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New Facebook political ad rules: Now you must prove your ID before undermining democracy

The horse is a speck on the horizon – but at least the barn door now has a bolt on it

FBI agents take aim at VPNFilter botnet, point finger at Russia, yell 'national security threat'

Feds warn admins malware is rather tough to destroy

You know that silly fear about Alexa recording everything and leaking it online? It just happened

UpdatedUS pair's private chat sent to coworker by AI bug

Uber robo-ride's deadly crash: Self-driving car had emergency braking switched off by design

Uber self-driving car on a transport truck
Security

Electron patched the patch after researcher broke the patch

January's fix had blacklist flaw, now fixed
25 May 02:55
Security

Zimmerman and friends: 'Are you listening? PGP is not broken'

EFAIL furore not over yet, even though it's easy to fix
25 May 01:57
Emergent Tech

Uber robo-ride's deadly crash: Self-driving car had emergency braking switched off by design

It's to avoid 'erratic vehicle behavior', says taxi app maker
11 Comments
24 May 23:57
Personal Tech

Samsung loses (again) to Apple in patent battle (again). This time to the tune of a mere $539m

정말 짜증난다!
24 May 23:13
Emergent Tech

As Tesla hits speed bump after speed bump, Elon Musk loses his mind in anti-media rant

He hates unions, journalists, regulators, accountability and, apparently, the color yellow
19 Comments
24 May 22:55
Science

Comet 67P's cute rubber duck shape perfect for causing eruptions

When sunlight hits the comet, gas and dust sublime
24 May 22:09

Don't miss Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04: Make yourself at GNOME. Cup of data-slurping dispute, anyone?

Security

Trio indicted after police SWAT prank call leads to cops killing bloke

Three men charged over 2017 hoax hostage situation that had a tragic end
13 Comments
24 May 21:02
Personal Tech

New Facebook political ad rules: Now you must prove your ID before undermining democracy

The horse is a speck on the horizon – but at least the barn door now has a bolt on it
11 Comments
24 May 19:47
Security

FBI agents take aim at VPNFilter botnet, point finger at Russia, yell 'national security threat'

Feds warn admins malware is rather tough to destroy
24 May 19:06
Internet of Things

You know that silly fear about Alexa recording everything and leaking it online? It just happened

UpdatedUS pair's private chat sent to coworker by AI bug
77 Comments
24 May 18:49
Science
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Ongoing game of Galileo chicken goes up a notch as the UK talks refunds

Clauses to the left, clauses to right and here we are, stuck in the middle with EU
59 Comments
24 May 16:10
Policy

Brit doctors surgery fined £35k over medical data fumble

Left patient records, prescriptions in former surgery premises for 18 months
24 May 15:14
Policy

Mobile app devs have, oh, about 9 hours left to decide whether to stay on Google's ad platform

GDPR is their problem apparently
32 Comments
24 May 13:46
Artificial Intelligence

AI and robotics legend Joanna Bryson to kick off MCubed

EventsSceptical trailblazer to deliver keynote at our ML and AI fest
24 May 13:35
Software

Microsoft patches problematic OS to deal with SSD woes

Finally, some good Windows 10 news
33 Comments
24 May 13:03
Policy

UK's spy auditor: What should we ask when reviewing super-slurp warrants?

Assessing applications for comms-snooping apparatus
24 May 12:32
Storage

Dell EMC 'years behind' in everything from flash to cloud, hoots NetApp CEO

Storage firm's annual sales up for the first time in 3 years
24 May 11:59
Emergent Tech

UK's Royal Navy accepts missile-blasting missile as Gulf clouds gather

Sea Ceptor good – more warships abroad, less so...
82 Comments
24 May 11:37
Bootnotes

Church of England will commune with God for you via Amazon's Echo

'Alexa, pray for me'
96 Comments
24 May 11:00
Business

TalkTalk plans to sell family B2B jewel to Daisy Group for £175m

Swings into £79m loss-loss in prelim fy18 results
10 Comments
24 May 10:12
Software

Welcome to Ubuntu 18.04: Make yourself at GNOME. Cup of data-slurping dispute, anyone?

