Satellite collision anticipated by EU space agency fails to materialize... for now at least
Internet rubberneckers and crisis-starved media left to ponder non-event
10 Apr 2021 | 39
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Wormhole encrypted file transfer app reboots Firefox Send after Mozilla fled
App's developers believe they can manage potential abuse
09 Apr 2021 | 26
Texan's alleged Amazon bombing effort fizzles: Militia man wanted to take out 'about 70 per cent of the internet'
Someone hasn't heard of redundancy
09 Apr 2021 | 115
Facebook job ads algorithm still discriminates on gender, LinkedIn not so much
Gender bias found in employment adverts despite antisocial network giant's past promises
09 Apr 2021 | 20
Apple's pending privacy clampdown drives desperate marketers to overwhelm domain database
Public Suffix List halts submissions from those seeking reprieve from iGiant's rules
09 Apr 2021 | 28
Airline software super-bug: Flight loads miscalculated because women using 'Miss' were treated as children
Passenger weight blunder led to wrong thrust used on takeoff, says watchdog
08 Apr 2021 | 310
British gambling giant Betfred told to pay stiffed winner £1.7m jackpot after claiming 'software problem'
Terms and conditions 'not transparent or fair', High Court judge says
08 Apr 2021 | 77
Imagine your data center backup generator kicks in during power outage ... and catches fire. Well, it happened
WebNX facility falls offline in blaze, takes customers down with it
06 Apr 2021 | 119
SAP: It takes exploit devs about 72 hours to turn one of our security patches into a weapon against customers
So please don't delay in applying updates, says, well, everyone
06 Apr 2021 | 17
Ice Lake, Baby: Intel's 10nm 3rd Gen Xeon Scalable server processors to arrive at last
Stop, collaborate and listen, Chipzilla's back with its brand new invention
06 Apr 2021 | 24
Over a decade on, and millions in legal fees, Supreme Court rules for Google over Oracle in Java API legal war
America's top judges decide copied code in Android is fair use
05 Apr 2021 | 134
QNAP caught napping as disclosure delay expires, critical NAS bugs revealed
Updated Remote code execution hole, arbitrary file writing flaw could make a mess of stored files
02 Apr 2021 | 25
Apple begins rejecting apps that use advertising SDKs for fingerprinting users
Google comes in late too
02 Apr 2021 | 44
Absolutely fab: As TSMC invests $100bn to address chip shortage, where does that leave the rest of the industry?
Analysis Semiconductor sovereignty, meet supply chain security
02 Apr 2021 | 52
Android, iOS beam telemetry to Google, Apple even when you tell them not to – study
Search giant insists it's necessary, iTitan didn't have anything to say
01 Apr 2021 | 80
IBM, Red Hat face copyright, antitrust lawsuit from SCO Group successor Xinuos
Updated Big Blue and its claret-capped subsidiary accused of nicking UnixWare blueprints, lying, and conspiring
31 Mar 2021 | 87
Wi-Fi devices set to become object sensors by 2024 under planned 802.11bf standard
Security and privacy still left to fix, preferably before launch
31 Mar 2021 | 101
Browser tracking protections won't stop tracking, warns DuckDuckGo
Privacy don't like it, block the tracker, block the tracker
30 Mar 2021 | 65
Intel accused of wiretapping because it uses analytics to track keystrokes, mouse movements on its website
Session monitoring scripts prompt dozens of privacy lawsuits against Big Biz, mainly in California and Florida
30 Mar 2021 | 36
Rails waves goodbye to mimemagic, welcomes Marcel to fix GPL MIME drama
If the license doesn't fit, you must commit
29 Mar 2021 | 5
Apple iPad torched this guy's home, lawsuit claims
Lawyers hope to recover repair cost shelled out by insurer
27 Mar 2021 | 51
Tesla broke US labor law with anti-union efforts – watchdog
And Elon Musk must delete 2018 tweet threatening loss of benefits for unionizing
26 Mar 2021 | 74
OpenCollective opens cash conduit between tech biz and unappreciated developers
For organizations inclined to give, there's now some supporting infrastructure
26 Mar 2021 |
OpenSSL shuts down two high-severity bugs: Flaws enable cert shenanigans, denial-of-service attacks
Debian, Ubuntu ahead of the curve in patching at least – don't be late yourself
25 Mar 2021 | 1
