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 2020 | 42
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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 2020 | 9
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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 |
Intel, VMware collaborate on virtualized RAN platform
Helpful as Huawei is increasingly swept aside for 5G infrastructure
05 Aug 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 | 86
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 2020 | 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 2020 | 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 2020 |
Alibaba Cloud reduces RAM, disk size and price of some cloud servers
Tiniest instance type gets price hike and spec shrinkage
05 Aug 2020 | 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 2020 | 4
Chinese debt collectors jailed for cyberbullying under ‘soft violence’ laws
Threatening and insulting WeChat messages and worse earn time inside
05 Aug 2020 | 13
Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo
Yes, you read that right, an American exec is actually going to serve time... eventually. When he chooses
05 Aug 2020 | 32
Microsoft forked out $13.7m in bug bounties. The reward program's architect thinks the money could be better spent
'A secure dev lifecycle has a much higher ROI than letting the public do the bug detection work for you'
04 Aug 2020 | 20
I've seen things you people wouldn't believe – because we used astrometry: A Saturn-like world hugging its star
Mexico, US boffins used technique 'for the first time' with ground-based radio 'scopes to spot exoplanet
04 Aug 2020 | 4
Mozilla doubles down on anti-tracking tech: It'll be tougher for wily ad-biz cookie monsters to track Firefox
Apple still leading in anti-cookie diet, Google – predictably – in the rearguard
04 Aug 2020 | 36
As the world descends into madness, it's good to see some things never change: Monthly Android patches
Qualcomm bugs among the worst – including a critical hole in wireless networking
04 Aug 2020 | 16
European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy
'New investigation casts fresh uncertainty over the deal,' says analyst
04 Aug 2020 | 10
They say the tooth will set you free... so Brit dentist trade union tells members: 'Bad news – we've been hacked'
Bank account numbers and sort codes may have been accessed by intruders
04 Aug 2020 | 8
