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Guy who wrote women are 'soft, weak, cosseted, naive' lasted about a month at Apple until internal revolt

Updated Ad tech engineer out after autobiography sparks protest – and what does this say about iGiant's hiring process?

13 May 21:35 | 126

Ransomware victim Colonial Pipeline paid $5m to get oil pumping again, restored from backups anyway – report

Anonymous sources get into war-by-media counterbriefing

13 May 17:44 | 73

Protip: If Joe Public reports that your kit is broken, maybe check that it is actually broken

On Call Because now you have a bill to replace all these perfectly functional devices

14 May 07:26 | 78

NHS-backed org reacted to GitHub leak disclosure with legal threats and police call, complains IT pro

+Comment Retention of now-deleted security breach evidence sparks spat

14 May 10:02 | 68

Cloudflare launches campaign to ‘end the madness’ of CAPTCHAs

Poll Testing dongle-driven ‘Cryptographic Attestation of Personhood’ and WebAuthn as alternative

14 May 03:29 | 63

Tor users, beware: 'Scheme flooding' technique may be used to deanonymize you

By probing for installed apps with custom URL schemes, it's possible to build a 32-bit unique fingerprint

14 May 13:32 | 27

Your private data has been nabbed: Please update your life as soon as possible while we deflect responsibility

Something for the Weekend, Sir? Because our golf-obsessed boss has wandered off fondling his balls

14 May 08:30 | 65

Open-source developers under corporate pressure to adopt less-permissive licenses, Percona CEO says

Cloud hyperscalers drive projects to slap restrictions on code use

13 May 20:32 | 25

Hospitals cancel outpatient appointments as Irish health service struck by ransomware

Russia-based criminals pick soft target in hope of easy gains

14 May 11:45 | 21

RIP Spencer Silver: Inventor of the Post-it Note, aka the office password reminder, dies

Obit Pen and sticky paper still a great analog productivity hack

14 May 06:00 | 21

For the marketeer that has everything – except a CPU fan

Bork!Bork!Bork! You know it's time for an upgrade when your PC gets spanked by a sign

14 May 09:15 | 27

China says its first Mars rover Zhurong has landed on the Red Planet

Updated 'An important step in our country’s interstellar exploration journey' – state media

14 May 22:37 | 39

An actress, an internet billionaire, and Tom Cruise walk into a space station ... not necessarily at the same time

It's Space Race 2 for Russia and America

14 May 06:27 | 28

NASA pops old-school worm logo onto Orion spacecraft

Will be visible from the launchpad ... when it finally gets there

14 May 12:39 | 29

Chinese AI censors live-streamed Alpacas – beasts with a very NSFW and political back story

Be alert, not a-llam-ed

14 May 07:58 | 10

Audacity's new management hits rewind on telemetry plans following community outrage

Sorry for trying to add it or sorry for cocking up the comms?

14 May 18:23 | 19

Italian monopoly watchdog asks Google to cough up a few euros for illegally blocking an Android Auto app

Web giant tells us it's considering its response to €100m fine demand

13 May 23:07 | 6

You’re heading to the cloud – congratulations. Now, where’s your data?

Webcast It’s the one lever you really need to get a grip on

Microsoft's cloud gets JAMstacked: Azure Static Web Apps greenlit for production

JAM with a distinct whiff of Redmond, as you would expect

13 May 18:24 | 1

Alibaba Cloud growth slows after mystery international customer quits over ‘non-product related’ factors

First loss as a listed company thanks to Beijing’s $2.8bn antitrust fine

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