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When Nano Server or Server Core are too small, 'windows' will be in the Goldilocks zone Microsoft’s released a new version of Windows called “windows” that ships as a container image.…

Upstart's network kit no longer infringe two Borg patents, still more lawyering to come After more than three years under legal assault from Cisco, Arista could soon be breathing easy – now that the United States' International Trade Commission (ITC) has axed its probe into whether the upstart ripped off two Cisco patents.…

Minority reports rebuts findings of lax leadership, low capacity Australia's government is rubbish at computing, according to a new report from the Senate's Finance and Public Administration Committee.…

Judge Lucy is rid of bickering billionaires... for perhaps a week or so, we guess Apple and Samsung appear to have once and for all settled their years-long smartphone patents squabble.…

Thought your gambling site was secure? Don't bet on it Gambling site BetVictor has been caught leaving what appears to be the administrator credentials for its website out on the public internet.…

Manipulative user interfaces lead netizens away from privacy Five consumer privacy groups have asked the European Data Protection Board to investigate how Facebook, Google, and Microsoft design their software to see whether it complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…

Decade of legal wrangling leaves unresolved issue behind Vid An infamous and long-running copyright lawsuit over a dancing baby has finally come to a close, albeit with a critical legal question unresolved.…

Feds bust shady people doing shady things on shady sites In news that will surprise no one who has had internet access in the last 25 years, crooks have been using online souks to tout drugs, weapons, and, shockingly, other illicit goods.…

Desperate punters forced to twiddle their knobs manually for hours worldwide Updated Google's entire Home infrastructure has suffered a serious outage, with millions of customers on Wednesday morning complaining that their smart devices have stopped working.…

Desperate punters forced to twiddle their knobs manually for hours worldwide Google's entire Home infrastructure has suffered a serious outage, with millions of customers on Wednesday morning complaining that their smart devices have stopped working. At the time of writing, the service is still down.…

What a party pooper Ticketmaster UK has warned punters that malware infected one of its customer support systems – and may have siphoned off their personal information and payment details.…

There's gold in them thar hills of servers and daemons Software automation and management outfit Puppet has inhaled another $42m of funding in its efforts to go global.…

Document database biz cosies up to new and old-skool devs Document database biz MongoDB is aiming to be all things to all people as it continues to court the enterprise and move up the stack, offering a mobile product, ACID compliance and global clusters.…

US court grants freezing order on Marty Tripp's email and cloud hideyholes Apple, Google and Microsoft have been whacked with a US court order by Tesla that forces them to preserve copies of an ex-employee's deleted emails and cloud storage accounts.…

Open-source service sticks containers in internet of stuffs After years of pitching its customers to move their compute onto its Azure cloud, Microsoft is trying to push them out.…

Busy business device that puts you back in control Review Imagine a consumer gadget where the designers didn't think buttons were an abomination to be removed with extreme prejudice, but something that attempted to make things convenient for users. Something to make a chore easier. Can you picture a kettle with an all-touch display, or living in a house where every light switch is a fondlepad?…

Work-avoidance tool avoids work Updated Hipster darling and reskinned IRC client Slack went dark today, with users having to resort to actually speaking to each other instead.…

A simpler time at your fingertips The generation of Britons who honed their skills on 8-bit micros can revisit a well-spent youth. The BBC has put 129 educational computer programmes online, many from the early 1980s.…

Plus: Brit lawmakers debate 'three streams and you're out' rule for terrorist material A Labour MP is pushing the UK government to introduce strict time limits for tech giants to take down illegal content as part of draft counter-terror legislation.…

SMB1 networking and Media Center content playback revived A few short weeks since Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has emitted a raft of fixes for Windows 10 including one that should ease the pain of some Chrome users.…

Say it with me: 'Patch outdated systems.' Good, and again... Today (27 June) marks the first anniversary since the NotPetya ransomware ravaged a range of businesses from shipping ports and supermarkets to ad agencies and law firms.…

Britain launching its own sat looks more and more likely The UK Commons Select Committee for Science and Technology yesterday hauled government bigwigs in to explain themselves in light of the latest round of Galileo handbag-swinging.…

That's the fifth head honcho in six months for tape survivor Sickly scale-out storage biz Quantum has hired Jamie Lerner as CEO and president, replacing interim head and new CFO Michael Dodson, who in May replaced Patrick Dennis, who replaced Adalio Sanchez, who replaced Jon Gacek in January.…

More Pewdiepie is definitely not an option The UK's data protection watchdog is crowdsourcing ideas for the code that will govern how websites and apps aimed at under-16s are designed.…

Anyone with URL could see lists of case study projects Rubrik's internal security controls must have taken an early summer holiday because a Trello page that listed customer case studies and their status has been open for the great unwashed to access.…

It's both. And neither Britain is in the grip of a crime epidemic, the likes of which we have never seen before. Knife crime. Stabbings. And if you're out after dark, make sure your will is written and posted before you close the front door.…

For now, let's ponder browser version 61 adding code that lets extensions close tabs Firefox has started testing an easier way for users to check whether they're using a leaked password, through integration with Troy Hunt's HaveIBeenPwned database.…

Silicon Valley hubris project crashes down to Earth Facebook has canned its plans to bring high-speed internet via a solar-powered drone beaming lasers to the ground, according to an announcement on Tuesday.…

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.…