Linux laptop biz System76 makes its first foray into the mechanical keyboard world with dinky, hackable Launch
Unlocked firmware and some intriguing design choices – but the price is high
18 May 10:45 |
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Unit4 handed police ERP deal after 'significant deficiency' found in Oracle Fusion system
Big Red product only went live in 2019, but commissioner is ready to ditch it
18 May 10:03 | 3
Déjà bork: BSOD fairy pays key-cutting kiosk another visit
Bork!Bork!Bork! Lessons have been learned – now there's a bucket for Windows to be poorly into
18 May 09:15 | 4
Google Cloud confirms departure of EMEA president Chris Ciauri
Exclusive That 41% 2020 regional revenue growth lagged US and APAC. Sources claim HQ expected higher returns
18 May 08:30 |
Latest phones are great at thwarting Wi-Fi tracking. Other devices, not so much – study
Boffins find increasing MAC address randomization protection with mobiles
18 May 07:29 | 3
Indian mega-carrier Jio to build pair of 200-terabit submarine cables
One going all the way from Mumbai to Italy, the other is Singapore-bound
18 May 06:58 | 4
Fancy trying to explain Microsoft Teams to your parents? They may ask about the new Personal version
Late to the party, but free tier for multi-person vid chats handily tops Zoom
18 May 06:12 | 9
Samsung shows off rollable and foldable displays, suggests they'll arrive in 2022
Vid 'n' pics Paper-thin OLED screens collapse impressively
18 May 05:03 | 8
South Korea creates ‘metaverse alliance’ to build an open national VR platform
Virtual world ethics and industry development also on the agenda
18 May 04:09 | 1
China Mobile seeks $6bn for cloudy infrastructure refresh with Shanghai stock float
No US listing, no worries, for 939-million-customer colosso-telco that’s big on OpenStack
18 May 02:56 | 1
Activist millionaires protest outside Jeff Bezos' homes to support tax rises for the rich
'He is the leading beneficiary of the unequal treatment our nation's tax code gives the rich and powerful'
18 May 02:02 | 25
Kiss goodbye to privacy forever when brain-implanted comms gear becomes the norm – guru Whit Diffie
RSAC Top cryptographers open fire on AI, quantum computing, NFTs, and more
17 May 23:34 | 6
Parler returns to Apple's iOS App Store with Hive mind to moderate hate
All the vitriol still accessible from Android app, website
17 May 22:08 | 14
Waymo self-driving robotaxi goes rogue with passenger inside, escapes support staff
Video We speak to man who experienced and recorded wild ride first hand
17 May 20:51 | 37
Eufycam Wi-Fi security cameras streamed video feeds from other people's homes
In brief Plus: Biden's order on security, US govt acquiring data on citizens, and more
17 May 19:58 | 4
Apple announces lossless HD audio at no extra cost, then Amazon Music does too. The ball is now in Spotify's court
You can't hear the difference anyway
17 May 18:05 | 32
Fleet would Mac? Microsoft's Azure VPN Client for Apple machines hits public preview
Azure Active Directory's tentacles wriggle into ever stranger places
17 May 17:17 | 1
Microsoft sheds some light on perplexing Outlook blank email incident: Word was to blame
Office 365 users learn that Microsoft can make or break their productivity every 4 hours
17 May 16:37 | 28
Axa insurance offshoots pwned as Ireland reveals second ransomware hit
In brief Dept of Health unsuccessfully targeted in same attack against hospitals
17 May 15:37 | 10
LG intranet leaks suggest internal firesale of unsold, unreleased smartphones as biz exits the mobile market
Staff offered doomed handsets at knockdown prices in move reminiscent of HP's Palm episode
17 May 14:48 | 13
Reports link Bill Gates' departure from Microsoft board in 2020 with probe into employee affair
Gates denies connection
17 May 13:45 | 30
Oracle sues Envisage claiming unauthorized database use amid licensing crackdown
Fiscal year end forecast: Cloudy with a chance of litigation
17 May 13:03 | 21
Space is hard: Rocket Lab's 20th Electron launch fails
Firm working with FAA to 'investigate the anomaly' after second stage sputters
17 May 12:14 | 14
Staying in the UK this summer? Good news: Temples of IT nerdery are reopening
Computer museums set to be unbolted again
17 May 11:28 | 4
We'd love to report on the outcome of the CREST exam cheatsheet probe, but UK infosec body won't publish it
Why? It might reveal whistleblowers' names...
