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UK energy minister rejects 'waste of money' smart meters claim

Former Tory adviser said the scheme is a 'ghastly mess'

Boozing is unsafe at ‘any level’, thunders chief UK.gov quack

Show us your science. What? You mean you don’t have any?

Smartphone hard, dudes, like it’s the end of the world!

Something for the Weekend, Sir?I like a party with 78% N and 21% O

Three-years-late fit-to-work IT tool will cost taxpayers £76m

Iain Duncan Smith. Pic: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
Business

VW floats catalytic converter as fix for fibbing diesels

When 'turn it off and turn it back on again' won't do
10 Jan 23:57
Science

Philae's phinal phling: Germans made weekend spin-up attempt

If this didn't work, the plucky lander is days away from bricking
10 Jan 22:58
Security

Juniper resets 'days since last rogue code incident' clock

Proclaims Junos OS clean, takes out the trash by killing off Dual_EC in Screen OS anyway
10 Jan 21:58
Bootnotes

Fan belts only exist, briefly, in the intervals between stars

Book review Reviewing the informative Turing’s Cathedral
12 Comments
10 Jan 10:12
Security

Your jingle to take into the weekend: QuickTime security fixes to apply

Apple closes out week with patches for Windows
11 Comments
09 Jan 03:02
Science

It's replicant Roy Batty's birthday – but hey, where's my killer robot?

Comment Blade Runner got robotics so wrong
80 Comments
09 Jan 01:31

Don't miss Confirmed: How to stop Windows 10 forcing itself onto PCs – your essential guide

Law

Cardinal sin: Ex St Louis baseball exec cops to 'hacking' rival team's db

And it's root, root, root all their files...
17 Comments
08 Jan 23:22
Government

How hard can it be to kick terrorists off the web? Tech bosses, US govt bods thrash it out

Uncle Sam wants to cut these Daesh-bags off from social networks, encryption
50 Comments
08 Jan 22:30
Bootnotes

Going on a date, and it's just the two of you? How ... quaint. OkCupid's setting up threesomes

It's 2016 – open relationships and fluid genders are its thing
72 Comments
08 Jan 22:11
Software

Basho bashed by bolshy backer, ex-boss claims in court brouhaha

Early investors join former board chairman and CEO in suing NoSQL database biz
08 Jan 21:21
Science

Cocky SpaceX will try another sea landing with next rocket launch

Because why make things easy?
34 Comments
08 Jan 20:55
Security

Hacked OPM won't cough up documents on mega-breach – claim

Sure, NOW they figure out how to hide their records…
15 Comments
08 Jan 20:20
Broadband

American cable giants go bananas after FCC slams broadband rollout

Cynical exercise or uncomfortable truths?
74 Comments
08 Jan 19:45
Security
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Star Wars BB-8 toy in firmware update risk, say UK security bods

Something, something, something … exploiting a connection
28 Comments
08 Jan 18:31
DevOps
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Jenkins issues code of conduct to keep rowdy automation fans in line

Trolling, harassment frowned up. Passing port to the right is OK
17 Comments
08 Jan 17:57
Government
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UK energy minister rejects 'waste of money' smart meters claim

Former Tory adviser said the scheme is a 'ghastly mess'
157 Comments
08 Jan 16:56
Financial News

Barracuda Networks: I see revenues rise, but cloud's a blight...

The SMB rush, the net loss not slight
08 Jan 16:25
Science

Boozing is unsafe at ‘any level’, thunders chief UK.gov quack

Show us your science. What? You mean you don’t have any?
106 Comments
08 Jan 16:02
Jobs

IBM cloud chief joins top-brass exit

Power duo follow software supremo Mills
08 Jan 15:36
SPB

Chinese unleash autonomous airborne taxi

Where's my bloody flying car? Here it is, sort of
59 Comments
08 Jan 15:20
Applications

Juniper Networks planned upgrade kicks down some services

Sources whisper that it could go on for another week
08 Jan 14:57
Broadband

BT and Openreach: Splitsville or not? We'll not find out till Feb – at the earliest

Fate of infraco might not be decided until 2017 says Ofcom
16 Comments
08 Jan 14:24
Bootnotes

Catalan town hall seriously downsizes monarch

Passport-sized portrait of King Felipe VI adorns council chamber
45 Comments
08 Jan 14:02
Media

