Networks ITU aims to to keep the radio on with new satellite regulation fees Keeping geostationary sats chatting is simple. Low-Earth sats need more brains 15 Jan 01:01 | 8
Security Oracle still silent on Meltdown, but lists patches for x86 servers among 233 new fixes Sun ZFS Storage Appliance users: brace for super-critical fix 15 Jan 01:30 | 8
Networks OK, Google: Why does Chromecast clobber Wi-Fi connections? Router vendors sling firmware to protect users from packet floods 15 Jan 01:58 | 111
Legal Hawaiian fake nukes alert caused by fat-fingered fumble of garbage GUI You'll Pai for this, thunders FCC 15 Jan 03:13 | 173
Science Black hole munched galactic leftovers, spewed stars, burped Galaxy can turn itself off, then on again 15 Jan 03:59 | 7
Legal France may protect citizens' liberté with ban on foreigners buying local big data firms AI and other tech could go on 'not to be acquired' list 15 Jan 06:02 | 37
Bootnotes Junk food meets junk money: KFC starts selling Bitcoin Bucket Transaction costs more than chicken, which would go cold by the time BTC change hands 15 Jan 07:02 | 81
Software Mozilla offers sysadmins a Policy Engine for roll-your-own Firefox installs And warms to a kind of speculative execution for Tabs, too. Really. 15 Jan 07:33 | 20
Legal German Bar Association says Nein to patent court block effort Good news for UPC advocates, bad news for EPO staff 15 Jan 08:01 | 7
Security Meltdown/Spectre fixes made AWS CPUs cry, says SolarWinds CPU utilization up, throughput down, but a second fix may have restored normal service 15 Jan 08:37 | 27
Comment Why did top Home Office civil servant lobby Ofcom for obscure kit ban? GSM gateway prohibition was way below Sir Philip Rutnam's paygrade 15 Jan 09:05 | 61
Analysis Third NAND dimension makes quad bit bucket cells feasible A view on quad-level cell flash error correction 15 Jan 09:33 | 14
Security UK.gov denies data processing framework is 'sinister' – but admits ICO has concerns Minister says commish is 'free to disregard' framework if it is 'irrelevant' 15 Jan 10:18 | 24
On-Prem Facebook, Twitter supremos ditch Disney as biz steps on their turf Tech bigwigs won't seek re-election to Mickey Mouse board 15 Jan 10:45 | 10
Legal Childcare is a pain in the bum and so is HMRC's buggy subsidies site Thousands still experiencing issues since April launch 15 Jan 12:05 | 45
Storage Users clutch refilled Box boxen after 'empty' folder panic Customers couldn't see sync 'n' share files 15 Jan 12:35 | 25
Security Customers reporting credit card fraud after using OnePlus webstore Chinese mobe-flinger probing the issue 15 Jan 13:16 | 22
Software Facebook settles landmark revenge porn case with UK teen for undisclosed sum Anti-saucy snap programme makes more sense 15 Jan 13:52 | 65
On-Prem 220 heads to roll as Steria hacks away at UK.gov back-office IT biz Part of major shake-up at outsourcer 15 Jan 14:28 | 8
Analysis Storage slingers say: Don't sweat Spectre, Meltdown SANitation Debate rages on software, HCI slowdown though 15 Jan 15:05 | 10
Science Microsoft wants to patent mind control Battling Zuck for the brain-computer interface 15 Jan 15:28 | 32
Legal UK taxman has domain typo-squatter stripped of HMRC web addresses Panama corporation owns nearly 54,000 dot-UK sites 15 Jan 16:06 | 42
Science Ford giving electric car investment a jolt to the tune of $11bn Detroit giant plans 40 full and hybrid models by 2022 15 Jan 16:32 | 74
Analysis Supermicro crams 36 Samsung 'ruler' SSDs into dense superserver Watch out Intel, there's a new mini-ruler in town 15 Jan 17:05 | 28
Security Now Meltdown patches are making industrial control systems lurch Automation and SCADA-flingers admit fix has affected products 15 Jan 18:07 | 25
Exclusive IBM kills Global Technology and Global Business Services: It's all ‘IBM Services’ now Because you need to ‘capitalize on exponential intelligence fueled by pervasive tech’ and only IBM can do that 15 Jan 21:34 | 72
Networks Lenovo inherited a switch authentication bypass – from Nortel A long time ago, in a company far, far away … 15 Jan 21:58 | 10
SaaS Microsoft extends patent protection shield on-premises Azure Stack users invited under ‘IP Advantage’ umbrella 15 Jan 23:58 | 7