Security Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg: Crypto ban won't help trap terrorists Tells Desert Island Discs that Indie apps don't hand over metadata 31 Jul 00:58 | 38
OSes Linus Torvalds pens vintage 'f*cking' rant at kernel dev's 'utter BS' Dev bounces back with 'fair enough' as rc3 for 4.13 lands 31 Jul 01:58 | 126
Science Boffins grudgingly admit they may have found an exomoon Social media speculation forced their hand, hence the pre-press paper explaining their interest 31 Jul 02:28 | 15
Software Petition calls for Adobe Flash to survive as open source zombie Dev thinks we need to keep notable .SWFs readable for the sake of posterity 31 Jul 02:58 | 87
Science Scary news: Asteroid may pass Earth by just 6,880km in October Good news: Chelyabinsk-sized rattler won't wipe us out, will let us test asteroid defences 31 Jul 03:58 | 74
Legal Apple removes VPN apps in China as Russia's Putin puts in the boot with VPN banlaw Banned and yanked from Apple's App Store 31 Jul 04:58 | 45
OSes Windows Subsystem for Linux to debut in Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Out of beta, still won't let you read Linux files from Windows 31 Jul 06:00 | 82
DEF CON AI quickly cooks malware that AV software can't spot Experiment used Elon Musk's OpenAI framework - no wonder he's so down on AI 31 Jul 07:02 | 38
Legal nbn™ blames cheap-ass telcos for grumpy users, absolves CVC pricing All this will pass says CEO Morrow, once ISPs consolidate and stop discounting 31 Jul 07:41 | 31
Legal White collar crime prosecutions fall as offences rise Actual reports of transgressions are up, though 31 Jul 08:12 | 9
Networks Brace yourselves, Virgin Media prices are going up AGAIN, people Even students set to feel the wallet burn from August 31 Jul 08:39 | 68
AI + ML Autonomous driving in a city? We're '95% of the way there' Goal is 'Level 5', where vehicle reacts like human-driven one 31 Jul 09:03 | 110
Legal Revised 'Broadband 2.0' report: 6.7m Brits suffer 'sub-10Mbps' speeds But industry folk unconvinced by methodology 31 Jul 09:38 | 24
Storage Toshiba agrees to give WD 2-week heads-up about flash memory biz flog-off Court orders, stipulations and legal wrangling continues 31 Jul 09:57 |
On-Prem End of the road for Basho: Court puts biz into receivership Troubled NoSQL database-flinger was in ‘financial freefall’, court docs show 31 Jul 10:31 | 2
On-Prem Universal Service Oh... forget the Obligation. BT offers to stump up £600m for 10Mbps No need for regulation, right guys? 31 Jul 10:44 | 49
Analysis Destination PWND: Safes, ATMs, phones all fall to Vegas hax0rs The best of the rest from Black Hat and DEF CON 31 Jul 11:40 | 5
Security PasteBin data dump: Hackers claim files are from Mandiant FireEye 'breach' Security analysts: None of our systems were pwned 31 Jul 11:58 | 7
Analysis NAND that's that... Flash chip industry worth twice disk drive biz Can Seagate escape coming HDD crash? 31 Jul 12:32 | 9
Science GPS III satellites and ground station projects get even later as costs gently spiral What's a few more billion between friends, eh? 31 Jul 12:57 | 25
On-Prem KA-SHING! Three's daddy Hutchison flogs telecom unit for £1.4bn Hong Kong’s richest man just got a bit richer 31 Jul 13:34 | 1
Storage Creditors urge Toshiba to consider bankruptcy – reports A viable option with a slew of new difficulties 31 Jul 14:43 | 19
Comment Steve Bannon wants Facebook, Google 'regulated like utilities' How would that work, exactly? 31 Jul 16:04 | 72
Legal Amazon admits flouting sanctions by flogging consumer tat to Iran 'We do not plan to continue selling to these accounts' 31 Jul 16:10 | 10
Legal Google tracks what you spend offline to prove its online ads work. And privacy folks are furious Watchdog goes to court to open up black box system 31 Jul 18:58 | 106
Security Look out Silicon Valley, here comes Brit bruiser Amber Rudd to lay down the (cyber) law Amber alert! The UK's Home Sec is heading this way 31 Jul 19:23 | 111
Science Sun of a b... Rising solar temp wrecks chances of finding ET in our system Enceladus, Europa will not be habitable, scientists warn 31 Jul 20:16 | 47
Personal Tech New iPhone details leak: Yes, Apple is still chasing Samsung Facial recognition? Amazing. Edge screen? How is that even possible? 31 Jul 21:03 | 109
Security Game of Pwns: Hackers invade HBO, 'leak Game of Thrones script' Entertainment giant acknowledges attack, stays mum on details 31 Jul 23:03 | 27