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On same day Germany forces firm's Ts&Cs revamp The European Commission has inserted a probe into Amazon to ascertain if the giant digital souk breaches EU competition regulations by exploiting "sensitive" data from third-party sellers who use its marketplace.…

Enterprise features including support for hated ancient browser ready to evaluate Microsoft had to consider businesses' addiction to Internet Explorer 11 in its roadmap for Edge Enterprise, the business aspect of its new web browser based on Google's Chromium project.…

Hey, that's a real use case, you at the back, stop your sniggering Mobile connectivity provider Vodafone has expanded its 5G network to another eight British towns and cities.…

From the man who brought us the garden bridge and water cannons Analysis Likely future UK prime minister Boris Johnson has pledged to bring full fibre to all homes by 2025, a claim that telecoms experts have widely dismissed.…

A key proposal for Go 1.14 – adding a built-in try keyword – has been declined The Go language will not be adding a "try" keyword in the next major version, despite this being a major part of what was proposed for version 1.14.…

Pssst. You don't need to manually code it, neural networks will do it for you AI algorithms can help you automatically fly a drone of your design, according to new research that will be presented at the SIGGRAPH conference on computer graphics later this month.…

Home Office lacks plan, skills, budget control or achievable deadlines, says watchdog The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has delivered another damning report on the UK Home Office's bungling attempts to procure a replacement communications network for the emergency services.…

There's a bit more to it than leaning down and fumbling for reset switch, though Icarus – the ambitious project to track hundreds of thousands of animals from space – has hit an unexpected delay after a specialised computer installed on board the International Space Station (ISS) refused to work as intended.…

Even businesses' attempts to destroy Windows 7 with firehose of cash fail to reverse sales droop The bad news bus kept on rolling in calendar Q2 as consumer PCs sold to retailers continued their decline. Business customers’ enthusiasm for pricier hardware did, however, keep tech wholesalers revenues afloat.…

Transformed your software development and deployment? Tell us how Event The Continuous Lifecycle London 2020 call for papers is open, and we want to hear what you’ve been doing over the past 12 months.…

Wait, did we get that the right way around? Pic Panic-stricken headlines claiming Earth will be slammed by an asteroid on September 9 this year should be ignored, the European Space Agency (ESA) assures us.…

NIST boffin builds processor-busting buster The US government may have trouble regulating Google – but one of its developers has come up with a way to rein in the Chocolate Factory's resource-hungry browser.…

Galileo, Galileo... time to stop doing the fandango and get on with the global positioning Europe's constellation of positioning satellites is still offline, at time of writing, after six or so days, prompting eggheads to dig into what exactly is going on.…

Software nasties, hackers, rogue admins can exploit bug duo to hide in your systems A pair of vulnerabilities in BMC firmware used in servers built by Lenovo – and in Acer and Penguin Computing boxes using Gigabyte server motherboards – can be exploited to hide malware deep below the operating system, hypervisor, and antivirus.…

Just in case we've not made ourselves clear, Samsung screwed you over, adds Sprint Sprint has told some of its subscribers that a piss-poor Samsung website exposed their personal details to the internet.…

Public-facing insecure ElasticSearch silo found, reported, hidden from view Internal hotel biz documents and guest bookings were exposed to everyone on the public internet from an unsecured database managed by tech provider AavGo, it is claimed.…

Collateral damage: Web advert crackdown broke our fix-it businesses, sigh owners With America's trade watchdog on Tuesday hosting a workshop in Washington DC on restrictions that limit the feasibility of repair devices, hardware rehab forum iFixit has penned an open letter to the FTC to complain about Google's ad policies that hinder the mending of machines.…

Anyone up for a second-hand SuperDraco? Slightly singed? SpaceX has posted an update on the investigation into the destruction of its Crew Dragon test vehicle in April.…

Promises to go all Teddy Roosevelt on anti-trust if elected Bernie Sanders will "absolutely" look at breaking up Facebook, Google and Amazon if he becomes president.…

We'd love to support the standard, says XML inventor Tim Bray - but why not adopt ours instead? Amazon Web Services has gone live with an upgrade of its CloudWatch Events service, EventBridge, which has integration with third-party SaaS applications built in.…

The worst drug-smuggling attempt we've ever seen Hats off to Spanish customs at Barcelona Airport who spotted a Baldrick-level attempt to smuggle cocaine into the Catalan capital.…

Your gentle introduction to this on-and-off prem tech Backgrounder The move to hybrid cloud is growing.…

And Windows XP is alive and not well in the public sector The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has had another busy year trying to disrupt cybercrime.…

Ex-Autonomy CEO continues to deny Filetek was a revenue-pumping contra deal Autonomy Trial London's High Court has seen emails from ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch in which he berated company salespeople for "a massive f***-up" after they bungled a major deal.…

Mind that pocket, Neil... oops On 16 July 1969, Apollo 11 launched from Kennedy Space Center's Launch Complex 39A in Florida on an eight-day mission to the Moon and back.…

