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11 Aug 23:02 |
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Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck
The Ying to Steve Jobs' Yang celebrates another orbit around the Sun
11 Aug 21:34 | 2
A bad day for open source: Mozilla slashes a quarter of its workforce, claims coronavirus threw a wrench in the works
250 'true Mozillians' laid off, Taiwan office completely shuttered
11 Aug 20:09 | 8
Nokia licensor HMD Global scores $230m from Google, Qualcomm, and, er... Nokia
Phone maker to plough cash into 5G, cracking US market, and diversification
11 Aug 18:48 | 3
Yes, you can spin up a hybrid multi-cloud in just one hour – and we’ll show you how
WebcastIt’s the best way to lead your cloud migration. Watch our next RegCast to learn more
11 Aug 18:00 |
Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons
In briefAlso: Scottish rocketeers to launch from Iceland, and SpaceX lobs more Starlinks
11 Aug 17:20 | 4
Dreams feel real while we're in them, don't they Salesforce? 'Critical' virtual event Dreamforce faces the axe
'Obviously a critical brand' says CEO Benioff as he calls off online occasion
11 Aug 16:35 | 1
UK Home Office dishes out contracts to 999 control room vendors after wasting cash on network tech it abandoned
Another chapter in the sorry Emergency Services Network saga
11 Aug 15:45 | 5
NCC Group admits its training data was leaked online after folders full of CREST pentest certification exam notes posted to GitHub
Exclusive'Inhouse crt rigs to solve... book before ur exam' as firm claims 'some' of the content wasn't theirs
11 Aug 14:58 | 15
Can I get some service here? The new 27-inch iMac forgoes replaceable storage for soldered innards
Spudger-flingers rate it 4 out of 10, note an 'artificially short lifespan'
11 Aug 14:26 | 30
Microsoft: The UK is facing an AI skills gap. If only there were a humble cloud giant that could help
In briefAlso: TypeScript 4.0 goes RC, Azure Functions support for PowerShell goes GA and DoH gets easier for Insiders
11 Aug 13:28 | 6
What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes
While remote-working adults adhere to 'business in the front, party in the back'
11 Aug 12:35 | 41
Police face-recog tech use in Welsh capital of Cardiff was unlawful – Court of Appeal
Judges went out of their way not to set a nationwide precedent, though
11 Aug 11:53 | 18
UK lockdown easing heralds the return of burgers... and bork
Bork!Bork!Bork!Eat out to BSOD?*
11 Aug 10:48 | 14
Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?
Dawn probe's last data shows surprising results from asteroid belt
11 Aug 10:00 | 6
UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals
Just how 'digital' does an H2O supplier have to be?
11 Aug 09:25 | 10
Huawei Matebook X Pro 2020: Nothing too crazy but at least it's more fixable and cheaper than comparable Apple wares
ReviewWhich might help convince your stingy purchase manager
11 Aug 08:30 | 21
Cluster-struck Nutanix bares all for new AWS alliance
Catching up on elastic and hybrid options, but not for cloudy first-timers
11 Aug 07:51 |
Googlers show off AI that can help developers protect crypto code from key-slurping side-channel attacks
DEF CONDeep-learning model pinpoints the pain in your AES
11 Aug 07:33 |
China now blocking ESNI-enabled TLS 1.3 connections, say Great-Firewall-watchers
And needs a very blunt instrument to do the job, because the protocol works as planned
11 Aug 05:53 | 42
Equinix enters India by purchasing pair of Mumbai bit barns
Traffic among tenants in financial capital looks to be as tasty as renting racks
11 Aug 04:56 |
Three Facebooks, four more Amazons and one Apple to collect Indonesia’s digital services tax
And so will TikTok and Disney, with more to come
11 Aug 04:03 | 4
India connects submarine cable to islands where some still live in the stone age
But others live on colossal military bases that extend the range of India’s armed forces
