Feature There was no big bang – and it could happen to you

Delivery drives to get refund

Couple now definitely past their Prime

And its CAPTCHA alternative challenged by security researcher

'Unforeseen server conditions' blamed

Utilities watchdog launches consultation that may affect green island's mega bit barns

Well, that's one way to do it

... lower house, the State Assembly, is not likely to pass the bill

Comment Even nuclear missile attacks came with a 4-minute heads-up

While social media gets a portion of the blame for COVID-19's initial spread

CMA claims to have taken 'oversight role' over removal of third-party cookies

Communication Workers Union believes 'scores of employees' will be placed 'at risk' under proposals

Tii Technologies claims hamfisted BT bods caused problems, not their kit

Now they've got £5m to try to stop it falling over again

'Surprise stealing mechanics' made short work of network perimeter security

Geek's Guide To Britain A trip to beautiful Snowdonia lakes takes in early hydroelectric experiment... and a tragedy for a village

Plus ça change

Meanwhile users complain their IPs are being flagged for suspicious traffic

Something for the Weekend, Sir? You never did learn to play guitar, did you? Too late now...

Episode 7 Why show them the door when a window will do?

Three availability zones prophesied to open in the first half of 2023

On Call It must be working, look at the LED

RCMP said it only used technology to rescue children, but regulator says that's wrong and Privacy Act was breached

Error handling? Nah, let's just unlock everything and be done with it

As local search engines stop providing results on crypto-keywords

All systems check out, it's time to science the s**t out of Mars

'Any Linux discussion list isn't going to have your idiotic drivel pass uncontested from me'

Updated Cloud colossus says aircon fail caused kit to shut down, networks dropped out and EC2 instances went dark

Would you like a lawsuit with that?

Enterprise newcomer has its work cut out in the data marketplace field

Maker of industrial lift gear claims fraud as software project sinks

Someone's got to keep Altera company

No one expects the Worldwide Loyalty Team!

Still, it's this or iOS

'The group is united in making RISC-V an option in HPC,' says SIG-HPC chair

Brood X vents frustration at missed opportunity on free press, random Ohio drivers

Webcast How to bust the bottlenecks without breaking the bank

It's not the size that counts, it's how you use it

Show me the money! say campaigners hoping to stamp out nefarious practices

Q1 WLAN sales rose by 16.7 per cent year-on-year

AMD hoping to grow its $38bn Xilinx acquisition as it seeks to compete with Intel's Altera

Upgraded build-it-yourself kit now includes 80-character mode, improved video output options

Buy-in comes after (nearly) 24 years of living next door to Altice

Let's hope Sachin Jogia sticks around longer than his predecessor

Feature How to make software ch-ch-ch-changes easier

FoI request details £76,800 in training fees, most of which went to staff security-specific departments

Wine64 support arrives for the Apple M1

Hotshot snotbot shows grotty terror plot buzzbots what's what

Why does it always... That's why. That's why it's raining on you

Plans fintech infusion for local banking sector, plus data-sharing infrastructure

Russia, Greenland, northern Canada will get the Full Monty

Fines, fines, everywhere there's fines

Company also says large and well-funded IT department sorted recovery swiftly

None were illegal, but they did put civil servants in awkward ethical territory and execs knew it

Sure, you can apply to work from home in the middle of nowhere, just don't expect Silicon Valley pay

Also sent lovely flowers as US$22bn GoTo Group cut driver bonuses

FBI reveals undercover employee sold him fake explosives before arrest

But executive order expands on supply chain security initiative with call for evidence-based vetting of technology

Boffins find flaw in web security that enables certificate confusion

The first based in China

Sierra Nevada Corporation eyes a landing site in the UK

Have you tried simply being more powerful and wealthy?

Criminal operators emerged from woodwork just as COVID hit the West

From July you'll be able to swipe credit card for kit at 'Experience Centers'

Video Impressive working computer from the corpse of a rarity

Raspberry Pi-powered prototype proves 95% accurate, 100% private, claim boffins

FPGA-driven prototypes yet to prove the company's bold performance and power-draw claims

Mandiant investigation says crims gained access through legacy VPN

Malicious crew targets ME and Asia but also tries evading Chinese AV suites

OK, we see where this is going

Regulator airs country's muddy laundry - including fact it rarely unplugs

We want to give your property better internets for free, pls respond

Plus: UAVs that can smell your poop – both for benign purposes, mind

Reports through Chipzilla's bug bounty scheme growing, but still in the minority

Column The history of computing is all change, all the time. Yet silicon-slingers let the chips fail where they may

Delayed Euro 2020 championship will be won by the Czech Republic, and England will drop out in semi-finals (sounds legit)

Unimpressed beak orders Transport for London to let them onto Southwark roof

Comment A day before THAT delay, Matt Hancock told MPs that 'citizens' own the data he'd instructed the health department to take by default

Who, Me? Never. Test. In. Production.

