Legal Australia launches critical infrastructure security reforms Part 1: find out who owns what. Part 2: get them to take security seriously ... or else 10 Oct 01:06 | 15
Updated Zuck shows Virtual Empathy by visiting storm-wrecked Puerto Rico in VR Social Network™ indulges in disaster pr0n in the week it has new VR kit landing 10 Oct 01:18 | 25
Security Smut-watchers suckered by evil advertising 'Millions' of Pr0rnHüb visitors offered fake browser updates 10 Oct 01:28 | 29
On-Prem Splunk acquires rival Rocana and some of its techies In 2015 the two were at each other's throats over a blog post. We think we can say who won! 10 Oct 02:58 | 2
On-Prem Hitting 3 nanometers to cost chipmaker TSMC at least US$20 billion That's the price for continuing to cook Apple's cores 10 Oct 04:57 | 28
Software Cortana, please finish my sentences in Skype texts for me Redmond's AI assistant can now scan your messages and make your more eloquent 10 Oct 06:04 | 44
Security Leaky-by-design location services show outsourced security won't ever work Google and Facebook can't – or won't – anticipate misuses of data that shouldn't exist 10 Oct 07:03 | 88
On-Prem Rattled toymaker VTech's data breach case exiting legal pram Motion to dismiss case of 6.4m leaked kids' accounts looks likely to succeed 10 Oct 07:32 | 22
Science Three words: Synthetic gene circuit. Self-assembling bacteria build pressure sensor Because 3D printers are sooo 2006 10 Oct 09:05 | 38
Storage OpenEBS v0.4 is live, uses Google container scheduling tech Kubernetes grunt-powered community storage software 10 Oct 09:29 | 4
On-Prem BAE confirms it is slashing 2,000 jobs Redundancies down to falling demand, says chief exec 10 Oct 09:42 | 69
Bootnotes Star Wars: Big Euro cinema group can't handle demand for tickets to new flick Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to hate. Hate leads to nerds raging on Twitter 10 Oct 10:09 | 91
Updated Russia to block access to cryptocurrency exchanges' websites – report Central bank deputy governor calls them 'dubious' 10 Oct 10:49 | 30
First Fondle BlackBerry's new Motion will move you neither to tears of joy nor sadness It's an Android with a few frills and BBM. Fine 10 Oct 11:02 | 37
Security Real Mad-quid: Murky cryptojacking menace that smacked Ronaldo site grows They’re taking our processor cycles 10 Oct 11:21 | 18
Bootnotes Footie ballsup: Petition kicks off to fix 'geometrically impossible' street signs All hexagons and no pentagons makes Jack a very dull... 10 Oct 12:43 | 158
Software Kotlin's killin' Java among Android devs By the end of 2018, says Realm, Kotlin will overtake Java for Android apps 10 Oct 13:00 | 28
Security Overdraft-fiddling hackers cost banks in Eastern Europe $100m Mules open forged accounts, crooks clear them out from foreign ATMs 10 Oct 13:14 | 13
Legal Brit bank fined £75k over 1.5 million text and email spamhammer And London advertising firm spanked for similar campaign 10 Oct 13:44 | 20
Devops Visual Studio Team Services having some 'performance issues' Microsoft suspects 'code change' behind slow calls 10 Oct 14:02 | 27
SaaS Before you head into Office 365, pull on this cosy Cloud Archive Mimecast promises fast mail search and (of course) GDPR-friendly tools 10 Oct 14:41 | 6
Storage RDX removable disk has ransomware protection begging to be bypassed RansomBlock tech stops unauthorised access and changes to data 10 Oct 15:18 | 18
Security Hackers in Arab world collaborate more than hoodie-clad Westerners Ideological unity drives 'spirit of sharing' in crimeware market 10 Oct 16:02 | 5
Storage Samsung rings death knell for disk, gears up for QLC flash production I see you shiver with antici... pation 10 Oct 16:34 | 11
Updated Et tu Accenture? Then fall S3er: Consultancy giant leaks private keys, emails and more online AWS config blunder spills secrets all over the internet 10 Oct 19:11 | 37
Security Apple's iOS password prompts prime punters for phishing: Too easy now for apps to swipe secrets, dev warns Fake login request boxes spark formal bug report 10 Oct 19:39 | 27
Legal Google: This may shock you, but we also banked thousands of dollars to run Russian propaganda Big sums spent on shady search ads amid US elections 10 Oct 20:22 | 62
Updated Equifax: About those 400,000 UK records we lost? It's now 15.2M. Yes, M for MEELLLION Brits will be warned by post, agency says 10 Oct 21:22 | 131
OSes It's 2017... And Windows PCs can be pwned via DNS, webpages, Office docs, fonts – and some TPM keys are fscked too But at least there's no Flash update (not this week, anyway) 10 Oct 22:22 | 59
Personal Tech Apple's iPhone X won't experience the joy of 6... ...says analyst who reckons Cupertino's next big iThing will fall short of its last big iThing 10 Oct 22:59 | 55
Software Outlook, Office 2007 slowly taken behind the shed, shots heard Farewell, you're out of extended support: No more updates, security fixes from Microsoft 10 Oct 23:51 | 33