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Excuse me, what just happened? Resilience is tough when your failure is due to a 'sequence of events that was almost impossible to foresee'

There was no big bang – and it could happen to you

12 Jun 07:00 | 35

Women techs fume, offer crowdsourced fixes as Michelle Obama's online keynote crashes

'Unforeseen server conditions' blamed

11 Jun 20:08 | 7

UK competition bods to keep tabs on Google, ensure 'Privacy Sandbox' doesn't distort competition

CMA claims to have taken 'oversight role' over removal of third-party cookies

11 Jun 15:19 | 1

Linus Torvalds tells kernel list poster to 'SHUT THE HELL UP' for saying COVID-19 vaccines create 'new humanoid race'

'Any Linux discussion list isn't going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me'

11 Jun 02:49 | 204

McDonald's AI drive-thru bot accused of breaking biometrics privacy law

Would you like a lawsuit with that?

10 Jun 23:57 | 50

Oracle and partners sued over claims they over-elevated NetSuite's capabilities

Maker of industrial lift gear claims fraud as software project sinks

10 Jun 21:55 | 8

Google wants to look like it cares about your privacy with Android 12 Beta 2, but note that's not how Google works

Still, it's this or iOS

10 Jun 19:27 | 18

No change control? Without suitable planning, a change can be as good as an arrest

How to make software ch-ch-ch-changes easier

10 Jun 11:31 | 22

Wine 6.0.1: For that one weird app on that one weird Mac

Wine64 support arrives for the Apple M1

10 Jun 10:01 | 27

Hong Kong to explore its own digital currency and keep testing China’s Digital Yuan

Plans fintech infusion for local banking sector, plus data-sharing infrastructure

10 Jun 07:58 | 5

Biden cancels Trump's bans on TikTok, WeChat, other Chinese apps

But executive order expands on supply chain security initiative with call for evidence-based vetting of technology

10 Jun 01:07 | 10

Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence

OK, we see where this is going

09 Jun 15:00 | 29

Hate to break it to you, but football's not coming home if this AI pundit is to be believed

Delayed Euro 2020 championship will be won by the Czech Republic, and England will drop out in semi-finals (sounds legit)

09 Jun 10:46 | 10

'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary

A day before THAT delay, Matt Hancock told MPs that 'citizens' own the data he'd instructed the health department to take by default

09 Jun 09:15 | 86

That thing you were utterly sure would never happen? Yeah, well, guess what …

Never. Test. In. Production.

09 Jun 08:30 | 40

Six years in the making, Vivaldi Mail arrives alongside version 4.0 of the company's browser

Nú með þýðingarmöguleika

09 Jun 07:00 | 26

With incoming iOS 15, update refuseniks will be given choice to stay where they are while still receiving security patches

Departure from Apple's usual iron-fist approach to iPhone software

08 Jun 20:03 | 8

Apple ditches support for pre-2015 MacBook Air, Pro laptops with macOS Monterey

But it seems the iPhone 6 and SE will be looked after until the end of time

08 Jun 16:15 | 24

UK government bows to pressure, agrees to delay NHS Digital grabbing the data of England's GP patients

What's that? Letting people know just weeks before was a bad idea?

08 Jun 13:59 | 64

Version 8 of open-source code editor Notepad++ brings Dark Mode and an ARM64 build, but bans Bing from web searches

'When a search engine does the censorship instead of its job, it's not reliable anymore'

08 Jun 09:18 | 45

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Amazon exec's husband jailed for two years for insider trading. Yes, with Amazon stock

Couple now definitely past their Prime

FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips

Delivery drives to get refund

Cloudflare network outage disrupts Discord, Shopify

And its CAPTCHA alternative challenged by security researcher

Excuse me, what just happened? Resilience is tough when your failure is due to a 'sequence of events that was almost impossible to foresee'

There was no big bang – and it could happen to you

Women techs fume, offer crowdsourced fixes as Michelle Obama's online keynote crashes

'Unforeseen server conditions' blamed

Ireland warned it could face 'rolling blackouts' if it doesn't address data centres' demand for electricity

Utilities watchdog launches consultation that may affect green island's mega bit barns

Pakistan's Punjab province tells citizens to get jabbed or have their SIM card blocked

Well, that's one way to do it

Geek's Guide To Britain

The Eigiau Dam Disaster: Deluges and deceit at the dawn of hydroelectric power

A trip to beautiful Snowdonia lakes takes in early hydroelectric experiment... and a tragedy for a village

BT sues supplier for £72m over exchange gear that allegedly caused wave of ADSL outages

Tii Technologies claims hamfisted BT bods caused problems, not their kit

UK tells UN that nation-states should retaliate against cyber badness with no warning

Even nuclear missile attacks came with a 4-minute heads-up

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Apple's macOS 12 adds improved virtualization though no sign of anything like Boot Camp on M1 silicon

Linux and macOS guests will be doable, and iGiant even appears to have added an XKCD Easter Egg

08 Jun 07:56 | 22

Lotus Notes refuses to die, again, as HCL debuts Domino 12

It’s now a cloud-native, low-code product that’s growing and offers a viable Exchange alternative, apparently

08 Jun 06:13 | 39

Microsoft flips request to port Visual Studio Tools for Office to .NET Core from 'Sure, we'll take a look' to 'No'

Basically, it doesn't work

07 Jun 15:15 | 18

UK's Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital's GP data slurp until patients can be properly informed

Plus: National watchdog says pseudonymisation is data processing

07 Jun 14:29 | 40

Just when everyone thought things might be looking up, Dido Harding admits interest in top job at NHS England

Yep. The exec responsible for shambolic Test and Trace programme, and TalkTalk's 2015 mega-breach

07 Jun 13:01 | 49

What does your database future look like? If it looks like the past, you’re in trouble

Here's a short and sweet summit by Nutanix to set you in the right direction

That AI scanning your X-ray for signs of COVID-19 may just be looking at your age

Plus: DARPA wants to spend $1m on AI research studying information warfare

07 Jun 04:06 | 7

Linux 5.13 hits rc5, isn’t yet calm, Linus Torvalds is only mildly perturbed

Emperor Penguin hopes ‘fairly average’ release will ‘start shrinking now’

07 Jun 02:16 | 33

Apple: We didn't take commission on 90% of App Store sales and billings

Let's be clear what it's talking about though. It is patting itself on back for not taking a cut of Uber's cut

04 Jun 22:23 | 40

BMA and Royal College of GPs refuse to endorse NHS Digital's data grab from surgeries in England

BMA separately calls for a delay to the programme

04 Jun 15:01 | 49

openSUSE leaps to 15.3 – now built with 'same binary packages' as SUSE Enterprise

Latest version ups stablity but also makes it easier to migrate to commercial wares

04 Jun 13:21 | 17

SAP's RISE 'yet to prove its worth in practice...' Key German user group offers giant a progress 'reality check'

Analysts say S/4HANA upgrades remain sluggish, and users want to see things RISE shine before committing

04 Jun 11:53 | 7

LG opens open-source licence compliance tool source

Shine chaebol's FOSSlight on your projects, careful what you find

Microsoft subsidiary makes $314.73bn profit and pays no tax in Ireland – despite registering there

Forget Seattle, Microsoft 'Round Island One' lives in Bermuda

03 Jun 18:45 | 32

Microsoft to unveil 'what's next for Windows' ... Rounded corners and what else?

June 24 event to preview Win Tech: The Next Generation

03 Jun 16:16 | 33

SAP pushes supply chain solution at COVID-hit market as Sapphire Now bash begins

Analyst: 'They need to blow up the obsolete Ariba engine first'

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