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Without any detail, it's another online cloud service Analysis Google is thundering on with its mission to "democratize AI" with its Cloud AutoML platform – even though it doesn’t quite live up to the hype.…

Cloud Services Platform debuts, mixing containers, monitoring, AI, management, etc Amid ongoing renovations at San Francisco's Moscone Convention Center, Google Cloud Next '18 opened on Tuesday, the scent of new carpeting and paint still lingering in the air.…

High Sierra patch reduces performance throttling for this year's tardy laptops If your 2018 MacBook Pro laptop is slowing down unexpectedly, then download and install today's macOS 10.13.6 Supplemental Update, and cross your fingers.…

Last century called. They want their UI back, please Open-source Windows wannabe ReactOS took another tentative step towards usability with a 0.4.9 release aimed at stability and self-hosting.…

Adds Nimble InfoSight sw, more containerisation middleware support HPE has planted a Nimble InfoSight brain into its 3PAR system management and extended its DevOps middleware coverage to make 3PAR more container-friendly.…

Privilege escalation bug was still sitting there 11 years later A vulnerability first detected and "resolved" years ago in Oracle's Unix OS, Solaris, has resurfaced, necessitating a fix in Big Red's latest quarterly patch batch.…

Now-patched vulnerability let attackers overwrite code IBM has patched a critical vulnerability in its Cloud Functions platform that would have allowed miscreants to remotely overwrite customers' code – and execute malicious commands to hijack services.…

Sorry to disappoint It has been a good week for Microsoft. While beancounters counted their cloudy cash, the rest of the Redmond kept itself busy.…

Red flags: Hunt and Helme pick out sites that can load without crypto How's that migration to "HTTPS everywhere" going? With some Chrome browsers* now flagging insecure sites, there's a lot of work still to do, according to security bods Troy Hunt and Scott Helme.…

Incumbent 'committed' to give it greater 'strategic independence' BT Group today said it has started consultation with 31,000 staff that are bound for Openreach in October, according to a statement filed with the London Stock Exchange.…

We node we can stuff just one more SoC in here Ready to unzip this densely packed storage news suitcase? We've got a bulging information-fest with all that's worth knowing from the past week, ranging from SSDs through disks to public and private clouds.…

Trustbusters R us Analysis Europe's Competition Commissioner, Margrethe Vestager, faced two very different questions from the media after announcing a record fine for Google last week.…

Earlybird tickets due to expire in one week - act now If you want to get to grip with the key theories and tools behind machine learning and AI, and see how your peers have them into practice in real businesses, you should grab an early bird ticket for MCubed now.…

Testing giant LabCorp still recovering Analysis One of the largest clinical testing specialists in the US, LabCorp Diagnostics, is coming out of recovery mode a week after being hit with ransomware – reportedly SamSam, the same malware that brought the US city of Atlanta to a standstill earlier this year.…

DeepMind tries to train a neural network on classical piano Neural networks are neat at spotting and reproducing patterns in images and text – yet they still struggle when spitting out audio.…

Earth's satellite may have been habitable billions of years ago The Moon may not have been as desolate as it is today – and could have supported life on its surface after its formation some four billion years ago.…

'Hundreds' of intrusions, switch could be pulled anytime, where have we heard this before? The US Department of Homeland Security is once again accusing Russian government hackers of penetrating America's critical infrastructure.…

Oh, and Intel's modems are garbage, claims chip-slinger waving around speed test data Pic Qualcomm is getting ready to ship one of the relatively boring bits of the 5G puzzle – well, perhaps boring for you, but fascinating for electronics geeks: a compact transceiver/antenna combo that fits inside phones to provide 5G millimetre-wave communications.…

Crypto cockup lets middle-people spy on connections after snooping on device pairing With a bunch of security fixes released and more on the way, details have been made public of a Bluetooth bug that potentially allows miscreants to commandeer nearby devices.…

Human rights commish weighs in as Aussies opt out Australia's Human Rights Commissioner has weighed into the country's troubled electronic health records rollout.…

Assembly line 'droid builder latest to be accused of leaving rsync wide open on the internet Yet another organization has allegedly been caught accidentally exposing more than 100GB of sensitive corporate data to the open internet.…

Net income for Q2 slashed by $5bn Android antitrust fine Dusting off a $5bn European monopoly abuse fine over Google's Android business, parent company Alphabet delivered better than expected Q2 2018 earnings – lifting its shares in after-hours trading.…

VBScript hole 'fixed' in May actually left open for months A remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows VBScript engine was left open for exploitation for two months after it was supposedly patched.…

Seemingly invincible ghost in the machine may also continue to haunt AMD, Arm chips Spectre, a class of vulnerabilities in the speculative execution mechanism employed in modern processor chips, is living up to its name by proving to be unkillable.…

Backer charged in connection with alleged $4.1m corporate fraud scandal An investor in an IT biz has coughed up $456,000 after America's financial watchdog accused him of looking the other way while executives at the consultancy he backed allegedly embezzled millions of dollars.…

