Toast the Immortal Memory of Admiral Lord Nelson, shipmates Today marks the 211th anniversary of the Battle of Trafalgar, in which Admiral Horatio Nelson gave the combined naval might of France and Spain a bloody good kicking.…
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Lees meer30 cables cut and countless masts out of action Hapless Network Rail contractors drove a pile through 30 cable ducts, cutting phone, broadband services and many cell towers in the Uxbridge, Middlesex - potentially knocking services out until next we…
Lees meerBoth parties promising massive tax break on overseas earnings Last night's US presidential debate may have been fierce, but no matter who wins the election next month, technology firms are going to make out like bandits.…
Lees meerAnd we'll attack you back, promises Defence Secretary Britain is splurging £265m on military cyber security – and that includes offensive capabilities, according to Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon.…
Lees meerAmazingly slow Shropshire attack causes sluggish services Snails attacked a Virgin Media broadband cabinet in Shropshire, resulting in sluggish broadband services.…
Lees meerSeeks passporting clarity A UK fin-tech startup will seek regulation in Ireland if the government doesn’t preserve financial services passporting rights in its EU exit talks.…
Lees meerHow not to throw the baby out with the bathwater If you're considering doing a relaunch, a "reboot", or a revamp of any kind, there's a lot to learn from the story of the Mini.…
Lees meerAnd fly it at more than four times the legally permitted height, we're told Rich fools who like remote control toys can now splurge £20,000 buying a gold-plated DJI Phantom quadcopter, we are breathlessly told.…
Lees meerGlitzy gadgets begin to lose their appeal Something for the Weekend, Sir? I'd like you to consider my underwear.…
Lees meerFirm's sure to use its sports lure to bring in the punters At the announcement of its results this week, Sky said that it was planning MVNO services based on the O2 network, which is run in the UK by Telefonica. Faultline has been forecasting a move…
Lees meerCan you rattle the tin for marketing? Really? Radbot Our quiz on startup branding revealed that a worrying number of you are not to be trusted with a hot iron - branding, soldering, or even wool setting, it seems.…
Lees meerAnd he needed rather obscure controllers to get anything working again On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our Friday frolic through readers' memories of jobs gone bad.…
Lees meerZen biz's only hope is to avoid Chipzilla's wrath, it seems On Tuesday, Intel said it expects to bank in the final quarter of the year $15.7bn in sales, plus or minus $500m. That's a billion-dollar swing.…
Lees meerIn the future code is going to be managed and deployed by other code Special report In an episode of Seinfeld from 1996, George is shocked when he discovers his former boss, Mr Wilhelm, has joined a cult, the Sunshine Carpet Cleaners.…
Lees meerViewing big initiatives as tech projects not helpful, say Brunel researchers Efforts by the previous UK government to rein in lavish Whitehall technology spending caused more harm than good in some instances.…
Lees meerFor a while there your Slack account could be hijacked with just a username Hipster collaboration platform Slack has shuttered an access control bypass that allowed users to hijack any account.…
Lees meerVMware's also trying to stop Dennis Nedry in vSphere 6.5, but both trail the NSA and Xen Virtual machine security is suddenly a hot spot: VMware's building a new product for it and has added new bits to vSphere 6.5 to enhance it. And Microsoft think…
Lees meerGet your patching done, people, this Font-borne bug is being actively exploited Kaspersky Labs researcher Anton Ivanov says an advanced threat group was exploiting a Windows zero day vulnerability before Microsoft patched it last week.…
Lees meerEmail pests seek clean machines for better hit rates. Malware authors are consulting IP blacklists designed to help fight spam in a bid to avoid detection and increase inbox hit rates.…
Lees meerSkeleton suggests beast as long as a London bus Australian paleo-boffins have revealed two new dinosaurs, Savannasaurus elliottorum and Diamantinasaurus matildae.…
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