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Worse news, there's more in alcohol than tap water Humans consume and inhale up to 121,000 bits of microplastic every year, per person, according to estimates published in a study this week, and the authors warn they may be underestimating that figure.…

We translate domain registry CEO's hit piece Analysis Nominet, which runs the .uk domain-name registry, has taken a leaf out of Donald Trump's playbook, and called our report this week into its sale of up to £100m worth of domain names "fake news."…

Lmao, we're not paying that chump change, says ad slinger Google has appealed the $1.7bn (€1.49bn, £1.32bn) fine set by the European Commission for strangling rival advertising networks with the firm grip of its dominant search platform.…

Pension fund lawsuit could reveal evidence of dodgy sales – or clear Big Red completely The ongoing lawsuit between Oracle and a major pension fund over claims Big Red artificially inflated its cloud revenues has just stepped up a notch.…

Updates are on the way… if you have a Google device, at least Google has released its June bundle of security vulnerability patches for Android, with fixes for 22 CVE-listed flaws included.…

YouTube happy to spare iGiant embarrassment but won't take down 'slur' vids MP3 Apple's focus on privacy, if you're not in China that is, now extends to its events, at least the embarrassing moments.…

Assured exec stumbles when probed over sales screwups Autonomy Trial Fresh from regretfully admitting she wanted to throw HP’s former CEO “under the bus,” Meg Whitman today told London's High Court Leo Apotheker said to shareholders he wouldn’t do a “transformative” acquisition – before doing that exact thing and buying Autonomy.…

WTO appoints three-bod panel to rule if levies break its rules The World Trade Organization has appointed the three-person team whose job it will be to determine if the tariffs levied by the US's Trump administration on Chinese goods are flouting its rules.…

Microsoft's Azure brought in to plug gaps in Big Red's product Microsoft got together with Oracle today to fling interoperability at users of Azure and the latter's less-loved Cloud.…

Sends me into Newquay airspace when I see her pretty face The UK government is flinging more cash at Blighty's embryonic launch capabilities, with another £20m up for grabs.…

Anyone who thinks otherwise should Benioff Digital transformation - sorry readers, we feel sick too - is as important to CEOs in this day and age as preparing for the Millennium Bug was to CIOs in the countdown to the year 2000.…

At least no one had much use for the metal monstrosity In parochial Blighty, it seems like a month doesn't go by without some ne'er-do-wells stealing a church roof to sell as scrap metal. But the UK's crims could learn a thing or two from their Russian counterparts, who have made off with an entire rail bridge.…

We'll show you how to consumerise communication without losing control Sponsored webcast You won’t be surprised to hear that company employees like to use simple, effective tools when collaborating with their colleagues and partners. Those tools may lie outside the traditional confines of IT but they get the job done.…

Then-CEO also told Mike Lynch's people to 'grow up' Autonomy Trial Meg Whitman told London's High Court today she regretted saying she was "happy to throw Leo [Apotheker] under the bus in a tit-for-tat" during the fallout over HP's purchase of Autonomy.…

Absolutely criminal behavior – unrestricted file upload, really? Exclusive Phishing kits – used by miscreants to build webpages that steal victims' personal information and money by masquerading as legit websites – harbor vulnerabilities that can be exploited by other miscreants to pilfer freshly stolen data.…

Historic St Paul's digs among 270 offices offloaded BT is shuttering more than 270 UK offices as part of a three to five-year grand plan to carve out £1.5bn in expenses.…

Promises to give EU the goods by 2021 After just six months, the EU-funded project attempting to build home-grown CPUs that would power future European supercomputers has delivered its first architectural designs.…

Not even a video link, lawyers tell judge Autonomy Trial Sushovan Hussain, former chief financial officer of Mike Lynch's Autonomy, will not testify in his defence to London's High Court.…

Azure Active Directory integration and super secret APFS volumes? Oh my WWDC Amid the hoo-ha surrounding Apple's WWDC announcements were some nuggets aimed at encouraging enterprises to get snuggly with the fruity firm's devices.…

Speaker identification and more listening in: welcome to the future of voice assistants Amazon has submitted a patent application which suggests the firm plans to capture your speech and send it to the cloud for processing before as well as after hearing a "wakeword" trigger.…

Today in current affairs... Video Scientists studying the degradation of lithium-ion batteries believe fast charging will damage the power packs faster than one might expect.…

Inoffensive, nondescript logo screams 'building a safer world' Logowatch The strategy boutique opened a pop-up shop on the wild steppe of Kaspersky Lab yesterday as the Russian antivirus developer revealed a daring redesign that involves dropping the word "Lab".…

Claims of country and western music, cowboy management, cooking the books to be aired Autonomy Trial Meg Whitman will enter the High Court’s witness box today to give evidence about HP’s controversial purchase and $8.8bn writedown of Mike Lynch’s British software firm Autonomy.…

Snouts in the trough for The Great British Brand Sell-off Special report Nominet, the operator of the dot-UK domain-name registry, has been accused of designing a scheme to give its largest members a £100m payday.…

The ruddy things are getting in the way of our radio telescopes! The International Astronomical Union has warned against the rise of satellite constellations in Earth's night sky, such as SpaceX's Starlink system, since their brightness and noise could hamper future scientific research.…