17 May 10:47 | 19
Are you ready to take a stand? Flexispot E7 motorised desk should handle whatever you dump on it – but it's not cheap
Review Sitting is as bad for you as smoking, and doesn't look nearly as cool
17 May 10:02 | 39
Mammoth grab of GP patient data in the UK set to benefit private-sector market access as rules remain unchanged
No policy shakeup to deal with snatch of info from primary physicians
17 May 09:18 | 33
When the chips are down, Intel's biggest gamble isn't what to do – it's whom to do it with
Column Trade you architecture and production tricks for lithography and yield plans?
17 May 08:32 | 8
Apple sent my data to the FBI, says boss of controversial research paper trove Sci-Hub
Former Sun boss Scott McNealy offers interesting response
17 May 07:57 | 66
The future is now, old man: Let the young guns show how to properly cock things up
Who, Me? Phoning it in?
17 May 07:30 | 70
Indonesian web giants Gojek and Tokopedia merge to create Asian super-app
Combine as ‘GoTo Group’, will represent two percent of GDP and say scale will help them grow
17 May 07:09 | 1
Campaigns propose new rules to protect contractors from rogue umbrella companies
Updated Sharp practices can leave temp tech workers with nowhere to turn
17 May 06:30 | 15
Indian telcos giving away services as customers fear going outside to top up their accounts
Over 150 million people given freebies or generous top-up deals
17 May 06:21 | 1
Singapore bolsters Bluetooth contact-tracing as new COVID wave sends students and workers home again
TraceTogether app becomes primary tracking tool and compulsory in many settings
17 May 06:02 |
Data is the new currency … so what’s in your wallet?
Promo Head to the Nutanix Database Summit for a frank exchange of ideas
17 May 05:30 |
China signals dissatisfaction with gig economy impact on ride-share drivers
Also puts brakes on data collection by carmakers
17 May 01:00 | 12
This week in AI: Man arrested after cops say he rode in backseat of Autopilot Tesla
In Brief Plus: Non-profit ML groups snub sponsorship money from Google
16 May 03:17 | 26
China says its first Mars rover Zhurong has landed on the Red Planet
Updated 'An important step in our country’s interplanetary exploration journey' – state media
14 May 22:37 | 85
Google leads Big Tech effort to ensure H-1B spouses can continue working in America
Coalition of 41 organizations oppose labor rule challenge
14 May 20:27 | 7
AMD promises to spend $1.6bn on 12nm, 14nm chips from GlobalFoundries
Also wriggles out of exclusivity deal
14 May 19:22 | 17
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 | 45
Apple's expert witness grilled by Epic over 'frictionless' spending outside the app
How easy would it be for customers to depart the walled garden, legal eagles ask economist
14 May 17:18 | 31
Facebook Giphy merger stays on ice after failed challenge to UK competition regulator
Problem was of social network's own making, says unimpressed judge
14 May 16:29 | 14
Free SANS Cyber Security Summits: Sign up now, learn online, keep your network safe
Promo Sometimes you need to lift yourself out of the cybersec trenches and look up to the summit
14 May 15:30 |
10.8 million UK homes now have access to gigabit-capable broadband, with much of the legwork done by Virgin Media
That's 37% of the country covered, and BT is expected to pick up the pace too
14 May 14:27 | 45
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 | 33
NASA pops old-school worm logo onto Orion spacecraft
Will be visible from the launchpad ... when it finally gets there
14 May 12:39 | 38
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 | 28
Rapping otters and automated database knob-twiddling: An obvious combination in some universe or other
OtterTune to compete with Oracle automation, but also for open source databases
14 May 10:45 | 4
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 | 100
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 | 37
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 | 86
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 | 15
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 | 87
South Korea creates $451bn semiconductor stimulus package
Samsung and SK Hynix singled out as nation tries to become a titan
14 May 06:57 | 6
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 | 30
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 | 24
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 | 106
Alibaba Cloud growth slows after mystery international customer - maybe ByteDance - quits over ‘non-product related’ factors
