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Scaling buggy hardware is easier than scaling software Comment Industry sources have confirmed that Google is readying lower-cost Pixel smartphones for imminent launch.…

Your wish come true, thanks to these US neural net boffins Artificially intelligent software could help doctors treat a problem that is, quite literally, a pain in the arse: prostate cancer.…

Hold the front page Red Hat, now a part of Big Blue, on Tuesday released its first annual survey on the State of Enterprise Open Source, a statistical snapshot of what IT leaders think about Linux, Kubernetes and the like.…

Rogue employee takes blame, seems he ain't no Fortinet son Fortinet this week agreed to pay the US government $545,000 to settle claims it allowed employees to peddle Chinese-made gear that would eventually end up being illegally supplied to federal agencies.…

So tonight I'm gonna party like it's, er, two thousand sixteen IBM is attributing another slow quarter to currency headwinds and purchase cycles, as Big Blue logged a dip in revenues for the third consecutive quarter. That means it's back into its old groove of shrinking sales.…

Multiple pre-auth remote code exec holes need pasting over, enterprise IT giant warns Oracle today issued its quarterly security updates, patching a total of 296 vulnerabilities across its massive line of enterprise software.…

iThings flogger, chip-licensing biz put differences aside, agree multi-year modem supply deal Updated Apple and Qualcomm today settled out of court all of their various patent and licensing legal battles against one another around the world.…

Amendment would exempt, um, Google and Facebook Analysis A proposed amendment to California's new data privacy law would drive a huge hole through the legislation, privacy advocates have warned.…

Blocklist biz appears to swing ban-hammer at legit vuln scanners, denies doing so Analysis In recent months, several security researchers have said Spamhaus has been automatically blocking people for carrying out legitimate network port scanning and failed to provide a prompt means of redress.…

UK personal sales drop whopping 17.6%, Windows saves day for biz A general fall in consumer PC sales across Western Europe was particularly marked in the UK, where confidence is "low amidst Brexit-related uncertainty" and sales to consumers dropped by a whopping 17.6 per cent in calendar Q1.…

Freelance techies take note Claims that Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs does not understand its own rules are all the louder now the UK taxman has lost another IR35 case – this time to TV and radio broadcaster Kaye Adams.…

2018 signups down 130,000, 35,000 naughty sites nuked EURid, registry manager of the .eu top-level domain, has reported a plunge of just over 130,000 registrations for 2018.…

ICO slaps £80k penalty on biz that bothered opted-out peeps The UK's data protection watchdog today fined a funeral plan firm £80,000 for contacting tens of thousands of people who had registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS).…

Over two-thirds of attacks Russian biz spied targeted venerable Microsoft suite Russian security biz Kaspersky Lab has said more than 70 per cent of malware attacks it detected last year were made against everyone's favourite Microsoft suite – Office.…

HPC goodness sure to cost an Arm and a leg Folk wanting in on the Arm-based goodness baked into Japan's upcoming "Post-K" exascale supercomputer are in luck – Fujitsu has finished the design and sales of commercial versions will begin some time between October 2019 and March 2020.…

It didn't, by the way – it's a bunch of ad industry folk A hacker collective calling itself Pokemongo that published what it claimed to be personal data of US FBI agents has followed up by breaching the American Advertising Federation.…

By the time we sort that mess out it'll be ready to move again Japanese telco and tech behemoth NTT Corporation has chosen London for its new global headquarters amid a massive reorg, according to reports.…

Once you've wiped the progeny's paw prints from it The iPad has always been a computer of great potential imprisoned by its interface, but two years after opening the cage door, Apple is finally letting it out for a canter around the paddock.…

Reported to be stepping stone for attacks on customers Indian IT outsourcing behemoth Wipro admitted this morning to falling victim to a "sophisticated" phishing attack.…

Also, Boeing's Starliner is tickety boo. No, really Roundup While Falcon Heavy had space fans jumping for joy and a crashing Israeli lander had them sniffling into their Beresheet-branded hankies, last week in space was a busy one.…

Multiple delays have dogged a government policy with a lot to prove Porn-watchers and providers are being kept in the dark over when age checks for access to online smut will come into force, as the government remains schtum about the already delayed roll-out.…

Scaling up for the future, the Pure Storage way Sponsored webcast Most companies today are aware that artificial intelligence and machine learning are set to play an ever more important role within businesses, from anticipating customers' needs to automating and streamlining processes.…

As files pile up, customer numbers grow, storage systems spread, it's only going to get worse Sponsored One customer, one customer order, right? Wrong.…

Payout will cover costs incurred for (not quite) burying cable Google has cut a deal with the city of Louisville, Kentucky, to settle lingering costs from its ill-fated Fiber broadband installation.…

Call goes out to teach sailors all about phishing (and malware, and network security) The US Navy is looking to hire someone to teach the basics of cybersecurity to its sailors.…

In the UK, it seems, someone is trying to think of the children Analysis The famous "Like" button may be on the way out if a new code for social media companies, published by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), has its way.…

