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Complains costs were 17% higher cos of where case was heard Rimini Street has urged the US Supreme Court to weigh in on its legal wrangling with Oracle as the costs awarded against it were "at least" 17 per cent higher because the case was heard in a Circuit court.…

Chinese investors welcome chip designs with open Arms SoftBank has announced it is offloading 51 per cent of chip designer Arm's Chinese subsidiary to a China-led group of investors in a deal worth $775.2m.…

Says Retro Computers Limited debt collection is still happening – but where's the money gone? Updated Crowdfunding website Indiegogo has said it will continue its process for calling in debt collectors as another product delivery deadline sailed past for flailing ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd.…

Researchers able to nudge ships off course Infosec Europe Years-old security issues mostly stamped out in enterprise technology remain in maritime environments, leaving ships vulnerable to hacking, tracking and worse.…

Data is better, down where it's wetter, under the sea Fish already dodging trawler nets in the North Sea off Orkney found another hazard to contend with this morning: a huge white tube of servers, emblazoned with the Windows logo.…

Financial Conduct Authority to probe bank's migration A city watchdog has launched a stinging attack on TSB chief Paul Pester for portraying "an optimistic view" of its catastrophic IT meltdown in April that prevented 1.9 million customers from using online bank services.…

Not just the vehicle tech but a data marketplace too The British government is offering up £25m for a half dozen industrial projects designed to test self-driving – and self-parking – car technology.…

Anxieties linger for facial and voice recog Brit cops' use of new technologies isn't always organised or systematic, and a lack of governance on biometrics from government leaves a "worrying vacuum", biometrics commissioner Paul Wiles has said.…

It's almost like nobody's heard of Innovate UK A Google-backed think tank report has called on UK.gov to, erm, help the local tech startup scene flourish in a post-Brexit Britain by agreeing to underwrite a newbie business' first customer contract.…

Millions wasted and patient harm 'cannot be ruled out' NHS England is to blame for a backlog of 374,000 items of undelivered clinical correspondence following a move to Capita's Primary Care Services contract, the Public Accounts Committee has concluded today.…

Windows Collaboration Displays entirely 'new device category', says Redmond Microsoft last night dropped the veil on a "new category of teamwork devices" – the not-quite-a-Surface-Hub Windows Collaboration Display (or Whopping Computer Display, judging by the size of it.)…

Water horrible thing to say It's one thing to suspect your work colleagues think you're a bit of an idiot. It is quite another to have it printed and posted to your employer's customers, as an unfortunate chap by the name of Tom Wysocki found.…

They don’t need to travel or fight, so chief of defence staff is happy to relax medical rules The United Kingdom’s military should relax its medical requirements to help it enlist more skilled cyber-operatives.…

'Violent behavior' identified and highlighted by surveillance system destined for a police force near you Video A drone surveillance system capable of highlighting “violent individuals” in a crowd in real time has been built by eggheads.…

Complex tidal forces have drawn out the day Are you tired and grumpy after such a long day? Well, now you know who to blame: The Moon.…

Researchers warn of shady hotspots in host cities The upcoming soccer World Cup will present no shortage of security dangers for travelers looking to get online in the host cities.…

Matt Prince sets a daemon to work with the onions Cloudflare has added a Tor hidden service to its DNS services.…

Details on how to see stuff when providers don't have keys coming soon, promise The Australian government will press ahead with its not-a-backdoor anti-encryption plans and hinted that collaboration with tech companies is its approach to accessing encrypted messages.…

Prices on submarine cables down by 30 per cent in three years International bandwidth prices are in free-fall, with some routes offering 10 Gbps wavelengths for less than US$5,000 per month.…

Supermarket chain warns job-seekers from last 18 months. Bank, telco also worry SaaS HR platform PageUp has revealed “unusual activity on its IT infrastructure” and “revealed that we have some indicators that client data may have been compromised”.…

Actually, it's about ethics in network concurrency Bill Morrow, CEO of the nbn™, the company building Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), has learned to Fear The Wrath Of Gamers.…

These are not the criminal geniuses you were expecting An IoT botnet has been commandeered by white hats after its controllers used a weak username and password combination for its command-and-control server.…

Astroboffins get precious about heat protection in space While the spaceship name Heart of Gold was taken by the late, great Douglas Adams, NASA has come up with something similar for its forthcoming space telescope.…

ICANN or ICANN'T be trusted? Uncle Sam wants to know The US government has formally asked whether it should reassert its control of the internet's administrative functions, effectively reversing a handover to non-profit organization ICANN two years ago.…

Defected goods hustle brought in big bucks – for a while A pair of married scammers and their fence were sentenced to 71 months, 68 months, and 24 months in prison respectively for defrauding Amazon.com, the US Attorney's Office (USAO) for the Southern District of Indiana said on Monday.…

