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Openreach's cunning plan to 'turbocharge' the post-Brexit economy: Getting everyone on full-fibre broadband by 2025

Experts warn UK court digitisation is moving too fast and breaking too many things

I can't believe you've done this: Cisco.com asks visitors to explain to IT why they have broken the website

The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

SAP's CEO Bill McDermott quits: Will hand over to co-captains for Next Generation reboot

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

Stalker attacks Japanese pop singer – after tracking her down using reflection in her eyes

Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos

Some fokken arse has bared the privates of 250,000 users' from Dutch brothel forum

Just let us have Huawei and get on with 5G, UK mobe networks tell MPs

Ditch Chef, Puppet, Splunk and snyk for GitLab? That's the pitch from your new wannabe one-stop DevOps shop

Puppet to start pulling a few strings in the cloud-native world with Project Nebula

Serverless Computing London: Doors open in one month – grab your ticket now and join us

Flak overflow: Barrage of criticism prompts very public Stack Overflow apology

Microsoft, GitHub staff tell Satya Nadella: It's time to ice ICE, baby. Rip up those tech contracts

Forget Brexit, ignore Trump, write off today: BT's gonna make us all 'realise the potential of tomorrow'

Aria Technology takes £750k VAT fraud case to Court of Appeal

HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry

Tokyo Olympics, US tariffs Trump Europe's Brexit shakes as global PC shipments balloon to fattest figure in 7 years

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

Is right! Ofcom says Scousers enjoy a natter on the phone compared to southern blerts

US games company Blizzard kowtows to Beijing by banning gamer who dared to bring up Hong Kong

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ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Mission Extension Vehicle-1 launches to save space from zombie satellites

'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

From Libra to leave-ya: eBay, Visa, Stripe, PayPal, others flee Facebook's crypto-coin

Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

2001 fiction set to be science fact? NASA boffin mulls artificial intelligence to watch over the lunar Gateway

Verity Stob

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

Not a death spiral, I'm trapped in a closed loop of customer experience

£99,999, what's your emergency? Paramedics rush to OAP's aid after shock meter reading

UK ads watchdog bans Burger King Twitter jibe for condoning chucking milkshakes at politicians

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Microsoft, GitHub staff tell Satya Nadella: It's time to ice ICE, baby. Rip up those tech contracts

Turmoil in Redmond over deals with US immigration agents

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Remember the FBI's promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US citizens? Well, guess what…

Turns out the Feds make the CIA and NSA actually look good

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Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told

Also reliant on HMRC's shaky Customs Declaration Service

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Heavy data protection regulation looms in Labour plans for post-Brexit flows and IoT devices

Westminster Hall debate shows parties in harmony over sticking their oar in

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Boris Brexit bluff binds .eu domains to time-bending itinerary

We will let you know last week if you can keep your domain yesterday

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The immovable object versus the unstoppable force: How the tech boys club remains exclusive

CommentThe solution? A generation of woman being preferred for promotion over men

04 Oct 10:22 | 148

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EU's top court sees no problem with telling Facebook to take content down globally

Just use automated filters, how hard can that be?

04 Oct 05:01 | 44

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£3bn Google sueball over Safari Workaround bounces through UK Court of Appeal

Warning shot at big tech firms, says one-time Which? director

02 Oct 14:36 | 21

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Landmark US net neutrality decision reveals that both sides won and lost out

After brief hiatus, it’s back to fighting over internet access

01 Oct 19:35 | 23

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IR35 blame game: Barclays to halt off-payroll contractors, goes directly to PAYE

No bailout for tech freelancers. Bank moves to avoid potential liability for tax, NI contributions

01 Oct 14:49 | 208

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The mod firing squad: Stack Exchange embroiled in 'he said, she said, they said' row

Pending pronoun policing piques political protest

01 Oct 07:45 | 281

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A new US-UK data agreement is worrisome but it won’t give access to encrypted comms

CLOUD Act details surfacing in a fog of confusion

01 Oct 07:01 | 46

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Planes, boats and autocrats: US Treasury Dept. slaps more sanctions on accused Russian troll funder

US wants to take St. Vitamin, the yacht of Yevgeniy Prigozhin

30 Sep 19:48 | 18

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How to lose a UK contractor in 10 days: Make them commit after upcoming IR35 tax upheaval, apparently

Survey warns of 'brain drain'

30 Sep 13:14 | 84

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Careful now, UK court ruling says email signature blocks can sign binding contracts

Which cost Lake District land seller £25,000

30 Sep 08:15 | 155

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Oracle: Yeah, we've had a bunch of G-Men come sniffing around asking questions about Google

US antitrust probe seems to hope the Chocolate Factory's best buddy will snitch

26 Sep 10:59 | 2

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EU court rules Right To Be Forgotten doesn't apply outside member states

International sites needn't worry about European findings

24 Sep 12:32 | 51

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UK Supreme Court unprorogues Parliament

That is something up with which all 11 judges would not put

24 Sep 10:34 | 762

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It's ace that UK.gov 'in 2030 will be joined up, trusted and responsive' – but what about now?

