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Old RIM job on Zuck's bucks, WhatsApp, Instagram named Updated Smartphone market wraith BlackBerry has launched a legal offensive accusing Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram of patent infringement.…

So much for the supercycle "The iPhone X cost twice [as much as my old smartphone] but isn't twice as good. It's for the Rolex wearers," concluded Alistair Dabbs after a fortnight with Apple's flagship.…

Law review kicked off to write new statutes The Law Commission is to conduct a study into British driving laws with the aim of making sure humans can still be blamed for road accidents caused by driverless cars – and criminalising hackers who target autonomous vehicles.…

Miner prying by minor spying A sophisticated mystery hacker group is using tactics more familiar to the world of cyber espionage to earn millions through mining malware.…

Latest trials will expose capital to delights of robot chauffeuring World+dog will be let loose with Level 4 driverless cars in London, the Greenwich Gateway consortium has declared.…

Electoral Reform Society says UK.gov proposal is 'dangerous' Mandatory voter ID trials are "dangerous" and won't stop the main cause of election fraud, UK government has been told.…

USS Lexington discovered 500 miles off Australia Pics Billionaire Microsoftie Paul Allen has found yet another sunken warship – an amazingly well-preserved Second World War US aircraft carrier.…

So much for keeping up with the cutting edge, eh? Staying up to date with the latest tech seems to be proving challenging for the UK's data protection watchdog.…

911 transcripts tell of staff lying on ground, heads bleeding Apple's $5bn Norman Foster-designed "spaceship" HQ isn't finished yet, but it's already taking out puny humans.…

Former chairman banned from holding another financial role An inquiry into The Co-operative Bank's financial collapse is to open four years after it was first announced by former UK chancellor George Osborne.…

Wait. Don't you do those already? Bose's noise-jamming headphones are ubiquitous with business travellers and also popular among commuters, but the 11,000-strong company will face designer competition from Apple in a battle that pits two of the industry's most-respected engineering teams against each other.…

It was your plan all along! 'Oh no it wasn't.' Oh yes it was. 'CFIUS is BEHIND you!' Qualcomm took a deep breath, counted to three and responded to Broadcom's weekend broadside before postponing its stockholder meeting by a month.…

Daily backups? We've heard of them The UK's self-proclaimed number one website provider, 123 Reg, is having yet another very bad day, although arguably not as bad as those of its long-suffering customers.…

Let's go to all-flash arrays' house instead Despite the storage market growing 13.7 per cent annually in the fourth 2017 quarter, the external array section grew less than 2 per cent and is forecast to decline, according to IDC's worldwide enterprise storage systems tracker.…

Architecting for change In large organisations, the question is rarely “what are these newfangled practices and technologies,” but more “how could we actually do them here?”…

Over 40? You've used one of these. Of course you have The ZX81 was launched 37 years ago this week as a £49.95 kit (£69.95 assembled) and introduced an entire generation to the joys of computing, fights over the family television and prodigious use of sticky tape.…

CEO bullish as biz pushes Cypher QL and new DBaaS Emil Eifrem, chief exec of Neo4j, has said that graph databases are at a turning point for so long that you'd imagine he's bored of the line by now. But 2018 might just be the year his predictions come true.…

Don't panic: 'supremacy' is the point at which quantum kit trumps classical computers Google reckons it's on the cusp of demonstrating “quantum supremacy” with the development of a 72-qubit processor.…

This is why the IETF's SUITs squad wants to make IoT firmware updates fast and easy The IETF has noticed how badly Internet of Things firmware is managed, and wants it fixed.…

New HPs can survive 'repeated germicide wipes', but disclaimer says they can't cure anything HP Inc has announced a trio of slightly-odd products intended for use in hospitals.…

CEO says propaganda's a worry, but the deeper problem is Americans' credulity Searchers for Russian influence on the United States 2016 presidential election have of late swung their searchlights towards Reddit, which has tried to explain its role in the affair.…

First XCP-ng release, based on Xen Server 7.4's new GPU goodness, due March 31st XCP-ng, the effort to revive an open source version of XenServer, will go ahead after crushing its crowdfunding campaign.…

There is no honour among CPU thieves Cryptocurrency-mining malware-scum have started to write code that evicts rivals from compromised computers.…

Cisco's ambition for subscription adoption advances Cisco's updated its Tetration network monitoring software to tackle application security and multi-vendor policy enforcement.…

Not a typo. This stuff will make top-of-rack switches sizzle in 2019 Marvell Semiconductor is off and running with 802.3cd-compliant chips, and reckons it's the first sand-baker to ship to the standard.…