It's the Safari Workaround – and there's no working around it this time The man who tried and failed to run a not-a-data-protection-class-action-honest-guv lawsuit against Google in England's High Court is having another crack at it in the Court of Appeal.…

Take a RISC, not a RISC-V, with us, says Softbank's processor design house Attention, chip designers. If you want to add CPU and GPU cores, and other technology, from Arm to your homegrown silicon, and have balked at the upfront costs, this may be of interest.…

Big Blue sings an Appsody to make its software stack easier to use IBM is the latest to pile into devops darling Kubernetes, pulling its Kabanero project out the bag at the O’Reilly Open Source Software conference, currently under way in Portland, Oregon.…

API blunder exposes data, fix incoming from Lenovo Lenovo is emitting an emergency firmware patch for Iomega NAS devices after the network-attached storage boxes were discovered inadvertently offering millions of files to the internet via an insecure software interface.…

Nid fi yw'r bwlb mwyaf disglair yn y canhwyllyr Smart meters in England are suddenly switching to Welsh language displays, much to the confusion of owners.…

Meanwhile, Australia signs 98 federal agencies up to service The German state of Hessen has warned schools not to use Office 365 because the Microsoft suite's cloud storage and telemetry collection are not compliant with the EU's General Data Protection Regulations.…

Now, how about those Surface Book 2s? Microsoft emitted a fresh build of October's Windows 10 last night with tweaks that should bring a smile to the face of Jeff Bezos.…

Also: Virgin Orbit demonstrates it can drop stuff off a 747 Roundup While some at NASA may still be obsessing over past glories, other eyes remained fixed on the Moon, Mars and beyond in this week's rocket-bothering roundup.…

Patched IDOR hole would have been child's play to exploit A now-patched vulnerability in the Amadeus flight reservation system – used by airlines around the planet – could, or may, have been exploited by miscreants to view strangers' boarding passes.…

Meanwhile, UK users still first line of defence against fake ads The fake-Facebook-ad-spotting service goes live today, backed by a £3m donation to Citizens Advice coughed by the social network as a result of legal action from MoneySavingExpert scribe Martin Lewis.…

What could possibly go wrong? Exclusive Wonderful news for some US Medicaid patients: king of the cost-cutters DXC is planning to shunt their data into Amazon's cloud.…

Wherein Verity is troubled by a curious spam Stob "Hi, I am James Bond (Business Development Manager). We specialize in re-designing and re-developing websites if you are considering any of the following projects. Please let us know in case you are interested." – Spam email received by the author…

It records everything, even when someone didn't want to be overheard? And it's in your house? Was zum Teufel! The German parliament has been warned by its official eggheads that Amazon's Alexa digital assistant may not be legal – because it stores voice recordings and overhears things it is not supposed to.…

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Even so, human nerds are left in the dust and this neural net can be used for other tricks A new neural-network can solve a Rubik’s cube twice as fast as the fastest human – though roughly three times slower than the fastest dumb algorithm – according to research published in Nature Machine Intelligence on Monday.…

Just build houses near the ice caps to produce water and grow food. Easy! We may be able to survive and live on Mars in regions protected by thin ceilings of silica aerogel, a strong lightweight material that insulates heat and blocks harmful ultraviolet radiation while weighing almost nothing.…

With trade ban set to kick in next month, jockeying continues Huawei, the Chinese manufacturer targeted by a Trump administration trade ban, is expected to dismiss a substantial number of people in the US in the coming weeks.…

We pay for the hosting so the big G stays: Open-source community-driven code lingo site must sport giant's brand Back in 2009, Google chose to name its latest programming language Go, a decision that is still giving it a migraine…

But Zuck Inc got in first and announced it was delaying its unwelcome electronic currency The US Treasury Secretary today put a big dent into Facebook's Libra cryptocurrency plans, by claiming it would be a "national security risk," as well as a likely source of money laundering for – among others – terrorists.…

Strewth, mate! On Friday, with tax-return season underway, the websites of the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) suddenly went TITSUP (Totally Inefficient Tax Service: Under Performing), causing anguish to thousands of Aussies.…

Looks like the ailing security shop priced itself out of an acquisition by chip giant Symantec's share price has plunged on reports that its planned merger with Broadcom has fallen through.…

Complete with an immersion-cooled machine learning cluster Goonhilly Earth Station, the Cornish-based satellite comms and space tech hub, has cut the ribbon on a data centre to sell colocation and managed services.…

Binary and blueprints: is this the nerdiest banknote ever? Legendary codebreaker and father of theoretical computer science Alan Turing will soon be gracing your pocket on the side of a shiny new £50 note.…

No wonder he seems so well informed Autonomy Trial Former Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch sensationally admitted to London's High Court this afternoon that he has been reading courtroom evidence in advance of being questioned about it.…

Plus: American biz bods could say yes way to Zhengfei... in '2 to 4 weeks' The UK's Science and Technology Select Committee said it can't find any "technical grounds" for chopping Huawei out of the UK's 5G and other telco networks, but said government should consider "ethical" issues and its relationship with "allies".…