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German ERP giant's revenues up, operating profits down A successful quarter for SAP's cloud business has been tempered by a 6 per cent drop in profits and a dip in its share price.…

Star analyst uses 2020 vision to predict macOS move…

Learn to love the browser instead Microsoft loves Linux. Unless you are a Linux user who happens to want to use Teams. In that case, you probably aren’t feeling the love quite so much.…

What do you get for 50 per cent more layers? Not a lot Western Digital has a 96-layer NAND chip for smartphones and has spoken of higher embedded storage capacity while seemingly delivering exactly the same capacity as before.…

National Programme for IT Mark 2?…

Promises 'truly game changing consumer product'... Please, not the Clippy mobe…

Irish eyes won't be smiling that much – operations and taxes are staying in Blighty…

Talks to cover oversight, enforcement, US surveillance The deal governing transatlantic data flows – branded not fit for purpose by privacy watchdogs – enters its second annual review today.…

Army short of 5,000 grunts, MPs warned The UK Ministry of Defence could terminate Capita's disastrous military IT contract following confirmation that the Recruiting Partnering Project (RPP) was 90 per cent below recruiting targets for calendar Q1.…

Or at least uninstall some of the bits you really don't want Microsoft has announced that its customers will finally be able to remove more of the cruft that arrives with a Windows 10 installation. In 2019.…

Aww, ain't that sweet…

Oh, and the £1.1bn Airwave extension hasn't yet been triggered The fine minds behind Britain's bungled Emergency Services Network comms system have admitted that its projected £200m savings might not kick in until 2020.…

(It's good news, really) Good news, Cisco admins: there are no bugs rated “critical” in this week's batch of security patches – but there are seven that copped a “high” rating, and four of those are remotely exploitable.…

Eclipse Foundation seeks to replace the Java Community Process for Jakarta EE…

Man-made satellite to eliminate need for street lamps Video A Chinese businessman has announced plans to light Chengdu at night by launching an artificial "moon" to direct the out-of-sight Sun's rays down onto the city's streets.…

Chocolate Factory opens lid, just a little, on secure boot and crypto phone coprocessor…

'No evidence' vulnerability was abused, though, we're told Tumblr today reveal it has fixed a security bug in its website that quietly revealed private details of some of its bloggers.…

Code-hosting biz tries out a more automated delivery process…

Leaky AWS S3 bucket fingered by infosec bods Now, now, America. Don't go overboard. Again.…

Grubby Grubbs' grifting days are gone A programmer who wrote and sold software that backdoored PCs so they could be remotely controlled has been jailed for 30 months – and forced to give up his stash of 114 Bitcoins.…

So. Much. Glue. Torx twirlers iFixit celebrated the release of Microsoft's Surface Pro 6 by ripping the thing apart only to find that its still pretty much unrepairable.…

They don't *seem* so different if you check digits (though your real world results may vary) Micron's consumer SSD brand Crucial has pushed out an NVMe minicard flash drive that looks almost identical to Intel's 600p.…

Cloud comms upstart touts more authentic engagement through artificial intelligence…

But that's not as bad as Barbie flinger Mattel or, indeed, Oracle…

Not quite the native experience Google's shooting for Version 70 of the Chrome browser has begun to slither onto Windows 10, bringing with it Google's desktop take on Progressive Web App functionality.…

...ahem, as is 'normal in our industry' Though the wheels keep rolling at unstoppable reseller juggernaut Softcat, fuelled by a Windows 10 refresh and returning demand for servers, the CEO has voiced caution about the potential implications of Brexit.…

By servers, it means boxes that do networking, storage, security Analysis One million Arm-powered data center servers will ship in 2018, the processor design house claimed on Tuesday.…

It's playing a long game Comment Google's artful but risky response to the European Commission highlights the weakness of Brussels' strategy dealing with big Silicon Valley companies.…

Programming interfaces, threat models, and more pop up online…

If you punt 33% pr0n or less, you're in the clear, say draft rules The UK government is bracing itself to face legal challenges when it implements controversial smut age check rules, and has said it could cost up to £10m in the first year alone.…