Apple, forced to rate product repair potential in France, gives itself modest marks
Never mind the glue and soldered RAM
27 Feb 06:13 | 59
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Biden nixes Trump immigrant visa ban as clock runs down on H-1B suspension
Keeping family members out of the country deemed harmful
27 Feb 01:42 | 3
TikTok to cough up $92m to settle data privacy sueballs over harvesting too much data
Or about five days of annual operating profit
27 Feb 00:06 | 3
Choose your fighter! March Mammal Madness pits poor, innocent critters against each other in mortal combat
Not literally and all in the name of education
26 Feb 23:01 | 16
Imperva pretty adamant that security analytics aggregator product Sonar is not 'one dashboard to rule them all'
Uh huh... it's a good time to be in enterprise security analytics
26 Feb 21:48 |
Apple's latest macOS Big Sur update stops cheapo USB-C hubs bricking your machine
Still, it's probably best to stick with eye-wateringly expensive official peripherals
26 Feb 21:01 | 35
Bezos denied: New Glenn launch pushed into 2022 after Space Force says no
Also: Old age a bigger risk for Branson's passengers as Virgin Galactic slips again
26 Feb 20:00 | 26
Huawei to Hell: Embattled Chinese comms giant said to be revving up for a move into the electric vehicle market
Though company insists it is 'not a car manufacturer'
26 Feb 19:06 | 4
Bloody Dell! The humble notebook made the difference between a crappy fiscal 2021 and a good one
Yes, we will never mention the death of the PC again, at least until next time
26 Feb 18:17 | 6
Valheim: How the heck has more 'indie shovelware with PS2 graphics' sold 4 million copies in a matter of weeks?
The RPG Now, this might shock you, but it's something we like to call 'fun' (if you have friends)
26 Feb 17:14 | 38
Rude awakening for SaaS giants Salesforce, Workday as both find 20% growth isn't good enough for market
Yeah, you did great, but you should have done better
26 Feb 16:18 | 4
USA, Germany, UK: From systems engineer to data centre mechanics guru, here are this week's jobs
Job Alert Worldwide vacancies if you're looking for work – and free ads if you want workers
26 Feb 15:28 | 3
EDB tries to crowbar graph, JSON, and time-series data models into PostgreSQL – but can they pull it off?
Specialist databases will still be necessary, analyst says
26 Feb 14:22 | 2
HPE urges judge to pick through Deloitte-bashing report it claims demolishes Autonomy founder's defence
Plus: Full ruling in $5bn High Court case expected by end of Q1
26 Feb 13:39 | 29
ESA mulls sending waves of robot explorers into dark depths of lunar lava tubes
Lidar-equipped spherical probes or solar panel-powered cranes, perhaps?
26 Feb 12:54 | 13
Google looks at bypass in Chromium's ASLR security defense, throws hands up, won't patch garbage issue
Engineers write off GC abuse because Spectre broke everything anyway
26 Feb 11:58 | 25
Seagate UK customer stung by VAT on replacement drive shipped via the Netherlands
Well, Brexit meant Brexit
26 Feb 11:15 | 206
BOFH: 7 jars of Marmite, a laptop and a good time
Episode 2 Or 'How PFY and I do Access Control'
26 Feb 10:25 | 76
Half a million stolen French medical records, drowned in feeble excuses
Something for the Weekend, Sir? A bitter pill best swallowed with eight gallons of swimming pool water
26 Feb 09:30 | 75
A word to the Wyse: Smoking cigars in the office is very bad for you... and your monitor
On Call A matte-black terminal? Neat! Where can I get one?
26 Feb 08:15 | 120
We need a 20MW 20,000-GPU-strong machine-learning supercomputer to build EU's planned digital twin of Earth
And this machine will be used to *check notes* study climate change. Study it or cause it?