App-rented tech bro-mobiles play fast and loose with city rules, say officials San Francisco has banned commercial electric scooters, which can be rented via apps, from its streets – after several months of confrontation between the authorities and tech companies.…

45,000 plan holders hit by hack, say corp officials Updated Financial house Transamerica has admitted hackers swiped some of its customers' sensitive personal information, including social security numbers.…

Potentially four million or more plan holders hit by hack Financial house Transamerica has admitted hackers swiped some of its customers' sensitive personal information, including social security numbers.…

It's war for biz customers as ERP king eyes up CRM lands SAP has overhauled its CRM offering, launching a suite of applications under the banner C/4HANA, as the German biz best known for ERP aims to take on Salesforce.…

But I'm just a poor Brit, and nobody loves me Unperturbed by posturing in the UK and EU, the European Space Agency has welcomed the latest pair of Galileo satellites to its spaceport in Kourou, French Guyana, ahead of a July launch.…

Path traversal flaws could lead to data mangling, code execution – so patch now Video Booby-trapped archive files can exploit vulnerabilities in a swath of software to overwrite documents and data elsewhere on a computer's file system – and potentially execute malicious code.…

Infosec bods warn of poorly secured tools auto-scaling, landing a jackpot for crooks PureSec, a maker of security software for serverless apps, has been poking about various cloud service providers, and found that hosted functions offer a shortcut to illicit crypto-mining.…

Messaging apps verboten until they fall into line with EU regs Multinational car parts maker Continental AG has banned its employees from using Whatsapp and Snapchat on their work phones due to concerns over the recently introduced European General Data Protection Regulation.…

Airliners do it all the time - but these aren't airliners Comment Britain’s first permanently UK-based F-35 fighter jets are not arriving in Norfolk today as expected due to RAF concerns about bad weather.…

Dido Harding dodges security budget grilling Infosec Europe Baroness Dido Harding, former chief exec of Brit telco TalkTalk, warned other business leaders of the dangers posed by legacy tech in the opening keynote of the Infosecurity Europe conference.…

Report: dodgy software still accounts for beeeellions of lost cash and malware aplenty The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has put out a report showing that while the use of unlicensed software is dropping, it is due to a fear of malware rather than a worry of a visit from the lawyers.…

Whack some SSDs in your infrastructure and off you go Composable infrastructure startup DriveScale has said its users will be able to add flash storage to their existing composable server and disk storage infrastructure.…

Game-changers? Could be Analysis Are you excited about Apple's new AR emoji as we are? Or the push-to-talk feature for the Apple Watch? Just kidding, folks.…

Bad news if you've been defrauded online Just one in three police forces in the UK are able to tackle cybercrime such as DDoS, malware attacks and online fraud, a Home Affairs Committee heard today.…

Time team comes closest it ever has to magical zero result A team at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has used a range of atomic clocks from around the globe to test the equivalence principle* of Einstein's theory of general relativity.…

Just days left to save £100s on AI, ML and data analytics conference We’re going to be announcing the speaker lineup for MCubed London this Friday, which means you’ve got just a few days left to snap up conference tickets for just £500 plus VAT.…

Manx government keeps poker face, aims to add another arm to its tech biz offering The Isle of Man – a largely unassuming island in the Irish Sea measuring just 52km (32 miles) long and 22km (14 miles) wide – fancies itself as a technology centre and is looking to hitch its wagon to both Brexit and data protection.…

That's what you get for selling unlocked phones Analysis UK mobile networks will be eyeing Carphone Warehouse's current woes with some glee.…

You might think it's a laugh, maybe you'll baaaarf, but yes, it's imminent “So, let me ask you,” he said, smoothing out his goatee with one hand. “Five planes have been circling for hours, delayed. You can land one.” A long pause. “How do you choose?”…

One has a screen on the touchpad, the other’s a no-real-keyboard clamshell ASUS has staged its annual Computex keynote and shown off laptops with dual screens.…

One-watt displays promised, plus new Optane-for-PC and a 5.0 GHz CPU Intel’s staged its annual keynote at Taiwan’s Computex tech-fest and revealed a new “Low Power Display Technology” that the company said can halve the power consumption of a laptop’s screen.…

He's heard of security but groks the cloud at scale and that's what matters Palo Alto Networks has named a CEO and chairman: former Google and Softbank executive Nikesh Arora.…

Curiosity Rover's drill is mostly working again after 'percussive maintenance' The percussive maintenance NASA carried out on the Curiosity Rover's drilling machinery has worked, and the robot has started analysing Martian rock samples again.…

HPC types offered density, carriers get roll-your-own customer-premises kit Cavium’s made two new attempts to find an audience for Arm-powered servers.…

Crypto-libertarian will form his own party, but first to launch his paper-based cryptocurrency John McAfee will run for US president again.…