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Chinese web giant finds Windows zero-day, stays schtum on specifics

Quihoo 360 plays the responsible disclosure game

Ericsson's losses narrow, but its pulse is still weak

No, 5G won't ride to the rescue this year or next

Amazon, LG Electronics turned my vape into an exploding bomb, says burned bloke in lawsuit

Scalded smoker wants injury damages, healthcare bills paid

Single single-sign-on SNAFU threatens three Cisco products

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Software

'Your computer has a virus' cold call con artists on the rise – Microsoft

Complaints up 24% as horrible humans rake in the readies
23 Apr 12:48
Business

UK's Department of Fun seeks data strategy head – experience not needed

Data, digital or tech knowledge 'not essential' for £66,665 role
23 Apr 12:14
Policy

UK consumer help bloke Martin Lewis is suing Facebook over fake ads

Repeated misuse of consumer champion's mugshot leads to defamation sueball
35 Comments
23 Apr 11:19
The Channel

Capita reports pre-tax LOSS of £515m for 2017

Sales won't rise for until 2020 says new broom. Share price rises
20 Comments
23 Apr 10:43
Cloud

Brit bank TSB TITSUP* after long-planned transfer of customer records from Lloyds

UpdatedUsers continue to report issues despite claims it's fixed
28 Comments
23 Apr 09:53
DevOps

Rebuilding your software ops and looking for the right tool kit?

Continuous Lifecycle London will help you reshape your pipeline
23 Apr 09:23

Don't miss Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...

Artificial Intelligence

Your AI pet project is only as smart as its garbage training set

No one said it'd be easy
23 Apr 09:03
The Channel

McDonald's tells Atos to burger off: Da da da da da, we're lobbing IT ...

... support to a Capgemini call centre (and one in India)
24 Comments
23 Apr 08:37
Policy

US sanctions on Turkey for Russia purchases could ground Brit F-35s

+CommentOi, remember who you picked as our one-and-only engine supplier?
36 Comments
23 Apr 08:09
Business

Citrix sues VDI challenger Workspot

Patents the pretence, cloudy control planes competition a more likely cause
23 Apr 07:27
Business
Power board

Sysadmin unplugged wrong server, ran away, hoped nobody noticed

Who, me?‘I was a snot-nosed kid fresh out of college and thought I knew everything!’
62 Comments
23 Apr 07:04
Security
Angry man on laptop. Illustration via Shutterstock

Single single-sign-on SNAFU threatens three Cisco products

Firepower, AnyConnect and ASA appliances and clients need patches
23 Apr 06:28
Business
Oath: logo

Yahoo! dismemberment! begins! as! Oath! offloads! Flickr!

SmugMug now the proud owner of more than twenty billion photographs
15 Comments
23 Apr 06:01
Security

Brains behind iOS' secure microkernel start moving it to RISC-V

Unveil first code, joins giants in industry standard-club
23 Apr 05:02
Business

Ericsson's losses narrow, but its pulse is still weak

No, 5G won't ride to the rescue this year or next
23 Apr 03:56
Security

Chinese web giant finds Windows zero-day, stays schtum on specifics

Quihoo 360 plays the responsible disclosure game
23 Comments
23 Apr 01:36
Security

Cloud-surfing orgs under attack, Microsoft antivirus for Chrome, Windows 10 S bypass, non-RSA gigs, and more

RoundupYour guide to this week in infosec
21 Apr 11:06
Artificial Intelligence

How much do AI gurus really get paid? And is NIPS such a great name for a conference?

RoundupAnd how does Hey Siri work? Read about it here
21 Apr 09:26
Internet of Things

Time to ditch the front door key? Nest's new wireless smart lock is surprisingly convenient

ReviewBut it's still hard to shake some concerns
142 Comments
21 Apr 07:06
Business

Facebook privacy audit by auditors finds everything is awesome!