No one has complained so far, fed honcho protests Three years ago, the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that the FBI had very limited metrics about the accuracy of its face-recognition technology.…

Outsourced silos of personal info raided, at least 200,000 payment details swiped Hackers have raided databases containing millions of medical test lab patients' personal and payment information, making off with at least hundreds of thousands of people's banking details.…

Hello London! Buh-bye kiosks Microsoft has quietly swung the axe on a chunk of its retail operation, with "speciality stores" in America bearing the brunt of the blade.…

echo "And we're ok with this" For the past decade, Apple has avoided updating the Bourne Again SHell, better known as bash, for its desktop operating system due to the iGiant's distaste for the GPLv3 license attached to the command interpreter.…

Engineers struggled to restore own packet-starved systems during four-hour SNAFU Google says its four-hour wobble across America and some other parts of the world on Sunday was caused by a bungled reconfiguration of its servers.…

US House Judiciary Committee and the Antitrust Subcommittee open Big Tech investigation American lawmakers are opening an investigation into the dominance of large digital companies in their respective marketplaces, sending a collective shudder across Silicon Valley.…

Or so claim these security bods after clocking proxy-installing fake Flash plugin A devious and baffling new strain of malware intercepts and tampers with internet traffic on infected Apple Macs to inject Bing results into users' Google search results, we're told.…

Astro-amateurs catch raging storm in a moment of shedding Updated The storm that has been raging on Jupiter for the last 400 years or so could be coming to an end earlier than expected, judging by observations from some in the amateur astronomer community.…

Free open source office suite gets better, but use the redaction tools with care The Document Foundation has released the first beta of LibreOffice 6.3, with new features including a redaction tool and a Fourier Analysis spreadsheet function.…

'Underperformance', liquidity problems fingered, vendor relationships 'increasingly strained' American cloud peddler Fusion Connect has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, after entering a series of risky mergers and accumulating more debt than it could hope to repay.…

Bruce Willis thankfully not involved Oracle has emitted an update for release 5 of its modestly named Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel (UEK) for Linux.…

When supply doesn't meet demand, biz goes looking for action elsewhere With the Windows 7 refresh cycles forecast to run and run, Intel's protracted CPU shortage is sending conservative corporate enterprise buyers into the arms of AMD – or so says HP Inc's CEO.…

Like a childhood dream come true Samsung smartphones are set to do a lot more than just run Crysis after the company agreed to license AMD's GPU designs for its mobile devices in a multi-year deal.…

Upgraded its systems after attack in early '18, just enough to detect attack in late '18 The Australian National University (ANU) today copped to a fresh breach in which intruders gained access to "significant amounts" of data stretching back 19 years.…

Developing for iGiant's platform just got way easier WWDC Apple's freshly laid SwiftUI uses a declarative syntax to create user interfaces and enables powerful new visual design tools in Xcode, the company's developer tool for Mac and iOS applications.…

Used in 34% of American searches. Really Microsoft's don't-mention-the-G-word search engine, Bing, has just the candles blown out on its 10th birthday cake.…

Boffins craft code that compresses machine-learning models for modest microchips Eggheads have devised software that can automatically produce machine-learning models small enough to run inside tiny microcontrollers.…

Journey into future of disruption with Carl Miller Nothing demonstrates the extent to which Silicon Valley has disrupted society better than Twitter and the head of state who seemingly live tweets his thoughts as they occur to him: Donald Trump.…

How to turn your data into valuable business insights Sponsored webcast The arrival of cloud, 5G, the internet of things, and a proliferation of increasingly complex application environments has generated an ever-growing volume of data that can make mere IT mortals feel overwhelmed by a tsunami of machine data. The velocity, volume, variety and veracity factors must be factored into how companies can sift through all their data and turn it into clear insights that benefit their business and advance its goals.…

Also: 53 years since NASA first soft-landed on Moon Roundup Last week NASA finally issued an update on the SpaceX Crew Dragon anomaly while Northrop Grumman enjoyed one all of its very own.…

Video streams can be hijacked by anyone on your Wi-Fi Owners of Supra Smart Cloud TVs are in danger of getting some unwanted programming: it's possible for miscreants or malware on your Wi-Fi network to switch whatever you're watching for video of their or its choosing.…

Not due to whiz past, 5.9 million km away, until 2123. NASA still wants to crash a DART into it A pair of asteroids just whizzed past Earth at 70,000 KPH (43,496 MPH), and although the flyby presented no danger to our home world, we can learn from the close encounter to potentially thwart any future menaces from the cosmos.…

Redmond kinda just shrugs after advertising systems sling scareware pop-ups at users Application makers are crying foul after some of their programs distributed via the Windows Store popped open tech-support scam ads on users' desktops.…

CJ Silverio floats open-source federated approach to save JavaScript community from corporate clutches After being ousted late last year as CTO of JavaScript package registry NPM Inc in a management shakeup, CJ Silverio on Saturday unveiled a self-hosted federated package registry called Entropic that she hopes will serve the JavaScript community better than her former employer's technology.…

Short-sighted and short-tempered, according to CTA A top, and usually rather conservative, technology trade body has turned on President Trump over his threat to impose tariffs on goods imported from Mexico into the United States.…