Icarus moment: Mozilla Thunderbird was saving OpenPGP keys in plaintext after encryption snafu
(2021/05/24)
Cockup has since been patched in latest release
Let us Play: Smartphone brand Honor lets slip it has gained access to Google Mobile Services licences
(2021/05/24)
Suggests sales of former Huawei sub might resurface
Roam if you want to: China’s Zhurong rover begins trundling on Mars
(2021/05/24)
ESA's Rosalind Franklin waiting in the wings as engineers fix the parachutes
More power for your Raspberry Pi: A new PoE+ HAT to sate power-hungry peripherals
(2021/05/24)
CEO Ebon Upton: 1st-gen HAT uses silicon 'that's in short supply' but 'we're very good at pipelining'
Steve Wozniak to take stand: $1m suit claiming Woz stole idea for branded tech boot camp goes to trial
(2021/05/24)
Apple co-founder's camp denies claims
The Home Office will need to overturn a long legacy of failure to achieve ambition of all-digital border by 2025
(2021/05/24)
Who needs precedent when you have Priti Patel and a 'contactless corridor'
10+ users can lead to washout: Data lakes struggle with SQL concurrency, says Gartner
(2021/05/24)
We're working on it, Spark backer Databricks declares
Just what is the poop capacity of an unladen sparrow? We ask because one got into the office and left quite a mess
(2021/05/24)
The unspoken perils of remote working
Microsoft: Purveyors of the finest BORK since the 1990s
(2021/05/24)
That's the BackOffice Resource Kit. What did you think we meant?
Conflicting messaging overshadows NHS Digital's attempts to inform public about patient data slurp
(2021/05/24)
Which opt-out is the right opt-out? Are they selling data or not?
Apple is happy to diss the desktop – it knows who's got the most to lose
(2021/05/24)
Also: The basic utility of the general purpose OS cannot be sanitised into total safety. Nor should it
Virgin Galactic goes where it's gone twice before, for the first time in two years
(2021/05/24)
First launch from New Mexico facility goes off without a hitch, ticks regulatory boxes and even does some science
Big red buttons and very bad language: A primer for life in the IT world
(2021/05/24)
Guess what I learned at school today, Mummy!
Sony 'Workman', anyone? Consumer giant teams with Kawasaki on teleoperated ‘bots
(2021/05/24)
Japan’s ageing population and COVID inspire JV to create remote work platform biz
Amazon continues its ban on allowing police to use its facial-recognition software
(2021/05/24)
Plus: DeepMind has been trying to gain more independence from Google, and how AI can help cosmologists
Air India admits to data breach impacting 4.5m customers, sat on the news for five weeks
(2021/05/24)
While my SITA gently leaks, customers were unaware their credit card numbers had flown away
Beijing bashes Bing and lashes LinkedIn over improper data collection and storage
(2021/05/24)
Microsoft properties and 103 other inappropriate apps - including TikTok and Baidu - given 15 days to rectify their wicked ways
Indonesia’s national health insurance scheme leaks at least a million citizens' records
(2021/05/24)
Tech Ministry trying to figure out just how much personal info has made it onto notorious RaidForums data-mart
China announces ‘crackdown’ on Bitcoin mining and trading
(2021/05/24)
Cryptos mentioned on lists of risks to financial system to be avoided
This week, Apple CEO Tim Cook faced surprisingly tough questioning from judge
(2021/05/22)
iLeader defends iGiant's app oversight to keep people safe from 'toxic mess'
I do not know myself and God forbid that I should.
-- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe