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Microsoft emits more Win 11 fixes for AMD speed issues and death by PowerShell bug

Names November as the month for Win 10 H2 update – then reveals major new feature won’t arrive on time

22 Oct 02:05 | 8

Google trims the cut its Play Store takes from digital subscriptions, ebooks, music streaming

But with 97 per cent of Android devs offering free software, web giant's share of mobile ad spend matters more

21 Oct 20:33 | 2

GIMP 2.99.8 is here but what's happened to 3.0? If only stuff would not break all the time

Keeping up with technology changes 'taking a toll on development'

21 Oct 14:35 | 8

Developers offered browser-based fun in VSCode.dev and Java action in Visual Studio Code

Looking at code here, there and (almost) everywhere

21 Oct 13:05 | 3

No swearing or off-brand comments: AWS touts auto-moderation messaging API

Automate everything – but while human moderation is hard, robot moderation tends not to work

21 Oct 12:23 | 16

Arm teases its GPU that will follow next year's graphics processor tech

Pushing for a 5x performance boost albeit over a 2018 cousin

21 Oct 06:27 | 7

Remember, remember, the 1st of November: The day Dell VMware spun out

Virtzilla will be just fine – it's finally figured out how to woo developers, and hardware players won't desert it

21 Oct 02:45 | 4

China to allow overseas investment in VPNs but Beijing keeps control of the generally discouraged tech

Foreign ownership capped at 50%

20 Oct 19:03 | 6

Microsoft unveils Android apps for Windows 11 (for US users only)

Windows Insiders get their hands on the Windows Subsystem for Android

20 Oct 17:01 | 19

Brave's homegrown search claims to protect your privacy but there's a long way to go if it's to challenge the big G

Ad-free now but not forever

20 Oct 12:14 | 38

It's heeere: Node.js 17 is out – but not for production use, says dev team

EcmaScript 6 modules will not stop growing use of Node, claims chair of Technical Steering Committee

19 Oct 19:31 | 15

Oracle-owned ERP outfit NetSuite fitted with banking and data warehouse features to keep accountants sane

It's about helping steer the business without so many spreadsheets, says analyst

19 Oct 18:45 | 1

Windows 11 Paint: Oh look – rounded corners. And it is prettier... but slightly worse

New iconography, minimalism, less text – and at least it is not Paint 3D

19 Oct 14:24 | 109

Northern Ireland Water ready to take the plunge with HR and finance software, prepares to flush Oracle R12.2

Utility biz has £28m to spend on replacement system

19 Oct 11:27 | 4

If your apps or gadgets break down on Sunday, this may be why: Gpsd bug to roll back clocks to 2002

Alternative headline: Yet another widely used project maintained thanklessly by 'some random person in Nebraska'

19 Oct 10:43 | 55

Amid drama at .NET Foundation, Microsoft's De Icaza reveals it was meant to be like GNOME Foundation

Which it isn't, as illustrated by exec director of the F# Foundation

18 Oct 15:45 | 11

EasyJet flight loadsheet snafu caused by software 'code errors' says UK safety agency

System 'operating outside of the original design specification' said AAIB

18 Oct 13:45 | 84

Microsoft admits to yet more printing problems in Windows as back-at-the-office folks asked for admin credentials

Saving the forests by making printing even harder

18 Oct 13:00 | 43

Give us your biometric data to get your lunch in 5 seconds, UK schools tell children

Facial recognition for meal payment system works for kids, supplier says

18 Oct 12:15 | 127

Ubuntu 21.10: Plan to do yourself an Indri? Here's what's inside... including a bit of GNOME schooling

Plus: Rounded corners make GNOME 40 look like Windows 11

18 Oct 10:45 | 17

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Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser

A death by a thousand cuts

'Windows 11 has been successfully downloaded,' says update for Xbox version of Microsoft Flight Simulator

What? No. Noooooooooooooooooo

NHS Digital exposes hundreds of email addresses after BCC blunder copies in entire invite list to 'Let's talk cyber' event

