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Cisco slips on a Tolkien ring: One chip design to rule them all, one design to find them. One design to bring them all...

Huawei 5G kit in Faroe Islands: Chinese ambassador 'linked Huawei contract to ... trade deal' – report

Another senior Gov.UK bod makes a dash from public sector, falls into AWS's arms

ICANN demands transparency from others over .org deal. As for itself… well, not so much

ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the past decade

Microsoft's Teams goes to bat for the other team with preview on Linux

It may be out of sync with the US govt, but Huawei is rolling out its Harmony OS to more devices in 2020

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

It's time you were T0RTT a lesson: Here's how you could build a better Tor, say boffins

Microsoft movie tried to Azure Ignite attendees about CPU side-channel flaws, but biz wouldn't be drawn on details

LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app

You had one job, Cupertino: Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection

Continuous Lifecycle London blind bird offer takes off soon: Book your place today at our DevOps conference

Hey kids! Forget about Disney – who fancies a trip to DevOps World?

CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform

Watch next month: Don’t get bogged down by multi-cloud complexity. Help is at hand

Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

How many steps was that, then? Uncle Sam's lawyers, watchdog race to probe Google's Fitbit gobble

How much cheese does one person need to grate? Mac Pro pricing unveiled

Lobes carry the load, says IDC: 'Hearables' sector accounts for half of all tech clobber sold

Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership

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It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it

You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched

Space Force is go, go, go! Because we have a child as President of the United States

Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff

Revealed: NHS England bosses meet tech, pharma giants to discuss price list of 65 million Brits' medical data

Colorado cryptocoin execs spark up blunt '$722m ponzi scheme' criminal charges after investments go up in smoke

Non-unicorn $700 e-scooter shop Unicorn folds with no refunds – after blowing all its cash on online ads

$13m+ Swiss Army Knife of blenders biz collapses to fury of 20,000 unfulfilled punters

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Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Excessive use of body spray causes school bus evacuation

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

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It's Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Tech industry speaks its brains on Brexit-monger's victory

The United Kingdom, incorporating Kingston*, has a new prime minister. That prime minister is Boris Johnson, and tech industry mouthpieces are falling over themselves to tell us what they think of him and his policies. Johnson was elected by Conservative party members, winning 66 per cent of the vote against rival contender …

23 Jul 2019

HP deployed 'Truth Squad' in post-Autonomy PR blitz to defend Meg Whitman

Autonomy TrialHP furiously lobbied key British government ministers in late 2012 as part of a desperate effort to "preserve the credibility" of CEO Meg Whitman after its $8.8bn writedown of Autonomy – including direct phone calls to the then-UK Prime Minister David Cameron, London's High Court learned this morning. The writedown was seen as …

27 Mar 2019

While US fires criminal charges at Huawei, UK tells legislators not to worry, everything's fine

While the US was preparing criminal charges against Huawei and its exec, British government spokespeople were telling Parliament they are quite happy with the UK's "unparalleled arrangements" for finding backdoors in Huawei source code. Yesterday evening American prosecutors unveiled criminal charges of fraud against Huawei …

30 Jan 2019

RIP Bill Godbout: Cali wildfire claims the life of master maverick of microcomputers

ObitBill Godbout, a maverick techie who played a pivotal role in getting computers into the hands of the masses, was killed this week in California's wildfires. He was aged 79. Godbout was a key figure in the personal computing revolution in the 1970s, at least in the US. Around the time Steve Jobs and Bill Gates were dumpster …

18 Nov 2018

Cabinet reshuffle leaves UK digital policy and GDS rudderless. And now the news...

