Slack Connect: Hipster chat platform to let different orgs play in the same channel – only for paying users, mind
(2020/06/25)
Teams rival hopes to consign cross-business email ping-pong to history
There are DDoS attacks, then there's this 809 million packet-per-second tsunami Akamai says it just caught
(2020/06/25)
Bank on the receiving end of massive 418Gbps traffic barrage
GitHub redesign goes mobile-friendly – to chagrin of devs who shockingly do a lot of work on proper computers
(2020/06/25)
Code shack is a great place for others to collaborate, but not so strong at collaboration for itself
You'd think lockdown would be heaven for us layabouts – but half the UK has actually started 'exercising more'
(2020/06/25)
UCL study informs app that documents daily activities during quarantine
One year ago, Apple promised breakthrough features to help iPhone, iPad, Mac owners with disabilities. It failed them
(2020/06/25)
Sure, you can make calls, for instance, but you can't end them
SoftBank founder Masayoshi Son stops shining on Alibaba's board
(2020/06/25)
'My work here is done, but my day job just got complicated' is the gist of it
Fasten your seat belts: Brave Reg hack spends a week eating airline food grounded by coronavirus crash
(2020/06/25)
Mmmm... microwaved protein chunks in spiced slurry – with rating by top analyst
CSI: Amazon.com coming soon to a screen near you
(2020/06/25)
'Counterfeit Stuff Investigation' team staffed by former federal prosecutors to go after dodgy merchants and makers
Sorry to drone on and on but have you heard of Ingenuity? NASA's camera-copter is ready to head off to Mars
(2020/06/25)
From the belly of Perseverance comes a revolution in Red Planet exploration
Taiwan to stay ahead of China as top chip manufacturing titan
(2020/06/25)
Make America Bake Again movement not going well, Europe also increasingly out of the picture
Containers to capture 15% of all enterprise apps across 75% of business by 2024
(2020/06/25)
But the real money is in services and IaaS, not software, says Gartner’s first lash at container futures
Wobbly Wednesday whacks IBM as 30 cloud services take unplanned naps
(2020/06/25)
All sorts of services all over the world but IBM says only its console got cross
Section 230 authors despair of Trump, Barr, Biden, US Congress’ aggressive ignorance of critical tech law
(2020/06/25)
Look, we wrote it! You're all wrong!
California Attorney General asks judge to force Lyft and Uber to classify drivers as employees – or else
(2020/06/25)
Request for injunction raises pressure on cash-burning ride hailing apps
Detroit cops cuffed, threw a dad misidentified by facial recognition in jail. Now the ACLU's demanding action
(2020/06/24)
Another machine-learning model that can't tell people of color apart? Shocker
After huffing and puffing for years, US senators unveil law to blow the encryption house down with police backdoors
(2020/06/24)
Lawmakers will attempt to bend the laws of mathematics to their will
Internet Society, remember your embarrassing .org flub? The actual internet society would like to talk about it
(2020/06/24)
Non-profits call for independent probe into disastrous effort to sell TLD registry
Ransomware crims to sell off 'scandalous' files swiped from Mariah Carey, Nicki Minaj, Puff Daddy's legal eagles
(2020/06/24)
$600k starting bid, say public extortionists, or $42m to keep schtum
Apple's new WidgetKit: Windows Phone Live Tiles done right?
(2020/06/24)
Separating widgets from App Icons is how Apple will avoid Microsoft's mistake
Maybe you can teach an old dog new tricks: Information Builders declares itself 'the new ibi', touts AI data tools
(2020/06/24)
Rebrand accompanies tech launches as CEO hits 18 months in job
lawsuit, n.:
A machine which you go into as a pig and come out as a sausage.
-- Ambrose Bierce