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Firefox 91 introduces cookie clearing, clutter-free printing, Microsoft single sign-on... so where are all the users?

Extended support release brings a handful of new features, but browser is still struggling for market share

11 Aug 13:33 | 57

Dutch education IT crisis averted as Google agrees to 'major privacy improvements'

'Google has agreed to become more transparent' - over optimistic?

11 Aug 07:01 | 10

Twitter's AI image-crop algo is biased towards people who look younger, skinnier, and whiter, bounty challenge at DEF CON reveals

Oh, it's also more likely to leave people in wheelchairs out of the picture

11 Aug 00:51 | 16

Zorin OS 16 Pro arrives complete with optional 'Windows 11' desktop

Focus on ease of use, and company founder notes extended hardware life and freedom from vendor lock-in

10 Aug 16:38 | 25

Microsoft's axeman cometh for OneDrive sync app on older versions of macOS

10 Aug 13:34 | 11

Desktop 17 for Mac: In a Parallels universe with Windows 11 on M1 silicon

Could the fastest Windows on Arm PC be made by Apple?

10 Aug 11:35 | 19

Don't believe the hype that AI-generated 'master faces' can break into face recognition systems any time soon

The machine learning model was trained and tested on limited data

10 Aug 07:44 | 19

GitHub's npm gave away a package name while it was in use, causing rethink

When it comes to ownership then details count

10 Aug 00:43 | 16

US senators reach last-minute compromise on cryptocurrency regulations as infrastructure bill vote looms

Coin miners and digicash researchers could be in the clear

09 Aug 23:46 | 6

Chair of Perl's Community Affairs Team quits as language overlords force org into hiatus

Previous statements yanked while charter is 'formalized'

09 Aug 18:03 | 68

Elastic amends Elasticsearch Python client so it won't work with forks then blocks comments

'We have labelled this as an enhancement' says engineer

09 Aug 16:09 | 38

New GNOME Human Interface Guidelines now official – and obviously some people hate it

Update better aligned with GTK widgets but UI is controversial

09 Aug 13:35 | 96

AI algorithms uncannily good at spotting your race from medical scans, boffins warn

Plus: British MP wants to ban AI deepfake smut tools

08 Aug 11:01 | 46

Does the world need another cross-platform framework? Tough, here's JetBrains with Compose Multiplatform

'A different way of thinking about applications' says project lead

06 Aug 13:32 | 15

Hey, AI software developers, you are taking Unicode into account, right ... right?

Here's how to switch around account numbers, slip past moderation, and mix up names in production-level models

06 Aug 10:31 | 36

Breaking Bad or just a bad breakpoint? That feeling when your predecessor is BASIC

Here I am to save the day!

06 Aug 08:30 | 85

AI to be bigger than IaaS and PaaS combined by 2025

$500bn a year to be spent on electro-brain and supporting tech vs $400bn on cloud infrastructure

06 Aug 07:28 | 10

US proposes tracking digital cash and taxing it to pay for, you know, roads and stuff

Uncle Sam wants digital asset brokers to log customer info but didn't clarify who counts as a broker or not

06 Aug 00:50 | 15

Mozilla slams post-cookie ad tech proposals SWAN and UID2 - needs much more work

Replacements for cookie-based tracking still pose privacy problems

05 Aug 20:19 | 15

Do you have what it takes to turn adversity into software innovation?

Prepare to take the NextStep at this free virtual event in November

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Activist raided by police after downloading London property firm's 'confidential' meeting minutes from Google Search

Someone must have broken in and taken docs, said Leathermarket Community Benefit Society

Engineers work to open Boeing Starliner's valves as schedule pressures mount

Is that the sound of hammering we can hear?

Desktop 17 for Mac: In a Parallels universe with Windows 11 on M1 silicon

Could the fastest Windows on Arm PC be made by Apple?

GitHub's npm gave away a package name while it was in use, causing rethink

When it comes to ownership then details count

Zorin OS 16 Pro arrives complete with optional 'Windows 11' desktop

Focus on ease of use, and company founder notes extended hardware life and freedom from vendor lock-in

Apple responds to critics of CSAM scan plan with FAQs, says it'd block governments subverting its system

Offer may not apply in China or anywhere else, experts warn

Russian Arm SoC now shipping in Russian PCs running Russian Linux

How much work can you do with eight Arm Cortex-A57 cores? Russia's government and military may be about to find out

Splunk spots malware targeting Windows Server on AWS to mine Monero

RDP-enabled instances attacked, perhaps via Iran and China, then use Telegram desktop client for command and control

$600m in cryptocurrencies swiped from Poly Network servers after security snafu

Here's the addresses you need to block

Chair of Perl's Community Affairs Team quits as language overlords force org into hiatus

Previous statements yanked while charter is 'formalized'

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Full Stream ahead: Microsoft will end 'classic' method of recording Teams meetings despite transcription concerns

'All meeting recordings will be saved to OneDrive and SharePoint' from 16 August

05 Aug 16:16 | 45

A little Dataiku haiku for you: Hungry investors / throw data management firm / even more money

$400m Series E values outfit at $4.6bn

Google hits undo on Chrome browser alert change that broke websites, web apps

'This is peak Chrome; a reasonably good idea hampered because it was pushed out thoughtlessly'

05 Aug 07:20 | 42

VMware starts customer testing for vSphere on network accelerators

Looks to be still figuring out what to do with it, rather than prepping product

Stack Overflow survey: Microsoft IDEs dominate, GCP and Azure battle behind AWS

Most-used language? JavaScript, of course – though for a big salary, try Clojure

03 Aug 18:57 | 24

WireGuard VPN gets native port to the Windows kernel

'This project is a big deal to me' says protocol's creator

03 Aug 15:09 | 10

Salesforce follows application rivals into the RPA market with Servicetrace purchase

Replacing swivel-chair integration is not a market that independent vendors will get to themselves

Leeds City Council swallows the Gartner glossary and orders up 'post-modern' ERP in £44m SAP replacement

When do we get avant-garde ERP?

03 Aug 09:31 | 9

Google says Pixel 6, 6 Pro coming this year with custom AI acceleration

For now, tedious Apple-grade teasing

02 Aug 21:19 | 15

Redpilled Microsoft does away with flashing icons on taskbar as Windows 11 hits Beta

Also: Why new OS looks this way, and easier install for Linux subsystem

02 Aug 16:04 | 100

Following Torvalds' nudge, Paragon's NTFS driver for Linux is on track for kernel

Also: 5.14 rc4 is out, with Linus saying 'nothing to see here'

02 Aug 12:32 | 48

NHS England's £200m ERP replacement misses another deadline as procurement runs 2 years behind schedule

Delivery of project to manage £110bn spending 'appears to be unachievable' says UK government's own watchdog

02 Aug 10:41 | 19

Twitter uses HackerOne bounties to find biases in its image-cropping AI model

Claims it's the first algorithmic bias bounty competition

02 Aug 07:54 | 8

Make the move to managed databases

And free your DBAs to focus ‘on the valuable stuff’

Australian court rules an AI can be considered an inventor on patent filings

IP lawyer says decision is bad because the last thing we need is robot patent trolls

02 Aug 07:02 | 55

AWS adds browser access to its cloudy WorkSpaces desktops – but not for Linux

Microsoft's Windows 365 will do much the same when it launches

02 Aug 04:31 | 11

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