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Psst, free advice: You need a hybrid multi-cloud – and here are three reasons why

A tale of mainframes and students being too clever by far

AWS adds database on-ramp to its Arm-powered instances

Amazon gets green-light to blow $10bn on 3,000+ internet satellites. All so Americans can shop more on Amazon

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

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

Days after Trump suggests pausing election over security, US House passes $500m for states to do just that

UK Defence Committee chair muses treating TikTok like Huawei: So eyeball its code then ban it from the country?

Linux Foundation rolls bunch of overlapping groups into one to tackle growing number of open-source security vulns

'We stopped ransomware' boasts Blackbaud CEO. And by 'stopped' he means 'got insurance to pay off crooks'

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

Feeling unInspired? We can't help much with that, but there is a new .NET 5 preview and an Azure DevOps roadmap

Rancher rides off into the SUSE-set after acquisition by Linux outfit

In the halcyon days before Brexit, takeover attempts, and COVID-19, HP made 1.3% pre-tax profit on sales at UK limb

Struggling company pleads with landlords to slash rents as COVID-19 batters UK high street. The firm's name? Apple

Architect of tech contractor tax fraud scheme jailed for at least five years

Australia to force Google and Facebook to pay for news and reveal algorithm changes before they whack web traffic

Alarming news: ADT to flog Nest smart home kit after Google ploughs $450m into corporate security dinosaur

Dynabook Portégé X30L-G: So light, you might even forget about its terrible keyboard

Co-inventor of the computer mouse, William English, dies

World takes tablets during COVID lockdowns, with shipments spiking 18%

Geek's Guide

Virgin Galactic pals up with Rolls-Royce to work on Mach 3 Concorde-style private jet that can carry up to 19 people

Voyager 1 cracks yet another barrier: Now 150 Astronomical Units from Sol

And it's off! NASA launches nuke-powered, laser-shooting, tank Perseverance to Mars to search for signs of life

Boeing confirms it will finish building 747s in 2022, when last freighter flies off the production line

If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass

Microsoft to Cortana: you’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!

US drugstore chain installed anti-shoplifter facial-recognition cameras in 200 locations – for eight years

Lizards for lunch? Crazy tech? Aliens?! Dana Dash: First Girl on the Moon is perfect for the little boffin-to-be in your life

Verity Stob

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

Elite name on Brit scene sponsors retro video games preservation project at the Centre for Computing History

Dutch Gateway store was kept udder wraps for centuries until refit dug up computing history

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 | 4

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 | 5

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 | 29

Software

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

‘Appreciates President Trump’s personal involvement’ and promises so much security, you’ll be tired of securing

03 Aug 00:38 | 70

Software

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

Biz and city officials 'frequently ignored' invoice rules, prosecutors said

01 Aug 00:13 | 14

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

You lot sort it out

31 Jul 20:02 | 32

Software

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

Three big upgrades since 2018 suggests it's far from terminal

31 Jul 07:28 | 53

Software

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

Proof-of-concept algorithm-matching system paves way for more complex recommendation engine

31 Jul 00:07 | 9

Software

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

Reverse tabnapping is no more

30 Jul 16:53 | 20

Software

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

Or maybe you want a List. Or a Task. Or a Planner. Just bung it into Teams

30 Jul 15:26 | 11

What developers really, really want: Document databases

Why MongoDB tops DB devs' wish-lists

30 Jul 10:00 |

Software

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

System Roles another key ingredient in six-monthly update

29 Jul 16:08 | 5

Software

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

Just be careful it's not 'out of scope'

29 Jul 13:33 | 3

Software

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

Most of the things Microsoft said would be great were not

29 Jul 10:45 | 215

Poll

GitHub starts publishing roadmap of future features

Microsoft’s trashing the place, clearly. Or is it?

29 Jul 05:29 | 7

Software

UK housing associations offer framework worth up to £400m to eBay-for-plumbers startup (but it won't get to keep it all)

'Equity-backed' DB-'n'-services biz hooks up tenants with vetted local repair shops

28 Jul 15:38 | 7

Software

IDE like an update, please: JetBrains freshens IntelliJ, adds improved GitHub integration, Java support

Issues? Visit the website or use Visual Studio Code

28 Jul 14:35 | 21

Software

Class move, Java. Coding language slips to third place behind Python in latest popularity contest

Rust enters the top 20, and yes, JavaScript is still number one

28 Jul 07:04 | 38

Software

Tencent set to slurp Sogou, China's second largest search engine, and snaffle its super-popular text editor

Half a billion users for $3.5bn - bargain!

