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E-commerce platform says 'several thousand' A breach at an e-commerce provider exposed the details of more than a million unique accounts on British clothing and accessories websites, infosec experts have confirmed.…

GCHQ: Yeah, but maybe don't make it too secure, ok? The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has dispensed advice aimed at securing Ubuntu installs and followed it up with help for Dixons customers.…

How to juggle two smartly incompatible protocols We can be forgiven for not having weaned ourselves onto IPv6 earlier. It's been around in draft form since late 1998, but was only released as a standard in July 2017 (that'll be RFC 8200). That this has finally happened, though, means we're being told more loudly than ever that we no longer have an excuse. So do we have one? Can we still stick with IPv4 if we want to?…

Kernel broken, so Penguinista-in-Chief reverted 4.18-rc7 Linux kernel supremo Linus Torvalds has taken the rare step of reverting a kernel release candidate – after it went sour.…

And the Leaning Tower of Pisa can pick up BBC World Service The Great Pyramid of Giza, the oldest of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, has remained an architectural mystery.…

Helps to have 1k GPUs and a relaxed view of accuracy Faster is always better in AI, although it comes at a price. As researchers strive to train their neural networks at breakneck speeds, the accuracy of their software falls.…

Cops will need a warrant to access health history, opt-out period extended to November Australia's peak medical bodies have won some concessions over the privacy of the country's MyHealth Record, and the government says it will extend the opt-out period to mid-November, but it's unlikely to end the hostile debate over the initiative.…

Fat thumb – or government intervention? Good thing you encrypted everything you say... A bunch of Telegram messages went the long way round on Monday: a BGP leak sent people's Telegram chat communications via systems in Iran.…

Volunteers need help: car boots and spare space to save history going back to the 1950s Australian retro computer fans, it's time to mobilise: the shoestring volunteers trying to preserve computer history here are the end of their lease, money, and wits.…

Hardware stalls, services up, and TV push coming – now, let's look at Samsung... Apple continues to display all the characteristics of a money-making machine, with record results for the third quarter of the year.…

Enough with the foot-dragging, mobile processor'n'modem giant rails in patent feud Qualcomm, as part of its patent battle against Apple, claims Intel went back on its word by failing to produce technical documents and code covering how its latest radio frequency components are being used in Apple's 2018 iPhones.…

It's Groundhog Day for the US broadband industry Analysis A report out today into internet access in the United States has concluded – yet again – that the majority of netizens have a hard choice between competition or broadband speed.…

Risk of a flash glut rises as fab output increases Analysis NAND oversupply is becoming a distinct possibility – with an increasing memory supply chasing a market that can’t absorb all the bits and bytes at prices that provide profits for suppliers.…

Risk of a flash memory glut rises with fab output increases Analysis NAND oversupply is becoming a distinct possibility – with an increasing memory supply chasing a market that can’t absorb all the bits and bytes at prices that provide profits for suppliers.…

Version 3.0 improvements in Microsoft's lang also include pumped up tuples Microsoft has rolled out version 3.0 of TypeScript, its open source extension of JavaScript that includes support for static types.…

Yeah, that'll do the trick, Mark Facebook has deleted dozens of pages and accounts that were apparently coordinating to push divisive messages to the American public in the lead-up to this year's US midterm elections.…

Rolling rolling rolling... Stop those contracts rolling.. don't hiiiiide Ofcom has announced plans to require communications providers to tell customers when they are nearing the end of their contract to encourage them to shop around.…

The baffling world of container management keeps inching toward usability Red Hat is celebrating the 1.0 release of Istio, the open source microservices management project, and the arrival of version 3.10 of its OpenShift software container platform.…

5G takes another tentative step to actually being a thing Nokia and T-Mobile have inked a $3.5bn deal to take the US telco into the bright new world of 5G communications.…

Here's a disk-bound query: What's inside the box? Startup Yellowbrick Data has built a turnkey, hyperconverged, all-flash box that it has claimed can replace up to seven disk-based data warehouse racks with less than half a rack and speeds disk-bound query executions.…

SORRY-FOR-FILES.html The enterprise-focused SamSam ransomware has earned its handlers an estimated $5.9m (£4.5m) since it first appeared in the wild in December 2015.…

Firm hoping its all-cloud network and 5G kit will make it rain... Chinese smartphone maker and telecoms flinger Huawei announced its first-half revenues for 2018 today and it's clear the days of blockbuster growth are behind it.…

Close encounters of the civil service kind UK.gov bods have been stripped of access to services for the emerging non-terrestrial standard XTML, beamed in by little grey vendors A51 Technologies, following an El Reg probe.…

£275m credit-check borg must wait for watchdog approval Experian's bid to slurp up fellow credit-check biz ClearScore is to be assessed by the UK's competition watchdog.…

First-quarter loss hardly a surprise, and there's more where that came from Chinese phone and network maker ZTE has outlined the extent of the damage it suffered due to the early 2018 trade ban imposed by the US – a first quarter net loss of ¥5.4bn ($790m, £602m).…

