If I could turn back time, I'd tell you to keep that old Radarange at home On CallBecause this comp is counting down to something...
CES flicks the off switch on massager award… and causes a buzz Something for the Weekend, Sir?It's not the messiah, it's just very naughty metadata
It WASN'T the update, says Microsoft: Windows 7 suffers identity crisis as users hit by activation errors Activation server fiddling on day of monthly update... really?
Amazon Mime: We train (badly) an AI love bot using divorce bombshell Bezos' alleged sexts to his new girlfriend Why? For science!
Science It's the weekend. We're out of puns for now. Just have a gander at China's Moon lander and robo-sidekick snaps, videos Pics and vidNot much fun back in the West for SpaceX, tho: Staff decimated 12 Jan 01:28 |
Security *taps on glass* Hellooo, IRS? Anyone in? Anyone guarding taxpayers' data from crooks? Hellooo? Could someone slide a note on identity-theft protection under the door? Helloooo? 12 Jan 00:04 | 1
Security AT&T, Sprint, Verizon, T-Mobile US pledge, again, to not sell your location to shady geezers. Sorry, we don't believe them Fool me once, shame on, shame on you. Fool me, you can't get fooled again, OK 11 Jan 22:58 | 7
Science Q. How exactly do you test car seats? A. With this sweaty 'robutt' that twerks for days and days VidWatch this game of moist mechanical musical chairs 11 Jan 21:56 | 7
Internet of Things Germany has a problem with the entire point of Amazon's daft Dash buttons – and bans them Sour Krauts aren't wrong: Tap-to-order gizmo is really dumb 11 Jan 19:53 | 33
Wanted – have you seen this MAC address: f8:e0:79:af:57:eb? German cops appeal for logs in bomb probe
Science SpaceX sends Iridium-8 into space while Musk flaunts his retro rocket The 1930s called. They'd like their silver Starship back 11 Jan 19:04 | 7
Cloud Cloud hardware spend edges ahead of traditional setups for the first time Q3 '18 it hit 50.9% of of total IT turnover, according to analyst 11 Jan 16:57 |
Software NHS England's chief digital officer goes full digital, ditches health service for GP app biz Juliet Bauer to join Livi in April 11 Jan 16:09 | 15
Virtualization If you don't like apps touching, Qubes 4.0.1 is a good place to jump in Virty OS's latest version rolls up the best bits of 2018 11 Jan 15:22 |
Security Medical advice app Your.MD could have been tampered with by anyone, alleges ex-veep Did he really blow the whistle on security fears? tribunal asked 11 Jan 14:16 | 7
Security Huawei sales director nicked in Poland on suspicion of 'spying' Former Polish security agency exec also under arrest 11 Jan 13:06 | 22
Personal Tech xHamster reports spike in UK users getting their five-knuckle shuffle on before pr0n age checks Or Jillin' off, for the ladies 11 Jan 12:27 | 81
Software It WASN'T the update, says Microsoft: Windows 7 suffers identity crisis as users hit by activation errors Activation server fiddling on day of monthly update... really? 11 Jan 11:55 | 35
Policy Alphabet board smacked with sueball for paying off Google execs accused of sexual harassment Shareholders' suit alleges there was a 'pattern' 11 Jan 11:20 | 13
Networks Begone, Demon Internet: Vodafone to shutter old-school pioneer ISP ExclusiveIt was still going? 11 Jan 11:00 | 124
DON'T MISS Americans are just fine with facial recognition technology – as long as they get shorter queues The younger generation leads the fight against face matching
Personal Tech CES flicks the off switch on massager award… and causes a buzz Something for the Weekend, Sir?It's not the messiah, it's just very naughty metadata 11 Jan 10:00 | 42
Security No plain sailing for Anon hacktivist picked up by Disney cruise ship: 10 years in the cooler for hospital DDoS caper Healthcare networks pummeled amid drama over teen girl's custody 11 Jan 09:05 | 20
Artificial Intelligence Amazon Mime: We train (badly) an AI love bot using divorce bombshell Bezos' alleged sexts to his new girlfriend Why? For science! 11 Jan 08:19 | 41
Data Centre If I could turn back time, I'd tell you to keep that old Radarange at home On CallBecause this comp is counting down to something... 11 Jan 07:03 | 88
Science What's the fate of our Solar System? Boffins peer into giant crystal ball – ah, no, wait, that's our Sun in 10bn years 50-year theory finally confirmed by European space probe 11 Jan 05:53 | 32
Security If you wanna learn from the IT security blunders committed by hacked hospital group, here's some weekend reading Database intrusion should not have succeeded, probe finds, but... 11 Jan 04:04 | 19
Artificial Intelligence Americans are just fine with facial recognition technology – as long as they get shorter queues The younger generation leads the fight against face matching 11 Jan 02:58 | 28
