Hey, friends. We know it's a crazy time for the economy, but don't forget to enable 2FA for payments by Saturday
Deadline for multi-factor authentication in UK banking looms
Security13 Mar 2020 | 32
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European electric vehicle sales surged in Q4 2019 but only accounted for wafer-thin slice of total car purchases
'Up 50%' looks good, less so when it's 520,000 out of 15.3 million
Science13 Mar 2020 | 96
Appareils électroniques: Right to repair gets European Commission backing
What about my iPhone?
Legal12 Mar 2020 | 87
Capita hops on UK's years-late, billions-over-budget Emergency Services Network to keep legacy system alive
What could go wrong?
Networks11 Mar 2020 | 45
Google to appeal against €7m fine from Swedish watchdog for failing to remove search results under GDPR
Right to be forgotten? We forgot...
Legal11 Mar 2020 | 25
US telcos tossed yet another extension to keep going with Huawei kit despite America's 'security threat' concerns
It's clearly not a pressing issue – this is the fourth time now
Networks11 Mar 2020 | 21
All the IT ladies (all the IT ladies), all the IT ladies (all the IT ladies), now put your hands up! Oh, still not many here
Same old story from PwC but more optimistic than other research
Legal06 Mar 2020 | 43
There's no Huawei we're taking this lying down: Chinese mobe maker denies US govt racketeering charges
Discovery in this case could get very interesting indeed
Legal05 Mar 2020 | 19
Turnover down, losses widen and shares crash: So, business as usual at Capita
2019 was year two of the magic turnaround and restructuring deepens
On-Prem05 Mar 2020 | 13
Uncle Sam breathes sigh of relief as Singaporean hopeful thrashes China's candidate in vote to elect new WIPO boss
Fresh start for 'FIFA of UN agencies'?
Legal05 Mar 2020 | 1
Bloodhound gang handles the pan again to get back to Hakskeenpan
You and me baby ain't nothing but mammals... so help us get land speed record on the Discovery Channel
Science03 Mar 2020 | 27
UK.gov lays out COVID-19 guidance as the tech supply chain considers its own
Calm down now
Channel03 Mar 2020 | 59
Quantum compute boffins called up to get national UK centre organised for some NISQy business
Interim managers ready to go. £93m budget locked and loaded. No lets not talk about the size of the US National Quantum Initiative Program
Science28 Feb 2020 | 27
US Homeland Security mistakenly seizes British ad agency's website in prostitution probe gone wrong
They got it back – after reneging any claim against Uncle Sam for damages
Bootnotes28 Feb 2020 | 170
Pope tells his followers to log off for Lent
Upvote or Like if 40 days of peace and quiet sounds good to you
Bootnotes27 Feb 2020 | 75
Sophos was gearing up for a private life – then someone remembered the bike scheme
Due dil 101
Security27 Feb 2020 | 71
Revolut-won: British banking app gets half a billion bucks in backing, seeks to subvert today's market incumbents
Biz bags fat funding round
Applications26 Feb 2020 | 28
Apple tries to have VirnetX VPN patent ruling overturned again, US Supremes say no... again
Still not the last word for VirnetX after 10-year fight
Security25 Feb 2020 | 26
Credit Karma's enriched: Turbo Tax daddy Intuit snaps up personal finance platform for $7bn
That'll be good for their credit rating
Software25 Feb 2020 | 16
We know what you did last summer: MGM's hotel spinoff lost 10.7m guest records and now they're on hacker forums
What happens in Vegas... gets leaked on the internet
Security20 Feb 2020 | 8
Hey, Brits. Your Google data is leaving the EU before you are: Hoard to be shipped from Ireland to US next month
Relax, you won't feel a thing
On-Prem20 Feb 2020 | 129
Life in plastic, with a classic: Polymer £20 notes released into wild sporting Turner art
Updated cocaine straws will be much harder to forge and hopefully vegan
Bootnotes20 Feb 2020 | 34
London's Metropolitan Police flip the switch: Smile, fellow citizens... you're undergoing Live Facial Recognition
This is not a test
Science20 Feb 2020 | 77
No Huawei gear in vital 5G project to bring virtual-reality Robin Hood to Sherwood Forest
Rural trials will not use equipment 'from high risk vendors' says Ministry of Fun
Networks20 Feb 2020 | 11
And they said IoT was trash: Sheffield 'smart' bins to start screaming when they haven't been emptied for a fortnight
To be fair, all UK cities could benefit from such a scheme...
Bootnotes19 Feb 2020 | 109
Instagram influencer fools followers into thinking Ikea photoshoot was Bali holiday
Following this?
Bootnotes18 Feb 2020 | 54
Google lives in an Orange submarine: Transatlantic cable will get by with a little help from some friends
French telco pairs up with Telxius on backhaul links, co-lo services
On-Prem18 Feb 2020 | 36
That'll take the spring out of your step: Apple warns of iPhone shortages, revenue miss due to coronavirus
Factories 'ramping more slowly than anticipated'
On-Prem18 Feb 2020 | 15
Sir John Redwood backs IR35 campaign, notes review would have to start 'immediately' before new off-payroll working rules kick in
Do election promises mean anything?
Legal19 Dec 2019 | 80
Capita unfurls new consulting arm. Hmm, what shall we call it?
