Personal Tech Pakistan bans TikTok because of its users not its owners Warnings to clean up its act went unheeded, but door remains open for a return 12 Oct 01:03 | 11
Science As China trials its Digital Yuan with a giveaway, seven big central banks outline response Bank of England and US Reserve among those pondering own digital dollars 12 Oct 03:58 | 17
SaaS AWS makes its own Arm CPUs the default for ElastiCache in-memory data store service Bills home-brewed silicon as the upgrade path to better Redis or memcached 12 Oct 06:38 | 4
Who, Me? Excel is for amateurs. To properly screw things up, those same amateurs need a copy of Access Beware the wrong tool in the wrong hands 12 Oct 07:15 | 144
Personal Tech Microsoft tells staff work-from-home is now ‘standard’ – with caveats galore Boss has to agree, home time not to exceed 50 percent and let’s talk about salary if you leave town 12 Oct 07:55 | 51
Comment Britannia should rule the (cyber) waves, minister tells Singapore event in bid to drum up Commonwealth support Rhetoric for the post-Brexit era but will actions follow words? 12 Oct 08:30 | 46
Bork!Bork!Bork! Remember the days when signs were signs and operating systems didn't need constant patching? The signage may be borked, but the Swedish meatballs are steaming 12 Oct 09:33 | 35
In brief One year after server hackers left NordVPN red-faced, firm's first colocated setup is online Plus: Bunch of Cisco fixes for Patch Tuesday week, Fitbit kit hit, RAT malware written in Golang, and more 12 Oct 10:18 | 6
Security Beware, drone fliers, of Scotland's black-headed gulls. For they will tear your craft from Mother Nature's skies Innocent survey UAS brutally smashed into roof by Stranraer seabird 12 Oct 11:00 | 38
Canalys Forum 2020 - Updated Laptops are on fire! In a good way (if you're selling). PC sales race to highest growth rate since 2011 Response to pandemic elevates simple laptop to centre of universe... Dell only vendor to shrink, says Canalys 12 Oct 11:35 | 16
Review BBK mixed-grill realness: Realme's pair of 7s are two more reasons not to spend over £300 on a smartphone Not a steak, but if you're going midrange there's enough to chew on 12 Oct 12:12 | 14
SaaS AWS cooks up Extensions API for Lambda serverless platform: Useful for monitoring, alerting Cloud Functions rival flings out preview that enables custom code to handle lifecycle events 12 Oct 12:58 | 6
Legal Arm has 11 months to hire 490 UK techies. Good thing there isn't a pandemic on. Or, say, Brexit But chip biz is 'confident it will hit that target' in time 12 Oct 14:09 | 37
SaaS Comms API merchant Twilio spanks $3.2bn in stock to gobble data slurper Segment Spending spree continues in the 'customer engagement' space as online sales segment grows and grows 12 Oct 15:06 |
Personal Tech Need next-gen connectivity but don't want to break the bank? Samsung's Galaxy A42 5G is a bin-raking £349 Now, just to wait for some signal... 12 Oct 15:35 | 8
Security 'You've got the old cheeky Corona': Ireland's pandemic advice SMS service can be spoofed, warns researcher Get cell broadcast tech in, urges onetime Lulzsec white hat 12 Oct 16:21 | 3
In Brief So, what exactly are you planning to do with this new PC? Windows Insiders face new questions during OOBE Also: Getting Edgy in the holidays, AtHoc and Teams, and Azure updates 12 Oct 17:10 | 20
SaaS Amazon-like megacorps dominating various online sectors could become norm for pandemic-stricken planet Certain business models work better than others when most people avoid human contact 12 Oct 17:55 | 9
Security Microsoft and chums use US trademark law to trash Trickbot malware network Multinational operation is part of election protection effort 12 Oct 18:30 | 8
OSes Eight release candidates later and it's out: New hardware and more AMD in Linux 5.9 Time to get cracking on 5.10 12 Oct 19:20 | 19
Personal Tech Mark Zuckerberg, 36, decides that having people on his website deny the deaths of six million Jews is a bad thing And so Facebook takes belated principled stance on, um, Nazi genocide 12 Oct 20:35 | 127
Edge + IoT Backdoorer the Xplora: Kids' smartwatches can secretly take pics, record audio on command by encrypted texts It was just code left over from a prototype, says hardware maker 12 Oct 21:21 | 9
Security The seven deadly sins letting hackers hijack America's govt networks: These unpatched bugs leave systems open 'Unauthorized access to elections support systems' detected tho 'no evidence to date that integrity of elections data has been compromised' 12 Oct 23:26 | 7