Personal Tech California outlaws wording, webpage buttons designed to hoodwink people into handing over their personal data Sorry not sorry, Facebook 13 Oct 00:17 | 21
Personal Tech Yahoo! Groups! to! shut! down! completely! on! December! 15!... Tens! mourn! After nearly 20 years, it's time to say goodbye to venerable messageboard 13 Oct 00:59 | 26
HPC India to build home-grown supercomputers, from the motherboards up Minister says more supers will advance society. So why wait to develop silicon, networks, storage and more? 13 Oct 01:57 | 11
Legal Google won’t let Australia have shiny new toys unless it picks apart pay-for-news plan Pauses News Showcase rollout while it awaits government capitulation 13 Oct 03:33 | 18
Science Supermassive black hole turns unlucky star into spaghetti Pasta la vista, baby 13 Oct 05:05 | 26
Personal Tech Indonesia’s black-market phone prevention plan bricks a whole bunch of handsets Database recording legit handsets appears to have exceeded capacity 13 Oct 05:31 | 32
Networks Contract to run .eu domain-name registry is up for grabs as Brussels tries to avoid a .co-style debacle Five-year deal to oversee 3.6 million web addresses ... but does anyone actually want it? 13 Oct 06:03 | 22
SaaS IBM Cloud catches up to AWS and Azure – at least for refunds after major availability FAILs Adds 100 percent cashback tier if availability dips below 95 percent, removes reference to POWER8 servers 13 Oct 06:28 | 6
Legal UK govt advert encouraging re-skilling for cyber jobs implodes spectacularly Minister disowns 'crass' spot that shows American woman as Brit ballerina and seemingly belittles beleaguered arts sector 13 Oct 07:31 | 146
SaaS Imagination touts next series of GPU cores aimed at cloud server acceleration ...and cars, mobile, IoT If no one else can help, and if you can find them, maybe you can hire... The B-Team 13 Oct 08:00 | 1
Personal Tech BBC Micro:bit with boosted specs and onboard mic to go on sale from next month 16KB RAM becomes 128KB as the Beeb gets down with the kids again 13 Oct 08:30 | 56
Software Visual Studio Code 1.50 goes hard on extensions support, but tackling add-on bloat is becoming more onerous Also new: WebView sidebars, rich JavaScript debugging, accessible settings 13 Oct 09:15 | 25
On-Prem UK taxman waves through £168.8m Fujitsu contract because no one else can hold up 30-year-old infrastructure What's another three years amid project delays and Brexit uncertainty? 13 Oct 10:00 | 25
Devops We won't leave you hanging any longer: Tool strips freeze-inducing bugs from Java bytecode while in production Nothing like servicing an engine mid-flight, huh? 13 Oct 10:43 | 13
Software German-speaking SAP user survey sees S4/HANA upgrade projects either sink or swim as coronavirus cuts into revenue 'Train has left the station' for more than half, while 43% delayed indefinitely 13 Oct 11:17 | 1
Personal Tech Samsung Galaxy S20 FE goes from 'nearly dead' to full in an hour, but you might not be a 'Fan' of some of the shortcuts Less-hardy touchscreen, less-impressive snapper 13 Oct 12:00 | 9
Security Hackers hack Hackney: Local government cries 'cyberattack' while UK infosec officials rush to figure out what happened Check bank accounts, don't open council emails, you know how this goes 13 Oct 12:32 | 11
In brief Facebook doesn't know its onions: Seeds ad banned after machine-learning algo found vegetable pic 'overtly sexual' Plus: Waymo risks driverless car trial, ML papers now include code, and AI will write your dev CV for you 13 Oct 13:15 | 40
On-Prem Oh! What a lovely lockdown: Lenovo enjoys soaraway sales for Q3 2020 as PC shipments jump – Dell, not so much HP is top dog stateside 13 Oct 14:00 | 1
On-Prem Morgan Stanley hit with $60m penalty for failing to properly decommission old kit hosting 'wealth management' data Banking giant rapped over management of two US bit barns 13 Oct 14:44 | 25
OSes Open Invention Network adds Microsoft's exFAT to Linux System Definition, Satan spotted throwing snowballs AOSP 10 also popped into patent non-aggression pact 13 Oct 15:27 | 28
Software Shots fired! WordPress's Matt claims Jamstack's marketing is 'not intellectually honest' in debate with Netlify's Matt End of the WordPress era? No, we're aiming for 50% of web, says founder 13 Oct 16:46 | 14
Security For Foxit's sake: Windows and Mac users alike urged to patch PhantomPDF over use-after-free vulns CISA points spotlight at PDF reader 'n' creator suite 13 Oct 17:30 | 14
Personal Tech Pump up the volume: Online sales help Samsung's phone division weather a brutal year Chaebol's e-commerce efforts surged compared to 2019 13 Oct 18:15 | 1
Patch Tuesday It's 2020 and a rogue ICMPv6 network packet can pwn your Microsoft Windows machine Redmond urges folks to apply update ASAP – plus more fixes for Outlook and software from Adobe, Intel, SAP, Red Hat 13 Oct 20:09 | 75
Analysis Cross-border digital payment system, championed by Saudi Arabia, gets green light... and yellow card from G7 Basically nobody trusts Facebook 13 Oct 21:42 | 12
Personal Tech It's that time of the year when Apple convinces you last year's iPhones weren't quite magical enough, so buy this new 5G iPhone 12 instead Small and large models with 5nm system-on-chip touted 13 Oct 23:15 | 116
Networks Virginia voter registration website falls over hours before deadline. The Russians? No, a broken fiber line Cable damaged during sewer installation? Now that's a sh** storm 13 Oct 23:53 | 22