What could be worse than killing a golden goose? Killing someone else's golden goose
(2021/03/22)
When fixing legacy bugs turns out to be a career-limiting move
Samsung spruiks Galaxy Buds Pro performance as comparable to hearing aids
(2021/03/22)
Not quite, says peer-reviewed journal, but with prices well below rivals the 80 percent of hearing impaired people with no helpful tech will be listening
John Cleese ‘has a bridge to sell you’, suggests $69,346,250.50 price to top Beeple's virtual art record
(2021/03/22)
iPad doodle offered as a ‘cryptic currency’ non-fungible token, natch
City of London Police warn against using ‘open science’ site Sci-Hub
(2021/03/22)
Pirate papers site is best blocked on grounds it threatens university security
OVH writes off another data centre – SBG1 – and reveals new smoking battery incident
(2021/03/22)
Customers concerned over 2017 posts describing power outage, confession to sub-par design
Fire takes out Japanese chip plant, owner Renesas warns of more silicon shortages
(2021/03/22)
Five percent of clean room cooked, hopes to be back in a month
Boffins get first measurements of Jupiter's stratospheric storms that show 'unique beast' dwarfing Earth's issues
(2021/03/20)
Even though its Great Red Spot appears to be shrinking, the storm behind it will probably live on
Microsoft nudges Windows 10 21H1 toward commercial customers
(2021/03/19)
Pre-release code ready for validation and enablement
Staff and students at Victoria University of Wellington learn the most important lesson of all: Keep your files backed up
(2021/03/19)
At last, after a year, my PhD is finally complee- bzzt!
Cherry on top: Dell shoves MX keyboard into its Alienware m15 R4 ultrabook
(2021/03/19)
It's keeping a low profile (ahem), but yes, it's an actual clickety laptop
Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp pause usual data collection with an outage
(2021/03/19)
Social ad biz is working to restore service, for better or worse
Apple's Steve Jobs: Visionary, dreamweaver... and the kind of fellow who might tell a porky or two on his job application
(2021/03/19)
You have less than a week left to bid on the offending document
What could possibly go wrong? Sublet your home broadband to strangers who totally won't commit crimes
(2021/03/19)
Money for nothing but your nicked IP
Cloud builders hoover up 60% of ALL servers sold in 2020 as enterprise bit barns left to sweat
(2021/03/19)
Are we at the tipping point? Does anyone care?
Grotesque soundbyte alert: UK government opens wallet to help rural areas get 'gigafit'
(2021/03/19)
Tough luck if you're in Northern Ireland, Scotland, Wales
Under the C: This week's jobs feature deep-diving software engineers and agile managers
(2021/03/19)
Keep those vacancies coming in and we'll promote them for free
Ministry of Defence tells contractors not to answer certain UK census questions over security fears
(2021/03/19)
But there are legal protections... right?
Tata says hello to £14.5m 1-year contract extension for UK child support system, while DWP figures out how to procure a new one
(2021/03/19)
Deal inked 'without competition' due to COVID, says dept
Being asked to rate fake news may help stop social media users sharing it, study finds
(2021/03/19)
Could slow the spread of misinformation without needing draconian law
The Audacity of it all: Version 3.0 of open-source audio fave boasts new file format, 160+ bug fixes
(2021/03/19)
Major upgrade for sound editor – as long as you don't need FAT32 support
We are each only one drop in a great ocean -- but some of the drops sparkle!