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GCHQ 'smart collection' would protect MPs from spies, says NSA expert

Investigatory Powers tribunal was misled by 'horsesh*t'

UK's super-cyber-snoop shopping list: Internet data, bulk spying, covert equipment tapping

'No worse than an itemised phone bill', says Home Sec

'I posted winning race ticket in Facebook selfie ... and someone stole it!'

PhotoSnap costs Oz lass $600 in winnings

UK govt sneaks citizen database aka 'request filters' into proposed internet super-spy law

Bootnotes

'I posted winning race ticket in Facebook selfie ... and someone stole it!'

Photo Snap costs Oz lass $600 in winnings
04 Nov 20:44
Law

UK govt sneaks citizen database aka 'request filters' into proposed internet super-spy law

ISPs express concern over web activity monitoring system
04 Nov 19:48
Data Centre

Micron has three bits between its PC disk-killing flash teeth

Crucial SSD offers TLC for slow disk drives
04 Nov 17:32
Storage

Speaking in Tech: Larry Ellison pipes up on EMC/Dell – it's all yours Michael

Podcast Microsoft announces limited unlimited storage
04 Nov 17:03
Security

Ransomware scammers: Won’t pay? We'll put your data on the internet

Dun-dun-dun!
15 Comments
04 Nov 16:25
Security

CPS fined £200k over theft of laptops holding 'sensitive interviews'

Contents included questioning of sex attack victims
13 Comments
04 Nov 16:02

Don't miss Hi, um, hello, US tech giants. Mind, um, mind adding backdoors to that crypto? – UK govt

Networks

Interoute gets green light for £402m Easynet gobble

Blighty's competition regulator gives permission for major boot filling
04 Nov 15:41
Science

US radar paparazzi snap 'Halloween Asteroid'

Pics reveal 'pronounced concavities' and 'other complex features'
04 Nov 15:27
The Channel

Profitable business evaporates at Systemax... make that all business growth

Shuttering US retail stores blamed, but UK get hair dryer treatment from CEO too
04 Nov 15:12
The Channel

Logicalis: UK boss Gales has quit for 'personal reasons'

Second local MD to hit eject button in months, interim FD made interim MD
04 Nov 15:02
Cloud

Red Hat Enterprise Linux lands on Microsoft Azure cloud – no, we're not pulling your leg

Distro to be reference operating system for .NET Core
27 Comments
04 Nov 14:49
Hardware

HP Inc in indirect push for biggest UK and Ireland accounts

Wants partners with hungry look in eye
04 Nov 14:38
Government

UK's super-cyber-snoop shopping list: Internet data, bulk spying, covert equipment tapping

'No worse than an itemised phone bill', says Home Sec
120 Comments
04 Nov 14:11
Data Centre

Nutanix summons China's Lenovo dragon to magic up hardware

Deal gives hyperconverged upstart PRC creds
04 Nov 14:00
Security
Houses of Parliament in night-time

GCHQ 'smart collection' would protect MPs from spies, says NSA expert

Investigatory Powers tribunal was misled by 'horsesh*t'
25 Comments
04 Nov 13:26
Security

MPs launch 'TalkTalk' inquiry over security of personal data online

Parliamentary inquiry to gather evidence until 23 November
21 Comments
04 Nov 12:59
Networks

RIPE rebrand whiffs slightly of joss-sticks

LOGOWATCH Net registry hums gentle whalesong , intersects with community
04 Nov 12:44
Government

PM wheels out snoop overseer minutes before latest snoops' charter bid lands

Top silk says challenging time ahead on investigatory powers
29 Comments
04 Nov 12:34
Cloud

Companies need answer to Safe Harbour worries, says minister

Swift conclusion on revised agreement needed
17 Comments
04 Nov 12:14
Storage

Huawei adds NVMe accessed SSDs to Dorado all-flash array

Supposedly five times faster than XtremIO
04 Nov 12:05
Business

Wireless charging desks are coming

On demand Getting on with work in the digital office space
04 Nov 11:27
Security

Stuxnet-style code signing of malware becomes darknet cottage industry

Even reports of crims offering signing-as-a-service
13 Comments
04 Nov 11:19
Media

Music lovers move to block Phil Collins' rebirth

'There is far too much suffering in the world as it is'
137 Comments
04 Nov 11:03
The Channel

Former Dragon lures reseller exec into cloud cave

Outgoing Insight UK veep de Sousa to grab controls at Outsourcery on April Fool's Day
04 Nov 10:23
Government

