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The UK needs to increase the number of charging points across the country tenfold if it is to support an electric vehicle (EV) economy starting with the ban on new petrol and diesel cars from 2030.…
Posted on 28 July 2021 | 10:01 am
Review IRC is crusty, ancient, and still far and away the best group chat system currently available. IRC is the best chat system precisely because it is a system. It is a protocol, not just an app, and even better it is a loosely federated protocol.…
Posted on 28 July 2021 | 9:15 am
Column During the first and second waves of the pandemic, a certain cohort of my more paranoid friends grew increasingly alarmed at a thought balloon floated by the World Economic Forum – the billionaires' club that used to meet annually in Davos.…
Posted on 28 July 2021 | 8:30 am
Parliamentary criticism of the National Cyber Security Centre's "image over cost" London HQ is being shrugged off by the government because of the GCHQ offshoot's successful response to the WannaCry ransomware outbreak.…
Posted on 28 July 2021 | 7:30 am
Google has revealed that its bug bounty program – which it styles a "Vulnerability Reward Program" – has paid out for 11,055 bugs found in its services since 2010.…
Posted on 28 July 2021 | 6:58 am
Former couch-surfing world record contender Julian Assange has had his Ecuadorian citizenship revoked.…
Posted on 28 July 2021 | 6:29 am
United States President Joe Biden has shared his view that a "real shooting war" could be sparked by a severe cyber attack.…
Posted on 28 July 2021 | 4:58 am
IBM has made it official: a major update to its z/OS operating system for mainframes will debut in September.…
Posted on 28 July 2021 | 3:28 am
AMD reported strong financial figures on Tuesday, showing continued demand for its Ryzen CPUs and GPUs and Epyc server processors during the pandemic and its various stay-at-home rules.…
Posted on 28 July 2021 | 2:32 am
Chinese web giant Tencent has suspended new signups to its WeChat messaging service.…
Posted on 28 July 2021 | 1:30 am
The former global security manager for eBay was sentenced on Tuesday to 18 months in prison and was ordered to pay a $15,000 fine for his role in the cyber-stalking and harassment of a Massachusetts couple who published a newsletter critical of the internet yard sale.…
Posted on 28 July 2021 | 12:26 am
GitHub has pledged $1m to, among other things, provide developers facing copyright takedown claims with free legal advice from a top US university, it announced on Tuesday.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 11:03 pm
Microsoft's $46.2bn in revenue for its fourth quarter of 2021, and profits rising 47 per cent to $16.5bn, shows the continued strength in its cloud business, investors were told on Tuesday.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 10:16 pm
Dutch fishing supply specialist Raven Hengelsport left details of around 246,000 customers visible to anyone on a misconfigured Microsoft Azure cloud server for months.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 8:49 pm
The Tech Support Scams YouTube channel has been erased from existence in a blaze of irony as host and creator Jim Browning fell victim to a tech support scam that convinced him to secure his account – by deleting it.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 7:44 pm
Before Facebook can "bring the metaverse to life," it will first have to deal with customers dismantling their Oculus Quest 2 VR headsets for repairs because their faces have been irritated.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 7:05 pm
The British government wants to make Amazon, Google, and other digital service providers report cybersecurity breaches to the Information Commissioner, according to newly published plans.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 6:15 pm
After an Apple engineer called an 11th-hour halt to the release, Cassandra 4.0 has finally launched flaunting newfound stability, speed and consistency, according to the open-source project's users and contributors.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 5:30 pm
Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen has reminded us of the time when Twitter misdetected the overexcited developer emissions from the 2011 Build conference as a denial-of-service attack and hit the mute button.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 4:45 pm
Microsoft has a new app store coming to both Windows 10 and 11, but some applications will use their own update mechanisms, raising security and user experience concerns.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 4:00 pm
UK telecommunications regulator Ofcom has kicked off a consultation process regarding licence applications for non-geostationary satellite orbit (NGSO) systems such as Starlink and OneWeb.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 3:15 pm
Memory maker SK Hynix has boasted of its best sales quarter since prior to the pandemic, and confirmed the start of volume production on its extreme ultraviolet (EUV) product line.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 2:30 pm
Hundreds of thousands of small businesses are having trouble raising invoices and sorting out their monthly payroll following an outage at accounting software-as-a-service outfit Xero.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 1:54 pm
The UK's National Museum of Computing (TNMOC) is running a competition aimed at recreating the bleeps, whistles, and flatulent squawks of video game music from years gone by.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 1:00 pm
Shopify has forked out $50,000 (£36,150) in a bug bounty payment to computer science student Augusto Zanellato following the discovery of a publicly available access token which gave world+dog read-and-write access to the company's source code repositories.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 12:14 pm
