolster healthcare chops

Hello? Is this thing on?

12 Apr 18:58 | 6

Oracle founder Larry Ellison lands on another lily pad, this time an $80m Florida mansion he intends to tear down

To complement his $300m Bond villain base in Hawaii

12 Apr 18:07 | 8

Nvidia shrinks GPUs to help squeeze AI into your data center, make its VMware friendship work

Creates two new mini models because it’s assumed you won’t build silos to host huge hot monsters

FreeBSD gives ARM64 green light for production over x86 alternative's 'growth trajectory'

Unix-like operating system is hilarious – even the support is in tiers

12 Apr 13:30 | 15

Clearview AI accused over free trials to US police that were plausibly deniable

Plus: Another Google AI boffin resigns and AI tries to recreate music from famous musicians who died at 27

12 Apr 12:03 | 7

Oracle vs Google: No, the Supreme Court did not say APIs aren't copyright – and that's a good thing

Anyone wanting to bring a similar case in the future will have to be very, very bold and very, very rich

12 Apr 10:31 | 53

Wormhole encrypted file transfer app reboots Firefox Send after Mozilla fled

App's developers believe they can manage potential abuse

09 Apr 23:04 | 26

Facebook job ads algorithm still discriminates on gender, LinkedIn not so much

Gender bias found in employment adverts despite antisocial network giant's past promises

09 Apr 12:00 | 21

Asahi Linux devs merge effort to run Linux on Apple M1 silicon into kernel

Slated for inclusion in version 5.13, due about three months from now

09 Apr 07:30 | 13

Apple's pending privacy clampdown drives desperate marketers to overwhelm domain database

Public Suffix List halts submissions from those seeking reprieve from iGiant's rules

09 Apr 01:56 | 28

Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children

Passenger weight blunder led to wrong thrust used on takeoff, says watchdog

08 Apr 19:14 | 310

Xen releases a new version 4.15 after a slightly delayed development process

Teases new ‘Hyperlaunch’ tech that will allow booting of whole VM fleets

08 Apr 16:05 | 2

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