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Spear phish your boss to win more security cash

Websense CSO recommends fake attacks on suits to open their wallets

Security 19 Jun 03:03

Six nations ask Google for answers on Glass privacy

Canada, Oz, NZ, Mexico, Switzerland and Israel send 'Dear Larry' letter

Security 19 Jun 02:17

Huawei muses on Nokia's future

“Open minded” about acquisition

Business 19 Jun 01:58

House bill: 'Hey NASA, that asteroid retrieval plan? Fuggedaboutit'

Republican-led committee also swings budget axe at climate science

Science 19 Jun 01:14

Foreign keys, JavaScript support on deck for MySQL Cluster update

All this and faster performance, too

Developer 19 Jun 01:09

Icahn doubles down on Dell offer with $14 per share buyback scheme

Confirms he's now Dell's largest private investor – short of Big Mike, that is

Business 19 Jun 00:10

TypeScript 0.9 arrives with new compiler, support for generics

Biggest update yet for Microsoft's JavaScript alternative

Developer 18 Jun 23:15

Google mounts legal challenge to surveillance gag orders

Argues free speech trumps security secrecy

Government 18 Jun 22:49

Increased cell phone coverage tied to uptick in African violence

'Significantly and substantially increases the probability of violent conflict'

Mobile 18 Jun 21:44

Remote code execution vuln appears in Puppet

Big trouble in automated clouds

Security 18 Jun 21:36

Canonical unveils Carrier Advisory Group for Ubuntu phones

Eight possible launch partners already signed on

Phones 18 Jun 20:47

Soylent days and soylent nights

Food 2.0 fails the post-pub nosh test

Bootnotes 18 Jun 20:18

Tor users locked out of Facebook after wave of dodgy traffic

Don't panic, a solution is at hand

Security 18 Jun 19:59

GE partners with Amazon for 'industrial internet'

Proprietary cloud for the internet of things, with help from Accenture and Pivotal

Cloud 18 Jun 19:24

Ex-HTC execs launch UK-based smartphone maker Kazam

Startup threatens to 'disrupt status quo' this year

Phones 18 Jun 19:19

Nvidia stretches CUDA coding to ARM chips

ISC 2013 OpenACC is building up momentum as Chipzilla ignores it

Data Center 18 Jun 18:38

Apple's screw-up leaves tethered iPhones easily crackable

24 seconds from pickup to pwned

Security 18 Jun 18:04

Huawei unwraps Ascend P6: World's slimmest smartphone

Don't mention the info war

Phones 18 Jun 16:16

HP PCs 'n' printers boss steps down, replaced by Brit

Just check that seat to see if it can be dropped into a furnace

The Channel 18 Jun 15:53

UK telcos chuck another £1m at online child abuse watchdog

Web enforcers IWF gain power to seek and destroy illegal content

Broadband 18 Jun 14:49

Ask Trevor Pott ANYTHING about Office 365

Live Chat Here, online, 24 June, 2pm BST 9am EST

Cloud Infrastructure 18 Jun 14:47

CLOUD TO SUCK UP ALL YOUR CASH: Govts around world slash IT spending

Survey: Bring your own device, because we sure as hell won't buy you one

Cloud 18 Jun 14:27

BBC-featured call centre slapped with hefty fine for unwanted calls

PPI pests: Swansea-based firm stung for £225k by ICO

Management 18 Jun 14:04

HPC server sales spike: Buyers get chops around juicy cheap flops

ISC 2013 Big Data-supercomputing mash up, coprocessors included

Servers 18 Jun 13:32

Robbing a bank? Carberp toolkit now available for just $5k

Trojan forum sale may mark split in Carberp gang

Security 18 Jun 12:59

Yahoo! joins! rivals! in! PRISM! data! request! admission!

Keep calm and carry on using American tech firms, folks

Security 18 Jun 12:25

Latest NASA ASTRONAUT class is HALF FEMALE

Newbie 'nauts include lady Marine fighter pilot, male doctor

Science 18 Jun 12:05

O2 averts strike action over mass Capita outsourcing deal

Details of new agreement not yet released

Management 18 Jun 11:44

Microsoft lures buy-curious vixens, corduroys with a cheap fondle

Surface slab sales latest: Will no one rid Ballmer of these turbulent tabs?

Tablets 18 Jun 11:32

Drug gang hacks into Belgian seaport, cops seize TONNE of smack

9 nabbed after shipping container system used to transport heroin, cocaine

Law 18 Jun 11:04

France Telecom dials up support for its capitaine in Sarkozy gov cash probe

Surrender? Jamais! Je suis innocent, imbéciles

Mobile 18 Jun 10:43

Spin doctors brazenly fiddle with tiny bits in front of the neighbours

Quantum computer address bus just nanometres wide

Science 18 Jun 10:17

Shrinking iPads, Ultrabooks will lead to disk boost: WD boss

As EMC, Netapp become the meat in a cloudy enterprise sandwich

Servers 18 Jun 09:59

G-Cloud overlord McDonagh gets CBE nod from Queen

'How long have you worked here? What do you do? Have a medal'

The Channel 18 Jun 09:34

Samsung Galaxy Note 8: Proof the pen is mightier?

Review Sammy’s iPad Mini killer has a stylus to stab other rivals too

Tablets 18 Jun 09:04

Flash flaw potentially makes every webcam or laptop a PEEPHOLE

But it's a Google problem - Chrome only, insists Adobe

Security 18 Jun 07:55

Number of cops abusing Police National Computer access on the rise

Only a telegram from the Queen can get you off it

Cloud 18 Jun 07:03

SAP users slack, slow and backward on security

Some systems unpatched since 2005, says researcher

Security 18 Jun 06:30

Fifty, fired and fretful: Three chaps stare down CAREER MORTALITY

Reg chats to fifty-ish fellows, learns of hopes, dreams, fears etc

Jobs 18 Jun 05:58

Global tax data exchange plan floated to recoup cash

OECD outlines plan for automatic exchange of data if IT can agree on formats, crypto

Policy 18 Jun 05:27

When UK.gov asks 'Who's your daddy', companies HAD BETTER reply

HMRC will be able to access details of firms' beneficial owners

Government 18 Jun 05:03

'Smart ring' revealed by upstart Chinese mobe-maker

Kiss the ring to your mobe and you'll unlock something to share

Phones 18 Jun 04:34

AMD lifts the veil on Opteron, ARM chip plans for 2014

Not much action going on in 2013, though

Servers 18 Jun 04:02

Samsung plans LTE Advanced version of Galaxy S4

1Gbps download capability could stiffen drooping S4 sales forecasts

Phones 18 Jun 03:34

Internet fraud still stings suckers

Australians twice as gullible as Americans

Security 18 Jun 02:56

Oracle's Ellison outlines plans for Hawaiian Electriclarryland

Solar-sourced eau d'Oracle the key to island revival

Bootnotes 18 Jun 02:07

Australian unis to test quantum-comms-over-fibre

Tests to see if entangled photons can survive real-world networks

Science 18 Jun 01:03

Google Brain king slashes cost of AI gear

Anything CPU can do GPU can do better

Software 18 Jun 00:52

New material enables 1,000-meter super-skyscrapers

Before you read on, see if you can guess how the new stuff will be used

Science 18 Jun 00:29

Boffins build headless robo-kitties

Video Soft kitty, warm kitty, cuddly little ball of wire kitty

Science 17 Jun 23:29

Fusion-io's founding CEO quits board

Flynn flies off

Storage 17 Jun 23:18

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