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Far-right sanctuary sues cloud giant for breach of contract after plug pulled on its server hosting

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Prime suspect: Amazon India apologises for offensive scenes in political thriller

Charges filed against head of content as cast and crew apply for 'anticipatory bail'

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US consumer protection bureau goes after tech support scammers' alleged payments processor

Hit the organ-grinder, not just the monkey

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Facebook decommissions 185 accounts run by Thai military

It’s not that they lied (which looks likely), it's that they all lied together, says spokesperson

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Hot DRAM: Shortage of memory chips will continue this year, says Micron

Good news for memory makers, not such great news for wider tech world

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Blizzard brain: Snowflake doubles revenue. Market takes a look, goes slushy

High-growth hungry investors worrying you? Try hyperscalers!

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The world's first Apple Silicon iMac is actually a Mac Mini

Bit of a pain switching the thing on, but you can't have everything

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Extended lockdowns to fuel 'strongest growth on record' for PCs into EMEA for Q1

Partly chalked up to someone applying a plunger to the supply chain blockage

It only took four years and thousands of complaints but ICANN finally kills off rogue Indian domain registrar

DNS oversight body accused again and again of chronic foot-dragging

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China to detail tech self-sufficiency plan at showcase ‘Two Sessions’ meetings

14th five-year plan to be revealed, national digital currency also makes the agenda

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AdGuard names 6,000+ web trackers that use CNAME chicanery: Feel free to feed them into your browser's filter

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Like a challenge in a high profile 'face-of-IT' role? Welcome to the Home Office

Talk about a hostile environment... It's £70k+ but you'll really sweat for it

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Would you let users vouch for unknown software's safety with an upvote? Google does

And so can you, because its vote-for-code tools are now on GitHub

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'Major update': Microsoft snips the life support lines for its Delve mobile apps

Come to Outlook Mobile. The water's lovely

Ever wondered why the big beasts in software all suddenly slapped an 'I heart open-source' badge on?

Red Hat's State of Enterprise Open Source might have an answer

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Royal Navy and Airforce get low-code bridge in UK military recruitment saga

We don't want to take 'first past the post' candidates, says contract award notice. Ahem

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Boeing successfully flies unmanned autonomous military 'wingman' aircraft that may become pilot's buddy

First test flight saw drone take off, follow orders, land by AI control

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Upgrade from .NET Framework to .NET 5 can be hard. New official tool may help... slightly

'This tool is not supported in any way. Nobody will be on the hook for fixing any issues with it'

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Deno 1.8: Node.js alternative gets 'out of the box GPU accelerated machine learning'

JavaScript could usurp Python for mathematical programming, claims Deno team

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Chancellor launches £500m business software subsidy in the UK. What's 'approved' software then?

UK targets 100,000 small businesses with up to £5,000 boost

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If Google and Apple won't help us, we'll sort it out the Linux way: 21 companies form Mobile Native Foundation

Lyft, Microsoft, Slack, Capital One, Airbnb become bedfellows

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Hong Kong teases tech to track residents as they move past QR codes

In response to complaints about the time taken to scan, not concerns about privacy

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