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Zoom-er or later, your past catches up with you: Vid chat service catches sueball over end-to-end encryption claim

Texas jury: Apple on the hook for half a billion dollars after infringing 4G LTE patents

Can't decide which OS to run today? Why not Linux inside Windows inside macOS?

Wi-Fi 6 isn't signed off yet, but boffins are already teasing us with specs for venerable wireless tech's next gen

Splunk sales ace wins sex discrimination case after new boss handed her key accounts to blokes deemed 'flight risks'

Just can't let go of those Windows CE apps? Microsoft has a container for that

Some lucky web developer just scored $20k to scour Facebook out of Neil Young’s website

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

Irony, thy name is SANS: 28k records nicked from infosec training org after staffer's email account phished

If you haven't yet patched this critical hole in SAP NetWeaver Application Server, today is not your day

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

Citrix warns of patch-ASAP-grade bugs in its working-from-home products, just as we're all working from home

AWS Marketplace webinar: Learn how to automate and scale continuous integration to boost your business

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?

What looks like a global pay freeze, sounds like a global pay freeze, but isn't a global pay freeze? Ask IBM

UK.gov to propose new rules for online political campaigns after last election marred by an avalanche of fake news

Pakistan aims to quadruple IT exports to $5bn, with freelancing youth to the fore

UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals

We have bad news for non-US Microsoft fans: The incoming Surface Duo is underspecced, overpriced, and over there

Never Hertz to try: Samsung's new adaptive display tech will change frequency depending on the app you're running

How is Trump's anti-Chinese rhetoric playing out? 70% of smartphones sold in the US are – surprise – made in China

Microsoft spills beans on release, pricing for folding fancyphone: Start your Surface Duo engines now

Geek's Guide

Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons

Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?

NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects

The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR

India explores blockchain-powered voting but not to enable online elections

Googlers show off AI that can help developers protect crypto code from key-slurping side-channel attacks

Uncle Sam says it's perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to 'dominate' battlefields

Whoops, our bad, we may have 'accidentally' let Google Home devices record your every word, sound – oops

Verity Stob

The future of signage is here, and it wants an update

Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck

What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes

UK lockdown easing heralds the return of burgers... and bork

Science

In brief

Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons

Also: Scottish rocketeers to launch from Iceland, and SpaceX lobs more Starlinks

11 Aug 17:20 | 7

Science

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 | 7

Science

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 | 170

Science

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

Science

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

Science

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

Pic

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

Or maybe a spleen? Stomach? Snot bubble? You decide

06 Aug 06:07 | 42

Science

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

Science

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

Science

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 22:46 | 4

Science

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

Software upgrade to deliver less lethally-stubborn automation

04 Aug 07:56 | 113

Science

Virgin Galactic pals up with Rolls-Royce to work on Mach 3 Concorde-style private jet that can carry up to 19 people

Same height, bit faster, same wing layout as iconic 1960s airliner

03 Aug 12:59 | 92

Science

Voyager 1 cracks yet another barrier: Now 150 Astronomical Units from Sol

20 light hours from Earth and still sending home data

31 Jul 06:36 | 82

Science

And it's off! NASA launches nuke-powered, laser-shooting, tank Perseverance to Mars to search for signs of life

23 cameras, microphones and a helicopter on the rover to see and hear the Red Planet in living technicolor

30 Jul 13:03 | 48

Science

Boeing confirms it will finish building 747s in 2022, when last freighter flies off the production line

Commercial business slumps but troubled 737 MAX could be back in the skies late this year

30 Jul 06:02 | 57

Science

911, I wanna report a robbery. Hundreds of thousands of stars stolen from a cluster. I think it was the Milky Way

Ancient ball of suns smeared across space by our galaxy two billion years ago

29 Jul 22:23 | 15

Space Extenders

Once considered lost, ESA and NASA's SOHO came back from the brink of death to work even better than it did before

Almost 25 years and counting, here's to the luckiest spacecraft off Earth

29 Jul 09:00 | 43

Science

Virgin Galactic reveals giant mirror feature in cabin design for Beardy Branson's space bus

Passengers will be able to watch themselves float while bathed in Earthlight and surrounded by tasteful colours

29 Jul 07:32 | 43

Science

What goes up, Musk come down... and up and down and up and down: NASA details followup Dragon pod trips to orbiting station

Assuming this weekend's return journey goes well, natch

28 Jul 22:53 | 7

Science

Astroboffins map engine of a solar flare: Magnetic mega-fields and Earth-dwarfing blankets of electric current

Holy sheet...

28 Jul 06:11 | 8

Zoom-er or later, your past catches up with you: Vid chat service catches sueball over end-to-end encryption claim

Texas jury: Apple on the hook for half a billion dollars after infringing 4G LTE patents

Can't decide which OS to run today? Why not Linux inside Windows inside macOS?

