It's time to debate damages. To Apple and to common sense
A US appeal court has opened the next round of the long-running Apple versus Samsung patent case, this time to recalculate the damages Sammy owes Cupertino.&
Data diggers' dumpster dive demonstrates dumb and dumberer defences
The security industry's ongoing efforts to educate users about strong passwords appears to be for naught, with a new study finding the most popular passwords last year were 123456 and 123456789.&
Strategy_Doc.PDF from the next cubicle is actually a portal to p0wnage
An newly-detected Gmail phishing attack sees criminals hack and then rifle through inboxes to target account owners' contacts with thoroughly convincing fake emails.&
2017 forecast to see cloud kit clock $11bn every 90 days
Abacus-shuffling outfit IDC has updated its Worldwide Quarterly Cloud IT Infrastructure Tracker with sales data for Q3 2016 and predictions for spend in 2017.&
Golden Arches website's security doesn't pass the sensible surfing taste test
Dutch software engineer Tijme Gommers has revealed a still-active reflected cross-site scripting vulnerability and borked password controls in McDonald's main website that could be fodder for phishing attacks.&
Even the servers it colocates (!) says new doc detailing Alphabet sub's security secrets
Google has published an Infrastructure Security Design Overview that explains how it secures the cloud it uses for its own operations and for public cloud services.&
Timetable 'unachievable'. Now, where have we heard that one before?
The UK government's tax digitisation plan could be delayed by at least a year after the Treasury Committee exposed "serious shortcomings" with the programme.&
Analysis More data means better performance for advertising at least on the digital side. Increasingly, marketers are looking to inject data-driven decision making into the dumbest box in the house: the TV set.&
Silicon to carbon change could boost Nantero's business
A market-research report suggests carbon nanotube storage developer Nantero could be on the verge of a breakout after years of disappointment and struggle.&
From aardvark to Bicholim, the encylopedia of things that never were
Sixteen years ago, Larry Sanger had the idea for a wiki-based encyclopaedia anyone could edit: the "wiki-pedia". On January 15, 2001, he and Jimmy Wales launched the site. Today, it's everyone's go-to place for quick factlets.&
We know you've been in an accident. It says so in our *beeeeep*
BT has opened a free nuisance call screening service, which it estimates could junk 15 million cold calls - such as PPI and accident claims - to a voicemail box.&
Elon Musk's SpaceX, space cargo contractor and purveyor of space rockets for the well-heeled masses, successfully launched a two-stage rocket into orbit on Saturday.&
They've got as much money as half the world, scolds charity
Five of the world's eight fattest fat cats, whose collective wealth equals that of the world's 3.6 billion poorest people according to a new report by Oxfam are technology billionaires.&
Reg Events You've got less than a week to snap up early bird tickets for Building IoT London, our three-day bonanza of all things IoT for real businesses. After that, the sticker jumps back up to full rate.&
The European Commission's multi-phase, super-dupe-compute project Mont-Blanc is pouring more euro gravy into developing an army of ARM SoC compute nodes.&
What else do you Tx at 20mW somewhere between 868MHz and 900MHz?
Amazon has filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission to conduct what looks like Internet of Things wireless networking tech trials.&
Samsung's been pulled deeper into "Choi-gate" the scandal surrounding the South Korean president. Prosecutors in the country today applied for an arrest warrant for Samsung's de facto boss, Lee Jae-yong.&
Wants every human computer interaction to be AI-powered
The tech sector is currently "worshipping" a handful of artificial intelligence companies, but is yet to show how it will make the technology accessible to and useful for its human end users, Microsoft head Satya Nadella has said.&
Storage Blockhead Chatbots are flashing up in our future view as something that could improve an admin's lot. Instead of using a GUI with nested and drill-down screen forms to do their job, they'll have a new form of Command Line Interface, only this will be a Chat Line Interface to a chatbot.&
Startup orbits security VM around vSphere and VSAN unstructured data
Analysis Startup DataGravity laid off staff in February last year and subsequently pivoted away from building and selling its Discovery Series array line to building a shipping virtual appliance using its Discovery Series array software as a basis.&
No amount of innovation will win over a suspicious public
Comment A bright-eyed MIT undergraduate implausibly branded "the Mark Zuckerberg of guns" has recycled an age-old solution looking for a problem the smart gun.&
Nice theory, BAE Systems, now where's the demonstrator?
British defence contractor BAE Systems says it has developed a laser-powered "mirage on demand" which can be used to bend the very fabric of the skies to military commanders' whims.&