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Have enterprise networking portfolio, will travel Cisco could reap the benefits of the Western world's security crackdown on Huawei enterprise networking equipment, analysts from JP Morgan have said.…

New-look firm turns attention to PR offensive Former Hadoop rivals Cloudera and Hortonworks have completed their merger after shareholders approved the plans at the end of 2018.…

Sir, remove your pants meow Singaporean border officials were taken aback at just how happy one gent was to see them – particularly when the bulge in his trousers started mewling.…

Actifio, Exagrid, IBM, WANdisco, WekaIO, and more Roundup 2019 kicked off with storage action from Actifio, Exagrid, IBM, WANdisco and WekaIO, as well as some musical chairs at Mellanox, Weka and Virtuozzo.…

Microsoft had a busy first week of the year. How about you? Roundup It wasn't just the Windows Insider team celebrating 2019 with a fresh emission, the rest of Microsoft joined in too.…

Too much iPhone, and not enough innovation Comment Apple "has never been stronger financially, but is plainly already living on past glories," The Telegraph's Jeremy Warner wrote in 2013.…

TMP is for 'temporary', though. Right? Who, Me? Congratulations on making it through the first week of 2019, and welcome to the first Who, Me? of the year.…

Plus, London Gatwick drone comedy quiets down Welcome to 2019, just a few days into the year and we already have Chromecast chaos, Skype backdoors, and a Weather Channel privacy suit.…

Novel data-siphoning attack is hardware agnostic Some of the computer security boffins who revealed last year's data-leaking speculative-execution holes have identified yet another side-channel attack that can bypass security protections in modern systems.…

fg xjc dua ihut vyfq, xjc uih jci sfat jg mjggfa A new phishing campaign that uses a custom font to hide its tracks and evade detection has been uncovered.…

'Privacy in the digital age is one of the most fundamental issues' says city attorney The Weather Channel app duped users into providing location data that the company then sold for advertising and other commercial purposes, according to a lawsuit brought by Los Angeles City Attorney Mike Feuer.…

Plus an extra 20m passport digits and 8.6m payment card details, though encrypted Hotel megachain Marriott International has gone into further detail on the cyber-raid on its reservation database, including the number of payment cards and passport details siphoned off by hackers.…

Mystery material 'a cold, collisionless fluid' apparently Dark matter may be even more elusive than previously thought, as researchers believe the mysterious material hidden at the heart of galaxies can be moved around with the power of heat.…

Oh, and Cortana? STFU Having quietly admitted that an Internet Explorer update had taken an almighty dump in the Windows Sandbox, Microsoft emitted a fresh build of Windows 10 to fix the problem last night.…

Data protector Acronis luring customers with virty storage Swiss roll Seemingly not content with muscling in on Eugene Kaspersky's territory last year, data protector Acronis said it plans to announce a software-defined data centre product later this month.…

Ooo, that pesky firewall! Huawei has slapped two employees on the wrist for making promotional tweets using a rival Apple's iPhone.…

Politicians, journalists and other public figures targeted German politicians, journalists and other prominent public figures have been doxxed by hackers who distributed their personal data on Twitter, according to local reports.…

Musk's mighty missile erected but not yet engorged with fuel as engineers check it all fits SpaceX took another step toward sticking humans atop its Falcon 9 rocket as one of the units, equipped with a crew version of the Dragon spacecraft, was erected at pad 39A at Florida's Kennedy Space Center.…

This time it's an auditor who literally can't say no A government-sponsored committee has rubberstamped the UK's online porn age verification plans despite poking holes in the China-style surveillance plan.…

A generation that tried the PGP plugin weeps Those who remember trying to configure the Thunderbird of old to work with PGP – an effort akin to learning how to run an Enigma machine while blindfolded – will be watching with interest: the project's coders promise that 2019 will be the year of easy encryption.…

Simply the best! Worse than all the rest! Something for the Weekend, Sir? Don't you just love it at this time of the year when Some Experts predict the new technologies most likely to catch on over the next 12 months? Me neither.…

Start the New Year with a spot of feng shui On Call Welcome to the first Friday, and the first On Call of the new year – we hope your celebrations haven't left you too worse for wear.…

Welcome back, can't wait to crack on, oh, it's Friday already Happy new year. As you read this, we hope you're well past any New Year's Day hangovers, that you've caught up on your post-Chrimbo email backlog, and are fully limbered up for the first meetings of the year... all just in time to tiptoe off into the weekend.…

Dutch consumer club names 42 easy-to-fool cameras Smartphones have boasted facial recognition for some time, but tests in the Netherlands suggest it still falls short of properly securing many devices.…

Some mobes off the shelves pending appeal in international patent battle drama Apple's iPhone 7 and 8 will remain off the shelves in Germany – after Qualcomm posted a €1.3bn (£1.17bn, $1.5bn) bond in case the December court ban is overturned on appeal.…

Yes, taxi app biz has managed the impossible – angering the good folks of Canada Uber's legal campaign to maintain the classification of its drivers as contractors rather than employees suffered a setback in Canada on Wednesday when the Ontario Court of Appeals ruled that the company's arbitration requirement is illegal and unconscionable.…

