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Wanted: A cheap model? Price cuts in China have not helped revive demand for Apple's iPhone according to an analyst firm cited by Bloomberg.…

Plus: A little thing called Brexit has been most distracting A competition review into the giant digital platforms commissioned by the UK's Chancellor of the Exchequer, Philip Hammond, has recommended a new watchdog and greater data rights for users.…

Also upgrades VxBlock options Dell EMC has assembled Ready Stack designs for punters who want to build validated converged infrastructure stacks – customers can use any combo of server, storage and networking as long as it's Dell EMC gear, natch.…

Scream if you wanna go FASTER. SAFE, mate US chipmaker Marvell Technology has created 400Gbps silicon for Ethernet switches, destined for data centres that live at the edge of the network.…

The less we talk about those travel costs though, the better IBM's head honcho Ginni Rometty was paid $16.45m for running the company last year though this was dramatically lower than it could have been – the exec herself downgraded her final incentive score and the board agreed.…

No, not your phone. It's 2019, for heaven's sake. The app Windows Insiders struggling to keep up with the flood of builds were given something new to play with last night.…

Smartphone retailer at centre of very own PPI scandal after FCA probe Misfiring UK mobile phone dealer The Carphone Warehouse was today slapped with a £29.1m penalty by the Financial Conduct Authority for "mis-selling" handset insurance over a six-and-a-half year period.…

Hail of notifications incoming... just be thankful 8 passed you by Updated Windows 7 holdouts have been warned to expect a notification suggesting that perhaps an upgrade might be in order.…

XP lingers like that cold you just can't shake Fancy sticking a toe into the warm bath of nostalgia? UK retailer Boots is showing the old Windows XP login screen on a self-service terminal in its Islington store.…

Might want to stop throwing stones for a while... The Bank of England (BoE) has admitted to MPs there is "significant" room for improvement in its IT systems, which cost about a third more than other central government organisations.…

Capital idea, old boy... yes, plenty of capital Analysis OpenAI, a leading machine-learning lab, has launched for-profit spin-off OpenAI LP – so it can put investors' cash toward the expensive task of building artificial general intelligence.…

Venus also turns up a number of undiscovered orbital partners Scientists have spotted, for the first time, gigantic dust rings circling the Sun alongside the orbits of Mercury and Venus.…

Ride the fox, ride the fox Mozilla's Firefox Send, a free encrypted file sharing service, graduated from test to official release on Tuesday after a year and half of refinement.…

DHCP client has trio of remote-code exec vulns – plus SAP, Adobe issue updates Patch Tuesday It's the second Tuesday of the month, and you know what that means: a fresh dump of security fixes from Microsoft, Adobe and others.…

No, of course it wasn't If there was any hope that Congress will make progress on resolving the battle over America's net neutrality protections this legislative session, it was surely snuffed out during a hearing on Tuesday.…

Or C. It's all a libtard plot? A developer specializing in mobile apps for US conservatives is under fire for threatening to call the Feds on someone who reported security shortcomings in its software.…

ICANN tired of delay tactics from Brazil and Peru Amazon may finally get its hands on the .amazon top-level domain it craves, having been blocked for years by the governments of Brazil and Peru, after ICANN finally lost its patience.…

100kW of emergency power in a small footprint – nothing to do with Samsung battery fail Schneider Electric has squeezed out a line of compact three-phase UPS systems designed for small data centres and edge computing locations.…

Hey, at least it was discovered, eventually, and fixed – which is the whole point The Swiss Federal Chancellery (SFC) on Tuesday said security researchers have found an fascinating flaw in the Swiss Post's e-voting system as part of an ongoing penetration test.…

Amit Zavery to join former Big Red man Thomas Kurian at Google – reports Google has poached another of Oracle’s top cloud execs with company veteran Amit Zavery joining his former boss Thomas Kurian at the ad-search behemoth - the latest blow to the Oracle's services ambitions.…

Upgrades postponed for NASA's big rocket budget request in this week's round-up Having plucked a damp Dragon from the ocean, the rest of the week's space news was dominated by a tightening budget will see commercial space seeking a large slice of NASA's Moon pie.…

Service says that's ерунда ProtonMail is "back to running normally in Russia now" after the country blocked access to the encrypted email service, claiming that students at a sports competition were using it to spread anti-regime propaganda.…

No action from US regulator yet Britain's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has banned all Boeing 737 Max flights in UK airspace after a second fatal crash of the type near Addis Ababa in Ethiopia last Sunday killed all 157 people on board.…

Not to be confused with '90s dance-pop iconoclasts the KLF CloudBees has launched the Continuous Delivery Foundation (CDF), which will operate under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation.…

Data protection police come a-knocking. 'Put your computers and docs in the facking bag!' The UK's data protection watchdog today raided two businesses suspected of making millions of nuisance calls.…

