Firefox 54 delivers sandboxes Mozilla's wanted since 2009

Project Electrolysis means Firefox spawns four processes and shares them between tabs Mozilla has released version 54 of its Firefox browser and in so doing delivered long-promised sandboxing technology.…

Crunch Report | Uber CEO Takes Leave of Absence

Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is taking a leave of absence, Verizon closes on its $4.5 billion acquisition of Yahoo and Marissa Mayer is leaving the company, Tim Cook discusses more of Apple’s car plans and Amazon launches Prime Reload. All this on Crunc…

Buggy devices and lazy operators make VoLTE a security nightmare

Voicemail hacking? Discovered in 2015, and still not fixed. And that's not the worst of it Voice over LTE leaks like a sieve, because nobody's paying attention to the details.…

Telstra to hang up on 1,400 more workers

As big T sells its copper to nbn™, it needs fewer copper techs to fix it Telstra will shed 1,400 or more jobs to make up for revenue gaps looming as the National Broadband Network rollout continues.…

Tails OS hits version 3.0, matches Debian's pace but bins 32-bit systems

Edward Snowden's preferred-for-privacy OS gets a decent upgrade The developers of privacy-protecting Linux distribution Tails have decided to get closer to Debian with the project's 3.0 release.…

Google cloud browned out after automation snag struck

Fix for App Engine memory allocation mess will be applied to just one data centre Google's cloud thought it was out of memory for a couple of hours last week.…

Google cloud browned out after automation snag struck

Fix for App Engine memory allocation mess will be applied to just one data centre Google's cloud thought it was out of memory for a couple of hours last week.…

It came from space! Two-headed flatworm stuns scientists

The regeneration process continues to baffle boffins A flatworm sent to the International Space Station has sprouted two heads, an anomaly that never happens in the wild, according to a paper published in the journal Regeneration.…

Apple frees a few private APIs, makes them public

Glacial thaw brings a bit more openness to hermit kingdom Apple, by necessity, fatigue, goodwill or accident, is becoming slightly more open in how it allows developers to interact with its software.…

Lame-o devs like coding to Taylor Swift and U2

People who put crap on your laptop love bands who put crap on your iPhone Time to put to bed once and for all the image of the hip young hacker pounding out code to cutting-edge techno music; it turns out that today's devs prefer to work to most of …

OpenAI and DeepMind double team to make AI safer

New algorithm keeps humans in the loop Researchers from OpenAI and DeepMind are hoping to make artificial intelligence safer using a new algorithm that learns from human feedback.…

It's June of 2017, and Microsoft is still patching Windows XP

If the Shadowbrokers dump wasn't enough, there are 96 other CVE listings to fix Microsoft has posted its monthly security update, this time addressing 96 different CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in its products, along with a set of emergency pa…

Australian oppn. leader wants to do something about Bitcoin, because terrorism and crypto

Bill Shorten says there are things 'we do not know enough about to deal with properly' Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten has suggested that governmental action to deny use of encryption to terrorists should extend to Bitcoin.…

Ever wonder why those Apple iPhone updates take so damn long?

Turns out Apple execs were testing new file system on you It's a recurring pain experienced by all iPhone owners: the huge and very slow software updates that require you to plug your phone in and forget about it for 30 minutes.…

Qualcomm is making it easier for companies to build smart speakers

Uber board member resigns after making sexist remark in meeting about pervasive sexism

Just days after tech community abandons plans to punish internet shutdowns… Egypt goes censorship crazy

What do you need news for, anyway? 'It shouldn't be a problem' – NTRA official Egypt has embarked on a new wave of online censorship, blocking news websites and killing off VPN services in order to limit its citizens' access to information.…

Uber culture colonic cleanses CEO Kalanick

Company told to ditch values that excused poor behavior, while leader takes time off Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is taking a leave of absence while the company he co-founded tries to remake itself in a more humane image.…

Just days after tech community abandons plans to punish internet shutdowns… Egypt goes censorship crazy

What do you need news for, anyway? 'It shouldn't be a problem' – NTRA official Egypt has embarked on a new wave of online censorship, blocking news websites and killing off VPN services in order to limit its citizens' access to information.…

Microsoft on its lack of exclusives, selling 4K, and how Xbox One X will improve old games

Five Eyes states stare menacingly at encryption

US, UK, Oz et al consider pressing tech firms for access Officials from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will discuss next month plans to force tech companies to break encryption on their products.…