Security Dozens of .gov HTTPS certs expire, webpages offline, FBI on ice, IT security slows... Yup, it's day 20 of Trump's govt shutdown Hackers may be rubbing their hands with glee 11 Jan 02:02 | 116
Security Cyber-insurance shock: Zurich refuses to foot NotPetya ransomware clean-up bill – and claims it's 'an act of war' Snack company client disagrees, sues for $100m 11 Jan 00:19 | 31
Personal Tech Gartner: Not a very merry Christmas for PC market as chip shortage bites, small biz vanishes If you're not Lenovo, HP or Dell it has been a year of shrinkage 10 Jan 23:42 | 1
Cloud Unexpected final boss for games kit SpatialOS: Unity blasts multiplayer GDK out of the cloud UpdatedGame over for Brit-based maker of real-time online gaming platform? 10 Jan 22:20 | 7
Business Two out of five Silicon Valley techies complain Trump's H-1B crackdown has hit 'em hard End of fast processing upsets the Apple cart (and workers at other Silicon Valley giants) 10 Jan 20:44 | 37
Security Reddit locks out users with poor password hygiene after spotting 'unusual activity' Forum admin blames recycled credentials for 'security concern' 10 Jan 19:13 | 12
Storage Talk about beating heads against brick walls... Hard disk drive unit shipments slowly spinning down This is the age of the SSD 10 Jan 17:38 | 32
Policy Oracle's in-house lawyer denied access to Uncle Sam's procurement docs in JEDI legal battle You can’t stop the change: Chalk one up to AWS as judge agrees with Big Red's rival 10 Jan 16:21 | 10
Cloud Good news: Microsoft's Azure Data Box Disk is here. Bad news: UK South Storage is having a liedown UpdatedThe cloud giveth and the cloud taketh away 10 Jan 15:45 | 10
Software Amazon takes aim at MongoDB with launch of Mongo-compatible DocumentDB Move comes after database upstart mooted new licence to stop cloud giants ripping off its tech 10 Jan 14:59 | 10
Security Baddies linked to Iran fingered for DNS hijacking to read Middle Eastern regimes' emails 'Almost unprecedented' attacks use the old man-in-the-middle diddle – infoseccers 10 Jan 14:04 | 13
Storage Everything you ever wanted to know about NVMe eBook PromoUnshackle your data from slow disks 10 Jan 13:52 |
Software Windows 10 Insiders sent on quest deep into Registry to fetch goblet of Reserved Storage It's dangerous to go alone, take these WSL tweaks too 10 Jan 12:36 | 29
Policy Just for EU, just for EU, just for EU: Forget about enforcing Right To Be Forgotten outside member states Top court receives advice paraphrasing M People* 10 Jan 12:02 | 48
Personal Tech Peak Apple: This time it's SERIOUS, Tim CommentWhat Captain Cook can do next for Cupertino 10 Jan 10:52 | 167
Security Before you slink off to the pub, be sure to patch these 19 serious vulns in Juniper Networks kit Happy New Year from the Gin Palace 10 Jan 09:45 |
Science Hubble 'scope camera breaks down amid US govt shutdown, forcing boffins to fix it for free UpdatedRemote fix hoped for orbiting robo-eyeball 10 Jan 08:01 | 234
Security The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit... Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit Patches pending for distros to deal with threat of local privilege escalation to root 10 Jan 06:57 | 162
Networks Wanted – have you seen this MAC address: f8:e0:79:af:57:eb? German cops appeal for logs in bomb probe Plod hope to snare DHL blackmailer with a penchant for homemade explosives 10 Jan 06:04 | 79
Science Typical! You wait ages for a fast radio burst from outer space, and suddenly 13 show up Canada CHIMES into search with new 'scope and lots of iron 10 Jan 05:06 | 28
Personal Tech Steamer closets, flying cars, robot boxers, smart-mock-cock ban hypocrisy – yes, it's the worst of CES this year CES 2019And we're only halfway through the week 10 Jan 00:57 | 43
Networks We're two weeks into 2019, and an email can potentially knacker your Cisco message box – plus other bugs to fix Process data, crash, restart, process data, crash, restart... 10 Jan 00:25 | 4
Bootnotes Fake news? More like ache news. Grandma, grampa 'more likely' to share made-up articles during US election Oldies should stick to handing out Werther's Originals, not headlines, study suggests 09 Jan 22:49 | 78
Software This July, Google will weep for there are no more worlds to banhammer: 'Bad ads' to be blocked globally Advertising giant insists annoying banners are rare... and killable by Chrome 09 Jan 22:22 | 21
Security Who cracked El Chapo's encrypted chats and brought down the Mexican drug kingpin? Er, his IT manager Feds flipped techie and recorded hundreds of calls 09 Jan 21:33 | 84
Data Centre IBM insists it's not deliberately axing older staff. Internal secret docs state otherwise... Laid-off Big Blue sales ace suing over 'age discrimination' demands end to stonewalling 09 Jan 20:46 | 118
Software Microsoft wins today's buzzword bingo with empowering set of updates to Teams I have to celebrate you baby, I have to praise you like I should 09 Jan 18:27 | 15