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Wants to make money and ignore end-to-end encryption Comment Google is planning to add several new security features to its ubiquitous email service, Gmail, but they will come with a cost – literally and figuratively.…

American suppliers barred from selling to Chinese tech giant The US government has imposed a seven-year export ban on ZTE for repeated violation of trade laws.…

HTTP 404: Secure programming not found Automated source code analysis of 33 web applications has found that 94 per cent of them have at least one high-severity vulnerability, according to security biz Positive Technologies.…

Martin Brundle left red-faced after Chinese Grand Prix snafu Some of us love watching Formula One for the prangs and crashes – but we don't really expect them to happen before the race even begins.…

Self-driving AI won't snooze at the wheel – it may run you over Dozy ride-share drivers juggling multiple jobs are putting people's lives at risk, according to a statement from the American Academy of Sleep Medicine (AASM) in the Journal of The Bleeding Obvious Clinical Sleep Medicine.…

Muscling in Arm supers message on road to exascale HPE is donating three Apollo mini-supercomputer clusters to a trio of UK universities to help build Arm supercomputing expertise and promote its Apollo gear.…

GCHQ's cyber guys don't say why... GCHQ's cyber security advice group has formally warned of the risk of using ZTE equipment and services for the UK's telco infrastructure.…

Accidentally pulled cloth off pivot table in Grenfell Tower FoI A London borough has been slapped with a £120,000 fine from the data protection watchdog after unlawfully identifying 943 owners of vacant property in a Freedom of Information (FoI) response.…

Nice idea, mes amis, but what about those bent on aerial mischief? The French government has proposed a new law making it mandatory for all drones to be fitted with electronic conspicuity beacons – an idea with big implications for the future of drone regulation.…

We did what? Look again, it's not there Google has inadvertently revealed a new way to use Android phones, to be revealed in its forthcoming Android P update. The new UI option makes a phone more "swipeable", lessening the reliance on navigation bar buttons.…

SNES? Bless you! It's a bit smaller than it was 30 years ago Veteran game maker Sega announced it was getting back into the hardware game at the Sega FES 2018 event over the weekend, with a shrunken version of its classic Megadrive (or Genesis) console.…

Scottish punters don't want to subsidise crappy speeds in England Our friends north of the border are unhappy about Westminster's plans to introduce a 10Mbps universal service obligation, with the Scottish Rural Economy Secretary calling it "grossly unfair".…

NASA boffins hope Musk's firm doesn't make a mess of TESS Planet hunters will be keeping their fingers crossed this evening as SpaceX flings NASA’s 350kg Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) into a highly elliptical orbit around the Earth.…

... but finds some glitches Hands On Microsoft has released Windows Admin Center (formerly known as Project Honolulu) to general availability.…

God, what kind of digital business are they running? There's only one reason to head to cheap 'n' cheerful UK pub chain Wetherspoons and it is about to be taken away. No, we're not talking about the cheap beer, ever-shrinking menu options, or politically nuanced beer mats.…

God, what kind of digital business are they running? There's only one reason to head to cheap 'n' cheerful UK pub chain Wetherspoons and it is about to be taken away. No, we're not talking about the cheap beer, ever-shrinking menu options, or politically nuanced beer mats.…

MPs slam Gov.uk over risk of making patient address sharing 'normal practice' MPs have voiced “serious concerns” about NHS Digital’s leadership, claiming execs paid “little regard” to the ethics of sharing patient details for immigration enforcement and are too close to government.…

Oh, and look out for data monopolies, peers warn The House of Lords wants to make sure data used by AI systems is not monopolised and the technology is developed on ethical guidelines.…

Definitely hails amazing shrinking kernel in 4.17 rc1 Linus Torvalds has suggested that the next Linux kernel could earn the number “5.0”.…

The great AOL outage of 1996, explained by a chap who made it happen Who, me? Welcome again to Who, me? In case you've missed previous editions of the column, it's a confessional in which readers share their stories of having broken stuff. Badly.…

Borg helps Isara's post-quantum PKI cert test in the hope it future-proofs TLS Cisco and quantum security outfit Isara reckon they've got at least as far as alpha stage in one a problem of the future: securing public key certificates against quantum computers.…

Not so, huffs Xerox chair In January, Xerox and Fujifilm decided their best chance of surviving the printer-copier downturn was a multi-billion dollar mutual rescue package led by the Fuji Xerox joint venture. Now, a lawsuit alleges Xerox CEO Jeff Jacobson rushed into the deal against instructions from the company's board.…

Miscreants' command and control network traffic sent down sinkhole One of the world's longest-lived malware networks, EITest, has gone offline.…

Vox ‘n’ TXT only because Korean super-exam gives students one shot at life Samsung’s announced a smartphone that can’t go online.…

How dark can crims really go? Ten members of the US Congress have asked the FBI to explain its battles with Apple, after doubts were raised over the extent to which criminals use encryption to "go dark" and evade law enforcement authorities.…

