Theranos blood-test machine demos for VIPs rigged to hide any failures, court told (2021/10/21) Error messages effectively piped to /dev/null, it is alleged
Chip shortage forces temporary Raspberry Pi 4 price rise for the first time (2021/10/21) Ten-buck increase for 2GB model 'not here to stay' says Upton
Uncle Sam to clip wings of Pegasus-like spyware – sorry, 'intrusion software' – with proposed export controls (2021/10/21) Surveillance tech faces trade limits as America syncs policy with treaty obligations
Global IT spending to hit $4.5 trillion in 2022, says Gartner (2021/10/20) The future's bright, and expensive
Memory maker Micron moots $150bn mega manufacturing moneybag (2021/10/20) AI and 5G to fuel demand for new plants and R&D
China to allow overseas investment in VPNs but Beijing keeps control of the generally discouraged tech (2021/10/20) Foreign ownership capped at 50%
We don’t want to be critical, but humans alone aren’t enough to protect your ICS (2021/10/20) If you want to know the solution, join this Regcast
Microsoft unveils Android apps for Windows 11 (for US users only) (2021/10/20) Windows Insiders get their hands on the Windows Subsystem for Android
Software Freedom Conservancy sues TV maker Vizio for GPL infringement (2021/10/20) Companies using GPL software should meet their obligations, lawsuit says
DRAM, it stacks up: SK hynix rolls out 819GB/s HBM3 tech (2021/10/20) Kit using the chips to appear next year at the earliest
UK's ARIA innovation body 'hasn't even begun to happen' says former research lead (2021/10/20) DARPA imitator not doing much after two years of Johnson government
Facebook fined £50m in UK for 'conscious' refusal to report info and 'deliberate failure to comply' during Giphy acquisition probe (2021/10/20) That rebrand can't come soon enough
Not just deprecated, but deleted: Google finally strips File Transfer Protocol code from Chrome browser (2021/10/20) A death by a thousand cuts
Brave's homegrown search claims to protect your privacy but there's a long way to go if it's to challenge the big G (2021/10/20) Ad-free now but not forever
NHS Digital exposes hundreds of email addresses after BCC blunder copies in entire invite list to 'Let's talk cyber' event (2021/10/20) It's like rai-iiiiiin on your wedding day
Hitting underground pipes and cables costs the UK £2.4bn a year. We need a data platform for that, says government (2021/10/20) Atkins wins £23m deal to build National Underground Asset Register
Lunar rocks brought to Earth by China's Chang'e 5 show Moon's volcanoes were recently* active (2021/10/20) * Just a couple of billion years
Centre for Computing History apologises to customers for 'embarrassing' breach (2021/10/20) Website patched following phishing scam, no financial data exposed
Ancient with a dash of modern: We joined the Royal Navy to find there's little new in naval navigation (2021/10/20) Following the Fleet Navigating Officers' course
Darmstadt, we have a problem – ESA reveals its INTEGRAL space telescope was three hours from likely death (2021/10/20) Gamma ray-spotting 'scope was spinning uncontrollably and unable to make 'leccy until dramatic rescue