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Golf enthusiast given 30 days to cough up code
23 Oct 2021 | 45
Xero, Slack suffer outages just as Let's Encrypt root cert expiry downs other websites, services
Updated 'The internet is a complex system'
30 Sep 2021 | 23
Space tourists splash down in Atlantic Ocean after three days in orbit
Some sightseeing, music, gambling, chatting to folks back home – just like a regular roadtrip
19 Sep 2021 | 67
RIP Sir Clive Sinclair: British home computer trailblazer dies aged 81
From pocket calculators to ZX Spectrum and beyond
16 Sep 2021 | 216
Semiconductor veterans gather to design customizable, chiplet-based RISC-V server processors
Startup co-founded by former Applied Micro X-Gene execs emerges from stealth
01 Sep 2021 | 8
Microsoft does and doesn't want you to know it won't stop you manually installing Windows 11 on older PCs
Hardware requirements loophole left in
27 Aug 2021 | 91
Jury tells Apple to cough up two days of annual profit in 4G/LTE patent damages retrial
And US trade judge reckons Google ripped off Sonos's tech
14 Aug 2021 | 24
GitHub picks Friday 13th to kill off password-based Git authentication
In brief Plus: eBPF Foundation emerges, Exchange severs probed for ProxyShell holes, and more
12 Aug 2021 | 7
Credit-card-stealing, backdoored packages found in Python's PyPI library hub
In brief Plus: SolarWinds cyber-spies hit US prosecutors' email systems, and more
02 Aug 2021 | 25
Russia says software malfunction caused Nauka module to unexpectedly fire thrusters, tilt space station
Updated You call this a glitch?
30 Jul 2021 | 54
Be careful what you inline: Defunct video-hosting domain used to inject smut flicks into news articles, more
Updated From vid.me to f&*% me?!
22 Jul 2021 | 23
I no longer have a burning hatred for Jewish people, says Googler now suddenly no longer at Google
Veep of cloud devrel exits after 'beyond car crash' all-hands meeting
20 Jul 2021 | 171
Intel data center boss Navin Shenoy exits as CEO takes sledgehammer to group
Now that Pat's got his feet under the table, time to shuffle the chairs
22 Jun 2021 | 6
Intel to put SiFive's latest CPU cores into 7nm dev system to woo customers to RISC-V
Horse Creek platform to 'showcase' new 64-bit P550 processor engine
22 Jun 2021 | 13
Intel made $2bn+ takeover offer for RISC-V chip darling SiFive – report
Someone's got to keep Altera company
10 Jun 2021 | 5
Google says its artificial intelligence is faster and better than humans at laying out chips for artificial intelligence
OK, we see where this is going
09 Jun 2021 | 31
How to use Google's new dependency mapping tool to find security flaws buried in your projects
Millions of Rust, JavaScript, Go, Maven repositories scanned and visualized
04 Jun 2021 | 15
Arm has another 'most powerful CPU to date' – this time, the 64-bit-only Cortex-X2 for laptops and smartphones
Processor core among raft of designs for upcoming devices
25 May 2021 | 7
Arm freezes hiring until Nvidia takeover, cancels everyone's 'wellbeing' allowance
Exclusive Acquisition expected to complete in April 2022, empty positions can't be filled until then
25 May 2021 | 78
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 2021 | 6
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 2021 | 29
Nasdaq's 32-bit code can't handle Berkshire Hathaway's monster share price
Bug of the week Now that's what we call a Buffett overflow error
07 May 2021 | 106
BadAlloc: Microsoft looked at memory allocation code in tons of devices and found this one common security flaw
Updated Integer overflows leave IoT, OT, medical gear vulnerable to heap-seeking missiles
29 Apr 2021 | 52
Digital Ocean springs a leak: Miscreant exploits hole to peep on unlucky customers' billing details for two weeks
First that IPO and now this
29 Apr 2021 | 5