And by soon, we mean, two billion years It has long been known that our Milky Way is on a collision course with the Andromeda galaxy, with the epic prang to take place in four to eight billion years' time. New data suggests we'll hit another galaxy well before that, though, and the super-smash could send our Solar System headfirst on a path out of the Milky Way.…

Neat trick for spying spouses, bad bosses, other miscreants with hands on your mobe. A fix is available A newly disclosed vulnerability in Skype for Android could be exploited by miscreants to bypass an Android phone's passcode screen to view photos, contacts, and even launch browser windows.…

Inspur, FusionStack and TTA undercut, outperform Chinese behemoth An SPC-1 benchmark (PDF) run by Huawei shows it unable to answer lower-cost competition from three other Far East suppliers.…

The Damn Vulnerable Serverless Application ships expletive-ready To help those deploying serverless applications do so without stumbling into vulnerabilities, security biz Protego Labs has released crappy code in the hope there's something to be learned from studying the bugs.…

Pair of critical flaws cleaned up in Acrobat, Reader Adobe has issued its first patch of the year, emitting fixes for a pair of high-risk vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader.…

Somebody call the waaaaaambulance The prankster who hijacked printers and smart TV gizmos to promote YouTube star Pewdiepie has shut down their website, citing "the constant pressure of being afraid of being caught and prosecuted." No sh*t, Sherlock.…

Our sales are up (though they'd have to be, right?) Bankrupted and rescued array shipper Tintri's new parent, DDN, has said the unit will soon be announcing new enterprise storage products and features including "project Mystic" – a feature teased before the firm's very public collapse.…

Processor thrashed by GIMPS The largest known prime number, made up over 24 million digits, has been discovered by a lone IT professional quietly crunching numbers with an Intel-powered computer in December.…

Airline told me it can't fix fat-fingered email confusion, says NJ bloke Infamous no-frills Irish airline Ryanair has been accused by a tormented man from New Jersey in the US of bombarding him with flight itinerary emails intended for an actual passenger.…

We were wrong about the chicken drumstick, OK? More detailed images have emerged showing 2014 MU69 (aka Ultima Thule) is actually two distinct bodies, held together by the processes that form planets.…

New hotness turned to old and busted in record time thanks to Internet Explorer update No, Windows Insiders, that isn't your New Year's hangover kicking in. After unveiling Windows Sandbox to much fanfare, Microsoft promptly broke it with a cheeky cumulative update.…

Company 'will never present a threat', claims letter to staff Increasingly in the crosshairs of government paranoia and beset by its place in the US-China trade war, Huawei's rotating chairman Guo Ping has come out swinging in a letter to staff.…

Code's up on Github and Google's fine with that University of Maryland researchers have given Google a "welcome to 2019" gift by breaking its latest reCaptcha audio challenge.…

Developers warned not to overindulge in personal data China's Internet Society chapter has warned local internet app-makers to tone down their collection of personal information.…

Version 8 of Amiga Forever arrives to save the gadget drawer from yet more junk Looking glumly at that hunk of retrocomputing-esque plastic you got for Christmas? Realised that the keys on that mini Commodore 64 were just there for decoration? Fear not, for classic Commodore botherers, Cloanto, have just the thing.…

Roll up, roll up for an end-of-holiday storage roundup Three (and a half) storage newsbytes rounded off 2018 with Acronis donating malware detection to a free Google service, Panzura talking about hybrid cloud file indexing services, and CTERA using AWS's S3 tiering.…

Defective kit caused oxygen mask conflagration, court told Apple used to sell its MagSafe technology as a way to prevent accidents. Now the iGiant faces a $75,000 lawsuit over claims its discontinued power adapter connector set a woman ablaze.…

Chang'e 4 makes history with 'soft landing' on lunar surface China's Chang'e 4 spacecraft has touched down on the Moon, state media reports, making it the first-ever probe to set down on the far side of Earth's natural satellite.…

Who could have guessed the $1,100 phone and $800 watch wouldn't sell? Peak Apple Apple shares were temporarily pulled from trading on Wednesday as the Cupertino idiot-tax operation warned of lousy sales numbers on the horizon.…

Comms watchdog lets Chocolate Factory power up with special waiver Three and a half years after debuting Project Soli radar-based gesture input system, Google has received an exemption from the Federal Communication Commission that will allow the ad biz to run the system at higher power levels than regulations currently allow.…

Law firm computers raided, siphoned of info – and companies can pay to redact files, it is claimed The hackers who claim to have breached a British insurer last year say their cache of pilfered files include confidential documents on the September 11 terrorist attacks.…

ESET sheds new light on 'Lojax' firmware infection ESET eggheads have shed more light on the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) rootkit being used by the Kremlin's Fancy Bear hacking crew.…

TITSUP network card fingered for dropped calls (that's a Total Inability To Send Usable Packets) Wyoming is the latest US state to formally probe CenturyLink's network outage, which black-holed 911 calls over Christmas.…

Licensing red-tape violate First Amendment, says court in battle over timing algorithm Oregon's regulations stopping people in the US state from referring to themselves as engineers are unconstitutional, a federal magistrate judge has ruled.…