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The Open Application Model isn't a standard, but it could be On Wednesday, Microsoft and Alibaba Cloud revealed "an open standard for developing and operating applications on Kubernetes and other platforms," that isn't yet a standard and looks rather redundant in light of similar projects.…

Everyone knows the Ramans do everything in threes Pic Astroboffins have released images taken by the Hubble telescope of the second-ever interstellar object and the first-ever verified comet to enter our Solar System from the depths of the universe.…

Fantastic quarter: Sales, down. Profit, down. Business as usual IBM is talking up the success of its Red Hat as Big Blue continues its efforts to ax losing businesses.…

Or cyber-hell depending on your point of view Google has quietly removed Google Clips, an unsettling AI camera, from its Play Store, along with some other kit.…

23 kids saved, alleged scumbag-in-chief already in jail US prosecutors say a South Korean man was behind the largest child-abuse image-swapping operation yet found on the internet.…

App-quiesced saves fail, workaround is to shrug it off A compatibility issue between VMware's ESXi hypervisor and Windows Server 2019 will leave some customers unable to safely snapshot their virtual machines.…

Domain-name slinger keeps mum amid hours-long multi-service outage Updated 123-Reg, which promotes its “award-winning 24/7 UK support,” as a selling point for its service, is suffering a sustained and ongoing email service outage – with Reg readers claiming the company has shut off its online support channels.…

There's gold in them thar 5G networks for comms slinger Huawei has continued to rake in the big bucks in spite of continued dark mutterings over what may or may not be lurking within its code.…

Breeding ground for fraud, smuggling and other criminal activity, say auditors Two key programmes related to the UK border's preparedness for Brexit pose "significant risks", the National Audit Office has said.…

Includes setting to turn ads off – stop hissing at the back, Google Alternative search engine DuckDuckGo has announced improvements to its search options and an enhanced dark theme, but its tiny market share shows that most people are content to stick with Google, despite privacy issues.…

Thought of the children, but not privacy, tech, legal implications Controversial plans for mandatory age verification controls for pornographic websites have been scrapped, UK culture secretary Nicky Morgan announced today.…

Sierra Nevada Corporation eagerly awaits other bits to come in the post Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has wheeled out the first production version of its Dream Chaser spacecraft ahead of a 2021 mission to the International Space Station.…

One of the world's largest tech disties courted by Apollo Global Private equity monster Apollo Global Management has reportedly made an approach to buy Tech Data, one of the world's largest tech distributors, with a bid believed to be almost $5bn.…

Compo pledged to women's rights charities A former TalkTalk programme director is crowdfunding the legal costs of an equal pay claim against the budget ISP.…

No Big Red now in use other than by third-party apps, firm claims Amazon has turned off its final Oracle database, completing a migration effort that has involved "more than 100 teams" in the consumer biz.…

You wouldn't want to make workers anxious by cutting them off, wouldya? – study Bosses worldwide will be rejoicing after a British academic declared that banning work email use out of hours could negatively effect underlings' mental health.…

Bigwigs on containers, consulting and the path ahead Puppetize PDX 2019 Despite standing squarely in the path of the GitLab juggernaut, DevOps automation outfit Puppet is betting that a one-size-fits-all approach will end up fitting nobody particularly well.…

Hope you look good in orange NASA has unveiled two new space suit designs for future astronauts on its Artemis program, a mission to send “the first woman and the next man" to the surface of the Moon by 2024.…

Catch up with the fast-moving digital world at the IT Infrastructure, Operations and Cloud Strategies Conference Promo As the world gravitates towards cloud, edge computing, the internet of things, DevOps, and AIOps, the ground is shifting for infrastructure and operations teams. Their organisations must stay agile to keep up with the changing digital landscape.…

Code-hosting biz also bans staff from talking politics at work GitLab, a San Francisco-based provider of hosted git software, recently changed its company handbook to declare it won't ban potential customers on "moral/value grounds," and that employees should not discuss politics at work.…

Meeting app insists it is running a 'small payment test' after outcry over new prices Netizens are scrambling to find or build alternatives to Meetup.com – after the event-organizing app maker indicated it would charge people $2 per-RSVP.…

Work ongoing as site recovering from morning meltdown Docker says its services are back up and running after a Tuesday morning outage briefly left some developers unable to access its centralized Hub registry service.…

You're probably holding it wrong already Video At a press event in New York City on Tuesday, Google announced its Pixel 4 phone, revised Pixel Bud earphones, its Pixelbook Go laptop, a revision and rebranding of its Wi-Fi mesh router as a Nest product, and a tweaked Nest Mini smart speaker.…

If you thought Reader, Acrobat, Experience Manager were skipping October's Patch Tuesday, think again Adobe has finally released its October batch of security updates. It was quiet on Patch Tuesday last week, and now it's roaring in with scores of fixes for Reader, Acrobat, and Experience Manager.…

Plus: 35-year-old CEO who took over from dad blasts millennials for being entitled The chairman of Aussie telco Telstra threw a bit of a strop at the firm's AGM in Sydney today, comparing exec pay packets to the vast amounts a small handful of lucky millennials can earn by being good at gaming's current hotness, Fortnite.…

