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• Security 20 Jun 08:55

  Apple's hotspot security is easily broken

  Germans have ways of making it talk
• Security 20 Jun 08:52

  Russia, US set up cyber hotline

  This is not a repeat from the cold war
• Science 20 Jun 08:50

  Tinfoil hat wearers get matching glasses

  How to make a spectacle of yourself
• Software 20 Jun 08:49

  Amdahl's law needs to be taken seriously

  It is not funny
• Business 20 Jun 08:47

  Amazon vows to fight PRISM

  Hey, Obama, get off of my cloud
• Security 19 Jun 10:05

  NSA hopes US people can't add up

  CommentHow to disguise failure as success
• Security 19 Jun 10:00

  Germans come up with novel ebook DRM

  Changing the world
• Mobile 19 Jun 09:57

  Intel bags a smartwatch

  To match the fashion bags
• Software 19 Jun 09:53

  Adobe saved by subscriptions

  Better than expected profits
• Business 19 Jun 09:50

  Shine goes off Wintel tablets

  Acer warns of flat market
• Science 18 Jun 10:52

  Researchers use smartphone to create indoor map

  Loads of applications
• Chips 18 Jun 10:51

  Nvidia builds huge neural network

  Talk about doozy's Stanford's got 'em
• Security 18 Jun 09:51

  Ancient SAP software poisons networks

  Security holes
• Software 18 Jun 09:46

  Google wants VP9 to be the default

  All roads lead to Chrome
• Security 18 Jun 09:44

  Assange ready to stay in Embassy for five years

  If they change the sheets
• Security 17 Jun 09:14

  British government rewards bad parents

  CommentCameron kills Internet freedom to protect them
• Security 17 Jun 09:11

  Brits spied on G20 members

  The hosts with the most
• Mobile 17 Jun 09:09

  Analysts fell for Samsung spin

  Optimistic over smartphone future
• Business 17 Jun 09:06

  Yahoo to exterminate old emails

  What could possibly go wrong?
• Science 17 Jun 09:05

  Tweet enters the English language

  Tweets for my tweet, sugar for my honey
• Software 14 Jun 15:58

  Microsoft Orifice arrives on the iPhone

  We thought they were not going to do that
• Software 14 Jun 15:57

  EA scrambles Scrabble

  Nothing goes right for this outfit
• Science 14 Jun 15:09

  Gates wants to solve chicken and egg question

  You must be yoking
• Security 14 Jun 09:32

  US hacks as aggressively as China

  Whistleblower makes more friends
• Security 14 Jun 09:30

  Iranians get phished before election

  Normally we get phished after one
• Security 14 Jun 09:29

  I warned you all about PRISM

  ... in 2006
• Chips 14 Jun 09:26

  Intel's Broadwell is delayed

  Intel roadmap leaked
• Software 14 Jun 09:24

  Nokia kills Symbian

  Axe falls as the sun gets hot
• Business 14 Jun 09:23

  UK messed up on cloud perceptions

  Users don't see security problems
• Science 13 Jun 09:44

  New memory stores light

  Faster than Flash
• Security 13 Jun 09:06

  Big Tech fights off bad PRISM press

  Let us talk about it
• Business 13 Jun 08:30

  Social networking is for narcissists

  It is all about me
• Mobile 13 Jun 08:20

  Android users never sleep

  Apple users love adverts
• Software 12 Jun 09:32

  Google seals dominance of map market

  Buys Waze so the government knows where you are
• Software 12 Jun 08:50

  SAP wins complicated patent war

  I'm, too abstract for this Patent
• Science 12 Jun 08:48

  Video gamers have quicker brains

  Can make decisions faster
• Mobile 12 Jun 08:47

  Apple adopts native PCIe flash storage

  Promising new tech probably doomed
• Business 12 Jun 08:44

  Vodafone plans invasion of German cable

  Prepared to pay $13.27 billion
• Security 11 Jun 09:46

  People love PRISM

  Give Big Brother the thumbs up
• Science 11 Jun 09:35

  Cisco inspired by The Big Bang Theory

  Builds Shelbot Virtual Presence
• Security 11 Jun 09:29

  Google's Badnews is not so bad after all

  Android Malware beaten up
• Mobile 11 Jun 09:27

  Apple fanboys will have to praise Microsoft's Bing

  It is all in the contract
• Business 11 Jun 09:24

  Battle of the sexes overpowers press conference

  Live onstage at E3
• Security 10 Jun 17:00

  Ordinary people have nothing to fear from Prism