But run it on our EU guinea pigs first, hm? A planned ID scheme for EU citizens after Brexit should be rolled out nationwide, a UK think tank has said, citing the Windrush* scandal as justification.…

Retailer says probe found 10m records hit – but no evidence of fraud Dixons Carphone today admitted that the data breach it discovered last month affected nine times as many people as first believed.…

Microsoft wants everyone to be Fluent in this week's round-up In a week where Outlook went dark, prices crept up and Office Server 2019 emerged, blinking, into the light, here are some tales from Redmond you may have missed.…

Learn machine learning and AI, and save hundreds Events Our early bird ticket offer for Minds Mastering Machines expires this evening, so act now if you want to enjoy three days of conference and workshops highlighting how real organisations can exploit machine learning and artificial intelligence.…

The latest out of WD, Datrium and many, many more Over the past week in storage, Gartner shifted the disaster recovery goalposts, Datrium realised its salespeople were in the wrong places, JetStream pressed eject and was spun out of Western Digital, there were some needful updates and refreshes ... and more. A heck of a lot more. So buckle up.…

Blue crystals hidden in space rocks open hidden secrets An analysis of hibonite, thought to be among the oldest minerals in the Solar System, has shown the turbulent and violent early history of our sun.…

Thought having your call center in India was a good idea? Maybe not so much now India is following Europe down the data protection path, with draft legislation criticized as a mixed bag of good and bad laws being proposed on Friday.…

OAIC releases data breach notification report Take a bow, Australians: we may have had 242 breaches sent to the information commissioner this quarter, but almost nobody fell victim to ransomware attacks.…

Turns out replacing humans isn't that easy after all Vid Human hands are surprisingly dexterous: they can knit clothes, stuff delivery packages with things, play the piano, and so on, albeit with practice.…

Your files are someone else's files, too, thanks to storage bug SoftNAS has plugged a serious vulnerability in its cloud storage management tool that can be exploited to execute malicious code on a victim's server.…

ICANN holds .islam, .halal in limbo despite losing case Internet overseer ICANN has insisted it has the authority to maintain a six-year online Muslim ban, despite being told otherwise by its own independent oversight panel.…

Yes, let's try to force the social media genie back in the bottle US Senator Mark Warner (D-VA) has a plan to save democracy from technology, including making social media platforms liable for what their users post.…

Protect and survive, or old-fashioned protectionism – we'll let you decide The US military is drawing up a list of overseas organizations – primarily in Russia and China, funnily enough – that the Pentagon and its contractors shouldn't buy software from, citing security concerns.…

Protect and survive, or old-fashioned protectionism – we'll let you decide The US military is drawing up a list of overseas organizations – primarily in Russia and China, funnily enough – that the Pentagon and its contractors shouldn't buy software from, citing security concerns.…

Breaking news: President sticks oar into complicated saga Controversy over a proposed $4bn merger of Sinclair Broadcasting and Tribune Media in the US has blown up again – after a commissioner on America's media watchdog, the FCC, blasted President Trump's public backing of the deal.…

Plus: Splashes profits on dividends and share buy-backs, according to latest figures It's a good time to be in the enterprise drive-pushing business, judging by Seagate's solid sales and profit uptick.…

Customers will just have to grin and Paddington Bear it (sorry) Updated Cinema chain Vue's wobbly website frustrated customers for a second day today as would-be film-goers found themselves dumped into a queuing system in order to buy tickets.…

Crooks exploited legit web ad ecosystem – researchers Security researchers at Check Point have lifted the lid on the infrastructure and methods of an enormous "malvertising" and banking trojan campaign.…

Social media firms neither publisher nor platform, we need new term – MPs British lawmakers have been told to create tougher rules for social media giants claiming to be neutral platforms, establish a code of ethics for tech firms, and plump up the UK's self-styled "data sheriff"*.…

Absurd hardware requirements and compatibility problems aplenty. Sound familiar? Windows NT has hit an important milestone. Its launch is now closer to the first Moon landing than it is to today.…

Outgoing boss: 'Good start' to year as revs down, profits up BT Group enjoyed a minor tick upwards in share price as the British telco published slightly better than expected figures for first FY19 quarter ended 30 June.…

Outgoing boss: 'Good start' to year as revs down, profits up BT Group enjoyed a minor tick upwards in share price as the telco published slightly better than expected figures for first FY19 quarter ended 30 June.…

Jury rules voucher biz wilfully infringed patents from pre-internet era IBM has won $82.5m in a legal battle against Groupon over e-commerce patent infringement.…

Still the biggest, despite the massive losses ... Even in its darkest hours, Capita still clung to its status as the top UK supplier of software and IT services (SITS) for 2017 – though largely because its next nearest rivals played a stinker.…

Calls? Check. Texts? Check. Internet? Check. Notch? Mostly. Camera? Check I call it the "Phone Season". It's the glut of new smartphones that begins with splashy launches at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and ends in late spring. Phone Season defines what phones look like each year.…