Legal SEC: Qualcomm hired relatives of Chinese officials to seal biz deals Coughs up $7.5m to make this episode go away – and emits best corporate-speak of 2016 02 Mar 00:17 | 8
Analysis We survived a five-hour butt-numbing Congress hearing on FBI-Apple ... so you don't have to Strap in, we're going to loopy land! 02 Mar 00:38 | 62
RSA 2016 Hitchhacker's Guide to RSA clones conference badge with a towel Flannel rag again shown to be essential kit for freeloaders 02 Mar 01:09 | 9
RSA 2016 Microsoft gets into the advanced intrusion sniffer game – but only for Windows 10 Security firms facing competition from Redmond 02 Mar 01:15 | 40
Channel Dell names future leadership team and CloudFather Joe Tucci isn't on the list Dell the man emails all hands to say EMC acquisition is on track 02 Mar 01:58 | 1
Science We're doing SETI the wrong and long way around, say boffins Look where the lookers are looking at you, rather than at BEELLIONS of galaxies 02 Mar 03:02 | 71
Channel VMware licence changes put users on upgrade treadmill Yes, you get more, but you pay more for it whether you want it or not 02 Mar 04:58 | 20
Personal Tech McDonald's Sweden adds fries to VR Google switches from Chocolate Factory to Fat Factory 02 Mar 06:02 | 18
Legal Every Australian address - yes yours, and even yours – just became open data Don't panic! It's just the anonymised national address database under an open licence 02 Mar 06:28 | 10
Security Schneider Electric building manager bug allows security bypass It's 2016 and a major vendor has had to improve basic password security 02 Mar 06:31 | 15
Science NASA funds new supersonic airliner research Plans to break the sound barrier with a steady thump rather than a nasty boom 02 Mar 07:02 | 73
Channel Phew! No evidence found for global criminal hacker conspiracy Sorry, tinfoil types. Crims operate from home base, don't care for cross-border sharing 02 Mar 07:23 | 8
Channel Windows 10 claimed another point of desktop share in February Windows 8.x is fading fast, but XP hangs on, and on, and on ... 02 Mar 07:39 | 68
Security Learn things? DROWN HTTPS flaw proves we don't even test things You knew SSLv2 was poison, so why was it still there? 02 Mar 08:02 | 12
BSides SF $17 smartwatch sends something to random Chinese IP address Samsung Gear 2 also has some problems, researcher says 02 Mar 08:19 | 55
Line Break 'Boss, I've got a bug fix: Nuke the whole thing from orbit, rewrite it all' And is this a bug or a beauty in OpenSSL? 02 Mar 09:05 | 108
Storage IBM plugs SanDisk's flashy JBOF rig into its spectrum InfiniFlash gets Big Blue Spectrum Scale integration 02 Mar 09:18 | 5
Science ISS 'nauts wrap 'historic' 340-day mission 'One giant leap toward putting boots on Mars' 02 Mar 09:38 | 11
Legal GDS gets it in the neck from MPs over Rural Payments Agency farce Public Accounts Committee says civil servants' turf war caused mega IT cock-up 02 Mar 10:03 | 42
Legal More and more Brits are using ad-blockers, says survey It's catching on - but not all blockers are militant 02 Mar 10:26 | 173
Sysdamin blog We suck at backups. So let's not have a single point of failure any more Avoid my nightmares and change your threat model 02 Mar 11:01 | 24
Science SpaceX Falcon 9 grounded by 'sledgehammer' winds Inclement high-altitude conditions keep lifter on pad 02 Mar 11:18 | 23
Storage Quick as a flash: ATTO joins 32Gbit/s Fibre Channel bandwagon It's not a trickle, or even a stream – it's a flood 02 Mar 11:40 | 8
Podcast Speaking in Tech: Down rounds, fleeing techies - how to spot a startup death spiral With Storagezilla, EMC's Chad Sakac, NetApp's Amy Lewis 02 Mar 12:03 |
Storage Emulex joins Brocade, ATTO and QLogic in 32Gbit/s FC sprintfest Fibre Channel accelerates to flash array speeds 02 Mar 12:13 | 1
Storage SMBs? Are you big enough to have a serious backup strategy? If you have a heartbeat, then of course you are... 02 Mar 12:32 | 6
Channel Bill Gates can’t give it away... Still crazy rich after all these years Humanitarian worth 16.6 Donald Trumps, says Forbes 02 Mar 12:44 | 81
Channel Former Systemax execs ordered to repay $35m to the biz Reseller lost $27m to fraud, will make a return when Carl and Gilbert Fiorentino cough 02 Mar 13:31 | 3
Security Hackers rely on weak passwords when brute-forcing PoS terminals Open Sesame: '12345' 02 Mar 14:02 | 11
Legal Ofcom should be the BBC's ultimate overlord, UK.gov told Goodbye fat-cat make-work schemes, hello to proper accountability 02 Mar 14:36 | 36
Storagebod The beached whale of storage thrashes on the all flash array shoreline We all know spinning rust is dead. Get on with it already 02 Mar 15:04 | 7
Software Google risks everything if it doesn’t grab Android round the throat And it’s starting to make its own phones, pundit reckons 02 Mar 15:22 | 58
Channel Tech Data signs data centre kit slinger Quanta in big local sales deal Far Eastern ODMs marching to Europe, rub belly, eyes major brands' lunch 02 Mar 15:46 | 2
SaaS Oracle adds own cloud tier to its mainframe VTL Latest StorageTek VSM 7 is bigger and badder 02 Mar 16:03 | 2
Personal Tech Amazon Shocker: Firm recalls Fire and Fire Kids power adapters In 'rare cases' users might get electric shocks 02 Mar 16:28 | 14
RSA 2016 You know how we're all supposed to automate now? Dark web devs were listening Crafted tool to brute-force, take over accounts, buy stuff 02 Mar 17:00 | 1
Channel Nearly all cloud ERP projects will 'fail' by 2018, reckons Gartner Cost overruns, complexity... stop me if this sounds familiar 02 Mar 17:29 | 28
Cisco Partner Summit Cisco's gone soft: Networking giant tries to wean IT bods off boxes Selling crates of gear is so 1999 02 Mar 18:00 | 3
Legal 'Dominant' Facebook hauled over coals by German competition authority Firm said to have broken data protection rules 02 Mar 18:28 | 19
Security SSL's DROWN not as bad as Heartbleed, still a security ship wreck Just set SSLv2 on fire 02 Mar 18:41 | 12
On-Prem Zynga CEO resigns – again – after terrible results Something to do with a miserable lack of creativity? 02 Mar 19:20 | 10
Legal European Patent Office inks deal with staff union it isn't locked in death spiral with The other union? Less impressed 02 Mar 19:56 | 2
Channel IBM slices heavy axe through staff in the US After rumors of upcoming layoffs, Big Blue kicks off round of 'mass' cuts 02 Mar 21:25 | 65
RSA 2016 Bruce Schneier: We're sleepwalking towards digital disaster and are too dumb to stop Coders and tech bros playing chance with the future 02 Mar 21:38 | 119
On-Prem Activist investor tells dot-word biz to sell off 'garbage' new domains Also complains about Rightside propaganda and unfed mad aunts 02 Mar 22:23 | 12
Legal Another week, another leak: is morale that low in Australia's NBN? Even cost-saving good ideas are now being leaked 02 Mar 22:46 | 10
Cisco Partner Summit Cisco to partners: We're all doing services now – resistance is futile NetworkBorg will be your one-stop IT management shop, like it or not 02 Mar 23:39 | 1