Security
Snowden: NSA whacks US in the WALLET, slurps millions of contacts books
Whistleblower says spooks slurp email, IM address lists from world+dog
15 Oct 00:11 | 46
15th > October > 2013 Archive
Security
Yahoo! To! Switch! On! Webmail! Crypto! By! Default! Next! Year!
Never mind NSA backdoors, Purple Palace has got your back
15 Oct 01:30 | 10
World Solar Challenge
So you want to be a solar racer? You'll need a laptop and some string
Also a generator, three cars, a big fan and radios. LOTS of radios
15 Oct 01:59 | 9
Science
Diamonds are forever POURING down on Jupiter, Saturn - boffins
It's raining gems, hallelujah, it's raining gems
15 Oct 02:30 | 12
Networks
German researchers claim 100 Gbps wireless transmission record
Beat that, WiFi! And suck it up, fibre-to-the-premises fans
15 Oct 03:03 | 12
Networks
Mellanox targets Fibre Channel with 56 Gbps FDR InfiniBand
Virtualised apps can chat across a network at the same speed of intra-server comms
15 Oct 04:02 | 4
Bootnotes
Google refunds two dollars for cop jobs ad on biker website
Australian Police raid bikers one day, recruit them the next
15 Oct 04:32 | 16
Security
Snowden's email provider Lavabit flows again to let users retrieve data
Users will have 72 hours to save their stuff and the NSA knows when it will happen
15 Oct 04:56 | 10
Devops
Gates, Zuckerberg to deliver free coding lesson
We all have so much to learn from the guys who brought us Clippy and Poke
15 Oct 05:06 | 50
Software
Oracle says open source has no place in military apps
Unless it's open source from Oracle, of course
15 Oct 06:07 | 54
Science
Oz bookshop to deliver by drone
Guys? You do know Amazon can already deliver books to your smartphone?
15 Oct 06:22 | 44
Networks
Let police track you through your mobe - it's for your OWN GOOD
Consultation opens on tracking mobile 999 callers' locations
15 Oct 07:04 | 87
Science
Price rises and power cuts by 2016? Thank the EU's energy policy
60% of gas-fired generators gone inside three years, warn beancounters CapGemini
15 Oct 07:38 | 90
Legal
I'll call for UK law shakeup to cuff global web crime lords - new top cyber cop
Most wanted list already drawn up
15 Oct 08:04 | 17
On-Prem
PLEASE let us build Fruit Loop Central, Apple begs Cupertino City
Fruity firm asks residents to support giganto HQ plan
15 Oct 08:32 | 31
Analysis
Why a Robin Hood tax on filthy rich City types is the very LAST thing needed
The Nobel prize committee said so
15 Oct 09:03 | 209
Science
Now that's real science: CYBORG MONKEYS with PROSTHETIC ARMS
No, it's not the long awaited cyborg monkey butler
15 Oct 09:27 | 24
Legal
Assange: 'Ecuadorian embassy staff are like my family'
Wikileaker fills time hanging with celebs ... and hoping rape allegations will 'disappear'
15 Oct 10:03 | 129
Personal Tech
Will you strap on a Google KitKat 4.4 smartwatch this month?
Trick or treat? Android 4.4 kit's reportedly out for Halloween
15 Oct 10:17 | 30
On-Prem
CEO of Brit fashion bods Burberry lands Apple job for retail, online sales
Chief of super-pricey corporate tartan fashion stuff to flog super-pricey Apple fashion stuff
15 Oct 10:35 | 17
Security
WhatsApp crypto snafu drops trou on users' privates
'Very basic error' leaves messaging app open to snoopers
15 Oct 11:05 | 18
On-Prem
Twitter sets up BEELLION-DOLLAR credit line ahead of IPO
Microblogging site gets a cash-filled revolver - just in case
15 Oct 11:23 | 7
Software
Thousands! of! Yahoo! Mail! users! driven! crazy! by! revamp!