11 Aug 02:50 | 9
Uncle Sam says it's perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to 'dominate' battlefields
Don't panic... still in the testing phase
11 Aug 01:36 | 61
Super Cali COVID count is somewhat out of focus, server crash and expired cert makes numbers quite atrocious
Computer glitch followed by senior public health resignation in Golden State
10 Aug 23:41 | 26
Publishers signed up to Apple's premium News may be less than 'appy to discover the iGiant snatching readers
Safari links redirected by default into Cupertino's walled garden
10 Aug 22:11 | 22
Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear
DEF CONIn-depth dive into protocols exposing countless gadgets to miscreants
10 Aug 21:28 | 21
We've reached the endgame: Bezos 'in talks' to turn shuttered department stores into Amazon warehouses
Gutted Sears, JC Penney locations could become 'fulfillment centers'
10 Aug 20:19 | 51
Brit bank Barclays probed amid claims bosses used high-tech to spy on staff, measure productivity
Now that's a stretch: 'Work Yoga' memo tells folks to ignore calls, emails to 'stay in the zone'
10 Aug 19:06 | 16
Why you need much more than a zero-trust strategy to nail your security provision
WebcastAdd a little hyperconverged infrastructure, and you’re on to a winner. We'll explain all this month
10 Aug 17:48 |
Overbudget and behind schedule, UK's Emergency Services Network reaches 500th base station milestone
4G connectivity in bonny Glencoe, but clock on project deadline is ticking
10 Aug 15:24 | 10
Pen Test Partners: Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks
DEF CONIndustry binning old aircraft is an opportunity for aviation infosec
10 Aug 14:01 | 81
Transport for London asks Capita to fling Congestion Charge system into the cloud
For that and other work, hard-pressed integrator cops 5-year £355m contract. What the worst that could happen?
10 Aug 12:17 | 25
Apple's at it again: Things go pear-shaped for meal planner app after iGiant opposes logo
It's all in the 'right-angled leaf', people
10 Aug 11:12 | 118
Pay ransomware crooks, or restore the network? Guess which way this city chose after weighing up the costs
In briefPlus: Sec wizard shows another way to pwn Mac users
10 Aug 10:04 | 40
With this Uber get-to-work-safe app, you are really spoiling us, ServiceNow
The. Defining. Enterprise. Software. Company. Of. The. 21st. Century
10 Aug 09:15 | 15
As hospital-based infections set to rise, best not change the vendor behind the system that tracks them, hm?
Now's not the time for competition, says Public Health England
10 Aug 08:30 | 18
Programming pioneer Fran Allen dies aged 88 after a career of immense contributions to compilers
First woman to win the Turing Award and be made an IBM Fellow
10 Aug 07:56 | 13
You had one job... Just two lines of code, and now the customer's Inventory Master File has bitten the biscuit
Who, Me?You're so BASIC
10 Aug 07:15 | 115
Google offers first part of its in-house M:N thread code as open source to Linux kernel
If this fine-grained thread control tech can run The Chocolate Factory, imagine it unleashed in Android
10 Aug 06:55 | 22
NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects
‘Horsehead Nebula’ is okay, ‘Siamese Twins Galaxy’ is not
10 Aug 06:07 | 169
Huawei running out of smartphone CPUs as US sanctions begin to bite
Chinese giant suggests current Kirin SoC could be last of its kind
10 Aug 05:02 | 20
VMware discontinues Datrium hardware and hyperconverged OS, effective immediately
No new orders, limited support options and a very sketchy roadmap
10 Aug 03:00 | 8
India awards apps that offer citizens Microsoft and Google alternatives
And bans future imports of much military tech
10 Aug 01:16 | 11
Whoops, our bad, we may have 'accidentally' let Google Home devices record your every word, sound – oops
In briefPlus: Microsoft to dump support for Cortana on iOS, Android phones
08 Aug 08:29 | 147
