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Revenue up 6% on the quarter ... down 40% on a year ago South Korean memory chip maker SK Hynix suffered a fall in profits despite a small improvement in sales during its third quarter, which ended 30 September.…

'More changes than any version since years' in Tor-touting OS Tails has released version 4.0 of the privacy-focused Linux distro, based on Debian 10, with numerous feature and usability improvements.…

Who are you and what have you done with Microsoft? As well as a fresh PowerShell peek, Microsoft sent an update of its Windows Terminal out into the world last night.…

Soft-shoe shuffle Bill McDermott is joining cloud-wrangler ServiceNow as president and CEO in the new year following his handover period at SAP.…

Detailed info wound up in quarantine Just one of Britain's 43 police forces treats online crime as a priority – while the Action Fraud organisation managed to withhold 9,000 so-called cyber-crime reports from cops thanks to badly configured antivirus on its reporting portal, according to a government watchdog.…

Plus a class action sueball – it's been a busy 24 hours for Indian outsourcer India-based outsourcer Infosys has confirmed it is being investigated by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in Washington, which will probe recent allegations of fiscal impropriety made by employees.…

I'll take the National Trust and Capita for 100, Alex The National Trust, one of the UK's largest charities and beloved of many a middle-class day-tripper, has handed a £46m contract to everyone's favourite outsourcer, Capita.…

You'll have to tag those for cross-site use from February Google is asking developers to get ready for more secure cookie settings to be implemented in Chrome 80 that is planned for release in February 2020.…

Soz shareholders, no dividend for you Nokia – one of the so-called "Big Three" 5G kitmakers – has downgraded profit forecasts for the year and cancelled dividends, saying investments in next-generation services have not yet yielded expected returns.…

Remains exhumed and relocated to Madrid The remains of Spanish dictator Francisco Franco have been exhumed from the civil war monument Valle de los Caídos and are being transported to a cemetery just north of Madrid.…

Can it run Crysi... we mean, er, Fortnite? Yes, kids Hands On This morning, at a launch event in Amsterdam, Honor formally unveiled its latest handset: the 9X. Typically, the release of a mid-range handset from an explicitly youth-focused brand wouldn't elicit much attention from these pages, but this is different.…

Commands in (conditional) Chains – the latest Seattle rock sensation? Preview 5 of Microsoft's PowerShell 7 dropped last night, which means that final release is lumbering ever closer.…

Shares jump by a fifth Tesla shares are up almost a fifth in after-hours trading after the 'leccy car maker posted a surprising profit for the third quarter.…

Censor-dodging news for those sat in ban-happy countries The BBC has launched a .onion version of its news website on the Tor anonymising network aimed at readers based in countries that ban its services.…

Microsoft's new baby takes big step forward in servicing stakes Microsoft has made much of its return to the days when hardware could be upgraded, but it still has a little way to go – as screwdriver-botherers at iFixit appear to have discovered with the Surface Laptop 3.…

Plus: Its plans on the security market Elastic presented Elasticsearch for Kubernetes at an event in London this week, as well as explaining why it has acquired Endgame, an endpoint security specialist.…

Director's account hijacked in what biz believes to be an attempted ransomware attack GP online services app Evergreen Life has been the target of a cyber-attack attempting to access the firm's corporate email accounts.…

Inside 629k machines, up from 355k last year AMD is dramatically beefing up its share of PCs sold via distributors in Western Europe as Intel continues to flounder amid protracted production issues that are still limiting availability.…

The call-for-papers closes soon – and we'd love to hear from you Event The call for papers for our Continuous Lifecycle London 2020 conference closes this Friday – and we’re waiting to hear how you’ve transformed your organisation’s software development and deployment pipeline.…

Join colleagues and peers at CloudBees' conference in Portugal this December Promo Executives, continuous delivery practitioners, and Jenkins users are set to descend on DevOps World | Jenkins World, the essential annual gathering for IT leaders wanting to learn, network, and help shape the next evolution of CloudBees Jenkins solutions for DevOps.…

First time heavy elements spotted in neutron star collision For the first time astroboffins have discovered strontium, a heavy element nestled near the bottom left hand side of the periodic table, being created in space by the collision of two neutron stars.…

Nadella says 'accelerating our innovation', we say... Microsoft on Wednesday reported $33.1bn in revenue for its fiscal 2020 Q1, representing a 14 per cent increase over the same period last year, and profits of $10.7bn, up 21 per cent.…

Who wants to stop Russians from hacking Americans' votes? Not us, thank you The US Senate on Wednesday blocked a trio of law bills that aimed to make America's elections more secure and transparent.…

Quanta was the last one standing... and now kneeling HP on Tuesday won a six-year court case against suppliers that it accused of price-fixing, with a jury in Texas awarding $176m to the US computer giant.…

Delivery may be slow: US lawmakers, NIST still figuring it all out Assuming US lawmakers can set aside differences long enough to vote on actual legislation – not at all a foregone conclusion – users of large online communications platforms may be able to look forward better data portability and interoperability between services, eventually.…

Whois to become Whoisn't Like a bad horror movie in which the vampire keeps coming back from certain death, the Whois protocol – which provides information on who owns specific internet addresses – has endured far longer than anyone wanted or expected. But the final act is nigh and the wooden stake is being sharpened.…

