Security Google fails to neutralize lawsuit that complains Chrome's incognito mode isn't very private at all Judge Lucy Koh allows legal challenge to move forward 17 Mar 00:10 | 10
Legal California bans website 'dark patterns', confusing language when opting out of having your personal info sold State privacy rules add pressure on lawmakers to craft national standards 17 Mar 01:39 | 32
Security US Office of National Intelligence says Russia, Iran tried to mess with 2020 elections, China sat it out Security precautions held up, but Putin himself signed off on efforts to scare the public with claims of voting system compromise 17 Mar 02:57 | 12
Legal Sharp’s smartphone camera lens biz Kantatsu blurred its finances, invented deals worth $84m Foxconn-owned outfit claimed non-existent sales as revenue. Apologies and promises to do better all ‘round 17 Mar 03:58 | 2
Legal Chinese government yanks Alibaba’s browser from Chinese app stores Another rough day for Jack Ma as Beijing continues big tech crackdown 17 Mar 04:56 | 5
Personal Tech Following Supreme Court ruling, Uber UK recognizes drivers as workers, offers min wage, holiday pay, pension Nice but still not good enough, says union 17 Mar 05:38 | 43
PaaS + IaaS AWS throws its home-grown Arm CPUs at new memory-intensive instance type Claims Graviton2 thrashes x86 on price/performance, touts lowest-priced memory on the Amazonian cloud 17 Mar 06:01 | 2
Personal Tech Someone defeated the anti-crypto-coin-mining protection for Nvidia's 'gamers only' RTX 3060 ... It was Nvidia Dun, dun, duh 17 Mar 06:33 | 99
Video OVH says burned data centre’s UPS, batteries, fuses in the hands of insurers and police Promises free backup of everything, forever, because some customers assumed that's what clouds do 17 Mar 06:56 | 78
Security PSA: If you're still giving users admin rights, maybe try not doing that. Would've helped dampen 100+ Microsoft vulns last year – report Limiting access is great though 'patching is the only permanent fix' 17 Mar 07:45 | 71
Networks Nokia inks Radio Access Network collaboration deals with Microsoft, AWS, Google The 5G prog rock supergroup nobody asked for 17 Mar 08:30 | 2
Interview 'Business folk often don't understand what developers do...' Twilio boss on the chasm that holds companies back Microsoft Mesh? 'I don't think most people want to have a thing strapped to their face all the time' 17 Mar 09:30 | 41
On-Prem IBM's CEO and outgoing exec chairman take home $38m in total for 2020 despite revenue shrinking by billions Financial goals missed but Big Blue's execs were all winners anyway 17 Mar 10:15 | 59
Interview Can Teradata avoid being grounded by on-prem legacy? Actually it helps in avoiding nasty cloud costs, says CEO 40-year-old data warehousing outfit has its work cut out challenging the new cloud-native kids 17 Mar 11:05 | 9
Storage Micron: We're pulling the plug on 3D XPoint. Anyone in the market for a Utah chip factory? Intel's Gelsinger has a decision to make 17 Mar 11:45 | 19
Security Brit college forced to shift all teaching online for a week while it picks up the pieces from ransomware attack Plus: Stop bigging up these despicable criminals 17 Mar 12:40 | 30
Software Faster than a speeding... tab opening? Vivaldi 3.7 is here Chromium-based browser boasts swifter tabs, and is an Apple M1 native 17 Mar 13:15 | 17
Personal Tech Samsung updates chart-topping A-series Galaxy smartphones with a few more bells and whistles – even topping the S20 FE Camera and battery are the big upgrades, but the 3.5mm jack appears to be gone 17 Mar 14:01 | 10
PaaS + IaaS Informatica hopes to unclog your data pipelines with help from Nvidia in accelerating Spark-based ML operations Any significant improvement in processing times will be a boon to productivity, say analysts 17 Mar 14:45 |
Networks UK carriers open their wallets as regulator Ofcom doles out more slabs of 5G spectrum Netting £1.35bn for the Treasury 17 Mar 15:30 | 6
On-Prem Capita: We're creating a 'Portfolio' division to house all the stuff we don't want Welcome to the Great Fire sale of old London town 17 Mar 16:19 | 6
Software What's in Fedora 34? GNOME 40, accelerated Wayland, PipeWire Audio, improved Flatpak support, and more It's all about developers 17 Mar 17:05 | 38
Security If at first you don't succeed: Engineers power up the computers of NASA's monster SLS core stage once again Second hot-fire scheduled for (checks weather) tomorrow... maybe 17 Mar 17:51 | 9
Security Mimecast bins SolarWinds and compromised servers alike in wake of supply chain hack Signs up for Cisco, says some encrypted creds were stolen 17 Mar 18:30 | 8
Personal Tech Samsung thinks about giving the Galaxy Note refresh a miss this year as semiconductor supplies run dry Wot?! No new luxury phablet?! 17 Mar 19:19 | 9
Personal Tech Google: US antitrust regulator was totally right to let us off the hook nearly 10 years ago Just look at how Microsoft has grown since (but don't look at our results) 17 Mar 20:16 | 5
Networks FCC moves forward with plan to ban three Chinese telcos from American market China Unicom, Pacific Networks, ComNet all due for removal 17 Mar 21:17 | 10
Personal Tech Will Apple blink? ByteDance, Tencent, others ready new ad-tracking tech in defiance of iOS privacy protections Middle Kingdom tests backup plan for when iGiant starts blocking app stalkers 17 Mar 23:06 | 12
SaaS Wikimedia Foundation to offer community's free content via paid-for Enterprise API Looking for a service-level agreement? Have we got a deal for you 17 Mar 23:58 | 9