Security The Pwn Star State: Nearly two dozen Texas towns targeted by tiresome ransomware Officials suspect a coordinated extortion campaign 20 Aug 00:02 | 13
Security Breaker, breaker. Apple's iOS 12.4 update breaks jailbreak break, un-breaks the break. 10-4 File under: 'Breaking' news 20 Aug 01:58 | 34
Hot Chips IBM, Intel tease 2020's specialist chips: Power9 'bandwidth beast' – and Spring Crest Nervana neural-net processor Plus, Cerebras hypes up AI-focused '400,000-core die the size of an iPad' 20 Aug 06:57 | 16
Hands on Lenovo ThinkPad X390: A trusty workhorse that means business but it's not without a few flaws Taking the PC maker's road warrior out on the, er, road 20 Aug 08:08 | 71
On-Prem Bunch of US states said to be preparing fresh antitrust investigation into Google 'n' pals Amazon, Apple and Facebook also to face scrutiny – report 20 Aug 09:45 | 19
Round Up Squabbles over NASA's lunar lander, Astrobotics takes a punt on ULA and India arrives at the Moon Also: Rocket Lab launches eighth Electron, good and bad news for China 20 Aug 10:45 | 15
Software Microsoft shares twin previews of Windows 10 with Insiders: Toys for some, coal for others You say mode, they say policy, S call the whole thing off 20 Aug 11:30 | 3
Networks RIP Danny Cohen: The computer scientist who gave world endianness meets his end aged 81 He also developed one of the first ever flight simulators 20 Aug 12:15 | 42
Bootnotes You monsters: Screen time murders your kid's imaginary friend – until they reach school age British sprogs have a million pretend pals, says survey 20 Aug 13:03 | 40
Devops Python the latest language to slither into Microsoft's serverless Azure Functions service Look, we caught up with AWS 20 Aug 13:45 | 4
Updated TSO Host no closer to solving customers' email issues as Brit firm pops up on more blacklists Punters bemoan comms silence with no fix in sight 20 Aug 14:46 | 24
Security Huawei goes all Art of War on us: Switches on 'battle mode' and vows to 'dominate the world' You listening, Trump? 20 Aug 15:30 | 90
On-Prem IBM hears the RISC-V kids partying next door, decides it will make its Power CPU ISA free, too Big Blue says it will open OpenPower, power next-gen chips in China, er, anywhere 20 Aug 16:05 | 40
Software Microsoft Chrom... Edge hits beta as new browser prepped for biz testing Where will you stand now that Redmond has raised the web-surfing stakes? 20 Aug 17:53 | 38
Networks How four rotten packets broke CenturyLink's network for 37 hours, knackering 911 calls, VoIP, broadband FCC delivers postmortem after blunder cripples US fiber links 20 Aug 20:12 | 53
Security No REST for the wicked: Ruby gem hacked to siphon passwords, secrets from web devs Developer account cracked due to credential reuse, source tampered with and released to hundreds of programmers 20 Aug 21:21 | 13
Science Clip, clip, hooray: NASA says it will send Clipper probe to Europa, will attempt no landing there Forget Mars, Jupiter’s moon could be where life’s at 20 Aug 23:58 | 25