26 Feb 07:27 | 84
Zuck chucks Myanmar military out of Facebook and Instagram
Is The Social Network™ finally declaring a stance in democracy and politics
26 Feb 05:57 | 26
VMware reports ‘progress on potential spinoff from Dell’, beats expectations for Q4 and full FY2021
Containerised Tanzu portfolio starts to make serious sales progress
26 Feb 04:56 |
New Nutanix CEO hints at mid-year product bundle launch
And reckons subscription acceleration means flat revenue is nothing to worry about
26 Feb 04:01 |
In YouTube's world, parental supervision means: 'Everyone sign in to Google, click once, and trust we get it right'
That's what's on offer in new 'supervised' YouTube mode for tweens and teens
26 Feb 02:57 | 15
India's demand to identify people on chat apps will 'break end-to-end encryption', say digital rights warriors
Announced rules also require fast takedowns of content, online profile verification, and more
26 Feb 02:10 | 24
Red Hat returns with another peace offering in the wake of the CentOS Stream affair: More free stuff
Approved open-source projects to get no-cost subscriptions (if they haven't already got one)
26 Feb 00:44 | 27
Digital trust-busting time? US lawmakers mull how to tame giga-corps Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook
Remedies to gatekeepers range from nothing to an antitrust breakup
25 Feb 22:10 | 16
Four fundamental principles for great software development
Sponsored The OutSystems Mission
25 Feb 20:00 |
Stop us if you've heard this one before: Microsoft to lure users with industry-specific solutions in the cloud
Redmond taking a leaf out of the enterprise app makers' book
25 Feb 19:24 | 6
1Password has none, KeePass has none... So why are there seven embedded trackers in the LastPass Android app?
Third-party code in security-critical apps is obviously suboptimal, but company says you can opt out
25 Feb 18:39 | 76
Google admits Kubernetes container tech is so complex, it's had to roll out an Autopilot feature to do it all for you
More expensive, less flexible, but easier and safer to use
25 Feb 17:30 | 25
Copper broadband phaseout will leave UK customers with higher bills and less choice, says comparison site
It seems people are OK with paying more for faster internet, though
25 Feb 16:46 | 87
Ever wondered why that one weird file keeps being included? Super sleuth TypeScript 4.2 is here
You again! That uninvited guest that just keeps turning up...
25 Feb 15:42 | 16
The bank of Bitcoin: MicroStrategy's share price rides high on the back of cryptocurrency investment
Deposits $1bn+ real world greenbacks into digital dosh, may borrow to buy more
25 Feb 14:59 | 25
FCC announces winners in $81bn 5G spectrum auction. Congrats to Verizon, which must cough up $45.4bn
AT&T and T-Mobile also have to write enormous cheques before March 24
25 Feb 14:12 | 16
UK's National Cyber Security Centre sidles in to help firm behind hacked NurseryCam product secure itself
Plus: User passwords were stored in plain text after all
25 Feb 13:07 | 13
Ever felt that a few big tech companies are following you around the internet? That's because ... they are
Experimental blocking of sites that load resources from four big companies makes the web unusable
25 Feb 12:04 | 65
'Meritless': Exam software maker under fire for suing teacher who tweeted links to biz's unlisted YouTube vids
Analysis EFF bod slams effort 'to silence a critic' as $50k+ raised to challenge lawsuit
25 Feb 11:11 | 43
Qualcomm under fire for 'anticompetitive' patent shenanigans causing pricey UK smartphones
Which? rides to the rescue of consumers and... er... Apple and Samsung?
25 Feb 10:06 | 51
UK minister tries to intervene after Government Digital Service migration mangles Ministry of Justice webpages
Public outcry over access – all because £450m agency doesn't have school-grade web skills
25 Feb 09:02 | 40
Jaguar Racing chief waves green flag at Micro Focus Universe 2021
Promo What it’s like managing code running at 200 KPH? Find out here
25 Feb 08:00 |
HP loses attempt to deny colossal commission to star sales staffer
Contract was clear and trying to backdate changes was naughty, rules Australian court
25 Feb 07:29 | 41
Alexa, swap out this code that Amazon approved for malware... Installed Skills can double-cross their users
Boffins find those developing apps for the chatty AI assistant can bypass security measures
25 Feb 07:04 | 16
NTT boffins reckon they’ve out-randomed current quantum random number generators
And managed to pull it at speed, despite the menace of quantum noise
25 Feb 06:27 | 16
GPUs for gaming, data-center servers continue to drive up Nvidia's revenues despite chip shortages everywhere
CEO Jensen Huang admitted his wunder-biz is 'constrained'
25 Feb 06:09 | 3
China, Thailand, UAE team up to test cross-border crypto-payments
Just the sort of thing you’d do if you want your national cryptocurrency to be broadly accepted
25 Feb 04:59 | 3
With computer brains in short supply, President Biden orders 100-day probe into semiconductor drought
And pledges to 'push' for $37bn in funding to increase chip manufacturing capacity
25 Feb 03:47 | 33
Singapore, Dell do a pandemic-era elbow bump, open IT giant's first-of-its-kind 'innovation hub' outside US
Island nation may become tech goliath's destination for 5G and edge research
25 Feb 02:05 |
India dangles billion-dollar incentive scheme for server, PC makers willing to open up shop on the sub-continent
Tablets also sought with call for top builders to diversify operations
25 Feb 00:38 | 6
So, bye-bye mighty nerd haven Fry’s, took Silicon to the Valley... and now you must die
End of an era for iconic electronics shop chain
25 Feb 00:17 | 34
Is 5G truly 'green'? How can operators ensure greater network efficiency?
