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Law firm's conclusions at odds with UK data watchdog, and critics don't feel any better An audit of the Royal Free NHS Trust and Google DeepMind's controversial app to detect kidney disease has deemed its current use of confidential data from real patients lawful – going so far as to suggest findings from other watchdogs were misplaced.…

That data-management-for-everything software segment's getting crowded As enterprises increasingly adopt hybrid multi-cloud IT strategies, they tend to find themselves mired in a multi-silo data management nightmare. Rubrik has stepped up to claim it can make the fractured mess whole again with its Alta software.…

Sun's exhalations whip up molecules on planets with weak magnetic fields Researchers at the Technische Universität Wien in Austria have found that solar wind can do far more than project lights in the Earth's night sky.…

Why we're not writing about it – just yet Review This space is left intentionally blank. It's where our HTC flagship review would go. So why is it missing?…

The Surface of the future-ture-ture Further evidence that Microsoft wants to broaden the appeal of its boutique Surface hardware has emerged.…

Research shows desire for standalone headsets in the People's Republic New research shows that China leads the world in buying standalone virtual reality (VR) headsets, with people who live there shunning traditional tethered devices for the likes of the HTC Vive Focus.…

Top judges say ISPs – but not webhosts or caches – can pass the buck BT has won a UK Supreme Court battle over who should pay the costs of trademark infringement blocking orders – and it won't be internet service providers.…

Suit will also tackle biz over 'is a former hitman' autofill howler An Australian has won permission to sue Google for defamation over search results that he alleges link him to the country's criminal underworld.…

Over a million records containing 'personal data' also affected Retailer Dixons Carphone has gone public about a hack attack involving 5.9 million payment cards and 1.2 million personal data records.…

Probe of dating platform's claims prompts crackdown on online love rat firms An online dating platform has been spanked by the Competitions and Markets Authority as the UK government issued love match websites an etiquette guide for fair play.…

Transmission inbound... Argh! It's frying our systems! El Reg's radio telescopes are trained on the storage galaxy and use super-advanced AI, machine learning and pattern-recognition techniques to tease information out of the noise. [Ed: Bullsh*t, you read the press releases and get sent a few tweets.] Let's see what the industry has to say this week.…

Draft document explains where Redmond thinks its responsibility ends Microsoft’s published a draft “Security Servicing Commitments for Windows” in which it explains the bugs it will and won’t fix.…

Not for spying, not at all... VID AI systems can track the movements of people hidden behind walls by inspecting radio waves reflected off their bodies, according to a new study.…

Plans to target greenfield hyperscalers, skip boring old servers Qualcomm president Cristiano Amon has said the company has no plans to dispose of its Arm-powered server CPU unit.…

Death penalty suggested or naughty, naughty Chinese telco-kit-maker United States senators have mobilised against president Trump's plan to allow ZTE to resume dealings with American companies.…

They sell like hot cakes so why wouldn’t Chipzilla want in? Intel has confirmed it will start to sell discrete GPUs in the year 2020.…

Cloudy concern commences colocation capers Rackspace has entered the colocation business and invited world+dog to put its kit in the company’s data centres.…

What? Remember that Redmond’s added support to 2026 and this makes sense Extended support for Windows Server 2008 R2 ends on January 1st, 2020. But Microsoft’s decided it needs a new support model anyway.…

Upside: the kettle will always be ready. Downside: forget living on the surface Astro-boffins poring over data from Kepler's K2 mission have spotted two new solar systems, one of them sporting three planets roughly the same size as Earth.…

Spook-driven paranoia? No, it's just friendly competition, honest Australia and the Solomon Islands will today ink a contract blocking Huawei from building the island nation's new submarine cable.…

DOJ can't stop mega-merger from going through A US District Court judge has given the all-clear for AT&T's $85bn acquisition of broadcast giant Time Warner.…

Disney and NBCUniversal say the new bill is potentially unconstitutional Several Hollywood companies have rallied against a bill that would ban the creation of fake pornographic videos made using AI.…

Cortana also a little too eager to carry out commands Microsoft has released its monthly security update, addressing a total of 51 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities.…

Threatens to ban ads from businesses with low marks Facebook may be hiring thousands of people to police content, but it's asking users to volunteer to monitor advertisers.…

It's paining men as Spamhaus lists the top abused registries The internet has a case of .men behaving badly, based on new data from international watchdog Spamhaus.…

Careful not to trip while backpedaling, Mayor Durkan The city of Seattle is moving to strike its plan to tax large businesses and use the money to address the Emerald City's chronic homelessness problems.…

