Must 'completely free' mean 'hard to install'? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community
Project members discuss conflict between principles and pragmatism because of need for non-free drivers
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Nothing new since the microwave: Let's get those home tech inventors cooking
You might want to wash the rolling pin first
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You can drive a car with your feet, you can operate a sewing machine with your feet. Same goes for computers obviously
Mice do like cheese after all
Episode 1
BOFH: Are you a druid? Legally, you have to tell me if you're a druid
Er, I mean, droid. In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the OFFICE OF NEVERMORE
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In brief
ADT techie admits he peeked into women's home security cams thousands of times to watch them undress, have sex
Plus: SonicWall hacked, Qualcomm security wobble, warrantless cellphone monitoring by US snoops revealed
23 Jan 08:36 | 21
Science
There may be not one but two new air leaks in International Space Station: Russian boss tells us not to panic
Microscope needed to find tiny punctures in the hull
23 Jan 00:58 | 13
Personal Tech
We'd rather go down in Down Under, says Google: Search biz threatens to quit Australia if forced to pay for news
Meanwhile, web giant agrees to cough up euros to French publishers
22 Jan 23:49 | 47
Personal Tech
Five years after US promised crackdown on ticket-snaffling bots, the first prosecutions are in... and are a slap on the wrist
Miscreants hit with $31m fines tho only pay what they can afford: $3.7m
22 Jan 21:02 | 21
Security
Scottish enviro bods shrug off ransomware gang's extortion attempt as 4,000 files dumped online, saying it's nothing big
Awa' an bile yer heid, SEPA tells ransomware scum
22 Jan 19:00 | 14
Updated
Clop ransomware gang clips sensitive files from Atlantic Records' London ad agency The7stars, dumps them online
Medium-sized firm, big revenues, big target
22 Jan 17:23 | 9
Personal Tech
Honor has flown the nest: Announces first phone as an independent firm, inks deals with supply chain big dogs
Proud parent Huawei probably sobbing in the car
22 Jan 16:23 | 5
Security
Microsoft Edge goes homomorphic: Nobody will see your credentials... but you'll need to sign in to use it
Has your password been pwned? MS browser will tell you
22 Jan 15:07 | 23
What’s the point: Facebook SDK, Grafana, DigitalOcean, GNU nano, Istio, OpsRamp, and Elastic
RStudio 1.4 brings the pane as data scientists get visual mode, new Python powers
GraalVM 21 serves up Espresso for speed and isolation
Well you look different: Apache CloudStack 4.15 lands with new UI, improved access control
Networks
Google's Alphabet sticks a pin in its Loon internet broadband service
It never really took off (commercially), apparently
22 Jan 14:02 | 29
Software
Must 'completely free' mean 'hard to install'? Newbie gripe sparks some soul-searching among Debian community
Project members discuss conflict between principles and pragmatism because of need for non-free drivers
22 Jan 11:15 | 198
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Nothing new since the microwave: Let's get those home tech inventors cooking
You might want to wash the rolling pin first
22 Jan 10:32 | 119
Episode 1
BOFH: Are you a druid? Legally, you have to tell me if you're a druid
Er, I mean, droid. In the far reaches of the world, under a lost and lonely hill, lies the OFFICE OF NEVERMORE
22 Jan 09:30 | 57
On Call
You can drive a car with your feet, you can operate a sewing machine with your feet. Same goes for computers obviously
Mice do like cheese after all
22 Jan 08:15 | 106
Security
It's 2021 and you can hijack a Cisco SD-WAN deployment with malicious IP traffic and a buffer overflow. Patch now
And also fix up these other holes that can be exploited via HTTP requests, SQL injection, etc
22 Jan 07:04 | 9
Science
We'll explore Titan with a methane submarine, a methane submarine, a methane submarine...
Saturn moon's largest liquid sea mapped by radar – and soon, robots?
22 Jan 06:09 | 28
Updated
We're gonna bounce back, says Intel's Gelsinger: Don't worry, most of our chips will be made by us... in 2023
Financial figures released minutes ahead of schedule after 'hacker' swipes and shares infographic
22 Jan 04:09 | 6
Cloud
As the world turns to big names in cloud and IT to get through the pandemic, IBM still manages to shrink
Red Hat and off-prem see growth while revenue, profit down overall
22 Jan 02:12 | 12
Cloud
And just like that, Amazon Web Services forked Elasticsearch, Kibana. Was that part of the plan, Elastic?
