Quick, get the popcorn: Amazon Web Services says Microsoft's benchmarks for Azure are a load of stripe Fight! Fight! Fight!
Networks ICANN't approve the sale of .org to private equity – because California's Attorney General has... concerns DNS overseer gets letter demanding documents about controversial registry sale
Artificial Intelligence Two startups enter, one leaves: Intel kills off much-delayed Nervana AI training chip, pushes on with Habana Spring Hill NNP-I inference parts to live on, Spring Crest NNP-T is toast
Bootnotes Elon Musk shows world that he is truly awful at something Rockets, self-aggrandisement: Good. Cars: OK. Music: Make it stop
Roundup Software Universal Woe Platform: Microsoft shows UWP support – by yanking ad monetisation Also: Latest Windows 10 Insider Build's new surprise feature, which rhymes with 'chug' and doesn't like penguins 03 Feb 13:01 |
Science Vulture discovers talons are rubbish for building Lego's International Space Station Some assembly required. Just like the real thing 03 Feb 12:30 | 4
Emergent Tech Swivel on this: Spinning Surface Hub 2X module may not be happening after all Partner webinar pours cold water on compute cartridge for boardroom behemoth 03 Feb 11:50 | 2
FIC 2020 Security Cover for 'cyber' attacks is risky, complex and people don't trust us, moan insurers Tried not suing your customers when they make claims? 03 Feb 11:06 | 7
Bootnotes Very little helps: Tesco flashes ancient Windows desktop on Scan-As-You-Shop device Only extra special Clubcard holders entrusted with Media Player on the move 03 Feb 10:06 | 22
Security WannaCry ransomware attack on NHS could have triggered NATO reaction, says German cybergeneral FIC 2020Top military officers talk about response thresholds at French shindig 03 Feb 09:15 | 23
Personal Tech Leave it to eager beaver: Pre-orders for Samsung's next flagship are up for pre-order 6 March release date 'leaked' 31 Jan 23:58 | 3
Data Centre Ah, night shift in the 1970s. Ciggies, hipflasks, ADVENT... and fault-prone disk drives the size of washing machines Who, Me?Starting from scratch. A really big scratch 03 Feb 08:01 | 33
Artificial Intelligence AI snatches jobs from DJs and warehouse workers, plus OpenAI and PyTorch sittin' in a tree, AI, AI, AI for you and me RoundupJanuary's other AI news summarized for you... by a human... honest 03 Feb 06:58 | 14
Security Flaws punched holes in Azure cloud, Apple patches pretty much everything, Eurocops cuff Maltese hackers, etc RoundupAlso, Wawa data surfaces on dark markets after December's hack 03 Feb 06:04 | 4
Artificial Intelligence Two startups enter, one leaves: Intel kills off much-delayed Nervana AI training chip, pushes on with Habana Spring Hill NNP-I inference parts to live on, Spring Crest NNP-T is toast 31 Jan 23:20 | 5
Networks Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages BT, Gamma, Nationwide, Tide, anyone else? 31 Jan 22:39 | 85
Networks ICANN't approve the sale of .org to private equity – because California's Attorney General has... concerns DNS overseer gets letter demanding documents about controversial registry sale 31 Jan 21:24 | 26
Security Remember those infosec fellas who were cuffed while testing the physical security of a courthouse? The burglary charges have been dropped And it only took, er, four and a half months for people to see sense 31 Jan 20:39 | 33
Cloud Quick, get the popcorn: Amazon Web Services says Microsoft's benchmarks for Azure are a load of stripe Fight! Fight! Fight! 31 Jan 19:35 | 21
Personal Tech Stock market rewards LG's display limb for doing less terribly than expected Glimmer of hope in OLED biz 31 Jan 18:14 | 2
Personal Tech Apple finally clambers to top of phone market again as spider-eyed iPhone 11 lures fanatics out of the shadows The one true Jesus mobe walks away with the Q4 phone market 31 Jan 17:30 | 20
Science US's secret spy payload offloaded: Rocket Lab demos missile muscle with second Electron guided home Astronomers wring hands as more small sats sent aloft 31 Jan 16:30 | 15
Personal Tech Brits may still be struck by Lightning, but EU lawmakers vote for bloc-wide common charging rules How about them Apples? 31 Jan 15:45 | 104
Bootnotes Elon Musk shows world that he is truly awful at something Rockets, self-aggrandisement: Good. Cars: OK. Music: Make it stop 31 Jan 14:59 | 42
Bootnotes Throw a sofa at this guy with your mind. She's in Control. Oh look, now I've learnt to bloody fly. She's in Control The RPGWith apologies to Joy Division 31 Jan 14:00 | 15
Security China's Winnti hackers (apparently): Forget the money, let's get political and start targeting Hong Kong students for protest info Supply-chain hackers now taking aim at kids fighting for democracy, say researchers 31 Jan 13:02 | 2
Security A year after Bank of Valletta 'cyber heist', cuffs applied as cash-cleansing case continues Would sir care for an Audi with that Jag? 31 Jan 12:04 | 6
