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US and EU like 'two trains colliding' on privacy says activist Schrems
Schrems 'pretty much done with waiting' for a resolution to the Facebook privacy case after seven years and five court cases
Behind the scenes at the BBC's groundbreaking Own It app
App designed to safeguard children online was the result of two years' toil at AI's cutting edge, says product manager Jon Howard
Microsoft tests hydrogen fuel cells for data centre power
Aims to replace diesel generators for long-term backup power
Biden campaign tells staff to delete TikTok
Chinese app seen as a potential security risk
UK firm reaches final stages of the NIST quest for quantum-proof encryption algorithms
Post Quantum's Classic McEliece algorithm is the only remaining contender in the code-based category of algorithms designed to protect communications from attacks using quantum computers
Garmin reportedly hit by ransomware
Fitness sites down, WastedLocker ransomware suspected
Microsoft announces new features for Teams
New features designed to streamline workflow and automate process in its Teams
Apache Cassandra 4.0 promises increased stability, speed and ease of use
Future changes will be focused on lowering the learning curve, say DataStax executives
18 months later: post-pandemic planning in the public and private sectors
From more working from home to office closures and new technologies, coronavirus has changed everything, but IT leaders are confident they'll get through
Removing Huawei would cost billions and customers could experience blackouts, BT and Vodafone tell MPs
Telecoms giants urge caution, while Samsung says it's ready to take Huawei's place in the UK's 5G networks
Interview: CNCF head Priyanka Sharma - 'The arc of innovation is long and it bends towards true open source'
Cloud Native Computing Foundation's new general manager on developer trends, collaboration and disappointment over Google's surprise decision not to donate its Istio project
SUSE to acquire Kubernetes firm Rancher Labs
Acquisition will support SUSE's ambitions in application management
Observability and applied intelligence are the key to better software, says New Relic
CTO Gregory Ouillon on speeding up incident detection and resolution
Privacy-focused search engine Startpage gives more details of the System1 investment
'System1 is interested in Startpage’s ad revenue, not its data', company says
Ordnance Survey opens up free access to OS MasterMap location data
OS DataHub includes a number of new mapping data products and APIs for developers
DevOps - Getting over the hump in the middle
How to sustain the DevOps momentum
Could AT2 be the answer to cryptocurrency's energy and performance problems?
Blockchains are slow, wasteful and ill-suited for digital currencies, say researchers who believe they've found a better way
GitHub is down for developers across the world
GitHub says it has found the problem and is working to resolve it.
TikTok is spying on you via the clipboard, researchers warn iPhone users
Social media app monitors the universal clipboard and can use it to pinpoint location
Virgin Media down in London
Virgin Media says its working hard to fix the problems
The next stage of DevOps: Bringing the data along for the ride
Google, database and visualisation luminaries discuss the next stages in data democratisation
Puppet's event-driven Ops platform Relay enters beta, aimed at reducing alert overload
Aimed at DevOps engineers and SREs, Relay enables real-time reactions to events as they occur
HashiCorp moves into cloud-ops managed services
HCP is analogous to MongoDB Atlas in that it will provide a cloud-based service offering ‘push-button' access to the company's products via a single control plane, CTO says
Huawei may be a risk but the West should compete with Chinese firms rather than banning, says ex-Google CEO Eric Schmidt
'The Chinese are just as good, and maybe better, in key areas of research and innovation' Schmidt says
Covid-19 contact tracing app: government u-turns to adopt decentralised Apple - Google API model
After a series of delays and warnings from cyber security and privacy experts, the government is abandoning its centralised approach to Covid-19 data collection
A brief look at AI-enhanced security solutions
IT leaders aren't ready to hand over security to a benevolent machine just yet, but their next purchase will probably have an AI label
Cost savings turned out to be illusory, so where next for RPA?
The first wave of RPA may be over but it may have a big future in self-service IT
AI-enhanced security: how much is hype?
IT leaders are cautiously welcoming towards AI-enhanced security tools but seek more clarity, research
Twitter deletes 170,000 Chinese propaganda accounts, Zoom blocks US-Chinese activists over Tiananmen call
A year ago Twitter was accused of bowing to Chinese pressure, now it's Zoom's turn
Is AI now essential for cybersecurity?
The increasing sophistication and automation of attacks is leading to an AI arms race, but RoI is hard to prove
Linux Foundation rolls out free Jenkins CI/CD training course
10-week self-paced course is aimed at DevOps engineers, developers, SREs and QA professionals
MongoDB announces new search, cloud and edge capabilities
MongoDB is taking aim at developer silos, says senior product director Mat Keep
Clothing retail is in bad shape but Gymshark is fighting fit. The secret? Data, says CDO Gemma Hulbert
A data-driven culture based on self-service analytics has helped the fitness firm stay fast on its feet
Cloud vendor lock-in - problems and solutions
Computing Delta research looks organisation's strategies for making data and applications more portable
Zoom won't encrypt meetings for free users
'We want to work together with FBI, with local law enforcement in case some people use Zoom for a bad purpose' says CEO Eric Yuan
Towards one database to rule them all
Databases have become silos and this needs to change, says graph guru Marko Rodriguez
The open-source library security flaw problem
'If you pick any random PHP library it more than likely has a flaw,' says Veracode's Chris Eng
Personal information collected by NHS Test and Trace to be kept for 20 years
And there is 'no absolute right' for people to delete their personal data after the pandemic has passed
RPA firms 'horrifically overvalued' claims Pegasystems CEO
Alan Trefler expects to see further consolidation as RPA unicorns fail to live up to their early promise
How the pandemic will change supply chain strategy
The emphasis will be more on ensuring a diversity of suppliers and less on cost-cutting say experts
Supporting the supporters: Giving IT teams what they need to handle remote working
IT leaders and support staff reveal strategies for coping and opinions on video conferencing and I&AM tools
Rancher Labs launches free training course to meet surging demand for Kubernetes skills
Five-week course covers how to deploy Rancher and manage Kubernetes
Part of the A-Team: tactics for teamwork in stressful times
Coronavirus has torn through the best laid business plans leaving many feeling adrift, but the lockdown can be turned to our advantage with a bit of shared wisdom
So, should I learn COBOL?
Becoming a COBOL expert could give you a well paid job for life, but is it a job you'd want?