Security Myanmar’s new military government bans Facebook Oh look, Cloudflare spots a sudden surge in use of other messaging apps 04 Feb 00:24 | 12
Networks Ever wanted to own a piece of the internet? Now you can: $1 for a whole gTLD... or $2.8m if you want a decent one Uniregistry announces auction of 20+ dot-words with no minimum for some 04 Feb 02:05 | 61
Personal Tech Qualcomm reports profits up 165%, strong revenues... and its stock price dives. What's a chip biz to do? People still itching to get our Snapdragons, CEO swears 04 Feb 03:56 | 2
Software Oracle sweetens Java SE subscriptions with a spoonful of free ‘GraalVM’ runtime said to significantly speed Java Pre-compilation tech means faster startup and lower memory overhead, to make Java cool for microservices 04 Feb 05:02 | 11
On-Prem Microsoft runs 179 admin portals, says sysadmin supergroup New site lists the ‘bit of a sprawl issue’ that Redmond offers the faithful 04 Feb 06:05 | 12
Security Nespresso smart cards hacked to provide infinite coffee after someone wasn't too perky about security Older commercial machines rely on insecure Mifare Classic payments 04 Feb 06:40 | 78
Networks Chromium cleans up its act – and daily DNS root server queries drop by 60 billion That’s a 41 per cent traffic relief for all concerned 04 Feb 08:01 | 74
Off-Prem Just four titans share almost two thirds of global cloud infrastructure spend, with AWS and Microsoft dominant Google and Alibaba playing catchup 04 Feb 08:29 | 3
Devops New CloudBees boss Stephen DeWitt wants to up the SaaS factor, wouldn't say no to IPO Time to grow up and smell the dollars as founder Sacha Labourey steps back 04 Feb 09:30 |
SaaS Brit IBM veteran wins unfair dismissal case after 2018's Global Technology Services redundancy bloodbath Represented himself – but judge denies last-minute attempt to make it an age discrimination claim 04 Feb 10:25 | 56
AI + ML AI brain drain to Google and pals threatens public sector's ability to moderate machine-learning bias With top research talent focused on commercial machine-learning goals, where do we go from here? 04 Feb 11:35 | 24
Software LibreOffice 7.1 Community released with user-interface picker, other bits and bytes Community? 'The software isn’t changing at all. This is a label on the name, nothing else' 04 Feb 12:13 | 64
Science Nearly 70 years after America made einsteinium in its first full-scale thermo-nuke experiment, mystery element yields secrets of its chemistry Atom bond length of Es measured for the first time 04 Feb 12:58 | 72
Software Smells like Teams spirit: New platform Viva builds in all the tools Microsoft thinks staff need to succeed Hello lonely. Let's get you feeling productive 04 Feb 14:01 | 10
Software $13m funding for Scratchpad – a data input startup whose sole strength is pointing out Salesforce's weaknesses Huh, where's our $13m then? 04 Feb 14:43 | 1
OSes Apple offends devs by asking for Developer Transition Kits back early, then offering them a measly $200 off an M1 Mac They also have to use the credit before 31 May or lose it 04 Feb 15:33 | 19
Networks EU infosec agency unveils 5G vendor security licensing scheme despite years of Huawei ambiguity Plus: Parliament says UK was too hasty booting Chinese giant off networks 04 Feb 16:19 | 5
Networks BT Group: Enterprise sales dip continues, ditto roaming-smacked consumer revs... but UK happily eating its fibre Openreach FTTP doing very well, thanks 04 Feb 16:56 |
AI + ML I'm sorry, Dave. I'm afraid I can do that: Microsoft unveils Custom Neural Voice – synthetic, but human-sounding speech Out-of-work actors beware, Azure can take on voice-over duties 04 Feb 17:32 | 18
Security How do you fix a problem like open-source security? Google has an idea, though constraints may not go down well 'Try telling leaders of libpng, libjpeg-turbo, openssl, ffmpeg etc they can't make "unilateral" changes to their own projects' 04 Feb 19:32 | 67
Software Accused murderer wins right to check source code of DNA testing kit used by police New Jersey court says defendant must be able to challenge evidence 04 Feb 20:38 | 75
+Comment Amazon deploys AI cameras inside delivery vans, misspells 'surveillance' as 'safety' in reason why Another day in the world of the Bezos-built worker's panopticon 04 Feb 23:05 | 37