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5.0 of MongoDB's eponymous database is now generally available, promising features for time series data, rearranging sharded workloads on the fly, and futureproofing APIs.…

Review Samsung's Galaxy A series is the company's midrange workhorse, and although it doesn't generate the same buzz as the Galaxy S series or China's wave of astoundingly well-priced kit, it quietly sells over 100 million units a year – accounting for a decent chunk of all smartphones sold on the planet.…

Microsoft has loosened the purse strings once again with a substantial purchase in the form of security outfit RiskIQ.…

The NHS has awarded 17 suppliers a seat on a public sector framework worth up to £200m for paper document storage and digitisation, three years after it missed a self-imposed deadline of going paperless.…

Armis security researchers have warned of severe and unpatched remote code execution vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric's programmable logic controllers (PLCs), allowing attackers to take control of a variety of industrial systems.…

Review In November, Huawei bid farewell to Honor, its youth-focused brand that spanned mobile, PC, and wearables.…

Feature When something bad happens to our systems, our applications or our security, it's almost certain that our organisation is not the first it has happened to. We won't be the first in the world, or in our industry, or in our country, or probably even in our area. Why, then, does it feel like we are?…

Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft has recently taken to inflicting its greatest hits on users in the form of Teams backgrounds, which seem to serve no purposes other than reminding us that things were a bit better in the old days. Before Windows 10, before Microsoft 365, and before the company tried to ram subscriptions down our throats.…

Users of Google’s desktop cloud storage app Backup and Sync have 80 days to switch to another client – Drive for desktop – to sync data into the G-Cloud.…

The Biden administration has tried to reverse the Trump administration’s bans on Chinese social media apps.…

Kaseya has fully restored its SaaS services, then quickly inflicted a little more unplanned downtime on users.…

Vates, the company behind the open-source XCP-NG project that revived of the Xen Cloud Platform and Xen server, has decided to build a product to run on Data Processing Units, aka SmartNICs.…

Lenovo has given the world a workstation that occupies less than one litre of space – less than three cans of beer – an impressive feat if you think a Core i9 processor qualifies as a workstation.…

Twitter verified a bunch of bot accounts, granting them coveted blue check marks, and then reversed the decision, admitting it made a mistake.…

The FCC has granted Amazon permission to use 60GHz radar in some future device to monitor people’s sleeping habits and sense gesture commands.…

Intel is planning to spend as much as $20bn on building a couple of chip manufacturing plants in Europe, with more in the works.…

In brief Late last week, President Biden said he brought up the epidemic of ransomware hitting American businesses in a phone call with his Russian counterpart, and hinted America may start hitting back.…

SolarWinds has issued an emergency patch after a critical security hole in its Serv-U Managed File Transfer and Serv-U Secure FTP was spotted being exploited in the wild.…

Version 20.2 of Linux Mint has attempted to address the sticky subject of system update notifications and automation.…

A professor at South Korea's Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), presumably fed up with students at the university flushing their money down the drain, has come up with a system that manages to reverse that action.…