Chime after chime: Apple restores iconic Mac boot sound removed in 2016
(2020/06/24)
Triumphant F#-major to return with upcoming macOS Big Sur
Laws on police facial recognition aren't tough enough, UK data watchdog barrister tells Court of Appeal
(2020/06/24)
Top judge replies: Don't understand what you're on about
TikTok boom: Brits spent a quarter of their waking hours in lockdown online – Ofcom
(2020/06/24)
A quarter? That's pretty weak
Former UK Labour deputy leader wants to know how the NHS's contact-tracing app will ensure user privacy
(2020/06/24)
This is the Apple-Google API one, not the 'world-beating' one
GO on then: Facebook's Oculus to axe its entry-level VR headset
(2020/06/24)
3DoF bad, 6DoF good
Once again, racial biases show up in AI image databases, this time turning Barack Obama white
(2020/06/24)
Researchers used a pretrained off-the-shelf model from Nvidia
Pandemic has a silver lining for Brit automation merchant Blue Prism: Revenue up 70% for first half of fiscal 2020
(2020/06/24)
Makes sense while enterprises wrestle with new ways of working
Things that make you go foom: Destruction derby as NASA and SpaceX test rocket components to failure
(2020/06/24)
Tanks put through their paces
Maze ransomware gang threatens to publish sensitive stolen data after US aerospace biz sensibly refuses to pay
(2020/06/24)
Bungling cybercrooks throw toys out of the pram as negotiations shut down
Skype for Windows 10 and Skype for Desktop duke it out: Only Electron left standing
(2020/06/24)
I just can't quit you, Skype. Oh maybe I can... they've tweaked the close function
Grav wave boffins are unsure if they just spotted the smallest black hole or the biggest neutron star seen yet
(2020/06/24)
Mysterious object's mass has challenged astrophysics models
Eclipse Foundation releases Jakarta EE 9 preview, adopts AdoptOpenJDK
(2020/06/24)
The big release with nothing in it. Thanks Oracle!
Carbon-based vuln hunters will always be better at infosec than AI, insist puny humans
(2020/06/24)
No intelligent pentesting systems were available to comment on this assertion
CSI: Xiaomi. Snappy Redmi Note 9 Pro shows every fingerprint, but at least you get bang for your buck
(2020/06/24)
High-spec £249 blower – but can it play Crysis Call of Duty?
When you bork... through a storm: Liverpool do all they can to take advantage of summer transfer, er, Windows
(2020/06/24)
Bork on, bork on... with hope in your heart.. And you'll never bork alone
Three words you do not want to hear regarding a 'secure browser' called SafePay... Remote. Code. Execution
(2020/06/24)
How Bitdefender's security software was caught napping by ad-block bod
China's internet watchdog freezes 10 too-trashy online video services before they undermine socialism
(2020/06/24)
Scantily-clad presenters and vulgar language 'corrupt the social atmosphere' and 'endanger the healthy growth of young people'
Maybe there is hope for 2020: AI that 'predicts criminality' from faces with '80% accuracy, no bias' gets in the sea
(2020/06/24)
Springer ditches paper from research tome, boffins rail against junk science
Indonesia’s capital city is literally sinking. Google just opened a new cloud region there anyway
(2020/06/24)
Jakarta region is live now. And hopefully high and dry
Apple launches incredible features everyone else had more than a year ago – this time for the 'smart home'
(2020/06/24)
HomeKit still playing catch-up though facial rec and better automation still a step in the right direction
There are twenty-five people left in the world, and twenty-seven of
them are hamburgers.
-- Ed Sanders