AI + ML Zuck sucks up upstart Ozlo so it can stop sucking at chatbots Facebook hits the acqui-hire button to boost its instant-messaging assistant 01 Aug 00:38 | 10
Security McAfee online scan used plain old HTTP to fetch screen elements 38 lines of code later, you're owned. Good thing the fix is in, eh? 01 Aug 02:04 | 9
Bootnotes Arcade Fire releases album on USB fidget spinner for £79/$105 Prank prompts 'vinyl sounds so much better than toys' debate 01 Aug 02:58 | 28
Security 'App DDoS bombs' that slam into expensive APIs worry Netflix Attackers can look legit while hitting APIs that make the most work for an app 01 Aug 04:04 | 8
Networks Dirty carbon nanotubes offer telcos chance at secure quantum comms Room-temperature single-photon-emitter boosts conventional networks 01 Aug 04:58 | 15
Storage Red Hat acquires Permabit to put the squeeze on RHEL Stallman says ZFS-on-Linux is impossible ... now Red Hat has dedupe without GNU legals 01 Aug 05:58 | 59
Updated It’s 2017 and Hayes AT modem commands can hack luxury cars Telematics torched in BMWs, Infinitis, Nissan Leaf and some Fords 01 Aug 06:58 | 43
Personal Tech HP Inc reveals dockable, wearable VR workstation for the office Backpack PC aimed at designers who move between metaphorical mice and VR 01 Aug 07:30 | 17
Software Skype for Business is not Skype – realising that is half the battle Wait, come back. There are some... good bits, promise 01 Aug 08:06 | 76
Channel DDN offers help to 'stranded' Seagate ClusterStor customers Heard about this, Cray? 01 Aug 08:38 | 1
Review Microsoft Surface laptop: Is this your MacBook Air replacement? Jailbreak it the official way, kids... 01 Aug 09:02 | 127
Legal UK.gov to trial vouchers for 'gigabit-capable' connectivity with SMEs Wants to hand out £40m from £200m full-fibre investment pot 01 Aug 09:57 | 10
On-Prem Don't mind if I do, says Nokia, taking a €1.7bn chomp out of Apple 'Substantial upfront cash payment' from licensing spat 01 Aug 10:40 | 15
Legal Ofcom lifts sword, eyes up BT's duct and pole rental costs With a knick knack, piggyback, throw broadband folks a bone 01 Aug 11:17 | 36
Science UAV maker swipes at sponsor of opaque Qinetiq drone study Don't take our name in vain, DJI veep tells trade union 01 Aug 11:35 | 31
Bootnotes NEWSFLASH Now even science* says moneybags footballers are overpaid Bewilderingly, algo-crafting boffins fail to reference Reg standards 01 Aug 12:32 | 77
Channel Maintel snaps up Intrinsic for £5m Networking biz forks out for loss-making outfit 01 Aug 12:42 | 2
Sysadmin blog Welcome to the Rise of the Machine-to-Machine. Isn't it time to 'block off' some data ducts? Isolation-based security is getting important 01 Aug 13:58 | 20
OSes How can you kill that which will not die? Windows XP is back (sorta... OK, not really) Usage up 0.08% while Windows 10 continues to win converts 01 Aug 15:07 | 86
Storage Databarracks turns to business continuity as a service. Why? BCaaS Firm now tackles smaller crises alongside disaster recovery 01 Aug 15:26 |
Storage WANdisco sticks Fusion into Amazon's Snowballs for mega-petabyte data pelt Replication tech integrated with data truck - yes an actual truck... 01 Aug 16:45 | 4
Feature This surf-and-turf robot swims using ribbon-like fins. And it's floated for US Navy approval Undulating propulsion system makes waves, useful for amphibious missions 01 Aug 18:04 | 26
Storage Cohesity adds archiving, analytics to Orion's belt v5.0 combines end-to-end data protection and big data storage 01 Aug 18:23 | 1
Science Go fork yourself: Bitcoin has split in two – and yes, it's all forked up Bitcoin Cash is the New Coke of cryptocurrency 01 Aug 19:06 | 48
Science Ohm-em-gee: US nuke plant project goes dark after money meltdown Toshiba pulls plug on reactor construction, uranium becomes u-ran-out-of-cash 01 Aug 19:40 | 45
Analysis 'Real' people want govts to spy on them, argues UK Home Secretary Magical thinking meets willful ignorance at closed meeting 01 Aug 21:04 | 202
Personal Tech Charter sprints from rinky-dink Sprint hints US comms giant denies buyout rumors, says it prefers Verizon for the time being 01 Aug 21:44 | 3
Legal Fox News fabricated faux news with Donald Trump, lawsuit claims Fake quotes linked DNC staffer to Wikileaks to divert attention from Russia, it is claimed 01 Aug 21:57 | 53
AI + ML Facebook pulls plug on language-inventing chatbots? THE TRUTH Far be it from us to lecture journos on overreacting but cripes – calm down 01 Aug 23:02 | 51
On-Prem One.Tel to finally die in November, 16 years after collapse Final liquidators' meeting to wrap up billionaire boys fun phone adventure 01 Aug 23:12 | 4
Edge + IoT No vulns. No hardwired passwords. Patchable. Congress dreams of IoT: Impossible Online Tech We all want totally secure gear. And flying cars. And $1m. And... 01 Aug 23:47 | 29