Get your foot off the brake of $10 billion Pentagon cloud contract

Four Republican members of US Congress, including House Armed Services Committee ranking member Mac Thornberry, have told President Donald Trump to stop messing around with the $10 billion cloud contract with the Defence Department.

Staff shortages coming

The US Bureau of Labour Statistics claims that tech unemployment hasn't been this low since the turn of the century.

Have its days of neurotic secrecy passed?

Last week Apple’s black shirted staff security appeared to be out to lunch and iPhone details started to leak

Computers can’t tell anything from reading a face

A team of boffins have put to bed a theory that a computer can read your emotional state by reading your face.

Will comply with regulations after all

Facebook appears to have been reassuring Congress that its new Libra payments will comply with financial regulations.

Waste of time says, full-stack engineer

Senior full-stack engineer Ilya Suzdalnitski has published a lively 6,000 word essay calling object-oriented programming "a trillion dollar disaster".

Choice is not always a good thing warns Amvia

The rapid increase in the number of VoIP providers in the UK has given businesses around the country a wealth of extra choice – but this isn’t necessarily a good thing says one outfit.

Took too long to get to 10nm

Chipzilla has admitted that it will not catch up with AMD on its 7nm chips until 2021.

Huawei still needs Android

Huawei is downplaying the idea that its Hongmeng operating system could serve as a drop-in replacement for Google’s Android on its smartphones.