How best to resolve the spectrum gridlock? The European Union announced its 5G Action Plan last week, and president Jean-Claude Juncker set out some ambitious connectivity goals in his State of the Union address. These include promises to enable fre…
Lees meerWe have a winner, ladies and gents Roundup Our latest programming competition was our most popular yet in terms of the number of entries – 137 in all once we'd de-duplicated them.…
Lees meerGet a hold of yourself, Elon Musk Artificial intelligence is all the rage in technology and as it progresses at a dizzying pace, the industry is at danger of being overhyped, say researchers.…
Lees meerWanting it is one thing, justifying it is another We have been getting some good responses in our latest poll on all-flash storage.…
Lees meerNew system to ensure suppliers are up to scratch on IT security A high-profile project has been launched with the aim of strengthening UK enterprises' IT security.…
Lees meerIt's called 'junk mail' for a reason people: just take the pizza vouchers and ignore the rest Police in the Australian State of Victoria have warned citizens not to trust un-marked USB sticks that appear in their letterboxes.…
Lees meerClose shave after WordPress mess was cut off at the roots Malware writers have penetrated the website of hair-dye-for-greying-blokes outfit Just For Men, foisting a password-stealing trojan at visitors, Malwarebytes researcher Jerome Segura says.…
Lees meerAnd you thought arguing with a living Wiki-editor was bad Get some bots into a Wikipedia edit-war and they'll keep you entertained for years, it seems – and Portuguese bots are the most tenacious.…
Lees meerGot one of these gizmos? Patch its firmware ASAP BT is urging folks to patch the firmware in its Wi-Fi Extender following the discovery of multiple security flaws.…
Lees meerTune in at 10:40PM UTC next Friday for a 'controlled crash' The European Space Agency (ESA) has held an hour-long hangout to explain what's likely to happen when its Rosetta spacecraft touches down on Comet 67p.…
Lees meerIt looks a lot like 1996 North Korea's zone file has leaked online, providing another insight into the hermit kingdom's internet.…
Lees meerInitially optional, soon mandatory, according to draft visa form People entering America must soon reveal their social network profiles to customs officials, judging by a new draft visa form.…
Lees meerOh and Larry's cut-price claim ignores that most people buy cloud as reserved instances Oracle's gone in hard on cloud this week, promising a stellar, cheap cloud that has already erased Amazon Web Services' lead.…
Lees meerImagine a whitelist-checker running in the safety of the hypervisor kernel and monitoring VMs in real time VMware has shown off a working prototype of “Project Goldilocks”, its long-hinted-at plan to develop a new approach to security.…
Lees meerHere comes your fully-licenced street-legal retrogasm German retro enthusiast Jens Schönfeld of Individual Computers is about to start manufacturing new Commodore 64 cases from the classic home computer company's original injection moulds.…
Lees meerExpect fireworks late in 2017 The first space station lofted into orbit by China is coming down next year, the country's space agency has confirmed.…
Lees meerYour disaster recovery may be delayed by Microsoft's disaster recovery – and odd timekeeping Azure's Australia East region, located in Sydney, experienced nearly eight hours of degraded performance thanks to what Microsoft is calling “an ongoing Net…
Lees meerShame it wasn't used more before Zuck paid $16k to the uni student who found it University student Arun S Kumar has scored US$16,000 (£12,312, A$21,200) for finding and reporting a Facebook vulnerability that led to account hijacking.…
Lees meerYou can even leave out the turning it on again - this bug's not worth its brand, really Citrix has pushed back a little against the dangers posed to its users by the Sweet32 “birthday attack” against old ciphers.…
Lees meerHaha, of course he didn't – he trash-talked AWS databases for an hour OpenWorld Oracle’s founder and CTO Larry Ellison took to the stage for his second OpenWorld keynote today, and spent the bulk of his presentation pointing out flaws in his chief …
Lees meer'Project AirGig' shows the classics never die, but radio hams might feel homicidal AT&T has charged up the paddles, yelled “clear!”, and fired the defibrillator into one of telecommunications' worst ideas: broadband over power lines (BPL).…
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