Legal Trump bans Feds from contracting H-1B workers and makes telehealth the new normal Also touts scheme to have USA to pocket finder’s fee for allowing TikTok sale 04 Aug 02:59 | 26
Science Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device Bluetooth and GPS widget will be used to enforce home COVID quarantine 04 Aug 03:57 | 15
Personal Tech Google reveals washable phone case, plus the new midrange Pixel 4a that goes inside it Also teases 5G handsets, but says they won't reach India or Singapore 04 Aug 05:04 | 15
Security Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there's been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail Former trade minister Dr. Liam Fox named as source of leaked trade docs 04 Aug 07:01 | 80
Software China requires gamers to reveal real names and map them to frag-tastic IDs Gotta catch 'em all 04 Aug 07:32 | 36
Science Aviation regulator outlines fixes that will get the 737 MAX flying again Software upgrade to deliver less lethally-stubborn automation 04 Aug 07:56 | 115
Networks Bored binge-watchers bork beleaguered broadband by blasting bandwidth: Global average speeds down 6.31% You can guess why – but in some places internet actually got faster 04 Aug 08:30 | 31
Software Maker of SonarQube defends DevOps product's security after source code leaks blamed on bad configurations 'Most companies' want to make code 'completely transparent' SonarSource claims – but not outside the firewall 04 Aug 09:26 | 2
On-Prem Workplace Technology latest division to be jettisoned from Capita – back into the hands of its original owner Outsourcing giant's boss Jon Lewis continues to swing the axe 04 Aug 11:19 | 4
SaaS University of Cambridge to decommission its homegrown email service Hermes in favour of Microsoft Exchange Online Institute says the knowledge needed to run it is fading, but the move wasn't without opposition 04 Aug 11:48 | 152
Personal Tech It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: Fondleslab sales shoot up to festive season levels as folk work from home Sorry, it's a bit early for Crimbo singalongs, isn't it? 04 Aug 12:17 | 8
Legal You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing Modelling suggests massive second wave without major improvements 04 Aug 13:00 | 179
Security Uncle Sam blames best pal China as Taidoor crew's dirty RAT takes aim at Western orgs, some have their doubts Hello, 2009 called, they said they've got an email for you 04 Aug 14:06 | 1
Networks Virgin Media CEO says Brit broadband biz 'performed well' in Q2, which is a weird way to say losses almost tripled More customers, more coverage, but profit proves elusive 04 Aug 15:00 | 16
OSes Wrap it before you tap it? No, say Linux developers: 'GPL condom' for Nvidia driver is laughed out of the kernel Facebook's man told: 'OK, now you are just trolling us' 04 Aug 15:45 | 87
Security They say the tooth will set you free... so Brit dentist trade union tells members: 'Bad news – we've been hacked' Bank account numbers and sort codes may have been accessed by intruders 04 Aug 16:32 | 8
Legal European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy 'New investigation casts fresh uncertainty over the deal,' says analyst 04 Aug 17:47 | 10
Security As the world descends into madness, it's good to see some things never change: Monthly Android patches Qualcomm bugs among the worst – including a critical hole in wireless networking 04 Aug 20:15 | 16
Personal Tech Mozilla doubles down on anti-tracking tech: It'll be tougher for wily ad-biz cookie monsters to track Firefox Apple still leading in anti-cookie diet, Google – predictably – in the rearguard 04 Aug 20:58 | 37
Science I've seen things you people wouldn't believe – because we used astrometry: A Saturn-like world hugging its star Mexico, US boffins used technique 'for the first time' with ground-based radio 'scopes to spot exoplanet 04 Aug 22:46 | 4
Security Microsoft forked out $13.7m in bug bounties. The reward program's architect thinks the money could be better spent 'A secure dev lifecycle has a much higher ROI than letting the public do the bug detection work for you' 04 Aug 23:43 | 20