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Hells door-bells! Ring pieces paralyzed in horror during Halloween trick-or-treat rush

Plus: Slap for Slack stack chaps in crap chat app mishap flap

01 Nov 00:23 | 83

Disney-branded internet filter had Mickey Mouse security

23 vulnerabilities let rats run riot, even as kids' eyes were kept innocent

01 Nov 00:59 | 11

Hipsterverse horror as Slack takes Halloween hiatus

Two-hour outage sees users forced to speak to each other

01 Nov 01:53 | 10

Comodo CA acquired by Francisco Partners ...

... which also owns SonicWall and various spy upstarts

01 Nov 03:57 | 13

Toyota picks Renesas SoC to power its first self-driving cars

Intel outside as ARM-powered silicon becomes brains of auto-auto due on sale in 2020

01 Nov 05:01 | 4

NASA reveals Curiosity 2020's 23-camera payload

Probe to carry cams named SHERLOC and WATSON, plus chute-cam and selfie-snappers

01 Nov 06:02 | 29

Google reveals rapid Bluetooth gadget connection tech

'Fast Pair' works on Androids and some audio devices, Google wants it in your car too

01 Nov 07:01 | 37

Microsoft reveals network simulator that keeps Azure alive

'CrystalNet' reveals router bugs beat sysadmin fat-fingers six-to-one for outages

01 Nov 08:02 | 11

Google remembers it has an air-fares API, takes the usual action

QPX gets a trip to Mountain View's shooting shed

01 Nov 08:27 | 12

Sir, you're doing 60 in a 30mph container zone. What are you, some kind of devops cop?

Well... we prefer containerised app info highway code

01 Nov 09:13 | 5

One-third of mobile users receive patchy to no indoor coverage

WHAT? NAH, YOU'RE BREAKING UP

01 Nov 10:03 | 57

Two drones, two crashes in two months: MoD still won't say why

We now know when they crashed – but not even a hint about the cause

01 Nov 10:32 | 92

Micron gets edgy with 256GB surveillance SD card reveal in China

But still outclassed in capacity by SanDisk's tiny whopper

01 Nov 11:04 | 11

Simon's Cat app rapped for random 'racy' advert

Single complaint prompts unenforceable ruling. Good job!

01 Nov 11:33 | 33

Punctual as ever, Equifax starts snail-mailing affected Brits about mega-breach

Here's a true Halloween horror story: We blabbed your details

01 Nov 12:20 | 45

Competition law could help solve data-slurping monopolies, peers told

Also: Viscount Ridley says it's better bots spy on him because they won't tell the Mail

01 Nov 12:58 | 20

Facebook vows to double staff with new cadre of Net Police

Horse bolted. Buys better door

01 Nov 13:32 | 24

'The Queen' is showing Geneva how to be polite on public transport

One must wait one's turn

01 Nov 13:58 | 65

Judge: You're getting an Apple data centre and you're going to like it

Irish High Court rejects another appeal against €850m bit barn

01 Nov 14:28 | 33

My #95Theses of #Digital

I promise not Reformation, but #Transformation

01 Nov 15:02 | 53

Hackers abusing digital certs smuggle malware past security scanners

No longer just a spy game

01 Nov 15:35 | 17

Openreach: Comms providers 'welcome' our full-fibre 'ambition'

Duh. It's better than sweating the heck out of copper and aluminium for another decade

01 Nov 16:02 | 24

IBM's containerised Cloud Private's out in the open

Big Blue hybrid cloud organ stands up to be counted

01 Nov 16:33 | 2

Open source, says me: Alibaba chucks MariaDB a $27m funding round

Chinese biz links up database tech with cloud platform

01 Nov 17:01 | 9

Guess who's now automating small-biz IT jobs? Yes, it's Microsoft

Dear job hunters, you're out of luck. Redmond's 365 Business is designed for PHBs

01 Nov 18:06 | 49

America's 2020 Census systems are a $15bn cyber-security tire fire

Code not finished or properly tested, lack of staff, and more, Senate warned

01 Nov 19:22 | 18

Virtually everyone in Malaysia pwned in telco, govt data hack spree

46.2 million stolen accounts, thousands of medical records put up for sale by crooks

01 Nov 20:02 | 13

So, tell us again how tech giants are more important than US govt...

Facebook, Google, Twitter get very rude awakening during Senate grilling

01 Nov 21:26 | 125

Slashing regulations literally more important than saving American lives to Donald Trump

Vehicle-to-vehicle car-talking safety technology hits skids

01 Nov 21:58 | 113

Funnily enough, when Qualcomm's licensees stop sending in their royalty checks, profits start going south

As Apple 'threatens' to ditch Qualy modems altogether

01 Nov 23:02 | 20

FBI: Student wrestler grappled grades after choking passwords from PCs using a key logger

22-year-old bloke charged after Fed probe

01 Nov 23:54 | 19

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