UPDATE First loss as a listed company thanks to Beijing’s $2.8bn antitrust fine
14 May 01:55 |
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 | 7
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 | 155
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
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
13 May 19:30 |
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 | 3
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 | 76
Google Cloud and SpaceX buddy up to fling edgy data and cloud services via Starlink
Sign-ups open in second half of 2021
13 May 17:01 | 4
Guido van Rossum aiming to make CPython 2x faster in 3.11
Language Summit 'I got bored sitting at home while retired ... I chose to go back to my roots'
13 May 16:05 | 11
Take-home salary pay cut in 2021? Billionaire Michael Dell feels you, slices off most of own yearly pay
Paid fraction of his fellow execs, though he is worth $50+bn (just don't mention tax)
13 May 15:20 | 6
Openreach slaps another 5 million premises on top of FTTP connection target, expects to pay 'minimal tax in the UK' over next few years
We'll hire 7,000 to get it done by 2026, says boss
13 May 14:39 | 10
As Samsung breaks ground on new EUV semi foundry, SK Hynix mulls expanding its logic and contract fab businesses
Analyst: 'Company may need to license 7nm and below process tech'
13 May 13:34 |
Colonial Pipeline was looking to hire cybersecurity manager before ransomware attack shut down operations
Good luck to whoever got that gig
13 May 12:35 | 26
James Webb Space Telescope runs one last dress rehearsal for its massive golden mirrors before heading to launchpad
A few final tests then it's bags packed for French Guiana – and about time too
13 May 11:33 | 38
Man paralyzed from neck down uses AI brain implants to write out text messages
Video Read my blips
13 May 10:47 | 15
Oops, says Manchester City Council after thousands of number plates exposed in parking ticket spreadsheet
Exclusive They are personal data, you know. Wait – you did know that, right?
13 May 10:01 | 82
'Biggest data grab' in NHS history stuffs GP records in a central store for 'research' – and the time to opt out is now
Updated 'More data, more breadth, more depth... it's the whole f&*king deal'
13 May 09:15 | 221
Rust 2021 edition to arrive in October with 'more consistent panic' and other new features
Also: Why Rust in Android will use the Soong build system, not Cargo
13 May 08:26 | 24
Does AI have to disrupt everything you know about running a data center?
Sponsored The optimal intelligent model could be disaggregation
13 May 07:30 |
Japan to start stamping out rubber stamps and tearing up faxes as new digital agency given Sept. 1 start date
'My Number' identifier to become central to myriad government services if the plan works
13 May 06:58 | 48
Google Docs users, you are on notice: Code rewrite may break browser extensions
Updated HTML and CSS? What is this, 2003?
13 May 06:24 | 42
Microsoft bins Azure Blockchain without explanation, gives users four months to move
Says picking a replacement is your next step. Seriously, that’s Redmond's first piece of advice. Eventually it recommends Quorum
13 May 04:59 | 24
India’s vaccination-booking API criticised for excluding millions, containing bugs, and overflowing with elitism
It’s faulty, struggling to scale, lacks a dedicated privacy policy
13 May 02:58 | 9
Elon Musk hits the brakes on taking Bitcoin for Tesla purchases
CEO wakes up to BTC's connection to coal, holds onto the stash until mining becomes more eco friendly
13 May 01:03 | 98
When it comes to cybersecurity, there's always time for summer school or winter training
Promo Get ready for SANS Institute's biggest ever Asia-Pacific training event
13 May 00:22 |
FCC starts probing effects of semiconductor drought on the US telecoms supply chain
If only there was a business to consult about chip shortages? Ah, that's right. Huawei, awks
12 May 23:16 | 1
Pentagon backs away from labeling smartphone maker Xiaomi a military org run by China's communist elite
Biz to be removed from naughty list following out-of-court settlement
12 May 22:29 | 4
If you said the semiconductor shortage will last until Q2 2022, you would be correct, according to Gartner
Chip in if you want more chips, analyst house suggests
12 May 21:19 | 1
Apple's Find My network can be abused to leak secrets to the outside world via passing devices
You gotta work hard for those three-bytes-a-second transfers, though
12 May 20:28 | 13
