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Take note Twitter, Facebook et al, it's really not that hard to weed out bots A group of computer scientists have developed a machine-learning algorithm that can sniff out fake profiles lurking on social networks.…

Oh, yeah, and storage sales sucked. There's that, too Revenues for IBM have risen for its second successive financial quarter – after over five years of declining sales – however, profits are down and Wall Street hammered Big Blue's stock price in after-hours trading.…

Yeah that oughta do the trick The US government has waded into the omni-shambles that is the internet infrastructure industry's failed effort to comply with European privacy laws.…

Crypto expert panel tackles the big stories of the year RSA 2018 Speaking at the 2018 RSA conference, a board of some of the most respected names in security spoke on Tuesday and were scathing about Facebook – and the industry's response to the Spectre processor bug.…

RSA panel tackles the big stories of the year RSA 2018 Speaking at the 2018 RSA conference, a board of some of the most respected names in security spoke on Tuesday and were scathing about Facebook and the response to the Spectre processor bug.…

Dublin case closed but very big legal question remains The US Supreme Court has dodged a critical legal question about the reach of America's courts in the internet era, deciding to drop a test case between Microsoft and the Department of Justice.…

59% of our systems are obsolete, agency boss tells congressional hearing Updated US tax returns for 2017 must be filed by midnight tonight – but the nation's Internal Revenue Service is making that difficult.…

Trial of ex-CFO Sushovan Hussein continues Infamous software outfit Autonomy lied to a British financial regulatory panel, an American court has been told by the panel's former chairman.…

Performance and security boost with space left over Mainframes never die, though their architecture has been eclipsed for years.…

Wants to hang on to sales dominance Alongside its update of vSphere, VMware has smoothed off a few of the rough edges from its HCI heavy, vSAN.…

And I 'could' sing a duet with Taylor Swift Comment The British Army's troubled Watchkeeper drones "could still be deployed on operations", a defence minister has insisted.…

Plus: Former CEO snubs MPs The number of Facebook users whose data was compromised via quizzes "is much greater than 87 million", Cambridge Analytica's former director of program development has told MPs.…

Enterprise Edition 2.0 focuses on K8s without the ops hires Container popularizer Docker plans to roll out an update to its enterprise product on Tuesday that has more to do with box juggling than canned code.…

From vapourware to reality Huawei has said its first 5G-capable phone will appear in a little over a year. The Chinese giant made the pledge at its annual global analyst summit in Shenzhen, southeastern China.…

One for vSphere veterans, one for hybrid hipsters, plus a security surprise VMware has given vAdmins a new version of vSphere, numbered 6.7. As predicted and detected by The Register's virtualization desk, it's not a huge release. But it is both a slightly confusing and rather significant one.…

Oracle's Catz: I chatted to Trump about plan, it 'makes no sense' The US Department of Defense (DoD) still intends to choose just one vendor for its multibillion-dollar cloud contract – amid complaints from Oracle's co-CEO that such a plan "makes no sense".…

Microsoft Windows Insider chief 'fesses up to potential blue-screen inducing glitch Windows 10 Springwatch – as it shall henceforth be known – has entered its second week and Microsoft has dropped the first clue as to what caused the delay: bugs.…

Falcon 9 grounded while turning it off and on again works at ESA A Guidance and Navigation Control (GNC) issue scuppered last night's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9. Conversely, the European Space Agency (ESA) celebrated a successful restart of the Mars Express orbiter following a software update.…

Train to outwit the cyber criminals Promo Even as IT systems grow and become more complex, so new and ingenious methods for stealing vital data or holding organisations to ransom proliferate at an increasingly rapid pace.…

MicroSD cam flash cards, cheap NAS filers and costly prosumer flash drives It has been a hardware frenzy this week, with a pair of microSD cards for surveillance cams, flash drives for video takers and makers, and good old filers from a NAS baker.…

Punters wising up to expensive upgrade cycle Sales of smartphones in Western Europe are expected to fall 7 per cent to 141 million this year, as consumers shun expensive upgrades on devices offering little more than an incremental updates.…

What to do when a productivity app is anything but If I had a dollar for every time someone said Slack was the answer to a business's problems, I'd have retired to a beach in Australia long ago. I'm currently in seven different Slack teams, and I've still got problems.…

Report into fatal air accident shows machines can't be trusted to negotiate a crisis On September 8th, 2015, a pilot left Point Cook Airfield in the Australian State of Victoria for a solo navigational training flight.…

But warns it will bail if something better comes along SAP has revealed its attitude to Oracle’s decision to let go of Java EE and have it tended by the Eclipse Foundation.…

Yes, this is the same France that wants not-backdoors for the rest of us France's government has built an encrypted messaging app for government use.…

Oh that snitch-code? It's just a little thing to make the web more convenient ... for Facebook and its advertisers Facebook's apology-and-explanation machine grinds on, with The Social Network™ posting detail on one of its most controversial activities – how it tracks people who don't use Facebook.…

Two million addresses down, 4.2 billion to go - oh, plus the IPv6 address space Russia's telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor has started blocking IP addresses linked to secure messaging service Telegram.…

Admin overhaul clarifies legals, funding, but can't solve problem of who drives standards If all goes according to plan, the venerable Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) will this week tackle a fiendishly difficult problem: standing on its own administrative feet.…

Late 2018 launch plan for third attempt at moon-capable rocket China’s National Space Administration has figured out why its Long March Y2 launch went awry in July 2017.…

Coprocessors drafted for threat detection duties Updated Having weathered revelations in January that its chips can be attacked through a novel class of side-channel vulnerabilities – mostly addressed through microcode fixes – Intel is adding broader silicon-level security improvements to its processors.…

Neural network recreates real images from thermal cameras US army researchers have developed a convolutional neural network and a range of algorithms to recognise faces in the dark.…

And it talks to Azure. Cortana probably spotted lurking nearby Microsoft has designed a family of Arm-based system-on-chips for Internet-of-Things devices that runs its own flavor of Linux – and securely connects to an Azure-hosted backend.…

Data is the secret sauce to advancing AI research Researchers at Endgame, a cyber-security arm based in Virginia, have published what they believe is the first large open-source dataset for machine learning malware detection known as EMBER.…

FCC levies fine equivalent to 32 hours of quarterly profit T-Mobile US will be a bit lighter in the wallet today, thanks to a $40m fine served by the FCC.…

Legislation 'could have been written by AT&T and Comcast' An effort to pass net neutrality legislation at the California state level is in doubt after an official analysis of the proposed bill recommend pulling out two key measures.…

After all, it's where all your data is flowing through American and British crimefighters have launched another round of pin-the-tail-on-the-Russians – with a warning that Moscow-backed hackers are trying to subvert the world's network devices.…

After all, it's where the data is US and UK cyber authorities have launched another round of pin the tale on the Russians, with a warning that Moscow-sponsored hackers are trying to subvert the world's network devices.…

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.…