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Ubuntu Pro arrives in premium form on Google's Cloud
Ubuntu Pro is coming to Google Cloud, replete with an all-important 10-year maintenance commitment for corporate punters who like things stable.…
Ex-NSA leaker Reality Winner released from prison early for 'exemplary' behavior
Reality Winner, the former NSA intelligence contractor who leaked evidence of Russian interference in a US Presidential election to the press, has been released from prison.…
Price-capped broadband on hold for New York State after judge rules telcos would 'suffer unrecoverable losses'
A new law due to come into force tomorrow that would force broadband providers in New York State to provide net access to low-income households for $15 a month has been put on hold.…
Law prof: New Chinese data regulations make it 'very hard for foreign firms to comply'
China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress has passed a new data security law requiring companies to seek approval before transferring what it refers to as "core" data overseas.…
Honda links arms with JAXA to prepare humans for life in outer space with 'circulative renewable energy system'
Honda and the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) have agreed to embark on a joint feasibility study to supply oxygen, hydrogen, and electricity to humans and rovers in outer space.…
Google opens Workspace to anyone with a Google account, but you'll need to cough up for the good stuff
Google is extending Workspace, its rebranded productivity and collaboration tools, to "anyone with a Google account", and will introduce Workspace Individual subscriptions with "premium capabilities."…
Mobile market to recover 12% this year. No, not you, small smartphone outfits
2020 was a dismal year for the smartphone industry, with sales tanking in the face of the pandemic. But things are now looking up, with Canalys expecting a 12 per cent recovery this year, albeit one not evenly shared by vendors.…
Nvidia gobbles up mapping startup to help automakers install its self-driving platform
In brief Nvidia has snapped up computer vision startup DeepMap to help build the company's self-driving platform.…
Norton dodges UK courts after telling Brit watchdog it will be nicer to consumers
The UK's Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has inked a deal with Norton where it will refund customers whose antivirus software subscription was automatically renewed.…
Vodafone names vendors tapped for Britain's first wide-scale OpenRAN build: NEC, Dell, and Samsung
Vodafone has revealed the first vendors included in its OpenRAN rollout as the telco starts to rip and replace its network infrastructure across Wales and the South East of England.…
Flush with cash: UK utility Southern Water names 13 winners who'll drink up £50m application deal
IBM, Tata Consultancy Services, and Wipro are among 13 winners on a £50m deal to help build and manage applications for UK utility Southern Water.…
Mark it in your diaries: 14 October 2025 is the end of Windows 10
Microsoft has updated its product lifecycle documentation to state that Windows 10 Home and Pro will be retired on 14 October 2025.…
$28m scores mystery bidder right to breathe same air as Amazon kingpin Jeff Bezos in Blue Origin flight
$28m has secured someone a seat on the first crewed flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard, with the mystery bidder scoring the right to breathe the same air as fellow passenger Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.…
If HAL did digital signage. I know I've made some very poor decisions recently, but I can give you my complete assurance that...
Bork!Bork!Bork! A black oblong of purest bork glares balefully over shoppers in Plymouth, southwest England. An echo from an alternative future or just big-screen borkage?…
Orbex is creeping towards orbit from a UK launchpad, but first there are courts, birds, and billionaires to overcome
Interview We spoke to Chris Larmour, the CEO of UK rocketeers Orbex, about the challenges of launching a rocket from the UK and scaling things up.…
We've been shown time and again that strong encryption puts crims behind bars, so why do politicos hate it?
Column Back in October, a call by spy agencies to weaken end-to-end encryption "because of the children" provoked a bit of analysis on how many times UK Home Secretaries had banged the same drum. All of them, it turned out. All of the time.…
Want to keep working in shorts and flipflops way after this is all over? It could be time to rethink your career moves
Feature It may not be your fault that your broadband is crap, but it is your problem when you're interviewing over Zoom or even Teams.…
Do you come from a land Down Under? Where diesel's low and techies blunder
Who, Me? We go Down Under for today's Who, Me? with a slightly NSFW tale of an incomplete checklist, a surprise outage, and an even more surprised gerbil.…
If combining HPC and AI workloads is a challenge, wait until you try to converge flash and HDD storage
Webcast We all know HPC and AI datasets are going to be massive. But they’re also very different, the former being focused around large, sequential files, while the former are much more random.…
The AN0M fake secure chat app may have been too clever for its own good
Comment In April 1943, Japanese admiral Isoroku Yamamoto was killed when the US Air Force shot down the plane carrying him to Balalae Airfield in the Solomon Islands.…