Microsoft gets ready to kill Skype Classic once again

Remember remember the first of November | Continue reading

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Fuzzy logic makes a comeback in picking where Earth probes alien worlds

NASA mapping data educates computers for safe landings | Continue reading

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Former Apple engineer fights iPhone giant for patent credit and denied cash

Cupertino company's culture turns to crap under Cook, complaint carps | Continue reading

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Weaknesses in DEP, Apple's free service for remote EDM is vulnerable

Researchers check bootstrap enrolment tech, suck teeth, whistle | Continue reading

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A story of Maplin Electronics, a failed tech retailer (UK)

You got to give credit – but critically, only where it is due... | Continue reading

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Fancy Bear still Putin out new modules for VPNFilter malware

Talos turns up obfuscation, lateral attacks, and proxies | Continue reading

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Salesforce dogged by protests, leaked emails, and guerrilla blimps on first day

Oh, and the last shreds of Metallica's credibility disappearing on stage | Continue reading

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Amazon Alexa outage: Voice-activated devices are down in UK and beyond

That sound ... yes, that lack of sound ... it's here | Continue reading

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Trump's axing of cyber czar role has left gaping holes in US defence

Damning report shows Uncle Sam falling behind | Continue reading

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While the UN laughed at Trump, hackers chortled at the UN's lousy web security

Jobseekers' files follow internal records leaking online | Continue reading

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'Mutagen Astronomy' Linux kernel vulnerability sighted

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and CentOS users at risk | Continue reading

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US military cloud bidders will have to submit their proposals by hand, on DVD

2020s cloud contract demands 1990s delivery method | Continue reading

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Bombing raids during WWII altered the Earth's ionosphere

Impact power sent electrons shooting off into space | Continue reading

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Building your own PC for AI is 10x cheaper than renting out GPUs on cloud

Here's the recipe for cooking up your own AMD-Nvidia beast | Continue reading

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Russia's Aeroflot Docker server lands internal data on public internet

Container images leak through insecure registry | Continue reading

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US govt use of AI shoddy and failing citizens because no one knows how it works

The AI Now Institute's report ain't pretty | Continue reading

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Zoho: Domain name no-show deals CRM biz, 40m punters a crushing blow

Customers locked out after registrar switches off dot-com | Continue reading

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WWII Bombe operator Ruth Bourne: I'd never heard of Enigma until after the war

92-year-old Wren tells us about life cracking German codes | Continue reading

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Some credential-stuffing botnets don't care about being noticed any more

They just take a battering ram to the gates | Continue reading

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How do the some of the best AI algorithms perform on real robots? Not well

Machine learning finds reality a whole different ball game | Continue reading

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Facebook sued for exposing content moderators to Facebook

Endless series of beheadings and horrible images take mental toll, US lawsuit claims | Continue reading

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UK issues first GDPR violation… against Brexit campaigner

AggregateIQ faces massive fine | Continue reading

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NCIX customers' personal data left on repossessed servers

Infosec bod claims he glimpsed sensitive personal info left on unwiped servers | Continue reading

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The curious sudden rise of free US election 'net security guardians

There is no such thing as a gratis lunch, after all | Continue reading

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Keep yer plastic, says analyst: eSIMs aren't all they're cracked up to be

IoT-oriented tech has few advantages for consumers | Continue reading

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Sun delivers Unix shocker with DTrace (2004)

It slices, it dices, it spins, it whirls | Continue reading

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Twitter: Don't panic, but we may have leaked your DMs to rando devs

Internet outrage mobile insists year-long API bug would have been super-hard to exploit | Continue reading

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Romanian Ransomware Suspect Pleads Guilty to Hacking CCTVs in Washington DC

Mediocre malware operator 'fesses up to DC infection | Continue reading

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Bad weather, baulky booster keep ISS 'naut snacks on the ground

Fresh fruit, fresh batteries stuck on Japanese launchpad as HTV-7 hopes to catch a break | Continue reading

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ServiceNow confirms relational-ship with MariaDB: We're protecting our toolchain

As Finnish DB biz bags fellow MySQL drop-in firm Clustrix | Continue reading

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Developer goes rogue, shoots four colleagues at ERP code maker

Gunman dead and now named by cops, one worker in critical condition, two serious | Continue reading

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UK cops run machine learning trials on live police operations. Unregulated

RUSI: How about some codes of practice, transparency, for starters? | Continue reading

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Scottish brewery recovers from ransomware attack

Trouble ferments after hackers lock system and Arran with it | Continue reading

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Curiosity's computer silent on science, baffling boffins

Robot is 'responsive' but for some reason it can't transmit science data | Continue reading

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Remember when FaceTime stopped working years ago? It was deliberate

Class-action lawsuit over iOS 6 snafu allowed to move ahead | Continue reading

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Year-long trip may dump 60% lifetime dose of radiation on you

Cancer, brain damage, a bad back ... it's all for a good cause | Continue reading

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Renegade 3D-printing gunsmith Cody Wilson on the run

International hunt for American bod after he skips flight home | Continue reading

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Cough up half a million quid for fumbling 15M Brits' personal info to hackers

UK watchdog demands max penalty after security snafu | Continue reading

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Wi-Fi can be used to guesstimate number of people hidden in a room

No doubt this'll be used to sell data to advertisers | Continue reading

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'I am admin' bug turns WD's My Cloud boxes into Everyone's Cloud

Western Digital NAS machines vulnerable to hijacking via HTTP cookies | Continue reading

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National Museum of Computing to hold live Enigma code-breaking demo with a Bombe

Turing-Welchman machine to do its thing – with original wartime operator present | Continue reading

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Apple hands €14.3bn in back taxes to reluctant Ireland

Funds to be held in escrow as govt appeals EU 'state aid' ruling | Continue reading

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Oz government rushes its anti-crypto legislation into parliament

With an election due in May, clock is ticking | Continue reading

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Researchers break certificate authorities' domain validation

Researchers break certificate authorities' domain validation | Continue reading

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Patch Tuesday heats up with pair of exploited zero-days squashed 58 other vulns

Summertiiiiiime, and the hacking is easy | Continue reading

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Nostalgic social network ‘Timehop’ loses data from 21M users

Probably wishes it could go back in time and run 2FA, cos lack of it sparked the leak | Continue reading

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Dell files with the SEC, looking to go public again

Five-year private ownership period to end in Q4 | Continue reading

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Unbreakable smart lock devastated to discover screwdrivers exist

Tapplock: Once, twice, three times a screwup | Continue reading

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