Who, me? Dev's telnet tinkering lands him on out-of-hour conference call with CEO, CTO, MD 'Please stop... you're doing something to the radios' 17 Dec 08:31 | 78
Research results We asked, you answered: The truth about software reliability It's not just about quality 17 Dec 09:30 |
Science Happy Christmas! Bloodhound SSC refuelled by Yorkshire business chap Yuletide cheer for Wing Commander Andy Green and the team 17 Dec 10:59 | 33
Bootnotes Roll a diplomacy check to win the election: Vote tie resolved by a D20 Office wizard saves day with Dungeons & Dragons die 17 Dec 12:11 | 59
Security Who's watching you from an unmarked van while you shop in London? Cops with facial recog tech Great. Big Brother Watch claims tech had 100% fail rate since May 17 Dec 12:42 | 112
Science Brexit-dodging SCISYS Brits find Galileo joy in Dublin UK space specialist's holding company ups sticks for €11.2m 17 Dec 13:49 | 139
Software SAP can't thwack away Teradata's copyright infringement, antitrust sueball But US firm must get specific on which trade secrets it claims were nicked – judge 17 Dec 14:35 | 8
Bootnotes Boffins don't give a sh!t, slap Trump's face on a turd in science journal Crouching monkey, hidden leader of the free world 17 Dec 15:02 | 98
Obit Influential cypherpunk and crypto-anarchist Tim May dies aged 67 One-time Intel boffin 17 Dec 15:50 | 15
Software Visual Studio Code's Python extension goes to Jupyter A preview of next year's .NET Framework also emitted 17 Dec 16:40 | 4
In brief Jingle bells, disk drives sell not so well from today. Oh what fun it is to ride on a one-horse open array... Third of market to evaporate by 2021. Only nearline, spycam drives to swell 17 Dec 19:27 | 29
Legal Silent night, social fight: Is Instagram the new Facebook for pro-Trump Russian propagandists? Fresh Senate dossiers detail influence campaign, flag tech titans' obstructionism 17 Dec 20:25 | 54
Science Ding dong merrily on high. In Berkeley, the bots are singeing: Self-driving college cooler droid goes up in flames Kiwibot snack shuttle snuffed by thermal runaway 17 Dec 20:41 | 57
Analysis O little town of Bethlehem, Georgia. How still we see your internet lie... US govt throws another $600m at rural broadband Money in form of loans and grants – but will it work or be wasted? 17 Dec 23:13 | 12