superhero

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Called a bum bag in uk though it is worn over genitals, not bum, and fanny pack in the US. Waist purse

Unclip your pager and bag from your belt: We need to make room for a battery-powered 1TB HD

Repairman in orange overalls threateningly wields tape measure

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Cisco admins: Hold that IOS XR update while you get new firmware

Tim Cook, photo by JStone via Shutterstock

Apple will start coughing up government app takedown demand stats

Man looks into his cellphone/mobile - which looks back at him

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UK Home Office's £885m crim records digi effort: A 'masterclass in incompetence'

Square contactless Reader

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Starbucks site slurped, Z-Wave locks clocked, mad Mac Monero mining malware and much more

Epyc fail? We can defeat AMD's virtual machine encryption, say boffins

Hammer, spanner and screw

Electron patches patch after security researcher bypassed said patch

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

Cat in tupperware image via Shutterstock

VM-container chimera Kata Containers emerges from lab

OpenStack

OpenStack makes Zuul continuous delivery tool its second indie project

Nikki Bailey, Illumina

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IT worker with head in hands

Git push origin undo-my-last-disaster

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Max Schrems

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MPs slam UK.gov's 'unacceptable' hoarding of custody images

US websites block netizens in Europe: Why are they ghosting EU? It's not you, it's GDPR

Facebook F8 2018

Facebook's democracy salvage effort tilts scale in Mississippi primary

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The Essential Phone

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Geek's Guide

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Toaster oven-sized boffin box bound for Mars to search for life

Autophage Engine

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Comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko

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

staff in business suits thrash each other with ring binders

Ongoing game of Galileo chicken goes up a notch as the UK talks refunds

Overhyping AI doctors, language translation goes open source, and new jobs on the cards

corpse

IBM's Watson Health wing left looking poorly after 'massive' layoffs

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ship

International Maritime Organisation turns salty gaze on regulating robotic shipping

Verity Stob

man contemplating /meditating in silhouette against sunset

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

Swiss sausage sizzler 4.0 hits 200 bangers per hour

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Boffins: Michael Jackson's tilt was a criminally smooth trick

Hitler 'is dead' declares French prof who gazed at dictator's nashers

Top stories

BOFH: Their bright orange plumage warns other species, 'Back off! I'm dangerous!'

Episode 9It's for your own Health and Safety

Police block roads to stop tech support chap 'robbing a bank'

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'Forced consent' is no consent, state legal challenges

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Man looks into his cellphone/mobile - which looks back at him

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Artificial Intelligence

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Apple will start coughing up government app takedown demand stats

But applications the iGiant removes on its own won't be included

America's comms watchdog takes on the internet era's real criminals: Pirate pastors

And helps cable industry tackle scourge of streaming boxes

Facebook's democracy salvage effort tilts scale in Mississippi primary

Political ad rules come at a bad time for some politicians

Artificial Intelligence

IBM's Watson Health wing left looking poorly after 'massive' layoffs

Up to 70% of staff shown the door this week, insiders claim

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Epyc fail? We can defeat AMD's virtual machine encryption, say boffins

Evil hypervisors can lift plaintext info out of ciphered memory, it is claimed

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Who needs navigational aids on a self-driving tanker anyway?

GDPRmageddon: They think it's all over! Protip, it has only just begun

After months of hysteria, firms sure have their work cut out

NASA tech inspects MOMA

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Called a bum bag in uk though it is worn over genitals, not bum, and fanny pack in the US. Waist purse

Unclip your pager and bag from your belt: We need to make room for a battery-powered 1TB HD

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Max Schrems is back: Facebook, Google hit with GDPR complaint

'Forced consent' is no consent, state legal challenges

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Android daddy Andy Rubin's Essential axes handset, is 'actively shopping itself' – report

Going cheap: smartphone startup with big ambitions

BOFH

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MPs slam UK.gov's 'unacceptable' hoarding of custody images

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UK Home Office's £885m crim records digi effort: A 'masterclass in incompetence'

Watchdog not happy with Emergency Services Network, either

US websites block netizens in Europe: Why are they ghosting EU? It's not you, it's GDPR

Because two years wasn't enough time to prepare

Can't pay Information Commissioner's fine? No problem! Just liquidate your firm

UK data protection watchdog has a 54% cash recovery rate

Square contactless Reader

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ProfileWe speak to the ex-Apple hardware guru taking on banks and PayPal

Bank vault

Police block roads to stop tech support chap 'robbing a bank'

On-CallSirens blared, roads were blocked, and sheepish grins were eventually grinned

Lady standing on a hand with a megaphone shouting into mans ear

Welcome to your sci-fi dystopia: Sonic firewalls to crumble inaudible ad-tracking phone cookies

Ultrasonic packets of data to and from your handheld killed

Cisco admins: Hold that IOS XR update while you get new firmware

Old components brick NCS 6000 cards after OS upgrade

Tufts boffins track device location without GPS or towers

Because everybody wants better tracking, right?

Electron patches patch after security researcher bypassed said patch

January's fix for software toolkit had blacklist flaw, now fixed

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

EFAIL furore not over yet, even though it's easy to fix

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

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

정말 짜증난다!

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

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

When sunlight hits the comet, gas and dust sublime

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

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

Internet of Things

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

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staff in business suits thrash each other with ring binders

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Clauses to the left, clauses to right and here we are, stuck in the middle with EU

Brit doctors surgery fined £35k over medical data fumble

Left patient records, prescriptions in former surgery premises for 18 months

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

GDPR is their problem apparently

Artificial Intelligence

AI and robotics legend Joanna Bryson to kick off MCubed

EventsSceptical trailblazer to deliver keynote at our ML and AI fest

Microsoft patches problematic OS to deal with SSD woes

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Assessing applications for comms-snooping apparatus

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