Reg's Logowatch team sad to report UK outsourcing baddie didn't get too creative
Channel19 Dec 2019 | 52
What’s that Skippy? Google’s coughed up $330m in tax Down Under?
Before you gasp, settlement does cover audit of a full decade
On-Prem18 Dec 2019 | 15
Log us out: Private equity snaffles Lastpass owner LogMeIn
World+dog hunts for new password manager
Security18 Dec 2019 | 135
Samsung says sorry as union-busting chairman and VP head off for 18 months in the chokey
Two dozen staff found guilty
On-Prem18 Dec 2019 | 15
The National Museum of Computing goes Marie Kondo at Christmas: Luckily all the Lego sparks joy
Until you step on one...
Bootnotes17 Dec 2019 | 9
London's Met Police splash the cash on e-learning 'cyber' training for 4k staffers
Getting tooled up for future crimes
Security17 Dec 2019 | 21
Amazon Germany faces Christmas strikes from elf stackers, packers and dispatchers
Season's not much of a miracle for under-pressure workers, says union
Personal Tech16 Dec 2019 | 62
US and China wave white flags, hit pause button on trade war
Pending tariffs on notebooks, phones, monitors shelved as super powers strike 'prelimary' deal
On-Prem13 Dec 2019 | 53
Admins sigh as Microsoft pushes Teams changes – let everyone play!
The 'experience' will be available from mid-January, 2020
Software13 Dec 2019 | 37
GlaxoSmithKline ditches IR35 contractors: Go PAYE or go home
Flexible workforce look to pre-election promises
Legal13 Dec 2019 | 107
Hit one up on Insta, would you? Her Maj is after a social media manager
Like Trump’s Twitter feed, except not
Bootnotes13 Dec 2019 | 26
Attention! Very important science: Tapping a can of fizzy beer does... absolutely nothing
But Danish boffins tapped cans on the side, not the top – we demand a retrial
Bootnotes13 Dec 2019 | 116
Oracle leaves its heart in San Francisco – or it would do if, you know, Oracle had a heart
OpenWorld moving to Vegas, baby: SF now too expensive not to mention the filthy streets, open drug use...
Bootnotes12 Dec 2019 | 42
Post Office coughs £57.75m to settle wonky Horizon IT system case
Split between 550 subpostmasters accused of theft, that's not much
Legal12 Dec 2019 | 48
Xerox woos HP stock owners with talk of layoffs, selloffs and cash payouts post merger
Let's strap these bricks together and maybe we'll make a boat
Personal Tech09 Dec 2019 | 27
Worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable and royalty-free: Amazon's Alexa NHS contract released
But it's all anonymised data so who cares, right?
Legal09 Dec 2019 | 54
Ericsson throws $1bn at US authorities to make bribery probe go away
Swedish comms flinger enters agreement with DoJ and SEC
Networks09 Dec 2019 | 21
Kiwi tax probe squeezed $25m out of Microsoft – now it's Oracle's turn
New Zealand's Inland Revenue Department has questions about transfer pricing
Software09 Dec 2019 | 19
Two can play that game: China orders ban on US computers and software
Who needs who more?
Legal09 Dec 2019 | 126
Cloud vendors burp after last year's server sales feast, couldn't possibly eat any more
Not even a wafer-thin blade?
Systems06 Dec 2019 |
Ireland's B.ICONIC snaffles Stormfront to become largest Apple reseller in the UK
May we suggest a rebrand?
Channel06 Dec 2019 | 10
Listen up you bunch of bankers. Here are some pointers for less crap IT
UK regulators hash out cheat sheet to avoid total meltdown
On-Prem06 Dec 2019 | 46
Reasons to be fearful 2020: Smishing, public Wi-Fi, deepfakes... and all the usual suspects
Too soon for New Year Resolutions?
Security06 Dec 2019 | 23
DeepMind founder behind NHS data slurp to be beamed up to Google mothership
Great job, now let's do some applied AI with the big boys
Science06 Dec 2019 | 12
Take Sajid Javid's comments on IR35 UK contractor rules with a bucket of salt, warns tax guru
What now? A pre-election porky? Heaven forfend…
Legal05 Dec 2019 | 87
Bandwidth weirdness at TalkTalk has customers fuming at being denied on-demand I'm A Celeb
Distinctly odd
Networks04 Dec 2019 | 19
Qualcomm to appeal against another antitrust whopper: This time it's $873m courtesy of South Korea
Eh, at least it doesn't need to renegotiate patent deals
On-Prem04 Dec 2019 | 4
EU gets a bit STRESSED out about 5G: With great economic benefits come great security risks
Yes, in all-caps
Networks04 Dec 2019 | 23
UK parcel firm Yodel plugs tracking app's random yaps about where on map to snap up strangers' tat
Shipped from expensive shop X? In the shed, you say? Researcher spots badness
Applications03 Dec 2019 | 98
Tory chancellor pledges to review IR35 rollout in UK private sector – just like all the other parties
Hey contractor techies, the politicians really want your vote
Legal02 Dec 2019 | 46
Judge to interview Assange over claims Spanish security firm snooped on him during Ecuador embassy stint
Video link request from September finally granted
Security02 Dec 2019 | 22
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