Fork that noise, says cloud giant amid licensing drama
22 Jan 00:50 | 43
Cloud
Judge denies Parler an injunction to force AWS to host the antisocial network for internet outcasts
Deplatformed again, huh? Maybe take the hint
21 Jan 23:39 | 142
Networks
President Biden selects Jessica Rosenworcel to head up FCC as acting chairwoman
Net neutrality, internet-for-students advocate awaits Senate confirmation
21 Jan 21:55 | 18
Artificial Intelligence
LowKey cool: This web app will tweak your photos to flummox facial-recognition systems, apparently
Boffins develop improved image poisoning technique to preserve privacy
21 Jan 21:18 | 20
Internet of Things
Android 10 ported to homegrown multi-core RISC-V system-on-chip by Alibaba biz, source code released
AOSP effort could help bring GUIs to industrial, IoT, embedded gear
21 Jan 18:58 | 22
Updated
Laptops given to British schools came preloaded with remote-access worm
Department for Education says: 'We believe this is not widespread'
21 Jan 17:32 | 83
Security
Microsoft SolarWinds analysis: Attackers hid inside Windows systems by wearing the skins of legit processes
Thorough counter-detection methods laid bare by Redmond
21 Jan 16:58 | 19
Webcast
Got three weeks to spare? You could deploy the supercomputer you’ve always dreamed of
Tune in this month and learn about the promise of SuperPOD with DDN
21 Jan 16:00 |
Software
We turn away for a second and Corellium is already showing off Ubuntu on Apple Silicon
Groovy Gorilla 'completely usable' but some of the hardware remains off-limits
21 Jan 15:55 | 10
Science
'We're storing how this material should behave': Boffins' 3cm 'm-bit' cubes demonstrate programmable wunderstuff
Raising possibility of buildings that flex in earthquakes, and much more
21 Jan 14:58 | 12
Software
Visual Studio 16.9 Preview 3 brings Chromium WebView debugging, noisy tests for visually impaired, and more
Also: Survey shows IDE's dominance among .NET Core developers, despite cross-platform options
21 Jan 14:13 | 6
Personal Tech
Loser Trump's last financial disclosure docs reveal Tim Cook gave him $5,999 Mac Pro, the 'first' made in Texas
But that's fake news
21 Jan 13:01 | 103
Science
Bye-bye Bridenstine: Outgoing chief leaves NASA in good shape, though Boots on Moon by '24 goal looks doubtful
Former NASA test engineer steps into the hot seat as acting head
21 Jan 12:16 | 21
Bootnotes
Negative Trustpilot review of law firm Summerfield Browne cost aggrieved Briton £28k
The most expensive 119 words he's ever going to write
21 Jan 11:17 | 97
Software
AWS has been doing things that are 'just NOT OK since 2015,' says Elastic as firm yanks Apache 2.0 licence
So are ya open source or aren't ya?
21 Jan 10:15 | 20
Storage
UK Prime Minister Johnson knows not when 400k+ deleted records from police DB will be back
And the possible impact of erased DNA and fingerprint data on live police investigations? Nope, doesn't know that either
21 Jan 09:30 | 58
Personal Tech
Chip fab Intel said to be using better chip fab TSMC to make 5nm Core i3 processors, 20% of its non-CPU parts
And 3nm mid-to-high-end silicon to follow, claims analyst house
21 Jan 08:14 | 20
Personal Tech
Raspberry Pi Foundation moves into microcontrollers with the $4 Pi Pico using homegrown silicon
Dual-core Arm Cortex-M0+ board for hobbyists and power users alike
21 Jan 07:00 | 80
Personal Tech
So what can we expect from a Joe Biden White House when it comes to tech? We'll try to answer that right now
As Amazon tells the President: Vaccinate our staff, and we'll help you distribute it to everyone else
21 Jan 03:55 | 41
Software
Maker of crowd-sourced coronavirus spread tracker app sues Apple for 'arbitrary and capricious' iOS store snub
Offer to challenge rules a 'scam', too, we're told
21 Jan 02:07 | 11
Analysis
With depressing predictability, FCC boss leaves office with a list of his deeds... and a giant middle finger to America
A last gasp for the era of alternate facts
20 Jan 23:52 | 86
Sponsored
The next-generation data center is here today
Look to the future or your past will drag you down, says Huawei
20 Jan 23:00 |
Cloud
On his way out, Trump emits exec order suggesting US cloud giants must verify ID of all foreign customers
Know-your-client demand may just be ignored by incoming Biden admin
20 Jan 21:58 | 44
Personal Tech
Leaked memo suggests LG is thinking about quitting the smartphone biz in 2021
'The employment will be maintained, so there is no need to worry,' says CEO
20 Jan 21:09 | 11
Software
To plug gap left by CentOS, Red Hat amends RHEL dev subscription to allow up to 16 systems in production
'First of many new programs,' says biz, but it is no substitute for free CentOS
20 Jan 20:04 | 35
