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EMEA shipments for calendar Q1 up 16.7% on last year. As for the rest of the market.... There is a flicker of positivity in the world of Apple hardware – iPads are flying off retailers' shelves again.…

Because those 80,000 codices are getting a bit oldy-moldy now The Holy See has upgraded the data centre used to preserve the extensive collection of historic documents held in the Vatican Apostolic Library.…

Auto-detects structured data... some of the time Amazon Web Services has announced the general availability of Textract, a service for converting scanned documents to text.…

Brit spies' idea would backdoor WhatsApp et al without breaking the crypto Bruce Schneier, Richard Stallman and a host of western tech companies including Microsoft and WhatsApp are pushing back hard against GCHQ proposals that to add a "ghost user" to encrypted messaging services.…

TITSUP* at Wynyard, Doxford bit barns leave finance clients with some free time – sources The dust is settling at DXC Technology following an outage at its Wynyard colocation site in England yesterday that hosts services for a bunch of FTSE 50 financial services clients, insiders have told us.…

US to smother the planet with liberty, whether we like it or not Logowatch Whether it's Puff Daddy to P Diddy, Sci Fi to Syfy or French fries to freedom fries, the US is the undisputed king of dubious rebranding exercises.…

High Street help with those Blue Screens of Death Microsoft will open its first bricks and mortar store in the UK on 11 July, located in London's Oxford Circus – just a short walk from Apple's shiny Regent Street boutique.…

This will be the PCIe 5.0, this will be the PCIe 5.0 PCI-SIG, the industry consortium that oversees the Peripheral Component Interconnect Express specification, rolled out PCIe 5.0 on Wednesday, promising speedier data transfers between connected computer components.…

Nanshou malware hijacked more than 50,000 MS-SQL boxes with rootkits More than 50,000 servers around the world have been infected with malware that installs crypto-coin-mining scripts and advanced rootkits, it is claimed.…

Folks reported non-functioning volume control in February, still no firmware fix in sight If you are fed up with shouting at a so-called smart assistant to make yourself heard, you must be one of the many Google Home customers who have lived with a less-than-stellar digital butler lately.…

Your repo's dependencies need updating to close a hole? We're way ahead of you, pal GitHub can now automagically offer security patches for projects' third-party dependencies.…

First gas giant spotted in the so-called 'Neptunian Desert' Astrophysicists have discovered a rogue exoplanet that has managed to cling onto its atmosphere despite lying fatally close to its parent star, defying all expectations.…

Class-action lawsuit accuses Cupertino of flogging personal info to marketroids Apple has been hit with a class-action complaint in the US accusing the iGiant of playing fast and loose with the privacy of its customers.…

'We hacked the results to reach one of the most difficult places: The top of the world’s largest search engine' Updated The North Face tried to sneakily replace images on Wikipedia pages with shots of models wearing the outdoor-clothing biz's clobber in an attempt to skyrocket to the top of Google Images.…

Secure comms biz says it simply follows the law – plus, there's always Tor Updated ProtonMail, a provider of encrypted email, has denied claims that it voluntarily provides real-time surveillance to authorities.…

OEMs toes the line for that sweet, sweet marketing moolah This week at Computex in Taiwan, Chipzilla finally shared the specific details about Project Athena – its valiant attempt to tell PC makers how to do their job.…

They think it's a level playing field. How sweet Huawei is trying to have a key part of American lawfare against the Chinese company thrown out by a US court – on the grounds it breaks the United States constitution.…

Now you can VPN from a cheap router – but only to a premium Azure Gateway Microsoft has announced the general availability of OpenVPN support in Azure point-to-site VPN gateways, used to enable client PCs and devices to connect to an Azure network via a secure tunnel.…

Angry boffins start questioning standards body's independence Compsci academics are startled by how the US-based IEEE is complying with American sanctions on Huawei. That includes halting peer review by anyone connected to the Chinese company – and banning them from buying IEEE-branded coffee mugs.…

No magic here, just lots of chunky GPUs Nvidia revealed EGX earlier this week, its distributed platform for machine learning applications, based on Kubernetes. Now Taiwanese server vendor Tyan has furnished one of the first examples of the kind of hardware that will be used with EGX.…

And what was he hoping to study? Social Sciences "Not tonight, love." We've all been there – sometimes life throws you a curveball and the ensuing despondency firmly shelves making the beast with two backs for a while.…

So grocery giant need not fear the result of a hundred battles – at least that's the theory Retail empire Walmart, proud owner of the British supermarket chain Asda, has appointed Suresh Kumar as its global chief technical officer.…

Back 2 school and retail spending slows, but there's hope for commercial market as Microsoft turns off Win7 support taps EMEA PC shipments look set to shrink in 2019 due weak consumer sales and the effect Intel's prolonged CPU shortages will have on product availability during the Back To School season.…

Deep-sleep state sips less juice, but active state slurps more Intel has added two more PCIe lanes to speed up its Optane memory disk drive caching device and tweaked power handling for a lower deep-sleep power draw.…

And we've been hurt before At Computex in Taipei, Microsoft exec Nick Parker talked up the "evolution of the PC ecosystem", describing a future modern operating system which is secure, connected and AI-powered.…

