In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done [Thu Nov 18 2021]

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AWS adds Linux app streaming alongside Windows to 'greatly lower' cost

Savings are exaggerated, but there is more to this than price

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OVH to share its OpenStack automation for use in on-prem clouds

Also finds a way to bring its water-cooled servers to third-party bit barns, especially in Asia

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Ready, player anyone? China's gaming ban left cloud providers looking for someone to play with

Canalys CEO reckons up to 30 per cent of big Chinese clouds' infrastructure is under-used, new datacentre builds deferred

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Plus workers stage walk out in protest against games giant's big cheese

Magnanimous Apple will allow people to fix their iPhones using parts bought from its Self Service Repair program

Have fun with those Cupertino-set prices, friends

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Amazon tells folks it will stop accepting UK Visa credit cards via weird empty email

How will you be able to buy things you can't afford now?

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IT systems capacity planning. This is hard ... but how hard? Inquiring minds wish to know

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Brits complained a bit less about connectivity when they were allowed to go outside and see people in the flesh

Top of Ofcom's table for broadband whinges? It rhymes with BorkBork

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MediaTek's flagship 5G chip for top-of-the-line Android smartphones is coming right up

And ready to go toe-to-toe with Qualcomm's finest next year

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Seagate demos hard disk drive with an NVMe interface. Yup, one with spinning platters

Oh look, it's the promise of multiple actuators again

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Chap who campaigned to oust Nominet's CEO and chairman and reform the .UK registry is elected as non-exec director

Fellow reformer also chosen in critical board vote that shows at least some members still want change

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'We are not people to Mark Zuckerberg, we are the product' rages Ohio's Attorney General in Facebook lawsuit

Britain's former deputy prime minister among execs sued on behalf of pension fund, other investors

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UK government publishes guidance on security rules for tech takeovers

National Security and Investment Act 2021 give ministers power to halt M&As

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You wanna use GCHQ offshoot NCSC's threat intel feeds? Why not, say bosses

Annual review boasts of fending off health org attacks

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South Korean privacy watchdog apologises for violating privacy while mediating privacy lawsuit

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VMware pulls vSphere update that only made things worse

vSphere 7 Update 3b was supposed to fix a high availability glitch, crashing hosts, and more

GitHub's State of the Octoverse survey shows devs are still swerving the office

Coding JS in your PJs here to stay

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Ubuntu desktop team reports 'proof of concept' systemd on Windows Subsystem for Linux

Stop the rock, can't stop the rock, we can't stop the rock

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Unit4 releases connector mesh as it sinks deeper into Microsoft's 'grizzly bear' hug

Vertical differentiation helps users see the wood from the trees

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Survey shows XP lingers on while Windows 11 makes a 0.21% ripple in the enterprise

Lansweeper stats make grim reading for Microsoft

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Blue Prism: We have a rival bidder for our affections, as tech holding biz SS&C bids £1.2bn for RPA specialist

Board still recommending Vista Equity Partners

In the '80s, spaceflight sim Elite was nothing short of magic. The annotated source code shows how it was done

Load new commander (Y/N)?

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40 million meeting rooms are yet to get video gadgets

Analyst warns that if upgrades frustrate, users might just give phone conferences a comeback

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Microsoft slows Windows 10 release cadence to yearly. If they're all as dull as the November Update, this is fine

Intros x64 emulation for Windows on Arm – but only on Windows 11

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RIP Bernie Drummond: Celebrated ZX Spectrum artist and programmer on Batman, Head Over Heels, Match Day II

'He went from crazy doodler to craftsman instantly'

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