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Speculation that running joint venture with shipping giant Maersk might be off-putting to rivals IBM has admitted that its blockchain-based trade platform, set up with shipping giant Maersk, is struggling to gain traction with other carriers.…

Ghouls just wanna have fun If, on the eve of Halloween, your mind has turned to Amethyst Realm, the woman who dated more than 15 ghosts, let us get you up to speed. She has settled down. With another spook.…

Currently 'no incentive' for telcos to chase lazy 'uns who ignore requests, admits UK.gov Up to 40 per cent of UK landlords ignore telcos’ requests to connect properties for full-fibre broadband, the government has said, and current laws incentivise operators to exclude those tenants rather than press for access.…

UK's Civil Aviation Authority grounds kit after 'complete loss of power' mid-flight reported The UK's Civil Aviation Authority has temporarily grounded DJI's Matrice 200 following reports of the commercially used drone suffering a complete loss of power mid-flight and crashing to Earth.…

A brutally functional work device Review On a recent press trip to IFA, I noticed several journalists discreetly packed a BlackBerry as a second phone. By day they wrote about gadgets, and the BlackBerry wouldn't get name-dropped.…

Chip maker Fujian Jinhua labelled 'national security' risk The US department of commerce has issued an edict that effectively bans American companies exporting technology to Chinese DRAM maker Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company.…

It's coming, but only for enterprise customers Australian businesses will soon get retail offers for the kind of National Broadband Network services consumers pine for: symmetrical gigabit-per-second Ethernet access, delivered over fibre.…

This time use people who know what they're doing Interview The new Cabinet secretary and head of the British civil service, Mark Sedwill, has a chance to rethink how the UK government does IT.…

Shake-up might give Apple's phone shipments a boost After years in the doldrums, the iPhone XR could boost Apple's phone shipments.…

Engineers hope it will land a rover safely for the future Mars 2020 mission Video NASA engineers have launched a gigantic parachute as big as a size of a house at record speed to prepare for its Mars 2020 mission.…

Traditional math heavy calculations are just too slow AI can help chemists crack the molecular structure of crystals much faster than traditional modelling methods, according to research published in Nature Communications on Monday.…

Dictation tool was more than just another app for those with disabilities A seemingly insignificant product cancellation is having a far-reaching impact on a particular community of Mac users.…

Quick takeaway: most everyone sucks at IaaS The average business has around 14 improperly configured IaaS instances running at any given time and roughly one in every 20 AWS S3 buckets are left wide open to the public internet.…

Huawei, ZTE are threats to critical infrastructure. Super Micro servers? No problem The head of the Australian Signals Directorate, the Down Under equivalent of America's NSA, has said Chinese vendors Huawei and ZTE would be a threat to critical infrastructure if they were allowed to take part in building the country's 5G networks.…

Our eye on the sky winks open Astroboffins the world over drew a collective sigh of relief to hear that the Hubble Space Telescope has been formally returned to service.…

The world according to FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly Comment It has long been a sad truth that Washington DC lives within its own distorted universe, but even by DC standards a recent speech by federal regulator Michael O'Rielly is a wonder to behold.…

Don't chuck away the software away just yet For all the fuss over algorithms and machine learning, computation can't quite compete with people when it comes to lossy image compression.…

That furious clicking you hear is Charlie Brooker frantically writing his next script A newly developed class of brain implants could also become hacking targets, researchers are warning.…

Thirsty for cloud? Let's have a drink Analysis IBM has spent a good long spell slumped at the bar in the last chance saloon for businesses figuring out how to make a mark in the public cloud arena. The proposed buy of Red Hat is supposed to change all that.…

Chancellor says not 'sustainable or fair' that digital shops aren't paying a fair share UK chancellor Philip Hammond has used today’s budget to take aim at tech giants who he says aren't paying their fair share of tax in the nation and is promising to introduce a digital sales levy in 2020 to rectify this.…

Bluffing no more Hands On "We're not the cheeky upstart anymore," OnePlus told us at previews of the 6T flagship, its seventh, launched today.…

Faster controllers, doubled capacity Fujitsu has announced the fourth generation of its high-end DX8900 array with 50 per cent more drives, doubled storage capacity, faster caching, a 1.3x performance boost and the addition of compression.…

Chugga chugga chugga chugga... EEEEE... we are currently unable to process... Updated Train companies across the UK are unable to take online ticket bookings due to what has been described as a "national issue" with the country's reservation service.…

Report slams lack of empirical measures on hardships Brit MPs have expressed serious concerns about the Department for Work and Pensions' ability to transfer 4 million people on legacy benefits to its embattled Universal Credit programme.…

Next stop, formaldehyde-free mattresses? Xiaomi will officially launch in the UK with its first physical store in November – and retail support from Hutchison's Three UK.…

