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Tata Consultancy Services wins £4m deal to carry out Oracle 'reimplementation' for University of Manchester
That's an expensive reimplementation
24 Feb 10:20 | 7
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US government jobs report predicts pandemic will lead to boom times for IT industry
Along with epidemiologists. As for the hospitality industry… not so much
23 Feb 22:11 | 6
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Apache foundation ousts TinkerPop project co-founder for tweeting 'offensive humor that borders on hate speech'
ASF board member resigns in protest of org's online chatter 'policing'
23 Feb 01:37 | 99
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Whistleblowers: Inflexible prison software says inmates due for release should be kept locked up behind bars
It's not a bug, it's a feature you need to put in a change request to alter, says developer
22 Feb 21:29 | 64
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Microsoft plugs Active Directory authentication into AKS on Azure Stack HCI
Begone foul stash for the secret hash
22 Feb 15:30 | 1
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Ghost of Microsoft's Legacy Edge browser will linger as the default on Surface Hubs after April execution for desktops
Consistency is key
19 Feb 22:00 | 6
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Axe-happy Microsoft halves support for Windows 10 Long Term Servicing Channel
Who wants to live forever?
19 Feb 19:01 | 23
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Microsoft announces a new Office for offline fans, slashes support, hikes the price
Office 2021 is on the way and 'the cloud is where we invest'
19 Feb 12:32 | 49
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Citibank accidentally wired $500m back to lenders in user-interface super-gaffe – and judge says it can't be undone
Press space or click mouse to continue ...wait, not yet, doh!
19 Feb 08:57 | 138
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VS Code acknowledges its elders: Makefile projects get an official extension – and VIM mode is on the backlog
Updates for modern code editor hark back to 40-year-old tools
18 Feb 20:05 | 41
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Microsoft pulls the sheets off first .NET 6 preview and... it's still a mess. Native Apple Silicon support, though
Unified? Kind of, but now there are two .NET runtimes in the official SDK
18 Feb 13:50 | 18
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Microsoft drives up in a LXSS: Hop in, we're taking the Windows Update offramp to Linux 5.4 town
Also: Windows 10 21H1 sent to the beta channel
18 Feb 12:45 | 1
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Kinoite: Immutable Fedora variant with KDE Plasma desktop on the way
Better security and application management, but compatibility can be an issue
18 Feb 10:29 | 8
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Groupware is not dead! HCL drops second beta of Notes/Domino version 12 and goes all low-code and cloudy
26 years after IBM paid Lotus $3.25bn, the Notes email client might be getting useful
18 Feb 01:36 | 35
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Trello moved 'Facelift' card to Completed on Go Live board
New views, card types, and branding as 10th anniversary nears
17 Feb 20:42 | 5
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Microsoft's most useful open-source project for Kubernetes, Dapr hits the 1.0 primetime
API now stable, more on the way
17 Feb 18:59 |
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Microsoft Teams still on mute: Vid conf system crashes, 'potential networking issue' blamed
So, Zoom again then?
17 Feb 18:30 | 11
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Hitting the mother-node: TigerGraph devours $105m funding in Series C round
Everyone wants to be the 'Snowflake of X' – in this case, the graph DB world
17 Feb 17:15 |
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Another reprieve for exhausted IT admins: Looks like there are no whizzbangers in Windows 10 21H1
Still Missing In Action for Windows Insiders
17 Feb 14:15 | 11
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UK dev loses ownership claim on forensic software he said he wrote in spare time and licensed to employer
Ex-copper signed over copyright to bosses, judge rules
17 Feb 06:26 | 70
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NASA sends nuclear tank 293 million miles to Mars, misses landing spot by just five metres. Now watch its video
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SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities
Isn't this a subplot from those James S A Corey novels?
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Clop ransomware gang leaks online what looks like stolen Bombardier blueprints of GlobalEye radar snoop jet
And what may be CAD drawing of a military radar antenna
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VMware warns of critical remote code execution flaw in vSphere HTML5 client
If you don't patch, the hosts driving all your virty servers are at risk. So maybe your to-do list needs a tickle?
