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And that's just the second surprise. The standards bods also want to call out fake news David “Doc” Searls, co-author of 1999's cyber-utopian document The Cluetrain Manifesto, has persuaded the IEEE to launch one of two new IEEE projects seeking to inject a dose of ethics into the world of tech.…

A soft serve this week for hungry net admins Juniper Networks announced a tie-up with Red Hat integrating Red Hats OpenShift Container Platform and OpenStack Platform into Juniper's Contrail Enterprise Multicloud.…

Smaller feet, more monitoring, better interoperability The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) has dropped the latest iteration of its open source management and orchestration (OS MANO, or OSM) environment.…

CIO Dana Deasy, your certificate's from Akamai. Why? As if trying to buy a flying fleet of F-35s wasn't enough, now the Department of Defense is being asked to secure its Websites.…

Pocket fondleslabs using Snapdragon 710s arriving now Following its Centriq server processor implosion, Qualcomm has dusted itself off, and today presented to the world another smartphone processor: the Snapdragon 710.…

Fill the jar and hand over your iPhone, sir Australia is ramping up its use of phone-cracking technology to crack serious criminals: its peak sports anti-doping body has taken a Cellbrite licence.…

Bill gets second reading but faces wrath of robot-loving EFF A law bill that would require AI bots pretending to be humans to identify themselves as such is progressing through California's Congress – but has hit opposition from the Electronic Freedom Foundation.…

Layoffs coming as taxi-app shuts up shop Uber has confirmed that it's shutting down its self-driving car operation in Arizona – without waiting for the conclusion of the official investigation into the death of a pedestrian in the US state in March.…

COPPA load of these new data protection rights for tykes US Congress is pondering a bipartisan measure to expand the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) – the law that, well, protects children's privacy online.…

Legal concerns over platform were floated back in July Some ten months before Sen. Ron Wyden would request the FCC examine legal concerns over the service, a US lawyer had alerted the agency to potential problems with the Securus THREADS database.…

Test rig itself may be causing detected minute bursts of thrust, warn eggheads The "impossible" EmDrive may be just that, though don't count it out just yet.…

For now you'll just have to make do with its Xeons AI Dev Con Intel announced a range of machine learning software tools and hinted at new chips on Wednesday, including its first commercial AI ASIC, the NNP-L1000, launching in 2019.…

Cisco's Talos team says 500k already pwned and leaking data A newly-disclosed malware infection has compromised more than 500,000 home and small office routers and NAS boxes.…

No, not the Russian probing. No, not money from foreign governments. No, not firing of officials. Twitter Donald Trump has broken the United States Constitution, a New York district court ruled Wednesday, putting the US president in legal hot water.…

And we'll, erm, name and shame bad actors MORE LOUDLY Hostile states targeting essential infrastructure and services in Britain should be dealt with in the same way as any other attack against the nation, the UK Attorney General said today.…

Crunchy charcoal fingers with raw meaty innards to be a thing of the past With a bank holiday looming (in the UK and US at least) thoughts are turning to barbecues and the traditional burning-of-the-meat.…

//X and pals on show in San Fran Nine-year-old flash firm Pure Storage flung out a slew of products to ward off legacy and newbie rivals at its Accelerate event in San Francisco, including – as you'd expect – faster, denser and cheaper arrays.…

A tale of lawyer-funding venture capitalists and Mountain View A former director of consumer rights group Which is trying to extract “somewhere between £1bn and £3bn” from Google on behalf of 4.38 million Brits over the naughty placement of advertising cookies.…

PS: Don't forget to try to cash in on public data – MPs Increased use of algorithms in decision-making risks disproportionately affecting certain groups, MPs have said, urging the government to boost transparency and tackle bias - but not forget the value of public data.…

'Member that innocent, pre-Zuckerberg time? The source code to the Eudora email client is being released by the Computer History Museum, after five years of discussion with the IP owner, Qualcomm.…

The one whose name doesn't rhyme with schmintel Analysis Micron has started to separate from Intel in NAND production, just days after whipping the veil off its 7.68TB QLC SSD, and CEO Sanjay Mehrotra and pals are keen to chat up analysts about their vision of the coming "New Micron".…

Goal to be achieved not with government cash, but 'market conditions' The UK's chief purse-strings-puller Philip Hammond has pledged 15 million premises will receive full-fibre broadband by 2025, in an apparent bid to boost Britain's fortunes post-Brexit.…

30 years on, King of Pop's dance moves no longer flummox academic world New research from India into Michael Jackson's "Smooth Criminal" tilt has concluded that, yes, it is physically impossible and dancers should really stop trying to recreate it because Achilles tendon and spinal injuries are not fun.…

Will legendary Brit inventor step in to save the day? Customers of Retro Computers ltd, the ZX Spectrum themed reboot firm, have now set up a website asking Sir Clive Sinclair to intervene in the non-delivery debacle.…