Sponsored 5G technologies aimed at significant energy efficiency improvements
24 Feb 23:00 |
California’s net neutrality rules good to go after judge boots Big Cable’s lawsuit
Judge Mendez also suggests trying to use 1934 law in 2021 is... sub-optimal
24 Feb 22:57 | 14
Federal Reserve falls over in massive hours-long tech outage, knocks down US inter-bank transfer system
Few details beyond 'operational error'
24 Feb 21:25 | 12
Revealed: The military radar system swiped from aerospace biz, leaked online by Clop ransomware gang
Not a great day for Bombardier, Leonardo and Seaspray customers
24 Feb 20:04 | 24
No fair! Space Launch System gets cool stickers even though monster rocket failed test
They say 'NASA' and 'ESA', not 'You tried'
24 Feb 19:07 | 16
HPE dips toe into OpenRAN 5G with a software platform and new iron to run it
Should be with carriers in the second quarter
24 Feb 18:18 |
Thirsty work: TSMC starts trucking in water amid Taiwan drought to keep chip production lines chugging
Yet more woes for embattled industry
24 Feb 17:37 | 16
Chill out, lockdown ain't over yet – perhaps FUZIX on the Pi Pico could feature in your weekend shed projects
Tiny $4 computer meets tiny OS
24 Feb 16:59 | 30
'We're finding bugs way faster than we can fix them': Google sponsors 2 full-time devs to improve Linux security
Interview Plus: Why the Chocolate Factory only uses code it builds from source
24 Feb 16:01 | 31
Scottish rocketeers Orbex commission Europe's largest industrial 3D printer to crank out 35 engines a year
Single-piece blend of metals to help get company into Prime time
24 Feb 15:01 | 29
Campaigners demand judicial review of NHS deal with Peter Thiel's AI firm Palantir
Report says CEO sipped watermelon cocktails with NHS England chief at cosy party
24 Feb 14:15 | 14
Lenovo's ThinkPad line goes under the knife: X13 models look a bit taller but worry not, the 'nipples' are still intact
AMD or Intel flavours, Wi-Fi 6, and... an antimicrobial component?
24 Feb 13:31 | 25
UKFast founder and ex-CEO Lawrence Jones denies rape and sexual assault charges
Trial date set for February 2022
24 Feb 12:57 |
Microsoft unveils swappable SSDs for Surface Pro 7+ but 'strongly discourages' users from upping their capacity
Opted for 128GB? Better hope that software bloat doesn't bite you
24 Feb 12:01 | 55
Pyrrhic victory: Co-Op wins £13m from IBM over collapse of £175m Project Cobalt insurance platform contract
It wanted £128m in wasted spending – but customer wasn't blameless for debacle, rules UK High Court
24 Feb 11:08 | 22
Tata Consultancy Services wins £4m deal to carry out Oracle 'reimplementation' for University of Manchester
That's an expensive reimplementation
24 Feb 10:20 | 10
Microsoft spearheads a whole new genre with installation on the side of a Lyon tunnel
Bork!Bork!Bork! Ah oui, mais est-ce de l'art?
