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It's just a test, we're told At 2:18 pm EDT on Wednesday (11:18 am PDT), most mobile subscribers in the US can expect a "Presidential Alert" to brighten their day.…

Comms software flinger confesses to ultimate snafu, trigger still under investigation Cisco has confessed that the cause of the mega Webex outage last week – which it is still trying to clean up – was an automated script "which deleted the virtual machines hosting the service".…

Mirroring, Timeline come to Google mobes With no phone platform left, Microsoft has snuggled much closer to Android. The new version of Windows 10 – available on demand today to all users – introduces what Microsoft calls "app mirroring" into the Windows.…

Clicked Check For Updates? Welcome to the Release Preview ring Windows 10 October 2018 update is here, having skipped past the Release Preview phase, and can be downloaded now if you can’t wait for it to make an automatic appearance.…

State-sponsored hacking meets financial acquisition with APT38 A new state-sponsored attack from North Korea is being seen as an effort by the cash-strapped dictatorship to raise funds by exploiting foreign banks.…

Upcoming update could bork on-prem logins, warns Redmond Microsoft has flung out an advisory for some of its on-premises Dynamics 365 customers. Integrated Skype? Turn it off. Turn it off now.…

16 hours of rocking and rolling before the power runs out Not content with unleashing a couple of robots to photograph the surface of asteroid Ryugu, JAXA probe Hyabusa2 successfully deployed the German MASCOT lander this morning.…

Slow your roll... only Radford's hooked up for now Full-fibre broadband has reached Coventry, Openreach has declared – while adding that it had made 600k new FTTP connections.…

One Kubernetes to rule them all Cisco's Container Platform, launched in January, is now certified to run SAP's year-old Data Hub management platform.…

£9m up for grabs in latest digital health tech funding call UK firms are being asked to pitch digital solutions to "overcome privacy challenges" related to the increasing use of data in the health sector as part of a £9m competition to boost the NHS's use of technology.…

Nothing to do with jazz, everything to do with grains and silos Microsoft has updated its distributed high-scale applications platform Orleans, claiming a 30 per cent increase in performance.…

And has just won a bizarre argument to let arbitrators read a public document If you thought the monster battle between Google and Uber over alleged theft of its self-driving technology was over, you'd be wrong.…

Social network says SSO-slurping miscreants didn't reuse tokens on third-party apps Facebook has toned down its Friday warning that stolen credentials could be used to compromise third-party apps.…

Giants join Australia's cryptowar Opposition to the Australian government's proposed crypto-busting legislation is gathering pace, with internet and telco giants deciding to speak with a single voice.…

Wireless, noise-cancelling Surface headphones teased too At a media event in New York City on Tuesday, Microsoft refreshed its Surface hardware with the introduction of the Surface Pro 6, Surface Laptop 2 and Surface Studio 2 all-in-one PC.…

First woman in 55 years and the oldest recipient to date The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physics has been awarded to a trio of researchers for their work in developing powerful lasers.…

All it takes is a few lines of code If you’ve been thinking about trying to learn deep learning, here’s a new software library that promises to make things easy.…

Singaporean funding will result in Singaporean offices Secure edge and cloud file services supplier CTERA Networks has trousered $30m in D-round funding to build out its infrastructure in South East Asia.…

At $15 an hour, 50,000 full-time and temp staffers will be livin' it up Bezos style - almost Amazon, the target of a recently introduced bill called the Stop BEZOS Act, on Tuesday said it would raise the minimum wage for all its US workers to $15 an hour.…

Steven Serabian beats software company soundly SAP America has been ordered to pay a former salesman $662,200 for screwing him out of commissions and then firing him when he complained.…

One may have said too much, one may have said too little UK communications regulator Ofcom has opened an investigation into Vodafone and EE for allegedly giving inaccurate data about mobile coverage areas.…

NVMe-FC, predictive analytics and roadmap away from VIMMs Violin Systems is making the most of being rescued by private equity, with new hardware and software, and a focus on tossing its hat into the all-flash array performance ring.…

Slams Home Office's lack of engagement with privacy fears The UK Home Office's alleged indifference towards civil rights groups' concerns over the creation of a mammoth policing database has caused Liberty to ditch the government-run consultation group on the project.…

With Nvidia CUDA 10 comes great AI power and VS compatibility Inhabitants of the Venn set overlap between Microsoft Visual Studio users and Nvidia CUDA developers, rejoice. CUDA 10 is once more compatible with Visual Studio.…

Serverless changes everything... 'cept for the things that stay the same Events Embracing Serverless isn’t just a question of writing a couple of functions, flicking a switch and keeping half an eye on your costs.…

