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Democrats (still a thing, apparently) are super unhappy about AT&T's Time-Warner merger

Busting up telcos is on LOSER party's agenda. SAD!

Pathetic patching leaves over 70,000 Memcached servers still up for grabs

And that’s months after patches released and warning emails sent – sort it out!

Find your happy place: Fedora 26 has landed

ReviewNice solar tracking, shame about the Flatpaks

Apollo center fundraiser: That's one small check from man, one giant leap for our peace of mind

NASA Houston mission control
Software

Python autocomplete-in-the-cloud tool Kite pushes into projects, gets stabbed with a fork

Cloud dev biz tries rainmaking, stirs up storm of complaints
25 Jul 06:02
Security

Kid found a way to travel for free in Budapest. He filed a bug report. And was promptly arrested

Protests sparked after web security hole reported
25 Jul 05:03
Storage

Symbolic IO CEO cuffed by cops, vanishes from his storage startup

Tech boss denies any wrongdoing
25 Jul 04:02
Security

Ubiquiti firmware patch stomps nasty redirect bug from login screen

If you skipped the fix, fair enough - it landed before the vulnerability report
25 Jul 03:03
Security

G Suite admins have just one button to secure their sites, but don't

Another day, another cloudy data leak, as admins fail to get one setting right
25 Jul 02:01
Cloud

Alphabet takes Euro antitrust fine in stride, spooks investors with rising Google ad costs

Meanwhile, 'Other Bets' group hemorrhages less than before
25 Jul 00:32

Don't miss Al Capone was done for taxes. Now Microsoft's killing domain-squatters with trademark law

Science

Apollo center fundraiser: That's one small check from man, one giant leap for our peace of mind

Everyone else did the 'Houston, we have a problem' headline
24 Jul 21:38
Security

Pathetic patching leaves over 70,000 Memcached servers still up for grabs

And that’s months after patches released and warning emails sent – sort it out!
24 Jul 21:19
Policy

Democrats (still a thing, apparently) are super unhappy about AT&T's Time-Warner merger

Busting up telcos is on LOSER party's agenda. SAD!
24 Jul 19:37
Security

China crams spyware on phones in Muslim-majority province

On-the-spot checks by cops to ensure creepy mass surveillance tool is installed
23 Comments
24 Jul 19:19
Security
toto

Crims snatch 5.5 million social security numbers from Kansas govt box

A server where there isn't any trouble. Do you suppose there is such a server, Toto?
10 Comments
24 Jul 18:53
Emergent Tech

Alexa, why aren't you working? No – I didn't say twerking. I, oh God...

Hands-onAmazon's unhelpful assistant also sleeps through its wakeup word on HTC mobe
22 Comments
24 Jul 17:59
Security

Cyber arm of UK spy agency left without PGP for four months

Meanwhile Huawei gets green light, despite failure to verify source code
16 Comments
24 Jul 15:27
Security

Briton admits to router hack that DDoSed Deutsche Telekom

Tells German court it was unintentional
24 Jul 15:07
Bootnotes

US vending machine firm plans employee chip implant scheme

50 have supposedly signed up for this
70 Comments
24 Jul 14:51
Emergent Tech

HoloLens: Microsoft brags about AI chip in next-gen techno-goggles

Good for you, kid
24 Jul 14:34
Personal Tech

Expect the Note 8 to break the bank (and your wallet)

Leaks point to pricey behemoth
39 Comments
24 Jul 13:45
Personal Tech

Virgin Mobile has in-continent data roaming problems – peeved customers

Users forced to sightsee, look up from their phones
24 Jul 12:42
Emergent Tech

Brits must now register virtually all new drones and undergo safety tests

Where industry leads, government follows with gusto
72 Comments
24 Jul 12:15
Security

AlphaBay and Hansa: About those dark web marketplaces takedowns

AnalysisSellers using AlphaBay vendor 'trust' ratings on new dodgy agoras
25 Comments
24 Jul 11:51
Business

You don't call, you don't text: SIM-flinger Gemalto warns of 9% sales drop

And will write down €420m due to removeable SIM's 'prospects'
24 Jul 11:15
Science

FUKE NEWS: Robot snaps inside drowned Fukushima nuke plant

PicsNo mutant lizards. Possible spilled fuel found inside reactor container
56 Comments
24 Jul 10:26
Artificial Intelligence

What sort of silicon brain do you need for artificial intelligence?

