Microsoft cuts top Xbox One games by 40% in Black Friday deals

Australian government lends nbn™ AU$19.5bn to finish the job

Bank of Mum & Dad steps in where others fear to tread nbn™, the entity building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network, has secured a AU$19.5bn loan from Australia's government and will use it to complete project.…

UK hackers use customer mobile data to steal their upgrade phones

This Panasonic megaphone automatically translates commands into multiple languages

vSphere 6.5 goes GA, gains surprise powers to predict the future

Virtzilla's Predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler squeezed into final release VMware's quietly revealed that vSphere 6.5 is now generally available and therefore on-sale to world+dog.…

vSphere 6.5 goes GA, gains surprise powers to predict the future

Virtzilla's Predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler squeezed into final release VMware's quietly revealed that vSphere 6.5 is now generally available and therefore on-sale to world+dog.…

LinkedIn officially KickedOut of Russia

VirtualIron Curtain lowered on Microsoft-bait business network Russian telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor has made it official: LinkedIn is no longer welcome in Putin's formerly-socialist paradise.…

ESA lofts one astronaut and four Galileo satellites into orbit

Although not at the same time It has been a good 24 hours for the European Space Agency. Not only has its first four-in-one Galileo satellite launch gone flawlessly, but ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is on his way to the International Space Station.…

Microsoft ❤️ Linux? Microsoft ❤️ running its Windows' SQL Server software on Linux

Embrace, extend, extinguish enter? In March, when Microsoft announced plans to release SQL Server for Linux, Scott Guthrie, EVP of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, said, "This will enable SQL Server to deliver a consistent data platform acros…

The encryption conundrum: Should tech compromise or double down?

Just wait for FBI versus Apple: The Revenge Versus16  Silicon Valley should work with the US government in Washington to arrive at a solution that gives law enforcement access to encrypted comms, but that respects individual privacy.…

The Pew 'gig economy' study is here, and it's grim

More than half of workers say they rely on apps to make ends meet Around 56 per cent of "gig economy" workers say the income they get from those services is essential to making ends meet.…

Apple will fix iPhone 6 Pluses with touchscreen problems, but it will cost you

"Multi-Touch Repair Program" costs $149 if your phone isn't visibly damaged.

Microsoft's development platform today: What you need to know

Connect shows direction for .NET, cloud and mobile efforts Connect 2016  At the Connect event under way in New York, Microsoft laid out its plans for developers targeting its platform – though what the "Microsoft platform" means has changed radicall…

Fintech startup Revolut pulls out of several countries, promises swift return

Users flummoxed by texts telling them to shift funds by Monday Exclusive  Payment service Revolut has contacted users in several countries to warn them that funds in their accounts will disappear if not transferred to a bank by November 21.…

Apple addresses ‘Touch Disease’ with reduced cost repair for iPhone 6 Plus

 Many an iPhone 6 Plus has been struck down by the scourge known as “Touch Disease,” but Apple has not acknowledged the problem was systematic or widespread — until now. In what we have to imagine is as close to a mea culpa as Apple is likely to off…

The case for a police-civilian cyber super-agency in Australia

Not that kind of merger, but a merger nonetheless Opinion  The Australian Federal Government is wasting millions of dollars on redundant cyber-capabilities. It should scupper its competing agencies and strip powers from others, and hand the lot to a…

Apple iCloud stores call histories

Want to keep your call records private? Disconnect from iCloud Apple's effort to avoid becoming an on-demand data dispensary for authorities faces unlikely saboteurs: The company's commitment to convenience and its customers' preference for the same…

Apple iCloud stores call histories

Want to keep your call records private? Disconnect from iCloud Apple's effort to avoid becoming an on-demand data dispensary for authorities faces unlikely saboteurs: The company's commitment to convenience and its customers' preference for the same…

Apple updates Swift Playgrounds to version 1.1

Apple has updated Swift Playgrounds, a free iPad app to teach kids of any age basic coding skills in Swift, to version 1.1. The upgrade — available at the Apple App Store — adds new Learn to …

Backblaze: uitvalpercentage 8TB-hdd's gelijk aan 2TB-modellen na migratie

De aanbieder van clouddiensten Backblaze is tevreden na de migratie van duizenden 2TB-hdd's van HGST en WDC voor een lager aantal 8TB-exemplaren van Seagate. Het geannualiseerde uitvalpercentage van de Seagate-drives komt overeen met de goed prester…

US Director of National Intelligence hands in resignation

Good riddance, says senator who caught him lying Videos  James Clapper, who as Director of National Intelligence was economical with the truth when it came to acknowledging US domestic surveillance activities subsequently revealed by NSA whistleblow…