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Cellular networks asked nicely to 'fess up or something might, maybe, happen some day The US Federal Trade Commission has asked seven American providers of mobile broadband service to provide details about how they deal with customer and device data.…

Could it be that IBM has spent its money wisely for a change? Before it is subsumed by a sea of big-suited IBM blueness, Red Hat somehow managed to miss its own forecasts while turning in some otherwise sturdy financial numbers on Monday.…

Risk-assessment plan snubs Uncle Sam's fears, will let Euro nations freely decide where to get telecoms gear The European Union says it has a plan for securing its 5G networks – and no, it doesn't necessarily involve forbidding the use of Huawei kit, US-style.…

Confusing rules aim to spread the wealth... in two years' time The internet as we know it will end in two years, following the approval of new online copyright rules by the European Parliament.…

Meanwhile US megacorp tells court that Mike bungled his counterclaim Autonomy Trial Ex-Autonomy CEO Mike Lynch’s counterclaim against HPE, amid their ongoing legal battle over HP's ill-fated $11bn acquisition of Autonomy in 2011, will fail – because it was filed against the wrong legal entity, HPE’s barrister boldly claimed in court this afternoon.…

PC maker emits legit version of its driver, BIOS upgrade util after supply chain hijack Asus has released an update for its software update utility to rid about a million of its notebooks of a spyware-laden software update pushed to victims by its software update system.…

The appliance of cloud science... on-premises Not satisfied doing the hybrid thing with HCI in Azure Stack, Microsoft's ambitions to straddle both the on and off-prem tech world have also seen the Azure Data Box Edge released to general availability.…

Plus: Redmond's shot at image recognition, Custom Vision Microsoft has emitted a couple of technologies for its Azure Cognitive Services designed to spot unusual patterns and classify images.…

A legal boffin also gave us some useless advice, moans Grove Pensions A pension-pushing biz has been fined £40,000 for sending 2 million spam emails in twelve months.…

P30 uncannily similar to 2018's P20 bar imaging overhaul Huawei continues to provide stiff competition to Apple and Samsung with P30, its prime 2019 flagship range launched today.…

Windows Server Software-Defined Datacenter gets evolved, blasted by rebrandogun Microsoft slapped Azure Stack with a Hyper Converged Infrastructure (HCI) moniker today to tempt those not ready to go full cloud.…

From resiliency and security to governance Sponsored webcast In this era of increasingly low-cost compute and ever-expanding volumes of data, enterprises are taking a sudden interest in what was once the rarefied preserve of the IT boffins.…

'Sexit' means... more VPNs, says xHamster veep Just a third of Brit smut-watchers say they will play ball with the government's planned age-check system for online adult content when it finally comes into force.…

Creative accounting may not be actual lies, muses judge Autonomy trial The judge in the Autonomy trial at London's High Court has questioned a key plank of HPE's case against former execs Mike Lynch and Sushovan Hussain, asking whether Autonomy's accounting practices were in fact fraudulent – which is what HPE has alleged.…

Cashflow software biz says it is 'confident' taxman will go easy More than a million businesses have yet to register for the British government's new digital tax programme, with less than a week before the reform kicks in.…

Sales into retail sink 25% during Jan and Feb... just breathe everyone, stay calm Brit consumers might have caught the pre-Brexit jitters in the first two months of this year as the amount of PCs sold to retailers crashed, according to shipment figures compiled by channel number cruncher Context.…

Department for Education slammed over wasting cash The Department for Education forked out £15,000 defending its controversial pupil nationality data slurp that was canned just months later.…

Season 2 of Data Centre Wars starts off a bit samey A 100MW data centre campus in County Wicklow, Ireland, is in danger of being delayed or cancelled altogether after an appeal was lodged with the country's planning authority, An Bord Pleanála.…

Everyone's had enough of their sh!t Column Somewhere between Cambridge Analytica and Christchurch, historians of the future will draw a line and say: "This marked the peak of FAANG*'s influence."…

3PAR boss Ivan Ianaccone is the latest to jump ship The boss of HPE's 3PAR has quit for a cloudier future as head of storage at Amazon Web Services.…

Boss makes staggering admission during conf-call to discuss impact of latest cost purge: $60m to be cut from infosec division Exclusive A senior exec within DXC Technology's global security practice has acknowledged his staff's "puzzlement" at the company's reluctance to fund examinations for infosec certifications.…

Astroboffins find and probe a new planetary wonder Fresh storms rip through Neptune’s skies every four to six years creating a blemish known as the Great Dark Spot – and scientists have clocked another formation of the planetary wonder using the Hubble space telescope.…

Predictive prognosis could boost life, profits Video Machine-learning algorithms can predict the lifetimes of lithium-ion batteries, and could help scientists develop better battery designs more quickly and at a cheaper cost, according to a paper published yesterday in Nature Energy.…

In space, no one can hear you scream... with frustration NASA's first-of-its-kind all-women spacewalk, due to take place this week, has been scrapped - in part due to a lack of spacesuits that fit.…

Meanwhile American Airlines cancels 90 flights a day The Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8 that crashed this month, killing all 157 passengers and crew, was actively using Boeing's Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System (MCAS) that is thought to have brought down a similar 737 five months earlier.…

