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VMware expands SaaS portfolio with non-confusing third container offering on AWS VMware’s announced a new container play called “VMware Kubernetes Engine” (VKE) that will be offered as SaaS on AWS and soon on Azure too.…

Why cyber? Because CERT-EU was already taken Lithuania's proposal that the European Union create an international cyber-force has been endorsed, and the effort already has seven countries on board.…

Don’t pop the champagne – it’s just a rebrand with some AI pixie dust LOGOWATCH When announcing its first quarter results for 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai focussed on what he called "our three big areas, cloud, YouTube and hardware".…

Crazy Kiwi comes a cropper A New Zealand gamer who flew halfway around the world to confront a 14-year-old girl he met online got more than he bargained for when her mom shot him, according to police.…

Crazy Kiwi comes a cropper A New Zealand gamer who flew halfway around the world to confront a 14-year-old girl he met online got more than he bargained for when her mom shot him.…

Allegation in book mistook RDP recording for real world action, company asserts US security company FireEye has denied a claim aired in a new book that it hacked into laptops owned by Chinese military hackers.…

Australia’s Reserve Bank sees no need for national cryptocurrencies, for now The head of payments policy at Australia’s Reserve Bank – the equivalent of the Federal Reserve or the Bank of England - has asserted that cryptocurrencies’ strengths are also their weakness and suggested central banks won’t need to create their own equivalents any time soon.…

Whistleblowers, rejoice Beating the unique identifiers that printers can add to documents for security purposes is possible: you just need to add extra dots beyond those that security tools already add. The trick is knowing where to add them.…

Running Amazon Linux 2, which just scored long-term support Amazon Web Services has added a Linux option to its “WorkSpaces” desktop-as-a-service and pitched the offering as a fine way to develop apps for its own EC2 infrastructure-as-a-service.…

Version 1.11 of Kubernetes expected to drop Wednesday Kubernetes, the software container orchestration system, is expected to hit version 1.11 on Wednesday, bringing with it a handful of potentially useful enhancements.…

Your antimalware tools can get malware too, so get updating Companies running Sophos security clients will want to update their software following the disclosure of six privilege escalation flaws in the the security suite.…

Should we be worried? Erm, yes and no... A panel of AI experts were grilled on the impact and importance of artificial general intelligence by the US House of Representatives on Tuesday.…

ICANN faces fraud allegations in continent's top-level-domain dispute The long-running saga over ownership of the .Africa top-level domain name will go to a jury trial… in California.…

This would work great for ICE. We're just saying... Microsoft has improved its facial recognition technology so that it is better at identifying humans who aren't white men.…

Redmond slips out of key provision in discrimination case Microsoft may not have to face a class-action complaint over its alleged mishandling of harassment and discrimination complaints by women employees.…

Renegade pantyhose smuggler admits slipping Russian election hacking dossier to hacks Reality Winner – who leaked to the media a classified NSA file describing Russians fiddling with American election technology – has pled guilty to one count of espionage.…

The times, they are a-hinting that Jules might walk soon A UK Foreign Office minister has offered cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaker Julian Assange access to medical attention if he leaves Ecuador's London embassy.…

UK.gov says project will help patients, improve transparency The UK government plans to funnel data on private healthcare into NHS systems to address concerns about transparency in private care.…

IT Support Professional Certificate coming to some schools later this year Google is bringing its IT Support Professional Certificate program to more than two dozen US community colleges this fall in an effort to prime the sysadmin supply pump.…

Routers shipping with standard soon so don't get WEP behind The Wi-Fi Alliance has taken the wraps off the latest generation of Wi-Fi security, WPA3.…

We already do bigger, faster arrays – now we're scaling up DDN is upping array capacities and access speeds with one eye on its traditional HPC customer base and the other on businesses that are testing or deploying deep learning architectures.…

Judgment is latest blow against US citizen over travel agency's disputed domain An EU court has tried to forestall ongoing US legal proceedings by declaring that an expat Frenchman can’t trademark a logo containing the domain name France.com.…

Gemini reels in Sailfish Sailfish has become the fourth OS to be officially supported on Planet Computing's pocket computer, the Gemini PDA, and eager beavers can download an image from Planet today.…

£13m thing aims to get newbies playing with the big boys Matt Hancock, the only UK government minister to have his own social networking app, opened a £13m London infosec creche this morning.…

Hadoop-flinger aims to win over devs with shiny analytics tools MapR is to further embed AI and analytics in its data platform, with more support for apps and a boost in data science tools for developers.…