Responsibility for broadband delivery in the UK has been handed to Margot James following Matt Hancock's promotion to Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport in prime minister Theresa May's reshuffle of the top jobs this week. But amid the Cabinet shake-up, the matter of who controls digital policy remains …

10 Jan 2018

UK.gov launches 'co-ordination hub' for driverless car industry

The government has today unveiled a "co-ordination hub" to test driverless cars under its £100m Connected and Autonomous Vehicle (CAV) investment programme. Branded as MERIDIAN, the bases in Coventry and Stratford are intended to bring together the UK's existing CAV testing centres to create "a concentrated cluster" of testing …

07 Sep 2017

Men charged with theft of free newspapers

Two men have been charged with theft for allegedly helping themselves to bundles of free newspapers from London Bridge railway station. The two South London men are said to have pinched bundles of the London Evening Standard, a freesheet, edited by former Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, that is handed out to …

26 Jun 2017

Self-employed bear the brunt of Spring Budget with additional National Insurance contributions

Self-employed folk in the UK are to be slapped with additional National Insurance contributions, Chancellor Phillip Hammond announced today. In his first – and last – Spring budget, Hammond said the move is expected to raise £145m per year. However, it also raises concerns for workers in the so-called "gig economy" employed …

08 Mar 2017

If only our British 4G were as good as, um, Albania's... UK.gov's telco tech report

Blighty has worse 4G coverage than that of Albania, Panama and Peru, according to major report by the National Infrastructure Commission today on 5G and telecommunication technology. The report, which you can read here found that Britain is 54th in the world for 4G, with the typical user only able to access 4G about 53 per …

14 Dec 2016

Join the Q: British intel agencies seek tech-savvy apprentices

GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 are searching for would-be Qs, technically minded apprentices keen to cut their teeth working for British intelligence. Would-be tech quartermasters have until 14 November to get in their security service apprenticeship applications for this year's scheme. An apprenticeship "could be a tempting alternative to …

11 Nov 2016

Stiff upper lips and sun glasses: the Chancellor bets on Brexit feeling

Microsoft Future DecodedBritons lack skills essential for tech bosses, overseas students are facing a clampdown on UK study, and Blighty lags behind international R&D spend. But Brexit! What an opportunity for Britain to lead the world! Chancellor Philip Hammond affixed the standard ministerial stiff upper lip to address the topic of Brexit Tuesday …

02 Nov 2016

UK will retaliate against state-sponsored cyber attacks, Chancellor warns

Microsoft Future DecodedBritain will strike back against nations launching cyber attacks on the UK’s critical national infrastructure. Chancellor Philip Hammond promised retaliatory measures against state-sponsored hackers while unveiling an expanded $1.9bn, five-year national cyber security strategy. Crucially this isn’t new money - Hammond’s …

01 Nov 2016

UK nixes Land Registry sale

The UK government has ditched plans to privatise the Land Registry, the organisation that records property ownership in England and Wales. The organisation, which has done its work since 1862, was calculated to be worth between £6.2bn and £7.2bn ($8.2bn to $9.6bn) per year thanks to its enormous and authoritative database and …

09 Sep 2016

Los Desaparecidos di Disruption: The Final Days of Conservative 2.0

¡Bong! SpecialWe’d been jeered, we’d been jostled. Overnight, we’d become un-people. Now in this dank, windowless subterranean concrete cell, I cast an eye around my companions again. Loyalists and traitors alike had been thrown together. Lords Feldman and Finkelstein. Matthew Hancock. Ed Vaizey. Oliver Letwin. Dangling by hooks through his …

20 Jul 2016

Ed Vaizey booted to backbench, Hancock booted to DCMS

New UK Prime Minister Theresa May's reshuffle last week resulted in higher pile of bodies than a Game of Thrones wedding. Among a number of big hitters to be axed, including George Osborne, was digital and cultural minister Ed Vaizey. Vaizey had held that position since 2010 and is succeeded by former Cabinet Office minister …

18 Jul 2016

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Cisco slips on a Tolkien ring: One chip design to rule them all, one design to find them. One design to bring them all...

