Legal FCC slammed for 'arbitrary and reckless' plan to change how text messages are regulated US watchdog says it's about spam, but really it's about profits 06 Dec 00:19 | 29
OSes It's December 2018, and a rogue application can still tell your Apple Mac: I'm your El Capitan now iOS, macOS, tvOS, Safari, and anyone for some reason using iTunes on Windows – get patching 06 Dec 00:29 | 11
Networks Huawei CFO poutine cuffs by Canadian cops after allegedly busting sanctions on Iran Exec could face trial in the US for 'cutting deals' with White House's Middle East bête noire 06 Dec 01:34 | 70
AI + ML DeepMind quits playing games with AI, ups the protein stakes with machine-learning code Meet AlphaFold, an artificially intelligent system to predict crucial biochemical structures 06 Dec 02:17 | 10
Security Pencil manufacturers rejoice: Oz government doesn't like e-voting Paper's safer, says parliamentary committee 06 Dec 06:01 | 32
Science Keen for much-hyped quantum computing to finally land? Don't expect it for a decade Uncle Sam says it has no clue when the complex tech will arrive in a useful form 06 Dec 07:03 | 40
Updated Brits' DNA data sent to military base after 'foreign' hack attacks – report 100,000 Genomes Project is secure, insists chair 06 Dec 09:07 | 30
Comment Do not adjust your set: Hats off to Apple, you struggle to shift iPhones 'cos you're oddly ethical Hey, you forgot to build in some obsolescence 06 Dec 09:46 | 128
OSes Wintel dust up: Intel supply woes vs Win10 demand Sorry suits, PC sales set to slide this year despite OS excuse to refresh computer tin 06 Dec 10:17 | 9
Software Ooo shiny! First Visual Studio 2019 sneak peek here in time for Chrimbo Faster Android builds, more space, but don't expect to find a Windows Phone emulator 06 Dec 10:51 | 27
Networks Total Inability To Support User Phones: O2 fries, burning data for 32 million Brits 'Global' network issue pinned on supplier – Ericsson 'working' on solution 06 Dec 11:06 | 184
Black Hat More data joy: Email scammers are buying marks' info from legit biz intelligence firms London Blue gang probably has your firm's org chart 06 Dec 11:41 | 8
Microsoft Connect(); Virtual Nodes and Cluster Autoscaling arrive at Microsoft's Azure Kubernetes Party Python slithers out of Azure Functions shadows but ACS is for chop 06 Dec 12:48 | 2
Black Hat Windows 10 security question: How do miscreants use these for post-hack persistence? Infosec duo worked out how to remotely set their own answers 06 Dec 13:20 | 15
Science Falcon 9 gets its feet wet as SpaceX notch up two more launch successes Also, Musk's giant mitt misses again but don't worry. Those salt stains will buff out ok 06 Dec 13:50 | 45
On-Prem Hi, Optane fuel: Liqid’s roll-your-own-server crew adds Chipzilla SSDs to the mix Tweaking the disaggregated server recipe 06 Dec 14:20 |
Security UK spies: You know how we said bulk device hacking would be used sparingly? Well, things have 'evolved'... Admit they are upping their use of mass snooping 06 Dec 14:49 | 59
OSes Incoming! Microsoft unleashes more fixes for Windows 10 October 2018 Update Got a Surface Book 2 on 1803? You should probably uninstall last week's update 06 Dec 15:19 | 33
Storage He, He, more gassy whoppers: Toshiba spreads 12TB, 14TB drives across gaming and NAS disks Extremely, er, unspecified helium-filled gaming disk performance 06 Dec 15:51 | 8
On-Prem Capita: We are seeking staff to join our board. Just two please Imagine the kind of luxury custard creams you'd get at that meeting, right proles? 06 Dec 16:20 | 16
AI + ML Get real! Microsoft CTO of AI quits Redmond for real estate biz Joseph Sirosh has left the building 06 Dec 17:30 | 6
On-Prem Amazon robot fingered for bear spray leak that hospitalised 24 staffers Jeff Bezos' brown box empire slammed for failing to protect employees 06 Dec 18:30 | 66
On-Prem Cloudera boss claims Hortonworks wedding planning is ahead of schedule Says no one has bad word to say about tie-in with former Hadoop rival 06 Dec 19:30 |
Networks Why millions of Brits' mobile phones were knackered on Thursday: An expired Ericsson software certificate Swede Jesus! 06 Dec 20:20 | 146
Bootnotes Peak tech! Bacon vending machine signals apex of human invention For one week only, Ohio students can sate crackling craving for a mere $1 06 Dec 20:30 | 139
Updated And the next 7nm laptop processor will be designed by In, er, AM, um, Qualcomm: The 64-bit Arm Snapdragon 8CX The X is for extreme. Dude? 06 Dec 21:00 | 26
Networks Funnily enough, China fuming, senator cheering after Huawei CFO cuffed by Canadian cops at Uncle Sam's request Beijing demands US 'correct' Meng detainment pronto 06 Dec 21:33 | 62
OSes It's official. Microsoft pushes Google over the Edge, shifts browser to Chromium engine Cutting Edge technology, literally 06 Dec 22:03 | 140