Veteran Jeff Jennings to get the band back together with VMware founder Diane Greene Jeff Jennings, VMware's senior veep and general manager for security and networking has left the company to join Google.…

If they are going v-e-r-y slowly A team of engineers have developed algorithms that reconstruct images of objects hiding around corners or behind walls, and believe it could be used to help make self-driving cars safer one day - albeit very slow ones at present.…

"It was a mistake," says exec. Facebook has apologized for sending out a survey to find out how the social network should respond when adult men ask teenaged girls for sexually explicit images.…

Memcached attacks are going to be this year's thing Last week, the code repository GitHub was taken off air in a 1.3Tbps denial of service attack. We predicted then that there would be more such attacks and it seems we were right.…

McIntyre going to Redmond as non-compete case wraps up Microsoft and IBM have settled a lawsuit over the former hiring away the latter's chief diversity officer.…

Not much brotherly love in this Philly court case Uber has been hit with a lawsuit over its failure to disclose the 2016 theft of its customer and driver records.…

My god, it's full of hydrocarbons A team of researchers carried out a series of experiments to study how complex hydrocarbons, an important class of molecules needed to create the building blocks for life, formed in space.…

Fly the insecure skies International airline Emirates leaks customers' sensitive personal information to third-party marketing partners and network adversaries, according to Konark Modi, a data security engineer for Cliqz, a privacy-focused browser based on Firefox.…

Redmond unveils custom US government versions of clouds Courting the lucrative government contract market, Microsoft has unveiled custom versions of Azure Stack and Microsoft 365 for the US government.…

Oak Ridge, Lawrence Livermore labs slated for beastmode kit in 2021-2023 The two new mystery exascale computing systems known only as Frontier and El Capitan popped up on a budget request last week. They are being developed by the US government and have been slated for deployment in 2022 and 2023.…

Inventor dies in poverty after patents didn’t protect Obit Trevor Baylis, one of Britain's most well-loved inventors and the creator of the clockwork radio that was designed to save lives in the developing world, has died at the age of 80 after battling Crohn's disease.…

ICO strategy outlines plans to slurp up academic expertise The Information Commissioner's Office has promised organisations a regulatory sandbox to test out the data protection implications of new tech as part of its first technology strategy.…

We're lost without you, Zuck. Save us! Comment Stand by for more clickbait. Facebook has abandoned its "fix" for news after publishers complained about a drop in traffic.…

The dark side of easy R&D cash A Chinese firm's buyout of a British semiconductor company may have directly led to China developing railgun weaponry and electromagnetic aircraft carrier catapults for its navy, according to reports.…

Campaigners say proposed law would create a 'discriminatory' system for data access rights Campaign groups have increased pressure on the UK government to remove a section of the Data Protection Bill that could effectively prevent people gaining access to immigration data held on them.…

I don't care about running water, where are my internets? Up to a quarter of new builds still lack access to superfast internet, according to a study by comparison site Thinkbroadband.…

Webinar gives the full picture Promo Launched in August at VMWorld in Las Vegas, Supermicro’s vSAN Hyperconverged Solution promises to optimize performance for specific workload uses and make the world a greener place, thanks to its superior power efficiency.…

And takes a swipe at American UAV regs An American upstart says it is the first company to implement the EU's vision of drone air traffic management – over the skies of Switzerland.…

Red giant revives a nearby corpse through the emission of cosmic wind The European Space Agency's INTEGRAL space observatory has captured an unusual piece of stellar voodoo: the moment when a dead star was brought back to life by a nearby red giant.…

CFIUS sends Broadcom deal TITSUP* for 30 days American national security bods at the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) have asked Qualcomm to delay tomorrow’s vote on Broadcom’s proposed $117bn (£84.7bn) takeover.…

Alleges ex-sales bods copied files and solicited former clients Dell EMC has tossed a trade secrets sueball at two ex-sales employees who left for Rubrik, alleging that they solicited other EMC staff to jump ship and approached Dell EMC customers.…

Country says no in licence referendum Swiss voters have decided to retain the country's costly TV licence in a referendum.…

Similar to Apache Struts flaw that stuffed Equifax Pivotal's Spring Data REST project has a serious security hole that needs patching.…

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CityFibre applies for review, says ASA is failing consumers CityFibre has applied to take the Advertising Standards Authority's to court over its decision to approve the continued use of the term "fibre" to describe services delivered over copper-based networks.…