Full-fibre diet for all by the year 2033, vows Ministry of Fun The Ministry of Fun* is wheeling out a new national telecoms strategy (PDF) that aims to slather the UK in healthy full-fat broadband fibre by 2033.…

That sound you're hearing is eyebrows raised into orbit Amazon's UK chief Doug Gurr has claimed Britain will descend into "civil unrest" in weeks if it leaves the EU with no trade deal in place.…

Command injection and stack buffer overflow flaws bedevil cam range Security researchers at Cisco Talos have found two serious flaws with Sony's network-facing surveillance kit, the IPELA E Series Network Camera.…

Some chips have more bits than others, though Tosh and WD's flash foundry joint venture has begun to pump out 96-layer 3D NAND chips and the two partners are using them to produce quad-level cell (QLC) products. TLC Tosh has a 1TB SSD with 3 bits/cell while it and QLC Western Dig have a 1.33 Tbit chip with 4 bits/cell.…

Buy bolsters firm's banking, finance and insurance bits Atos has diverted attention from some cracks in its North American ops by making public its intention to spend lots of cash – a cool $3.4bn to be precise – to buy US-HQ'd tech services outfit Syntel.…

Appeal against my latest judgment? Oh wait, you can't! The Investigatory Powers Tribunal has reruled that GCHQ, MI5 and MI6 engaged in indiscriminate and illegal bulk cable-tapping surveillance for 15 years – and has once again refused to do anything about it.…

On Tues, you lose... if you're not encrypted with a TLS cert (which are free, by the way) Google Chrome users who visit unencrypted websites will be confronted with warnings from tomorrow.…

Huawei to slam the door after today The European Commission made the phrase "Android forks" a household word last week. But developers who wish to create and popularise their Android forks have just found the job got harder.…

Steve Hilton exit suddenly confirmed on 21 July, new boss in situ on 23 July Exclusive Frankenfirm DXC Technologies over the weekend abruptly announced the immediate departure of Steve Hilton, the exec veep that ran the Global Delivery Organisation, and confirmed his temporary replacement.…

But Wall St thinks mainframe is what's perking up numbers The latest financial headlines emitted by the faltering enterprise juggernaut that is IBM indicate that its years-long efforts to turn a corner might be paying off, though not everyone on Wall Street agrees.…

And saving on it… Our earlybird ticket offer for Serverless Computing expires in just a few weeks, so if you want to get on top of the next generation of cloud, and keep a few hundred quid in your pocket to boot, the time to act is now.…

He's set to headline networking kit firm's CIO golf-a-thon Fearless scarperer-in-chief David Cameron is all set to dispense nuggets of Brexit wisdom to Cisco's October CIO conference – making us wonder how much he's earning for the stunt.…

Tried to blame it on a bug, but logs don't lie Who, me? Welcome to another glimpse inside the dark-curtained (in)box that is "Who, me?" – El Reg's confessional column in which readers seek penance for sins of the past.…

Grunts already refer to drone kills as 'bugsplats' – machine learning cares less Comment Debate has raged for months over various internet giants' forays into providing next-generation technology for war.…

Plus: New Dota challenge for OpenAI Roundup Hello, welcome to this week's roundup in AI. The machines have been sending us spooky messages on Google Translate, Facebook is hiring more academics to start new labs and some prat decided to step on a self-driving car in California.…

Plus a new worry for enterprises over DNS flaws Roundup This was the week of blunders by Venmo, million-dollar bank heists, and beefier bug bounties.…

Python Language Server an option for those that code Microsoft's Visual Studio Code, the company's Electron-based source code editor for Linux, macOS and Windows, has been bestowed with the company's Python Language Server, making it more fluent in the popular programming language.…

Send nudes plz... for the purposes of training this machine-learning software NSFW Artificially intelligent software is used more and more to automatically detect and ban nude images on social networks and similar sites. However, today's algorithms and models aren't perfect at clocking racy snaps, and a lot of content moderation still falls to humans.…

Russia's Fancy Bear crew caught gearing up for mid-terms Microsoft says it has already uncovered evidence of Russian government-backed hacking gangs attempting to interfere in the 2018 US mid-term elections.…

Credential stuffing is rampant – so try not to reuse the same password on every site, eh? Up to 90 per cent of the average online retailer's login traffic is generated by cybercriminals trying their luck with credential stuffing attacks, Shape Security estimated in its latest Credential Spill Report.…

GDPR put a gun to their heads Allowing developers to siphon millions of netizens' personal information didn't work out so well for Facebook, given the Cambridge Analytica affair.…

In detail: The threats facing America's computer networks The US Department of Justice (DOJ) this week released the first report from its Cyber Digital Task Force – which was set up in February to advise the government on strengthening its online defenses.…

Snooping on the built-in cam? Remotely controlling it? Well, that sucks *ba-dum tsh* Vulnerabilities in a range of robot vacuum cleaners allow miscreants to access the gadgets' camera, and remote-control the gizmos.…

It's make-your-mind-up time Comment Two contradictory ideas run through statements by Microsoft executives this week.…