28 Jul 03:54 |

Software

Named arguments squeak into PHP 8.0, 7 years after first RFC

How about inheritance? 'One of the bigger open questions' says author of proposal

27 Jul 17:01 | 14

Psst, free advice: You need a hybrid multi-cloud – and here are three reasons why

A tale of mainframes and students being too clever by far

AWS adds database on-ramp to its Arm-powered instances

Amazon gets green-light to blow $10bn on 3,000+ internet satellites. All so Americans can shop more on Amazon

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

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

Days after Trump suggests pausing election over security, US House passes $500m for states to do just that

UK Defence Committee chair muses treating TikTok like Huawei: So eyeball its code then ban it from the country?

Linux Foundation rolls bunch of overlapping groups into one to tackle growing number of open-source security vulns

'We stopped ransomware' boasts Blackbaud CEO. And by 'stopped' he means 'got insurance to pay off crooks'

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

Feeling unInspired? We can't help much with that, but there is a new .NET 5 preview and an Azure DevOps roadmap

Rancher rides off into the SUSE-set after acquisition by Linux outfit

In the halcyon days before Brexit, takeover attempts, and COVID-19, HP made 1.3% pre-tax profit on sales at UK limb

Struggling company pleads with landlords to slash rents as COVID-19 batters UK high street. The firm's name? Apple

Architect of tech contractor tax fraud scheme jailed for at least five years

Australia to force Google and Facebook to pay for news and reveal algorithm changes before they whack web traffic

Alarming news: ADT to flog Nest smart home kit after Google ploughs $450m into corporate security dinosaur

Dynabook Portégé X30L-G: So light, you might even forget about its terrible keyboard

Co-inventor of the computer mouse, William English, dies

World takes tablets during COVID lockdowns, with shipments spiking 18%

Virgin Galactic pals up with Rolls-Royce to work on Mach 3 Concorde-style private jet that can carry up to 19 people

Voyager 1 cracks yet another barrier: Now 150 Astronomical Units from Sol

And it's off! NASA launches nuke-powered, laser-shooting, tank Perseverance to Mars to search for signs of life

Boeing confirms it will finish building 747s in 2022, when last freighter flies off the production line

If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass

Microsoft to Cortana: you’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!

US drugstore chain installed anti-shoplifter facial-recognition cameras in 200 locations – for eight years

Lizards for lunch? Crazy tech? Aliens?! Dana Dash: First Girl on the Moon is perfect for the little boffin-to-be in your life

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

Elite name on Brit scene sponsors retro video games preservation project at the Centre for Computing History

Dutch Gateway store was kept udder wraps for centuries until refit dug up computing history

Software

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

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

UK housing associations offer framework worth up to £400m to eBay-for-plumbers startup (but it won't get to keep it all)

IDE like an update, please: JetBrains freshens IntelliJ, adds improved GitHub integration, Java support

Class move, Java. Coding language slips to third place behind Python in latest popularity contest

Tencent set to slurp Sogou, China's second largest search engine, and snaffle its super-popular text editor

Named arguments squeak into PHP 8.0, 7 years after first RFC

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

A tale of mainframes and students being too clever by far

US drugstore chain installed anti-shoplifter facial-recognition cameras in 200 locations – for eight years

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

So many stars, so little time: Machine learning helps astroboffins spot the most oxygen-starved galaxy yet

Lizards for lunch? Crazy tech? Aliens?! Dana Dash: First Girl on the Moon is perfect for the little boffin-to-be in your life

Struggling company pleads with landlords to slash rents as COVID-19 batters UK high street. The firm's name? Apple

Co-inventor of the computer mouse, William English, dies

Oh cool, more Cisco patches to apply. Happy Monday

Microsoft to Cortana: you’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!

SAP to list Qualtrics, less than two years after convincing it not to list

Just what you want when stuck working from home: Microsoft domain mixup downs Remote Web Access

Want to win $15,000? Enter Huawei's app development contest – and it could be yours

Microsoft wants to show enterprises that Edge means business, rather than the thing you use to download Chrome

We told you remote working is quite good, says Citrix as its numbers head higher

Wipro buys 4C worth of extra Salesforce expertise

Microsoft tells AMD-powered Insiders they're unblocked in new Windows 10 Dev Channel build: 'Oh no we're not!'

From Accompli to Microsoft to Google: G Suite chief Javier Soltero chases the 'complete collaborative experience'

Microsoft pulls dust covers off Dataflex: Low-code data access from Teams

Only EU can help us, pleads Slack as it slings competition complaint against Microsoft Teams

The W3C steers the way the World Wide Web works. Yet it is reluctant to record crucial meetings – and its minutes are incomplete

960 LinkedIn employees will be let go... If only there was some kind of 'social network for suits' to assist job hunts