Purple mailers protest modish permutations
15 Oct 11:45 | 93
Storage
HGST pushes out bulk storage spinner with 5 power-sipping settings
MegaScale, mini-power
15 Oct 12:04 | 3
Personal Tech
Expensive blingo-rama iPhone 5S OUTSELLS cheapo-plastic 5C
Well, true, it isn't that cheap. But it is plastic
15 Oct 12:26 | 35
Networks
Juniper boosts MX capacity and scale to handle mobile data deluge
How does 128,000 subscribers PER SLOT grab you, telcos?
15 Oct 13:03 |
Software
Coming soon to Twitter: Inboxes BULGING with DMs from world+dog
I just followed you, and this is crazy, but here's a DM. So tweet me, maybe?
15 Oct 13:27 | 34
Legal
BBC's Clangers returns in £5m 'New Age' remake
'What's that Baby Clanger? You're taking out the recycling?'
15 Oct 14:00 | 73
Science
Cannabis can CURE CANCER - cheaply and without getting you high
Amazing jazz-cigarette breakthrough by London medical boffins
15 Oct 14:19 | 149
Legal
Google's latest ad push gives LONE LAWMAKER the creeps
We knew it was quiet on Capitol Hill, but still...
15 Oct 14:39 | 22
Software
EasyJet website crashes and burns
Cargoes of human misery to cease
15 Oct 15:16 | 62
Personal Tech
SoftBank and GungHo swallow half of Finnish mobile gaming firm
Clash of Clans creator partners with Japanese firms
15 Oct 15:39 | 1
Legal
OFT probe: Do small UK firms get fair shake in public sector tenders?
Special 'scoring' criteria is against SMBs customers, says tech distie
15 Oct 15:59 | 4
Networks
Hong Kong underground gets pay-by-bonk
Octopus walks where Oyster fears to tread
15 Oct 16:24 | 12
Storage
Twitteratti at NetApp event spill guts over FlashRay's innards
StorageGRID gets shot in arm, ready to take on Glacier
15 Oct 16:44 | 6
SaaS
VMware guzzles 'desktop-as-a-service' firm Desktone
Yup, hired-out virty desktop pleased to call itself an AAS
15 Oct 17:03 |
Personal Tech
Apple's Oct 22 WORLD-SHAKING San Fran party: New iPads or what?
Fanboi? Dodgy ticker? That'll be a good day for a spot of yoga
15 Oct 17:38 | 44
Storage
Fusion-io flogs mutant array, souped-up software to small biz
Slaps down hybrid upstarts
15 Oct 18:04 | 3
Security
Can you trust 'NSA-proof' TrueCrypt? Cough up some dough and find out
Fundraising drive to shove a microscope up mysterious encryption software
15 Oct 18:36 | 75
Legal
Whodathunkit? Media barons slit own throats in flawed piracy crackdowns
New study claims: 1. Make something easy to buy 2. ??? 3. Profit
15 Oct 19:42 | 63
On-Prem
Intel slumps into mud despite lobbing Internet-of-Things, etc at buyers
40 products launched ... sales, profit needles barely move
15 Oct 21:15 | 8
Security
Is that a failed Outlook security update in your pocket or are you pleased to phish me?
New scam exploits Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday confusion
15 Oct 22:16 | 3
Legal
Cabinet to be targeted with pro-FTTP ads
Crowdfunded campaigners to reveal next phase of cunning plan soon
15 Oct 22:29 | 7
Legal
Telstra plans to keep hands on government BEEELIONS
Never get between rent-seeker and rent
15 Oct 22:31 | 13
Legal
Snowden's pal Greenwald QUITS Guardian to launch hush-hush news rival
US-based website touted as 'general media outlet'
15 Oct 22:46 | 15
Networks
Run a server on your Gb/s Google Fiber? OK, fine, fine ... maybe a small one
Multiplayer gaming's OK, but they better not catch you making money
15 Oct 23:23 | 14
Bootnotes
Apple's Steve Jobs was a SEX-crazed World War II fighter pilot, says ex
Former Jobsian squeeze dishes the dirt on iPod godhead
15 Oct 23:43 | 109
Personal Tech
Give it a wrist, fellas: Sony's back with $200 Android Smartwatch 2
If at first you don't succeed...
15 Oct 23:49 | 18
Biting the hand that feeds IT
