Trump's tech plan: tariffs on electronics, ban on skilled tech migrants, cyber-weapons

Apple, media, 400-pound hackers, look to be in trouble The United States Presidential Election has been run and at the time of writing looks almost certainly to have been won by Donald Trump.…

Ireland to fight against billing Apple for back-taxes

€13 BEELLION at stake in appeal The Republic of Ireland has signalled its intention to push back against the European Union (EU) over accusations that it's offering a tax haven to Apple.…

First Click: Hope

Sega MegaDrive/Genesis lives again, in Brazil!

Portuguese-speaking retro-gamers, your time is now Brazilian outfit Tectoy has won the right to manufacture new versions of Sega's 16-bit MegaDrive console and is taking pre-orders for the venerable gaming machines.…

Leaked paper suggests EM Drive tested by NASA actually works

Newton-busting space drive might get us to Mars, very slowly An unpublished scientific paper by NASA engineers has been leaked. It appears to show that the EM Drive – a form of space drive that appears to produce thrust by electricity alone, in viol…

Windows Insiders are so passé, Microsoft how has Skype Insiders

If call quality is even worse than usual, this could be the reason Microsoft has kicked off a Skype Insiders program for people “interested in providing feedback to shape and enhance the Skype experience!”…

Adobe Australia drops SaaS tax dodge

Will apply local sales taxes to cloud services from now on The world's ongoing efforts to get multinational technology companies paying and collecting the proper amount of tax has claimed another win, with Adobe advising it will add Australia's Good…

Brexit 2.0

Finns chilling as DDoS knocks out building control system

Hint: next time, buy a firewall before you're attacked Residents in two apartment buildings in the Finnish town of Lappeenranta had a chill-out lasting more than a week after a DDoS attack battered unprotected building management systems.…

President Trump is real: this is the darkest timeline

Analyst reckons proprietary IoT wireless interfaces won't last

The GSMA is on the case, and carriers are listening An analyst outfit is warning that the Internet of Insecure Junk Things industry's enthusiasm for proprietary protocols will come to an abrupt halt once standards bodies get their acts together.…

Analyst reckons proprietary IoT wireless interfaces won't last

The GSMA is on the case, and carriers are listening An analyst outfit is warning that the Internet of Insecure Junk Things industry's enthusiasm for proprietary protocols will come to an abrupt halt once standards bodies get their acts together.…

Computer glitches force US election poll stations to stay open for longer

Mystery surrounds bugs that delayed voting in crunch North Carolina battleground Polling stations in the swing US state of North Carolina will stay open late after mystery glitches stopped electronic voting systems from working.…

How could things get worse for Samsung? Glad you asked

Corporate HQ raided by South Korea's corruption busters Police in South Korea have raided the corporate offices of Samsung in connection with a high-profile government corruption probe.…

Looking to hire IT staff in St Louis? The talent pool just got a lot bigger

Lord & Taylor axes scores people from corporate tech HQ Retail chain Lord & Taylor is closing down its US tech headquarters in St Louis, Missouri, and axing 77 IT jobs in the process.…

Australia again ponders making attorney-general netadmin-in-chief

Ministerial oversight of telecoms networks and the kit they buy is back on the agenda Australia's attempt to make its attorney-general Netadmin-in-chief is back on the legislative agenda.…

Judge throws out Trump lawyer's demand for poll worker info – because it'll feed Twitter trolls

Don't worry, just a few more hours until it's over (for now) A judge in Nevada has thrown out a lawsuit from a lawyer representing Donald Trump, arguing that she would not order the release of election poll worker information due to "Twitter trolls.…

Looking to hire IT staff in St Louis? The talent pool just got a lot bigger

Lord & Taylor axes scores people from corporate tech HQ Retail chain Lord & Taylor is closing down its US tech headquarters in St Louis, Missouri, and axing 77 IT jobs in the process.…

California just legalized marijuana — and that’s a game changer

The NYT’s election forecast needle is stressing people out with fake jitter

IPv4 is OVER. Really. So quit using it in new protocols

Internet Architecture Board grabs stake, eyes coffin: 'Still not dead? Let's fix that' Well, that took a while. Eighteen years after the IETF brought us IPv6 as an answer to then-looming-now-upon-us IPv4 address exhaustion, the Internet Architecture…