Wi-Fi 6 isn't signed off yet, but boffins are already teasing us with specs for venerable wireless tech's next gen

Splunk sales ace wins sex discrimination case after new boss handed her key accounts to blokes deemed 'flight risks'

Just can't let go of those Windows CE apps? Microsoft has a container for that

Some lucky web developer just scored $20k to scour Facebook out of Neil Young’s website

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

Irony, thy name is SANS: 28k records nicked from infosec training org after staffer's email account phished

If you haven't yet patched this critical hole in SAP NetWeaver Application Server, today is not your day

This is node joke. Tor battles to fend off swarm of Bitcoin-stealing evil exit relays making up about 25% of outgoing capacity at its height

Citrix warns of patch-ASAP-grade bugs in its working-from-home products, just as we're all working from home

AWS Marketplace webinar: Learn how to automate and scale continuous integration to boost your business

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?

What looks like a global pay freeze, sounds like a global pay freeze, but isn't a global pay freeze? Ask IBM

UK.gov to propose new rules for online political campaigns after last election marred by an avalanche of fake news

Pakistan aims to quadruple IT exports to $5bn, with freelancing youth to the fore

UK utility Thames Water splashes cash as host of IT consultancies appointed to handle £100m worth of deals

We have bad news for non-US Microsoft fans: The incoming Surface Duo is underspecced, overpriced, and over there

Never Hertz to try: Samsung's new adaptive display tech will change frequency depending on the app you're running

How is Trump's anti-Chinese rhetoric playing out? 70% of smartphones sold in the US are – surprise – made in China

Microsoft spills beans on release, pricing for folding fancyphone: Start your Surface Duo engines now

Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons

Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?

NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects

The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR

India explores blockchain-powered voting but not to enable online elections

Googlers show off AI that can help developers protect crypto code from key-slurping side-channel attacks

Uncle Sam says it's perfecting autonomous AI-powered drone, vehicle swarms to 'dominate' battlefields

Whoops, our bad, we may have 'accidentally' let Google Home devices record your every word, sound – oops

The future of signage is here, and it wants an update

Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck

What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes

UK lockdown easing heralds the return of burgers... and bork

Science

Rocket Lab to bounce back from July's orbital fail with bulging payloads and parachuting Electrons

Why so salty, Ceres? Is it on account of your underground oceans and cryovolcanism?

NASA to stop using names like 'Eskimo Nebula' and 're-examine' what it calls cosmic objects

The sun is shining, the birds are singing. You can shut the curtains and tour The National Museum of Computing in VR

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 their 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

What a good eye-dea: Battery-less, grain-of-sand-sized 2.4GHz transmitter to help save your eyesight

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

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

Virgin Galactic pals up with Rolls-Royce to work on Mach 3 Concorde-style private jet that can carry up to 19 people

Voyager 1 cracks yet another barrier: Now 150 Astronomical Units from Sol

And it's off! NASA launches nuke-powered, laser-shooting, tank Perseverance to Mars to search for signs of life

Boeing confirms it will finish building 747s in 2022, when last freighter flies off the production line

911, I wanna report a robbery. Hundreds of thousands of stars stolen from a cluster. I think it was the Milky Way

Once considered lost, ESA and NASA's SOHO came back from the brink of death to work even better than it did before

Virgin Galactic reveals giant mirror feature in cabin design for Beardy Branson's space bus

What goes up, Musk come down... and up and down and up and down: NASA details followup Dragon pod trips to orbiting station

Astroboffins map engine of a solar flare: Magnetic mega-fields and Earth-dwarfing blankets of electric current

Popular

NCC Group admits its training data was leaked online after folders full of CREST pentest certification exam notes posted to GitHub

China now blocking ESNI-enabled TLS 1.3 connections, say Great-Firewall-watchers

Peer-to-peer takes on a whole new meaning when used to spy on 3.7 million or more cameras, other IoT gear

We've reached the endgame: Bezos 'in talks' to turn shuttered department stores into Amazon warehouses

Steve Wozniak at 70: Here's to the bloke behind Apple who wasn't a complete... turtleneck

What are you gonna do? Give me detention? Illinois schools ban pyjamas in online classes

Brit bank Barclays probed amid claims bosses used high-tech to spy on staff, measure productivity

We spent way too long on this Microsoft, Intel, Adobe, SAP, Red Hat Patch Tuesday article. Just click on it, pretend to read it, apply updates

Firefox maker Mozilla axes a quarter of its workforce, blames coronavirus, vows to 'develop new revenue streams'

Can I get some service here? The new 27-inch iMac forgoes replaceable storage for soldered innards

Eye see you're having surgery: Origami inspires tiny, super-accurate robot surgeon

If you think you've got problems, pal, spare a thought for these boffins baffled by 'oddball' meteorites

USA seeks Moon and Mars nuke power plant designs ready to fly in 2027

We're not all about rockets, says NASA: Balloon tech is good enough for economical star scanning

Mysterious supernova is blasting far-flung galaxy with flashes of UV light – and astroboffins don't know why

Fresh astro-underwear, anyone? Orbital shenanigans as Progress freighter has last-minute ISS docking wobble

Russia tested satellite-to-satellite shooter, say UK and USA

Visa fraud charges: Uncle Sam accuses four Chinese eggheads of covering up their true ties to China's military

China successfully launches Mars probe that packs an orbiter, lander, rover

'First ever' snap emerges of something vaguely resembling our solar system 300 ly away. We'll take 10 tickets

SpaceX pulls off an incredible catch, netting both halves of its Falcon fairing as they fell Earthwards after latest launch

Mexican cave relics suggest humans were populating the Americas up to 17,000 years earlier than thought