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Google ARCore brings augmented reality to relatively small audience

At least it doesn't require a bleeding-edge PC and costly goggles

31 Aug 00:08 | 8

Siemens patches one security vuln, leaves folks to block second

LOGO owners on alert

31 Aug 00:59 | 1

Instagram's leaky API exposed celebrities' contact details

This could be how Justin Bieber's bare butt popped out

31 Aug 02:06 | 6

Google Cloud rolls back changes after 18-hour load balancer brownout

VMs across US, Europe and Asia all unable to “connect to backends”

31 Aug 03:03 | 13

Korea extends factory automation tax break, is accused of levying 'robot taxes' anyway

Due to expire in 2017, subsidy gets two-year reprieve

31 Aug 04:00 | 14

ARM’s embedded TLS library fixes man-in-the-middle fiddle

IoT security helper is vulnerable to attacks by malicious peers

31 Aug 04:58 | 6

Dell/EMC year one has exceeded Michael Dell's expectations

Says biggest surprise is lack of surprises, and PCs won't surprise again

31 Aug 06:02 | 4

Ice-cold Kaspersky shows the industry how to handle patent trolls

AV company forces litigator to pay to drop its own case

31 Aug 07:00 | 41

Nest cracks out cheaper spin of its thermostat

Now just $169 if you're willing to lose the hi-tech look

31 Aug 07:32 | 56

Stephen King's scary movie reboot provokes tears from 'legit clowns'

Industry fears more pie in face over new It film

31 Aug 08:01 | 85

Rolling in personally identifiable data? It's a bit of a minefield if you don't keep your feet

But if it's genuinely anonymised, heck, go crazy

31 Aug 08:26 | 16

WDC's biz banquet has made it a chips-to-disks-to-systems monstrosity

CEO Milligan has reshaped firm upwards and outwards

CyberRehab's mission? To clean up the internet, one ASN block at a time

Project wants to make ISPs accountable for cybercrime

31 Aug 09:36 | 32

Privacy-focused search engine DeepSearch slinks out of hiding

New web crawler from TSignal doesn't care who you are

31 Aug 10:32 | 15

Patchy PCI compliance putting consumer credit card data at risk

Good intentions dashed by weary admin's ad hoc Wi-Fi, hotel's wack-ass data storage

31 Aug 11:04 | 16

Couple fires sueball at Amazon over faulty solar eclipse-viewing goggles

Complaint states Bezos' empire did 'too little, too late'

31 Aug 11:29 | 74

Prejudiced humans = prejudiced algorithms, and it's not an easy fix

Building bad practices in ML can turn out awkward

31 Aug 12:01 | 46

LG teases us with svelte V30 but refuses to say if it's coming to Blighty

'Key European markets'? C'mon, just tell us already

31 Aug 12:33 | 24

UK council fined £70k for leaving vulnerable people's data open to world+dog

Care requirements database held details of 3,000 service users on passwordless portal

31 Aug 13:01 | 37

Sony remembers it once made a great little phone

Compact revived with flagship CPU

31 Aug 14:01 | 42

Belarus declares war on imaginary country within borders of Belarus that is better than Belarus

Fed-up citizens join fictional opposition in their hundreds

31 Aug 14:31 | 31

Wanna spend a day getting deeply hands-on with machine learning?

Two workshops added to MCubed agenda

31 Aug 14:42 | 3

Western Digital has cloudified the NAS and shoved it in a trendy box

Not a universal home data store, but it's close

31 Aug 15:02 | 29

Police deny Notting Hill Carnival face recog tech led to wrongful arrest

Do we believe their PR or an anti-spytech activist?

31 Aug 15:31 | 55

Samsung keeps the smartwatch alive. Just

'Don't think of it as a watch'

31 Aug 16:01 | 28

The down low on why Coho Data is a no-go

Compute-assisted DataStream Micro Arrays are no more

31 Aug 17:46 | 7

SanDisk's little microSD card sucks up 400GB

iPhone charging and backup base unit also on cards

31 Aug 18:52 | 61

P≠NP proof fails, Bonn boffin admits

Norbert Blum says his proposed solution doesn't work

31 Aug 19:16 | 42

Oracle finally decides to stop prolonging the inevitable, begins hardware layoffs

Pink slips are en route, say staff

31 Aug 19:34 | 38

When uploading comments to the FCC, you can now include malware

And this is the agency that wants to regulate the internet

31 Aug 19:58 | 13

NSA enters stage two of its spying revival plan: Getting Trump onboard

Oh look, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board is being revived

31 Aug 21:01 | 13

Net neutrality comments close: Let the BS begin!

Everyone loves it! Everyone hates it! FCC will do whatever it wants anyway

31 Aug 21:25 | 8

Deputy AG Rosenstein calls for law to require encryption backdoors

If you won't open up conversations, we'll make it a law, says Sessions' #2

31 Aug 21:45 | 88

Malware writer offers free trojan to hackers ... with one small drawback

Beware of geeks bearing Cobian RAT gifts

31 Aug 22:14 | 17

Bitcoin Foundation wants US Department of Justice investigated

Bitcoin isn't money, so money laundering laws shouldn't apply

31 Aug 23:05 | 41

Robocall scumbags already target Hurricane Harvey victims

Swarms of fire ants now just the second-nastiest thing floating around Houston

31 Aug 23:27 | 17

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