At last, the fix no one asked for: Portable home directories merged into systemd
Option to securely carry your user profile with you in next release
Bootnotes
Artful prankster creates Google Maps traffic jams by walking a cartful of old phones around Berlin
Silent geolocation-dependent services are so reliable
Software
GitLab can proclaim diversity all it likes, but it seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management
Special reportSoftware biz's celebration of inclusivity questioned by ousted staffers
Personal Tech
The BlackBerry in your junk drawer is now a collectors' item: TCL says no more new keyboard-clad phones
End of an era in mobe design
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Bork!Bork!Bork!
Software
Windows Vista spotted doing a whoopsie over EE's signage
Even Fulham Broadway is no sanctuary from The Curse Of Bork
04 Feb 12:20 | 3
Virtualization
Virtualization juggernaut VMware hits the CPU turbo button for licensing costs
Loving all those cores? You probably won't love the price
04 Feb 11:50 |
Data Centre
Cheap as chips? Not for much longer, analysts reckon, after rough year for memory makers
'It's going to be amazingly OK'
04 Feb 11:21 |
Security
Google's OpenSK lets you BYOSK – burn your own security key
Now there's no excuse
04 Feb 10:30 | 9
Networks
Orange has an elegant solution to Huawei question in France: We'll stick with Nokia and Ericsson for 5G networks
C'est simple comme bonjour!
04 Feb 09:51 | 11
Data Centre
Things I learned from Y2K (pt 87): How to swap a mainframe for Microsoft Access
Y2KThe customers will never know what we did. Until now
04 Feb 09:15 | 25
Science
Finally, that cruel dust world Mars proves useful: Helping scientists understand Earth's radio-scrambling plasma
Red Planet's sporadic E layers shed light on our world's interference
04 Feb 08:04 | 2
Security
Twitter says a certain someone tried to discover the phone numbers used by potentially millions of twits
Exploitable API blew away anonymity, abused by systems in Iran, Israel, Malaysia
04 Feb 07:01 | 17
Science
Shouldn't Uber freeze app accounts to prevent spread of coronavirus by drivers and fares? Oh, OK, it already is
Someone's not getting a five-star rating
04 Feb 06:06 | 12
Cloud
Somewhere, Google's financial bods are playing on repeat... What do you want from me? It's not how it used to be...
Full-year profit up 14% to $34.3bn, YouTube bringing in $15bn ad sales – and shares down
04 Feb 01:56 | 4
Security
Your mobile network broke the law by selling location data and may be fined millions... or maybe not, shrugs FCC
US watchdog struggles to do its job over illegal sale of folks' whereabouts
04 Feb 00:56 | 17
Bootnotes
What a terrible result from this year's Super Bowl. Can you believe it? Awful. Yes, we're talking about the tech ads
CommentVerizon's hypocrisy, Amazon's negging, odd targeting from Google
04 Feb 00:00 | 28
Software
GitLab can proclaim diversity all it likes, but it seems to have a real problem keeping women on staff or in management
Special reportSoftware biz's celebration of inclusivity questioned by ousted staffers
03 Feb 21:55 | 24
Personal Tech
Flipping heck: Footage leaks of Samsung's upcoming bendy smartphone in action
Ditches mobe-cum-tablet for clamshell
03 Feb 19:00 | 17
DevOps
Everything's coming up Kubernetes: Google Cloud adds support for Windows Server Containers
All your clouds look like K8
03 Feb 18:01 | 2
Personal Tech
The BlackBerry in your junk drawer is now a collectors' item: TCL says no more new keyboard-clad phones
End of an era in mobe design
03 Feb 17:29 | 36
MayaData gets funding, DataCore technology and resell boost for its Kubernetes storage
1-2-3 Boom! Quantum buys Western Digital’s ActiveScale business
Anti-Teflon Cohesity has an identity problem
Autonomous vehicle data storage: We grill self-driving car experts about sensors, clouds … and robo taxis
Science
European Space Agency chief will quit 'perfect job' in 2021 after 'dirty games' to oust him
Jan Wörner dodges another round of 'hurdles' by stepping down
03 Feb 16:46 | 1
Bootnotes
Artful prankster creates Google Maps traffic jams by walking a cartful of old phones around Berlin
Silent geolocation-dependent services are so reliable
03 Feb 16:04 | 124
Software
Microsoft Teams starts February with a good, old-fashioned TITSUP*
UpdatedIt was indeed the expired certificate wotdunnit. Popcorn time!
03 Feb 15:54 | 38
Security
'Cyber security incident' takes its Toll on Aussie delivery giant as box-tracking boxen yanked offline
IT services offline for days now
03 Feb 15:13 | 6
Software
At last, the fix no one asked for: Portable home directories merged into systemd
Option to securely carry your user profile with you in next release
03 Feb 14:34 | 138
Security
iCloud hacker perv cops nearly 3 years in jail for stealing and sharing people's private, intimate pics
He was also secretly filming in leisure centres
03 Feb 13:45 | 11
Software
Universal Woe Platform: Microsoft shows UWP support – by yanking ad monetisation
RoundupAlso: Latest Windows 10 Insider Build's new surprise feature, which rhymes with 'chug' and doesn't like penguins
03 Feb 13:01 | 11
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 | 24
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
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Security
Cover for 'cyber' attacks is risky, complex and people don't trust us, moan insurers
FIC 2020Tried not suing your customers when they make claims?
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Artful prankster creates Google Maps traffic jams by walking a cartful of old phones around Berlin
Silent geolocation-dependent services are so reliable
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
Software
At last, the fix no one asked for: Portable home directories merged into systemd
Option to securely carry your user profile with you in next release
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
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
Software
Microsoft Teams starts February with a good, old-fashioned TITSUP*
UpdatedIt was indeed the expired certificate wotdunnit. Popcorn time!
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
Science
Vulture discovers talons are rubbish for building Lego's International Space Station
Some assembly required. Just like the real thing
Security
Cover for 'cyber' attacks is risky, complex and people don't trust us, moan insurers
FIC 2020Tried not suing your customers when they make claims?
Security
iCloud hacker perv cops nearly 3 years in jail for stealing and sharing people's private, intimate pics
He was also secretly filming in leisure centres
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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 | 85
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 | 47
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 | 111
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
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03 Feb 06:58 | 19
Can portable atomic clocks end UK dependence on GPS?
New decade, independent geo-time keeping
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Microservices pioneer Sam Newman to keynote at CLL20
Continuous Lifecycle 2020 agenda is live
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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 | 9
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 | 5
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 | 7
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 | 104
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 | 41
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 | 41
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 | 33
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
