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Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition

Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back

22 Sep 12:14 | 37

Google experiments with user-choice-defying Android search box

Apple-flavored approach running as test 'for a small percentage of users'

22 Sep 10:43 | 41

Apple, Google yank opposition voting strategy app from Russian software stores

Oh, sorry, we thought you wanted us to obey the law?! – Silicon Valley

18 Sep 00:57 | 37

Google extends right-to-be-forgotten to app permissions on older Android devices

Software unused after a few months will lose access to sensitive features unless exempted

17 Sep 22:58 | 13

Microsoft doles out Office Long Term Servicing Channel for cloud refuseniks

Redmond doesn't do things by half – unless it's Long Term Support

17 Sep 19:57 | 15

Measuring your carbon footprint? There's no app for that

Smartphones can keep us informed about everything other than environmental impact. That needs to change

15 Sep 07:15 | 58

Sort-of Epic win as judge kills Apple ban on apps linking to outside payment systems

Games maker weakens iGiant's control over iOS, loses its antitrust claims

10 Sep 20:48 | 37

You can quote us on that: Workday scoops up job pricing specialist Zimit in focus on services

Ideally, will speed up biz's answer to the question: How much should we charge for that?

09 Sep 11:51 | 4

Google fiddles with cross-platform Flutter and Dart to boost performance, tooling

Devs also urged to ditch 'pedantic' lint rules

Browser-based video editor Clipchamp disappears into the bowels of Microsoft 365

Like Windows Movie Maker on the web

08 Sep 15:15 | 4

Software piracy pushes companies to be more competitive, study claims

So, do copy that floppy?

04 Sep 00:27 | 28

Something for the Weekend, Sir?

A speech recognition app goes into a bar. Speak up if you’ve heard it already

Listen to me, Palmer, now listen to me

03 Sep 08:29 | 107

They've only gone and done it – South Korea forces Apple, Google to allow alternative app store payment systems

Big Tech warns favoring SK players won't go down well – yet South Korea loves its software

01 Sep 02:29 | 11

'Apps for GNOME' site aims to improve discovery of the project's best applications

A sprinkling of Rust and presto! A new multi-language web site appears

27 Aug 18:05 | 10

'Unicorn' startup CEO faked sales figures, deals to trick investors, prosecutors claim

Co-founder of mobile dev biz HeadSpin Manish Lachwani charged with fraud

26 Aug 23:35 | 18

South Korea may ban Apple, Google from forcing store payment systems on app devs

Korean firms also keen to be your Seoul provider, says expert

26 Aug 18:23 | 8

Microsoft reminds Azure App Service users that community support for Java 7 ends soon – shift to version 8 or beyond

This is your one-year warning

Bork!Bork!Bork!

Lost in IKEA? So, it seems, is Windows

Microsoft would like to know your location. Bedroom furniture or homewares?

25 Aug 10:17 | 36

British teachers' pensions set to be released from Capita's grasp after nearly 30 years

Contract first signed in 1996 comes to an end in 2025

24 Aug 09:32 | 34

'Not great, but usable': GNOME desktop boots on Asahi Linux for Apple M1

Should 'run like a dream' when everything's done, says dev

23 Aug 14:38 | 20

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Microsoft Exchange Autodiscover protocol found leaking hundreds of thousands of credentials

Email clients fail over to unexpected domains if they can't find the right resources

Lithuania tells its citizens to throw Xiaomi mobile devices in the bin

Baltic state's cyber security centre uncovers remote censorship blocklist function in Mi 10T handset

Google emits Chrome 94 with 'Idle Detection' API to detect user inactivity amid opposition

Mozilla, Apple register dismay as worries surface over privacy, potential crypto mining behind user's back

First RISC-V computer chip lands at the European Processor Initiative

EPAC accelerator runs its first 'Hello, World!' in-silico

Apple tried to patch this security hole in macOS Finder but didn't consider upper and lowercase characters

file:// is blocked? Oh OK, we'll just use File:// or fiLE://...

Senior IBMer hit with £290k demand from Big Blue in separate case as unfair dismissal claim rolls on

High Court and Employment Tribunal cases to be heard soon

More than three years after last release, X.Org Server 21.1.0 RC1 appears

Back from the brink with new features

Thatcher-era ICL mainframe fingered for failure to pay out over £1bn in UK pensions

Three or four unconnected systems required for casework leading – unsurprisingly – to errors

Mobile mobile museum looks to chart the history of portable phones

25-year-strong collection of 2,000 handsets covers 1984 to the present day

Salesforce should rename its Dreamforce conference to Feverdreamforce because this is getting ridiculous

Apropos of nothing, here's Lionel Ritchie

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Singapore, Australia successfully trial blockchain-greased customs system

Who knew that verifiable and digital documentation might move a little faster than paper?

23 Aug 01:15 | 4

Trust Facebook to find a way to make video conferencing more miserable and tedious

Yes, it involves VR. Meanwhile, in the real world, the FTC would like a chat about competition

19 Aug 20:33 | 62

LibreOffice 7.2 brings improved but still imperfect Microsoft Office compatibility

Also: Native for Apple Silicon but with health warning

19 Aug 12:34 | 81

Google Groups kills RSS support without notice

Chocolate Factory mum as remaining feed fans search for alternatives

16 Aug 23:28 | 35

Internet Explorer 3.0 turns 25. One of its devs recalls how it ended marriages – and launched amazing careers

Revisit the browser wars, we shall

16 Aug 07:58 | 76

Amazon Game Studios to its own devs: All your codebase doesn't belong to us

E-goliath's subsidiary drops 'draconian' contract terms that absorbed personal work, demanded license rights

13 Aug 21:07 | 18

Thunderbird 91 lands: Now native on Apple Silicon, swaps 'master' for 'primary' password, and more

Project said to be well resourced, lots of tweaks in new version, plenty more to do

12 Aug 19:49 | 55

Microsoft's axeman cometh for OneDrive sync app on older versions of macOS

10 Aug 13:34 | 11

Google hits undo on Chrome browser alert change that broke websites, web apps

'This is peak Chrome; a reasonably good idea hampered because it was pushed out thoughtlessly'

05 Aug 07:20 | 43

Google Play puts Android apps on notice: No naughty JavaScript, Python, Lua

And come April next year, accurate disclosures of personal data usage will be required

29 Jul 23:58 | 11

Privacy proves elusive in Google's Privacy Sandbox

Like FLoC, FLEDGE isn't yet ready to fly for web-based ads, judging from this proof-of-concept exploit code

29 Jul 19:55 | 17

Microsoft's new 'power app converging model' hits public preview with Custom Pages

Aims to heal perplexing split between Canvas and Model-driven apps

29 Jul 11:28 | 3

A bunch of apps will be able to bypass Microsoft's new store and use own update methods

Risky and annoying?

27 Jul 16:00 | 46

SAP's home crowd fails to RISE to the bait with lift-and-shift-to-the-cloud offer

German-speaking user group takes dismal view of scheme's value

23 Jul 12:15 | 6

Open-source dev and critic of Beijing claims Audacity owner Muse threatened him with deportation to China in row over copyright

'Who knows how he may be received...'

20 Jul 21:24 | 48

Open-source RAW image editor Darktable releases major update to version 3.6 – and it's very accessible

RTFM: Read the [fine] manual

19 Jul 09:15 | 15

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