Security Researcher says fixes to Windows Defender's engine incomplete James Lee says Microsoft's A-V software still has remote code execution holes 15 Jun 00:37 | 15
Security It's 2017 and someone's probably still using WINS naming. If so, stop Microsoft's NetBIOS naming is vulnerable: use DNS instead 15 Jun 01:14 | 32
SaaS You didn't miss World Cloud Backup Day. It just kinda happened Box and Google co-incidentally reveal new low-download backup apps on the same day 15 Jun 01:58 | 5
Networks Small carriers aren't showing up to IPv6 standards chats, consultant warns And that means useful stuff could be left out of customer premises equipment 15 Jun 02:58 | 21
Security RSA SecurID admin console can issue emergency access to decent social engineers Put the management interface behind the firewall, pronto 15 Jun 04:04 | 6
AI + ML Facebook tried teaching bots art of negotiation – so the AI learned to lie Given training data was real human chatter, this says more about us than anything else 15 Jun 05:03 | 25
Storage FreeNAS releases version 11, so let us put the unpleasantness of failed V.10 behind us Adds S3 compatibility but Docker drops out for now 15 Jun 05:32 | 19
Science Disney mulls Mickey Mouse magic material to thwart pirates' 3D scans Patent bid for special sauce in kids' tat that blinds rip-off equipment 15 Jun 06:02 | 63
Analysis Europe-wide BitTorrent indexer blockade looms after Pirate Bay blow Euro Court of Justice decides infamous search engine does infringe copyright 15 Jun 06:29 | 89
Analysis Sorry to burst your bubble, but Microsoft's 'Ms Pac-Man beating AI' is more Automatic Idiot Code hardwired to reach perfect 999,990 score 15 Jun 06:56 | 74
Personal Tech Wi-Fi Dream Home Of The Future™ gets instructions for builders Sensible stuff from Wi-Fi Alliance guides AP placement, channel usage and more 15 Jun 07:32 | 27
Science AR and VR in data visualisation – can it ever be useful to our puny human minds? 'The biggest challenge is to not misrepresent the data' 15 Jun 07:59 | 3
Comment Operators and vendors agree that Europe is falling behind in 5G Mobile natives are getting restless 15 Jun 08:32 | 16
Networks Now you can 'roam like at home' within the EU, but what's the catch? And what about Brexit, huh? 15 Jun 09:03 | 83
Software Hortonworks feathers nest with IBM deal IBM BigInsights users migrating to Hadoop-flinger’s HDP 15 Jun 09:33 | 12
Security Don't all rush out at once, but there are a million devices ripe to be the next big botnet As bad as Mirai was, it could have been much worse 15 Jun 10:02 | 14
On-Prem BA passengers caught in crossfire of Heathrow baggage meltdown Whatever the problem was, it’s fixed, says airport 15 Jun 10:31 | 36
Security Banking websites are 'littered with trackers' ogling your credit risk Lenders already know whether to approve before you apply 15 Jun 11:03 | 90
Personal Tech Months late, unaudited: ZX Spectrum reboot firm files accounts Which bit is the half-million pounds of other people's money? 15 Jun 11:34 | 34
Analysis WDC fires another shot at Toshiba in flash foundry spat, whispers: Pick me, Tosh! Confused? Let us explain the tale of love and hate 15 Jun 12:02 | 2
Science Japanese robo-tech firm plans Olympic driverless taxi rollout 600 Johnny Cabs in the Land of the Rising Sun 15 Jun 12:47 | 4
Devops Amazon and others sniffing around Slack Enjoying a free version of the biz collab software? Maybe not for much longer... 15 Jun 12:55 | 21
On-Prem That minutes-long power glitch? It's going to cost British Airways £80m, IAG investors told Resulting IT systems crash airline chaos lasted 3 days 15 Jun 14:01 | 28
SaaS Cloud bigger than ever, biz suddenly keen to fork out for security. Put 'em together... Let's just say cloud security on the up - Gartner 15 Jun 14:30 |
Networks Openreach to comms providers: Why can't we be friends? Reformed monopoly wants to 'get much closer' to partners 15 Jun 15:13 | 13
Security Banks could be stung for €5bn under GDPR, screams latest report on industry readiness Firm peddling security solutions says poor breach reporting will 'make you look like a fool' 15 Jun 16:03 | 7
Storage Blade Runner time: Retail replicant buys into WANdisco’s Fusion product Firm starting to win big orders to its replication to the cloud product 15 Jun 16:42 | 1
Security If you haven't already obliterated your Jaff-infected comp, there is an antidote available Lovely chaps at Kaspersky have developed decryption tool 15 Jun 17:03 | 7
HPC Uncle Sam bungs rich tech giants quarter of a billion bucks for exascale super R&D Carrot dangled for 2021 mega-machines 15 Jun 18:00 | 18
Security Look who's joined the anti-encryption posse: Germany, come on down Sie werden diese Nachrichten entschlüsseln! 15 Jun 18:43 | 109
Legal Uber sued after digging up medical records of woman raped by driver Toxic trash taxi biz accused of obtaining files to smear sex assault victim 15 Jun 19:14 | 28
On-Prem Yahoo! cleanup! will! cost! Verizon! half! a! billion! bucks! Ha! Ha! Another! chance! to! use! these! exclamations! 15 Jun 19:33 | 11
Security BAE accused of flogging mass-spying toolkits to assh*le autocrats Arab Spring meant ka-ching for merchants of death 15 Jun 20:22 | 40
Personal Tech Oh, wow, Canada: No more carrier-locked phones for Canucks And no fees for unshackling mobes, either – all from December this year 15 Jun 21:18 | 26
Legal When we said don't link to the article, Google, we meant DON'T LINK TO THE ARTICLE! One click, or two? How about no clicks, German court tells search company 15 Jun 21:46 | 99
Security WikiLeaks emits CIA's Wi-Fi pwnage tool docs Spies do spying, part 78: Cherry Blossom malware gobbles up data flowing through routers 15 Jun 22:49 | 13