Boat biz breaches itself: Brittany Ferries 'fesses up to leaks caused by routine website update (2021/11/10) Customers' passport data potentially exposed, says company, promises to carry out password testing
Google loses appeal against $2.7bn EU antitrust fine for distorting competition in price comparison websites (2021/11/10) Was going to buy a spider from a pet shop, then realised I could pick one up on the web. Here all week
As System76 starts work on its own Linux desktop world, GNOME guy opens blog, engages flame mode (2021/11/10) PC and server slinger 'a case study on how not to collaborate with upstream'
Swiss lab's rooftop demo shows sunlight and air can make fuel (2021/11/10) Proof of concept produces tiny volume of hydrocarbons, but makes a big point
Stor-a-File hit by ransomware after crooks target SolarWinds Serv-U FTP software (2021/11/10) New research says it's Clop's favourite attack method du jour
Ofcom announces plan to protect endangered species – the Great British phone box (2021/11/10) BT is getting axe-happy but regulator's scheme could save 5,000 kiosks
Google swats away £3bn Safari Workaround ad-tracking cookie lawsuit in Supreme Court victory (2021/11/10) Campaigners' case had 'no real prospect of success'
Techies tell BCS: More and richer data required if COP26 climate pledges are to be met (2021/11/10) How can you get to net zero without knowing what's generating the nasties?
Keep calm and learn Rust: We'll be seeing a lot more of the language in Linux very soon (2021/11/10) It's another string to your bow
Stacking up: Building a modern data warehouse with Amazon Redshift (2021/11/10) The cloud has opened up large-scale data analytics opportunities
NASA delays crewed Moon landing until 2025, citing technical infeasibility (2021/11/10) The space agency wants you to know they are still committed to the project
It started at Pixar. Now it's the Apple-backed 3D file format viewed as HTML of metaverse (2021/11/10) Nvidia pushes 30-year-old description language for the internet of the future
Samsung reveals buzzword-compliant DRAM ready for 5G, AI, edge, and metaverses (2021/11/10) Smartphone-derived LPDDR5X said to be faster and more miserly than predecessors
Former Broadcom engineer accused of pinching chip tech to share with new Chinese employer (2021/11/10) We're guessing it wasn't Fiber Channel, but it would be weirdly cool if it was
UK Treasury and Bank of England starting to sound serious about 'Britcoin' (2021/11/10) Flags any effort to create central bank digital currency as major national infrastructure project
Satellite of love: Space broadband outfit Viasat acquires rival Inmarsat (2021/11/10) Promises to keep Inmarsat's commitments to build more stuff in Blighty
Turns out there is something everyone may agree on in Congress: Let netizens use mostly algorithm-lite apps (2021/11/10) Dems, Repubs in House, Senate unite for Filter Bubble Transparency Act
Billion-dollar US broadband bonanza awaits Biden's blessing – what you need to know (2021/11/10) Infrastructure bill brings $65bn to freshen up American internet
Microsoft touts Windows 11 SE: A locked-down OS to give Chromebooks a run for their money in schools (2021/11/10) Oh OK, so the kids get a repairable Surface laptop but not us, huh?
Apple says it will no longer punish those daring to repair their iPhone 13 screens (2021/11/09) iFixit welcomes 'tactical achievement' after iGiant offers vague software fix to Face ID block