What happens when holes perfect for spyware are found in the engine room of millions of Qualcomm-based phones? Let's find out
DEF CONStart the clock on those patches – they'll be coming any day, week, month soon
07 Aug 23:46 | 55
How did you spend your time at university? Pizza, booze, sleeping? This Oxford student is snooping on satellites
DEF CONBug-hunter details how his team slurped data… IN SPAAAAACE
07 Aug 22:01 | 21
Just like when you 'game over' two seconds into a new level... Facebook launches Gaming app without games on iOS
Zuck, Google, Microsoft platforms barred from Apple's iOS software souk
07 Aug 19:54 | 25
Have I Been Pwned to go open source – 10bn credentials, not so much, says creator Hunt
Heavy burden for one valiant man to carry, and it needs sharing
07 Aug 18:39 | 12
Ancestry.com: Let arbitrator decide on auto-enrolling membership lawsuit
This is not a matter for the San Diego court, says digital family history service
07 Aug 17:38 | 33
Apple faces further iPhone 12 supply chain woes, per famed analyst Ming-Chi Kuo
Taiwanese optics suppliers in the frame, reportedly
07 Aug 16:30 | 4
UK puts £200m on table for dynamic purchasing system to supply public sector with AI
Don't worry, your job's safe... we think
07 Aug 15:35 | 18
British Army does not Excel at spreadsheets: Soldiers' newly announced promotions are revoked after sorting snafu
Those who won lost; those who lost won
07 Aug 14:30 | 61
The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR
We don't have to go... outside... to have a good time, oh no
07 Aug 13:42 | 10
Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Shorts'
These are the class-action-suit-joining 'droids lawyers are looking for. (We'll get our coats)
07 Aug 12:23 | 39
Search for 'things of value' in a bank: Iowa cops allege this bloke broke into one and decided on ... hand sanitiser
Plus: CDC still telling folks not to drink it
07 Aug 11:30 | 43
Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance
I always feel like ... somebody's watching me (and they're doing it continuously)
07 Aug 10:55 |
Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code
Keep up, old-timer
07 Aug 10:10 | 5
That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative
Doesn't matter if design was perfected at dawn of humankind, you still have to pay Cupertino tax
07 Aug 09:24 | 65
First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures
Reg Standards BureauYou know this, guys: 7.14 linguine. Get with the programme!
07 Aug 08:47 | 63
So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk
DEF CONDemirkapi shows how drivers can be misused for deep pwnage
07 Aug 08:15 | 6
VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools
And expands its Horizons VDI into new clouds
07 Aug 07:38 | 2
I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault
On CallStiffened sinews and floppy disks
07 Aug 07:15 | 195
Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars
Boffins find atmospheric oddities that make the planet blink in Spring and Autumn
07 Aug 06:53 | 24
Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge
The Middle Kingdom is thought to be a few months further down the road to economic recovery and smartmobes are discretionary purchases
07 Aug 06:29 | 8
Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times
Not exactly the first time this has happened, by a very long chalk
07 Aug 06:02 | 12
Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business
Last Dynabook shares shuffled off to new owner Sharp
07 Aug 05:05 | 42
Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both
On grounds that they can track users, conduct corporate espionage and oppress Chinese-Americans
07 Aug 03:32 | 71
China slams 'dirty' America's 'clean network' plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden
'Everyone can see that the US goal is to keep its monopoly in science and technology' says Chinese foreign minister
07 Aug 02:40 | 51
Capital One fined $80m for shoddy public cloud security. Yeah, same bank in that 106m customer-record hack
