Science
China bans cryptocurrency fundraising schemes
Bitcoin, Ethereum values dip after 'Initial Coin Offerings' ruled dangerously disruptive
05 Sep 00:06 | 17
5th > September > 2017 Archive
Legal
Australia reviews defence export controls, perhaps easing cryptography research
Hacker, white hat or crypto boffin? This is important
05 Sep 01:44 | 12
Science
Give a boffin a Xeon and a big GPU, get a new big prime number
9194441048576 + 1 is six MEELLION digits long and the twelfth biggest prime ever found
05 Sep 01:53 | 37
Legal
China crackdown: VPN vendor gets prison
Nine months for letting punters bypass Great Firewall
05 Sep 03:07 | 18
Networks
Networking vendors are good for free lunches, hopeless for networks
Electronic Arts tech director thinks tech-agnostic developers can build better networks than slave-to-vendor NetAdmins
05 Sep 05:03 | 32
SaaS
Solaris update plan is real, but future looks cloudy by design
Oracle OpenWorld catalog mentions virtual SPARC on cloudy x86, migratory motions
05 Sep 06:02 | 26
Science
Asteroid Florence buzzes Earth, brings two moons along for the ride
4.5km rock is the largest object we've seen up close, albeit still 7,000,000km away
05 Sep 06:59 | 49
VMWORLD 2017
VMware wants security industry to shrink so its ambitions fit into market
Virtzilla's swagger is back as it plans to do to the security industry what it once did to storage industry
05 Sep 07:32 | 13
Storage
Whoosh, there it is: Toshiba bods say 14TB helium-filled disk is coming soon
Arriving by the end of 2017
05 Sep 08:51 | 63
Security
UK not as keen on mobile wallets as mainland Europe and US
Banks vs fintech war looms. But for now, let's pop the kettle on
05 Sep 09:18 | 90
AI + ML
Hey, cloud big three! AI-wielding Huawei says it's coming for you
Announces public cloud alliance for China and beyond
05 Sep 10:03 | 9
On-Prem
UK engineering software firm swallowed in £3bn merger with France's Schneider Electric
Reverse takeover: Cambridge techies to keep London listing
05 Sep 10:45 | 5
Bootnotes
It's official: Users navigate flat UI designs 22 per cent slower
Put in some chrome and shade
05 Sep 11:03 | 298
Analysis
Arcserve left headless as CEO Mike Crest splits for pastures greener
New boss, whoever they are, has big ol' boots to fill
05 Sep 11:31 | 5
Legal
Vivaldi boss: It'd be cool if Google went back to the 'not evil' schtick
Blasts AdWords blockery
05 Sep 12:01 | 37
Updated
Futuristic driverless car technology to be trialled on... oh, a Ford Mondeo
Driven consortium floors it on the glamour front
05 Sep 12:33 | 57
Networks
Three challenges UK watchdog to a duel over mobile spectrum rules
Your move, EE
05 Sep 13:04 | 26
Security
Bazinga! Social network Taringa 'fesses up to data breach
Que pasó?
05 Sep 13:36 | 2
Security
Kurat võtku! Estonia identifies security risk in almost 750,000 ID cards
That's over half the population
05 Sep 14:24 | 7
Science
Flying electric taxi upstart scores $90m from investors
Its aircraft doesn't have a tail fin. No, really
05 Sep 15:36 | 64
Personal Tech
Stealth, lightweight Android breaks cover
Google's new landfill strategy
05 Sep 16:15 | 20
Security
Apache Struts you're stuffed: Vuln allows hackers to inject evil code into biz servers
All versions of app framework since 2008 affected – so patch!
05 Sep 17:41 | 8
Security
Remember when Lenovo sold PCs with Superfish adware? It just got a mild scolding from FTC
Settlement requires disclosure and monitoring, not much else
05 Sep 19:08 | 36
Security
Yet another AWS config fumble: Time Warner Cable exposes 4 million subscriber records
US cable giant the latest victim of S3 cloud security brain-fart
05 Sep 19:40 | 28
Legal
Big Tech fumes over Prez Trump's decision to deport a million kids
With DACA dead, all eyes turn to a dysfunctional Congress
05 Sep 20:07 | 43
Science
Climate-change skeptic lined up to run NASA in this Trump timeline
Rep Bridenstine wants to get into space – presumably after we've destroyed this world
05 Sep 20:55 | 115
Networks
Australia-to-Asia traffic slows as typhoons cut submarine cables
I've been to Bali, via California
05 Sep 23:41 | 2
Science
Hurricane Irma imperils first ever SpaceX shuttle launch: US military's secret squirrel X-37B
What goes up, Musk stay on the ground at this rate
05 Sep 23:52 | 45
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