Apple fires legal salvo at Corellium claiming the virtual iPhone flinger is infringing copyright
Good-faith security research tool or help for hackers? Both?
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Security? We've heard of it! But why be a party pooper when there's printing to be done
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Apple's WebKit techs declare privacy circumvention to be a security issue
Bypass our tracking controls at your unspecified peril, warns maker of minor browser
Fancy a career exposing cloud data leaks? Great news, companies are still largely clueless
Unit 42 crew tours the cloud security hellscape, finds admins have learned nothing
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Overstock's share price has plummeted. Is it Trump's trade war? Bad results? Nope, its CEO has gone bonkers...
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Security
Chrome add-on warns netizens when they use a leaked password. Sometimes, they even bother to change it
Alerted to exposed credentials, users do something about it roughly a quarter of the time
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NSA asks Congress to permanently reauthorize spying program that was so shambolic, the snoops had shut it down
AnalysisYou never know, we might figure out how not to screw up in future
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Software
Dropbox would rather write code twice than try to make C++ work on both iOS and Android
Write once, run anywhere? You must be joking
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Microsoft Surface users baffled after investing in kit that throttles itself to the point of passing out
400MHz ought to be enough for anyone?
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Top tip: Don't upload your confidential biz files to free malware-scanning websites – everything is public
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Storage
Gone in a flash: Oracle lays off hundreds as the biz formerly known as Pillar Data is shuttered
The conference call equivalent of being taken round the back and...
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Cloud
Alibaba: There's a trade war going on? Could've fooled us – just check out these swollen digits
Cloud biz still dwarfed by retail but everything's up
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Policy
Data cops order Ireland to delete 3.2m records after ID card wheeze ruled to be 'unlawful'
Splash one for GDPR
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Security
And you thought the cops were bad... Civil rights group warns of facial recog 'epidemic' across UK private sites
Shopping centres, museums and conference centres all found to be using tech
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UK.gov opens £250k competition to tackle first-world problem of crap conference Wi-Fi
Forget Vegas or Barcelona. Be 'gigabit-capable' in Blighty
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Software
Apple fires legal salvo at Corellium claiming the virtual iPhone flinger is infringing copyright
Good-faith security research tool or help for hackers? Both?
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Data Centre
Yorkshire public sector procurement body YPO opens £400m framework for data centres, cloud hosting and security
But how much will go to AWS?
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Fancy a career exposing cloud data leaks? Great news, companies are still largely clueless
Unit 42 crew tours the cloud security hellscape, finds admins have learned nothing
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UK.gov has £12m to help kick-start quantum techs that could be 'adopted at scale' – which is pretty niche, if we're honest
Brave investors would have to match awards four times over
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Back to the drawing board thanks to SN2016iet
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Police costs for Gatwick drone fiasco double to nearly £900k – and still no one's been charged
Omnishambles just keeps on rolling and you're paying for it
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'Deeply concerned' UK privacy watchdog thrusts probe into King's Cross face-recognizing snoop cam brouhaha
ICO wants to know if AI surveillance systems in central London are legal
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Apple's WebKit techs declare privacy circumvention to be a security issue
Bypass our tracking controls at your unspecified peril, warns maker of minor browser
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Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?
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'Hey Google, remind Greg the locks have been changed, and he should find a new place to live. Maybe ask his mistress?'
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Salesforce takes the multi-signer DNSSEC ball and runs with it
Extending DNS security protocol to multiple platforms takes root
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Truckers, prepare to lose your jobs as UPS buys into self-driving tech
A human driver is still needed, for the moment at least
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'Hey Google, remind Greg the locks have been changed, and he should find a new place to live. Maybe ask his mistress?'
Google Assistant can now send reminders to friends and family – this won't end well
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Ohio state's top legal eagle just made it harder for the FBI, ICE, cops to snoop around its DMV DB for people's faces
Reminder: They're not allowed to do that without permission
15 Aug 19:56 |
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Cisco axes hundreds, shares tumble amid China cut-off – but we're winning the trade war, right? So much winning
Small percentage of workforce but sign of the times
15 Aug 18:56 |
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Virtually all polled enterprises say they'll use SD-WAN in next two years. Do you know what it is? Let us fill you in
BackgrounderSD-WAN, bam, thank you, ma'am
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We're not going Huawei even if you ban our 5G kit, Chinese firm tells UK
Translation: they're in Blighty to stay and they know it
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Emergent Tech
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Now you need only briefly see the cabin interior
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Science
Don't let your dreams be dreams! Itty-bitty space shuttle to ride into orbit on a Vulcan Centaur
That's a rocket by the way, not half-horse, half-Spock
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Tariffs, don't like it. Rock the AFA, rock the AFA: NetApp's all-flash sales crash hits top-line stats
It's true most blame put on China-linked woes, but it'll hire staff in s-a-a-a-a-a-a-ales
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Security
Bomb-hoaxing DoSer who targeted police in revenge was caught after Twitter taunts
Mostly the public adversely affected
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Software
Guys, it's fine. Don't worry about randomers listening to your Skype convos. Microsoft has tweaked an FAQ a bit
'Automated and manual' data processing – so humans, yeah?
15 Aug 11:13 |
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Business
Now you see them... IBM made over 800 UK jobs vanish in 2018 despite improving fortunes
Axe fell on sales, marketing and product development
15 Aug 10:13 |
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Science
Poor old Jupiter has had a rough childhood after getting a massive hit from a mega-Earth
Jumpin' Jupiter smash, it's a gas, gas, gas
15 Aug 09:01 |
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Bootnotes
Quick question, what the Hull? City khazi is a top UK tourist destination
TripAdvisor said what now?
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How dodgy browser plugins, web scripts can silently rewrite that URL you were about to hit – and throw you into an internet wormhole
AnalysisClickjacking code found on sites with 43 million daily visits total
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World recoils in horror as smartphone maker accused of helping government snoops read encrypted texts, track device whereabouts
CommentThinking US again? You'd be wrong
15 Aug 06:29 |
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Stock price back up to, er, just below IPO level
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Cisc-o-no! 'We’re being uninvited to bid' on China deals admits CEO as Middle Kingdom snub freaks out investors
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Chipzilla patches firmware, drivers, SDKs
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Emergent Tech
WeWork filed its IPO homework. So we had a look at its small print and... yowser. What has El Reg got itself into?
CommentAuthentic tech company vibes, right down to billions in losses and admission it 'may never be profitable'
14 Aug 19:56 |
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Mind your MANRS: Internet Society names and shames network operators that bungle their routing security
Peer-to-peer networks meet peer pressure
14 Aug 19:22 |
Policy
Simons says don't push us: FTC boss warns regulator could totally break up big tech companies if it wanted
Spoiler alert: It won't
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Science
Six-day cruise lies ahead for India's Chandrayaan-2 probe before the real lunar shenanigans begin
A few weeks until 'soft landing' achievement unlocked (maybe)
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Software
Microsoft slathers Visual Studio 2019 with extra Docker love, triggers Hot Reload in Preview 2
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Personal Tech
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