Security Attempts to define international infosec rules of the road bogged down by endless talkshops, warn diplomats FIC 2020Do you want Russia or China writing treaties on what's cool online? 31 Jan 11:08 | 11
Artificial Intelligence Will Asimov fix my doorbell? There should be a law about this Something for the Weekend, Sir?Computer systems must do no harm? ... Ha ha ha... 31 Jan 10:07 | 153
Bootnotes BSOD Burgerwatch latest: Do you want fries with that plaintext password? Getting a whiff of unsupported OS too 31 Jan 09:15 | 71
Data Centre So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance On CallIt's Hammer Time
Networks Not call, dude: UK govt says guaranteed surcharge-free EU roaming will end after Brexit transition period. Brits left at the mercy of networks I didn't see that on the side of a bus
Networks You spoke, we didn't listen: Ubiquiti says UniFi routers will beam performance data back to mothership automatically And good luck opting out of that one
Science Boris celebrates taking back control of Brexit Britain's immigration – with unlimited immigration program Don’t worry: The PM's only going to let the best boffins in... honest
Virtualization VMware? VM... now where? It's that time of the year again when Dell's virtualization software giant sheds staff Hundreds or more said to be chopped worldwide
Security UN didn't patch SharePoint, got mega-hacked, covered it up, kept most staff in the dark, finally forced to admit it For an organization accused of being 'all talk, no action', there's not even enough talking – to its own employees
Networks Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages BT, Gamma, Nationwide, Tide, anyone else?
Security Remember the Clipper chip? NSA's botched backdoor-for-Feds from 1993 still influences today's encryption debates EnigmaWe'll laugh at today's mandated holes in the same way we laugh at those from 25 years ago
Software Thunderbird is go: Mozilla's email client lands in a new nest Around 0.5% of emails opened in the 'bird today, according to one analytics tracker survey
Bootnotes BSOD Burgerwatch latest: Do you want fries with that plaintext password? Getting a whiff of unsupported OS too
Can portable atomic clocks end UK dependence on GPS? New decade, independent geo-time keeping Read more
Microservices pioneer Sam Newman to keynote at CLL20 Continuous Lifecycle 2020 agenda is live Read more
Data Centre So you locked your backups away for years, huh? Allow me to introduce my colleagues, Brute, Force and Ignorance On CallIt's Hammer Time 31 Jan 08:01 | 234
Artificial Intelligence Got an AI secret you want to tell the world? Advice on ML business tools to share? Our MCubed 2020 call for papers is open and waiting for you EventNot ready to speak yet? Grab a blind-bird ticket while you can 31 Jan 07:00 |
Networks It’s not true no one wants .uk domains – just look at all these Bulgarians who signed up to nab expired addresses 'It earns money for freelancers and very small businesses in our rather poor country' says maker of catcher tool 31 Jan 06:03 | 65
Software SF tech biz forks out $146m in fines, settlements after painkiller makers bribed it to design medical software that pushed opioids to patients Practice Fusion pocketed kickbacks for crafty alerts and drop-down menu 31 Jan 02:31 | 28
Cloud And if you turn to your left, you can see the walls of Amazon Web Services' vast server farm. And next to it, a gift shop and visitor center We'll stop here so you can browse the shelves for books and toys 31 Jan 00:59 | 25
Cloud Gin and gone-ic: Rometty out as IBM CEO, cloud supremo Arvind Krishna takes over, Red Hat boss is president Shares up more than six per cent after-hours as Big Blue's Ballmer exits in surprise management shakeup 30 Jan 23:42 | 61
Software Google promises next week's cookie-crumbling Chrome 80 will only cause 'a very modest amount of breakage' UpdatedSmart websites should be fine – if you're being scummy, beware 30 Jan 22:37 | 19
Artificial Intelligence Facebook coughs up $550m to make AI photo tagging lawsuit vanish. How ever will it survive on that $17.9bn left over? That tech backlash in full: More and more are using the antisocial network 30 Jan 20:45 | 14
Emergent Tech In your face short sellers! Tesla goes two quarters in a row without losing money A supercharged 2020 ahead? Or is the Electric Emperor a little short on threads? 30 Jan 19:22 | 33
Personal Tech It's calculated Apple leak time: Cheaper iPhone, laptops with proper keyboards, and, oh, a Tile competitor We love cheap thrills, don't we? 30 Jan 18:17 | 27
Software Shopify goes all in on React Native for mobile development 3 years after Airbnb dropped it like 3rd-grade French Commerce platform should have a better time, right? 30 Jan 16:30 | 1
Security Difficult season: Antivirus-flinger Avast decides to 'wind down' Jumpshot 'Hundreds' of staffers in marketing analytics subsidiary to be hit 30 Jan 15:38 | 18