24 Feb 09:31 | 41
Robots that take out your garbage? Oh What A Feeling, says Toyota as it opens its very own smart city
In 'Woven City' human-driven cars aren't allowed, 'personal mobility devices' get their own roads, and sensors tell robots when you need help
24 Feb 08:28 | 25
Think you know all about security pen-testing in the cloud? Here’s how to prove it
Promo New GIAC qual shows you can put the Sec into DevSecOps and quantify the risk in SRE
24 Feb 08:00 |
macOS Big Sur muscles onto Amazon's cloudy Macs
AWS flicks the switch on EFS too for those who fancy sharing cloudy volumes
24 Feb 07:32 |
Mozilla Firefox keeps cookies kosher with quarantine scheme, 86s third-party cookies in new browser build
Hey man, are your cookies trackin' me? Take 'em out. You gotta keep 'em separated
24 Feb 07:02 | 23
What's CNAME of your game? This DNS-based tracking defies your browser privacy defenses
Study sees increasing adoption of cloaking to bypass cookie barriers
24 Feb 06:11 | 57
Wave of AMD Epycs and updated Xeons wash up at DigitalOcean
Adds ‘Premium’ tier to ‘You can have any CPU so long as it’s a slightly old Xeon’ cloud
24 Feb 04:58 |
IBM teases new AIX release – the first since 2015
And guess what? Version 7.3 will emphasise hybrid cloud in line with new CEO Arvind Krishna's wishes
24 Feb 04:07 | 6
Indian Railways suffers unspecified security 'breaches in various IT applications'
13m passengers a day, a million tickets bought on digital platforms, and yet few details offered on what went wrong
24 Feb 03:13 | 14
Robocall bagmen admit they collected millions of dollars from victims scammed by bogus IRS officials, lenders
Duo picked up sacks of cash sent via FedEx, UPS, USPS etc
24 Feb 01:52 | 8
Microsoft president asks Congress to force private-sector orgs to admit when they've been hacked
Senate intelligence committee hears ideas in light of SolarWinds disaster
24 Feb 00:53 | 27
VMware warns of critical remote code execution flaw in vSphere HTML5 client
If you don't patch, the hosts driving all your virty servers are at risk. So maybe your to-do list needs a tickle?
23 Feb 23:35 | 7
They break into your network but do nothing themselves: 'Initial access brokers' resell stolen creds for $7k a pop
So says Digital Shadows as it puts a price on illicit access methods
23 Feb 22:53 | 1
US government jobs report predicts pandemic will lead to boom times for IT industry
Along with epidemiologists. As for the hospitality industry… not so much
23 Feb 22:11 | 7
Clop ransomware gang leaks online what looks like stolen Bombardier blueprints of GlobalEye radar snoop jet
And what may be CAD drawing of a military radar antenna
23 Feb 21:22 | 27
Spotify to introduce lossless audio streaming: Better sound or inefficient gimmick?
'More about branding than it is quality,' reckons analyst
23 Feb 20:15 | 87
Samsung shows off next-generation big-pixel camera sensor tech, coming to an Android phone near you
Good chance a phone you buy this year will use this photography tech
23 Feb 18:58 | 15
SD card slot, HDMI port could return to the MacBook Pro this year, says Apple analyst
An end to dongle hell in sight?
23 Feb 17:01 | 28
UK might still be in lockdown but tech jobs rise above pre-pandemic levels and beyond, according to ONS
More women in tech workforce too, and salaries staying firm or going up
23 Feb 16:12 | 5
SpaceX small print on Starlink insists no Earth government has authority or sovereignty over Martian activities
Isn't this a subplot from those James S A Corey novels?
23 Feb 14:55 | 140
Xilinx pops a 16-core 64-bit Arm system-on-chip from NXP into its latest FPGA-based 100Gbps smart NIC
Gate array for data plane, CPU cores for control plane
23 Feb 14:00 | 4
Linux Mint users in hot water for being slow with security updates, running old versions
Automatic updates? 'We have ideas on how to improve this,' says founder
23 Feb 13:33 | 74
UK's Health Department desperately seeking service provider to run IT after 'cloud-first' shift
Updated Service desks, end user computing, networks... you know the drill. Tens of millions of pounds up for grabs
23 Feb 12:29 | 27
IT contractor caught charging Uncle Sam expert rates for newbies, agrees to pay back $6m in settlement
Triple-I worked on Homeland Security and ICE systems
23 Feb 11:32 | 28
Look! Up in the sky! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's just a very unhappy Windows installation
Bork!Bork!Bork! The last attempt to resume your country failed. Would you like to try again?
