Legal Australia won't prescribe its national broadband network a high-fibre diet Nobody gets 100 Mbps, so nobody buys 100 Mbps, so nobody needs 100 Mbps. QED 17 Jan 00:21 | 27
Personal Tech What do Cali, New York, Hawaii, Maine and 18 other US states have in common? Fighting the FCC on net neutrality Attorneys General go to court to rescue internet protections 17 Jan 00:54 | 54
Security BIND comes apart thanks to ancient denial-of-service vuln No active exploits, but crashes are happening in the wild 17 Jan 01:57 |
Analysis Today in bullsh*t AI PR: Computers learn to read as well as humans (no) Nice tech, but shame on Microsoft, Alibaba's spinners 17 Jan 02:25 | 57
Networks Google sinks cash into more submarine cables, plans more data centres South America, Europe and Asia get pipes, DCs for Finland, Honkers and Hollywood 17 Jan 04:04 | 18
On-Prem Storage Spaces Direct cheapens itself, hardware-wise, adds NVDIMM support Good news – assuming software-defined storage is still viable after Meltdown/Spectre 17 Jan 05:01 | 1
Software Flying on its own, Thunderbird seeks input on new look Brings in designers to apply a new coat of UI before world thinks it looks too shabby to run 17 Jan 05:56 | 98
Networks Google's 'QUIC' TCP alternative slow to excite anyone outside Google Multiplexing-over-UDP idea has hit the standards track, but is mostly ignored 17 Jan 07:03 | 16
Security Another round of click-fraud extensions pulled from Chrome Store More than 500,000 users stung 17 Jan 08:01 | 17
Virtualization VMware’s NSX world domination plan advances with not-just-point release Version 6.4 brings the NSX GUI to the vSphere client 17 Jan 08:21 | 1
Usenix Enigma Wanna motivate staff to be more secure? Don't bother bribing 'em Also, don't get the BOFH to publicly smack them with a LART 17 Jan 08:39 | 60
On-Prem 'No evidence' UK.gov has done much to break up IT outsourcing Carillion scandal part of a long tradition of big supplier addiction 17 Jan 09:00 | 52
On-Prem Heathrow's air traffic radio set for shiny digital upgrade from Northrop With built-in web servers. Yup, you read that right 17 Jan 09:32 | 45
Special report Destroying the city to save the robocar The fight for our public space 17 Jan 10:12 | 212
Usenix Enigma Shafted by bosses, disdained by punters, loved by hackers – yes, it's freelance workers Turns out they are a top target for phishers 17 Jan 11:03 | 8
Analysis Biggest vuln bombshell in forever and storage industry still umms and errs over patches Does it run in VMs, containers, systems running external code? Just. Patch. It 17 Jan 11:27 | 13
Storage SPEC SFS 2014 benchmark smashed by storage newbie NVMe over Fabrics shows its razor sharp performance teeth 17 Jan 11:51 | 7
Legal National Audit Office report blasts UK.gov's 'muddled' STEM strategy More people have skillz, but not in fields that need them 17 Jan 12:23 | 40
Storage Going soft: Kaminario exits the hardware business Software-centric business model to reach disruptive industry price point 17 Jan 12:52 | 6
Legal Ofcom cracks on with spectrum auction rules, despite Three's legal challenge UK telcos continue appeal to lower spectrum cap 17 Jan 13:26 | 6
Legal PPI-pusher makes 75 MEEELLION nuisance calls, lands £350k fine Firm slapped for 'blatantly ignoring telemarketing laws' 17 Jan 13:55 | 47
Storage Another day, another Spectre fix slowdown: What to expect if you heart ZFS Blogger records 7-8% toll on read IOPS 17 Jan 14:35 | 27
Legal UK.gov slammed for NHS data-sharing deal with Home Office Flouts doctors' guidelines, doesn't properly balance public interests, MPs told 17 Jan 15:15 | 12
Updated Former Santander bank manager pleads guilty to computer misuse crimes Customer details spilled to boyfriend 17 Jan 15:24 | 13
Bootnotes France to lend Brexit Britain sore souvenir of Norman yoke – the Bayeux Tapestry Prez Macron expected to agree loan when he meets PM 17 Jan 15:51 | 67
On-Prem Sueball smacks AMD over processor chip security flaw silence CEO, CFO in crosshairs after shareholder 'losses' 17 Jan 16:26 | 33
Comment New Quantum head honcho thrown in at the deep end CEO Patrick Dennis has his work cut out 17 Jan 17:10 | 2
Software SAP boss promises to cull marketing dross on community network Bill McDermott admits hub was seen as a 'channel to promote corporate messages' 17 Jan 17:59 | 2
Usenix Enigma HTML5 may as well stand for Hey, Track Me Longtime 5. Ads can use it to fingerprint netizens This language is wired for sound 17 Jan 20:21 | 47
Usenix Enigma Who's using 2FA? Sweet FA. Less than 10% of Gmail users enable two-factor authentication Your daily dose of digital depression 17 Jan 21:33 | 153
Legal Hey. Facebook, Twitter, YouTube. Get in here... so we can shake your hands – US Senate cyber-terror panel So much for that grilling 17 Jan 22:36 | 8
Software Hehe, still writing code for a living? It's 2018. You could be earning x3 as a bug bounty hunter Oh, yeah, and learning new tricks and protecting stuff, sure 17 Jan 23:38 | 21