EU fines Google €2.42 billion, orders changes in search results
Google abused its dominant position in the search engine market to illegally promoted its comparison shopping service, the European Union's top antitrust authority ruled Tuesday.
Stories by Peter Sayer
How to secure your CMS without patching
In as little as four hours, the bad guys can reverse engineer a software patch for an open-source content management system (CMS) and build an exploit capable of turning millions of websites into spammers, malware hosts or DDoS attackers. A German project aims to beat the bad guys to it, without a patch.
It's time to upgrade to TLS 1.3 already, says CDN engineer
Businesses dragging their heels over rolling out TLS 1.2 on their website might have an excuse to delay a little longer: Version 1.3 of the TLS (Transport Layer Security) encryption protocol will be finalized later this year, and early deployments of it are already under way.
Uber CEO resigns, leaving company in search of a new strategy
Uber is now a driverless vehicle, after CEO Travis Kalanick stepped down Tuesday.
EU wants to ease commercial drone use with future flight rules
The European Commission wants to make it easier for lightweight drones to fly autonomously in European airspace -- with logistics, inspection services and agricultural businesses set to benefit.
Mid-range models ring the changes in Top500 supercomputer ranking
With no change at the top of the latest Top500.org supercomputer list, you need to look further down the rankings to see the real story.
Nokia rolls out its first 'petabit-class' router
With internet traffic set to triple over the next five years or so, according to recent estimates from Nokia and Cisco Systems, Nokia thinks the time is right for a new range of high-end routers that can boost core capacity by a factor of six -- and even help 10-year-old devices to double their capacity.
Imagination adds safety, resilience to processor for IoT
Chip designers are applying industrial safety design techniques to their processor cores so that they can get themselves out of trouble when a fault occurs.
SoftBank targets service industries with new robotics acquisition
SoftBank's latest robotics acquisition could allow it to open up a whole new market for service industries and home help.
Don't be left behind by IPv6 deployment, ISOC warns enterprises
They have the resources, the expertise and, though they may not realize it, the need -- but it turns out that enterprises are often the ones that don't yet have IPv6.
All-electric satellites are ushering in zippier in-flight internet access
To speed up in-flight internet access don't stick a rocket on it, but a xenon-ion propulsion system (XIPS).
Power surge at British Airways data centre causes flight chaos
A major British Airways crash has highlighted the importance for businesses of testing backup systems and disaster recovery procedures to ensure that they work as planned.
The AI fight is escalating: This is the IT giants' next move
Artificial intelligence is where the competition is in IT, with Microsoft and Google both parading powerful, always-available AI tools for the enterprise at their respective developer conferences, Build and I/O, in May.
Amazon Web Services sets a lure for Java programmers
Amazon Web Services has long offered an SDK to make it easier to access its web services from Java. Now it has another lure for Java programmers: James Gosling, the father of Java.
SAP has designs on new government business
Steve Ballmer's latest hobby, USAfacts.org, cast a spotlight on the effectiveness of local, state and federal governments when it launched in April. Its easy-to-read dashboards allow ordinary citizens to compare government's performance of its core missions with spending at all levels.