Better get Grandpa off Windows 7 because zero-day bug in Zoom allows remote code execution on vintage OS
In briefPlus: Kazakh man charged with corporate mega-hack, and more
13 Jul 2020 | 19
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If at first you don't succeed... Rackspace files IPO papers to go public once again, hopefully with better timing
Private equity looks to cash in on managed cloud services biz
10 Jul 2020 | 2
Like life for a lot of us, Google's 2020 was going relatively fine until March hit. Ad sales nosedive, but yay for cloud and Chromebooks?
Does anything really matter when you have $100bn in the bank and pocketing nearly $7bn a quarter in profit?
29 Apr 2020 | 3
Watch now the three UFO videos uncovered by Blink-182 star – and today officially released by the Pentagon
VideosRock and roll at 30,000 ft at hypersonic speeds
27 Apr 2020 | 60
Grab your Bitcoin while you can because Purse.io is shutting up shop in June and you could lose the lot
Amazon, the government, economics? Startup schtum on sudden closure
17 Apr 2020 | 26
UK enters almost-lockdown: Brits urged to keep calm and carry on – as long as it doesn't involve leaving the house
Use delivery services, PM urges, electronics shops shuttered amid coronavirus pandemic
23 Mar 2020 | 185
Microsoft's Bill Gates defrag is finally virtually complete: Billionaire quits board to double down on philanthropy
You look like you have coronavirus, can I help you with that?
13 Mar 2020 | 107
Starship bloopers: Watch Elon Musk's Mars ferry prototype explode on the pad during liquid nitrogen test
Video‘We'll just buff it out’ says SpaceX biz baron
03 Mar 2020 | 48
Roses are red, IBM is Big Blue. It's out of RSA Conference after coronavirus review: IBMers will not attend infosec event over 'health concerns'
UpdatedWho will join the IT giant in staying away from San Francisco?
14 Feb 2020 | 16
What a terrible result from this year's Super Bowl. Can you believe it? Awful. Yes, we're talking about the tech ads
CommentVerizon's hypocrisy, Amazon's negging, odd targeting from Google
04 Feb 2020 | 53
Is everything OK over there, Britain? Have you tried turning the UK off and on again? ISPs, financial orgs fall over in Freaky Friday of outages
BT, Gamma, Nationwide, Tide, anyone else?
31 Jan 2020 | 104
Curse of Boeing continues: Now a telly satellite it built may explode, will be pushed up to 500km from geo orbit
DirecTV's Spaceway-1 to head off into the void before its batteries detonate
24 Jan 2020 | 97
From Soviet to science fiction icon, the weird life of Isaac Asimov 100 years on
CommentNot perfect, but pretty damn good
06 Jan 2020 | 143
This isn't Boeing very well... Faulty timer knackers Starliner cargo capsule on its way to International Space Station
What a clock-up
20 Dec 2019 | 113
Another free web course to gain machine-learning skills (thanks, Finland), NIST probes 'racist' face-recog – and more
RoundupVarious bits and bytes ahead of the Christmas break
20 Dec 2019 | 7
Fuming French monopoly watchdog is so incensed by Google's 'random' web ad rules, it's fining the US giant, er, <1% annual profit
Payer cette petite amende, s'il vous plaît
20 Dec 2019 | 38
Buzz kill: Crook, 73, conned investors into shoveling millions into geek-friendly caffeine-loaded chocs that didn't exist. Now he's in jail
Scammer and pals blew the cash on cosmetic surgery, jewelry, swanky pads, flash motors
16 Dec 2019 | 80
This week, we give thanks to Fortinet for reminding us what awful crypto with hardcoded keys looks like
RoundupPlus more from the world of infosec
28 Nov 2019 | 33
Weird flex but OK... Motorola's comeback is a $1,500 Razr flip-phone with folding 6.2" screen
VideoTwelve hundred quid for a Snapdragon 710 Android 9 gizmo. Stick a fork in this decade, we're done
14 Nov 2019 | 115
'Don’t be so concerned with your image'... US prosecutor lets rip on Uber for hack cover-up as pair plead guilty
Scumbags admit extorting $100k from taxi app biz
30 Oct 2019 | 15
Europe's digital identity system needs patching after can_we_trust_this function call ignored
ExplicitKeyTrustEvaluator... True, false? Who cares, just accept it anyway
30 Oct 2019 | 34
Luke, I am your father... which is why I must eject from JEDI decision, says US Defense Sec
Top brass beams aboard from $10bn IT brouhaha as it emerges son works for IBM
22 Oct 2019 | 32
Deus ex hackina: It took just 10 minutes to find data-divulging demons corrupting Pope's Click to Pray eRosary app
ExclusiveVatican coders exorcise API gremlins but, we must confess, they missed one little monster....
18 Oct 2019 | 109
Pitney Bowes: Can we be frank? Ransomware has borked our dead-tree post systems
Venerable stamp-machine maker stalled by server infection
14 Oct 2019 | 16
