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Virgin Media rushes to patch security flaw in Super Hub routers
One encryption key to rule all routers clearly a bad idea
Toshiba to announce preferred bidder for semiconductor unit next week
Deal believed to be down to either Foxconn or Western Digital
US tech giants plan 'day of action' in support of net neutrality
12 July reserved by Amazon, Reddit, DuckDuckGo, Mozilla, Vimeo, Github and others to lobby against lifting of net neutrality rules
IBM uses nanosheets to build 5nm chip
Huge implications for the IoT
Microsoft warning over accidental release of Windows 10 test build to Insider Program members
Microsoft taking steps to ensure that 'rogue' builds aren't released in future
Nine-tenths of Windows development now done on GIT, reveals Microsoft
Closed-source software developed on open-source
Microsoft responds to claims that Windows 10 Enterprise is ignoring group policy privacy settings
Microsoft's response to Windows 10 Enterprise group policy privacy setting claims? Don't mess with the settings!
Nvidia's Volta-based Tesla v100 GPU offers the power of 100 CPUs, claims CEO Jensen Huang
New GPU contains 21 billion transistors and offers five-times the performance of Pascal, claims Nvidia
Microsoft urges Windows 10 users NOT to manually install the Creators Update
Windows 10 users driven mad by driver issues
Microsoft rejoins wearables race with TrekStor B2B Windows 10 Core watch
This one isn't for the High Street
Royal Society warns of the dangers of unchecked AI and machine learning
Machine learning and AI will require a new framework of rights, including regulation, claims Royal Society
Java and JavaScript UK's most in-demand developer skills - and there's a growing AWS skills-gap, too
Python, JavaScript and Java all the fastest-growing developer technologies in the UK
Microsoft reveals commitment to biannual Windows 10 updates
Microsoft 'officialises' unofficial Windows 10 updates policy
Now Elon Musk wants to build brain-computer interface - within four years
Is there nothing Musk can't turn his mind to?
Microsoft to throttle background apps in Windows 10 to boost battery performance
Forthcoming Windows 10 feature will boost battery life 'by up to 11 per cent', promises Microsoft
Uber quietly loses $3bn as its self-driving car chief jumps ship
Taxi! Five senior Uber staff have now left this year
US government sues Google claiming 'quite extreme' gender gap in pay
Google denies US government claims, insisting that there is no gender pay-gap at the company
Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth hits out at free software 'muppets' after company ditches Unity
'The whole Mir hate-fest boggled my mind - it's free software that does something invisible really well,' wrote Shuttleworth
Review: Hands-on with the Honor 8 Pro
Honor 8 Pro provides a lot of smartphone for less than £500
Canonical's Mark Shuttleworth reveals plan to ditch Unity and discontinue Ubuntu phone and tablet developments
Canonical plans to return GNOME with Ubuntu 18.04 LTS
Verizon gives AOL-Yahoo mash-up an even sillier name: Oath
Someone was paid good money to come up with possibly the worst rebrand in history
Windows 10 flatlines, while Windows 7 gains in popularity, according to NetMarketShare figures
Windows 10 may be struggling, but at least Windows XP looks to be going the way of Windows Vista
US web users' browsing habits to go up for sale as Congress votes to roll-back FCC privacy rules
$50bn boost for ISPs in the US after Congress votes to allow ISPs to sell subscribers' web-browsing data
Users of Microsoft Office 365 leaking their data onto Bing and Google after 'over sharing'
Office 365 users inadvertently sharing their documents with all and sundry
Google Home and Google Wi-Fi coming to the UK on 6 April at £129 each
You have Google everywhere else, why not have it listening in at home and on your network as well?
Microsoft Edge InPrivate photos can be easily recovered with freeware
Was that the sound of tightening sphincters?
EDF customers heading for surprise winter bills after smart meters failed to send data for four months
EDF customers to be made to pay for smart meters found to be not so smart
What to do when the cloud goes wrong
Outages even at the biggest vendors can happen, as we saw when much of AWS went down last month. So how should you prepare for these eventualities?
Western Digital My Cloud range of home NAS storage devices riddled with security flaws
Hackers find 85 vulnerabilities in WD My Cloud range
Cloud based intelligence could be key to retail's analytical future
Blue Yonder touts power of cloud-based data for improved decision-making
IBM opens up its pay-as-you-go quantum computing cloud
IBM Q rolls out from today as IBM looks to take early lead in quantum computing
How cloud-based business intelligence is transforming the retail sector
The great Blue Yonder is more than just a metaphor for the future
Google's Waymo sues Uber over industrial espionage allegations
Google's owner Alphabet claims boss of Uber acquisition Otto downloaded 9.7 gigabytes of IP
Microsoft's Windows 10 privacy policies questioned by EU Article 29 Working Party
Microsoft asked to explain how private data from Windows 10 users is processed
Security warning over Intel chip design flaw
Design flaw identified in Intel Haswell CPUs last year might be more widespread than first thought
Microsoft's top lawyer calls for 'digital Geneva Convention'
Government demands becoming too intrusive even for Microsoft
How the Internet of Things and wearables can benefit your health
Smart health is about much more than your Apple Watch
Eight-gen Intel 'Coffee Lake' CPUs will be 14nm, not 10nm
Intel admits further delay in shift to 10nm process manufacturing
Munich to shift back to Microsoft Windows after Linux experiment fails
City of Munich plans to shift back 100 per cent to "industry standard" Microsoft software
Beyond Fitbit: How IoT and big data are giving us control over our health
There's more to smart health than what's on your arm
Microsoft orders OEMs to 'be more cool' to sell more Windows 10
Beige boxes are 'out'; PCs and devices that look like Macs are 'in'
University of Surrey scientist publishes blueprint for large-scale quantum computer
Don't try this at home - unless you have a lot of money
Users criticise Adobe for bundling Chrome plug-in with security patches
Adobe gives another masterclass in how not to do security
First look at Windows Insider Fast Build 15007
Edge gets polished up, but bugs still remain
Latest Windows 10 Insider Build brings security improvements to Edge
Windows 10 Build 15002 adds incremental changes to Edge and a number of other small enhancements
Security warning over Netgear routers issued by US-CERT
Arbitrary command injection flaw makes it easy for attackers to open up ports
Vulnerability leads CERT to advise against using Netgear routers
Malicious weblink can allow hackers onto the network