Supermarkets presumably working on a solution to this 'problem' right now

Promises it won't happen again, expresses remorse … all the usual stuff that clouds (and Zuck) say after they stumble around making messes

Nú með þýðingarmöguleika

Malware was too loose to have come from a Western nation, according to Sentinel Labs

Minister moved from celebrating new facility to complaining about it in a handful of hours

Innovation and Competition Act aims to keep America ahead of China, approved with unusual bipartisan support

Yup, just a Republican wanting a private business to be subjected to more government regulation

Admits 'potential losses' may result, says they won’t be significant

Patch Tuesday Adobe, Intel, SAP, Android emit vulnerability fixes, too

From hidden master keys to pineapples stuffed with Bolivian marching powder — this story has it all

Feature The problem started when those ridiculous users ... oh, hang on. It started in the IT department

Departure from Apple's usual iron-fist approach to iPhone software

Software porting efforts aim to make sure Android, Linux, Firefox, and Chrome work well ahead of time

We're gonna need a bigger rolled-up newspaper

Also announces buttload of new products at Cloud Summit event

The highs, the lows, the acquisitions, the resignations, and more

But it seems the iPhone 6 and SE will be looked after until the end of time

Using techniques Microsoft had previously considered 'not a vulnerability'

Don't call it growth

What's that? Letting people know just weeks before was a bad idea?

Snowflake Summit Cloud data outfit realises SQL-centric approach won’t attract the developers it needs to grow

If your IoT kit employs RabbitMQ, EMQ X or VerneMQ, it's time to get patching

Chocolate Factory competition-squashing tactics receive a firm 'Non' from Paris

Residents near Western Digital, Seagate HQs deafened by popping of Champagne corks

Updated 'Potential impact to performance' drops some of the world's biggest websites offline

From pictures of shattered glass to patterns on doors and much more

'When a search engine does the censorship instead of its job, it's not reliable anymore'

Feature When I grow up, I want to be an Identity and Access Management specialist – said no one ever

Linux and macOS guests will be doable, and iGiant even appears to have added an XKCD Easter Egg

Reader survey Tell us what’s holding you back from the cloud or pushing you forward

It’s now a cloud-native, low-code product that’s growing and offers a viable Exchange alternative, apparently

Hybrid Instagram/Amazon app Xiaohongshu may just have been making mirthful TGIF post

For now you have to cope with 100Gb/s and 400Gb/s over single-mode fiber, and brace for 100Gb/s over 80kms

All thanks to FBI that somehow had wallet's private key

Hundreds of arrests already in Oz, details of European and US ops to be revealed soon

Feds, facing pushback over constitutional concerns, say they no longer need the data after all

WWDC No new hardware though loads of bits and bytes for software makers

In brief Plus: FBI boss says ransomware is terrorism 2.0, and more

Gonna need a little Mo security over here

With his brother in tow, poor sod

Not too difficult to get in, but component serialisation could still be a hurdle

Breeding season takes a tern for the worse

Which pours cold water over Cupertino's insistence that third-party fixes violate privacy

The usual suspects are accused of anti-competitive behaviour, naughtiness with data

Basically, it doesn't work

Plus: National watchdog says pseudonymisation is data processing

Has the hacktivist group had enough of Musk's manipulative crypto-Tweets, or has someone just donned the mask to protest their crashed Bitcoin balance?

Yep. The exec responsible for shambolic Test and Trace programme, and TalkTalk's 2015 mega-breach

At least it was more popular than Skype... just

Plus: CyberUp campaign writes to Home Sec

Can be viewed in any light. Bargain

Extra performance wrung out, but we wouldn't rush to eBay

Big Red wanted TXO Systems dragged to court for years, say legal papers

Column One can’t spell shit without IT, but for Pete's sake it doesn't need to be in your endpoints

Who, Me? At least nobody said 'watch this!'

Social network lashed for ‘inglorious’, ‘dogged refusal’ to comply

Promo Here's a short and sweet summit by Nutanix to set you in the right direction

Taiwan was COVID-free for almost a year. Now the virus is out and edging towards major silicon production centres

In brief Plus: DARPA wants to spend $1m on AI research studying information warfare

Emperor Penguin hopes ‘fairly average’ release will ‘start shrinking now’