OSes
Microsoft lends Windows on Arm a hand with emulation layer to finally run 64-bit x86 apps at last
News from the Department of Wait, It Didn't Already Do That?
01 Oct 00:13 | 69
1st > October > 2020 Archive
Personal Tech
Sonos turns patent war with Google up a notch with fresh lawsuit timed to coincide with Pixel, Nest jamboree
Chromecast this, says smart speaker slinger
01 Oct 01:31 | 9
Personal Tech
Clowns to the left to me, jokers to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with EU: Google faces antitrust war with America, China
Search, mobile OS domination under fire from both sides of the planet
01 Oct 02:58 | 11
Security
Diplomats are supposed to be subtle and clever. Australia’s just leaked 1,000 citizens’ email addresses
And not just any citizens, but folks stranded overseas and in dire need of assistance
01 Oct 04:23 | 11
Security
Singapore to treat infosec as equivalent public good to fresh running water
Consumer tech security rating scheme to launch next week, will be offered to rest of world
01 Oct 05:13 | 12
Video
Looking for a new hobby to kill the COVID-19 blues? Join NASA's Planet Patrol to hunt for alien worlds
You, over there, rustle up a warp drive while we're finding a new galactic pad
01 Oct 06:02 | 7
Networks
US comms watchdog calls for more scrutiny of submarine cables that land in 'adversary countries'
And then mentions China 18 times and calls for dedicated agency to regulate international data links
01 Oct 06:27 | 17
Security
Chap beats rap in WhatsApp zap flap: Russian banker walks from insider trading case after deleting software
Brit financial watchdogs foxed by not guilty verdict
01 Oct 06:53 | 24
VMworld
US-China trade war worse for tech business than COVID-19, says VMware's Asia boss
Buyers aren't super-keen to jump through geopolitical hoops
01 Oct 07:30 | 6
Edge + IoT
Burning down the house! Consumer champ Which? probes smart plugs to find a bunch of insecure fire-risk tat
Yep, plugs. The things that pick up electrickery from the wall
01 Oct 07:57 | 70
Bork!Bork!Bork!
Key-cutting machine borked sideways after visit from the BSOD fairy locks things down
Under 3 minutes? Not today
01 Oct 08:31 | 44
Exclusive
UK privacy watchdog confirms probe into NHS England COVID-19 app after complaints of spammy emails, texts
Officials say it was a 'matter of public health importance to encourage people to download the app'
01 Oct 09:05 | 110
Personal Tech
MediaTek's Snapdragon-7-bothering 5G eight-core Arm chip for modest mobes jets into Europe this month
Apropos of nothing, what's French for 'Get me the hell away from Nvidia'?
01 Oct 09:32 | 11
Updated
Where are we now? Microsoft 363? 362? We've lost count because Exchange Online isn't playing nicely this morning
That's the second Redmondian outage this week
01 Oct 10:26 | 37
Software
Ocado shakes hands with Oracle on cloud ERP system to help it ply online grocer tech in overseas markets
Sounds a bit like what Salesforce denies it worked on
01 Oct 11:03 | 7
Networks
O2 cuts ribbon on UK's first commercial driverless car lab where it'll blend satellite and 5G signal to stay on the road
Better improve its coverage then
01 Oct 11:42 | 13
Servers
On Her Majesty's Servers: UK's Coronavirus Future Fund sinks 'seven-figure sum' into Arm data-centre kit
Brit firm Bamboo scores cash that can convert to equity. Yup, the government could become a server vendor!
01 Oct 12:20 | 5
Security
Huawei's UK code reviewers say Chinese mega-corp is still totally crap at basic software security. Bad crypto, buffer overflows, logic errors...
Last year telcos scrambled to plug 'critical user-facing vulns' in network kit
01 Oct 13:00 | 31
Science
Since the EU won't share all its toys, UK Space Agency fires up fund to support more international collaboration
£5m pot opened to biz and academics who fancy projects with foreign flavour
01 Oct 13:55 | 22
Personal Tech
Microsoft takes another shot at the Windows-on-Arm thing with a revamped Surface Pro X powered by new SQ2 silicon
Upgrade will soon come up against Apple's take on the post-Intel world
01 Oct 14:30 | 6
Interview
Cross-platform app toolkit Flutter lead Tim Sneath aims Dart at an ambient computing future
'We've made a deliberate attempt to build something that can share source code across all these environments'
01 Oct 15:00 | 15
Networks
Think tank warns any further delay to 5G rollout will cost the UK multiple billions – but hey, at least Huawei is out
This is what you wanted, right?
01 Oct 15:30 | 35
Updated
Robot wars! Scandi automation biz AutoStore slings patent sueball, claims it owns Ocado warehouse tech
Online grocer shrugs: We'll see when we actually receive the papers
01 Oct 16:00 | 25
Software
Salesforce, Deloitte try to flog contact-tracing wares to a UK public sector that's already got a £12bn test-and-trace system
... which Deloitte helped build
01 Oct 17:45 | 16
Edge + IoT
Ring glitch results in global ding dong ditch: Doorbell bling flings out random pings but they're not the real thing
Users fear hack – really the 'processing infrastructure was running behind'
01 Oct 18:33 | 84
Personal Tech
Microsoft touts its Surface Laptop Go as 'cheap' option – but that price quickly goes up for useful RAM and storage
You may need to look elsewhere if you want more bang for your buck
01 Oct 19:15 | 26
Updated
Open-source devs drown in DigitalOcean's latest tsunami of pull-request spam that is Hacktoberfest
Rewarding pointless patches with free swag leads to 'DDoS' against projects
01 Oct 20:16 | 21
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Cloud biz Blackbaud admits ransomware crims may have captured folks' bank info, months after saying that everything's fine
The same lot who bought off crooks in May but kept quiet till July
01 Oct 20:59 | 8
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