Three quarters of US Facebook users unaware their online behavior gets tracked
You mean they are collecting our opinions to sell ads? Who would have guessed it?
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Oh snap: AWS has only gone and brought out its own Backup
Has it gotten backuppers' backs up? You bet it has
Happy Thursday! 770 MEEELLLION email addresses and passwords found in yuge data breach
Now is a good time to get a password manager app
Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito
ColumnIt's Amazon how quickly these monopolies begin
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Artificial Intelligence
Watch an AI robot program itself to, er, pick things up and push them around
VidWhy can't robots just learn to do things without being told?
18 Jan 07:32 |
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Microsoft blue biz bug bounty bonanza beckons
Azure DevOps Services invites hackers to test its limits
18 Jan 06:22 |
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Science
Friday fun fact: If Stegosauruses had space telescopes, they wouldn't have seen any rings around Saturn
Bet you were expecting a rude ring pun here? Well, not today
18 Jan 05:12 |
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Security
Old bugs, new bugs, red bugs … yes, it's Oracle mega-update day again
Out of 284 flaws, 33 are rated critical. Big Red admins have big patches ahead
18 Jan 02:56 |
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Got a Drupal-powered website? You may want to get patching now...
Open-source CMS gets a pair of critical fixes
18 Jan 01:45 |
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RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit
Happy Thursday! 770 MEEELLLION email addresses and passwords found in yuge data breach
Microsoft sends a raft of Windows 10 patches out into the Windows Update ocean
IBM to kill off Watson... Workspace from end of February
Security
Twitter. Android. Private tweets. Pick two... Account bug unlocked padlocked accounts
Cock-up went unnoticed for two Olympics, one World Cup, an EU referendum, and a US presidential election
18 Jan 00:01 |
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Networks
Man drives 6,000 miles to prove Uncle Sam's cellphone coverage maps are wrong – and, boy, did he manage it
Amazing how a big cash payout focuses the mind
17 Jan 23:10 |
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Networks
FCC: Oh no, deary me. What a shame. Too bad, so sad we can't do net neutrality appeal during the US govt shutdown
UpdatedNot so fast, there, Ajit...
17 Jan 22:02 |
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Software
Red Hat gets heebie-jeebies over MongoDB's T&Cs squeeze: NoSQL database dropped from RHEL 8B over license
'The Server Side Public License v1 does not meet standards'
17 Jan 21:09 |
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Software
It’s baaack – Microsoft starts pushing out the Windows 10 October 2018 Update
Set to update automatically? Say hello to my little friend…
17 Jan 21:00 |
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Networks
Oxford University reportedly turns off its Huawei money tap
UpdatedNo more Chinese tech vendor grants for at least three to six months, compsci students told
17 Jan 20:01 |
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Policy
Tech giant to spend $500m dealing with housing crisis caused by tech giants
Redmond to throw cash at the problem, hopes some might stick to affordable homes
17 Jan 19:15 |
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Bootnotes
Oracle boss prevented from Brexit Britain trip due to US shutdown
Mark Hurd confesses: I didn't take my passport – but usually that's not an issue
17 Jan 18:15 |
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Security
Top GP: Medical app Your.MD's data security wasn't my remit
Prof Maureen Baker told tribunal info security and clinical safety are two separate things
17 Jan 17:15 |
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Software
Oracle exec: Open-source vendors locking down licences proves 'they were never really open'
'They used to be seen as the good guys, and Oracle was the bad guy'. So that means... everyone is the bad guy now?
17 Jan 16:42 |
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Most munificent Apple killed itself with kindness. Oh. Really?
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Campaigners get go-ahead to challenge exemption UK gave itself over immigrants' data
Sueball lobbed at Brit government over Data Protection Act
17 Jan 15:40 |
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Business
Slack to fend off the collaboration competition with... a new logo
Hipsters choke on pumpkin spice latte as the beloved original is tipped into a dumpster
17 Jan 14:36 |
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Storage
Oh snap: AWS has only gone and brought out its own Backup
Has it gotten backuppers' backs up? You bet it has
17 Jan 14:06 |
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Like, subscribe and comment: Sage takes a breath as cloud sales bounce
'Ecncouraging' numbers as it switches from licensing to subs push
17 Jan 13:11 |
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Cortana and Search to innovate separately in an amicable Windows 10 Insider split
Microsoft introduces the Schrödinger Linux Subsystem. (It might work. It might not.)
17 Jan 12:32 |
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Security
Happy Thursday! 770 MEEELLLION email addresses and passwords found in yuge data breach
Now is a good time to get a password manager app
17 Jan 11:50 |
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Policy
Diplomat warns that tech industry has become a pawn as politicos fight dirty
Oracle OpenWorldThey see AI, cybersecurity as 'battle fronts' - and rising populism will make it worse - former UN official
17 Jan 11:08 |
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Personal Tech
Most munificent Apple killed itself with kindness. Oh. Really?
