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LAKE OF frozen WATER THE SIZE OF NEW MEXICO FOUND ON MARS – NASA

Boffins spot wealth of H2-oh-yeah just waiting to be tapped

WordPress auto-update server had flaw allowing anyone to add anything to websites worldwide

About 27 per cent of the entire WWW at risk, we're told

Who's in Peter's file? Moneybags Thiel hits up Silicon Valley brains to join his Trump think tank

And all he hears is crickets, apparently

Allow us to sum this up: UK ISP Plusnet minus net for nine-plus hours

Business

It's a nice day for a Net wedding: Macom buys Applied Micro Circuits

US$770 MEELLION union will spawn networking suite for fibred-up data centres
23 Nov 06:21
Security

It's time: Patch Network Time Protocol before it loses track of time

Synchronise your watches before someone exploits DDOS bug, or nine other nasties
23 Nov 05:58
Security

Signal security revealed: A triple-Diffie-Hellman with a double ratchet

Secure messaging app invites you to dive in and figure out if it's done anything wrong
23 Nov 05:26
Storage

Dell EMC's Pure-crushing benchmarks are flawed, says, er, Pure

Lies, damn lies, and performance test results
23 Nov 04:54
Business

HPE's first standalone year ticks most boxes – except Donald Trump's

More jobs going, or going offshore, even if cash stash comes home tax-free
23 Nov 04:32
Security

Credit cards ripped from Madison Square Garden venues in year-long op

No word on number of cards stolen in physical breach.
23 Nov 03:57

Don't miss New state of matter discovered by superconductivity gurus

DevOps

Continuous Lifecycle 2017: Ten days to tell us how DevOps really works

Tell us your DevOps, Agile, CD and Container stories
21 Nov 12:58
Security

Snail mail thieves feed international identity theft rings say Oz cops

A little bit of social engineering, a little bit of lax physical security and a whole lot of pain
23 Nov 02:59
Bootnotes

Twitter bans own CEO Jack Dorsey from Twitter

2016 keeps on giving
23 Nov 02:10
Security

FYI: The FBI is being awfully evasive about its fresh cyber-spy powers

Agents want to hack suspected Tor, VPN users at will – no big deal
23 Nov 01:08
Security

WordPress auto-update server had flaw allowing anyone to add anything to websites worldwide

About 27 per cent of the entire WWW at risk, we're told
23 Nov 00:29
Science

LAKE OF frozen WATER THE SIZE OF NEW MEXICO FOUND ON MARS – NASA

Boffins spot wealth of H2-oh-yeah just waiting to be tapped
16 Comments
22 Nov 23:11
Policy

Who's in Peter's file? Moneybags Thiel hits up Silicon Valley brains to join his Trump think tank

And all he hears is crickets, apparently
11 Comments
22 Nov 22:51
Policy

Pre-Trump FCC – get a grip on mobe data caps, racist Stingray spying, urge Dem senators

Warren, Bernie, Wyden push for changes before January
10 Comments
22 Nov 21:36
Personal Tech

Allow us to sum this up: UK ISP Plusnet minus net for nine-plus hours

Packet loss equals knackered broadband service for some
24 Comments
22 Nov 20:25
Security

Hospital info thief malware puts itself into a coma to avoid IT bods

Software nasty also uses steganography to inject poison payload
10 Comments
22 Nov 19:07
Business

Veeam kicks Symantec's ass over unpatentable patents

Eight claims dismissed with prejudice
11 Comments
22 Nov 17:30
Cloud

Outlook outage outrage

Mass-client borkage leaves netizens SMH over SMTP
21 Comments
22 Nov 17:00
Software

Google DeepMind inks 5-year agreement with NHS for 'Streams' app

Patient data access concerns prompts ICO probe
22 Nov 16:18
Data Centre

Hyperconvergence 101: More than a neatly packaged box of tricks

Simplicity is good, but what else can you do?
22 Nov 15:28
Security

Hack the Army: US military begs white hats to sweep it for bugs

Uncle Sam goes crackers for hackers
14 Comments
22 Nov 14:55
Storage

ExaGrid, Pure, and Veeam want IT to march to their drumbeat

Flash array backup jungle receives a new message from Mr Tambourine Man
22 Nov 14:29
Cloud
cloud

Four IBM data centres planned for Big Blue UK cloud

Sorry, data, the holiday's cancelled
22 Nov 13:59
Bootnotes
black helicopter

Trial date set for Brit police 'copter coppers over spying-on-doggers claims

The five deny all wrongdoing
41 Comments
22 Nov 13:29
Security
Money laundering

178 arrested in pan-European money mule crackdown

Law enforcement dents cybercrime networks
22 Nov 12:59
Software

Emulating x86: Microsoft builds granny flat into Windows 10

Park your legacy apps here, they'll feel right at home
74 Comments
22 Nov 12:37
Policy

Microsoft promises 'equal access' to LinkedIn to get EC green light for acquisition

Tales from the antitrust crypt
13 Comments
22 Nov 12:19
Security

Merkel calls for balanced approach to data protection

EU should not be 'too restrictive' with data protection law
22 Nov 11:27
Policy

More than half of punters reckon they can't get superfast broadband

'That there London gets all the speeds'
63 Comments
22 Nov 11:02
Personal Tech

Happy days for second-hand smartphone sales

Hold it, hold it, hold it – now sell it!
36 Comments
22 Nov 10:46
Policy

UK.gov flings £400m at gold standard, ‘full-fibre' b*&%*%£$%. Yep. Broadband

Stop drooling, BT. It's not for you
76 Comments
22 Nov 09:15
Policy

Fallout from Euro Patent Office meltdown reaches Dutch parliament

King Battistelli, of course, remains unrepentant
29 Comments
22 Nov 08:29
Artificial Intelligence

AI is all trendy and fun – but it's still a long way from true intelligence, Facebook boffins admit

To be fair, the same goes for many humans, too
25 Comments
22 Nov 08:02
Security

Irish eyes are crying: Tens of thousands of broadband modems wide open to hijacking

D1000 can be directed to drop its firewall, allowing access to panel over the internet
33 Comments
22 Nov 07:42
Cloud

Glacier melt race increases vastly … for AWS cold storage

Sorry, no climate change. Just faster Glacier retrieval and new cloud hijinks with desktops-as-a-service-in-a-browser
22 Nov 07:22
Science

New state of matter discovered by superconductivity gurus

The 'pseudogap' state could be key to high-temperature superconductors
42 Comments
22 Nov 07:03
Internet of Things

MP Kees Verhoeven wants EU to regulate the Internet of S**t

Vendors don't care, so government should step in
37 Comments
22 Nov 06:28
Security
DNS privacy slide from Dan Gillmor, ACLU

IETF plants privacy test inside DNS

'Stubby' aims to protect your metadata from snoopers
19 Comments
22 Nov 05:59
Business
Burning money, photo via Shutterstock

Brocade's sales growth outpaced by costs, ahead of Broadcom buyout

Wi-Fi, routing up; SANs down
22 Nov 05:02
Security

Boffins bake Crysis ransomware's keys into handy decryptor

Developers may have dropped keys to drop cops
22 Nov 04:36
Security

Free 'cyber hugs' for all is the plan at New Zealand's first CERT

Kiwicon Kiwis plan a CERT with heart, not just a shield for business
22 Nov 04:02
Policy

Donald Trump confirms TPP to be dumped, visa program probed

Doubles down on new cyber-defence plan, too, even though USA already has one
88 Comments
22 Nov 02:58
Personal Tech

Apple unplugs its home LAN biz, allegedly

AirPort taken behind shed, shot heard
31 Comments
22 Nov 02:27

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