Someone's getting a free trip to the US – well, not quite free. Brit bloke extradited to face $2m+ cyber-scam charges
(2020/09/01)
That's certainly one way to get around COVID-19 travel restrictions
Pakistan demands TikTok and YouTube block 'vulgar' content
(2020/09/01)
Calls for more moderation to stop video nasties reaching local eyeballs
Facebook rejects Australia's pay-for-news plan, proposes its own idea: How about no more articles at all, sunshine?
(2020/09/01)
The toys are maintaining a constant horizontal velocity from the pram
What's 2 + 2? Personal info, sniffs Twitter: Anti-doxxing AI goes off the rails, bans tweets with numbers in them
(2020/09/01)
Innocuous images deemed a threat, netizens silenced until twitterings terminated
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it's a 56-year-old satellite burning up in the sky spotted by sharp school kids
(2020/09/01)
NASA's OGO-1 dies a natural death after reentering Earth's atmosphere
Sounds like the black helicopters have come for us. Oh, just another swarm of FAA-approved Amazon delivery drones
(2020/09/01)
Imagine everyone placing 30-minute orders for stuff all day. In fact, let's turn to those who have lived under it
Smash-and-grabbed: Chinese AI academic cuffed by Feds after 'binning hard drive' amid software leak probe
(2020/08/31)
Uni bod accused of destroying evidence by agents investigating possible visa fraud, transfer of 'sensitive' data to Beijing
Critical vuln that lets miscreants hijack computers via Slack? *Sucks in air* We'll give you $1,750 for it
(2020/08/31)
Chat app chaps, Electron security, Microsoft Teams under fire
Cisco warns miscreants are crippling IOS XR network gear over the internet with memory black-holes. No patch yet
(2020/08/31)
Plus: Time to dump that old backdoored ZTE mobile hotspot
While you lounged about all weekend Samsung fired up its biggest-ever chip factory and started cranking out 16Gb LPDDR5 DRAM
(2020/08/31)
Signals imminent automotive RAM cram, but first it’ll focus on premium smartmobes
Microsoft reprieves SHA-1 deprecation in Edge 85 security baseline
(2020/08/31)
Wait! What? Aaah ... legacy systems strike again, but won't get another bite
AI world has gone bananas, it's official. This algorithm will help you optimize your peanut butter and banana sarnies
(2020/08/31)
Plus: Apple's new machine-learning residency program
Funny, that: Handy script for wiping directories is capable of wreaking havoc beyond a miscreant's wildest dreams
(2020/08/31)
Beware the three options of the apocalypse
Forget Fortnite and FIFA: India wants to develop games based on local legends
(2020/08/31)
‘Computer games are a new trend, however most have foreign themes’ says PM as he calls for change
China trolls Trump with tech export rules changes that could imperil TikTok sale
(2020/08/31)
Won’t somebody think of Microsoft and Oracle? Or Huawei, which says it’s too poor to sponsor an Australian football team
Google and Facebook abandon Hong Kong landing of new submarine cable
(2020/08/31)
There be dragons, say US authorities, so first planned US-HK cable darkens its last leg
CenturyLink L3 outage knocks out web giants and 3.5% of all internet traffic
(2020/08/31)
Cloudflare fingers intertwined BGP and Flowspec SNAFUs
Zuck says Facebook made an 'operational mistake' in not taking down US militia page mid-protests. TBH the whole social network is a mistake
(2020/08/29)
So sorry this keeps happening. Best out of three, er, four, er ten?
You Musk be joking: A mind-reading Neuralink chip in a pig's brain? Downloadable memories? Telepathy? Watch and judge for yourself
(2020/08/29)
'The future's going to be weird' says startup's founder Elon
Before you head off for the weekend, you have patched your Pulse Secure VPNs, right? Wouldn't want you to be pwned via a phishing link
(2020/08/28)
Perl clutching time again
... The book is worth attention for only two reasons: (1) it attacks
attempts to expose sham paranormal studies; and (2) it is very well and
plausibly written and so rather harder to dismiss or refute by simple
jeering.
-- Harry Eagar, reviewing "Beyond the Quantum" by Michael Talbot,
The Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. XII No. 2, ppg. 200-201