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 2021 | 5
Software
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 2021 | 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 2021 | 31
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 2021 | 10
'Vast majority of people' are onside with a data grab they know next to nothing about, reckons UK health secretary
Comment 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 2021 | 86
That thing you were utterly sure would never happen? Yeah, well, guess what …
Who, Me? Never. Test. In. Production.
09 Jun 2021 | 41
Six years in the making, Vivaldi Mail arrives alongside version 4.0 of the company's browser
Nú með þýðingarmöguleika
09 Jun 2021 | 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 2021 | 9
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 2021 | 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 2021 | 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 2021 | 46
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 2021 | 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 2021 | 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 2021 | 19
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 2021 | 41
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 2021 | 50
What does your database future look like? If it looks like the past, you’re in trouble
Promo Here's a short and sweet summit by Nutanix to set you in the right direction
07 Jun 2021 |
That AI scanning your X-ray for signs of COVID-19 may just be looking at your age
In brief Plus: DARPA wants to spend $1m on AI research studying information warfare
07 Jun 2021 | 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 2021 | 33
Apple: We didn't take commission on 90% of App Store sales and billings
Comment 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 2021 | 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 2021 | 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 2021 | 17
SAP's RISE 'yet to prove its worth in practice...' Key German user group offers giant a progress 'reality check'
Sapphire Now Analysts say S/4HANA upgrades remain sluggish, and users want to see things RISE shine before committing
04 Jun 2021 | 7
LG opens open-source licence compliance tool source
Shine chaebol's FOSSlight on your projects, careful what you find
04 Jun 2021 |
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 2021 | 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 2021 | 33
SAP pushes supply chain solution at COVID-hit market as Sapphire Now bash begins
Sapphire Now Analyst: 'They need to blow up the obsolete Ariba engine first'
03 Jun 2021 |
This AI could save a firefighter's life
When it works well enough in the real world, that is
03 Jun 2021 | 9
Huawei names first tablets, phones to run its Android-in-disguise HarmonyOS 2
Analysis Hello, my name is Mr Snrub, and I come from, uh ... someplace far away
03 Jun 2021 | 21
Oracle accused of eating software maker's lunch with hostile hiring, trade secret theft
CentralSquare says Big Red raided it for key staff
03 Jun 2021 | 7
Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither)
Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource
02 Jun 2021 | 44
Code contributions to GCC no longer have to be assigned to FSF, says compiler body
It's not me, it's GNU
02 Jun 2021 | 26
Too easy. Microsoft introduces moderation for Winget package repo after spike in bad submissions
Belated recognition that maybe, just maybe, someone should check submissions to official Windows package receptacle
02 Jun 2021 | 15
Hyper-V bug that could crash 'big portions of Azure cloud infrastructure': Code published
Now patched: 'A function that can be called with attacker-controlled data (which it shouldn't) and dereference twice a pointer (boom)'
02 Jun 2021 | 10
India uses controversial portal and API to add vaccination status info to Aarogya Setu contact-tracing app
Millions can’t use it, but it may be about to become a de facto travel permit
02 Jun 2021 | 3
Firefox 89: Can this redesign stem browser's decline?
New visuals, simplified menus, though Mozilla has yet to fully state its position on 'privacy preserving ads'
01 Jun 2021 | 190