Nine per cent of workers to be given their marching orders Tesla is cutting nine per cent of its workforce in a "comprehensive organizational restructuring", according to an internal email sent by its CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday.…

Article 13 goes too far, argue Cerf, Berners-Lee et al A large group of Internet pioneers have sent an open letter to the European Union urging it to scrap a proposal to introduce automated upload filters, arguing that it could damage the internet as we know it.…

All install paths will be rerouted through the Chrome Web Store Google on Tuesday said it plans to discontinue inline installation of Chrome browser extensions, by which code on third-party websites can trigger the installation of extensions from the Chrome Web Store.…

Beyond visual line-of-sight exercise paves way for Amazon-style deliveries A Brit drone firm has made a 29km beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flight, a small but important step for fuller commercialisation of the tech.…

Counsel suggests issues with staff evaluation behind women being passed on for promotion US District Judge James Robart had some challenging questions for lawyers representing a group of female ex-Microsoft staff for gender discrimination in a Seattle District Court yesterday.…

Subtle attack thwarts macOS code-signing process A recently discovered security vulnerability in how third party vendors are checking Apple's "code-signing" process potentially made it easier to trick macOS users into running malicious third-party code.…

'Systemic failures' put Brit users' personal info at risk Yahoo!'s UK limb has finally been handed a £250,000 fine for the 2014 cyber attack that exposed data of half a million Brit users.…

Bath-based firm offloads fluffy white assets, eyes up VoIP, broadband future Gradwell Communications yesterday emailed clients - mostly fellow small businesses - to let them know that it has offloaded the cloud services "assets".…

Civil liberties committee votes: US has until Sept to comply The deal governing transatlantic data flows doesn't properly protect European Union citizens and should be suspended unless the United States complies with its terms, MEPs have said.…

Manufacturer promises update The recently released ‪OnePlus 6‬ smartphone allows the booting of arbitrary images, security researchers at Edge Security have discovered.…

Learn the tenets of the AWS Well-Architected Framework’s Security pillar Promo The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework is designed to assist organizations in building secure, resilient, performant and efficient infrastructure able to optimally support their applications.…

A jury wouldn't have convicted her, rules judge A Crown court judge accused of a Computer Misuse Act offence after browsing digital documents in a case where her daughter was a witness has been discharged from court.…

We're paraphrasing Pointy-Haired Bosses* are splashing AI about their organisations without a clue about why they're doing it, says a senior Gartner analyst.…

So how did that April 2018 Update go for you then? Champion of consumer rights and closer of customer email services Which? has taken a hobnailed boot to Microsoft's beleaguered Windows 10 operating system with research that will make for unpleasant reading at Redmond.…

Company goes from rogue security risk to bargaining chip US president Donald Trump did the deal to keep telco kit provider ZTE in business as a favour to Chinese president Xi Jinping.…

She claims it was gift from Apollo veteran Neil Armstrong A woman has sued NASA, claiming to be the rightful owner of a small vial of moon dust supposedly given to her by Neil Armstrong.…

Owner can’t find anyone to fly the thing profitably On October 25th, 2007 Singapore Airlines flight SQ380 departed Changi Airport bound for Sydney, Australia, marking the first commercial flight of the Airbus A380. But the plane that made that flight won’t ever take to the air again and will instead be broken up for parts.…

Switchzilla's annual gabfest goes over old ground on day one Cisco Live CEO keynotes at big vendors' annual gabfests are evangelical events, and Cisco's Chuck Robbins didn't disappoint on that score as he opened this year's Cisco Live. But if customers expected a big reveal of new products or strategies, they would have come away disappointed.…

Missing input sanitisation fixed after hacker spat If you're a developer relying on GnuPG, check upstream for an update that plugs an input sanitisation bug.…

Eighteen of ‘em all around the world. Perhaps this is a sign of Big Blue’s cloud surge? IBM’s added availability zones to its cloud.…

Open source luminary and former Debian leader Bruce Perens gives it a big thumbs up Systemd-free Linux distro Devuan has released its stable Version 2.0.…

Australian criminologists say kids know they're on CCTV so behave themselves Crime rates in the Australian State of New South Wales have dropped markedly in recent years and researchers think technology might be a big reason why.…

AirWatch Cloud Messaging to lose remote file-wrangling functions VMware’s warned that the agent used by its AirWatch mobile device management product has a vulnerability that could allow remote control of mobile devices running Android or Windows Mobile, so will deprecate the features that allowed the attack.…

Have you tried turning it off and.. err… off again? Holdouts to Windows 7, 8.1, and 8.1 RT won't be able to ping Microsoft's own forums for tech support from the company anymore.…