  CommentJust don't do anything extraordinary says Hague
• Software 10 Jun 09:50

  Torvalds furious at latest Linux kernel

  Threatens to swear and shout
• Business 10 Jun 09:45

  Apple lawyer turned patent traitor

  FlatWorld case gets messy
• Security 10 Jun 08:50

  Israel claims Iranian, Palestinian cyber attacks

  Now we can react to something improvable
• Security 10 Jun 08:47

  Ex-CIA IT contractor outs himself

  Exposed PRISM for a better world
• Security 07 Jun 11:15

  Big IT denies NSA spies on its servers

  Microsoft, Google, Apple refute direct access
• Security 07 Jun 11:06

  UK joins in on Huawei stoning

  US sneezes paranoia and UK gets a cold
• Software 07 Jun 10:52

  Apple's antics forced Amazon to raise ebook prices

  Price of ebooks is Jobs' fault
• Business 07 Jun 10:29

  Lenovo welcomed in the US

  We love Chinese companies really
• Business 07 Jun 10:27

  Amazon re-releases its big Kindle

  DX gets second life
• Chips 06 Jun 12:31

  Intel plans Pakistan tablet rollout

  But the web's not up to scratch
• Security 06 Jun 11:08

  Court let NSA spy on Verizon customers

  Big Brother is alive and well
• Security 06 Jun 10:59

  IT incompetence close to defeating malice

  Never underestimate the power of the stuff-up
• Internet 06 Jun 10:55

  Tory culture secretary calls for internet giants to censor the web

  We must think of the children
• Internet 06 Jun 10:45

  BBC a poor Time Lord

  Watchdog cleans its clock
• Business 05 Jun 10:41

  Porn app banned from Google Glass

  MiKandi moans
• Internet 05 Jun 10:31

  China shuts down internet for maintenance

  On the anniversary of Tiananmen Square
• Internet 05 Jun 10:23

  Big Content recruits serious crime cops

  Taxpayers cough up to close torrent sites
• Mobile 05 Jun 10:15

  ITC bans early iPhone shipments

  Judge rules Samsung's patents infringed
• Business 04 Jun 10:53

  DoJ starts Apple antitrust ebook trial

  CommentApple's PR own goal
• Science 04 Jun 10:27

  Sex is the key to changing the vole

  Makes them monogamous and loyal
• Mobile 04 Jun 10:22

  Beer fridge collapses Aussie mobile network

  Does not give a XXXX
• Chips 04 Jun 10:19

  China lifts the lid on new supercomputer

  More petaflops than you can poke a chopstick at
• Software 04 Jun 10:11

  Windows 8.1 and Haswell can't save the PC

  CommentThe problem is economic not technical
• Security 03 Jun 15:58

  French electronic voting allegedly easy to rig

  Ballot stuffing claims
• Business 03 Jun 11:07

  Razer boss slices rivals about poor PC design

  PC makers killing off PC industry
• Security 03 Jun 10:45

  Hackers take Eve Online offline

  Attack hits server right in the clusters
• Security 03 Jun 10:43

  Google supports public virus disclosures

  And on the seventh day God revealed everything
• Internet 03 Jun 10:32

  Turkey's Erdogan claims social media is a "menace"

  People used to do what they were told
• Mobile 03 Jun 10:21

  Apple fanboys sack staff photographers

  Reporters get iPhone training instead
• Internet 31 May 11:19

  Online crooks switch to Perfect Money

  Who cares about the Liberty Reserve shut down?
• Software 31 May 09:56

  Ubuntu claims to have fixed Microsoft

  No longer bugs us
• Software 31 May 09:46

  EFF growls at DRM in HTML 5

  Watchdog barks at W3C
• Business 31 May 09:42

  Former Microsoft bloke turns to selling dope

  Dave's not here
• Chips 30 May 11:56

  AMD puts hopes on Opteron-X

  Tilting in the microserver chip market
• Business 30 May 11:16

  Pegatron might pick up Apple business

  Foxconn may lose primary supplier status
• Science 30 May 10:33

  Bell Labs speeds bandwidth up to 400 Gigabits

  That's a lot of porn per second
• Chips 30 May 09:49

  SanDisk splutters at Moore's Law

  1Y NAND smudges black and white into grey
• Business 30 May 09:45

  Gates-backed school database blue screens

  States get cold feet about Big Brother claims
• Security 29 May 10:52

  Aussie secret service building blueprints hacked

  China knows all about it
• Security 29 May 10:48

  Hammond admits Stratfor hack

  Could get ten years porridge