23 Feb 10:31 | 11
DataStax 'pauses' AIOps database project to figure out exactly what AIOps is
Some enterprise folk less keen on cloudy machine learning
23 Feb 09:36 | 5
Nominet sets the date for extraordinary meeting where members could fire CEO
Showdown over future of the .uk operator set for late March, shenanigans already alleged
23 Feb 08:56 | 52
MWC Shanghai opens with celebration of the humble smartphone's role in helping humanity cope with COVID-19
GSMA chief offers new burgers-per-year benchmark for techno-impact
23 Feb 07:58 | 1
Microsoft sides with media groups, together they urge Europe to follow Australia's lead, make Google, Facebook pay for news article links
Already interest from MEPs, one body tells us
23 Feb 07:29 | 36
Facebook and Australia do a deal: The Social Network™ will restore news down under and even start paying for it
ANALYSIS Relationship status changes from ‘Separated’ to somewhere between 'In a Domestic Partnership’ and 'It's Complicated'
23 Feb 06:45 | 29
NASA sends nuclear tank 293 million miles to Mars, misses landing spot by just five metres. Now watch its video
Video See how plucky Perseverance touched down on the unforgiving dust world
23 Feb 06:20 | 115
Microsoft staffers restive as annual employee poll lands – without questions about compensation
‘We are only insanely paid vs ludicrously paid at Google or Netflix’
23 Feb 05:36 | 20
Does Samsung want you to buy new phones? Asking 'cos Galaxies now get four years of security updates
Even kit from 2019 is covered and so are the modestly priced A and M series
23 Feb 04:13 | 39
Apache foundation ousts TinkerPop project co-founder for tweeting 'offensive humor that borders on hate speech'
ASF board member resigns in protest of org's online chatter 'policing'
23 Feb 01:37 | 124
The perils of non-disclosure? China 'cloned and used' NSA zero-day exploit for years before it was made public
Check Point says Beijing 'reconstructed' Equation Group's hacking tool long before leak
23 Feb 00:50 | 39
El Monumental changes to bring joy to thousands of Argentinean football fans
Sponsored Huawei's CloudCampus 2.0 injects new life into iconic stadium
22 Feb 22:30 |
Whistleblowers: Inflexible prison software says inmates due for release should be kept locked up behind bars
Updated It's not a bug, it's a feature you need to put in a change request to alter, says developer
22 Feb 21:29 | 64
Huawei's new Mate X2 foldable phone costs almost $2,800
Bit derivative, though
22 Feb 18:37 | 26
NurseryCam hacked, company shuts down IoT camera service
Updated Real names, usernames, and what appeared to be SHA-1 hashed passwords* exposed
22 Feb 17:30 | 27
Slow your roll: LG reportedly puts new smartphone on ice as it mulls future in market
Display-tastic firm's work on flashy CES kit said to have been paused
22 Feb 16:26 | 7
Microsoft plugs Active Directory authentication into AKS on Azure Stack HCI
Begone foul stash for the secret hash
22 Feb 15:30 | 1
Doctor, I think I have an HDMI: Apple starts investigating M1 Mac Mini graphics issues
Time to do a test for clear media after world+dog starts seeing pink squares
22 Feb 14:31 | 39
UK taxman is supposed to know how IR35 reforms work but still lost appeal against TV presenter Kaye Adams
Observers say having multiple clients works in favour of techie contractors
22 Feb 13:46 | 36
Planespotters’ weekends turn traumatic as engine pieces fall from the sky in the Netherlands and the US
It’s a bird, it’s a plane… holy crap there’s a nacelle in my kitchen
22 Feb 13:03 | 104
I'm fired: Google AI in meltdown as ethics unit co-lead forced out just weeks after coworker ousted
In brief Plus: IBM reportedly trying to sell Watson AI Health, and more
22 Feb 12:21 | 30
Facebook and Apple are toying with us, and it's scarcely believable
Column What to do when companies think they own their customers
22 Feb 11:26 | 114
Cloud Direct stung for £80k in constructive dismissal lawsuit after director's 'insincere' evidence to tribunal
'Shambolic', 'unfair', 'wholly incorrect'... all because they wanted rid of their sales manager
22 Feb 10:28 | 29
The iPhone 12 captured our attention and wallets, says new report from Gartner
Latest and greatest put Samsung in second, while Huawei risks irrelevancy
22 Feb 09:30 | 6
Forget GameStop: Keyboard warriors and electronic trading have never mixed well
Who, Me? Big Bang? More like Big Bork thanks to a warning shouted too late
22 Feb 08:15 | 54
Brave browser leaks visited Tor .onion addresses in DNS traffic, fix released after bug hunter raises alarm
In brief Plus: IBM's lawyers hacked, Kia denies ransomware hit, France declares war on hackers, and more
22 Feb 07:14 | 12
China sets new rules for Ant Group to play by if it wants to think again about a float
Banks given limits to their involvement with web giants’ online lending operations
22 Feb 06:33 | 3
China's semiconductor self-sufficiency drive slid backwards in 2020
5.9 percent of silicon made at home now, goal is 70 percent in 2025 and the USA's sanctions seem to be biting
22 Feb 04:58 |
Australian government fights Facebook news ban by threatening 0.01% of Zuck's ad revenue
Talks continue but pay-for-news law won’t be amended
22 Feb 03:53 | 48
