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<h4>Why not just use Visual Studio Code, which has 5 times as many extensions and is designed for cloud?</h4> <p>Microsoft is creating a new extensibility model for Visual Studio, its Windows IDE for coding everything from desktop applications to cloud-hosted microservices.…</… Full story >>>

<h4>If you don't want to wait for new stock or splash out on the RTX 30 series, consider AMD's RX 6000s</h4> <p>AMD showed off three new graphics processor units for PC gamers on Wednesday, claiming its chips offered better performance than the ones in Nvidia's latest GeForce RTX 3… Full story >>>

<h4>And for my next trick... behold! Digital transformation!</h4> <p>The UK government has launched a tender for a £2bn IT services framework contract after the expected value rose to four times the initial estimated price.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>'I'm just not excited at the prospect of a new crop of unknown unknowns'</h4> <p>Changes to the way string comparisons work in the soon-to-be-released .NET 5.0 may break existing code on Windows.…</p><!--#include virtual='/data_centre/_whitepaper_textlinks_top.html' … Full story >>>

<h4>Companies are a bigger threat than governments – because they're less regulated</h4> <p><strong>Interview</strong> <i>Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care</i> is the title of a new book from April Falcon Doss, formerly associate gen… Full story >>>

<h4>Security, that's what, for those of you who like your clouds very isolated</h4> <p>AWS has introduced a new variant of its EC2 IaaS service that offers no external network connectivity, no persistent storage, and no user access – not even a root user or an admin user on the i… Full story >>>

<h4>Huawei stockpiling components helps too, but server memory sales go soft</h4> <p>Samsung Electronics has revealed 50 percent growth thanks to a surge in smartphone sales.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>Challenges jury verdict immediately and offers to pay one percent of damages</h4> <p>French services outfit Atos has been ordered to pay $855m for pinching a rival’s trade secrets.…</p> Full story >>>

<h4>Kaspersky’s License Management Portal helps MSPs and resellers get tech to users fast</h4> <p><strong>Promo</strong> Cyber-criminals never sleep, so neither should your customers’ security teams or your own managed service operations.…</p><!--#include… Full story >>>

<h4>Kind-of digital currency can shift US Dollars or the Cambodian Riel</h4> <p>Cambodia has launched a blockchain-powered peer-to-peer payment system and it’s hoped the scheme reduces use of cash and helps to control the novel coronavirus.…</p> Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/projects/smokeandmirrors.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Yesterday marked the launch of one of New Internationalist's first multimedia immersive long-form p… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/2017-walkaway.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Doctorow is both an entertaining author and very much on the right (by which I mean left/anarchist) side of… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/twatbegone.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">A while ago, my buddy Oxguin was thinking about the blocking on Twitter, specifically because of Donald Trump.… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="https://static.pexels.com/photos/6969/sunset-summer-hipster-pipe.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Since the world, or at least the UK, seems to have decided to Gastrate all its pubs and the hipsters have ta… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/2017-pirate-utopia.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Bruce Sterling is that other cyberpunk author. He is back to writing counterfactual alternative histor… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/ssh-book.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">Here is a quick SSH tip that I only discovered a month or two ago despite years of using SSH on a daily basis. W… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/geekery/binary-puzzle.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">I first came across binary puzzles in early 2013 after finding a book of them in a Belgian supermarket, not… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/anglo-saxons.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">This is a pretty comprehensive 'brief' history of the Anglo-Saxons - from the decline of the Roman… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/reviews/silas-marner.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">This novel was one of a trove I inherited from my parents, a gift for my mother on her 20th birthday. It tel… Full story >>>

<img style="width:30%;float:left;" src="http://static.charlieharvey.org.uk/graphics/twitterfeed.jpg"><p style="width:69%;float:left">A few weeks ago, I received an email from Twitterfeed’s founder, a chap called Mario. In unnecessarily jolly p… Full story >>>