Motorola cut in half! But still alive, and ready to live again

Lenovo confirms batwings are still very much in evidence
13 Comments
08 Jan 13:27
Security

Romanian cops bust ATM 'jackpot' cash-grab suspects in EU-wide op

Tyupkin nasty said to have been used by alleged miscreants
10 Comments
08 Jan 12:58
Mobile

Microsoft offers pay-as-you-go data SIM for Windows 10 devices

3G/LTE connectivity via partnership with French MVNO
17 Comments
08 Jan 12:36
SPB

Live-streaming paper plane drone takes to the skies

PowerUp FPV tin-rattles its way to $460k
08 Jan 12:14
Government

Three-years-late fit-to-work IT tool will cost taxpayers £76m

Poor old Atos and Capita now doing manual admin
54 Comments
08 Jan 12:04
Security
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TV streaming stick brings the movies and the network backdoors

EZCast password susceptible to brute-force attack – report
15 Comments
08 Jan 11:26
Developer

Apple buys mood sniffer AI firm Emotient. Stop rolling your eyes at me, user

Slurped alongside VoctalIQ and Perceptio
20 Comments
08 Jan 10:33
Phones

Smartphone hard, dudes, like it’s the end of the world!

Something for the Weekend, Sir? I like a party with 78% N and 21% O
86 Comments
08 Jan 10:02
Developer

Was Android moving to OpenJDK really a Google gift to devs?

Comment Semi-seasonal stocking filler was caught up in Oracle's Android fight
44 Comments
08 Jan 09:30
Data Centre

Lovelace at 200: Celebrating the High Priestess to Babbage's machines

The ordinary heroine turned cultural and computing icon
65 Comments
08 Jan 09:02
Bootnotes

Swiss try to wind up Apple with $25k dumb-watch

H. Moser & Cie poke fun at Sir Jony's precious arm candy
81 Comments
08 Jan 08:02
Security

Call of Duty terror jabber just mindless banter

Video Security bods laugh at fear-monger failure
29 Comments
08 Jan 07:30
Law

Use of big data can lead to 'harmful exclusion, discrimination' – FTC

Data model should take account of biases
14 Comments
08 Jan 07:03
Security

Checkpoint chap's hack whacks air-gaps flat

32c3 Bought a shiny IP KVM? Uh-oh
08 Jan 06:30
Cloud

Who's laughing now, doubters? Cloud makers rake in £75bn in sales

Growing like Topsy
21 Comments
08 Jan 06:04
Security

Good news, OAuth is almost secure

Boffins turn up a couple of protocol vulns in Facebook's login standard
08 Jan 05:03
Security

Devs get malicious root app militia on Play Store, sell pumped up ratings

Modders at risk
08 Jan 03:57
Security

Crafty booby-trapped invoice malware empties Japanese bank accounts

And only 7 per cent of antivirus packages can block it
08 Jan 02:57
Virtualization

Patch now: VMware Tools for Windows root holes fixed in update

ESXi, Fusion, Player and Workstation have in-guest privilege escalation bug
08 Jan 01:51
Hardware

Intel lobs out new Core m3/m5 Compute Sticks, shouts 'Fetch!'

Choose your adventure: Windows 10 or Linux
32 Comments
08 Jan 01:23
Networks

Half of AT&T's networks are controlled by open-source SDN code

Fun fact of the day, we think you'll find
08 Jan 00:43
Operating Systems

Confirmed: How to stop Windows 10 forcing itself onto PCs – your essential guide

Official from the Redmond horse's mouth
228 Comments
08 Jan 00:17
Hardware

Nvidia's patent war on Samsung is a wreck – what you need to know

Timeline Nothing like a good game of sueball to get the migraines pounding
16 Comments
07 Jan 23:59
Storage

DataCore’s benchmarks for SANsymphony-V hit a record high note

+Comment 65.7% of the performance of a NetApp box for 2.9% of the cost
07 Jan 22:55
Developer

Say oops, UPSERT your head: PostgreSQL version 9.5 has landed

Row-level security, web app data integrity lead the list
07 Jan 22:38
Law

Bloke sues dad who shot down his drone – and why it may decide who owns the skies

Analysis Federal case filed after flying machine blasted
165 Comments
07 Jan 22:01

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