Microsoft Excel’s bloopers reel: nearly 40 years of spreadsheet errors
‘I grew up with it’: readers on the enduring appeal of Microsoft Excel
Former Post Office IT chief claims Horizon system has no fundamental flaw
Less haste more speed will win Labour the race to fix 21st-century Britain
Phillip Inman
September 2024
CrowdStrike apologizes for global IT outage in congressional testimony
iOS 18 release: everything you need to know about Apple’s big updates
August 2024
Apple Intelligence is coming. Here’s what it means for your iPhone
Apple is about to launch a ChatGPT-powered version of Siri as part of a suite of AI features in iOS 18. What are the implications for how you use your phone – and for your privacy?
July 2024
Slow recovery from IT outage begins as experts warn of future risks
Windows global IT outage: what we know so far
May 2024
Tearful testimony confirms for many how much Post Office’s Vennells knew
The networker
ChatGPT and the like could free up coders to new heights of creativity
John Naughton
April 2024
Scott Farquhar to resign as joint CEO of Atlassian
Co-founder leaving ‘to spend more time with his young family, improve the world via philanthropy, and help further the technology industry globally’
Can AI image generators be policed to prevent explicit deepfakes of children?
As one of the largest ‘training’ datasets has been found to contain child sexual abuse material, can bans on creating such imagery be feasible?
The networker
One engineer’s curiosity may have saved us from a devastating cyber-attack
John Naughton
In discovering malicious code that endangered global networks in open-source software, Andres Freund exposed our reliance on insecure, volunteer-maintained tech
March 2024
Police in England and Wales fail to catch any car thieves in 100 neighbourhoods
An investigation has revealed soaring numbers of unsolved vehicle crimes, with some inquiries into car thefts closed within 24 hours
From riches to ankle bracelet: UK tech tycoon Mike Lynch’s stunning fall
‘Britain’s Bill Gates’ could spend up to 25 years in jail if convicted of fraud in the 2011 sale of Autonomy to Hewlett-Packard
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How much does Spotify really pay Apple?
Apple has been fined a whopping €1.8bn by the EU, but it still claims it’s done nothing wrong. Plus, what happens when open source software gets into the wrong hands of some crypto fans
February 2024
Court orders maker of Pegasus spyware to hand over code to WhatsApp
Israeli company NSO Group is accused in lawsuit by Meta’s messaging app of spying on 1,400 users over a two-week period
Revealed: car industry was warned keyless vehicles vulnerable to theft a decade ago
Experts alerted motor trade to security risks of ‘smart key’ systems which have now fuelled highest level of car thefts for a decade
Ex-Post Office boss ‘gave Fujitsu bonus contract despite warnings’
Exclusive: Whistleblowers say Paula Vennells agreed to move archive, which risked destroying data that could clear operators
