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All your base are belong to us: Strava exercise app maps military sites, reveals where spies jog

Fitness fans ignored off-by-default privacy settings, emit sensitive personal info

29 Jan 00:36 | 86

Microsoft works weekends to kill Intel's shoddy Spectre patch

Out-of-band patch may assuage user anger over Intel crudware, closed-club disclosure process

29 Jan 01:18 | 49

You publish 20,000 clean patches, but one goes wrong and you're a PC-crippler forever

Malwarebytes pushed a patch, then a patch for the patch

29 Jan 03:04 | 32

Deep sigh... Servers get teaser trailers now

Dell’s soft-spruiking ‘PowerEdge MX’ – sounds like composable successor to modular FX series

29 Jan 03:59 | 4

Zombie … in SPAAACE: Amateur gets chatty with 'dead' satellite

NASA reckons it might even be able to operate 'IMAGE', thought dead since 2005

29 Jan 05:01 | 39

Apple whispers farewell to macOS Server

All the bits that make it a server are being deprecated

29 Jan 05:58 | 71

Sysadmin crashed computer recording data from active space probe

‘I’m the reason we missed seeing aliens’, jokes nervous reader

29 Jan 06:54 | 119

Firefox to emit ‘occasional sponsored story’ in ads test

Privacy preserved, promise, because Mozilla wants to reinvent web ads

29 Jan 08:02 | 103

PC not dead, Apple single-handedly propping up mobe market, says Gartner

Yes, folks, it's crystal ball time again

29 Jan 09:10 | 80

Qumulo needed EMEA crew, and an ex-Isilon bunch worked out nicely

HPE reselling deal using Apollo hardware extended to Europe

29 Jan 09:42 | 1

You can't ignore Spectre. Look, it's pressing its nose against your screen

Strap yourself in, this ride won't be over for a long time yet

29 Jan 10:02 | 125

It knows where the gravel pits and power lines are. So, Ordnance Survey, where should UK's driverless cars go?

Mapmaker, mapmaker, make me a map…

29 Jan 10:31 | 29

Dodgy parking firms to be denied access to Brit driver database

UK.gov putting the brakes on rogue slurping for profit

29 Jan 11:04 | 117

Well done, UK.gov. You hit superfast broadband target (by handing almost the entire project to BT)

95% of UK penetrated = feat of engineering, hoots Openreach

29 Jan 12:10 | 118

Thar she blows: Strava heat map shows folk on shipwreck packed with 1,500 tonnes of bombs

It could literally blast a hole in a major shipping route

29 Jan 12:52 | 145

DRAM, it's good to be in storage... for some

It's been a week, hasn't it, storage fans?

29 Jan 13:29 | 2

Blockchain bros' London powwow: Regulation, education, oversaturation

Investors, firms grapple with the bubble

29 Jan 14:02 | 10

UK infrastructure firms to face £17m fine if their cybersecurity sucks

Oh boy, measures will also cover IT outages

29 Jan 15:07 | 25

'Bitcoin heist' shock: Cops seek 4 for aggravated burglary in Midsomer Murders town

Fintech workers reportedly targeted

29 Jan 15:46 | 26

UK's iconic Jodrell Bank Observatory nominated as World Heritage Site

UNESCO to decide next year

29 Jan 16:31 | 46

What do you press when flaws in Bluetooth panic buttons are exposed?

Researcher able to DoS and track personal protection kit

29 Jan 16:59 | 18

You can blame taxes for a profit nosedive, but Seagate... the taxman didn't flatten your sales

Cue dramatic music as activist investor joins board

29 Jan 18:04 | 1

Dell sell-off saga gets weird: Subsidiary VMware may buy parent in 'reverse merger'

Buy-out would let Big Mike swerve IPO headaches

29 Jan 19:13 | 12

Intel alerted Chinese cloud giants 'before US govt' about CPU bugs

'We certainly would have liked to have been notified of this' says Homeland Security

29 Jan 19:38 | 40

Trump White House mulls nationalizing 5G... an idea going down like 'a balloon made out of a Ford Pinto'

Make America Socialist Again?

29 Jan 20:43 | 45

Fella faked Cisco, Microsoft gear death – then sold replacement kit for millions, say Feds

'Phony photos', legit serial numbers land chap in court

29 Jan 21:16 | 35

Can't login to Skype? You're not alone. Chat app's been a bit crap for five days now

Something something two-factor authentication – Microsoft

29 Jan 21:46 | 28

US Pentagon scrambles after Strava base leaks. Here's a summary of the new rules: 'Secure that s***, Hudson!'

What a Strava-palava

29 Jan 22:33 | 34

Timeout everyone. Y'all know that Musk's $500 'flamethrower' is literally a Boring blowtorch?

A flame shower not a grower

29 Jan 23:32 | 64

HP coughs up $6.5m to make dodgy laptop display lawsuit go away

Pavillion notebook screen died back in 2003? There might be a small check for you

29 Jan 23:59 | 15

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