AnalysisWhy the battery story doesn't add up
17 Jan 10:08 |
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Artificial Intelligence
Having AI assistants ruling our future lives? That's so sad. Alexa play Despacito
ColumnIt's Amazon how quickly these monopolies begin
17 Jan 09:15 |
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Security
South Korea says mystery hackers cracked advanced weapons servers
No idea who could have been behind this one...
17 Jan 08:01 |
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Personal Tech
Three quarters of US Facebook users unaware their online behavior gets tracked
You mean they are collecting our opinions to sell ads? Who would have guessed it?
17 Jan 02:08 |
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Software
Do you feel 'lucky', well, do you, punk? Google faces down magic button patent claim
Israeli company was 'feeling lucky' but lost out
17 Jan 00:48 |
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Security
$24m in fun bux stolen from crypto-mogul. Now he fires off huge fraud charge. Like, RICO, say?
Lawsuit claims coin thief was part of a gang targeting crypto whales
17 Jan 00:29 |
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Science
RIP 2019-2019: The first plant to grow on the Moon? Yeah, it's dead already, Chinese admit
The poor cotton seedling froze to death as temperatures plunged during the lunar night
16 Jan 22:28 |
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Software
Extra life! Unity tries to undo disunity caused by Improbable cloud gaming toolkit ban
Community outcry over exile of cloud networking biz leads to terms of service revision
16 Jan 21:52 |
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Policy
US comms watchdog's industry-friendly 5G rules challenged by fresh legislation
California Congresswoman claims FCC 'failed to listen to reasonable input'
16 Jan 20:52 |
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Security
Lowjax city: Researchers crack open notorious Fancy Bear rootkit
UEFI malware has been in the wild for more than two years
16 Jan 18:04 |
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Cloud
There's gold in them thar clouds as Infor guzzles $1.5bn from Koch and Golden Gate
IPO? Maybe 2019. Perhaps 2020. Depends, OK?
16 Jan 16:52 |
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Networks
Huawei’s elusive Mr Ren: We’re just a 'sesame seed' in a superpower spat
Trump, communism and 5G - a rare glimpse into the founder's past and present
16 Jan 16:15 |
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Business
Licence to chill: Shrinking data warehouse biz Teradata hires insider CEO
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16 Jan 15:24 |
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Science
Iran satellite fails: ICBM test drive or microsat test? Opinion is divided...
Third stage failure means atmospheric fireworks show
16 Jan 15:14 |
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Security
Epic's Fortnite fail: Ancient UT2004 server used for login-stealing proof-of-concept
A tale of XSS, SQL injection and OAuth implementation
16 Jan 14:13 |
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Security
Microsoft sends a raft of Windows 10 patches out into the Windows Update ocean
Whoa - is that an Access 97 iceberg dead ahead?
16 Jan 13:35 |
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IBM to kill off Watson... Workspace from end of February
Not even using the founder's brand could save Big Blue's Slack for suits
16 Jan 13:03 |
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Storage
Veeam. Veeam. Veeeeeeeam. What was that? Oh, just the sound of half a billion bucks hitting backup biz's bucket
+CommentPrivately owned firm, er, changes its growth strategy
16 Jan 12:26 |
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Software
Outlook Mobile heads to the White House, passes infosec clearance for federal sector
Need to email an order for a s*$tload of hamburgers from your smartphone? Microsoft has an app for that
16 Jan 11:42 |
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HPC
Cray will realise 'substantial' loss. But Shasta minute, folks, big iron market will pick up
And... stock-botherers seem happy with that
16 Jan 10:47 |
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Emergent Tech
McKinsey’s blockchain warning irks crypto hipsters
Reverse ferret by reassuringly expensive consultant
16 Jan 09:52 |
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DevOps
The DevOps Salary Report is in, and is great news for American men
Want some more cash? Get some more skills. And perhaps a moving truck
16 Jan 09:15 |
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Science
The Large Hadron Collider is small beer. Give us billions more for bigger kit, say boffins
Future Circular Collider hopes to rack up 100 tera electron Volts to probe physics
16 Jan 07:54 |
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Science
China's really cotton'd on to this whole Moon exploration thing: First seed sprouts in lunar lander biosphere
PicLiving in a box, living in a faraway box, I'm living in a box
16 Jan 07:04 |
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Emergent Tech
Bipartisan Kumbaya: President Trump turns Obama's open govt data policy into law
AnalysisEvidence-based policy? What a novel idea...
16 Jan 02:58 |
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Personal Tech
US prosecutors: Hey, you know how we said 'net gambling was OK? LMAO, we were wrong
2011 ban on interstate, foreign sports betting extended to online lotteries, poker, casinos
16 Jan 01:55 |
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Security
EDGAR Wrong: Ukrainians hacked SEC, stole docs for inside trading, says Uncle Sam
Crooks banked $270,000 in just one move, it is claimed
15 Jan 23:55 |
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