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Web-enabled vibrator class action put to bed

The plaintiffs must be buzzing

How to build your own DIY makeshift levitation machine at home

All you need is a 3D printer, ultrasonic transducers, an Arduino, patience...

Strip club selfie bloke's accidental discharge gets him 6 years in clink

Club Lust bathroom shootup in, you guessed it, Florida

Pssst, wanna know a secret? MongoDB has confidentially filed for IPO, reports suggest

People whispering
Business

Trump's biz buddies abandon ship as manufacturing council disbands

Handling of protests proves toxic to private industry group
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16 Aug 20:12
Software

Comp sci world shock: Bonn boffin proposes P≠NP proof, preps for prestige, plump prize

Potential math challenge solution greeted with skepticism
16 Aug 19:57
Security

Disgraced US Secret Service agent coughs to second Bitcoin heist

Fox, meet henhouse
16 Aug 19:04
Personal Tech

Nokia's comeback is on: The flagship 8 emerges

Hands OnHopes rest on stock, OZO Audio
13 Comments
16 Aug 18:45
Software

The future of Python: Concurrency devoured, Node.js next on menu

AnalysisProgramming language keeps getting fatter amid awkward version 3 split
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16 Aug 17:15
Storage

Samsung's bantam SSD makes WD's 'passport' drive look passé

Is that 2TB in your pocket or are you just pleased to see me?
22 Comments
16 Aug 15:24

Don't miss Batteries that don't burn at the drop of a Galaxy Note 7? We're listening

Business

PayPal, accused of facilitating neo-Nazi rally, promises to deny hate groups service

Charlottesville events force biz to defend acceptable use policy
31 Comments
16 Aug 14:58
Software

Ubuntu sends trash to its desktop's desktop

Canonical picks up after Apple – 17 years later
16 Comments
16 Aug 14:28
Bootnotes

Vaping ads flout EU rules, even if to promote healthier lifestyles

CommentWatchdog admits it's a legal minefield
24 Comments
16 Aug 14:12
Security

HBO Game Of Thrones leak: Four 'techies' arrested in India

GoT suspects cuffed
29 Comments
16 Aug 13:27
Storage
Roger Waters The Wall

Toshiba must allow Western Digital access to joint-venture assets

Tear down the wall, Tosh, says Cali Court
16 Aug 13:04
Personal Tech
Man looking at phone misses goal being scored.

Oh no, EE! More UK mobile customers face sluggish roaming abroad

How are we supposed to enjoy our holiday without streaming?
15 Comments
16 Aug 12:27
Business
People whispering

Pssst, wanna know a secret? MongoDB has confidentially filed for IPO, reports suggest

Oracle-chaser expected to go public later this this year
16 Aug 11:57
Policy

Web-enabled vibrator class action put to bed

The plaintiffs must be buzzing
37 Comments
16 Aug 11:33
Security

She's arrived! HMS Queen Lizzie enters Portsmouth Naval Base

Pics65,000 tonnes and 4.5 acres of British sovereign territory – but is she worth it?
113 Comments
16 Aug 10:59
Security

Och. Scottish Parliament under siege from brute-force cyber attack

Unidentified hackers attempt to bust open email accounts
27 Comments
16 Aug 10:37
Security

Speaking in Tech: Tomorrow's infosec fiasco is a 'we're not a company any more' fiasco

PodcastWannacry is just the beginning
16 Aug 10:03
Storage

Loss-making storage survivor Sphere 3D looking at 'strategic alternatives'

We think it probably doesn't involve listening to Sonic Youth
16 Aug 09:36
Artificial Intelligence

Not another Linux desktop! Robots cross the Uncanny Valley

Machine Learning meets human response
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16 Aug 09:00
Business

Guess who's hiking their prices again? Come on, it's as easy as 123 Reg

Yeah, we used a variation of the headline before. And what?
51 Comments
16 Aug 08:30
Security

Months after breach at the 'UnBank' Ffrees, customers complain: No one told us

Yet 'alternative' UK financial service has complied with law
16 Comments
16 Aug 08:03
Virtualization

