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VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools

I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

China slams ‘dirty’ America's ‘clean network’ plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake

Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app

UK insurance biz Direct Line drops 'misrepresentation' claims against IBM in £36m database platform lawsuit

Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Lockbox'

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times

Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

OnePlus Nord is surprisingly fixable compared to earlier stablemates, but common repairs require disassembly

Geek's Guide

Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating crucial data

The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant

Austria astroboffins shed a little light on how we might track orbital junk hurtling at spacecraft during daytime

Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass

Microsoft to Cortana: you’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!

Verity Stob

Search for 'things of value' in a bank: Iowa cops allege this bloke broke into one and decided on ... hand sanitiser

First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

Internet of Things

SoftBank: Oi, we paid $32bn for you, when are you going to strong-Arm some more money out of your customers?

Failing mega-group discovers again it didn't buy the right biz

16 Jul 06:34 | 72

Internet of Things

Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale

Insider suggests company doesn't charge enough in royalties to satisfy Japanese giant

14 Jul 13:48 | 48

Internet of Things

We've paused Sigfox roof aerial payments, says WND-UK, but we'll make you whole after COVID

Nationwide network operator gets into tizzy with chimney owners

10 Jul 08:30 | 56

Internet of Things

Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Yeah, not no more it ain't. Wants to offload it to Softbank

Microprocessor core designer says it just wants to focus on designing microprocessor cores

07 Jul 21:08 | 1

WWDC

Apple launches incredible features everyone else had more than a year ago – this time for the 'smart home'

HomeKit still playing catch-up though facial rec and better automation still a step in the right direction

24 Jun 05:54 | 27

Internet of Things

Tens of millions of Internet-of-Things, network-connected gizmos at risk of remote hijacking? Computer, engage shocked mode

Collection of bugs, dubbed Ripple20, sink widely used TCP/IP stack

17 Jun 05:04 | 27

Internet of Things

Couple wrongly arrested over Gatwick Airport drone debacle score £200k payout from cops

Add that to the £790k wasted on Xmas 2018 shutdown investigation

15 Jun 12:00 | 65

Internet of Things

Runaway Latvian drone found meditating in tree after shutting down nation's skies

It crashed the same day it went missing despite 3-day closedown and hunt

22 May 11:15 | 37

Internet of Things

Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma

25kV + lots of wiggly amps = big local magnetic field

21 May 09:55 | 68

Build

Internet of Tardiness: Microsoft puts on a brave face as IoT boat prepares to set sail

Lots of previews and coming-soons, but is it too little, too late?

21 May 08:15 | 8

Internet of Things

Latvian drone wrests control from human overlords and shuts down entire nation's skies

Please phone us if you see our missing 26kg aircraft, say authorities

04 May 13:29 | 48

Internet of Things

Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes, and cloud-based IoT gear bricked by vendors. Looking at you, Belkin

Ubiquitous consumer kit maker EOLs netcam. Oh, AND the cloud services that make it work

29 Apr 15:58 | 49

Video

Happy birthday, ARM1. It is 35 years since Britain's Acorn RISC Machine chip sipped power for the first time

Somewhere in your phone, something is blowing out candles on a cake

27 Apr 15:50 | 45

Internet of Things

Chinese carmaker behind Volvo and Lotus ships first two satellites for planned IoT ‘OmniCloud’

Plans to connect and observe all the things as-a-service, from low-Earth orbit, while building 500 sats a year

27 Apr 05:31 | 22

Internet of Things

Police drone fliers' wings clipped to prevent them bumping into real aircraft

The Civil Aviation Authority giveth the CAA and taketh away

20 Apr 16:30 | 19

Internet of Things

The 'IoT' in Microsoft IoT Hub means Internet of Trying-to-kill-off-whiffy-crypto-protocol: TLS 1.0/1.1 spared axe again

Stay of execution granted after customer 'feedback'

15 Apr 17:17 | 4

Internet of Things

Remember Tapplock, the 'unbreakable' smart lock that was allergic to screwdrivers? The FTC just slapped it down for 'deceiving' folks

And you can still open its improved version with a strong magnet

06 Apr 21:39 | 52

Internet of Things

Tech tracker Tile testifies in Congress: Apple's geolocation nagging is so not fair

Alleges anticompetitive behaviour in the walled garden. There's no party like a third party, eh?

02 Apr 16:30 | 5

Internet of Things

The Internet of Things is a security nightmare reveals latest real-world analysis: unencrypted traffic, network crossover, vulnerable OSes

And the best part of it? Hospitals are most at risk

11 Mar 06:07 | 38

Internet of Things

Computer, deactivate self-destruct system requirement, says Sonos... were it on a starship in space, and not a smart-speaker slinger

Audio gear maker drops 'recycle mode' aka 'e-waste mountain candidate'

06 Mar 02:09 | 46

VMware gets into apps with Bluetooth-pinging COVID-safe-office tools

I got 99 problems, and all of them are your fault

China slams ‘dirty’ America's ‘clean network’ plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake

Angular framework support brings Microsoft's Visual Studio into line with its way cooler little brother, VS Code

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft, Samsung preview Android on Windows via Your Phone app

UK insurance biz Direct Line drops 'misrepresentation' claims against IBM in £36m database platform lawsuit

Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

Android user chucks potential $10bn+ sueball at Google over 'spying', 'harvesting data'... this time to build supposed rival to TikTok called 'Lockbox'

So you've decided you want to write a Windows rootkit. Good thing this chap's just demystified it in a talk

Chrome Web Store slammed again after 295 ad-injecting, spammy extensions downloaded 80 million times

Trump administration labels WeChat, TikTok ‘threats’ to national security, bans transactions with both

Machine log roller Sumo Logic expands to swallow AWS data-watching, DevOps performance

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing

That's how we roll: OWC savagely undercuts Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels with bargain $199 alternative

Rejoice! China's smartphone market drops 10% as 5G purchases surge

Toshiba formally and finally exits laptop business

OnePlus Nord is surprisingly fixable compared to earlier stablemates, but common repairs require disassembly

Q: What’s big, red and pulses UV light into the cosmos three times a night? A: Mars

Geneticists throw hands in the air, change gene naming rules to finally stop Microsoft Excel eating crucial data

The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant

Austria astroboffins shed a little light on how we might track orbital junk hurtling at spacecraft during daytime

Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass

Microsoft to Cortana: you’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!

Search for 'things of value' in a bank: Iowa cops allege this bloke broke into one and decided on ... hand sanitiser

First alligators, then dogs, now Basil Fawlty is trying to standardise social distancing measures

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

Internet of Things

SoftBank: Oi, we paid $32bn for you, when are you going to strong-Arm some more money out of your customers?

Four years after swallowing Arm Holdings, SoftBank said to be mulling Brit chip biz sale

We've paused Sigfox roof aerial payments, says WND-UK, but we'll make you whole after COVID

Did you know Arm has an Internet-of-Things cloud? Yeah, not no more it ain't. Wants to offload it to Softbank

Apple launches incredible features everyone else had more than a year ago – this time for the 'smart home'

Tens of millions of Internet-of-Things, network-connected gizmos at risk of remote hijacking? Computer, engage shocked mode

Couple wrongly arrested over Gatwick Airport drone debacle score £200k payout from cops

Runaway Latvian drone found meditating in tree after shutting down nation's skies

Railway cables overpowered errant drone's compass and flung it back to terra firma

Internet of Tardiness: Microsoft puts on a brave face as IoT boat prepares to set sail

Latvian drone wrests control from human overlords and shuts down entire nation's skies

Three things in life are certain: Death, taxes, and cloud-based IoT gear bricked by vendors. Looking at you, Belkin

Happy birthday, ARM1. It is 35 years since Britain's Acorn RISC Machine chip sipped power for the first time

Chinese carmaker behind Volvo and Lotus ships first two satellites for planned IoT ‘OmniCloud’

Police drone fliers' wings clipped to prevent them bumping into real aircraft

The 'IoT' in Microsoft IoT Hub means Internet of Trying-to-kill-off-whiffy-crypto-protocol: TLS 1.0/1.1 spared axe again

Remember Tapplock, the 'unbreakable' smart lock that was allergic to screwdrivers? The FTC just slapped it down for 'deceiving' folks

Tech tracker Tile testifies in Congress: Apple's geolocation nagging is so not fair

The Internet of Things is a security nightmare reveals latest real-world analysis: unencrypted traffic, network crossover, vulnerable OSes

Computer, deactivate self-destruct system requirement, says Sonos... were it on a starship in space, and not a smart-speaker slinger

Popular

Days after President Trump suggests pausing election over security, US House passes $500m for states to shore up election security

Wrap it before you tap it? No, say Linux developers: 'GPL condom' for Nvidia driver is laughed out of the kernel

University of Cambridge to decommission its homegrown email service Hermes in favour of Microsoft Exchange Online

Leaky AWS S3 buckets are so common, they're being found by the thousands now – with lots of buried secrets

Aviation regulator outlines fixes that will get the 737 MAX flying again

Assimilation completed! HPE says it has finished the merger with Cray and unveils combo supercomputing lineup

You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing

Apple's big trouble in not-so-little China – culls 30,000 apps from its Middle Kingdom App Store in legal crackdown

Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there's been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe – because we used astrometry: A Saturn-like world hugging its star

Drones must be constantly connected to the internet to give Feds real-time location data – new US govt proposal

Dear makers of smart home things. Yeah, you with that bright idea of an IoT Candle. Here's an SDK from Amazon

Hey, remember Microsoft's IoT Linux gear? After two years, Azure Sphere is finally here

Ring in the changes: Mandatory two-factor authentication, login alerts, targeted ads opt-out after punters voice privacy gripes

Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a flying solar panel: BAE Systems' satellite alternative makes maiden flight in Oz

Ding-dong. Who's there? Any marketing outfit willing to pay: Not content with giving cops access to doorbell cams, Ring also touts personal info

Well, well, well. Internet-of-Things speaker biz Sonos to continue some software support for legacy kit after all

Remember that Sonos speaker you bought a few years back that works perfectly? It's about to be screwed for... reasons

Behold the Internet of Turf: IoT sucks waste energy from living plants to speak to satellites

Ring of fired: Amazon axes multiple workers who secretly snooped on netizens' surveillance camera footage

Beset by lawsuits over poor security protections, Ring rolls out 'privacy dashboard' for its creepy surveillance cams, immediately takes heat

The IoT wars are over, maybe? Amazon, Apple, Google give up on smart-home domination dreams, agree to develop common standards