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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

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 | 28

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 | 33

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 | 75

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 | 37

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 | 126

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 | 14

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 | 270

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 | 44

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

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Think your phone is snooping on you? Hold my beer, says basic physics

Information wants to be free, and it's making its escape

What do you mean you gave the boss THAT version of the report? Oh, ing balls

Say what you mean

Microsoft called out as big malware hoster – thanks to OneDrive and Office 365 abuse

Infosec pro: 'OneDrive abuse has been going on for years'

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'

Canon makes 'all-in-one' printers that refuse to scan when out of ink, lawsuit claims

We can't wait to see the logic gymnastics needed to justify this

Apple arms high-end MacBook Pro notebooks with M1 Pro, M1 Max processors

x86 is an eighty-sixed ex

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

Chinese developers rebel against long working hours with crowdsourced tell-all on employers

Despite modern labour laws, 72-hour work weeks are still common

Chinese tech minister says he's 'dealt with' 73,000 sites that breached the law

Ongoing crackdown saw apps 1.83 million apps tested, 4,200 told to clean up their act, pop-up ads popped

US gov claims ransomware 'earned' $590m in the first half of 2021 alone – mostly in Bitcoin

Names and bars crypto exchange SUEX, warns paying ransoms could spell trouble

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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

Microsoft slices Windows 11 update size by 40% (no, not by cutting hardware support)

Show me the way to go home, I'm tired and I want to reverse this delta

13 Oct 12:51 | 26

Want to deploy a new Windows VM on Microsoft Azure? Today might not be your lucky day

Users running non-Windows VMs or existing deployment not affected

13 Oct 12:05 | 7

How Windows NTFS finally made it into Linux

Microsoft's New Technology File System has been with us for decades and at long, long last it's going to be fully supported for penguins

13 Oct 09:15 | 84

And finally... Oracle bags £25m ERP deal to replace East Sussex County Council's SAP R/3 system

Award delayed nine months due to pandemic

13 Oct 08:30 | 5

.NET Foundation admits it 'violated the trust of project maintainers'

Mashes the Sorry button, offers to reverse forced code migration, and promises not to ever mess with projects again

13 Oct 03:58 | 8

Megachips or decoupled approach? AI chip design companies accounting for operating costs

Chip crunch pulls focus

12 Oct 18:10 | 1

Emerson merges software units with 'industrial AI' for oilfields firm AspenTech in $11bn deal

Yes the same mega-org at centre of Facebook data centre trade secrets spat

Brit MPs blast Baroness Dido Harding's performance as head of NHS Test and Trace

Programme lacked transparency at critical stage in pandemic, report says

12 Oct 13:02 | 149

Housing consortium's £500m software deal expects winners to adapt to legislation brought in to avoid another Grenfell

Outsourcing giant Wipro secures a spot among others

Microsoft turns Windows Subsystem for Linux into an app for Windows

WSL will still be baked in if you want it – but Redmond wants you to get it from the Store

12 Oct 07:15 | 82

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