Security Wassenaar weapons pact talks collapse leaving software exploit exports in limbo Some progress, but it's glacial 21 Dec 01:02 | 14
Security Strong non-backdoored encryption is vital – but the Feds should totally be able to crack it, say House committees We want to have our cake and stuff our faces with it 21 Dec 01:28 | 66
Security Facebook has stopped SHA-ring, a year later than it promised The Social Network™ revoked its SHA-1 certs in November, but promised to stop serving traffic with the algo last year 21 Dec 01:58 | 5
Virtualization Seriously, VMware? Two bugs in the week before Christmas? Virtzilla fixes known password for vSphere Data Protection, XSS SNAFU in ESX and buys bits of SDN outfit PLUMgrid too 21 Dec 04:03 | 8
Science NASA explains how 'Spiders' grow on Mars Keep your wig on, Ziggy. This is about erosion features. Not our new arachnid overlords 21 Dec 04:58 | 11
On-Prem Oracle exec quits over co-CEO Safra Catz's promise to assist Trump Left-aligned chap says Big Red should not be 'with' president-elect's divisive policies 21 Dec 06:02 | 86
On-Prem Google's latest legal opponents: Shooting victims' families – and a cheesed-off ex-manager Web giant fends off lawsuits from all corners this week 21 Dec 07:02 | 20
Legal Europe trials air-traffic-control-over-IP-and-satellite 'IRIS' plans to replace spoken instructions, works on four test flights 21 Dec 07:30 | 40
Analysis Name's BOND, JBOND: Igneous's ARM strap-on is for your drives only GoldenDrive, The Spy Who Defragged Me, Die Another Bay... we could go on 21 Dec 07:59 | 13
On-call Did webcam 'performer' offer support chap payment in kind? Client loved new lighting and focus, but this story does not have a happy ending 21 Dec 08:37 | 118
Analysis Turns out there's a market for marijuana... plants' video surveillance Scale-out and tape firm knows how to adapt 21 Dec 09:06 | 14
Software Storage marketing guru ups and leaves CTERA ... for whom? Takes stealthy startup job with ex-XtremIO big data-sorter 21 Dec 09:34 |
SaaS Sayonara North America: Insurance guy got your back when Office 365 doesn't? Read the small print 21 Dec 10:01 | 40
Legal Landmark EU ruling: Legality of UK's Investigatory Powers Act challenged Want to eyeball retained data? You need a decent reason 21 Dec 10:07 | 118
Storage 'Pet Shop Boys CEO' firm quips: We have enough storage people Mangstor: We wanted a biz brain, and we got one 21 Dec 10:57 | 2
Security Energy firm points to hackers after Kiev power outage Erm, it was hovering between -9˚C and -1˚C that day 21 Dec 10:58 | 24
Bootnotes Softcat centrefolds wrap up for charity Directors told, 'Here's some cash, now for god sake GET your kit ON 21 Dec 12:04 | 6
On-Prem WANdisco scores $1m self-driving car deal under back-from-the-dead CEO It's certainly been an eventful year for the vendor 21 Dec 12:29 | 3
Analysis Radical 5G rules proposed, but UK can address woeful coverage right now Mobile coverage 'frankly appalling' 21 Dec 13:27 | 17
Backgrounder Gluster techie shows off 'MySQL of object storage' Minio projects Github star count has it beating Ceph and Swift 21 Dec 14:50 | 7
Software Amateur radio fans drop the ham-mer on HRD's license key 'blacklist' Remotely killing one customer's copy was not an isolated incident, say readers 21 Dec 15:02 | 89
Software Snapchat coding error nearly destroys all of time for the internet Also in the spirit of the season, volunteer Time Lords sought... 21 Dec 15:56 | 60
On-Prem Apple sues Nokia's pet patent trolls Nokia is trying to 'compensate for its own failing cell phone business' 21 Dec 20:00 | 42
End-of-Year Round Up Smartphones crashed, Samsung burned: Mobile in 2016 All change 21 Dec 20:54 | 22
Security Don't pay up to decrypt – cure found for CryptXXX ransomware, again Back to the drawing board, boys 21 Dec 21:37 | 44
Updated Microsoft scores nearly $1bn non-compete contract with US military Redmond delivers source code and personal services to Green Machine 21 Dec 22:27 | 34