Intel's Grinch that stole Christmas might make for a softer end to the year The ongoing transition to Windows 10 by corporates offset weak consumer demand to keep PC sales ticking over with a modest 3 per cent increase over this time last year, according to figures released by channel box-counters Context.…

Sucks up $4bn in Q2 alone Stats from analyst house IDC show that the Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA) server revenues are growing even as fewer units are shipped.…

Does a review by an 'imagineer' in 2003 invalidate a patent filing? Take a guess A commercial rival of email virus-scanning software firm Glasswall has lost its High Court attempt to use a bulletin board post from 2003 written by a former MessageLabs "imagineer" to have a patent declared invalid.…

Philip Hammond says US reforms slowing progress The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond has blamed US tax reforms for slow progress towards an international levy on tech giants' revenues, and warned that the UK is considering going it alone.…

Internet architecture stalwart wants DNS Service Discovery rewritten to protect privacy Privacy consultant and former Internet Architecture Board president Christian Huitema has said he reckons hotspot users should be given better privacy protection.…

Can’t sleep out but still want to help? Donate direct You’ve got till Wednesday to sign up for Byte Night 2018, so if you want to help some of our country’s most disadvantaged youngsters by sleeping out with the cream of IT society, get clicking now.…

Someone's gotta service that embiggening backup burden HPE has beefed up its data protection product set, adding extra capacity and performance grunt, better Nimble array support and a fresh integration deal with Commvault.…

Now fancies being struck off before data watchdog can collect A sweary Mancunian biz has been fined £150,000 for making almost 64,000 nuisance calls to people who had opted out of automated marketing.…

GhostDNS in the machine A DNSchanger-like attack first spotted in August on D-Link routers in Brazil has expanded to affect more than 70 different devices and more than 100,000 individual piece of kit.…

Acrobat, Reader get patched up against dozens of new holes Adobe has posted an update to address 85 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader for both Windows and macOS.…

Security rules demand more from devs in the New Year Weary of dealing with malicious Chrome extensions and user complaints, Google is asking developers to lock down their accounts and tightening up security in its Chrome Web Store.…

Carrying bits again, for now The troubled Sea-Me-We-3 cable is back online, for now.…

Fingers crossed that the wee probe has enough energy to send something back Kepler’s resurrection from hibernation has been short-lived - NASA has put the veteren space telescope back in sleep mode after it was up and running less than a month ago.…

Land of the Long White Cloud's new 'digital strip-search' law Customs laws in New Zealand now allow border agents to demand travellers unlock their phones or face an NZ$5,000 (around US$3,300) fine.…

Gaze at the computer-created horror of Dogball Pics Images generated by AI have always been pretty easy to spot since they are always slightly odd to the human eye, but it’s getting harder to differentiate what’s real and fake.…

Chip timing could be as effective and harder to hack Hardware-based random number generators (HWRNGs) for encryption could be superseded after a Philippines-based researcher found that side-channel measurement of the timing of CPU operations provide enough entropy to seed crypto systems with the necessary randomness.…

Hi, Vinod, is that permit application in your pocket or are you just unhappy to see us? The US Supreme Court has put an end to the embarrassing eight-year legal battle over access to a California beach by refusing to hear an appeal from Sun Microsystems co-founder and obstinate billionaire Vinod Khosla.…

Like the blueprints we gave away last time... but... better XDF If you've ever wanted to embed cheap-and-cheerful Arm Cortex CPU cores into your Xilinx FPGA designs, well, now's your chance.…

Researcher earns $2,000 for unmasking flaw Telegram has paid out a €2,000 bounty to a researcher who uncovered a vulnerability that caused the messaging app to expose users' IP addresses. The programming blunder has been fixed in the latest version.…

Ding-ding, round three in the internet access battle begins Analysis Within minutes of California signing a net neutrality bill into law on Sunday, the US Department of Justice sued the state claiming the new legislation is illegal.…

Big Blue will 'consider' giving staff access to e-voucher biz offers through corporate plan Groupon has managed to secure a money-off deal in its court battle with IBM over e-commerce patents.…

What's that coming over the hill? Is it a robot? A Windows robot? RoTM The robots are coming, and they will be powered by Windows. The Robot Operating System for Windows, that is.…

WWW daddy punts decentralised internet project WWW creator Tim Berners-Lee has taken aim at the internet giants with his new decentralised web project Solid, which pushes for individuals, not firms, to control their data.…

Private equity holdings shuffle Kaseya has bought in-cloud backup supplier Spanning as Insight Venture Partners, which owns the latter and has a controlling stake in the former, shuffles its holdings pack.…

Every little helps: Penalty slashed with 60% discount The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has slapped a £16.4m fine on Tesco Bank for the security vulnerabilities that led to millions of pounds being pilfered from thousands of customers’ online accounts two years ago.…