Legal
Pakistan calls on Facebook to extend holocaust denial ban into Islamophobia crackdown
As comms minister says nation will create its own regulated Netflix clone
26 Oct 01:58 | 50
26th > October > 2020 Archive
On-Prem
Lee Kun-hee, who transformed Samsung into a global electronics titan, dies at 78
Chaebol's second CEO once set a bonfire of dud fax machines to teach the company a lesson in quality control
26 Oct 04:02 | 14
Science
NASA trying to stuff excess baggage into OSIRIS-REx after too-successful asteroid scoop
Collector is leaking regolith, sparking swift stash plan
26 Oct 06:45 | 23
Networks
QUIC! IETF sets November deadline for last comments on TCP-killer spawned by Google and Cloudflare
Next comes all the joy and laughter of the standards process
26 Oct 07:30 | 13
Who, Me?
A cautionary tale of virtual floppies and all too real credentials
Only a complete banker would map that to... oh dear...
26 Oct 08:15 | 75
Bork!Bork!Bork!
IKEA Croydon (FYI: that's a place in outer London, not a type of DIY cabinet) likes things in pairs, from chimneys to bork
The site may be getting on a bit, but the Windows fail is bang up to date
26 Oct 09:30 | 25
Feature
Yes, we have a 5G iPhone now. But that doesn't mean 5G has arrived
And please forget about that 4th industrial revolution because most networks only have NSA 5G
26 Oct 10:25 | 51
Software
UK mapping agency the Ordnance Survey is heading into gaming territory with £6m tender for dev team
Great, we can't wait for Grand Theft Auto: Brecon Beacons
26 Oct 11:07 | 37
In brief
How the tables have turned: Bloke says he trained facial recognition algorithm to identify police officers
Plus: Facebook won't get lost in translation, Cruise all set to build fleet of driverless taxis, and more
26 Oct 11:44 | 50
Personal Tech
Honey, I shrunk the battery: Something's gotta give as iPhone 12's logic board swells to accommodate 5G chippery
Next-gen connectivity requires reshuffle beneath the surface
26 Oct 12:29 | 33
Legal
Police ICT Company ponies up £12m for one platform to rule UK cops' social media orifices
Procurement limb seeks fully auditable contact channel for reporting crimes, emergencies – what could go wrong?
26 Oct 13:14 | 5
Security
Report: UK colleges face testing times with ageing kit, iffy connectivity, and some IT staff supporting 1k+ users
Cloud-first but no 'resilient internet connection'? Oh dear
26 Oct 14:05 | 14
In Brief
Windows 10 October 2020 Update has arrived... and so have the fixes. Plus: Fancy a discount on a Surface Duo?
Also: Teams migration, Windows 10 on Surface Hub 2S
26 Oct 14:50 | 5
Open Source Summit Europe
Linux Foundation projects on AI and data merge – because one of these concepts simply can't exist without the other
Combined org hoping to attract more industry support
26 Oct 15:17 | 2
Networks
Seeing as real 5G isn't even here yet, you could just get a OnePlus instead of an iPhone 12 and save loadsamoney
Firm launches cheapest phones yet: £329 5G model, £179 basic handset
26 Oct 16:07 | 10
Security
Hackers rummaged about in Finnish psychotherapy clinic – now patients extorted with public data dump threats
Details on 300 reportedly already published to Tor website
26 Oct 16:50 | 33
Software
SAP stock price crashes 23%, €28bn wiped out as firm warns of Klein(er) revenues, profits ahead due to COVID-19
SAP: Look into the cloud, look around the cloud... you're under. Market: Nope
26 Oct 17:53 | 10
Open Source Summit Europe
Linux kernel's Kroah-Hartman: We're not struggling to get new coders, it's code review that's the bottleneck
Plus: 'Intel is not doing well with disclosures. I’m not happy. It’s not getting better'
26 Oct 19:09 | 59
Science
Uber drivers take ride biz to European court over 'Kafkaesque' algorithmic firings by Mastermind code
Lawsuit challenges robo-dismissals, Uber insists it manually reviewed cases
26 Oct 19:58 | 30
Science
Did Arthur C. Clarke call it right? Water spotted in Moon's sunlit Clavius crater by NASA telescope
Fly me to the Moon, let me swim among the stars
26 Oct 21:32 | 67
Software
Microsoft drives users to the Edge: Internet Explorer to redirect to Chromium-based browser in November
'Hey, you folks heard that there's this virus starting to spread?' – IE, probably
26 Oct 22:31 | 65
Science
President Trump's H-1B visa crackdown wiped $100bn off market value of America's largest corps, top study finds
White House immigration restrictions knock less than half a per cent off
26 Oct 23:56 | 50
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