Further demonstrating its role as industry default OS the versatility of modern porting tools

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Satellite service supports troops and Ukraine, but payments may raise eyebrows after boss's political broadsides

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Home Office probes supplier interest as core police and immigration system heads for support shake-up

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76.23kWh per-transaction footprint... WTF, people? In the art world this spring, there's just one phrase on everyone's facemasks: the non-fungible token (NFT). When artist Mike Winkelman sold a JPG embedded into a cryptocurrency token for $69m in Ether (he pocketed $53m of it) jaws hit floors. But ...

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Goodnight, sweet prince: Awesome life expectancy for an Android, but now it's time to move on Four years after it first hit shelves, Samsung has finally stopped issuing security patches for the venerable Galaxy S8. The phone, first released in early 2017, no longer features on the company's list of ...

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Majority aren't GDPR compliant and Google Play categorises them badly, leading to lax practices Hundreds of millions of women turn to fertility apps to conceive or prevent pregnancy, and according to a new study those apps may leak very personal information including miscarriages, abortions, sexual ...

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When contractors go bored: Stuffing the timesheet with shenanigans Who, Me? Start your week the right way, with a Who, Me? reader confession and an improvement made to some bodice-ripping fiction...

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Code for the Baidu Apollo brains of the service is yours for the taking on GitHub, too Chinese web giant Baidu has commenced operations of actual autonomous taxis on the streets of Beijing...

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Terms and conditions apply Version 90 of Google's Chrome browser includes a bit of extra security for users of recent versions of Windows and the latest x86 processors, in the form of hardware-enforced stack protection...

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What a time to be alive Singapores dominant ride-sharing app Grab has added a service for large dogs, or humans who own large numbers of dogs...

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By probing for installed apps with custom URL schemes, it's possible to build a 32-bit unique fingerprint FingerprintJS, maker of a browser-fingerprinting library for fraud prevention, on Thursday said it has identified a more dubious fingerprinting technique capable of generating a consistent ...

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Also wiggles out of exclusivity deal Amid fears the global semiconductor crisis may last until 2023, AMD has opted to extend its purchase agreement with GlobalFoundries, giving it access to a greater proportion of the fabricator's output...

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Its the one lever you really need to get a grip on Webcast Moving to the cloud is so exciting isnt it? New tools, unlimited infrastructure, a whole new world of analytics and machine learning. Why didnt we do this years ago, theyll ask...

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You know it's time for an upgrade when your PC gets spanked by a sign Bork!Bork!Bork! The mean streets of Birmingham in England's West Midlands are our destination today, with an entry in the bork archive reminding us of the raw power of signage...

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If found guilty, Cupertino could have to cough over $27bn The European Commission today said it believes Apple has abused its absolute control of app distribution on iOS, resulting in the disadvantage of third-party streaming services that compete with Apple Music...

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Plus: Workers axed at '$4bn' Patreon, techies walk away from Basecamp The Lambda School, an online coding bootcamp based in San Francisco, on Thursday said it will lay off 65 employees, about a third of the workforce...

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5.10 lifespan also extended to six years, up from two Linus Torvalds has closed the merge window for Linux 5.13 with the first release candidate, which includes initial support for Apple's M1 processor along with "a fair amount of stuff, all over the place...

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Boffins will have to wait until September 2023 to get their hands on the goodies OSIRIS-REx, the spacecraft carrying NASAs first-ever asteroid sample, has started its two-year journey back to Earth, the space agency confirmed on Monday...

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Plus: Non-profit ML groups snub sponsorship money from Google In Brief Highway patrol officers in California arrested a man this week accused of riding in the backseat of his Tesla while it was under Autopilot...

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Read my blips Video A combination of brain implants and a neural network helped a 65-year-old man paralyzed from the neck down type out text messages on a computer at 90 characters per minute, faster than any other known brain-machine interface...

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'I got bored sitting at home while retired ... I chose to go back to my roots' Language Summit Python creator Guido van Rossum this week told attendees at the Language Summit that he hopes to double performance in version 3.11...

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And just like that, the Digital Yuan has its route into the mainstream Alibabas controversial financial services arm, the Ant Group, has been welcomed into trials of Chinas digital currency...

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Someone at West Midlands Trains approved nasty cybersecurity drill UK train operator West Midlands Trains sent an email to 2,500 employees to thank them for hard work during COVID and promised a one-time bonus as a reward, but that lovely news turned out to be phishing training. Needless to say, it ...

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Gazing into the void for at least a few more years yet Nearly nine years after leaving the solar system, and decades beyond its original mission, Voyager 1 is still gathering valuable data, providing plasma readings to continuously sample the density of the interstellar medium...

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11th-gen Core H has nice new touches, but pitch is usual 'a new PC will be faster and smaller and lighter than an old PC' promise Intel is talking up a new generation of laptop and mobile workstation CPUs that it says will deliver modest performance gains and lighten laptops for power users...

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Come to a computer near you ... this decade ... maybe IBM Research says it's made the worlds first 2nm chips, squeezing 50 billion transistors onto each of the fingernail-sized dies...

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World Password Day returns to remind us how much passwords sucks Google has marked World Password Day by declaring "passwords are the single biggest threat to your online security," and announcing plans to automatically add multi-step authentication to netizens' accounts...

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But beware lock-in-as-a-service, analyst warns MariaDB has added proprietary bells and whistles, in the form of distributed SQL, for its DBaaS and supposedly developer-friendly front end...

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