AnalysisA week of 'big-picture thinking' surprisingly small in detail

23 Sep 09:00 | 24

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Google engineering boss sues web giant over sex discrim: I was paid less than men, snubbed for promotion

Filing alleges less-qualified blokes given all the jobs, too

19 Sep 17:15 | 43

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UK taxman wins tribunal case against BBC presenters

The Beeb may have forced you into it, but you still have to cough up

19 Sep 13:16 | 54

Openreach's cunning plan to 'turbocharge' the post-Brexit economy: Getting everyone on full-fibre broadband by 2025

Experts warn UK court digitisation is moving too fast and breaking too many things

I can't believe you've done this: Cisco.com asks visitors to explain to IT why they have broken the website

The safest place to save your files is somewhere nobody will ever look

We, Wall, we, Wall, Raku: Perl creator blesses new name for version 6 of text-wrangling lingo

How bad is Catalina? It's almost Apple Maps bad: MacOS 10.15 pushes Cupertino's low bar for code quality lower still

SAP's CEO Bill McDermott quits: Will hand over to co-captains for Next Generation reboot

Kiss my ASCII, Microsoft – we've got one million fewer daily active users than you, boasts Slack

Stalker attacks Japanese pop singer – after tracking her down using reflection in her eyes

Finfisher malware authors fire off legal threats to silence German journos

Some fokken arse has bared the privates of 250,000 users' from Dutch brothel forum

Just let us have Huawei and get on with 5G, UK mobe networks tell MPs

Ditch Chef, Puppet, Splunk and snyk for GitLab? That's the pitch from your new wannabe one-stop DevOps shop

Puppet to start pulling a few strings in the cloud-native world with Project Nebula

Serverless Computing London: Doors open in one month – grab your ticket now and join us

Flak overflow: Barrage of criticism prompts very public Stack Overflow apology

Microsoft, GitHub staff tell Satya Nadella: It's time to ice ICE, baby. Rip up those tech contracts

Forget Brexit, ignore Trump, write off today: BT's gonna make us all 'realise the potential of tomorrow'

Aria Technology takes £750k VAT fraud case to Court of Appeal

HP to hike upfront price of printer hardware as ink biz growth runs dry

Tokyo Olympics, US tariffs Trump Europe's Brexit shakes as global PC shipments balloon to fattest figure in 7 years

In a touching show of solidarity with the NBA and Blizzard, Apple completely caves to China on HK protest app

Is right! Ofcom says Scousers enjoy a natter on the phone compared to southern blerts

US games company Blizzard kowtows to Beijing by banning gamer who dared to bring up Hong Kong

ESA bigwigs: Euro Moon efforts are going the way they 'should' – which is to say not by 2024

That lithium-ion battery in your phone or car? It has just won three chemists the Nobel Prize

Mission Extension Vehicle-1 launches to save space from zombie satellites

'We go back to the Moon to stay': Apollo vets not too chuffed with NASA's new rush to the regolith

From Libra to leave-ya: eBay, Visa, Stripe, PayPal, others flee Facebook's crypto-coin

Oh dear... AI models used to flag hate speech online are, er, racist against black people

Criminalise British drone fliers, snarl MPs amid crackdown demands

2001 fiction set to be science fact? NASA boffin mulls artificial intelligence to watch over the lunar Gateway

No ghosts but the Holy one as vicar exorcises spooky tour from UK's most haunted village

Not a death spiral, I'm trapped in a closed loop of customer experience

£99,999, what's your emergency? Paramedics rush to OAP's aid after shock meter reading

UK ads watchdog bans Burger King Twitter jibe for condoning chucking milkshakes at politicians

Business > Policy

Microsoft, GitHub staff tell Satya Nadella: It's time to ice ICE, baby. Rip up those tech contracts

Remember the FBI's promise it wasn’t abusing the NSA’s data on US citizens? Well, guess what…

Virtual inanity: Solution to Irish border requires data and tech not yet available, MPs told

Heavy data protection regulation looms in Labour plans for post-Brexit flows and IoT devices

Boris Brexit bluff binds .eu domains to time-bending itinerary

The immovable object versus the unstoppable force: How the tech boys club remains exclusive

EU's top court sees no problem with telling Facebook to take content down globally

£3bn Google sueball over Safari Workaround bounces through UK Court of Appeal

Landmark US net neutrality decision reveals that both sides won and lost out

IR35 blame game: Barclays to halt off-payroll contractors, goes directly to PAYE

The mod firing squad: Stack Exchange embroiled in 'he said, she said, they said' row

A new US-UK data agreement is worrisome but it won’t give access to encrypted comms

Planes, boats and autocrats: US Treasury Dept. slaps more sanctions on accused Russian troll funder

How to lose a UK contractor in 10 days: Make them commit after upcoming IR35 tax upheaval, apparently

Careful now, UK court ruling says email signature blocks can sign binding contracts

Oracle: Yeah, we've had a bunch of G-Men come sniffing around asking questions about Google

EU court rules Right To Be Forgotten doesn't apply outside member states

UK Supreme Court unprorogues Parliament

It's ace that UK.gov 'in 2030 will be joined up, trusted and responsive' – but what about now?

Google engineering boss sues web giant over sex discrim: I was paid less than men, snubbed for promotion

UK taxman wins tribunal case against BBC presenters

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