AI is no longer just an academic exercise – and courses need to wise up to that Artificial intelligence and its sub-domains look set to be the next major growth area for software developers, programmers, hackers and just about anyone who has anything to do with software.…

Automation and offshoring to replace weak humans in the West Frankenfirm DXC Technologies is again looking for hard-pressed front-end customer support teamsters that are willing to leave with a redundancy cheque, according to an internal document.…

Google may have gobbled its talent but, yes, it's clinging on Hands On It may be news to you that HTC is still with us, but the fact it's here is good news for phone buyers. HTC's only flagship smartphone of 2018 looks like a sensibly priced alternative to the Pixel and Galaxy, without the eccentricities and flaws of the Huawei P20 Pro.…

Well, technically speaking, the gas giant's ring system takes regular hard poundings A trio of physicists reckoned they’ve figured out why some of Saturn’s moons are so oddly shaped, with some looking like giant floating ravioli and others imitating stubby baguettes.…

For European Union politicos, question time is all about the Qs, no As Analysis The European stop on Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook apology tour on Tuesday amounted to little more than a live read-out of Facebook’s well-rehearsed platitudes and tired PR lines.…

We meant 1,000. Maybe 2,000 The FBI apparently gilded the lily in its long campaign against consumer cryptography, telling the world it held more locked phones than it did.…

How much to hack a flash motor? Ask Tencent A security audit conducted by Tencent's Keen Security Lab on BMW cars has given the luxury automaker a handy crop of bugs to fix – including a backdoor in infotainment units fitted since 2012.…

'We can't delete court cases, and you can't make us' New Zealand courts are asking Google to take down content associated with current criminal proceedings, to the usual and resounding “No” from the Chocolate Factory.…

Senator's 'what are you doing?' a tough question to answer Australia's Digital Transformation Agency (DTA) appears unable to explain its involvement in a failed AU$20m Department of Education IT project that was cancelled last week.…

Carrier misled customers over NBN, Federal Court finds Already out-of-pocket by way of customer compensation, Optus has been hit with an AU$1.5 million fine from the Federal Court over its National Broadband Network transition processes.…

'Next' push pads bottom line with revenue boost Hewlett-Packard Enterprise is crediting the success of its Next corporate remake – as in, who should we fire Next – in helping it top expectations in its latest financial quarter.…

1.0 milestone signals readiness for something The open source Kata Containers project, an effort to combine the security advantages of virtual machines with the deployment and management advantages of software-based containers, hit its 1.0 milestone on Tuesday.…

It's the first time GANs might actually be used in production Artificially intelligent software has found the next industry to potentially, as the kids say, disrupt – dentistry.…

ACLU warns of biases in AWS cloud tech Analysis The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday expressed dismay that Amazon Web Services has been urging US government agencies to use its Rekognition API for state-sponsored facial recognition.…

Civil liberties group questions marketing AWS cloud for hunting criminals Analysis The American Civil Liberties Union on Tuesday expressed dismay that Amazon Web Services has been urging US government agencies to use its Rekognition API for state-sponsored facial recognition.…

It's not a real problem until a Congressman is affected Two US senators say they were among those whose identities were forged to file bogus comments on the FCC's net neutrality process.…

Euroland is the new California – but not everyone is happy Microsoft has said it will extend new privacy rights that become law in Europe this week to all its users worldwide.…

Brit broadband biz has only had four years to patch up WPS A years-old vulnerability continues to menace the security of some home Wi-Fi networks in the UK.…

He's pro free market – but there isn't one among America's ISPs The shocking lack of choice and competition in America's ISP market is why Senator John Kennedy crossed the aisle and voted for a repeal of the FCC's efforts to end net neutrality rules last week.…

Annual report spells out dire straits for enterprise data storage upstart Troubled Tintri admitted it may run out of cash within the next six weeks and go broke – and its shareholders are bailing out fast.…

Rocket boffins to dump second-hand Falcon 9 in the sea Because ride-sharing is caring, SpaceX will send the next batch of Iridium NEXT satellites into orbit along with a pair of NASA gravity monitoring orbiters, GRACE-FO.…

Auto auto slammed for garbage stopping distance Tesla is to issue a firmware update before the weekend for its Model 3 to deal with a critical brake weakness that was highlighted by US website Consumer Reports.…

Apps fingered in vanishing desktop snafu Updated The troubled Windows 10 April 2018 update is facing another issue, with some users losing access to their desktop after installing the new code.…

Get ready for a future where everything from phones to CCTV recognizes faces, things Processor design house Arm has emitted a few more details about the AI brain it's trying to persuade chip makers to pack into their silicon.…

Iconic site bags funding for 'astronomy gallery' Jodrell Bank is to receive £16.1m in UK lottery and government funding for a gallery dedicated to astronomy.…

MPs angry about poor responses, Zuckerberg snub. CEO faces Euro politicos The latest missive in an increasingly tense written battle between the British Parliament's digital committee and Facebook has seen MPs accuse the data-slurping giant of dodging questions and skipping the specifics.…