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First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

Is nothing safe from the dead hand of the Windows 11 design aesthetic?

 

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Web daddy Tim Berners-Lee on privacy, data sharing, and the web's future

'Ensure that code you write works with these open standards'

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Google sours on legacy G Suite freeloaders, demands fee or flee

Free incarnation of online app package, which became Workplace, is going away

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Slide Deck | End User Computing in 2022 and Beyond

Reinvent the workplace with Nutanix End User Computing

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Modernise applications with document databases

The advantages of Amazon DocumentDB

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Can you compose memory across a HPC cluster? Yes. Yes you can

GigaIO CTO talks up 'solution that has a lot of what CXL offers'

Fujitsu wants technology to shape a better future – its technology, of course

Quantum, HPC, and AI to take us to rainbow sunshine happy land

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APNIC: Big Tech's use of carrier-grade NAT is holding back internet innovation

IPv4 limits apps to simple interactions, and in 2021 IPv6 adoption growth was just three per cent

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Why your email encryption solution is doomed | Slide Deck

(And what you can do about it)

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Modern backup and recovery for modern DBAs

When it does its job, you can do yours

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Crypto.com now says someone tried to drain $34m from hundreds of accounts

Won't reveal net loss, says it stopped some withdrawals and has reimbursed those who had funds taken

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For those worried about Microsoft's Pluton TPM chip: Lenovo won't even switch it on by default in latest ThinkPads

Folks can enable or disable it, install Linux as normal. Just sayin'

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UK mulls making MSPs subject to mandatory security standards where they provide critical infrastructure

And to pay for the privilege. Consultation's open, though

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Privacy is for paedophiles, UK government seems to be saying while spending £500k demonising online chat encryption

So far we've got a pisspoor video and... er, that's it

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'Now' would be the right time to patch Ubuntu container hosts and ditch 21.04 thanks to heap buffer overflow bug

Red Hat agrees

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NortonLifeLock and Avast tie-up falls under UK competition regulator's spotlight

CMA invites comments from 'interested parties' on what merger means to them

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Red Cross forced to shutter family reunion service following cyberattack and data leak

Director-general pleads with cyber-scum: leave this data alone, because the people involved have suffered enough

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McAfee and FireEye rename themselves ‘Trellix’

To evoke support for growing things, not the 1990s vendor of web-pages-made-easy-ware

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Singapore gives banks two-week deadline to fix SMS security

Edict follows widespread bank phishing scam claiming well over $6.3 million

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Cloud Or Colo? The Point When AI Startups Need To Make The Switch

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First they came for Notepad. Now they're coming for Task Manager

Is nothing safe from the dead hand of the Windows 11 design aesthetic?

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The robots are coming! 12 million jobs lost to automation in Europe by 2040 – analyst

Ageing populations, competition, cost-cutting and COVID-19 driving increased adoption

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Lots of new toys, caps lock still stuck on: ONLYOFFICE hits version 7

LibreOffice alternative unfurls latest productivity software update

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SUSE announces new distro for those who miss the old CentOS: Liberty Linux

Run like RHEL

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NASA's Swift Observatory put in safe mode after suspected reaction wheel failure

To be fair, this is after 17 years of service in space

Working overtime? Those extra hours might not be hurting your wellbeing after all – just don't tell Jeff Bezos or Jack Ma

If you love your job, going the extra mile might not be stressful or cause depression

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