Third-party providers of content filter rules could stiff netizens A feature introduced last year in Adblock Plus and a few other related content blocking browser extensions allows providers of filtering lists, under certain conditions, to execute arbitrary code on web pages.…

Email contents exposed for unlucky punters Microsoft says miscreants accessed some of its customers' webmail inboxes and account data after a support rep's administrative account was hijacked.…

Inadvertently highlights easy abuse of IP protection US premium cable company Starz has apologized for a DMCA takedown tornado that saw it demand not only that a news article about piracy be torn offline – but also any tweets that mentioned it.…

Juiciest mobile IP case since Apple battled Samsung over ownership of geometric shapes Apple, the world's third-largest smartphone manufacturer, is once again set to battle its long-term hardware partner Qualcomm in court – but with the stakes raised higher than ever before.…

Dell Technologies, Nutanix have more than half the market licked Top dog Dell Technologies and second-placed Nutanix have more than half the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) market cornered between them.…

Article 13 reasons why... (Why, what did you think we meant?) The UK, the Republic of Ireland, France and Germany were among the 19 nations that today gave the thumbs-up to the EU's Copyright Directive, meaning it should get pushed through the day after tomorrow.…

Cityfibre loses judicial review against ad regulator Broadband infrastructure slinger Cityfibre has lost a judicial review against the UK's Advertising Standards Authority after the regulator decided that the term "fibre broadband" could include connections that used a mix of fibre and copper cables.…

Report scolds maker Thales for poorly understood software A British Army Watchkeeper drone stalled itself and crashed into the sea on a bad weather flight test, military investigators have said – though most of the wreckage was never found.…

Social media hits back at suggestion women are too shy to get a smear test Women are today flooding UK health secretary Matt Hancock's social media presences with pictures of flowers that look a little like female genitalia to protest the suggestion they are "shrinking violets" when it comes to getting smear tests.…

... or this is a massive, massive coincidence. What's a Zuckerberg? We're Siculus! A legal entity called Siculus Inc plans to build a data centre covering 1 million square foot (c 92,900m) next door to Facebook's 2.5 million square feet (c 232,257m) infrastructure campus in Altoona, Iowa.…

After all, it has had a lot of practice in scam payouts UK bank TSB has committed to refund any customer that ends up out of pocket to fraud as it makes a feature of the measure it had to introduce last year when hundreds were ripped off during its IT meltdown.…

Find out at Continuous Lifecycle London next month Events It’s all very well hearing the theories behind DevOps, Containers, Continuous Delivery and more, but nothing beats talking to someone who’s actually put them to work in a real organisation.…

Also: Azure goes big in Britain, Bletchley Park to teach tech and Skype shares some more Roundup As the twin horsemen of the PC apocalypse, the Windows 10 May 2019 Update and Chromium Edge, saddled up to charge at users (in preview form), there were a few other emissions last week from Microsoft.…

Machines win two matches in row to thrash the reigning champions in a match best out of three OpenAI’s video game playing bots OpenAI Five thrashed team OG, the reigning human champions of Dota 2, on Saturday in matches that were live-streamed from San Francisco.…

Wait until you see the real thing, folks... A leading industry figure has dismissed 5G "launches" in Korea and the United States as "LTE with new shoes".…

Lockable doors on the server room? Those are for losers Who, Me? Hilarious mishaps! Get your hilarious mishaps! That's right, it's the delectable Who, Me? come again to tickle your tech error taste buds.…

Also massive policy body cam org Axon is pursuing facial recog after all Roundup Another week has passed in the AI world, with military shenanigans, US government regulation and new chips from Qualcomm. Here's the best of the rest.…

Plus, Minnesota and North Carolina cities hit by hackers As April hits its stride, we saw a week of Wi-Fi bugs, Assange's public eviction and King's College warnings.…

Lawsuit accuses database biz of racial discrimination A former Oracle NetSuite account executive has sued the database giant claiming that he was discriminated against because he was Hispanic.…

Polystream says the future of hi-def gameplay is distributed We're doing gaming all wrong, says the CEO of UK-based Polystream, Bruce Grove, and that includes Google new cloud-based games service Stadia that was announced last month.…

NASA Twin Study explores space and Earth poop in twins Spending your days floating in space may give you a nice break from Earth, but be warned, your body might not fully recover when you decide to come back down.…

Multiple providers leaving storage cookies up for grabs The US-Cert is raising alarms following the disclosure of a serious vulnerability in multiple VPN services.…

Privacy activist CthulhuSec outed as head of illegal bazaar For years, it was assumed he had escaped the Feds. But on Friday at Liverpool Crown Court, 24-year-old university dropout Thomas White pleaded guilty to drug trafficking, money laundering and possessing child abuse images and was sentenced to 5 years and 4 months in prison.…

Also in letter to shareholders, Cargo Jeff admits Echo is a bit creepy: 'A black, always-on cylinder in your kitchen...' Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has used his annual shareholders letter to throw shade at legacy database rivals, saying that while no one asked for AWS, businesses were sick of lock-in and punitive licensing deals.…