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Apple knits up $230 sock for your iPhone in time for Christmas
Apple, the reassuringly expensive US technology brand, is selling a sock in which iPhone owners can house their gadget.…
VLC's keeper of the cone nets European free software gong
If you don't know what app will open a random media file (or URL), VLC is the answer. It runs on everything, plays anything, and it's free – thanks to Jean-Baptiste Kempf.…
Broken wizard forces Microsoft to issue out-of-band Windows 10 patch
Microsoft released an emergency out-of-band update on November 11 to fix a malfunctioning enrollment wizard that prevented eligible Windows 10 users from accessing Extended Security Updates (ESU).…
Microsoft ships .NET 10 LTS and Visual Studio 2026, Copilot everywhere
Microsoft has released C# 14 and .NET 10, a long-term support version, along with a bunch of related products including Visual Studio 2026 and Aspire 13. Copilot Free is included but devs will soon hit its limits.…
Brussels weighs banning China from major EU research scheme
The European Commission is preparing to block Chinese institutions from significant portions of its €95.5 billion ($110 billion) Horizon Europe research program, citing intellectual property risks and links between Chinese universities and Beijing's military.…
MS Task Manager turns 30: Creator reveals how a 'very Unixy impulse' endured in Windows
As Microsoft's Task Manager celebrates three decades - and grapples with its modern tendency to leave orphaned processes behind - its creator has shared the story of how the much loved troubleshooting tool came to be.…
Broadcom creates a new Seal Of Approval for servers that run AI under VMware
Broadcom will let its hardware allies self-certify their boxes as compliant with a new spec it developed that describes rigs ready to run AI workloads under its VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) private cloud platform.…
Mozilla's Firefox 145 is heeeeeere: Buffs up privacy, bloats AI
Firefox 145 is out, with more privacy, better profile handling, better image search for Google users… and, almost inevitably, more LLM bot integration.…
Bitcoin bandit's £5B bubble bursts as cops wrap seven-year chase
The Metropolitan Police's seven-year investigation into a record-setting fraudster has ended after she was sentenced to 11 years and eight months in prison on Tuesday.…
UK's Cyber Security and Resilience Bill makes Parliamentary debut
UK government introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience (CSR) Bill to Parliament today, marking a significant overhaul of local cybersecurity legislation to sharpen the security posture of the most critical sectors.…
Aviation watchdog says organized drone attacks will shut UK airports ‘sooner or later’
Britain's aviation watchdog has warned it's only a matter of time before organized drone attacks bring UK airports to a standstill.…
Retail giant Kingfisher rejects SAP ERP upgrade plan
SAP insists customers wanting "innovation" such as AI must upgrade to its latest platform for ERP, using prescribed cloud migration plans. Kingfisher - which operates 2,000 European retail stores including UK brands Screwfix and B&Q - rejected that approach.…
Tablet market stalls because there’s not much new worth buying
Shipments of tablet computers from minor vendors are on the slide, according to analyst firm IDC.…
China hates crypto and scams, but is now outraged USA acquired bitcoin from a scammer
China’s National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center (CVERC) has alleged a nation-state entity, probably the USA, was behind a 2020 attack on a bitcoin mining operation and by doing so has gone into bat for entities that Beijing usually blasts.…
Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’
The head of Australia’s Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has warned that authoritarian regimes “are growing more willing to disrupt or destroy critical infrastructure”, using cyber-sabotage.…
North Korean spies turn Google's Find Hub into remote-wipe weapon
North Korean state-backed spies have found a new way to torch evidence of their own cyber-spying – by hijacking Google's "Find Hub" service to remotely wipe Android phones belonging to their South Korean targets.…
Rocket Lab's Neutron slips to 2026: 'Our aim is to make it to orbit on the first try'
Aerospace manufacturer and launch service provider Rocket Lab has confirmed what many have long suspected: its "Hungry Hippo" Neutron rocket won't be hitting the launchpad until 2026 at the earliest.…
EU's reforms of GDPR, AI slated by privacy activists for 'playing into Big Tech’s hands'
Privacy advocates are condemning the European Commission's leaked plans to overhaul digital privacy legislation, accusing officials of bypassing proper legislative processes to favor Big Tech interests.…
US taxpayers being kept in the dark over datacenter subsidies
The US datacenter industry is reaping huge benefits from state-level subsidies, but transparency around these incentives is limited and states that do calculate their returns find they are losing money on the deals.…
OWASP Top 10: Broken access control still tops app security list
The Open Worldwide Application Security Project (OWASP) just published its top 10 categories of application risks for 2025, its first list since 2021. It found that while broken access control remains the top issue, security misconfiguration is a strong second, and software supply chain issues are still prominent.…