And password crackers are getting a lot smarter An analysis of free Android apps has shown that developers are leaving their crypto keys embedded in applications, in some cases because the software developer kits install them by default.…

'We can see you everywhere and so can our friends in the UK', says Border Force Australia’s Border Force (ABF) has warned that “people shouldn’t assume the dark web is invisible to Australian agencies” after cuffing a woman who bought illicit drugs using Bitcoin and had them shipped from the UK to Australia.…

Bug bounty sales are getting very complicated, financially and morally B-SIDESSF Barely a decade ago the mere idea of selling vulnerabilities was highly controversial. Today the market is mature, but increasingly complicated - researchers can now choose between making lots of money, being moral and making less, or going fully black.…

The wacky week in security Roundup It has been a busy week for security, with the CYBERUK 2018 conference in the UK and the industry gearing up for BSides and the RSA conference in San Francisco next week.…

Would you vote for a machine for public office? Roundup Here are a few bits and pieces from this week's news in AI. Researchers have collected a dataset to analyze dog behaviour using neural networks, the first AI-assisted medical device for diagnosing diabetic retinopathy has been approved by the FDA, and, finally, an AI is running for mayor in Japan.…

Can we still have a GDPR moratorium, asks US domain-name body The Whois public database of domain name registration details is dead.…

Satellite operators reminded they need permission to relay broadband internet. Looking at you, Swarm… America's comms watchdog has served notice to would-be satellite network providers that it won't abide any more unauthorized launches and orbiting relays.…

Never. Is never a good time to get vulnerability fixes? Never is OK with you? Cool, never it is Let's nail this once and for all: Too many Android smartphone makers simply aren't rolling out Google's security bug fixes for the mobile operating system.…

Doing China's bidding seems to have rubbed off on Cupertino Apple has gone full swivel-eyed, control-freak crazy on its own employees with a demented internal memo decrying information leaks.…

Web standards body dressed down in spec spat The organization that tries to advance web technology standards – the World Wide Web Consortium or W3C – has run into a roadblock: Apple, Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla.…

Indian outsourcer HCL and private equity outfit SEP open their wallet HCL Technologies and Sumeru Equity Partners have slurped privately-owned database (DB) supplier Actian for £330m from current owner Garnett Helfrich Capital.…

Assume we're going to get hacked next time and plan for it The UK's National Health Service has learned from last year's WannaCry attack – and started putting in place disaster recovery measures that will allow it to maintain services in the face of an even fiercer assault.…

Assume we're going to get hacked next time and plan for it The NHS has learned from last year's WannaCry attack and started putting in place disaster recovery measures that will allow it to maintain services in the face of an even fiercer assault.…

Outfit loses 438 bitcoin in security snafu Indian Bitcoin exchange Coinsecure has mislaid 438.318 BTC belonging to its customers.…

Outfit loses 438 bitcoin in security snafu Indian Bitcoin exchange Coinsecure has mislaid 438.318 BTC belonging to its customers.…

His co-claimant wasn't so lucky, however RTBF trial A businessman has won the first ever “right to be forgotten” lawsuit against Google in London’s High Court – but a second man’s attempt to have embarrassing search results about him deleted has failed.…

But former state monopoly still the biggest single investor Fibre-building minnows passed nearly one million FTTP connections last year – more than double the amount BT's Openreach managed, according to a report from an industry body.…

Contract wrangle overshadows milestone The F-35 fighter jet has completed one of its years-long flight testing programmes – just in time for the United States to suspend all deliveries of the new supersonic aircraft.…

UK taxmen triaging projects to prioritise trucks' passage at Dover HMRC appears to be putting its flagship "making tax digital" (MTD) project on hold. Instead, it's all hands on deck at the Brit tax authority to handle its customs IT replacement system post-Brexit.…

Nice. But what about the UK firms MoD's spending £800m on? Comment Two senior British Army officers have visited Silicon Valley to trawl for militarily useful tech startups.…

Justice commish 'advises' Sheryl Sandberg to send her boss, but is Zuck best one to grill? Comment Politicians on this side of the Pond need to stop obsessing about getting Mark Zuckerberg in front of them, and start preparing to grill his subordinates.…

Teacher nabbed for allegedly allowing kids to give each other a 'bunch of fives'* A bored substitute maths teacher from Connecticut has been cuffed for allegedly starting a fight club in his lessons.…

Wake up accountants! Sage has ops issues There was a minor disturbance in the accountancy software market today: accountants even looked up from their books as Sage admitted sales were more sloppy than expected at the half-way stage of its fiscal ’18.…

S3 spillage spoils included driving licences and passports TrueMove H, the biggest 4G mobile operator in Thailand, has suffered a data breach.…

Anyone can lob a car into space, but you need a Boeing rocket to bring it back Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg took a shot at SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy launch during a discussion with Politico’s Robert Allbritton last night.…