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Critical patch available now for those with vulnerable kit Cisco has issued a security patch for a flaw in some of its routers that can be exploited by miscreants to potentially rifle through telecommunications networks.…

Website settings altered to point visitors to malicious clones Internet domain registrars and at least one registry were hijacked to change certain websites' DNS settings so that visitors to said sites were in fact directed to password-stealing phishing pages, researchers detailed on Wednesday.…

Welcome to the free market as defined by right-wing politics America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will block the entry of the world's largest mobile company – China Mobile – into the US market, citing security concerns.…

Why? Because biased AI is bad news for minorities Microsoft president Brad Smith has revealed that the company turned down an order from California cops for its facial recognition technology over human rights concerns.…

IT services are in, building and upgrading your own data centres – not so much Bean counters at Gartner have updated their forecast for IT spending in 2019, and the total remains roughly the same - $3.8tn – but the way the money is distributed is very different from the numbers projected in January.…

Please speak clearly for the tape... I mean, my ears Interview A gauche "spy" has made clumsy efforts to get critics of Russian antivirus biz Kaspersky Lab to incriminate themselves as shills for rival security companies.…

Should companies be on the hook for criminal employees' doings? Brit supermarket chain WM Morrisons is headed for the Supreme Court to fight an earlier ruling that made it liable for one disgruntled employee dumping the personal details of 100,000 colleagues online.…

Sure, FPGAs don't make much cash, but they might soon? Intel is buying Omnitek, a small British FPGA design house primarily serving the media and broadcast industries.…

That Storwize array refresh was really needed Analysis IBM has posted a third sequential quarter of storage hardware revenue decline as part of its first 2019 quarter's results.…

Virgin complaint upheld The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has slammed Brit telco Vodafone's ads for its "Gigafast Broadband" as misleading.…

Skip it, it's a Google thing Linux-loving hyperscale types at Euro startup Quobyte have pushed out a plug-in for its Data Centre File System, used in HPC-style workloads, that enables TensorFlow apps to access its files directly instead of having to traipse through the Linux kernel.…

You have three months left of unfettered self-love to enjoy Stick 15 July in your diary because the government has at last broken its silence over when the UK's age checks for online porn will come into force – thrusting legions of onanists a timeline for either their last hurrahs or how they intend to circumvent the system.…

Deadline for 5G kit was perilously close Comment The dramatic peace treaty between Apple and Qualcomm is good news for iPhone buyers, but raises questions about the market's ability to produce a viable competitor to the 5G leader – at least in the short term.…

Can't take over the galaxy if you don't know how it works, innit? American researchers are working to introduce the laws of physics into machine learning models to improve the way algorithms understand the real world.…

Wednesday off every week? OK, you have our attention Wednesday, colloquially known as "hump day", tends to be regarded as the toughest of the working week. Furthest from the weekend in either direction, distracted eyes flit constantly clockwards in anticipation of medicinal refreshment or simply just leaving a bureaucratic hellhole.…

I was slapped in Nebraska, sunshine, not California Special report In the internet era where people are able to interact across wide geographic areas, the world's legal systems have struggled with the question of where an offence occurred and so where a lawsuit or criminal charges should be lodged.…

Dead telescope keeps on giving Binary star systems are relatively rare but astroboffins poring through data from the now-defunct Kepler telescope have found something unique - a binary system with three planets.…

Put that on the side of a bus While the UK government has been trumpeting Blighty's ambitions in the great beyond, a little bit of Scottish satellite infrastructure will close its doors for the last time this month.…

Approach could one day create faster data centre interconnect Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany have said they have developed a novel method of encoding information with lasers that could boost the amount of bandwidth sent down a strand of fibre to 240 gigabits per second.…

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.…