Networks iiNet struggles through five-day outage to get thousands back online If you can read this in Western Australia, congrats – your broadband has been fixed 30 Dec 00:58 | 11
Software Google brews a fresh pot of Oracle's OpenJDK Java for future Android Just let that settle in 30 Dec 07:08 | 14
Software Beyond iTunes: XML boffins target sheet music How the tech and music industries come together in 2015 30 Dec 08:01 | 23
32c3 Watch infosec bods swipe PINs, magstripe data from card readers live on stage Achtung! 30 Dec 09:04 | 15
Water cooler Upset Microsoft stashes hard drive encryption keys in OneDrive cloud? Let's have a chat about that 30 Dec 10:26 | 79
Legal It's amazing the UK Parliament agreed to track 22bn Brits' car trips. Oh right – it didn't Spy camera boss raises questions over ANPR slurp 30 Dec 11:32 | 95
Science Would sir care to see the post-pub nosh menu? One year of wobbly dining neckfiller delights 30 Dec 12:05 | 21
Channel Who will buy our darn DRAM? Micron smacked in wallet again Four consecutive falling quarterly revenue numbers confirm trend 30 Dec 13:03 | 10
Year in review The Infamous Eight: 2015's memes, themes and big pieces 140 characters leaves you hungry? Try this for 12 months 30 Dec 14:07 | 8
Updated Brian Krebs criticises PayPal’s security as authentication flaws exposed Newshound’s account hit twice on Christmas Eve 30 Dec 15:12 | 22
Legal Cat fight: Watch out YouTube, here comes Facebook 10 years, billions of vids, no actual business 30 Dec 15:24 | 38
Bootnotes Aroused Lycra-clad cyclist prompts Manchester cop dragnet Spotted with stiffy in city centre 30 Dec 17:03 | 77
Security John McAfee rattles tin for password replacement tech Much delayed tech in renewed funding drive 30 Dec 18:45 | 16
OSes Debian Linux founder Ian Murdock dead at 42 Tributes pour in for open-source pioneer who had threatened to kill himself on Twitter 30 Dec 19:29 | 118
On-Prem Apple coughs up $350m – 2.3 days of annual profit – to make Italy's taxmen go away Arrivederci 30 Dec 19:56 | 23
On-Prem Facebook must face furious shareholders in class action over IPO Judge rejects website's plea to deal with plaintiffs one by one 30 Dec 20:38 | 9
Software What did we learn today? Microsoft has patented the slider bar And Redmond's using it to ask for all profits from Corel's Home Office 30 Dec 21:16 | 116
Storage Rockport’s Torus prises open hyperscale network lockjaw costs Hyperscalers rejoice; toroidal doughnut fabrics open the door to 10,000 node and beyond networking 30 Dec 21:53 | 5
Personal Tech Cache-astrophic: Why Valve's Steam store spewed players' private profiles to strangers Lid blown on web riddle 30 Dec 22:32 | 42
Science Flare-well, 2015 – solar storm to light up skies on New Year's Eve Northern Lights coming down as far as California after G3 eruption 30 Dec 23:29 | 43