FTC's heavily redacted report says everything's hunky dory
31 Comments
21 Apr 00:09
Security

Oh, baby! Newborn-care website leaves database of medics wide open

Health Stream, are you out there? The guy that found your data leak wants a word
20 Apr 23:30
Business

Kaspersky Lab loses the privilege of giving Twitter ad money

Twitter's loss is the EFF's gain
31 Comments
20 Apr 22:06
Security
RSA history wall, photo: RSA

No way, RSA! Security conference's mobile app embarrassingly insecure

Sorry about the hard-coded passwords, can we sell you some crypto now?
12 Comments
20 Apr 21:20
Personal Tech
Person holding vape box

Amazon, LG Electronics turned my vape into an exploding bomb, says burned bloke in lawsuit

Scalded smoker wants injury damages, healthcare bills paid
87 Comments
20 Apr 20:07
Security
hands through the jail bars. Photo by shutterstock

British Crackas With Attitude chief gets two years in the cooler for CIA spymaster hack

Kane Gamble gambles and loses on hacking skills
46 Comments
20 Apr 19:21
Software

Apple's magical quality engineering strikes again: You may want to hold off that macOS High Sierra update...

Because 10.13.4 is seemingly unstable and performing poorly
55 Comments
20 Apr 18:33
Software

Twenty years ago today: Windows 98 crashed live on stage with Bill Gates. Let's watch it again...

VideoRelive that sphincter-loosening Blue Screen of Death
90 Comments
20 Apr 17:53
Bootnotes

Drama brews on high seas as Playmobil ship running out of steam

Vessel charts a course to pirate tax haven
15 Comments
20 Apr 16:06
Security

Planned European death ray may not need Brit boffinry brain-picking

Plenty of laser research already going on – but there's more than one way to melt a drone
53 Comments
20 Apr 15:06
Emergent Tech

Samsung-backed gizmo may soon juice up your smartphone over the air

What a time to be alive
30 Comments
20 Apr 14:26
Storage

It's a Pivotal moment: Dell's cloudy soft limb hits the stock market

Still firmly in Big Mike's clutches despite IPO
20 Apr 13:52
Policy

Creaky NHS digital infrastructure risks holding back gene boffinry, say MPs

Ask for clear budgets, better training and yup, public engagement
16 Comments
20 Apr 13:21
Personal Tech

Two's company, Three's unbowed: You Brits will pay more for MMS snaps

UK mobe network ups charges for sunshine selfie-takers, just in time for their hols
57 Comments
20 Apr 12:08
Storage

And so it begins: Veritas lays off UK workers, R&D bods hit hardest

At least 100 out at cloud data wrangling biz, sources claim
13 Comments
20 Apr 11:41
Policy

Government demands for people's personal info from Microsoft reach all-time low

Just 23k requests in first half of 2017, says Windows giant
20 Apr 10:59
Policy

EU under pressure to slap non-compliance notice on Google over pay-to-play 'remedy'

Comparison shopping websites won't use Chocolate Factory fix
28 Comments
20 Apr 10:13
Personal Tech

LESTER gets ready to trundle: The Register's beer-bot has a name

And garners industry attention
52 Comments
20 Apr 09:44
BOFH
man dressed as zombie doing accounts/audit

BOFH: We know where the bodies are buried

Episode 6You're here to audit us? Hi! Fancy a coffee?
67 Comments
20 Apr 09:09
Bootnotes
Suitcase full of money

Tech bribes: What's the WORST one you've ever been offered?

Bros gig, smellies, branded socks... Here are our tales. Tell us yours
190 Comments
20 Apr 08:41
Bootnotes
Statler and Waldorf - copyright - The Walt Disney company - the muppets studio

There is no perceived IT generation gap: Young people really are thick

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Grumble grumble where's me suet pudding in Bovril etc
311 Comments
20 Apr 08:05
DevOps

Apple unleashes FoundationDB as an open source project

Secretive company talks up the need for open community
12 Comments
20 Apr 07:27
Business

CEO insisted his email was on server that had been offline for years

On-CallWhen the dotcom bubble burst, the surviving techies learned the true meaning of just-in-time training
121 Comments
20 Apr 06:57
Policy

ZTE to USA: Sure, ban us, but you cannot afford such victories

We’ve done everything you asked - even implemented SAP - pleads Chinese vendor
56 Comments
20 Apr 06:32

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