Xen fixes guest privilege escape and plenty more

Crashes, data leaks and foul corruption also fixed
16 Aug 07:33
Artificial Intelligence
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How are you feeling today? Don't tell us, save for it this handy emotion-detection code

Now computers can sense anger from more than furious button mashing
12 Comments
16 Aug 07:01
Business
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Lenovo thought PC salesfolk could sell servers and was wrong by about $500m

'Over-integration' saw x86 business fail to launch
13 Comments
16 Aug 06:30
Science

How to build your own DIY makeshift levitation machine at home

All you need is a 3D printer, ultrasonic transducers, an Arduino, patience...
36 Comments
16 Aug 06:04
Science

Batteries that don't burn at the drop of a Galaxy Note 7? We're listening

Zinc-air batteries are hard to charge: boffins think new catalysts can fix that
60 Comments
16 Aug 05:24
HPC

Love cloudy HPC? Microsoft does, slurps Cycle Computing

CPU-wrangler found fame on EC2, becomes Azure business
16 Aug 04:58
Bootnotes

Strip club selfie bloke's accidental discharge gets him 6 years in clink

Club Lust bathroom shootup in, you guessed it, Florida
51 Comments
16 Aug 04:03
Storage

Red Hat banishes Btrfs from RHEL

ZFS On Linux adds the proper crypto Google wants before considering Btfrs for Android
71 Comments
16 Aug 02:54
Storage

When is a Barracuda not a Barracuda? When it's really AWS S3

Now you can replicate backups to Barracuda's actually-Amazonian cloud
16 Aug 02:26
Security

Russian malware scum post new rent-an-exploit

Unpatched browser, plug-in bugs targeted by and with 'Disdain' kit
16 Aug 01:56
Cloud

Azure Stack will need special sysadmins, says Microsoft

'Operator' to wrangle on-prem cloud, with paid course coming soon, natch
15 Comments
16 Aug 01:02
Security

Creepy backdoor found in NetSarang server management software

Do you use this suite? If yes: A July 18 update screwed over your security
22 Comments
15 Aug 22:58
Business

Intel's diversity numbers are out – and that 'push' has become more of a 'gentle nudge'

Plus: 10nm+ 9th-gen Core family codenamed Ice Lake
19 Comments
15 Aug 22:27
Science

A glimpse of life under President Zuckerberg? Facebook CEO's boffins censor awkward Q&A

Human cell study AMA on Reddit all cleaned up
25 Comments
15 Aug 21:26
Emergent Tech

Revealed: The secret CEO texts that tell the tale of Uber-Waymo's self-driving tech spat

AnalysisCourt docs give insight into execs' relationship
15 Aug 20:58
Internet of Things

Taken a while but finally here's the first proper smart-home gizmo

CommentAnd it's a light bulb from Ikea
51 Comments
15 Aug 20:20
Security

Uber to bend over, take privacy probe every two years for next 20 years

FTC forces taxi app upstart to let in auditors after complaints of data security cockups
15 Aug 19:33
Policy
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Slurping people's info without a warrant? That's OUR JOB, Google, Facebook et al tell US Supreme Court

Tech giants lobby against warrantless phone spying
34 Comments
15 Aug 18:54
Cloud

Outage outed: Bing dinged, Microsoft portal mortal, DuckDuckGo becomes DuckDuckNo

UpdatedLike it or not, it's back to Google for now
36 Comments
15 Aug 18:44
Storage

Datrium claims its split-provisioning DVX array is 'tomorrow calling'

And it wants its super-scaling, newfangled tech back
15 Aug 16:36
Business

RBS sharpens axe again: 900 IT jobs to go by 2020

Unite says Brit bank will soon be running a 'skeleton service'
35 Comments
15 Aug 16:02
Security

Fresh Microsoft Office franken-exploit flops – and you should have patched by now anyway

UpdatedExploit combo fails to dodge Word warning prompts
15 Comments
15 Aug 15:30

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