Little by Little, he, er, Lost Control of his garden A man from Radcliffe, Greater Manchester, allowed dog toffee to build up in his garden over the summer months to the point that his neighbours couldn't bear to open their windows.…

Meanwhile, China notches up another launch success and a commerical orbital miss While the Hubble Space Telescope gingerly spun its gyros back to life, China and Russia were busy lighting the business ends of rockets with varying levels of success in this week's round-up.…

Two weeks till doors open on our conference Events We’ll be throwing open the doors at Serverless London in two weeks time, that's Nov 12, with a programme that is not just platform-agnostic, but shows how the technology is used in applications from connected cars to broadcast to international development.…

Plus Blighty goes full Kubernetes and Windows Mixed Reality still a thing in this week's round up While Microsoft celebrated another earnings bonanza and its flagship operating system continued to remain conspicuously absent there was plenty for the followers of Redmond's antics to chew over.…

Just one of the pitfalls of fruity brand's biz in FY'19, stock market gamblers warned Apple could be the “collateral damage” in the escalating trade war between Donald Trump’s US administration and China's government, a Wall Street analyst has warned.…

Servicemen and women 'deserve' access to our tech... even if that includes Windows 10 October 2018 Update Microsoft has responded to critics - some of them on the payroll - over its decision to keep selling tech to the US military, including its recent bid for a whopping $10bn cloud contract tendered by the Pentagon.…

But fake fix wins more praise Who, Me? Welcome once more to Who, Me?, our weekly column in which readers confess to their worst IT cock-ups.…

Including: Bonus IBM Watson Health drama Roundup Let's kick Monday off with a bunch of bits and bytes you may have missed last week from the world of AI – alleged intelligence or artificial intelligence, depending on where you stand.…

Not a great look for an industry tackling data bias issues Special report Like something out of HBO's TV satire Silicon Valley, Neural Information Processing Systems is one of the world's top AI conferences.…

Mainframe giant to try on open-source outfit IBM intends to acquire enterprise Linux maker Red Hat for $34bn (£27bn).…

Selling toolsets is a no-no, distributing them for free a gray area Analysis This week the US Copyright Office ruled it's OK for Americans to break anti-piracy protections in a bunch of home and personal devices, and vehicles, in the course of fixing or tinkering with said equipment.…

Plus, GSA shamed for glacial notification pace Roundup This week's headlines included buggy cranes, WebEx cockups, and DNS drama.…

Scientists watch from 1,000 miles away as Charlie the Rover plays with ExoMars' toys A prototype Mars rover, named Charlie, has gone for a trundle around Spain’s Tabernas Desert this week, as scientists gear up for the real thing in 2021.…

Your gentle first-steps to processing live information streaming from networked sensors Comment The Internet of Things is growing, and it feels unstoppable.…

The state's top court, however, may be asked to intervene Florida's Fourth District Court of Appeals has granted a petition by a defendant not to be forced to reveal his iPhone passcode and iTunes password, based on the US Fifth Amendment's protection against self-incrimination.…

US govt's legal challenge halts rollout of internet safeguards The US state of California has agreed to put its controversial net neutrality law on hold pending a legal challenge against it from the federal government.…

Hole opens up remote-code execution to miscreants – or a crash, if you're lucky A security bug in Systemd can be exploited over the network to, at best, potentially crash a vulnerable Linux machine, or, at worst, execute malicious code on the box.…

Yeah, everyone's getting fed up with next-gen wireless hype Once in a generation, a technology comes along that changes everything: how we work, communicate, trade, live.…

Massive hacker playground can be spun up on the cheap A group of Italian researchers have developed a blueprint for a massive virtualized enterprise network to allow for large-scale security tests without ruining an IT manager's day.…

Whack-a-Troll: Ad biz smashes latest manipulation plot to show it's doing... something Facebook, the antisocial advertising platform on which anyone can promote just about anything, on Friday said it found people promoting political discord in the US and UK, yet again.…

New production facilities may not be needed, if doom-monger analysts are to be believed In its third 2018 quarter, SK Hynix revenues were up a massive 41 per cent, year on year, to a record $9.94bn, with net income of $4.08bn, a rise of 53.5 per cent on the year.…

Talk about scorched earth policies Kill it with fire! A bloke from Fresno, California, almost burned his parents' house down when he opted for a blowtorch to address the property's black widow spider population.…

Talk about scorched earth policies Kill it with fire! A bloke in Fresno, California, almost burned his parents' house down when he opted for a blowtorch to address the property's black widow spider population.…

Great selfies too, Donald Cheeky Huawei has advised the President of the United States to use one of its own Chinese-designed phones to avoid eavesdropping.…

Oh mate: Over 1k Bavarian workers bite nails over upcoming plant closure There's trouble at Fujitsu: it is removing EMEIA* boss Duncan Tait from the board – the first non-Japanese exec ever invited on to it – and wants to shutter its German manufacturing plant. Oh, and it's laying off half the number of executive officers that work across the group.…