Bootnotes Wasted worker wasps wanna know – oi! – who are you looking at? Sick of kid spit, flying stripy sexless scum drink your cider, pick fight 13 Aug 05:11 | 107
On-Prem Firefighters choke on Oracle's alleged smoke-and-mirrors cloud Pension fund cries fraud over database giant's boasts about its off-prem biz performance 13 Aug 06:02 | 20
AI + ML Now boffins are teaching AI to dial up chemo doses for brain cancer How does that work for reinforcement learning? +1 for shrinking tumor, -1 for death? 13 Aug 07:05 | 13
Security UK cyber cops: Infosec pros could help us divert teens from 'dark side' Police seek mentor-like techies to help talented kids 13 Aug 08:11 | 32
Reg Lectures Grubby, tortuous, full of malware and deceit: Just call it Lionel because the internet is MESSY So what are we going to do about it? Anything? 13 Aug 08:40 | 17
DEF CON Former NSA top hacker names the filthy four of nation-state hacking Carefully omits to mention the Land of the Free 13 Aug 09:11 | 53
Who, Me? Prank 'Give me a raise!' email nearly lands sysadmin with dismissal Staffer learns hard way: boss jokes don't mix well with infosec demos 13 Aug 09:45 | 93
Bootnotes Want to raise cash for Action for Children’s Byte Night? The clock is ticking Sign up and start raising wonga now 13 Aug 10:15 |
DEF CON Criminal justice software code could send you to jail and there’s nothing you can do about it Trade secrets are trumping personal liberty 13 Aug 10:50 | 35
Storage Smells like machine spirit: L' Optane, Unity, NVMe and QLC. Take a sniff of a week in storage Time to dab your wrists with a little eau de flash 13 Aug 11:28 |
Personal Tech Why is my cheapo Android red hot and switching off Wi-Fi? It's no (crypto)miner offence 13 Aug 11:58 | 29
Legal UK's data watchdog picks privacy man from IBM arm as new tech policy exec Simon McDougall bags top innovation role at Information Commish 13 Aug 12:25 | 1
Hands On Samsung Galaxy Note 9: A steep price to pay Quality, enterprise-friendly kit, but ... how much wonga? 13 Aug 12:57 | 98
Software Database ballsup: NHS under pressure over fresh patient record error Thousands of discrepancies reported between two databases 13 Aug 13:28 | 19
On-Prem IBM's Watson 'n' cloud head honcho targeted by WPP – reports Big Blue mouthpiece insists he's not going anywhere, though 13 Aug 13:56 | 5
DEF CON US voting systems: Full of holes, loaded with pop music, and 'hacked' by an 11-year-old Pen and paper is still king in America election security 13 Aug 14:30 | 84
Analysis Disk will eat itself: Flash price crash just around the over-supplied block Cheaper SSDs could accelerate disk cannibalisation leading to Seagate downturn 13 Aug 15:15 | 20
Software Windows is coming to Chromebooks… with Google’s blessing The host with the most 13 Aug 15:48 | 73
Legal Whistleblower org chief quits over Assange critic boot demand Courage Foundation boss walks as pro-Jules trustees order Barrett Brown cut loose 13 Aug 19:09 | 16
Software Google keeps tracking you even when you specifically tell it not to: Maps, Search won't take no for an answer Location, location, location! 13 Aug 19:35 | 175
SaaS Microsoft gets edge on AWS with Azure Stack for government Feds can now stick Redmond clouds into on-prem hardware 13 Aug 21:25 | 9
Security It's official: TLS 1.3 approved as standard while spies weep Now all you lot have to actually implement it 13 Aug 22:19 | 26
AI + ML Eye eye! DeepMind teams up with doctors to ogle eyeballs for illness AI can help speed up diagnosis and seldom gets it wrong 13 Aug 23:42 | 14