Spyware, trade-secret theft, and $30m in damages: How two online support partners spectacularly fell out
Chat-bot maker LivePerson wins lawsuit against call-center outfit [24]7.ai
18 Jun 2021 | 16
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Amazon notices Apple, Google cutting app store commission rates, follows suit
Keeps small-time devs on the reservation with AWS credits, too
18 Jun 2021 | 12
Google dishes out homemade SLSA, a recipe to thwart software supply-chain attacks
Try it with phish'n'chips
18 Jun 2021 | 1
TITAN crypto-token does the opposite of zero to $60: Value plummets in hours
And did a code bug throw a spanner in the works for IRON investors?
17 Jun 2021 | 15
Amazon says it's all social media's fault for letting fake review schemes thrive
Won't someone else save us from our policies and our decision to forego editorial control?
17 Jun 2021 | 35
School teacher accused of pocketing $1m+ in insider trading using tips from Silicon Valley pal
One of six guys charged over Infinera, Fortinet securities
16 Jun 2021 | 9
Bad Apple Safari update breaks IndexedDB JavaScript API, upsets web apps
Developers fed up with iGiant neglecting non-native software
16 Jun 2021 | 8
What Microsoft's Windows 11 will probably look like
Leak of glossy makeover turns hype up to ... you get the idea
15 Jun 2021 | 145
Realizing this is getting out of hand, Coq mulls new name for programming language
Community to think outside the pants
15 Jun 2021 | 212
US Supreme Court gives LinkedIn another shot at stymieing web scraping
LinkedIn back in play / Supremes kick case back downstairs / hiQ still at risk
15 Jun 2021 | 7
FTC approves $61.7m settlement with Amazon for pocketing driver tips
Delivery drives to get refund
11 Jun 2021 | 44
Cloudflare network outage disrupts Discord, Shopify
And its CAPTCHA alternative challenged by security researcher
11 Jun 2021 | 7
Seven-year-old make-me-root bug in Linux service polkit patched
Error handling? Nah, let's just unlock everything and be done with it
11 Jun 2021 | 59
Oracle and partners sued over claims they over-elevated NetSuite's capabilities
Maker of industrial lift gear claims fraud as software project sinks
10 Jun 2021 | 8
Biden cancels Trump's bans on TikTok, WeChat, other Chinese apps
But executive order expands on supply chain security initiative with call for evidence-based vetting of technology
10 Jun 2021 | 10
ALPACA gnaws through TLS protection to snarf cookies and steal data
Boffins find flaw in web security that enables certificate confusion
10 Jun 2021 | 11
FBI drops subpoena to identify readers of USA Today article about shootout with agents
Feds, facing pushback over constitutional concerns, say they no longer need the data after all
08 Jun 2021 | 11
Everything Apple announced: Tor-ish Safari anonymization. Cloaked iCloud addresses. Cloud CI/CD. And more
WWDC No new hardware though loads of bits and bytes for software makers
08 Jun 2021 | 39
Now that Trump is useless to Zuckerberg, ex-president is exiled from Facebook for two years, possibly indefinitely
Donald, you're fired. Again
04 Jun 2021 | 82
Tiananmen Square Tank Man vanishes from Microsoft Bing, DuckDuckGo, other search engines – even in America
Coincidentally, it's the 32nd anniversary of the 1989 massacre in Beijing
04 Jun 2021 | 113
FYI: Today's computer chips are so advanced, they are more 'mercurial' than precise – and here's the proof
Rarely seen miscalculations now crop up frequently at cloud hyperscale
04 Jun 2021 | 163
Supreme Court narrows Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Misusing access not quite the same as breaking in
We'll explain everything for you
03 Jun 2021 | 22
Oracle accused of eating software maker's lunch with hostile hiring, trade secret theft
CentralSquare says Big Red raided it for key staff
03 Jun 2021 | 7
Stack Overflow acquired for $1.8bn by Prosus (no, me neither)
Q&A community ponders life as an enterprise education resource
02 Jun 2021 | 44