Over half a billion installs? This one's not over yet, we reckon News aggregation app Flipboard has publicly confessed that hackers accessed personal data about its members.…

'We're big fans,' says company's announcement Pivotal, developer of the open-source Spring Framework for Java, has confirmed official support for OpenJDK to address "questions in the community" about changes to the way Oracle Java SE is distributed and supported.…

Mindgeek left him totally unsatisfied, he says An irate infosec researcher has accused Pornhub owners Mindgeek of out-of-scoping what he described as "critical" vulns in a cartoon pornography-themed mobile games site.…

Yes, my son... I recall it was spring of 2019 when the bloodshed finally ended The two warring factions pushing HTML and DOM standards have agreed to down weapons and work together.…

Just a 16% chance of being banged up for computer misuse Analysis Nearly 90 per cent of hacking prosecutions in the UK last year resulted in convictions, though the odds of dodging prison remain high, an analysis by The Register has revealed.…

How to renew your digital estate Sponsored webcast Do you have the feeling that your IT infrastructure is stuck in the weeds but are wary of the potential challenges of moving to a more flexible platform?…

But if you're old/experienced then payday deadline is 8 July DXC Technology has opened a voluntary redundancy programme for staff across its operations in the UK and Ireland - though graduates, apprentices and quota-carrying sales folk need not apply.…

Freeloaders will be limited to less capable content filtering Google Chrome users will continue to have access to the full content blocking power of the webRequest API in their browser extensions, but only if they're paying enterprise customers.…

Tricky to exploit in the real world, which is good because no official fix is available yet A vulnerability in all versions of Docker can be potentially exploited by miscreants to escape containers' security protections, and read and write data on host machines, possibly leading to code execution.…

Watch for yourself Videos “Do not believe what you see on the internet, OK?” a techie, who doctors video clips apparently using AI algorithms and puts them on YouTube, has warned.…

If you haven't patched CVE-2019-0708 aka BlueKeep, then, well, now would be a good time The critical Windows Remote Desktop flaw that emerged this month may have set the stage for the worst malware attack in years.…

Shipping biz so very sorry for 'inadvertently misrouting' technical docs from Japan to China through US In addition to mistrusting foreign technology companies because of the risk of IP packet diversion, nation-states may also have to shy away from foreign shipping firms for fear of package diversion.…

Officials want to upgrade rules from device searching to message interception Government officials in Germany are reportedly mulling a law to force chat app providers to hand over end-to-end encrypted conversations in plain text on demand.…

Replaces industry standard with homegrown DHCPLB code Antisocial media giant Facebook has published the source code for the latest version of DHCPLB, adding server functionality to the tool that was first developed by FB engineers for hardware provisioning and load balancing.…

Potential spanner in the works for mainframes biz agreement IBM's mooted takeover of Deutsche Telekom's mainframe services business, T-Systems, has hit a speed bump.…

That's now €1.4bn splurged on the small town of Hamina Pre-eminent data-slurper Google has said it will spend €600m (£529m) to expand its data centre footprint in Hamina, on the frozen shores of the Gulf of Finland.…

Built with help from Red Hat All kinds of software is moving into lightweight application containers, and the fact hasn't been lost on Nvidia – the GPU supremo has launched a platform for machine learning at the edge of the network, based on Kubernetes.…

Projects cheap furniture into your home – but says nothing about all those leftover screws Furniture and meatball purveyor Ikea is launching a mobile app that will project what furniture should look like into punters' homes (if they follow the instructions correctly, of course) then allow them to buy it.…

Price cuts? Tick. More price cuts? Tick. Damn, where to next for Tim Cook and co? Apple and Samsung collectively sold almost 17.5 million fewer smartphones globally in the opening quarter of 2019 than they managed a year ago as buyer fatigue continued.…

Also, Boeing fires Starliner's rockets Roundup Last week the Champagne corks were popping as SpaceX flung Starlink into orbit and the achievements of Apollo 10 were celebrated. There was, however, plenty of other space news to go around.…

UK.gov hasn't appealed High Court ruling yet – but regulator upholds ban anyway UK comms regulator Ofcom has told people wanting to set up a GSM gateway that it will not be authorising them to do so, pending a planned government appeal against a recent High Court judgment.…

Chinese app titan switches course, but it's a risky one ByteDance, the company behind vast video-sharing platform TikTok, is planning to build its own mobile handsets pre-loaded with its applications.…

More Mac tickling with Defender ATP and Visual Studio gets a point one Roundup As the dust settles following the twin launches of Windows 10 and Windows Server, there were happenings in the Microsoft world that you might have missed in the all the kerfuffle. Welcome to Tuesday's Redmond roundup.…

Chinese giant wants insurance policy in Trumpulent times Alibaba is mulling a massive secondary share offer in Hong Kong, according to reports.…

The good, the bad and the weird DataStax Accelerate Data management biz DataStax chose the comfy surroundings of its annual user knees-up to open its kimono on near-future plans: a Kubernetes operator, a developer-focused API generator for Constellation – its newly minted database-as-a-service – and a desktop version of its flagship software suite.…