Software Ancient IETF 'teapot' gag preserved for posterity as a standard 'Error 418: I'm a teapot' scores 'reserved' status in IANA Status Code Registry 14 Aug 01:29 | 50
Science Antarctica declared world's most volcanic region as 91 new cones found beneath ice Awaken not the Elder Things, lest they and their shoggoths again battle foul Cthulhu 14 Aug 02:01 | 51
Security Sneaky devs could abuse shared libraries to slurp smartphone data Privilege escalation is baked in to mobile OSes, if you look for it 14 Aug 03:04 | 9
Edge + IoT Toyota, Intel, Ericsson team to get cars talking to the cloud Plan new networking and compute architectures, plus 'topology-aware storage' 14 Aug 04:02 | 11
Software Old Firefox add-ons get 'dead man walking' call After version 57, plugins go to browser heaven 14 Aug 04:56 | 107
On-Prem GoDaddy gives white supremacist site its marching orders after Charlottesville slur Publisher described murdered woman in revoltingly sexist and hateful terms 14 Aug 05:58 | 107
Analysis Dismayed by woeful AI chatbots, boffins hired real people – and went back to square one Amazon Turk serfs have their own problems 14 Aug 07:07 | 20
COMMENT 'Other' may yet become the biggest and most useful cloud History tells us none of the big four will dominate forever and that niches matter 14 Aug 07:34 | 15
Legal Brit firms warned over hidden costs of wiping data squeaky clean before privacy rules hit Paper shredder? You'll need a data-shredder... 14 Aug 08:18 | 109
Personal Tech Chinese stealth outfit reckons the smartwatch isn’t quite dead Tic, tic, tic... 14 Aug 08:26 | 11
Networks UK industry mouthpiece wants 'near-universal' broadband speeds of 30Mbps by 2020 Says gov needs to 'collaborate' with industry. Now there's a surprise... 14 Aug 09:03 | 58
Legal Nosey ex-NHS staffer slapped with fine for illegally peeking at medical records Don’t let personal curiosity get the better of you, ICO warns 14 Aug 10:16 | 43
On-Prem Amazon recalls dodgy solar eclipse shades that offer no eye protection American cousins, don't make August 21 a blind date 14 Aug 10:27 | 35
Personal Tech Surfacegate: Microsoft execs 'misled Nadella', claims report Specs, lies and Skylake 14 Aug 11:25 | 109
Bootnotes Blighty’s beloved Big Ben bell ends, may break Brexit bargain It must be true, the Daily Express said so 14 Aug 11:49 | 130
On-Prem Major shareholder: BT CEO Gavin Patterson should step down 'A lot of what has gone wrong has not been Gavin’s fault, but...' 14 Aug 13:20 | 12
SaaS Microsoft does something unusual in Australia: Names the bit barn hosting Azure Plan to conquer federal IT sees Redmond team with super-secure Canberra Data Centres 14 Aug 14:02 | 5
Security If Anonymous 'pwnd' the Daily Stormer, they did a spectacularly awful job More likely damage control after host GoDaddy pulled plug 14 Aug 14:32 | 60
Bootnotes A storage giant wants to give you 46,763... Terabytes? Flash drives? No, PDF pages. Price list SKUwered 14 Aug 15:14 | 22
Security WannaCry vanquisher Marcus Hutchins pleads not guilty to flogging banking trojan Kronos Trial scheduled for October 14 Aug 16:34 | 49
Science Raising minimum wage will raise something else: An army of robots taking away folks' jobs Low-skill workers are under threat either way, it appears 14 Aug 19:00 | 151
Personal Tech Sigh. Big Cable execs dominate FCC panel overseeing Big Cable's broadband upgrades Deployment committee stacked with industry bods, says report 14 Aug 19:35 | 5
Bootnotes Chap behind Godwin's law suspends his own rule for Charlottesville fascists: 'By all means, compare them to Nazis' We did Nazi that coming 14 Aug 20:35 | 203
SaaS Macie slay: AWS touts S3 patrol bots to kill data-slurping hackers Plus: Database Glue guns, more encryption, hardware key management, and config tools 14 Aug 21:35 |
Bootnotes Internet addict sent to an anti-addiction boot camp is no longer an addict. Because he's dead Chinese clinic staff cuffed after 18-year-old gets ultimate cure 14 Aug 22:07 | 32
Legal US prosecutors demand data to unmask every visitor to anti-Trump protest website DreamHost refuses to hand over 1.3m IP addresses, and more, says warrant too broad 14 Aug 22:48 | 66
Legal Australia's metadata retention scheme costs telcos $500k per cuffing Netadmin-general Brandis needs just one more vote to get telco-tweaking powers 14 Aug 22:52 | 5
Legal Australian Bureau of Statistics flip-flops over marriage equality survey Promises not to identify citizens. Except with a barcode 14 Aug 23:21 | 8
Legal hiQ prevails / LinkedIn must allow scraping / Of your page info Our little haiku to mark temporary lifting of blockade on social network's public profiles 14 Aug 23:28 | 17