Legal China announces ‘crackdown’ on Bitcoin mining and trading Cryptos mentioned on lists of risks to financial system to be avoided 24 May 00:30 | 43
Security Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme leaks at least a million citizens' records Tech Ministry trying to figure out just how much personal info has made it onto notorious RaidForums data-mart 24 May 02:28 | 12
Legal Beijing bashes Bing and lashes LinkedIn over improper data collection and storage Microsoft properties and 103 other inappropriate apps - including TikTok and Baidu - given 15 days to rectify their wicked ways 24 May 05:01 | 13
Security Air India admits to data breach impacting 4.5m customers, sat on the news for five weeks While my SITA gently leaks, customers were unaware their credit card numbers had flown away 24 May 05:58 | 5
In brief Amazon continues its ban on allowing police to use its facial-recognition software Plus: DeepMind has been trying to gain more independence from Google, and how AI can help cosmologists 24 May 06:27 | 4
Software Sony 'Workman', anyone? Consumer giant teams with Kawasaki on teleoperated ‘bots Japan’s ageing population and COVID inspire JV to create remote work platform biz 24 May 06:58 | 8
Who, Me? Big red buttons and very bad language: A primer for life in the IT world Guess what I learned at school today, Mummy! 24 May 07:30 | 114
Science Virgin Galactic goes where it's gone twice before, for the first time in two years First launch from New Mexico facility goes off without a hitch, ticks regulatory boxes and even does some science 24 May 08:15 | 34
Column Apple is happy to diss the desktop – it knows who's got the most to lose Also: The basic utility of the general purpose OS cannot be sanitised into total safety. Nor should it 24 May 09:01 | 79
Databases Conflicting messaging overshadows NHS Digital's attempts to inform public about patient data slurp Which opt-out is the right opt-out? Are they selling data or not? 24 May 09:47 | 51
Bork!Bork!Bork! Microsoft: Purveyors of the finest BORK since the 1990s That's the BackOffice Resource Kit. What did you think we meant? 24 May 10:35 | 15
Column Just what is the poop capacity of an unladen sparrow? We ask because one got into the office and left quite a mess The unspoken perils of remote working 24 May 11:22 | 91
Storage 10+ users can lead to washout: Data lakes struggle with SQL concurrency, says Gartner We're working on it, Spark backer Databricks declares 24 May 12:10 | 7
On-Prem The Home Office will need to overturn a long legacy of failure to achieve ambition of all-digital border by 2025 Who needs precedent when you have Priti Patel and a 'contactless corridor' 24 May 13:01 | 77
Legal Steve Wozniak to take stand: $1m suit claiming Woz stole idea for branded tech boot camp goes to trial Apple co-founder's camp denies claims 24 May 14:01 | 18
Personal Tech More power for your Raspberry Pi: A new PoE+ HAT to sate power-hungry peripherals CEO Eben Upton: 1st-gen HAT uses silicon 'that's in short supply' but 'we're very good at pipelining' 24 May 14:45 | 17
Science Roam if you want to: China’s Zhurong rover begins trundling on Mars ESA's Rosalind Franklin waiting in the wings as engineers fix the parachutes 24 May 15:31 | 12
Applications Let us Play: Smartphone brand Honor lets slip it has gained access to Google Mobile Services licences Suggests sales of former Huawei sub might resurface 24 May 16:17 | 4
Security Icarus moment: Mozilla Thunderbird was saving OpenPGP keys in plaintext after encryption snafu Cockup has since been patched in latest release 24 May 17:15 | 9
Personal Tech Qualcomm hopes to attract devs to Windows 10 on Arm with new testbed, spins up 2nd-gen 7c cheapbook chips That Apple M1 killer is just right up your sleeve, yeah? 24 May 18:07 | 9
Security Apple patches macOS flaw exploited by malware to secretly snap screenshots Bug can also be abused to record audio and video, access files – and iOS, iPadOS updated, too 24 May 21:43 | 12
Software Tesla owners win legal fight after software update crippled older Model S batteries Automaker didn't even bother defending itself 24 May 22:35 | 275