Lawsuit accuses Page, Brin et al of harassment cover-up Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin allegedly signed off multimillion-dollar payouts to senior execs accused of sexual misconduct, according to freshly unsealed court submissions.…

The benefits of pragmatism Promo With companies of all sizes anxious to protect themselves from the growing danger of cyberattacks, what does it take to reach a leading role in the security field?…

Open-source debugger takes to the stage in OS's next release Windows 10 has been tweaked to let devs enjoy the delights of DTrace while chasing down pesky bugs.…

Yep, over half a bill for second most-popular web server US application delivery specialist F5 Networks has bought Nginx, the company responsible for commercialising the eponymous open-source software toolkit beloved by web administrators.…

Tough talk as calls for evidence of China naughtiness grow Uncle Sam has reportedly threatened Germany with a reduction in intelligence sharing if it allows Huawei equipment to be installed on its 5G networks.…

Windows 10 workplace and data centre refreshes come good Proof, if proof were needed, that the world is not shifting wholesale to the cloud came this morning as unashamed product reseller Computacenter reported a bumper crop – so to speak – for calendar '18.…

Running fancy new NVMe fabric over boring old Ethernet TCP Israeli startup Lightbits Labs has launched storage software to run NVMe over TCP with optional hardware acceleration.…

Manual backup plans will be slow, burdensome and error-prone, sighs report The UK government has moved so slowly to prepare for a no-deal Brexit that backup plans for IT systems will be burdensome and more error-prone, MPs on the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) have warned.…

Install. Uninstall. Boot. Repeat Microsoft has quietly updated a support document to let us know that Windows 10 will have a crack at uninstalling borked updates – just in time for patch Tuesday.…

That's a lot of racks to stack The 20 largest cloud and internet providers splurged almost $120bn in capital expenditure last year with most of the funds going towards furnishing racks in their vast data centres.…

Govt reminded it should only care about law being observed, 'not in victory or defeat' The US government has been warned about its tone and evasiveness in a long-running suit against Oracle, with a judge describing the manner in which it tried to file another complaint in the case as "troubling".…

Plus: C# editor for Mac fans, Chredge browser news, and more Roundup New builds, new cadence, new code editors and a new browser (for some) defined much of last week at Microsoft.…

What did you think we meant? Astronomers have discovered the closest and most massive binary star pair yet to Earth, according to the latest research.…

This is not a split, insists rent-a-server biz, but time will tell In an effort to keep code for the Elasticsearch project untainted by proprietary bits, Amazon Web Services (AWS) on Monday released a downstream distribution called Open Distro for Elasticsearch that the company promises is "100 per cent open source" under the Apache 2.0 license.…

Victim says she woke to feel dial-a-ride creep groping her in back seat, phone missing An Uber driver has admitted kidnapping and wire fraud charges after he drove a sleeping passenger at least 60 miles from her destination in order to, seemingly, increase his fare.…

Talk about thinking outside the Box... File silos just like poorly secured AWS S3 buckets Various Box Enterprise customers have inadvertently shared, and probably still are sharing, sensitive corporate data on the public internet. And that included Box itself.…

By coincidence Chocolate Factory pulls Canberra drone trial Video Google has just completed a year-long test program for a drone delivery system in Australia – and has applied to launch the world's first commercial delivery drone operation this summer, Down Under. However, the locals aren't pleased.…

Servers-for-hire shop takes nap for repairs Google Cloud Platform (GCP) has been under the weather today, failing to respond to developers for several hours and counting.…

Dystopian forced pregnancy scenarios likely a figment of Western media biases An unprotected MongoDB database of 1.8 million women in China has been taken offline after drawing media attention for the inclusion of a data field designating whether the women are "BreedReady."…

Software may have played a grim role in both fatal accidents China has grounded all Boeing 737 Max 8s on its civil aircraft register after one of the US-made airliners crashed yesterday near Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Operators in other countries, including South Africa and Thailand, have followed suit.…

Inspectors not happy with stagnant security practices NASA's Office of the Inspector General has once again concluded the American space agency's tech security practices are "not consistently implemented".…

Infosec skills are useful. But so are locked doors Journalists were able to bimble into a UK cable landing station almost completely unchallenged after security gates were left open and unlocked.…

We also have Brexit to be utterly unprepared for, yo A half of VAT-registered small biz don't have the software needed to comply with the British government's digital tax reforms - due for launch next month - with each facing bills of almost £600 to bring it in.…

Consolidation in the chip industry as the geepie giant eyes new markets GPU giant Nvidia is to cough $6.9bn for chipmaker Mellanox, known for its data centre networking kit and InfiniBand interconnect tech widely used in HPC.…

He was landing. Marsupials have not yet developed flight As if we needed another reminder that everything in Australia wants to kill you, the ongoing turf war between kangaroos and people has claimed another victim.…