With Gelsinger back at Intel, VMware picks new CEO from within, shakes up execs
vRangarajan vRaghuram is vBoss after vMotion to vTop
12 May 19:15 | 1
If you can't upload to Amazon Photos right now, don't worry – no one can
Updated Unlimited picture-hosting service suddenly gets very limited
12 May 18:58 | 6
Water's wet, the Pope's Catholic, and iOS is designed to stop folk switching to Android, Epic trial judge told
Fortnite maker wheels out economist to explain how Apple works
12 May 18:06 | 73
US-based hard disk drive suppliers face further scrutiny over whether they've shipped proscribed HDDs to Huawei
Updated The Wicker man: US Commerce Committee senator questions Toshiba, Seagate and WD
12 May 16:55 | 8
Happy to pay out to ransomware masterminds? Yup, we thought so
Webcast Join us online and learn about modern extortionware and how to frustrate it
12 May 16:00 |
'Big updates' to Mac design app Sketch add real-time collaboration – but you'll need to fork out for a subscription
Perpetual licence still offered, but with downgraded features
12 May 15:15 | 5
SAP co-founder's charitable arm made investments in a joint venture with the software giant
Foundation is 'passive investor' alongside private equity firm Dediq, firm says
12 May 14:38 | 5
On eve of national industrial ballot, BT, EE, Openreach agree to temporarily suspend compulsory redundancies
Exclusive Well, the telco always said it's good to talk: Negotiations over jobs, pay, grading, and more set for this month
12 May 13:45 | 14
Another week, another issue: Virgin Galactic mulls test flight restart as VSS Unity fixed – but VMS Eve might be borked
Company continues to make losses without troubling space
12 May 13:02 | 29
Britain to spend £22m influencing Indo-Pacific nations' cybersecurity policies against 'authoritarian regimes'
CyberUK 21 So says Foreign Secretary in lacklustre speech to NCSC faithful
12 May 12:15 | 26
Rackspace CEO: Offshoring, real estate closures and other cost cutting measures. Did NASDAQ cheer? Well? Nope
Q1 revenue up, losses widen, boss says new Elastic Engineering cloud product selling fast
12 May 11:30 | 6
Open-source JavaScript project Babel 'running out of money' after employing paid maintainers, sponsors pull out
Creator deletes posts alleging 'mismanagement' to blame
12 May 10:49 | 22
Fibre Channel is still around. And now it's end-to-end at a sizzling-ish 64Gbit/s
Broadcom unveils an HBA to complete the set of seventh-gen kit
12 May 10:02 | 5
Not keen on a 5G mast in your street? At least it'd be harder for crackpots to burn down 'a flying cell tower in orbit'
Another satellite constellation prepares for launch, this one aimed at next-gen connectivity for IoT devices
12 May 09:15 | 39
AWS wins yet another UK public-sector contract – this time to provide £15m health data system for NHS Scotland
Amazon's cloud factory hits £300m under 'One Government' agreement
12 May 08:30 | 10
Hong Kong floats doxxing laws that would let it force big tech to take down content
And make publishing personal data as an act of protest illegal into the bargain
12 May 07:55 | 10
Blessed are the cryptographers, labelling them criminal enablers is just foolish
Column Preserving privacy is hard. I know because when I tried, I quickly learned not to play with weapons
12 May 07:31 | 168
IBM compiles dataset to teach software how software is made: 14m code samples, half of which actually work
Think Big Blue hopes to create the ImageNet of training resources for AI-powered programming tools
12 May 06:55 | 14
Google gets into the international money transfer business, one-way out of the USA
India and Singapore are first destinations, teams with Western Union and Wise to target 200 nations
12 May 06:31 | 15
Beijing twirls ban-hammer at 84 more apps it says need to stop slurping excess data
Online lending apps and more given fifteen days to ‘rectify’ behaviour
12 May 05:19 | 7
South Korea orders urgent review of energy infrastructure cybersecurity
No prizes for guessing why, as Colonial Pipeline outage stretches patience and looks like lasting a week
12 May 03:38 | 11
Salesforce fell over so hard today, it took out its own server status page
Updated It’s not DNS. There is no way it’s DNS. It was DNS
12 May 02:10 | 29
Tech industry quietly patches FragAttacks Wi-Fi flaws that leak data, weaken security
Dozen design, implementation blunders date back 24 years
12 May 00:58 | 4
Microsoft says Outlook hit by 'email visibility issues' – as in, they're blank
Here's an unofficial fix for those who need their messages now
12 May 00:09 | 17
