AI + ML Google's Allo chat app hits a downside to AI: Bot must hoard private messages to train itself Stay in incognito mode to get secure texting 22 Sep 00:22 | 16
Personal Tech TV industry gets its own 'dieselgate' over 'leccy consumption tests Software that detects government tests, where have we heard that before? 22 Sep 01:24 | 28
Networks 'Strategic' submarine cable to connect islands where locals just emerged from stone age India's decided the Andaman Islands need proper internet 22 Sep 01:43 | 14
Security Google automates Apps OAuth token revocation Tells devs: 'errors are a feature, not a bug'. 22 Sep 02:01 | 1
Software New Gnome emerges blinking into the sunlight The *nix desktop quit being awful in March, and reckons it's on the road to 'good' 22 Sep 02:31 | 32
Networks CAIDA adds geo-tags to its Internet AS dataset 310,000 network links: that's how big your Interwebs grew. Mapping them is very useful 22 Sep 03:23 | 1
Personal Tech EyePhones packing Iris-scanning authentication to go mainstream Analyst says Galaxy Note 7 will fire up the mobile biometrics market 22 Sep 03:53 | 18
Edge + IoT Intel taps baton, tells the IoT orchestra to tune up Chipzilla updates dev environment for Thing connectivity 22 Sep 04:31 |
Channel Microsoft deletes Windows 10 nagware from Windows 7 and 8 Windows Update silently did the deed, added a few security fixes for .Net Framework too 22 Sep 05:02 | 80
ROTM Obituary: Victor Scheinman, inventor of the 'Stanford Arm' factory robot The man who gave us our first Robotic Overlords 22 Sep 05:28 | 6
AI + ML Zombie Moore's Law shows hardware is eating software Customised CPUs are doing things software just can't do on commodity kit 22 Sep 05:58 | 77
Networks Wi-Fi Alliance publishes LTE/WiFi coexistence test plan Would-be LTE-U carriers told to take these tests, or just leave off 22 Sep 06:27 | 7
Bootnotes Behold the fruit of your techie utopia: A $43 San Francisco fog-infused martini Enjoy the light flavor and crisp notes of everything that is wrong with this city 22 Sep 07:02 | 31
Security SWIFT warns of more 'sophisticated' attacks, readies anti-fraud tool Haven't hardened? You're still gunna get hacked, says CISO 22 Sep 07:19 | 2
OpenWorld Oracle's cloud strategy is simple – woo and win the latecomers Hybrid cloud for those who dithered, like Big Red 22 Sep 07:39 | 6
Channel DDoS attacks: For the hell of it or targeted – how do you see them off? Cloud-based DDoS defences introduce delays 22 Sep 08:02 | 10
Exclusive Virgin Media costs balloon by MEEELLIONS in wake of Brexit Staffer also asks: Why is Richard Branson still in our ads? 22 Sep 08:35 | 88
Explainer WTF ... makes mobile phone batteries explode? In the phablet, the silent phablet, the LiOn sleeps tonight 22 Sep 09:02 | 47
On-Prem MI6 to hire another 1,000 bods 'cos of private surveillance tech Might be easier just to get a bunch of plastic surgeons in 22 Sep 09:32 | 30
Personal Tech ‘Penultimate’ BlackBerry seen on 'do not publish' page as fire sale begins This is the end, beautiful friend, the end 22 Sep 10:01 | 35
Software My God, I've got nothing on! Microsoft's $200m Wunderlist is down Not so Wunder-ful, eh? 22 Sep 11:05 | 35
Virtualization Going hyperconverged? Don't forget to burst into the cloud Just make sure your team evolves with the technology 22 Sep 11:28 | 2
Networks EU U-turns on mobile roaming fees: No 90-day cap after all Who didn't see that one coming? 22 Sep 12:03 | 31
NSFW Here's how to see Tim Cook or SatNad strut their starkers stuff This is an appalling, disgusting, gut-wrenching abuse of technology 22 Sep 12:22 | 14
Comment Objects! Aaah-ah ... the savior of software-defined storage? Performance, capacity, management and more reasons why they're great 22 Sep 12:38 | 1
OSes Windows 10 backlash: Which? demands compo for forced upgrades If MS bricked your box, MS oughta cough up, says consumer org 22 Sep 12:57 | 127
Comment Seventeen hopefuls fight for the NVMe Fabric array crown Survey shows a storage tidal wave coming our way 22 Sep 13:25 | 8
Networks Despite IANA storm, ICANN shows just why it shouldn't be allowed to take over internet's critical functions Self-serving organization simply incapable of admitting fault 22 Sep 14:03 | 17
Networks BT Openreach boss wants you to know that deep down, they care Here's a webpage of infographics. Now stop whinging, peons 22 Sep 14:33 | 42
Legal I want to remotely disable Londoners' cars, says Met's top cop Psst, chief. You've probably not heard of backdoors – this is a seriously bad idea 22 Sep 15:04 | 125
SaaS Not enough personality: Google Now becomes Google Not Anymore Screenscraper rebranded 22 Sep 15:36 | 40
Legal EU's one-time antitrust hammer Steelie Neelie had 'offshore interests' Failure to declare was an 'admin error' she says 22 Sep 15:58 | 13
On-Prem Intel XPoint over-selling criticism surges as Chipzilla hits back 'We stand by our figures' says defiant company mouthpiece 22 Sep 16:37 | 14
Legal Brit boffins get $800k for Los Angeles Twitter pre-crime tech Department of Justice cash will develop Minority Report-style tool using social media data 22 Sep 17:02 | 13
Analysis Big biz happy to whip out credit cards for pay-as-you-go – Red Hat Not so interested in lengthy subscription contracts 22 Sep 17:40 | 1
Microsoft Ignite Windows Server 2016: Leg up or lock in? Software Assurance licensing tags along 22 Sep 18:23 | 39
Updated Half! a! billion! Yahoo! email! accounts! raided! by! 'state! hackers!' Email addresses, phone numbers, hashed passwords, DoBs, security Q&As swiped 22 Sep 19:20 | 106
Channel Oracle lawyers prevail in copyright case (No, not that, the other one) Rimini Street will have to foot $46m legal bill 22 Sep 19:47 | 4
Legal Game over: IANA power-grab block pulled from Congress funding bill Cruz 'profoundly disappointed' as attempt to screw country fails 22 Sep 20:18 | 37
Edge + IoT US Homeland Security launches IoT willy-waving campaign Our policies are gonna be the best, ignore all the rest 22 Sep 22:25 | 14