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Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia accused of hacking Jeff Bezos' phone with malware-laden WhatsApp message
Mid-East nation slams 'absurd' claim, UN report to emerge
22 Jan 00:31 | 43
22nd > January > 2020 Archive
Software
*David Attenborough voice* And here we have, in the wild, a rare glimpse... of what may be... a positive IBM quarter
Big Blue rides Red Hat into the black
22 Jan 05:48 | 22
Software
From WordPad to WordAds: Microsoft caught sneaking nagging Office promos into venerable text editor beta
Hidden for now, probably coming to a desktop near you, soon, ish
22 Jan 07:06 | 114
Bootnotes
Alan Turing’s OBE medal, PhD cert, other missing items found in super-fan’s Colorado home by agents, says US govt
Shock discovery after Brit super-boffin's stuff disappears decades earlier
22 Jan 08:04 | 89
Software
Microsoft boffin inadvertently highlights .NET image woes by running C# on Windows 3.11
Old? Windows-only? Community struggles with '40-year-old male' problem
22 Jan 09:16 | 138
AI + ML
A-high: Prototype drug squad bot to patrol Instagram, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, etc for dodgy ads for opioids
Not for surveillance, honest
22 Jan 10:00 | 19
Updated
Capita Education Services accidentally spaffs email addresses in Helpdesk snafu
Emailing stuff is hard, m'kay?
22 Jan 10:30 | 31
SaaS
Enterprise skinflints, rejoice: AWS slashes cost of disaster recovery, Kubernetes services
CloudEndure DR gets cheaper, new host-level backup for VMs as AWS looks to lock 'em in
22 Jan 11:10 |
Science
Ancient Ore Crusher or KillBot 2000? NASA gets ready to pick a name for its Mars 2020 Rover
Destined to die a lonely Martian death? How about Doomed Buggy?
22 Jan 11:46 | 63
Software
Flinging resource-hungry apps at landfill Android? Ubuntu daddy wants to lure you into Anbox Cloud
Canonical goes playing in the streams
22 Jan 12:27 | 9
OSes
German taxpayers faced with €800k Windows 7 support bill due to Deutschland dithering
Total Inability To Secure Upgrade Programme in Berlin
22 Jan 12:59 | 56
On-Prem
Xerox to nominate up to 11 directors to HP's board in hostile takeover push – report
If yours won't support a merger, we'll install some who will
22 Jan 13:29 | 16
Security
WindiLeaks: 250 million Microsoft customer support records dating back to 2005 exposed to open internet
Quickly shuttered partially redacted leaky DB included 'internal notes marked as confidential'
22 Jan 14:00 | 34
On-Prem
Co-Op Insurance and IBM play blame game over collapse of £175m megaproject
What happens when big tech ventures completely fail? A High Court trial!
22 Jan 15:00 | 28
Security
Academics call for UK's Computer Misuse Act 1990 to be reformed
Report suggests public interest defences for infosec professionals, academics and journalists
22 Jan 16:06 | 19
Obit
The Foot of Cupid emits final burst of flatulence in honour of fallen Python Terry Jones
'Two down, four to go,' quips John Cleese as another member of comedy crew kicks bucket
22 Jan 17:00 | 63
Science
SAP co-CEO: I'm leavin' on a jet plane... Davos knows that I'll be back again...Oh babe, I hate to go (back to work)
High flying exec joins 'leccy car-driver co-boss in Switzerland
22 Jan 19:27 | 13
Legal
Judge snubs IT outsourcers' plea to Alt-F4 tougher H-1B visa rules: Bosses told to fill out the extra paperwork
Homeland Security memo not an abuse of power, court decides
22 Jan 20:38 | 37
SaaS
Chrome suddenly using Bing after installing Office 365 Pro Plus... Yeah, that might have been us, mumbles Microsoft
Bad-a-Bing, badda-boom: Netizens complain of browser hijacking
22 Jan 21:18 | 127
Security
Safari's Intelligent Tracking Protection is misspelled, says Google: It should be Dumb Browser Stalking Enabler
Chocolate Factory boffins doubt Apple can fix it, either
22 Jan 21:53 | 18
Biting the hand that feeds IT
