OSes Linux 5.13 hits rc5, isn’t yet calm, Linus Torvalds is only mildly perturbed Emperor Penguin hopes ‘fairly average’ release will ‘start shrinking now’ 07 Jun 02:16 | 33
In brief That AI scanning your X-ray for signs of COVID-19 may just be looking at your age Plus: DARPA wants to spend $1m on AI research studying information warfare 07 Jun 04:06 | 7
On-Prem Taiwan’s top chip tester, King Yuan, shuts down production and quarantines workers Taiwan was COVID-free for almost a year. Now the virus is out and edging towards major silicon production centres 07 Jun 05:07 | 19
Legal Indian government to Twitter: Stop offshoring and outsourcing – or risk losing legal protections Social network lashed for ‘inglorious’, ‘dogged refusal’ to comply 07 Jun 06:45 | 22
Who, Me? Thanks, boss. The accidental creation of a lights-out data centre – what a fun surprise At least nobody said 'watch this!' 07 Jun 07:31 | 116
Column Military infosec SNAFUs: What WhatsApp and bears in the woods can teach us One can’t spell shit without IT, but for Pete's sake it doesn't need to be in your endpoints 07 Jun 08:32 | 20
Legal Oracle hits UK reseller with lawsuit for allegedly reselling grey market Sun hardware Big Red wanted TXO Systems dragged to court for years, say legal papers 07 Jun 09:15 | 40
Personal Tech Can a 21.5-inch iMac beat the latest-and-greatest M1 model in performance? Kinda Extra performance wrung out, but we wouldn't rush to eBay 07 Jun 10:01 | 18
Bootnotes Sold: €15k invisible sculpture that's a must-see for art lovers Can be viewed in any light. Bargain 07 Jun 10:45 | 60
Security We're right behind Computer Misuse Act reforms for busting ransomware gangs, says UK infosec industry Plus: CyberUp campaign writes to Home Sec 07 Jun 11:30 | 3
Off-Prem Custom HMCTS video platform bought as part of £280m digitisation project used less than Zoom, say judges At least it was more popular than Skype... just 07 Jun 12:15 | 13
Software Just when everyone thought things might be looking up, Dido Harding admits interest in top job at NHS England Yep. The exec responsible for shambolic Test and Trace programme, and TalkTalk's 2015 mega-breach 07 Jun 13:01 | 50
Security Remember Anonymous? It/they might be back, and it/they are angry with Elon Musk Has the hacktivist group had enough of Musk's manipulative crypto-Tweets, or has someone just donned the mask to protest their crashed Bitcoin balance? 07 Jun 13:45 | 59
Databases UK's Labour Party calls for delay to NHS Digital's GP data slurp until patients can be properly informed Plus: National watchdog says pseudonymisation is data processing 07 Jun 14:29 | 41
Software Microsoft flips request to port Visual Studio Tools for Office to .NET Core from 'Sure, we'll take a look' to 'No' Basically, it doesn't work 07 Jun 15:15 | 19
Legal South Korean regulator to probe in-app payments, creates new 'team' to look into digital ads The usual suspects are accused of anti-competitive behaviour, naughtiness with data 07 Jun 16:01 |
Legal Apple settles with student after authorized repair workers leaked her naked pics to her Facebook page Which pours cold water over Cupertino's insistence that third-party fixes violate privacy 07 Jun 16:45 | 115
Offbeat Three thousand sea birds abandon nests amid nature reserve drone crash hullabaloo Breeding season takes a tern for the worse 07 Jun 17:34 | 28
Personal Tech iFixit voids yet another warranty tearing down the 12.9-inch M1 iPad Pro Not too difficult to get in, but component serialisation could still be a hurdle 07 Jun 18:24 |
Science There are a lot of people out there who'd like to fire Jeff Bezos into space – but he's doing the honours himself With his brother in tow, poor sod 07 Jun 19:16 | 50
Security US House Rep on cyber committees tweets Gmail password, PIN in Capitol riot lawsuit outrage Gonna need a little Mo security over here 07 Jun 20:38 | 41
In brief Google, Facebook, Chaos Computer Club join forces to oppose German state spyware Plus: FBI boss says ransomware is terrorism 2.0, and more 07 Jun 22:49 | 10