Using CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs and ASICS to make sense of AI
14 Comments
24 Jul 10:10
Software
Nerd meditating photo via Shutterstock

Find your happy place: Fedora 26 has landed

ReviewNice solar tracking, shame about the Flatpaks
15 Comments
24 Jul 09:37
Business
Confused/annoyed looking man looks irritated during outage. Photo via Shutterstock

Nationwide’s online banking goes down again

Scheduled maintenance overran, says bank
38 Comments
24 Jul 08:54
Networks

UK ministers' Broadband '2.0' report confuses superfast with 10Mbps

Availability is not take-up. Must do better. See us after class
72 Comments
24 Jul 08:22
DevOps

I want to break free! Kubernetes has a life beyond containers

Imagine a world without high-performance servers
24 Jul 08:02
Personal Tech

Repairable-by-design Fairphone runs out of spare parts

Components just aren't made any more and Fairphone can't afford more batteries
39 Comments
24 Jul 06:58
Software

Microsoft hits new low: Threatens to axe classic Paint from Windows 10

You can take my free, naff, graphics app from my cold, dead, mouse hand ...
189 Comments
24 Jul 05:57
Cloud

Gone daddy gone: GoDaddy offloads its cloud businesses

PlusServer sold after eight months, Cloud Servers service snuffed after 16
13 Comments
24 Jul 04:58
Data Centre

Boffin supercharges FPGAs with timing signal tweak

Plagiarists nearly spoiled his PhD party, so he's becoming a micro-brewer
20 Comments
24 Jul 03:58
Business

Al Capone was done for taxes. Now Microsoft's killing domain-squatters with trademark law

Plausibly Redmond-related domains were used to phish
17 Comments
24 Jul 02:58
Transformation

Kill something, then hire cleaners to mop up the blood if you want to build a digital business

You live on a steaming dunghill of complexity, vendors want to keep you there and your CIO's way out is early retirement
26 Comments
24 Jul 02:00
Software

systemd'oh! DNS lib underscore bug bites everyone's favorite init tool, blanks Netflix

Repeat after me: _ is allowed in domain names
131 Comments
24 Jul 01:07
Software

Debian patches plenty in new version 9.1

26 security fixes for 55 packages. You know what to do!
23 Jul 23:57
Security

Sweden leaked every car owners' details last year, then tried to hush it up

Another day, another botched government contract
57 Comments
23 Jul 22:31
Personal Tech

Judge uses 1st Amendment on Pokemon Go park ban. It's super effective!

County had hoped to protect land from gamer stampede
83 Comments
22 Jul 13:08
Bootnotes
Surveillance van's interior

Fan of FBI cosplay? Enjoy freaking out your neighbors? Have we got the eBay auction for you

Get this retired surveillance van for all your totally legitimate above-board activities
33 Comments
21 Jul 23:28
Personal Tech
Sopranos

The Italian Jobs: Bloke thrown in the cooler for touting Apple knockoffs

Feds made Naples man an offer he can't refuse
17 Comments
21 Jul 22:14
Personal Tech
Take a number machine

Intel is upset that Qualcomm is treating it like Intel treated AMD for years and years

Chipzilla takes number, joins queue to kick Snapdragon biz in the ball arrays
40 Comments
21 Jul 21:55
Artificial Intelligence

DeepMind says it's given AI an imagination. Let's take a closer look at that

Google's machine-learning gurus see promise in simulated creativity
21 Comments
21 Jul 21:06
Personal Tech

China censors drop the soap operas, sitcoms

AnalysisThat's the bad news. The good news is they've banned Bieber, too
53 Comments
21 Jul 20:29
Personal Tech

Andy Rubin's overhyped and underdelivered Essential phone out 'in a few weeks'

At this point does anyone still care?
26 Comments
21 Jul 19:38

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