All that money must be wired to the US Treasury immediately
07 Aug 01:22 | 4
Foreshadow returns to the foreground: Secrets-spilling speculative-execution Intel flaw lives on, say boffins
A misunderstanding about the vulnerability means defenses fall short
07 Aug 00:00 | 8
Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating their data
Spreadsheet woes spanning 16+ years force official update
06 Aug 22:58 | 270
When it comes to hacking societies, Russia remains the master at sowing discord and disinformation online
Black HatChina can't hold a candle to GRU's shenanigans, says expert
06 Aug 21:49 | 49
Intel NDA blueprints – 20GB of source code, schematics, specs, docs – spill onto web from partners-only vault
UpdatedLeaker only 'a bit concerned' about getting sued
06 Aug 19:31 | 36
OnePlus Nord is surprisingly fixable compared to earlier stablemates, but common repairs require disassembly
Drop the heat gun, pal: minimal glue means there's hope for brave butterfingers among you
06 Aug 16:00 | 13
Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake
Blizzard of litigation ahead of purported $20bn IPO
06 Aug 15:15 | 3
Well, that was quick: Google brutally culls Pixel 4 and 4 XL before successor hits market
They didn't even make it a year
06 Aug 14:35 | 13
Think carefully about cyber insurance, says NCSC. But don't worry about buying off ransomware crooks
Should your policy cover that? Well that's up to you
06 Aug 14:00 | 9
Work-from-home shift trickles down to Western Digital as cloud builders stuff storage in bit barns to meet demand
How to survive a pandemic
06 Aug 13:25 | 1
CSI GitHub: That big outage last month? It's always DNS. Or it was Kubernetes. Maybe it was a heady blend of both
'Impact was increased when a redeploy was triggered in an attempt to mitigate'
06 Aug 12:50 | 4
Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app
Continuum reborn? Not quite, and some features are Sammy-only for now
06 Aug 12:15 | 20
Call of duty, modem warfare: Taiwanese Qualcomm rival MediaTek teams up with Intel for first stab at 5G laptop chipset
Reminding Chipzilla of days gone by...
06 Aug 11:47 | 9
EY to outsource compute function, sending 800 staff into the loving arms of... IBM
ExclusiveGlobal Service Delivery Centres in Poland, Argentina, India, China and the Philippines all impacted, as are staff in UK and US
06 Aug 11:15 | 27
Data warehouse firm hopes more will follow Yellowbrick road for real-time analytics, speedy cloud data transfer
But the competition is fierce
06 Aug 10:38 | 1
Oppo Find X2 Neo: We're not getting any slimmer through lockdown, but phones are
ReviewLovely-to-hold blower sadly missing some features for the price
06 Aug 09:54 | 24
National Crime Agency says Brit teen accused of Twitter hack has not been arrested
Bognor Regis man still faces 20 years in clink, though
06 Aug 09:10 | 29
UK insurance biz Direct Line drops 'misrepresentation' claims against IBM in £36m database platform lawsuit
Case continues over failed Project Emerald
06 Aug 08:30 | 20
Arm, Vodafone flex their muscles to show Cisco they’re fighting fit on the edge
Telcos won't give up on the dream of becoming enterprise app stores instead of dumb data pipes
06 Aug 07:58 | 4
TikTok to splurge €420m on Ireland data centre to get Euro-data into Europe by 2022
Nothing but love for regulators, but nothing for hyperscalers despite previous Google Cloud entanglement
06 Aug 07:24 | 12
Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus
UK govt portal among those borked
06 Aug 07:03 | 30
China re-shapes its silicon industry to boost production
The smaller the manufacturing process, the bigger the subsidies
06 Aug 06:32 | 16
The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant
PicOr maybe a spleen? Stomach? Snot bubble? You decide
06 Aug 06:07 | 42
Google creates secure file locker for countries where people often share smartphones
Handy service for India and Nigeria, or feature creep that constricts competition?
