No wonder Marvin the robot was miserable: AI will make the rich richer – and the poor poorer I think you ought to know why I’m feeling very depressed AI + ML11 Jan 2018 | 71
Ohio coder accused of infecting Macs, PCs with webcam, browser spyware for 13 years Alleged Fruitfly creator faces decades in prison if guilty Security11 Jan 2018 | 16
Juniper scores dubious honour of owning CVE-2018-0001 Ten bug-berries fall from the bush, including the return of 2003's Etherleak Networks11 Jan 2018 | 1
GPU teleportation: 2018’s first virtual pissing match Citrix and VMware are both close to allowing live migration of NVIDIA-powered VMs Virtualization11 Jan 2018 |
Apple hands Chinese iCloud to Guizhou-Cloud Big Data Industry Doing business in China means keeping everything in Chinese hands behind the great firewall Legal11 Jan 2018 | 6
Up, up and a-weigh! Boeing flies cargo drone with 225kg payload No word on demo bird's range or speed, but the carrying capacity looks decent Science11 Jan 2018 | 49
Dark matter on the desktop: Dark Energy Survey publishes data We live in a cannibal: data dump shows Milky Way has eaten smaller galaxies Science11 Jan 2018 | 5
Audio tweaked just 0.1% to fool speech recognition engines Digital dog whistles: AI hears signals humans can't comprehend AI + ML11 Jan 2018 | 31
Cryptocurrencies to end in tears, says investor wizard Warren Buffett Old man shouts at a bubble he admits he does not understand Science11 Jan 2018 | 76
Boffins closer to solving what causes weird radio bursts from space Could it be... no way, seriously? Aliens? It's probably not aliens Science11 Jan 2018 | 33
Cisco can now sniff out malware inside encrypted traffic This is Switchzilla’s kit-plus-cloud plan in action Networks11 Jan 2018 | 42
Transport pundit Christian Wolmar on why the driverless car is on a 'road to nowhere' Interview A multi-billion dollar hype built on gullibility, says railway man Science11 Jan 2018 | 236
UK.gov puts Suffolk 7-year-old's submarine design into production 'It was a bit tricky,' admits DSTL worker Bootnotes11 Jan 2018 | 56
Heart of darkness: Inside the Osówka underground city That time the Nazis hollowed out a mountain Bootnotes11 Jan 2018 | 69
Black & Blue: IBM hires Bain to cut costs, up productivity Exclusive The result? One-third of GTS to be 'redeployed' or not replaced when they leave On-Prem11 Jan 2018 | 57
Think tank: Never mind WannaCry, update NHS IT systems for RoboDoc Group says UK healthcare isn't benefitting from advances in AI AI + ML11 Jan 2018 | 14
Shared services plan: UK.gov hitches wagon to cloudy Oracle offering What – no bonkers projected cost savings? You disappoint us, UK.gov SaaS11 Jan 2018 | 6
Everything running smoothly at the plant? *Whips out mobile phone* Wait. Nooo... SCADA mobile app security is getting worse Security11 Jan 2018 | 29
Uncle Sam's treatment of Huawei is world-class hypocrisy – consumers will pay the price Comment Wait. Did you say 'insecure chips'? Personal Tech11 Jan 2018 | 51
UK watchdog dishes out fines totaling £600k to four spam-spewers ICO fought dodgy contracts, buck-passing, and less than concrete proof Legal11 Jan 2018 | 21
Heathrow Airport's local council prohibits drone flights from open spaces If it's owned by Hillingdon, you can't do that Science11 Jan 2018 | 43
Worst-case Brexit could kill 92,000 science, tech jobs across UK – report No-deal predicted to lop £46.8bn off Blighty investment Legal11 Jan 2018 | 197
Butcher breaks out of own freezer using black pudding Beef and lamb prove to be inferior escape tools Bootnotes11 Jan 2018 | 93
What do we want? Consensual fun times. How do we get it? Via an app with blockchain... Comment Actually no, we don't want an app for that, techbros Science11 Jan 2018 | 65
US House reps green-light Fourth Amendment busting spy program As America's very stable genius weighs in with his one cent Legal11 Jan 2018 | 35
Intel top brass smacked with sueball for keeping schtum about chip flaws CEO, CFO under fire as lawsuits mount up On-Prem11 Jan 2018 | 19
Wondering where your JavaScript libs went? Spam-detection snafu exiled npm packages Postmortem sheds light on brief dependency hell Software11 Jan 2018 | 16
Q: How do you get YouTube to stop funneling ads to your vids? A: Make jokes next to a dead body Google-owned biz cancels Logan's run Personal Tech11 Jan 2018 | 46
Of course Uber allegedly had a tool to remotely destroy evidence Early contender emerges for 'least surprising story of 2018' Personal Tech11 Jan 2018 | 35
Microsoft finally injects end-to-end chat crypto into Skype – ish... If you sign up to be a tester Personal Tech11 Jan 2018 | 20