A Samsung rep has confirmed the Korean giant won't deliver a new Note phablet this year, but has disclosed a pair of new folding phones and the company's first S Pen for foldables, which will debut in August.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 11:29 am
North Wales Police is tendering for new workplace, data centre, and network support contracts in deals potentially worth up to £40m after a five-year agreement with CGI offered opaque results.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 10:45 am
Bork!Bork!Bork! "Steam powered" is occasionally used in an unkind fashion to describe computer hardware past its best. Today's entry in the bork archives takes the phrase to a whole other place.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 10:01 am
Feature It was the middle of harvest, and Sarah Rachor wasn't happy. Rachor, who runs a farm with her father in Sidney, Montana, was baling hay in the field when the tractor she was using shut down without warning. The culprit was a sensor that detected the tractor was overheating. In reality, it wasn't.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 9:15 am
As Microsoft doubles down on efforts to kill Skype persuade users to chat with Teams, former Skype developer Jaan Tallinn has dropped some cash into the latest funding round for open-source IM client Element.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 8:30 am
Google has acknowledged that it makes life hard for users when killing off little-loved products, by announcing an API policy that will keep its cloudy interfaces alive for as long as customers are using them.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 8:01 am
Promo Whether it’s hunting for threats, tracking down security breaches, or gathering evidence, intuition helps though a thorough grounding in the latest techniques and tools for the platform in question is essential.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 7:28 am
Intel has announced that Amazon Web Services has become the first customer for its foundry services packaging solutions, and that Qualcomm has become a partner of sorts in a silicon manufacturing process said to represent a step change beyond current Intel tech.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 6:53 am
Plumes of water vapor on Ganymede have been spotted for the first time in the atmosphere of Ganymede, Jupiter’s largest moon.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 6:20 am
The International Space Station is getting mobile robot “space avatars” controllable by the public from Earth, courtesy of a joint project between the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) and ANA Holdings’ telepresence start-up avatarin.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 5:19 am
It sounds like a "dog ate my homework" excuse for the cloud age, but Euro-cloud Scaleway says one of its solid-state disks was stolen from a truck, turned up in the hands of a YouTuber, and has now made its way back home.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 3:58 am
The International Monetary Fund has called on nations to consider using blockchain tech to improve financial services, but warned that dabbling with private cryptocurrencies is vastly risky.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 2:44 am
Apple on Monday patched a zero-day vulnerability in its iOS, iPadOS, and macOS operating systems, only a week after issuing a set of OS updates addressing about three dozen other flaws.…
Posted on 27 July 2021 | 12:53 am
Blue Origins supremo Jeff Bezos has offered NASA a $2bn discount to keep his dream alive of transporting the next American man and first woman to the Moon's surface.…
Posted on 26 July 2021 | 11:55 pm
Dell is no longer shipping energy-hungry gaming PCs to certain states in America because they demand more energy than local standards allow.…
Posted on 26 July 2021 | 9:35 pm
Microsoft completed a vulnerability hat-trick this month as yet another security weakness was uncovered in its operating systems. And this one doesn't even need authentication to work its magic.…
Posted on 26 July 2021 | 8:31 pm
Google has updated the schedule for its introduction of "Privacy Sandbox" browser technology and the phasing out of third-party cookies.…
Posted on 26 July 2021 | 4:52 pm
Promo The laws of data are pretty universal. Every organisation needs advanced security, performance, and management features that improve over time.…
Posted on 26 July 2021 | 4:45 pm
A broadband customer from Leatherhead, Surrey, who was told to "speak to your MP" after his ISP failed to resolve repeated line disconnections has now been informed he can leave his contract without penalty after Openreach failed to resolve the problem.…
Posted on 26 July 2021 | 3:10 pm
Newly released data suggests South Korea is having a silicon and instant noodle renaissance, both thanks to COVID-19.…
Posted on 26 July 2021 | 2:25 pm
British software licence reseller ValueLicensing has a trial date for the first part of a £270m legal showdown against Microsoft after accusing the US behemoth of breaking UK and EU competition laws.…
Posted on 26 July 2021 | 1:40 pm
The Debian Project has set a release date of 14 August for Debian 11, also known as Bullseye.…
Posted on 26 July 2021 | 12:55 pm
In brief Deepmind and the European Bioinformatics Institute released a database of more than 350,000 3D protein structures predicted by the biz's AI model AlphaFold.…
Posted on 26 July 2021 | 12:10 pm
Printer ink continues to rank as one of the most expensive liquids around with a litre of the home office essential costing the same as a very high-end bottle of bubbly or an oak-aged Cognac.…
Posted on 26 July 2021 | 11:24 am
BORK!BORK!BORK! Windows XP is coming up to a 20th birthday yet it is heartening to see that the OS can still be guaranteed to take its place as one of the three horsemen of the borkpocalypse.…
Posted on 26 July 2021 | 10:46 am