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When people called the Brit software biz a s*** show... ah, never mind Autonomy founder Mike Lynch's extradition hearing took a strange turn on Thursday as an A[...]

Nearly 8 years of extra fees after it 'initially identified issues' with billing in 2011... but nothing came of it Britain's comms regulator has dished out a £1[...]

Rethinking the desktop with reference to Apple's early UI guidelines A pre-alpha project to make a new FreeBSD-based desktop operating system has adopted a mini[...]

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Does your office have a singing swinger? On Call It seems that hardly anyone is flying these days. Handy because in today's On Call, one false move interrupts t[...]

Oodkind look even more terryfing AI researchers have attempted to reconstruct scenes from Doctor Who by using machine-learning algorithms to convert brain scans[...]

Gives itself power to snoop and block anything, anytime – but at least it’s also consulted with industry Myanmar’s military Junta, which seized power in a coup [...]

WPA3 access may cause Blue Screen of Death Microsoft has issued an out-of-band Windows 10 patch to fix a self-inflicted error that can crash devices that attemp[...]

Chinese New Year gift for Beijing, maybe for Oracle too The Biden administration has paused the United States’ attempts to run TikTok and WeChat out of the coun[...]

Making Google and Facebook cough up could help USA’s currently fragile democracy, argues Pres Brad Smith Microsoft has said the USA should copy Australia’s plan[...]

Another privacy improvement from Cupertino, just a small one Apple's forthcoming iOS 14.5 release, currently in beta, will conceal the IP address of Safari web [...]

Victim shot dead a week after he got engaged to fiancée An MIT AI researcher is wanted by police in connection with the murder of a Yale graduate student, who w[...]

Antisocial network sued by Proofpoint in scrap over domain names Security biz Proofpoint and its subsidiary Wombat Security Technologies have sued Facebook and [...]

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German car giant looks to Azure for AI smarts as Ford opts for Google's cloud Volkswagen and Microsoft will build an "Automated Driving Platform" powered by AI [...]

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No one can save your bacon now Cute, intelligent and delicious with a tendency for totalitarianism, pigs have a lot going for them. But they're also capable of [...]

Brexit bonus for EU, it's losing millions after endless rule changes The British owners of 74,000 suspended .eu domain names have been given an additional three[...]

Space is about to looking a lot clearer, thanks to adaptive optics Astronomers who devised a technique to capture direct images of nearby potentially habitable [...]

Now in preview, says Microsoft Microsoft has nudged out an update to the C#/WinRT NuGet package and added a preview of C#/WinRT authoring to an otherwise relati[...]

'We cannot guarantee to suppliers any business through this Commercial Agreement' The UK government has made a £2bn contract award for "Digital Outcomes and Spe[...]

Google Cloud Platform account required, API key comes with Ts&Cs Hands On Google has big ambitions for its new Open Source Vulnerabilities database, but getting[...]

Board of dot-UK registry operator scrambles to save itself Analysis The board of .uk registry operator Nominet has offered a series of concessions to its member[...]

Tune in next week and you’ll be able to talk storage like a cloud native Webcast If you haven’t already adopted containers and Kubernetes, they’re probably on y[...]

Upgrades to version 7.0 are going to require your full attention, especially if you’re fond of VGA output VMware has published new and tighter security configur[...]

Could the lucrative era of light-touch regulation finally be over for Google and Facebook? On Wednesday, Wojciech Wiewiorówski, the European Data Protection Sup[...]

Test on tricky route planned for later in 2021, followed by productisation Samsung has floated the prospect of soon selling autonomous ships, if it can sail one[...]

Plans week-long orbital mission, with Chicken Korma already pencilled in on the menu India’s space program will test a vehicle it expects will soon carry a crew[...]

Nicholas Faber joins accomplice Michael Fish in admitting he raided university portal for sensitive info A college graduate has admitted hacking into the email [...]

Biden-era Dept of Justice forced to make call after UK judge blocks on mental health grounds The US Dept of Justice will continue pushing for the extradition of[...]

Fawbush and Miller supers will crank away at weather-forecasting models HPE has built two supercomputers focused on weather forecasting for the US Air Force tha[...]

Also: NASA to use SpaceX's Falcon Heavy for the Lunar Gateway while eyeing another seat in a Soyuz In Brief Typical. You wait years for missions to Mars and the[...]

Security researcher finds it's easy to confuse build systems with malicious versions of private software libraries Bug hunter Alex Birsan last year managed to c[...]

And the cost of hitching their HR and finance system to the cloud? $52.5m over half a decade The good people of Iowa can breathe a sigh of relief as their state[...]

National Crime Agency nabbed network that stole money, Bitcoin, personal data Brit cops have cuffed eight men in England and Scotland amid a probe into SIM-swap[...]

New dependencies will rely on runtime from March The death march of legacy Edge and Internet Explorer 11 continued today with an addition to the Microsoft 365 r[...]