Yes, there's nothing quite like braving the M4 into London on the eve of a bank holiday just to eject a non-bootable floppy [Mon Mar 29 2021]

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Salesforce to face trial after software used by Backpage 'to track sex traffickers, pimps, johns on social media'

Cloud giant manages to dismiss only part of lawsuit brought against it

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Microsoft 365 tries again at filtering swearing, bad behavior: Classifiers for seven languages offered

Meanwhile, Outlook on Windows gets magical email completion powers

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Sadly, the catastrophic impact with Apophis asteroid isn't going to happen in 2068

Astroboffins are so confident, this once dangerous near-Earth object has now been struck off official risk lists

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Rogue elements: Hades and Loop Hero manage to draw on the same legacy while having very little in common

Let's go round again, maybe we'll turn back the hands of time

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Tesla broke US labor law with anti-union efforts – watchdog

And Elon Musk must delete 2018 tweet threatening loss of benefits for unionizing

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Oracle sorely wanted case alleging improper inflation of cloud sales to disappear. But the judge said no

A couple of execs have been let off the hook, though

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Diary of a report writer and his big break into bad business

Ow. Thank you sir may I have another

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NASA's Perseverance rover in brick form: China set vs unofficial Lego fan design

The Register goes a-building once more – no glue required this time

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BOFH: Bullying? Not on my watch! (It's a Rolex)

Aye, me hearties... it is time to call H-ARRRRRGH

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Apple iPad torched this guy's home, lawsuit claims

Lawyers hope to recover repair cost shelled out by insurer

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5-year-old Fairphone 2 is about to receive a major update to Android 9

Yes, it's old, but the handset has been supported for much longer than the big dogs usually manage

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‘Radiation upset’ confused computers and caused false alarm on International Space Station

Crew Dragon briefly thought its power supply had problems. Also on the ISS: an Ethernet upgrade and missing wastewater

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Xiaomi grows fast, warns chip shortages will impact product releases

Takes number one smartphone sales slot across swathes of Europe

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Linus Torvalds worries kernel 5.12 might be ‘one of those releases’ that lands a tad late

Driver and networking changes keep coming and io_uring is being noisy

Semi-autonomous cars sales move up a gear with 3.5 million units leaving forecourts

Will you visit me please, if I open my door... in cars?

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Red Hat pulls Free Software Foundation funding over Richard Stallman's return

'Many contributors have told us they no longer plan to participate in FSF events, and we stand behind them'

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Microsoft pivots on Pivot, admits that yanking touch control from WinUI 3 toolset 'was obviously poor judgment'

Wow, Redmond actually said soz!

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OpenCollective opens cash conduit between tech biz and unappreciated developers

For organizations inclined to give, there's now some supporting infrastructure

Mac OS X at 20: A rocky start, but it got the fundamentals right for a macOS future

For pity's sake, don't thank Jobs

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SAP community suggestions for on-prem database canned as app giant looks cloudwards

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What links ML, lasers, and tiny gold-plated micro-bots? Answer: Smart medicines

'Drug delivery would certainly be an intriguing application,' prof tells us

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Mysterious case of Arizona state senators skipping a vote on tackling Apple and Google's app commissions

Law bill to give developers a choice to opt out vanishes this week

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