Epic Games gets itself epically banned, launches epic Fortnite death match with Apple over App Store's epic 30% cut
Google yoinks smash-hit video game from Play store, too
14 Aug 2020 | 39
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Single-line software bug causes fledgling YAM cryptocurrency to implode just two days after launch
Day one: We're worth half a billion! Day Two: We're nearly worthless
13 Aug 2020 | 87
Intel talks up its 10nm Tiger Lake laptop system-on-chips as though everything is going according to plan
Never mind the delays, competition, or departures – we've got a strategy
13 Aug 2020 | 21
America's largest radio telescope blind after falling cable slashes 100-foot gash in reflector dish
PicVenerable Arecibo Observatory showing its age
12 Aug 2020 | 56
Wi-Fi 6 isn't signed off yet, but boffins are already teasing us with specs for venerable wireless tech's next gen
Wi-Fi 7 had us on 'Extremely High Throughput,' the latency improvements sound nice, too
12 Aug 2020 | 36
Publishers signed up to Apple's premium News may be less than 'appy to discover the iGiant snatching readers
Safari links redirected by default into Cupertino's walled garden
10 Aug 2020 | 24
What happens when holes perfect for spyware are found in the engine room of millions of Qualcomm-based phones? Let's find out
DEF CONStart the clock on those patches – they'll be coming any day, week, month soon
07 Aug 2020 | 55
Just like when you 'game over' two seconds into a new level... Facebook launches Gaming app without games on iOS
Zuck, Google, Microsoft platforms barred from Apple's iOS software souk
07 Aug 2020 | 25
Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times
Not exactly the first time this has happened, by a very long chalk
07 Aug 2020 | 12
Foreshadow returns to the foreground: Secrets-spilling speculative-execution Intel flaw lives on, say boffins
A misunderstanding about the vulnerability means defenses fall short
07 Aug 2020 | 8
Intel NDA blueprints – 20GB of source code, schematics, specs, docs – spill onto web from partners-only vault
UpdatedLeaker only 'a bit concerned' about getting sued
06 Aug 2020 | 37
Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus
UK govt portal among those borked
06 Aug 2020 | 30
What a good eye-dea: Battery-less, grain-of-sand-sized 2.4GHz transmitter to help save your eyesight
Wireless sensor to show 'how the body is responding in real-time' to treatment
05 Aug 2020 | 25
Mozilla doubles down on anti-tracking tech: It'll be tougher for wily ad-biz cookie monsters to track Firefox
Apple still leading in anti-cookie diet, Google – predictably – in the rearguard
04 Aug 2020 | 36
Assimilation completed! HPE says it has finished the merger with Cray and unveils combo supercomputing lineup
All aboard the exascale express
03 Aug 2020 | 14
Apple's big trouble in not-so-little China – culls 30,000 apps from its Middle Kingdom App Store in legal crackdown
Game developers face local license law that could 'devastate' iOS revenues
03 Aug 2020 | 8
Who was behind that stunning Twitter hack? State spies? Probably this Florida kid, say US prosecutors
Alleged 17-year-old mastermind among trio charged over account mass hijackings
31 Jul 2020 | 52
We give up, Progressive Web Apps can track you, says W3C: After 5 years, it decides privacy is too much bother
UpdatedYou lot sort it out
31 Jul 2020 | 32
Amazon's coronavirus symptoms: Swelling of the profit, large sales deposits, insatiable demand
When the economy's tanking, who ya gonna call? Jeff Bezos!
31 Jul 2020 | 9
Infosec bod: I've found zero-day flaws in Tor's bridge relay defenses. Tor Project: Only the zero part is right
Warnings either not new or need more study, reckons open-source dev team
30 Jul 2020 | 16
HPE's Azure Stack Hub future 'in doubt' as US staff canned, SimpliVity team cut, India picks up the pieces
Current and former bods fear cloud work is doomed, IT titan disagrees
29 Jul 2020 | 17
This investor blew nearly $300,000 on Intel shares the day before 7nm disaster reveal. Yup, she's suing
Chipzilla faces potential class-action headache after stock price plunge
29 Jul 2020 | 40
Amazon and Google: Trust us, our smart-speaker apps are carefully policed. Boffins: Yes, well, about that...
Who can you trust these days?
29 Jul 2020 | 26
We're suing Google for harvesting our personal info even though we opted out of Chrome sync – netizens
Browser quitters say they'll return if web goliath lives up to privacy promises
28 Jul 2020 | 40
