Bootnotes Securus sued for 'recording attorney-client jail calls, handing them to cops' – months after settling similar lawsuit Gonna blame a software bug again? 19 Aug 00:32 | 28
Science India selects RISC-V for semiconductor self-sufficiency contest: Use these homegrown cores to build kit Startups to get busy with open-source 32/64-bit Shakti, 64-bit Vega 19 Aug 01:30 | 14
Software Trump backs Oracle as potential TikTok buyer Larry Ellison hailed as 'terrific guy' but Big Red stays shtum on its intentions 19 Aug 03:27 | 30
Personal Tech Bluetooth SIG strives to make wearables work as COVID-19 contact-trackers Don’t rush out to buy hardware, this is months from deployment 19 Aug 05:02 | 7
Bootnotes Ex-Apple engineer lifts lid on Uncle Sam's top-secret plan to turn customized iPod into 'Geiger counter' This article will self-destruct in five seconds 19 Aug 06:08 | 77
SaaS Cloud now bigger than Dell, HPE, Lenovo, Cisco combined $233bn revenue in 2019, says IDC, with the top five creaming a third of it 19 Aug 06:28 | 10
Security Pretty wild that a malicious mailto: link might attach your secret keys and files from your PC to an outgoing message Some OpenPGP, S/MIME-capable email clients vulnerable to attack 19 Aug 07:03 | 17
On-Prem Amazon makes 850,000m2 bet that its people will get off the kitchen table and back to an office Cloud and e-commerce boom mean it needs more desks and people that originally planned 19 Aug 07:29 | 21
Databases SQLite maximum database size increased to 281TB – but will anyone need one that big? An unlikely requirement for an engine popular on Android and iOS 19 Aug 08:07 | 60
Science Good news: NASA boffins spot closest near-Earth asteroid ever. Bad news: We never saw it coming. Good news: It's also really small Thing was the size of a car, moved at 12km/sec, missed us by just 2,950km 19 Aug 08:47 | 39
Security Floating COVID incubation tank becomes data-leaking ransomware rustbucket: Carnival admits crims made off with personal data booty Plus: Cali uni that paid $1.4m to crims had decent backup software, but they didn't use it on the affected systems 19 Aug 09:28 | 4
Bootnotes 'Get out of my office, you're being a pest!' Yes, son. Toymaker releases work-from-home-themed play sets Is this gonna be forever? 19 Aug 11:15 | 43
Personal Tech Whoa-o BlackBerry, bam-ba-lam: QWERTY phone had a child. 5G thing's newly styled New licensor's clean-sheet keyboard design better be good, as analyst notes: 'The mobile business has never been harder' 19 Aug 12:01 | 58
Bork!Bork!Bork! Someone please have mercy on this poorly Ubuntu parking machine that has been force-fed maudlin autotuned tripe Failing in Falkirk 19 Aug 12:39 | 42
Software Better Java than Java: Kotlin 1.4 introduces new compilers for JVM and JavaScript JetBrains works on improving language for cross-platform targets 19 Aug 13:23 | 12
Science Not now, Gartner. We've had enough of the future to last a lifetime: Meet 'Formative AI' and 'Algorithmic Trust' You can call me Al 19 Aug 14:29 | 24
Edge + IoT MediaTek pings Italy with '5G' Internet-of-Things data beam from geostationary satellite 35,000 kilometres up That's a spicy meatball 19 Aug 15:33 | 11
Personal Tech While the world pushes back against COVID-19, Facebook has a pandemic of a different sort – medical misinformation And antisocial network's efforts to stop spread aren't working, says Avaaz 19 Aug 16:42 | 40
Storage Backup a sec – is hard drive reliability improving? Annual failure rate from Backblaze comes in at its lowest yet HGST drives fared best, but vendor was snaffled by Western Digital 19 Aug 17:52 | 45
Software C++ still rules the Chromium roost though Rust has caught our eye, say browser devs Chrome engineers experiment with memory-safe language in software that really ought to be memory safe 19 Aug 20:01 | 37
Networks FCC: Remember that confidential paperwork you gave us, China Telecom? Yeah, well, we're handing it over to the Feds Chinese telco's pleas to not be booted out of America will be passed to prosecutors 19 Aug 21:29 | 9
Science You there. Person, corp, state. Doesn't matter. You better not shoot down or hack a drone. That's our job – US govt DoJ, FAA, FCC, Homeland Security warning highlights legal mess 19 Aug 22:21 | 33