06 Aug 05:09 | 10
We Kana believe it! Raspberry Pi Foundation launches Japanese keyboard
Hiragana love this new peripheral after it created all sorts of firmware fun
06 Aug 04:15 | 23
USA decides to cleanse local networks of anything Chinese under new five-point national data security plan
‘Clean Network’ initiative bans use of Chinese clouds, names Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent as compromised
06 Aug 03:31 | 146
Canon not firing on all cylinders: Fledgling cloud loses people's pics'n'vids, then 'Maze ransomware' hits
'We are investigating the situation'
06 Aug 02:18 | 16
US voting hardware maker's shock discovery: Security improves when you actually work with the community
Black HatES&S takes the bold step of not ignoring vulnerability reports
06 Aug 01:09 | 18
Ever wonder how a pentest turns into felony charges? Coalfire duo explain Iowa courthouse arrest debacle
Black HatGet. The. Terms. Of. The. Audit. In. Writing
05 Aug 23:08 | 38
America was getting on top of its electronic voting machine security – then suddenly... A wild pandemic appears
Black Hat'We need to prepare for a number of scenarios that may not come to fruition' says Prof Blaze
05 Aug 21:06 | 12
Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF
Interview'Customers are trying to use Istio and having a hard time, we see this from the support ticket volume'
05 Aug 20:03 | 3
Google reports 80% spike of Flutter-built apps in Play Store as 1.20 is released
Autofill arrives for mobile forms, plus new viewer widget, performance and tooling updates
05 Aug 17:12 | 1
Dogged by sickly supply chain, Arista cats warn of networking gear shortages until the end of 2020
CEO bemoans looming recession and 'trade wars', but hey, we're halfway through the week
05 Aug 15:51 |
Intel, VMware collaborate on virtualized RAN platform
Helpful as Huawei is increasingly swept aside for 5G infrastructure
05 Aug 14:48 | 1
Clue's in the name: Samsung's next Galaxy Note line captures scrawls with responsive stylus then punts them over to a PC
It's good at taking notes. Plus: Tablet-sized foldable, ear beans, and more
05 Aug 14:01 | 12
Network sniffers find COVID-19 did not break the internet – though it was behind a massive jump in outages
Disruptions leapt 63% as lockdowns came into force after February
05 Aug 13:20 | 8
Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer
'Not the most glorious of returns to public market' says analyst
05 Aug 12:45 | 5
Google to pull plug on Play Music, its streaming service that couldn't beat Spotify, in favour of YouTube Music
Phased shutdown ends December, and subs will be shunted to other platform
05 Aug 12:15 | 81
UK data watchdog having a hard time making GDPR fines stick: Marriott scores another extension, BA prepares to pay 11% of £183m penalty threat
UpdatedCOVID-battered businesses win reprieve from Information Commissioner's Office
05 Aug 11:25 | 41
Google catches up to AWS and steals a march on Azure with introduction of cloudy Certificate Authority Service
Underdog gives Redmond something to think about
05 Aug 10:43 | 3
TriggerMesh hooks up with AWS EventBridge to connect 'virtually any application' with cloudy service
Welcome to the SMOKEstack, we've got fun and games
05 Aug 10:00 | 2
Austria astroboffins shed a little light on how we might track orbital junk hurtling at spacecraft during daytime
Study reckons observation window would be increased from 6 to 22 hours
05 Aug 09:15 | 3
Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment
Public and voluntary sector welcome to buy from framework agreement winners
05 Aug 08:30 | 5
Apple re-arms the iMac with 10th-gen Intel Core silicon
Now with $500 option for very special glass that makes monitors sparkle, but no home-grown CPUs
05 Aug 08:00 | 63
NSA warns that mobile device location services constantly compromise snoops and soldiers
It might be best not to ask how the NSA knows this and why it advises most mitigations don’t help
05 Aug 07:29 | 87
What a good eye-dea: Battery-less, grain-of-sand-sized 2.4GHz transmitter to help save your eyesight
Wireless sensor to show 'how the body is responding in real-time' to treatment
05 Aug 07:02 | 25
China slams President Trump's TikTok banned-or-be-bought plan in the US
Beijing accuses America of working to destroy businesses it doesn't like
05 Aug 06:27 | 74
There’s no going back. We have entered the age of digital-first. Now we need to secure it
WebcastTune in and hear all about new research into the benefits of safe remote collaboration – auf Deutsch
05 Aug 06:00 |
Alibaba Cloud reduces RAM, disk size and price of some cloud servers
Tiniest instance type gets price hike and spec shrinkage
05 Aug 04:58 | 2
HPE slashes Windows Server 2019 licence costs – if you buy direct for its AMD Epyc Rome-powered servers
UPDATETwo cores for the price of one, under eleven-month ‘pilot’ scheme that Dell's also dangling
05 Aug 04:03 | 4
Chinese debt collectors jailed for cyberbullying under ‘soft violence’ laws
Threatening and insulting WeChat messages and worse earn time inside
05 Aug 02:31 | 13