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Linux Mint users in hot water for being slow with security updates, running old versions
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Microsoft president asks Congress to force private-sector orgs to publicly admit when they've been hacked
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Apache foundation ousts TinkerPop project co-founder for tweeting 'offensive humor that borders on hate speech'
ASF board member resigns in protest of org's online chatter 'policing'
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What's CNAME of your game? This DNS-based tracking defies your browser privacy defenses
Study sees increasing adoption of cloaking to bypass cookie barriers
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Xilinx pops a 16-core 64-bit Arm system-on-chip from NXP into its latest FPGA-based 100Gbps smart NIC
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'It's where the industry is heading': LibreOffice team working on WebAssembly port
Second attempt to run entirely in the browser – but nothing works yet
16 Feb 09:30 | 111
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Devuan adds third
Devuan adds third init option in sixth birthday release
Veteran Unix Admins offer new cut of
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Wells Fargo patent troll case has finance world all aquiver so Barclays, TD Bank sign up to Open Invention Network
Boss reckons half a dozen institutions will follow suit this year
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When imposter syndrome turns out to not be a syndrome at all
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Linus Torvalds releases Linux 5.11, says it's so good your significant other wants you to test it on Valentine's Day
AMD admirers get plenty to swoon over, Intel’s SGX also makes it unto the kernel, as did some head-scratching gaming kit
14 Feb 23:00 | 16
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How many low-code products does an enterprise software biz need? Ask SAP, it's just swallowed another one
AppGyver disappears inside juggernaut's attempts to nurture more modern image
12 Feb 16:44 | 5
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helloSystem: Pre-alpha FreeBSD project chases simplicity and elegance by taking cues from macOS
Rethinking the desktop with reference to Apple's early UI guidelines
12 Feb 10:29 | 138
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Microsoft issues emergency fix for Wi-Fi foul-up delivered hot and fresh on Patch Tuesday
WPA3 access may cause Blue Screen of Death
12 Feb 06:01 | 38
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Criminal charges against Autonomy's Lynch will never be dropped, even if extradition bid fails, says lawyer
Plus: All his former Deloitte auditors can be made to testify against him
11 Feb 14:01 | 9
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C#/WinRT authoring: Yo dawg, we heard you like components so we made a component that makes components
Now in preview, says Microsoft
11 Feb 11:00 |
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Apple, Microsoft, PayPal among 35 organizations compromised by evil twin dependencies attack
Security researcher finds it's easy to confuse build systems with malicious versions of private software libraries
10 Feb 20:35 | 32
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In case there was any doubt about using legacy Edge, Microsoft 365 throws its weight behind WebView2
New dependencies will rely on runtime from March
10 Feb 15:30 | 11
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Popular open-source library SDL moving development to GitHub despite 'calamitous design choices' in git
'I don't have the energy to be a server admin for something that's held together with scotch tape and prayers'
10 Feb 13:15 | 47
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Drag Autonomy founder's 'fraudulent guns' and 'grasping claws' to the US for a criminal trial, thunders barrister
Mike Lynch remains popular with the Leftpondians, court hears
10 Feb 11:45 | 83
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Micro Focus reports 10% revenue slide, multibillion-dollar impairment charges, but investors give the thumbs-up
Share price rises after no-surprises 2020 prelims announced, CEO says 3-year turnaround doing OK
09 Feb 17:21 | 4
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Google OS, phone home: Leaked Android 12 screenshots suggest new design, privacy features
Widgets tie in with promise to 'elevate people and conversations in the system surfaces'
09 Feb 15:24 | 20
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Terraria dev cancels Stadia port after Google disabled his email account for three weeks
Frustration with bot-like support leads to cancellation of popular game
08 Feb 18:02 | 83
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Foundation thrillogy: Rust programming language gets new home and million-dollar spending account
Mozilla moves Rust under a non-profit foundation
08 Feb 17:00 | 44
