Videos
Jinn workers besiege delivery app co-founder to protest wage changes
Couriers allege their pay was slashed retroactively
Furby Rickroll demo: What fresh hell is this?
Toy-makers, please quit this rubbish, you're NO GOOD at security
My hole is a private thing – see for yourself
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
I am guilty of too much clouded thinking
Google loses Android friends with Pixel exclusivity
Maybe it doesn't need friends? But it should worry about fragmenting Android further
What's the biggest danger to the power grid? Hackers? Terrorists? Er, squirrels
Video
Turns out Mother Nature is a killer for power and people
Linux is part of the IoT security problem, dev tells Linux conference
Does that 'thing' really need to run Linux, given alternatives have smaller attack surfaces?
Well, that sucks: China's Tencent so sorry after vid emerges of faux blowjob office game
Video
Cloud giant's staff party leaves little to imagination
Laser beam sky mirage cannon can spy on enemies and generate Star Trek-style shields
Nice theory, BAE Systems, now where's the demonstrator?
Smart guns are a neat idea on paper. They'll never survive reality
Comment
No amount of innovation will win over a suspicious public
Happy birthday: Jimbo Wales' sweet 16 Wikipedia fails
From aardvark to Bicholim, the encylopedia of things that never were
Microsoft swallows up AI language biz Maluuba
Aiming for 'literate machines that can think, reason and communicate like humans'
Drone biz Lily Robotics takes $34m in pre-orders, ships nothing, shuts down, gets sued by San Francisco DA
All a coincidence, we're told
FCC's Wheeler gives passionate defense of net neutrality rules
Video
But will it make any difference?
Embrace the world of pr0nified IT with wide open, er, arms
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
Reach your target fitness climax and then close your rings
Boffins turn timid mice into psycho killers – by firing lasers into brains
Video
Admittedly, we'd all want to tear everything apart if we had kit shoved in our heads
Train your self-driving car AI in Grand Theft Auto V – what could possibly go wrong?
Great training ground (and don't worry about all that violence)
MIT brainiacs wrangle 2D graphene into super-strong 3D art homework
Video
Hydraulic press action has explosive results
Weaky-leaks: Furious fans roast Assange in web interview from hell
Video
Ecuadorian broom cupboard denizen refuses to cough up info for once
Binary star bash-up should add new light to Northern Cross in 2022
Pics and video
Explosive union visible with the naked eye
How Apple exploded Europe's crony capitalism
iPhone at 10
Jobs dared take on the GSM chumocracy – and won
Slim pickings by the Biggest Loser: A year of fitness wearables
Something for the Weekend, Sir?
My little runaway. A run run run run a runaway
NASA plans seven-year trip to Jupiter – can we come with you, please?
Vid
Mighty Trojan probe will eye up biggest metal ball in Solar System
Robo-supercar hype biz Faraday Future has invented something – a new word for 'disrupt'
CES 2017
Reformat the future? More like, reformat all hope
Assange confirmed alive, tells Fox: Prez Obama 'acting like a lawyer'
Failed US Veep candidate Palin's wailin: I was wrong about you, pale one!
Hackers could turn your smart meter into a bomb and blow your family to smithereens – new claim
And before that, pwn your IoT gadgets via power supply gear
Internet of Sh*t has an early 2017 winner – a 'smart' Wi-Fi hairbrush
CES 2017
Bonkers IoT gizmo that's wired for sound wins tech bash's mane prize
Programmer finds way to liberate ransomware'd Google Smart TVs
1. Enter recovery mode
2. Reset TV
3. Laugh at VXers
2. Reset TV
3. Laugh at VXers
Hate 'contact us' forms? This PHPmailer zero day will drop shell in sender
Borked patch opens remote code execution on web servers
Elon burning to get Falcon back on the launchpad
Pressure vessel buckled, something sparked, oxygen exploded
The Life and Times of Lester Haines
Obit
Shed boffin, dad, sparks, punk rocker, wordsmith, pic-snapper, friend. We miss you
NIST requests ideas for crypto that can survive quantum computers
Christmas miracle: Government preparing properly for problem expected to land in ~20 years
Name's BOND, JBOND: Igneous's ARM strap-on is for your drives only
Analysis
You wait for a bus for ages, and then two come along at once. Two data-transfer buses. Something like that.
Both OpenIO and Igneous have launched plug-on ARM server cards for storage drives: these single-board computers each snap onto a hard drive to form nano-servers that are organized into a grid of object storage nodes. …