Huawei 5G kit in Faroe Islands: Chinese ambassador 'linked Huawei contract to ... trade deal' – report

Another senior Gov.UK bod makes a dash from public sector, falls into AWS's arms

ICANN demands transparency from others over .org deal. As for itself… well, not so much

ERP disaster zone: The mostly costly failures of the past decade

Microsoft's Teams goes to bat for the other team with preview on Linux

It may be out of sync with the US govt, but Huawei is rolling out its Harmony OS to more devices in 2020

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

It's time you were T0RTT a lesson: Here's how you could build a better Tor, say boffins

Microsoft movie tried to Azure Ignite attendees about CPU side-channel flaws, but biz wouldn't be drawn on details

LightAnchors array: LEDs in routers, power strips, and more, can sneakily ship data to this smartphone app

You had one job, Cupertino: Apple's Intelligent Tracking Protection actually gets tracking protection

Continuous Lifecycle London blind bird offer takes off soon: Book your place today at our DevOps conference

Hey kids! Forget about Disney – who fancies a trip to DevOps World?

CloudBees SaaSifies Jenkins X running on Google Cloud Platform

Watch next month: Don’t get bogged down by multi-cloud complexity. Help is at hand

Capita lights One Revenues and Benefits bug bonfire: ALL reports older than 12 months to be ignored

When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released

Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software

How many steps was that, then? Uncle Sam's lawyers, watchdog race to probe Google's Fitbit gobble

How much cheese does one person need to grate? Mac Pro pricing unveiled

Lobes carry the load, says IDC: 'Hearables' sector accounts for half of all tech clobber sold

Final update doled out to those who let Google sit on their face: Glass Explorer Edition cut off from the mothership

It's a billion-ton, 14-million-mile long mysterious alien formation – and Earth is heading right into it

You cannae break the laws of physics, cap'n... Boffins call BS on 'impossible' black hole, fear readings were botched

Space Force is go, go, go! Because we have a child as President of the United States

Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff

Revealed: NHS England bosses meet tech, pharma giants to discuss price list of 65 million Brits' medical data

Colorado cryptocoin execs spark up blunt '$722m ponzi scheme' criminal charges after investments go up in smoke

Non-unicorn $700 e-scooter shop Unicorn folds with no refunds – after blowing all its cash on online ads

$13m+ Swiss Army Knife of blenders biz collapses to fury of 20,000 unfulfilled punters

Careful with that Axe, Eugene: Excessive use of body spray causes school bus evacuation

Oi, Queenslander who downloaded 26.8TB in June alone – we see you

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Internet jerk with million-plus fans starts 14-year stretch for bizarre dot-com armed robbery

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It's Prime Minister Boris Johnson: Tech industry speaks its brains on Brexit-monger's victory

HP deployed 'Truth Squad' in post-Autonomy PR blitz to defend Meg Whitman

While US fires criminal charges at Huawei, UK tells legislators not to worry, everything's fine

RIP Bill Godbout: Cali wildfire claims the life of master maverick of microcomputers

Salesforce supremo Benioff buys Time magazine for $190m

How much do you think Cisco's paying erstwhile Brit PM David Cameron?

Chin up, SMEs. You might get crumbs from Big Tech tax clampdown – UK MPs

Co-op Bank's shonky IT in spotlight as delayed probe given go-ahead

Squeezing more out of slippery big tech may even take tax reforms

Cabinet reshuffle leaves UK digital policy and GDS rudderless. And now the news...

UK.gov launches 'co-ordination hub' for driverless car industry

Men charged with theft of free newspapers

Self-employed bear the brunt of Spring Budget with additional National Insurance contributions

If only our British 4G were as good as, um, Albania's... UK.gov's telco tech report

Join the Q: British intel agencies seek tech-savvy apprentices

Stiff upper lips and sun glasses: the Chancellor bets on Brexit feeling

UK will retaliate against state-sponsored cyber attacks, Chancellor warns

UK nixes Land Registry sale

Los Desaparecidos di Disruption: The Final Days of Conservative 2.0

Ed Vaizey booted to backbench, Hancock booted to DCMS

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When is an electrical engineer not an engineer? When Arizona's state regulators decide to play word games

The Windows Phone keeps ringing but no one's home: Microsoft finally lets platform die

And then there were two: HMS Prince of Wales joins Royal Navy

Boffins find proof that yes, Carl Sagan and Joni Mitchell were right, we really are all made up of star stuff

Don't pay off Ryuk ransomware, warn infoseccers: Its creators borked the decryptor

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