It's like rai-iiiiiin on your wedding day

Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for 'embarrassing' breach

Website patched following phishing scam, no financial data exposed

Boeing's Starliner capsule corroded due to high humidity levels, NASA explains, and the spaceship won't fly this year

Meanwhile Elon's running orbital tourist trips and ISS crew missions

Uncle Sam to clip wings of Pegasus-like spyware – sorry, 'intrusion software' – with proposed export controls

Surveillance tech faces trade limits as America syncs policy with treaty obligations

We regret to inform you there's an RCE vuln in old version of WinRAR. Yes, the file decompression utility

Update to v6.02 – or don't, but on your head be it

Lunar rocks brought to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 show Moon's volcanoes were recently* active

* Just a couple of billion years

Research finds consumer-grade IoT devices showing up... on corporate networks

Considering the slack security of such kit, it's a perfect storm

Remember, remember, the 1st of November: The day Dell VMware spun out

Virtzilla will be just fine – it's finally figured out how to woo developers, and hardware players won't desert it

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Bank manager tricked into handing $35m to scammers using fake 'deep voice' tech

Plus: Microsoft Translator machine learning software now supports over 100 languages

16 Oct 11:01 | 26

Computer scientists at University of Edinburgh contemplate courses without 'Alice' and 'Bob'

Academics advised to consider excluding certain terminology for the sake of inclusivity

15 Oct 20:56 | 274

Spanner in the works: The goal is not 100% compatibility, Google says of PostgreSQL interface

Meanwhile, Yugabyte says PostgreSQL compatibility for its distributed database dates back to 2019

15 Oct 13:28 | 5

Citrix has built a browser, and lost a CEO

Chrome, Edge, and Opera can rest easy – this one's designed just to run virtual apps Citrix already manages

15 Oct 04:54 | 3

Devuan debuts version 4.0 – as usual without a hint of the hated `systemd`

Three init systems offered – natch – plus lots of desktop love, and a warning of some exim oddities

15 Oct 01:58 | 45

Looking to modernize your architecture? Just remember, it’s about more than tools…

Start right at AWS’ Application Modernization Day

Ubuntu 21.10 brings GNOME 40 debut and a focus on devs

Also: Why Canonical thinks Ubuntu GUI on Windows 11 matters

14 Oct 17:03 | 26

Bad news, AMD fans: This week's Windows 11 update didn't fix your performance woes (they may be worse)

A new patch next week might

14 Oct 13:45 | 25

Want a piece of GitLab? It's going to cost you: IPO price per share settles at $77

One-stop shop all the way to the bank

14 Oct 13:00 | 6

Google adds VM support to Anthos, admits not everyone is ready for containerised everything

VMware will love this – it works by connecting to vSphere or by managing VMs with Anthos

14 Oct 08:03 | 6

Indian government promises One Portal To Rule Them all in support of colossal infrastructure build

What could possibly go wrong on a project with vast scope, many stakeholders with different agendas, and an assumption of prompt data sharing?

14 Oct 02:31 | 14

Apple warns sideloading iOS apps will ruin everything

Opening the iOS ecosystem to competition would harm security and privacy, company says

14 Oct 01:03 | 132

Former Intel AI boss Naveen Rao is now counting the cost of machine learning, literally

MosaicMLdelving into the details

14 Oct 00:40 | 1

AlmaLinux Foundation chair says he stepped down to highlight value of community status

Close ties with CloudLinux remain, including former chair as 'guest attendee' at board meetings

13 Oct 21:16 | 5

Soaring cloud division turns things around for SAP after annus horribilis that was 2020

Remember those car-crash results in Q3 a year ago? No repeat collision this time round

13 Oct 15:22 | 2

Microsoft .NET updates include C and C++ code in Blazor WebAssembly, release date for Visual Studio 2022

Just don't mention WPF

13 Oct 14:30 | 21

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