Legal Telstra effectively barred from 700 MHz spectrum auction to boost rivals Comms Minister puts a price on your head: a lousy AU$1.25 14 Dec 00:00 | 2
OSes Reschedule the holiday party, Patch Tuesday is here and it's a big one Apple, Microsoft, and Adobe all have fixes galore to test and install 14 Dec 00:17 | 55
Security Uber-creepy: Dial-a-ride devs accused of stalking pop diva Beyonce All the single ladies... your ex-techbro boyfriends may have snooped on you, too 14 Dec 01:11 | 17
On-Prem Disney sued in race row: Axed IT workers claim jobs went to H-1B hires While Trump recruits Mickey Mouse CEO to advise on growing US jobs 14 Dec 01:44 | 66
Personal Tech Apple's Airpod wireless earbuds finally go on sale after six-week delay In limited quantities, some time next week. So don't bank on getting them under a tree 14 Dec 01:57 | 30
SaaS Fancy an AWS region in your own data centre? Stratoscale can do it It'll be virtual, natch, but so is the rest of your bit barn – in a bad way 14 Dec 03:33 | 4
OSes Riddle me this: What's green and freezes cloudy penguins? Why Veeam's new backup agent for Linux, of course! 14 Dec 05:01 | 5
On-Prem Polycom CEO Peter Leav jumps to the same job at BMC Current BMC CEO Bob Beauchamp to hang around on the board 14 Dec 05:24 |
Bootnotes 'Emoji translator' sought by translations firm Job ad says software is lousy at this task and it needs a human to do the job! 14 Dec 05:58 | 38
Security A single typo may have tipped US election Trump's way DNC figure John Podesta told to follow phishing link, instead of link to enable 2FA 14 Dec 06:31 | 124
Software Microsoft quietly emits patch to undo its earlier patch that broke Windows 10 networking Make sure you reboot your box the right way 14 Dec 07:04 | 147
On-Prem Top CompSci boffins name the architectures we'll need in 2030 Number one: Make designing special-purpose hardware as easy as writing software 14 Dec 07:29 | 11
AI + ML Uh-oh! Microsoft has another chatbot – but racism is a no-go for Zo Don't worry, there won't be any more Hitler outages this time, we're told 14 Dec 08:02 | 51
Security Persistent ad and dialler trojans found on 28 Android phones Mostly landfill Androids from odd places, but Lenovo makes the list too 14 Dec 08:31 | 26
Analysis Bluetooth: Remember us? Internet of Things before it was a Thing? Bluetooth 5 unveiled, boosts range and coexistence, but no mesh yet 14 Dec 09:02 | 14
Storage Blockhead Blue sky basic income thinking is b****cks Say hello to your AI-powered robo-chatbot-barista 14 Dec 09:36 | 165
Bootnotes Trump meets Google – exclusive transcript Imagining the Eric, the Larry and the Donald 14 Dec 09:54 | 32
Open Source Insider OpenStreetView? You are no longer hostage to Google's car-driven vision Deja vu for mapping nerds 14 Dec 11:00 | 47
Legal If only our British 4G were as good as, um, Albania's... UK.gov's telco tech report Lord Adonis calls for a mobile universal service obligation 14 Dec 12:08 | 84
Software Flaws fixed in SAP's police and military software Armed forces, cops and others get patched 14 Dec 12:18 | 5
Channel MSP Redcentric: Our financial errors are WORSE than we thought Deloitte-led forensic review shows debts up, profits way overstated 14 Dec 12:37 | 1
Databases Crate.io unboxes clustered SQL CrateDB, decamps to California Euro upstart's distributed database eyes up NoSQL rivals 14 Dec 13:00 |
Legal Dixons warns of looming Brexit storm cloud amid bumper results Planning for the worst 'just in case', says chief exec Seb James 14 Dec 13:30 | 32
Devops Docker opens up crucial container plumbing code cunningly disguised as 'boring infrastructure' Get stuck into a containerization runtime this Xmas. Go on 14 Dec 14:00 | 5
Storage IBM makes clever, safe acquisition, swallows object storage market IDC marketscapers scope out rankings 14 Dec 15:02 | 5
SaaS AWS' UK cloud hitched to British-based iron Rents third party space for London region... not that anyone wants to talk specifics 14 Dec 15:44 | 9
Storage That is pretty, er, Nimble. Storage firm claims 'six nines' availability Says machine learning, predictive analytics squashed downtime to under 25 secs/yr 14 Dec 16:07 | 19
SPOILERS Rogue One: This is the Star Wars back story you've been looking for And tech plays a huge part because Death Star plans have no password and are too big to upload quickly 14 Dec 16:42 | 104
Personal Tech Move over HoloLens, $30 homebrew cardboard AR is here Cheeky British outfit cracks a big problem 14 Dec 16:59 | 12
Security Infosec bods: This is a backdoor in Skype for Macs. Microsoft: No. Dodgy API let apps and plugins silently pry into chat logs, record calls and more 14 Dec 19:13 | 20
OSes MacBook Pro owners complain of short batt life – so Apple kills batt life clock in macOS Just bad timing, right? ... Right? 14 Dec 19:49 | 48
On-Prem Tech titans tentatively trot toward Trump Tower to talk turkey today The Schmidt meets the Man 14 Dec 20:28 | 13
On-Prem IBM boss pledges to hire 25,000 Americans in next four years Once the US government has paid for their training 14 Dec 20:57 | 33
Science Climate change bust up: We'll launch our own damn satellites if Trump pulls plug – Gov Brown Super Cali goes ballistic over claims global warming's bogus 14 Dec 22:01 | 153
Security Give us encrypted camera storage, please – filmmakers, journos Photojournalists plead for secured data in professional cams 14 Dec 22:55 | 65
Security Yahoo! says! hackers! stole! ONE! BEELLION! user! accounts! Purple Palace plundered in new breach unrelated to previous p0wnage 14 Dec 23:18 | 44
Legal Telstra is filthy about being barred from spectrum auction Big T wants to know why the government is going to let airspace sell cheap and competition cherry-pick 14 Dec 23:30 | 2
On-Prem .biz, .us, .co master Neustar grabbed by the privates in $2.9bn deal Vote of confidence in company after losing critical contract 14 Dec 23:51 | 1