Apple rolls out repairs for 51 iOS flaws, including nasty ones, plus fixes for macOS In addition to teasing the world with a glimpse of subscriptions services for newspapers and magazines, gaming, and video entertainment, Apple on Monday released iOS 12.2, which patches 51 security vulnerabilities.…

0.4 to 10% of corporate wage slaves could be up for the chop Oracle has laid off about 40 people in its Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) group in Seattle – and on Friday began notifying about 250 workers at its Redwood City facility and about 100 at its Santa Clara location, both in California, that they will be let go in May.…

Biz founder also told CFO to 'do what the f*ck you like', court hears Autonomy Trial Former Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch was "most certainly aware" that his British software company had fraudulently hyped up its performance using a carousel of "revenue-pumping" fake sales, HPE's lawyers told London's High Court on Monday.…

Hackers were interested in 600 or so targets, it is claimed A million or so Asus personal computers may have downloaded spyware from the computer maker's update servers and installed it, Kaspersky Lab claims.…

TalkTalk and Sky are the worst, but Vodafone is falling fast TalkTalk and Sky are still dismally disappointing their customers – but Vodafone saw the biggest drop in ratings, according to a broadband survey from consumer group Which?.…

NVMe standard for parking different data types in different zones for faster access Korean chipmaker SK Hynix today announced its Zoned Name Spaces (ZNS) SSD, which stores different data types in different parts of the drive, and said it would start shipping products in the first half of 2020.…

Antisocial network: They gotta go to a DPA, man. Normal ppl can't sue us! Vienna court: I think you'll find... Privacy activist Max Schrems has demolished another "blockade" in his long-running dispute with Facebook in the Austrian courts.…

May 2019: Two courses expose cybercriminals' tools and techniques Promo Organisations can no longer afford to rely on prevention systems alone to protect them from increasingly numerous and determined adversaries who can find their way round most of today's monitoring tools.…

Nom-nom-nom, says hungry private equity type Triton Bidco British satellite communications specialist Inmarsat will be taken private by a consortium of international investors in a deal worth $3.4bn (£2.6bn).…

Bloke alleges boss 'thrust his bum' at him Farting at work is a bigger taboo than discussing pay.…

High Court hears opening shots of long-awaited tech trial Autonomy Trial Mike Lynch's Autonomy Corporation pumped up its value by paying its own customers to buy its products so Autonomy could inflate its accounts, London's High Court was told this morning.…

Now with exclusive cult cinema references Roundup In a week where macOS users got their first taste of Microsoft's Defender and certain vendors received a kick in the virtuals from Azure's cloudy desktop, the gang at Redmond kept on a-building and a-leaking.…

And we'll be there to tell you all about it Autonomy Trial Today begins the tech trial of the year: HPE has hauled Mike Lynch into London's High Court, claiming $5bn from the one-time chief exec of ill-fated UK software firm Autonomy.…

Hoping for an Empire Strikes Back rather than a Big Momma's House 2 Three years after the original comes another NexDock, a laptop shell aimed at owners of Android phones or lovers of the diminutive Raspberry Pi (and its brethren).…

Sept 30 to Oct 2, London – and tickets are going for a song right now Event If you've had enough of the hype, and want to explore the nitty-gritty of applying artificial intelligence, machine learning and data science in your business, you really should join us at MCubed this autumn.…

Also: Boeing delays, and InSight to try diagnostic hammering to catch glitch in act Astronauts may have swapped a set of ISS batteries, but it may be a little while yet before they get a ride on Boeing's finest in this week's round-up.…

There's more than one way to accidentally power-down a workplace, you know Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me?, our weekly trip down memory lane for Reg readers who have cringeworthy yet humorous stories to share with the rest of us.…

Defense insists there's nothing to return. And those Perl files? Purely sentimental. Intel has been granted a preliminary injunction in its trade secret theft claim against former engineering manager Doyle Rivers, who left to work at Micron.…

The week's news in AI and machine learning Roundup Hello, here's a quick rundown on what's been happening in the world of machine learning.…

Boffins show how to nab radioactive contraband, by looking for 'electron avalanches' Lasers could be used to detect radioactive material secretly transported to and from ports one day, according to a group of physicists from the University of Maryland in the US.…

Understanding why is still unOptanium Intel’s Optane DC Persistent Memory DIMM can make key storage applications 17 times faster, but systems builders must navigate ‘complex performance characteristics’ to get the best out of the technology.…

Plus, two crooks craft a veritable fraudocopia Roundup This week we got freaked out about heart implant hacks, welcomed a new Microsoft security tool, and endured yet another Facebook fsck up.…

Org does to privacy what hurricanes did to your house Disaster relief org FEMA has admitted, conveniently on a Friday night, to accidentally leaking banking details and other personal information of 2.3 million hurricane and wildfire survivors.…

What interesting timing US prosecutors have slapped three more criminal charges on ex-Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch, accusing him of securities and wire fraud regarding HP's acquisition of his company.…

Vuln hunters warn malicious applets can bust through protections, snoop on or hijack access gizmos Bug hunters say Oracle's Java Card platform is host to a dozen and a half security flaws that could place smart-cards and similar embedded devices using the tech at risk of hijacking.…