The Juicero was a joke even before this week. It’s the apotheosis of everything people mock about Silicon Valley: a $400 (£313) wifi-connected juice machine, whoch can only be refilled with single-purpose pods full of crushed fruit and veg that cost $5-8 per 230ml...

An anti-cybercrime operation by Interpol and investigators from seven southeast Asian nations revealed nearly 9,000 malware-laden servers and hundreds of compromised websites in the ASEAN region, Interpol said on Monday.Various types of malware, such as that targeting...

An overuse of mobile phones by parents disrupts family life, according to a survey of secondary pupils.More than a third of 2,000 11 to 18-year-olds who responded to a poll said they had asked their parents to stop checking their devices.And 14% said their parents...

Chinese authorities will question Apple over live-streaming video software available on the company’s app store, amid an increasingly hostile business environment for foreign firms in the world’s second largest economy.Police, cyberspace administration and cultural...

The COALITION FOR BETTER Ads, a consortium of ad, publishing, and tech companies, wants to save the advertising industry—by killing it. Or at least parts of it. Companies in the coalition will discuss, among other idea, pre-installation of a selective ad-blocker on...

Well-connected security biz FireEye is claiming Chinese hackers are trying to break into South Korea's military to halt the deployment of an anti-ballistic weapons system in the country.In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, FireEye's director of...

The NSA's Equation Group hacking tools, leaked last Friday by the Shadow Brokers, have now been used to infect thousands of Windows machines worldwide, we're told.On Thursday, Dan Tentler, founder of security shop Phobos Group, told The Register he's seen rising...

A new malware strain called BrickerBot is bricking Internet of Things (IoT) devices around the world by corrupting their storage capability and reconfiguring kernel parameters.Detected via honeypot servers maintained by cyber-security firm Radware, the first attacks...

Intel plans to move up the launch of its 14-nanometer Coffee Lake processors, introducing them in August of 2017 instead of January 2018. According to DigiTimes, the launch is being moved up because of "increasing competition from AMD's Ryzen 7 and Ryzen 5...

Earlier this week, some iCloud users noticed that the $0.99/mo 50 GB and $2.99/mo 200 GB iCloud plans had seemingly disappeared. Furthermore, some users received emails informing them that their 50GB or 100GB plan had been discontinued. While the issues eventually...

När Telenor lanserade sitt abonnemang Frihet gick operatören ut stort med att man var först i Sverige med att slopa alla roamingavgifter i hela EU och EES. Ett år senare återinför Telenor avgifterna – och flera kunder känner sig nu lurade.– Det är upprörande att man...

YouTube says it has fixed the issue that made Restricted Mode a bit too restrictive. The option was supposed to make the website more suitable for minors when switched on, but its older version also filtered out millions of harmless videos, including hundreds of...