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US lawmakers furious (again) as mobile networks caught (again) selling your emergency location data to bounty hunters (again)

Analysis Privacy advocates stunned that explicit rules ignored, blame head of FCC

Security08 Feb 2019 | 50

National Enquirer's big Pecker tried to shaft me – and I wouldn't give him an inch, says Jeff Bezos after dick pic leak threat

David Pecker picked a pic of billionaire's pickled pecker

Bootnotes08 Feb 2019 | 118

Lovely website you got there. Would be a shame if we, er, someone were to sink it: Google warns EU link tax will magnify media monetary misery

Let us copy your snippets, or say goodbye to revenue

Personal Tech08 Feb 2019 | 93

Tell NASA to grab the margarita mix – a sextillion-kg salty ring found floating in space

Astroboffins haven't seen anything quite like it

Science08 Feb 2019 | 21

Reliable system was so reliable, no one noticed its licence had expired... until it was too late

On Call 'Never assume soon means less than lifetime of Universe... in software'

Software08 Feb 2019 | 186

Housing biz made to pay £1.5k for sticking fingers in its ears when served a subject access request

If someone asks for their data, you give it to them, scolds ICO

Security08 Feb 2019 | 32

Brit Mars bot named while NASA 'nauts must wait a bit longer for a US rocket trip to the ISS

Roundup Also: Well done, Squirrels, you've got your Commercial Astronaut badge

Science08 Feb 2019 | 22

OK, Google. Music in 2019 isn't what it was, but Play nice, will ya?

Bug appears to hate tunes released this year

Personal Tech08 Feb 2019 | 56

How I got horizontal with a gimp and untangled his cables

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Not a euphemism. I really did this

Networks08 Feb 2019 | 123

HMRC: We 'rigorously tested' IR35 tax-check tool... but have almost nothing to show for it

'Normally you'd have reams of documentation... all they have is one page'

Legal08 Feb 2019 | 75

EE customer: Creepy ex used employee access to change my mobile number, spy on me

Chap slapped with harassment warning, sacked from UK mobile network

Security08 Feb 2019 | 12

Defaulting to legacy Internet Explorer just to keep that one, weird app working? Knock it off

Microsoft: We know what we said then, listen to what we're saying now

Software08 Feb 2019 | 61

Leaky child-tracking smartwatch maker hits back at bad PR

We're not convinced 'people who want to harm kids will follow the kid, not the watch' is a great comeback

Security08 Feb 2019 | 59

Webroot dunked in Carbonite: Should be quite well protected – if it survives the freezing process, that is

Backup biz slurps security firm for $618.5m

Security08 Feb 2019 | 6

DXC Technology utters words 'hiring' and 'digital' 105 times in Q3 earnings car-crash

'We're hiring thousands' for digi revolution... yes, we've cut 14k in last year. Don't compare y-o-y, urges CEO, it's about q-o-q

On-Prem08 Feb 2019 | 42

LibreOffice 6.2 is here: Running up a Tab at the NotebookBar? You can turn it all off if you want

A bit last-decade, but there are improvements – and it's free!

Software08 Feb 2019 | 147

Cop films chap on body-worn cam because he 'complains about cops a lot'. Chap complains

Snooping court says police kit can be surveillance tool

Security08 Feb 2019 | 74

Scaling up Azure Service Fabric Linux Clusters using Ubuntu Xenial? Not so fast, friend

Workaround needed if you suddenly run into trouble with latest Linux OS update

OSes08 Feb 2019 | 7

After Amazon's Bezos exposes Pecker, National Enquirer pushes back, promises to probe itself

Publisher will take a long hard look, make sure it's not on a sticky wicket... OK, OK, enough

Bootnotes08 Feb 2019 | 45

Big trouble Down Under as Australian MPs told to reset their passwords amid hack attack fears

'No evidence that any data has been accessed time' say Australian officials as fingers pointed at foreign spies

Security08 Feb 2019 | 22

High-speed broadband fiber in America: You want the good news or bad news first?

Analysis Arkansas is looking good, Kentucky not so much

Networks08 Feb 2019 | 32

It's OK, everyone – Congress's smart-cookie Republicans have the answer to America's net neutrality quandary

Analysis It's something to do with the Mexican border wall

Networks08 Feb 2019 | 51

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