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VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools

I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

China slams 'dirty' America's 'clean network' plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake

Have I Been Pwned to go open source – 10bn credentials, not so much, says creator Hunt

British Army does not Excel at spreadsheets: Soldiers' newly announced promotions are revoked after sorting snafu

Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app

What happens when holes perfect for spyware are found in the engine room of millions of Qualcomm-based phones? Let's find out

How did you spend your time at university? Pizza, booze, sleeping? This Oxford student is snooping on satellites

Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Shorts'

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in

Ancestry.com: Let arbitrator decide on auto-enrolling membership lawsuit

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

Just like when you 'game over' two seconds into a new level... Facebook launches Gaming app without games on iOS

Apple faces further iPhone 12 supply chain woes, per famed analyst Ming-Chi Kuo

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

Geek's Guide

The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR

Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data

The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant

Whoops, our bad, we just may have 'accidentally' left Google Home devices recording your every word, sound, sorry

UK puts £200m on table for dynamic purchasing system to supply public sector with AI

Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

Verity Stob

Search for 'things of value' in a bank: Iowa cops allege this bloke broke into one and decided on ... hand sanitiser

First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

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Apple launches incredible features everyone else had more than a year ago – this time for the 'smart home'

WWDCHomeKit still playing catch-up though facial rec and better automation still a step in the right direction

Users of Will.i.am's Wink IoT hub ask 'Where is the love?' as they're asked to pay for a new subscription service

Don't phunk with my smart home

The IoT wars are over, maybe? Amazon, Apple, Google give up on smart-home domination dreams, agree to develop common standards

The bad news: You may have to buy all new kit if you want things to work

Bad news: KeyWe Smart Lock is easily bypassed and can't be fixed

Good news? There is no good news

Den Automation raised millions to 'reinvent' the light switch. Now it's lights out for startup

ExclusiveFrom 'boy genius' to 'oh boy'

Talk about a killer feature: Home, Home Mini gear replacements promised after fatal update bricks gadgets

Web giant insists 'small number' of voice-controlled gizmos killed by firmware bug

Here's a great idea: Why don't we hardcode the same private key into all our smart home hubs?

Another day, another appalling Internet of S**t security flaw

More households invite creepy smart speakers indoors: Arch-slurper Google top dog for Q1

Chocolate Factory overtakes Amazon as European sales surge 45.1% – people clearly didn't hear the cries of frustrated Google Home users

Philips kills dependence on its Hue hub, pointing to a Bluetooth world

Popular smart bulbs get an interesting upgrade

The Great IoT Protocol War may have been won: Thread's 1.2 release aims at business

AnalysisMeanwhile in the home, it's all Google, Amazon, Apple…

Must watch: GE's smart light bulb reset process is a masterpiece... of modern techno-insanity

VideoRead this for 2 seconds. Pause 8 seconds. Read for 2 seconds. Pause 8 seconds...

Comcast – the cable giant America loves and trusts – confirms in-home health device to keep tabs on subscribers

Meanwhile, privacy advocates run screaming from news, trip, end up in hospital

OK, Google, please do a half-hearted U-turn: Stay of execution for smart home APIs after Big G goes cuckoo in the Nest

Plan to force everyone onto Assistant stalled after customers say: Mess with the Nest, die like the rest

Bit nippy, is it? Hive smart home users find themselves tweaking thermostat BY HAND

Massive outage across energy firm Centrica's app estate

Smart home owner? Don't make your crib easy pickings for the smart home pwner

Consumer IoT PITA to secure but not impossible, report warns

Amid polar vortex... Honeywell gets frosty reception after remote smart thermostat tech freezes up for a week

Just use manual control, says biz. Then why did we buy 'smart' controls, ask customers

Yale Security Fail: 'Unexpected load' caused systems to crash, whacked our Smart Living Home app

All working now says biz. No, no, no, no, say customers, it is NOT!

Which? That smart home camera? The one with the vulns? Really?

Security experts confounded by consumer org's assessment

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