Licence to snoop: Ipso facto, crypto embargo? Draft Investigatory Powers bill lands

IPB Theresa May's proposal incoming today
114 Comments
04 Nov 09:55
Data Centre

Going loco for co-lo: ClearSky Data's dash for the cash

CEO says startup wants to increase US coverage
04 Nov 09:33
Government

UK.gov Verify system misses yet another user signup target

Just 300,000 sign on to creaky identity assurance scheme
04 Nov 08:57
Security

Samsung S6 Edge has 11 nasties, says Google Project Zero team

Google must be doing this as an Android partner to Samsung. Not a rival. Perish the thought
19 Comments
04 Nov 08:45
Security

Cisco takes Security Everywhere™ to throw blanket over shadow IT

Borg wants in on cloud security like everyone else, but may not be doing more than the basics
04 Nov 08:26
Data Networking
Cloudy sky

Juniper hardware and software to sleep in separate beds

Run Junos on white boxes? Sure! How about other NOSes on our boxes? Yep to that too
04 Nov 07:57
Business
The Taj Mahal

Google: We made India a consumer society and our work here is done

'Great Online Shopping Festival' cancelled. Forever.
04 Nov 07:27
Small Biz

You're right to fear a second dot-com crash, says Intel VC boss

IGCS Chip giant's investment wing looks abroad as tech bubble grows
10 Comments
04 Nov 07:06
Science

Alumina in glass could stop smartphones cracking up

Smash hits a thing of the past
47 Comments
04 Nov 06:29
Hardware

Sennheiser announces €50,000 headphones (we checked, no typos)

Michelangelo's preferred marble pressed into service for rich audiophiles
85 Comments
04 Nov 05:58
Phones

Intel puts cash behind Wi-Fi-first smartmobes

Chipzilla funds FreedomPop to get its SoFIA silicon into more mobes
04 Nov 05:31
Security

Met makes fourth TalkTalk arrest, this time a London teen

TalkTalk? Seems like someone's giving plod something to work with
27 Comments
04 Nov 05:02
Government

China's glorious five year plan will see 'online environment cleaned up'

National realtime pollution monitor planned for actual environment
04 Nov 04:29
Storage

This will get pulses racing, thinks EMC: Copy data management

Consolidate primary and secondary workloads on flash array
04 Nov 04:04
Security

'Anonymous' says anonymous KKK dump wasn't from Anonymous

Alleged anonymous hack group says US Senators are members of anonymous hate group
26 Comments
04 Nov 02:58
Security

XSS vuln found in Cisco's social support software

SocialMiner doesn't play nice with China's popular WeChat
04 Nov 01:57
Law

Man hires 'court hacker' on Craigslist ... who turned out to be a cop

Moron used his personal email address and phone number – now he's in the slammer
26 Comments
04 Nov 01:02
Software

Firefox 42 ... answer to the ultimate question of life, security bugs and fully private browsing?

SSL/TLS library flaws found, anti-analytics missiles deployed
20 Comments
04 Nov 00:31
Cloud

Microsoft's OneDrive price hike has wrecked its cloud strategy

Comment Users unhappy with chopped-down cloud storage
129 Comments
03 Nov 23:42
Hardware
Nikola Tesla's fake lightning, Recuerdos de Pandora on Flickr CC2.0 license

End in sight for wireless power standards war as field shrinks to two

IGCS Airfuel Alliance tries to chip away at Wireless Power Consortium
03 Nov 23:26
Storage
Labelled_XPoint_Diagram

Guess who: Storage chip maker [blank] can't wait for all-storage-chip data centers

+Comment It's Intel, we're talking about Intel
03 Nov 21:36
Operating Systems

Is the world ready for a bare-metal OS/2 rebirth?

IBM and Arca Noae to free 1990s operating system from its virtualized cage
88 Comments
03 Nov 20:22
Hardware

PC sales will rise again, predicts Intel, but tablets are toast

IGCS Chipzilla promises 3D cameras and new chips will drive growth
74 Comments
03 Nov 19:29
Hardware

Volkswagen: 800,000 of our cars may have cheated in CO2 tests

After the NO bombshells, here comes a carbon dioxide scandal
87 Comments
03 Nov 19:13
Security

Genome researchers hit back at infosec bods' 'network vuln' claims

Updated Hackers could identify what diseases you have – but need your spit first
03 Nov 18:01

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