Opera hits back at 'short seller' whose report claimed its 'predatory' microloan droid apps could hurt, er... investors - Nothing to see here, insists browser-maker

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Software -- From WordPad to WordAds: Microsoft caught sneaking nagging Office promos into venerable text editor beta -- Hidden for now, probably coming to a desktop near you, soon, ish

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Software - *David Attenborough voice* And here we have, in the wild, a rare glimpse... of what may be... a positive IBM quarter - Big Blue rides Red Hat into the black - |

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Data Centre -- Bank IT bod pocketed nearly $1m in kickbacks from tech contractor bosses for sending deals their way, Feds claim -- Cuffed procurement bureaucrat took percentage cut, it is alleged

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'I am done with open source': Developer of Rust Actix web framework quits, appoints new maintainer -- Project author Nikolay Kim also given some community support after 'unsafe shitstorm'

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Artificial Intelligence - How a Kaggle Grandmaster cheated in $25,000 AI contest with hidden code - and was fired from dream SV job - Special report - Pet adoption ML coder apologizes and says desire to be ranked #1 'compromised my judgement'

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Updated - Security - Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia accused of hacking Jeff Bezos' phone with malware-laden WhatsApp message - Mid-East nation slams 'absurd' claim, UN report to emerge - | 3

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Internet of Things -- Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons -- Planned obsolescence strikes again

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Security -- No backdoors needed: Apple ditched plans to fully encrypt iCloud backups after heavy pressure from FBI – claim -- Convenient timing for this story to emerge

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Networks -- CityFibre relieves TalkTalk of its FTTP sister biz for £200m – after Boris win blows away Labour's nationalisation vow -- Deal will crank telco's reach up to 8 million premises in UK

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GNU Make makes it to 4.3

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Red Hat dev launches MIR in bid for a peace of the JIT compiler market

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South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal and unjust' sale of .amazon to zillionaire Jeff Bezos -- Nastygram to DNS overseer follows long, flawed and drawn-out process

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Dixons Carphone to London Stock Exchange: Yay, we grew 2% in the festive quarter. Oh, hang on, no we didn't -- 'Clerical error' causes major screw-up... misery loves company at UK's largest 'leccy retailer

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The Ghost in the self-driving storage machine (OK, it's a car)

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New SAP co-CEO 'runs simple' to Davos in Mercedes hydrogen car -- Just don't mention software giant's carbon-producing customers, 'cos that doesn't matter, right?

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WTF, EFS? Experts warn Windows encryption could spawn nasty new ransomware -- Redmond's own security tools could be abused by hard-to-block file-scrambling software nasties

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US court rules: Just because you can extract teeth while riding a hoverboard doesn't mean you should -- We get it. You are a skilled dentist. Sorry, 'were'

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Windows 7 back in black as holdouts report wallpaper-stripping shenanigans -- Suitable attire, seeing that it's dead

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Science -- SpaceX ponders its next mission to blot out the Sun with another 60 Starlink sats -- Roundup -- Also: ISS batteries changed, Virgin's fleet grows, Rocket Lab makes nod to crap sitcom, and more

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Looking for a great value broadband deal? War-torn Syria will do you proud -- UK internet costs shamed by European colleagues, but at least it's not Eritrea

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Personal Tech - Looks like the party's over, folks: Global PC sales set to shrink as Windows 10 upgrade cycle tails off, says Gartner - Smartphone shipments slightly up, personal computers to resume historical trends - | 32

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World-record-breaking boffins reveal the fastest spinning thing on Earth – and it's not George Orwell in his grave -- Privacy's dead but, hey, we've got nanoparticles spinning at 300 billion RPM. So that's cool

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Networks - Let's check in on the .org sale fiasco: Senators say No, internet grandees say Yes – and ICANN pretends there's absolutely nothing to see here - Analysis - 'Ethos Capital, ISOC, and PIR have failed to provide clear and transparent information' | 40

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Wave goodbye: DigitalOcean decimates workforce as co-founder reveals lack of profitability, leadership turmoil -- Literally: As much as 10% of employees at server-hosting biz laid off in 'non-cost-cutting' move

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Software -- Whoa, whoa... Tesla slams brakes on allegations of 'unintended acceleration' bug: 'Completely false and was brought by a short-seller' -- Grimes' boyfriend's biz says it's under financial attack

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Security -- Leave your admin interface's TLS cert and private key in your router firmware in 2020? Just Netgear things -- Finding sparks debate over bug disclosure – and how to secure a local gateway's web control panel

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Security -- As miscreants prey on thousands of vulnerable boxes, Citrix finally emits patches to fill in hijacking holes in Gateway and ADC -- SD-WAN WANOP will have to wait a few days, though

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Personal Tech -- Over a thousand electronic gizmos went missing from London councils last year -- Mobile phone for sale. One careless owner

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Ubisoft sues handful of gamers for DDoSing Rainbow Six: Siege -- Two Germans, a Nigerian, and a Dutchman walk into a bar. What happens next? A lawsuit, of course

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Photobox ditches Amazon's Redshift, cuddles up to Snowflake -- AWS and Google data warehousing stuff considered, then ignored

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It's update time – yes, again – for Insiders as the Windows 10 Slow Ring meanders towards release -- Roundup -- Also: pitching Windows gear at students, while Windows Terminal and TypeScript ring in the new

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LastPass stores passwords so securely, not even its users can access them -- Updated -- Login management service sulks in days-long TITSUP* for some

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EU've been naughty: GDPR has netted bloc €114m in fines since 2018 -- France, Germany and Austria house the most offenders – survey

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Hospital hacker spared prison after plod find almost 9,000 cardiac images at his home -- NHS working with cops and ICO to determine if patients must be told

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Big Falcon explosion as SpaceX successfully demos Crew Dragon abort systems -- Mere months until 'nauts get a ticket to ride?

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Servers - Intel server chip shortages continue to bite: HPE warns of Xeon processor supply drought for the whole of 2020 - Exclusive - Traditional IT titans take backseat behind cloud giants - | 42

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Software -- The delights of on-site working – sun, sea and... WordPad wrangling? -- Who, Me? -- Things can only get better, unless someone misplaces the source

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Security -- It's Friday, the weekend has landed... and Microsoft warns of an Internet Explorer zero day exploited in the wild -- Roundup -- Plus, WeLeakInfo? Not anymore!

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Software -- You're not Boeing to believe this: Yet another show-stopping software bug found in ill-fated 737 Max airplanes -- Jetliner's return to the skies likely to be delayed by more tech glitches

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