$79.99 gets you a single USB-C port for your costly computer Lovers of USB-C who have had a Surface device inflicted upon them may soon find their long wait for dongle-based delight is at an end, according to reports.…

Changed often, never shared? Prevailing wisdom suggests otherwise Israel's newly appointed cyber chief has raised eyebrows by offering questionable password advice during a high-profile presentation.…

'Largest single deal' for storage upstart, says analyst Nutanix has scored a $45m contract, via an unnamed channel middleman, to supply hyperconverged kit to US Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT)*.…

Earlybird tickets now available We’ve hit the button and announced the first tranche of speakers for Serverless Computing London, our three day conference on all things, well, serverless, next November.…

Source shack says it's chasing reliability and Kubernetes tech From the department of "yeah, right" comes news that GitLab is shifting its platform from Azure to Google in order to take advantage of the ad giant's Kubernetes technology.…

Sales of computers rebound across Western Europe Less than six months ago forecasters were predicting continued gloom for the European PC market.…

And Backup Exec and Business Critical Services headcount to fall Exclusive Veritas's support services unit, overseen by executive veep Lenny Alugas's Customer Success organization, will reduce its headcount and redeploy workers, company insiders have told The Register.…

A cross-vendor framework for edge functionality is no small task If one thing stood out at OpenStack's Vancouver summit in May, it's that the open-source project isn't just about data centre-based cloud computing any more.…

11 member states grassed on to European Commission – including the UK More than 60 privacy groups and activists have demanded that member states still engaging in blanket data retention of communications info – despite it being ruled unlawful – are referred to the EU's top court.…

'America wants to destroy us for defusing its cyber weapons, but we're clean' is the story Kaspersky Labs is on a "Transparency Tour" in which the company attempts to persuade us all that it is not a danger to anyone except cyber-criminals and will soon open a "transparency lab" to prove it.…

Amazon challenge winners roll out neural net for droids that need to grab stationary stuff Artificially intelligent software can drive robots to perform the most menial tasks, such as reaching out and gripping objects.…

Google puts Mavericks on a cargo plane outta Hong Kong Apple fans who still run macOS Mavericks and earlier on their computers won't be able to run Google's Chrome browser any more.…

Oh it's for a calculator app? OK, wink wink, say no more Trusted code-signing certificates are being sold to miscreants by allegedly unscrupulous vendors, fueling a growth in digitally signed Windows malware, a study has claimed.…

So much more than a network map, so much more still to do CAIDA, the University California, San Diego-based internet infrastructure research operation, has taken a look at what the next few years might hold foe the information superhighway – and is worried that its model of the 'net might be starting to creak.…

Oracle Linux and VM get their innoculations Oracle has released fixes for Spectre v3a, Spectre v4, and the “Lazy FPU” vulnerability.…

And so it's trying to kick off an effort to fix that up, because security and privacy matter Having successfully pushed for universal HTTPS Web encryption, the Electronic Frontier Foundation's next protocol push is for “STARTTLS Everywhere”.…

Alexa? Siri? Do you know what's up? Asking cos Splunk says replacements will target 'different form factors' Splunk’s cooking up something new and mobile, which means its old mobile stuff is about to get sunk.…

Chinese DRAM drama – what you need to know Analysis Micron is alleging United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC) of Taiwan blatantly stole its intellectual property and gave it to a Chinese DRAM foundry startup, Fujian Jinhua Integrated Circuit Company.…

Only in EU land – tough luck for the rest of the world Four of the world's biggest online retailers have agreed to pull goods flagged as dangerous within a week – but only in Europe.…

Microsoft, Mozilla veteran will also handle external researcher work Intel has recruited noted computer security exec Window Snyder into its ranks to help improve its fortunes in the cybersecurity space.…

Now you can splash out on tons of GPUs if you really need to Nvidia has added nine new GPU-charged supercomputing containers to its cloud service.…

How third-party services can knock out three out of four online properties Internet infrastructure may be fairly resilient thanks to its distributed nature, but the web we've built on top of it appears to be rather fragile.…

Chip slinger stocks dip as US investment crackdown turns out to be completely true The White House has decried as fake news reports that the Trump Administration will institute a ban on Chinese companies investing in US tech companies.…

Protip: When freshly paroled, don't immediately trash your victim online Sometimes it's best to just let old grudges go.…

IBM's Power9, Nvidia 122.3 HPL petaflops monster overwhelms competitors At the apex of the newly revised list of the world's Top500 fastest publicly known supercomputers is IBM’s aptly named Summit.…