Hey, growth is still growth Gartner analysts at its annual IT Symposium/Xpo shindig in Florida reckon IT spending is on the way up next year, despite dire predictions for the rest of this year.…

Move to bin? Or cancel? There are more options on this version of macOS, but it's still a PITA Users who download and attempt to run LibreOffice on the new macOS Catalina are presented with two options – "Move to bin" or "Cancel".…

The US could do more, but it's like pulling teeth The European Commission's (EC) third review of Privacy Shield – the legal fig leaf through which EU citizens' data can be sent to US companies for storage and processing – has found some improvements since last year, but deems the whole agreement as still resoundingly "adequate".…

Roomba for improvement? 2,000 pascals' worth is the claim from vacuum-maker Eufy If you've ever bought a phone charger or cable from Amazon, there's a decent chance it came from Anker, a fast-growing Chinese consumer electronics firm whose products regularly occupy the top-selling spots in their respective categories.…

Latest Java-friendly move after Amazon's Corretto OpenJDK distro Amazon has made another effort to be a good Java citizen by joining brewmasters at the Java Community Process (JCP), the group which develops specifications for the Java platform.…

Cute, says rival Slack, polishing its library of 1,800 apps and an updated developer toolkit Microsoft has released its Azure Repos app for Teams in a bid to entice developers to its collaboration platform a day after competitor Slack upgraded its app developer toolkit.…

Situation normal, says Microsoft as it runs rings round Insiders Having declared 18363.418 the final build for the Windows 10 November 2019 Update, the Windows Insider team has surprised no one at all by issuing patches ahead of release.…

And rest of the world? When it comes, you'll likely need to Play Huawei for apps Almost eight months after its initial debut at Mobile World Conference, Huawei's long-awaited Mate X foldable handset finally has a launch date.…

National Cyber Security Centre handled 658 incidents last year The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said in its annual review (here) that Russia, China, Iran and North Korea "continue to pose strategic national security threats to the UK".…

Chipzilla invokes Sherman and Clayton Acts in attempt to have contracts declared void Intel is taking legal action against a spider's web of patent holders from SoftBank-owned Fortress Investment Group and its network of subsidiaries.…

Blue Origin and industry vets eye a slice of NASA's lunar lander largesse Richest person in the world, Jeff Bezos, yesterday pitched NASA a team mostly made up of the usual suspects to build a lunar lander for the agency's ambitious 2024 boots-on-Moon goal.…

Firm £1m in arrears with single creditor and owes HMRC £886k Documents filed at Companies House reveal the scale of Gaia Technologies' debt burden, which led a major creditor to push the Bangor-based school tech supplier into administration.…

It's a tale as old as time Epson is facing a class-action suit from disgruntled US punters sick of being told what sort of ink cartridges to put in their machines.…

... it's a consequence of production use of containerised apps Interview Thanks to your local DevOps team, containerised applications are heading for production environments. However, this can be the beginning of a world of hurt for storage admins.…

We’d love to hear from you at our Nuance-powered morning briefing Promo When it comes to voice-powered systems in the enterprise, there’s one surefire way to work out if it’s for you: talking through the benefits and challenges with a room full of your peers.…

Creators tried to stop us looking through it. We saw a copy anyway. Now it's being scrubbed clean Special report ImageNet – a data set used to train AI systems around the world – contains photos of naked children, families on the beach, college parties, porn actresses, and more, scraped from the web to train computers without those individuals' explicit consent.…

We sat through this 90-minute committee hearing so you didn't have to Vid The US House Committee on Homeland Security grilled a panel of experts to understand how foreign adversaries could weaponise emerging technologies like AI and quantum computing in cybersecurity.…

Details of military personnel and trips leak online from poorly secured AWS service A security team for review site vpnMentor, led by Israeli researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, recently found a publicly accessible AWS-hosted database owned by Autoclerk, a reservation system recently acquired by Best Western Hotels and Resorts Group.…

Top brass beams aboard from $10bn IT brouhaha as it emerges son works for IBM The US military’s controversial JEDI cloud contract has seen another strange twist: the US Secretary of Defense has stepped back from the project as it emerged his son works for one of the bidders for the $10bn winner-takes-all deal.…

Distributed assault hampering connectivity for websites, apps, customers are warned Updated Parts of Amazon Web Services were effectively shoved off the internet today – at times breaking some customers' websites – after the cloud giant came under attack.…

Rather than settle and make pain just go away, project wants to send a message instead After being hit with a patent-infringement lawsuit last month, the GNOME Foundation has fired back with a counterclaim – and urged the courts to dismiss the case.…

Yeah, it's not us Firefox turned 70 today, at least in terms of version, with an update focused on – surprise, surprise – security and privacy.…

Look what happens when you bend for Beijing Apple chief exec Tim Cook has been promoted to chairman of the board of advisors at a management and leadership university in Beijing.…

Can we at least turn the thing around before we... y'know? Japanese hotel chain HIS Group has apologised for ignoring warnings that its in-room robots were hackable to allow pervs to remotely view video footage from the devices.…