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Update tips more functionality on gizmo's second display

Planet Computers has updated the Debian-based operating system for its Cosmo Communicator PDA to allow users to place calls from the device's second screen.…

Michael Dawson, chair of Node.js Technical Steering Committee, talks to The Reg

Interview Popular open-source JavaScript runtime Node.js hit version 15 last week, and to bring us up to date we spoke to Michael Dawson, Red Hat Node.js lead, who is also chair of the Node.js Technical Steering Committee and Community Director of the OpenJS Foundation.…

Another 12 months on Itanium and COBOL for the Australian Stock Exchange

One of the world’s most prominent planned uses of distributed ledger technology has been pushed back by a year.…

Ampere CPUs available for automated deployments as data centre giant takes on public clouds

Equinix has joined the ranks of big cloud players offering Arm-powered servers.…

We'd rather see Dr Nick, to be honest

Anyone trying to use OpenAI’s powerful text-generating GPT-3 system to power chatbots to offer medical advice and help should go back to the drawing board, researchers have warned.…

Call for papers for next year's edition of our DevOps, CI/CD, and container summit is now open

Event Believe it or not, it has been six years since we’ve started the Continuous Lifecycle London conference series with our friends over at Heise Developer.…

Why not get in early before official December 31 demise?

If you’d like to exact righteous vengeance on Adobe’s Flash, Microsoft has given us all a tool to expunge the software ahead of time.…

3,000 WiFi access points and 150,000 wired ethernet ports

The Pentagon, the colossal office that serves as the headquarters of the United States’ Department of Defence, plans to install 3,000 new WiFi access points and 150,00-plus wired ethernet switches after turfing out old Cisco kit.…

Well, that narrows down the list of suspects to just a few billion people

Donald Trump's presidential campaign website was briefly hacked and defaced tonight.…

To get a better view of regional hotspots in case things get kinetic

The USA and India have struck a new defence pact that will see the two nations share high-quality spatial data and satellite images.…

The $499 equipment cost and laggy latency give room for pause

SpaceX’s satellite broadband service Starlink has finally revealed its pricing: $99 a month for speeds that vary between 50Mbps and 150Mbps... plus 500 bucks to buy the necessary equipment.…

Azure revenue up 48 per cent, pretty much everything Redmond makes is up

Microsoft on Tuesday reported $37.2bn in revenue for the first quarter of its fiscal 2021, an increase of 12 per cent year over year and more than investors had anticipated.…

Regulator’s monthly meeting provided an opportunity to argue all over again

Analysis The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) put the final nail into America's net neutrality coffin on Tuesday, approving an order that ties up loose ends from its 2018 decision to “restore internet freedom."…

Perhaps we can talk about extra security and compromises honestly

Zoom has finally added end-to-end encryption to its video conferencing service at no additional cost for all users, whether they are paying subscribers or not.…

Choice of LineageOS and Ubuntu Touch as well as Android

UK smartphone developer F(x)tec has rolled out the second generation of its sliding keyboard phones, the F(x)tec Pro1 X.…

We'll see how long it lasts as 20H2 starts doing the rounds

While Microsoft celebrates Halloween with scary data deletion stories of Windows past, May's Windows 10 has swiped the popularity prize from its predecessor.…

'I've seen programmes on American prisons' says wife

A Briton is reportedly fighting extradition to the United States after deploying webcam malware onto hundreds of women's laptops so he could spy on them undressing and having sex.…

First you could break up by text – next year you can take the phone with you

UK telecoms watchdog Ofcom is introducing new rules that will stop phone companies selling carrier-locked handsets.…

Intel rival up 50%+ in revs, profits - just one week after Chipzilla 30% profit plunge

Chipmaker AMD celebrated bonzer revenue and profit jumps for its third quarter ended Sept 26 [PDF] with a $35bn all-stock acquisition of adaptive computing outfit Xilinx.…

Which is proof such fripperies are down to the developer, rather than Apple

Microsoft has finally introduced trackpad support for Office Microsoft 365 on the iPad.…