Unless you ask really nicely Microsoft's .NET Core 3.0 team is done with the project to port the venerable .NET Framework API to the open source platform.…

The wrong kind of intrusion protection Updated Symantec has acknowledged an issue with an update to its Endpoint Protection Client that causes a Windows kernel exception after users this morning came down with a mild case of Blue Screen of Death.…

No word on eggman counterpart Python's new feature release – version 3.8 – has landed, the first since June 2018.…

A confusing announcement from the cloud giant AWS has announced its "Sponsorship of the Rust project", causing some initial excitement in the community. However, in reality it only amounts to a year of AWS "promotional credits."…

Four-legged robot will scuttle a grand total of 10m Roundup In a week where the space-faring community said goodbye to death-defying cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, Skyrora upped the ante with its rocket testing, Elon Musk and Jim Bridenstine kissed and made up, and Britain said it would be sending mech-spider nightmare fuel to the Moon.…

Choo choo mothertruckers With its OpenInfrastructure summit mere weeks away, the OpenStack gang is emitting its next release in the form of "Train" with a focus on data protection and machine learning.…

No next-gen mobile internet for you but, hey, no cancer either Brighton and Hove has been claimed as the latest victory in the battleground against common sense, with the council agreeing to ban the erection of three 5G masts.…

Corporate expansionism to blame for issues, claims bossman Getronics' CEO has opened up on its recent and "very, very embarrassing" winding-up petition from HMRC over non-payment of VAT, claiming it was an unintended by-product of corporate expansionism.…

Behold the Samsung Family Hu- oh, bugger The connected refrigerator has long been the fever dream of many an IoT enthusiast, and Samsung's Family Hub has demonstrated the power of such a concept by falling over in a heap on a John Lewis sales floor.…

HPE's Cray hits 80-million-quid target to build boffinry beast Cray has landed a £79m deal to construct Blighty's 28-petaFLOPS Archer2 supercomputer, which will use second-generation AMD Epyc processors.…

Join us at a Nuance-powered morning briefing to discuss modern workflows Promo Voice-controlled assistants are popping up in kitchens and living rooms across the world – so what’s stopping us using this technology to take control of our day-to-day working environment?…

Boffins claim code was fine... when they wrote it Analysis Chemistry boffins at the University of Hawaii have found, rather disturbingly, that different computer operating systems running a particular set of Python scripts used for their research can produce different results when running the same code.…

Let us put it this way: One of your parental units is somewhat obese and has been rather amorous towards me Microsoft is rolling out a new feature that, it hopes, will filter out rude words in messages sent from Xbox Live users in a bid to make the gaming platform “a place where everyone can have fun.”…

Oops I did it again. And by it, we mean, ripped people off Internet celeb Siraj Raval’s reputation continues spiraling downward – after he admitted plagiarizing real scientists' work to produce a paper on neural qubits.…

All it takes is -u#-1 ... Wh%& t#e fsck*? It's only Monday, and we already have a contender for the bug of the week.…

Cupertino in China Syndrome meltdown Responding to concern that its Safari browser's defense against malicious websites may reveal the IP addresses of some users' devices to China-based Tencent, Apple insists that Safari doesn't reveal a different bit of information, the webpages Safari users visit.…

Venerable stamp-machine maker stalled by server infection Pitney Bowes, the US stamping meter maker, has been infected with ransomware, leaving customers unable to top-up their equipment with credit nor access the corporate web store.…

You want this web tech to be independent? Sure, we'll just put it in an org we bankroll Google's AMP project will join the incubation program of the OpenJS Foundation, which is part of the Linux Foundation.…

Firm admits it has considered a bricks-as-a-service biz model Beloved brick maker Lego is considering a rental service as part of a drive to improve sustainability in a world where hatred of plastic is threatening their attractiveness as a toy.…

You know, co-founder of the Belfast-based reseller Munich-based Cancom Group is paying £70m to acquire public-sector reseller Novosco.…

But without a majority, it's more likely to form basis of Tory manifesto than law The UK government has promised to roll out new legislation to achieve nationwide "gigabit-capable broadband" among 26 bills set out in Parliament's State Opening today.…

Apple flogs Microsoft hardware and Puppet's CTO has a... notepad.exe tattoo? Roundup In a week that left the Windows Insider team facing a leadership vacuum after its Ninjacat-in-chief jumped ship, Microsoft's army of gnomes continued to toil ahead of the company's impending Ignite shindig.…

Cos that's always gone really well... Exclusive The University of Nottingham has announced it will outsource some of its IT operations in a long-awaited shakeup of the department.…

If that floats your boat SoftwareONE, one of the world's largest Microsoft resellers, has started pre-booking its shares ahead of an initial public offering on the Swiss stock exchange later this month.…

Looking back on Voskhod, Salyut, Soyuz, Apollo and having the right stuff Obit Alexei Leonov, the first man to float out of a capsule and into space, has died at the age of 85.…