Updated Facebook has open-sourced encrypted group chat Governments hate encrypted chat tools on social media, so brace for outrage in 3 ... 2 ... 10 Jan 03:01 | 31
Legal WikiLeave? Assange tipped for Ecuadorian eviction Secrets dealer may be nearing end of asylum stay, on humane grounds 10 Jan 04:02 | 119
Analysis Intel, Microsoft confess: Meltdown, Spectre may slow your servers It's getting hard to deny all the new and sluggish benchmarks 10 Jan 05:02 | 43
Security IBM’s complete Meltdown fix won’t land until mid-February POWER CPU patches available now or next week, AIX and i OS fixes are more than a month off 10 Jan 05:58 | 10
Legal Indian data leak looks to have been an inside job 5,000 officials blocked from accessing billion-plus-records Aadhaar systen 10 Jan 06:31 | 19
Security Russia claims it repelled home-grown drone swarm in Syria 13 explosively armed but cobbled-together drones swarmed airbase 10 Jan 07:02 | 85
Security Taiwanese cops give malware-laden USB sticks as prizes for security quiz What was second prize? We think we'd rather have that 10 Jan 07:29 | 17
Legal UK Data Protection Bill tweaked to protect security researchers Re-identification of data will not be a crime, as long as you warn the authorities 10 Jan 08:01 | 18
Science Astroboffins say our Solar System is a dark, violent, cosmic weirdo Exoplanets are neat and uniform. In our 'hood Jupiter and Saturn messed things up 10 Jan 08:29 | 64
Devops Mine all the data, they said. It will be worth your while, they said When instrumentation goes too far 10 Jan 09:06 | 11
Personal Tech Watt? You thought the wireless charging war was over? It ain't even begun No need to Nikola cables, though 10 Jan 10:07 | 43
Interview Max Schrems: The privacy bubble needs to start 'getting sh*t done' Austrian activist on funding his privacy NGO and retiring from the front line 10 Jan 10:33 | 16
Legal Carphone Warehouse cops £400k fine after hack exposed 3 MEEELLION folks’ data ICO: Seriously insecure system allowed unauthorised access to DB 10 Jan 11:29 | 42
Bootnotes Beer hall putz: Regulator slaps northern pub over Nazi-themed ad Don't mention not mentioning the war 10 Jan 11:59 | 131
On-Prem Sacked senior Intel sales head accuses IoT chief of perjury Employment Tribunal hears sex discrimination and wrongful dismissal case 10 Jan 12:46 | 8
On-Prem Apple agrees to pay £136m in back idiot taxes to UK taxman Details of HMRC deal remain behind closed doors 10 Jan 13:26 | 56
Devops Two-day Bitbucket borkage has devs tearing their hair out Storage layer issues slow code access 10 Jan 13:59 | 13
Legal Cabinet reshuffle leaves UK digital policy and GDS rudderless. And now the news... Responsibilities unclear amid leadership shake-up 10 Jan 14:35 | 26
Bootnotes Fancy a fidget? Craze makes debut entry into PornHub's top searches Also: UK viewers like to take a break for Bake Off and Strictly 10 Jan 15:36 | 41
Legal 'Repeal hate crime laws for free speech' petition passes 14k signatures Good luck with that one, internet dwellers 10 Jan 16:14 | 62
On-Prem Tata for now: Marks & Spencer transfers 250 tech jobs to outsourcer This is not just cost-cutting, this is M&S cost-cutting 10 Jan 16:41 | 28
Analysis Cortana. Whatever happened to world domination? The speech recogniser that coulda 10 Jan 17:03 | 69
Storage You think you're all-flash? Market-watcher ranks storage vendors What comes in a box, but doesn’t rhyme with tragic squad plant? 10 Jan 17:35 | 3
Storage WDC is storage stud of CES with voice-activated media streaming The rest? Well... y'know, they store digital information 10 Jan 18:04 | 3
Personal Tech You. Apple. Get in here and explain these iOS slowdowns and batteries – US, French govt reps Difference in opinion over what constitutes an 'update' 10 Jan 19:36 | 45
Personal Tech Swiss cheesed off after Apple store iPhone does Samsung Galaxy Note 7 impersonation Hard to remain neutral on this one 10 Jan 19:57 | 36
Security Leaky credit report biz face massive fines if US senators get their way That Equifax hack would have cost the outfit $1.5bn 10 Jan 20:21 | 29
On-Prem 1 in 5 STEM bros whinge they can't catch a break in tech world they run White men complain they're held back by 'reverse discrimination' 10 Jan 21:57 | 157
Analysis Trump backs push for bumpkin broadband with presidential orders But a big question remains: how fast will it actually be? 10 Jan 22:28 | 22
OSes Stop us if you've heard this one: Apple's password protection in macOS can be thwarted Developers (again) find preferences hole (again) that bypasses login box (again) 10 Jan 23:07 | 45