CommentAnd sprinkle those angry YouTube vids with a pinch of salt, please
96 Comments
24 May 09:34
Security

London's Met Police: We won't use facial recognition at Notting Hill Carnival

But cops' trial of controversial tech will continue
38 Comments
24 May 09:08
Software
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Microsoft gives users options for Office data slurpage – Basic or Full

Would you like to send all or some telemetry back to the Windows goliath?
116 Comments
24 May 08:41
Software
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Oracle nemesis MariaDB tries to lure enterprise folk with TX 3.0

Release adds Big Red compatibility, migration service
11 Comments
24 May 08:03
Data Centre
Cloudy server conceptual illustration. Photo by Shutterstock

Microsoft and boffins cook up hardware-secured database

EnclaveDB promises protection against malicious admins
24 May 07:00
Policy

Doc Searls' Cluetrain arrives at IEEE HQ, delivers privacy machine

And that's just the second surprise. The standards bods also want to call out fake news
24 May 05:55
Data Centre

OpenStack had a summit, so everyone's talking about it

A soft serve this week for hungry net admins
24 May 04:55
Virtualization

Open Source MANO Release FOUR lands

Smaller feet, more monitoring, better interoperability
24 May 04:05
Policy

US Senator Ron Wyden to Pentagon: Encrypt your websites

CIO Dana Deasy, your certificate is from Akamai. Why?
36 Comments
24 May 02:56
Personal Tech

Servers crashed and burned. So, Qualcomm's back to Ctrl-C, Ctrl-V'ing Arm cores into phones

Pocket fondleslabs using Snapdragon 710s arriving now
24 May 02:00
Policy

Oz sports’ pee-samplers outed buying Cellebrite phone-crack kit

Fill the jar and hand over your iPhone, sir
19 Comments
24 May 01:37
Emergent Tech

Hold on. Here's an idea. Let's force AI bots to identify themselves as automatons, says Cali

Bill gets second reading but faces wrath of robot-loving EFF
37 Comments
24 May 01:04
Emergent Tech

Uber jams Arizona robo-car project into reverse gear after deadly smash

Layoffs coming as taxi-app shuts up shop
43 Comments
24 May 00:23
Policy

Kids and the web latest: 'Won't somebody please think of the children!' US Congresscritters plead

COPPA load of these new data protection rights for tykes
39 Comments
23 May 23:46
Policy

Lawyer warned FCC of Securus phone-tracking risks 10 months ago

Legal concerns over platform were floated back in July
23 May 22:51
Science

EmDrive? More like BS drive: Physics-defying space engine flunks out

Test rig itself may be causing detected minute bursts of thrust, warn eggheads
91 Comments
23 May 21:53
Artificial Intelligence

Intel's latest promise: Our first AI ASIC chips will arrive in 2019

AI Dev ConFor now you'll just have to make do with its Xeons
23 May 20:32
Security
Putin

Advanced VPNFilter malware menacing routers worldwide

Cisco's Talos team says 500k already pwned and leaking data
29 Comments
23 May 20:05
Personal Tech
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President Trump broke US Constitution with Twitter bans – judge

No, not the Russian probing. No, not money from foreign governments. No, not firing of officials. Twitter
100 Comments
23 May 18:49
Security
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Brit Attorney General: Nation state cyber attack is an act of war

And we'll, erm, name and shame bad actors MORE LOUDLY
21 Comments
23 May 16:06
Bootnotes

Swiss sausage sizzler 4.0 hits 200 bangers per hour

Crunchy charcoal fingers with raw meaty innards to be a thing of the past
62 Comments
23 May 15:32
Storage

Forward-slash flash: OG upstart Pure Storage shows off fresh models

//X and pals on show in San Fran
23 May 15:00
Personal Tech

Top UK court to rule whether 4.5m Brit iPhone fanbois can sue Google over cookies

A tale of lawyer-funding venture capitalists and Mountain View
12 Comments
23 May 14:31

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