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Internet use up 40 per cent in San Francisco Bay Area – but you know what’s even higher? Yep, alcohol, weed use

Techies, non-techies respond to COVID-19 by self-medicating at home

01 Apr 01:44 | 29

Lobsters given seats on coronavirus rescue flights... although they're probably not in a rush for a boiling bath

Australia starts crustacean migration

01 Apr 02:25 | 10

Singapore government scraps physical 2FA tokens for government services

There's an app for that. Or text, if you dare. Or even retail outlets

01 Apr 03:26 | 3

Australian state will install home surveillance hardware to make sure if you're in virus isolation, you stay there

Could be a wearable, could be wired. Backed by big fines and jail

01 Apr 04:14 | 84

Zoom's end-to-end encryption isn't actually end-to-end at all. Good thing the PM isn't using it for Cabinet calls. Oh, for f...

Super-crypto actually normal TLS, lawsuit launched over Facebook API usage, privacy policy rewritten

01 Apr 05:11 | 139

Hong Kong swells tech-buying subsidies for local businesses that buy from local businesses

$25k from you and $75k from the government buys improved productivity and economic diversity

01 Apr 05:49 | 2

NASA mulls restoring Saturn V to service as SLS delays and costs mount

Flying a 50-year-old rocket to mark the anniversary of Apollo 13? What could go wrong?

01 Apr 06:15 | 136

Half of organisations willing to be led into the first circle of hell, or what Dante might call upgrading an ERP system

01 Apr 08:15 | 17

Stob's vital message to Britain's IT nation: And no, it's not about that

It's actually another Huawei down the 5G antennas

01 Apr 09:00 | 28

Soichi to join three-spaceship club, SpaceX is going to the Moon (no, really), and rocket boffins step up COVID-19 fight

Also: Satellite comms outfit OneWeb files for Chapter 11

01 Apr 09:45 | 17

Apple's latest macOS Catalina update mysteriously borks SSH for some unlucky fans. What could be the cause?

Connecting to a port greater than 8192 using a hostname now stalls, possibly

01 Apr 10:30 | 17

Sun storm probe OK'd: 'Our motivation is a fascinating signal that we have detected for decades but never been able to make an image of'

Space scientist reveals drive behind solar instrument experiment now approved by NASA

01 Apr 11:10 | 9

Internet Archive justifies its vast 'copyright infringing' National Emergency Library of 1.4 million books by pointing out that libraries are closed

Authors, publishers unimpressed

01 Apr 11:50 | 66

Who's going to pay for Britain's Aunty Beeb to carry on? Broadband users, broadcaster suggests to government

With licence fee under threat, where can corporation get the money from?

01 Apr 12:20 | 88

At the Supreme Court, Morrisons pops data breach liability win into its trolley – but it's not a get-out-of-compo free card for businesses

Vicarious liability now applies to intentional leaks, top court says

01 Apr 12:55 | 22

Under pressure: K3 to put loss-making UK Microsoft Dynamics reseller biz into administration

AIM-listed biz says THAT virus meant it has little choice, will seek a buyer

01 Apr 13:30 | 6

How many days of carefree wiping do you have left before life starts to look genuinely apocalyptic? Let's find out

Web calculator should give you an idea of bog roll, pasta, booze stocks

01 Apr 14:01 | 82

Exclusive - updated

Welcome to the telco, we've got fun and games: BT inks 5-year deal to outsource mainframe management to IBM

You lot can keep the blinkenlights flashing but you'll have to be TUPEd from BT...

01 Apr 15:00 | 35

Salesforce founder Marc Benioff tossed $2.3m in return for bumper company growth

Enterprise cloud rains bonus down on software supremo... that's this year's holiday sorted then

Let's get digital... digital: Microsoft Ignite switches to online-only as 2020's tech calendar clears

2021 looking ever more virtual and distant. Did March feel like a year for you too?

01 Apr 17:00 | 4

Who you gonna call? Google Cloud Platform's beta Service Directory is like a phone book for microservice discovery

Playing catch-up with AWS and not that smart, but some advantages over DNS

Cyberscum target Microsoft SQL Server boxen – and some careless sysadmins were reinfected after cleaning it out

Two-year campaign observed by Guardicore

01 Apr 19:02 | 1

Cloudflare family-friendly DNS service flubs first filtering foray: Vital LGBTQ, sex-ed sites blocked 'by mistake'

For a biz that prides itself on not censoring the internet, it sure likes censoring the internet

01 Apr 19:31 | 95

Microsoft's PowerToys suite sprouts four new playthings with a final March emission

Today's Window Walk is brought to you by the letters 'R' 'E' and 'G'

01 Apr 20:00 | 6

Access Analysis, GuardDuty and Inspector gadgets not enough? Here comes another AI-driven security tool for AWS

What have you got for us, Detective?

01 Apr 20:55 | 1

For the past five years, every FBI secret spy court request to snoop on Americans has sucked, says watchdog

Feeling secure? Sucker

01 Apr 21:24 | 21

Microsoft finds itself in odd position of sparing elderly, insecure protocols: Grants stay of execution to TLS 1.0, 1.1

A few more months to get those servers upgraded 'in light of current global circumstances'

01 Apr 22:04 | 6

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