Free Software Foundation urged to free itself of Richard Stallman by hundreds of developers and techies
(2021/03/24)
Even FSF seems baffled by the defiant return of RMS
Guilty: Sister and brother who over-ordered hundreds of MacBooks for university and sold the kit for millions
(2021/03/23)
Castanedas pocketed $2.3m from 800 laptops alone, Feds say
Prince Harry, the Count of Montecito, turns Silicon Valley startup exec with first job based in 21st Century
(2021/03/23)
New post accepted as Chief Impact (on Press Coverage) Officer for BetterUp
Google patches WebView component to end unexpected Android crash fest
(2021/03/23)
Snafu tripped up Gmail, Google Pay, and a variety of other Android apps
Report: Microsoft is thinking about splashing $10bn on Discord to slot it next to Skype, Mixer...
(2021/03/23)
Chat-room super-app aimed at gamers now used by 140m people a month
Total Eclipse team's new start: New Adoptium working group will promote free open source Java runtimes
(2021/03/23)
AdoptOpenJDK is moving to Eclipse Foundation, but it is a slow process
Sure, Dave might seem like he's avidly listening to this morning's meeting, but he's actually doing a yoga routine
(2021/03/23)
Meanwhile, Emma is playing video games, and Daniel... well, Daniel is drunk already
Outsourced techie gets 2-year sentence after trashing system of former client: 1,200 Office 365 accounts zapped
(2021/03/23)
'In my 30-plus years as an IT pro, I have never been a part of a more difficult work situation,' says victim
Proof that Surface devices are not a niche product obsessed over by Microsoft fans: A patent lawsuit from Caltech
(2021/03/23)
Well, you wanted to be just like Apple, right?
UK colleges and unis urged to prepare for ransomware before it's too late
(2021/03/23)
Uptick in attacks since schools reopened, warns National Cyber Security Centre
Microsoft and Google, sitting in a tree, working on browser compatibility
(2021/03/23)
Software behemoths to spend 2021 fixing CSS pain points
Backblaze on the back foot after 'inadvertently' beaming customer data to Facebook
(2021/03/23)
Backup company says tracking code now removed, but what info was sent?
FreeBSD 13.0 to ship without WireGuard support as dev steps in to fix 'grave issues' with initial implementation
(2021/03/23)
Public spat over code quality, reworked code set for 13.1 release, pfSense firewall also affected
Thousands of taxpayers' personal details potentially exposed online through councils' debt-chasing texts
(2021/03/23)
Got a link? Change the last character and bingo, it's blackmail time
Bournemouth, Christchurch, Poole Council awards reseller a multimillion-pound contract for Microsoft services
(2021/03/23)
Sun, sea and software? UK south coast authority goes all in on Redmond
The kids aren't all right: Fall in GCSE compsci students is bad news for employers and Britain's future growth plans
(2021/03/23)
Student numbers have plunged 40% since 2015
Your hardware is end-of-life... and it's in space. Worry not, Anglo-Japanese sat to test new orbital cleanup method
(2021/03/23)
Magnetic tech could be used to deorbit debris
TikTok no worse than Facebook for privacy, says Citizen Lab (although Chinese TikTok is a horror)
(2021/03/23)
App has common code base for three versions: one global edition; one for south-east Asian; one for China
Google vows to build its own server system-on-chips, hires Intel veteran
(2021/03/23)
Ad giant’s compute rigs ‘at inflection point’, custom motherboards no longer suffice at G-scale
OVH flames scorched cloud customers with pledge to build data centre fire simulation lab
(2021/03/23)
Restoration of some services at destroyed data centre promised for this week, SBG1 data centre status in doubt again
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