Sure, your app is crap, but Windows won't tell. Promise [Fri Apr 23 2021]

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Sure, your app is crap, but Windows won't tell. Promise

One billboard outside Blairsville, Georgia

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Huawei wins big intellectual property case in Europe – against fashion house Chanel

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You've got it down Pat: Intel boss says 2020 was so strong, a 20% drop in data center sales now is to be expected

Server chip business doldrums blamed on 'digestion'

Qualtrics posts revenue, subscription rise after leaving SAP's bosom

Plus: UiPath and Teradata give investors reason for cheer. Yes, plenty of the wrong people happy on a Thursday in lockdown

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Capgemini scores £150m contract to help Student Loan Company overcome its IT problems 5 years after £50m superfail

Fragmented, inflexible estate? Reach for French outsourcers

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But can it run Avid? The Reg hands shiny new M1 MacBook to video production pro, who beats it with Bender, Handbrake, and ... Hypercard?

He was there the day Steve Jobs moved off PowerPC to Intel, and says the Arm transition looks better

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US aviation regulator warns of mid-air collision risk if Garmin TCAS boxes are not updated

Software fixes available, says FAA

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MI5 wants to shed its cocktail-guzzling posho image – so it's opened an Instagram account

Lockdown's getting to everyone – even the social media monkeys

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Apple, you've AirDrop'd the ball: Academics detail ways to leak contact info of nearby iThings for spear-phishing

Too bad there's no suggested solution... oh, wait

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Asian buyers set for security spending spree to catch up on shabby strategies

China already growing even faster than 13% regional acceleration

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Exam-monitoring biz Proctorio tried to silence a critic using copyright law. Now EFF sues to put an end to this tactic

Tweets linking to source code were fair use, say digital-rights warriors

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Canonical and Microsoft get cosier with Active Directory integration in Ubuntu 21.04

SQL Server optimisations on way too, but 'Hirsute Hippo' not an LTS release so take-up may be tepid

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Greener Windows? Microsoft previews EcoQoS and Task Manager Eco Mode for would-be power-sipping devs

Noble aim to curb energy-hungry apps, but needs willing souls to trade performance for efficiency

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What links AMD CPU guru Jim Keller, an AI chip upstart, and SiFive? This vector-crunching 64-bit RISC-V processor

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10 years later, Chrome OS starts to look like a proper OS with hardware diagnostics and the ability to scan documents

Are you really going to replace that battery, though, kids?

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In 2020, VMware said its remote work kit was brilliant. Now it says you need its new stuff to do it right

Improves integration and maturity, not quite the new-buzzword-worthy step-change Virtzilla wants

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Microsoft loves Linux – as in, it loves Linux users running Linux desktop apps on Windows PCs

Come inside, penguinistas, install that WSL GUI preview, yes, open source is totally winning here

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