ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

Uber allowed to continue operating in English capital after winning appeal against Transport for London

(2020/09/28)

Length of operator's licence or related conditions yet to be determined

Feds warn foreign disinformation will be spamming US voters well after the November election to sow discord and doubt

(2020/09/28)

Also, Brazilian teen spots odd Instagram bug and nets $25K

Too many staff have privileged work accounts for no good reason, reckon IT bods

(2020/09/28)

Ever seen a Trello board you thought you shouldn't? If you're in UK or US, you're not alone

Not the Southern Rail of the stars: Rocket Lab plans frequent, regular trips to Venus from 2023

(2020/09/28)

Peter Beck and 300 seconds of really rather interesting data

Stop us if you've heard this one before: Crypto exchange cracked, Bitcoin burgled

(2020/09/28)

KuCoin says it will cover losses as over $130m of tokens enter crypto limbo

Inflated figures and customers who were never there. Just another data migration then

(2020/09/28)

Well, this is awkward

Windows to become emulation layer atop Linux kernel, predicts Eric Raymond

(2020/09/28)

Happening in plain sight with Proton, WSL and Edge-for-Linux, says open source advocate

Are injection flaws the Bohemian Rhapsody of cybersecurity?

(2020/09/28)

Get ready for this year’s OWASP Top 10 with us and F5

Putin to Trump: Let's collude to stop election hacking

(2020/09/28)

Russia wants no-hack pact, CERTs and nuclear agencies to conduct regular chit-chats

TikTok wins reprieve as judge rules it can stay in American iOS, Android app stores for now

(2020/09/28)

Justice won't say why he granted injunction, orders Uncle Sam and vid app maker to keep talking

US finds new Huawei to hurt China with new sanctions at top chip maker SMIC

(2020/09/28)

Alleges silicon has military applications so puts more products on 'get a license before exporting' lists

Exercise-tracking app Strava to give away data sweated out after four billion runs, rides and rambles

(2020/09/28)

Anonymous trove offered to help urban planners cope with expected post-plague bike boom

Bad boys bad boys, what you gonna do? Los Angeles Police Department found fibbing about facial recognition use

(2020/09/27)

Plus: CIA launches new research lab for AI experts, and more

FYI: Mind how you go. We're more or less oblivious to 75% of junk in geosynchronous orbits around Earth

(2020/09/27)

What a load of rubbish

First they came for chess, then Go... and now, oh for crying out loud, AI systems can beat us at curling

(2020/09/26)

Robot named Curly bends it like Beckham in 'chess on ice' smackdown

Alphabet promises to no longer bung tens of millions of dollars to alleged sex pest execs who quit mid-probe

(2020/09/26)

New rules brought in after search biz settles shareholder lawsuit

Error-bnb: Techies scramble to fix Airbnb website bug that let strangers read each others' account messages

(2020/09/26)

One thing to let people rent your home, quite another to let them access your private comms

IT guy whose job was to stop ex-staff running amok on the network is jailed for running amok on the network

(2020/09/25)

After he was demoted and fired, idiot logged into office PC from home and wiped storage systems

Not Particularly Mortifying: IEEE eggheads probe npm registry, say JavaScript libs not as insecure as feared

(2020/09/25)

Oh sure, there are plenty of flaws in those packages though not even one in ten are anything to worry about

Microsoft claims to love open source – this alleged leak of Windows XP code is probably not what it had in mind, tho

(2020/09/25)

Software giant is 'investigating', infosec gurus reckon it looks legit

The only difference between a rut and a grave is their dimensions.