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€120m for the bin... Opinion A group of European governing institutions has approved a programme to invest €120m (£105m, $134.7m) in public Wi-Fi hotspots in over 6,000 municipalities in all European Union member states by 2020.…

Survey of ~6,000 contributors also finds widespread harassment, gender imbalance The open source community is nasty in many ways, according to a survey of over 6,000 contributors to open source projects.…

'Maxx Interactive Desktop' lets you relive the workstation wars and maybe do serious work Those of you yearning for the experience of running a 1990s-vintage graphics workstation are about to have a good day: a developer named Eric Masson has resurrected the IRIX Interactive Desktop that shipped on Silicon Graphics Workstations and now offers it as a Linux desktop alternative.…

Strontium release dogged by normal boring clouds that blocked boffins' view NASA's attempts to make red and green clouds have been thwarted by Mother Nature.…

Cloudy backup, now with data de-dupe, Windows System State restore and free egress Microsoft keeps getting closer and closer to being a decent backup vendor.…

Internet offers terrorist hatemongers 'safe space to breed' says PM British prime minister Theresa May's statement in response to the terror attacks that saw seven people murdered in London on Saturday night has again called for internet companies to make life harder for those who would discuss hateful and violent ideologies.…

Admits costs set to rise and that it faces entrenched deep-pocketed competition Virtualized storage upstart Tintri has filed for its initial public offering.…

Details scant on insurance, mileage costs, and depreciation As Amazon tests drone-drops for online orders, Walmart wants sales associates to double as delivery drivers.…

There's no way this could go horribly, violently wrong... right? Amazon has been given a patent on a system to deliver packages from the sky via on-board parachutes.…

ISS crew Thomas Pesquet and Oleg Novitski come home The crew of the International Space Station is down to three after ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet and Russian cosmonaut Oleg Novitski landed rather uncomfortably in the wilds of Kazakhstan.…

FCC boss ready to kill off protections for phone calls FCC boss Ajit Pai has put forward a new set of changes to the rules it will use to govern US telcos, potentially reducing privacy protections and local government rights in the process.…

Foe of same-sex unions seeks to wed machine The Utah Attorney General's Office says marrying a laptop is not a constitutionally protected right, particularly if it's less than fifteen years old.…

It's easier to mine than uraninite ore, too Scientists have discovered bizarre evidence in the US state of Wyoming – that bacteria hidden deep within the Earth's crust secrete uranium.…

Smartphone king already losing its only hope for a base With its much-hyped Bixby Voice assistant still learning basic English, Samsung has to deal with a mass defection of its user base.…

Apple and Google have eaten its lunch Sage, pusher of the thrilling product that is accountancy software, has flogged its North American Payments business to private equity outfit GTCR for $260m (£202m).…

Finding a partner – what to check for You may have noticed that information security is something of a big deal these days. You’ll also not have missed that the attackers’ capabilities are far ahead of those of us trying to defend our systems against them.…

'Tier-one' customer cools off Hewlett Packard Enterprise's joint venture with Foxconn to build lower cost servers to order for the world's biggest service providers is under threat because of its over reliance on shrinking sales to its one major customer, reportedly Microsoft.…

Potentially by a panicking contractor, if reports are to be believed Analysis An IT bod from a data centre consultancy has been fingered as the person responsible for killing wannabe budget airline British Airways' Boadicea House data centre – and an explanation has emerged as to what killed the DC.…

Do not install build 16212 “A small portion” of Windows mobile users hoping the unexpected cool new update would start the month off the right way got burned yesterday. Microsoft “accidentally” released a development build of Windows 10 that can transform your phone into jelly if you try to install it.…

Do not install build 16212 “A small portion” of Windows mobile users hoping the unexpected cool new update would start the month off the right way got burned yesterday. Microsoft “accidentally” released a development build of Windows 10 that can transform your phone into jelly if you try to install it.…

Carrion parenting A pair of gay Dutch vultures in a long-term relationship have become parents.…

We're talking 'bout blockage, blockage... Eyeo, Eyeo away Publishers will get a six-month headsup before Google kills intrusive advertising on Chrome, sources close to the ad giant have reportedly said.…

Just kidding, they'll have smart 'Snap' spectacles... Memory monetisation has arrived in the UK today with the launch of Snap Spectacles.…

Remember to cut down on those travel expenses, folks... Here is the short video that IBM didn’t want the world see - it shows CEO, president and chairman Ginni Rometty mounting a Big Blue chopper following a trip to the Hursley R&D labs in the UK.…

Researchers finger digital marketing agency Rafotech A strain of Chinese browser-hijacking malware dubbed Fireball has infected 250 million computers.…

When you wanna be lit af, like manual scripting It's strange when you're no longer the new kid on the block. First, you're the hippest of the hip, the one that everyone envies and then, suddenly, you're looking that little bit older, and generally less interesting.…

Pay me $500 in Bitcoin or... oh look, everyone's dead Something for the Weekend, Sir? Nothing could hurry Cool Dave. Tall and taciturn, he would make his way around school between classes at his own pace. When he talked, he not so much spoke as delivered a quiet soliloquy in a thoughtful and deliberate manner.…

Four workers to each pensioner just doesn't add up The ratio of people in the workforce to those in retirement will fall from 8:1 to 4:1 by 2050 if retirement ages do not change, and the global economy will not be able to bear the burden, the World Economic Forum (WEF) has said…

The NTFS diet sorted things out in more ways than one ON-CALL Friday's here again and so, therefore, is On-Call, our weekly dip into absurd tech support tales contributed by readers.…

Combined might of Microsoft, Musk and other tech titans couldn't persuade Prez to stay in climate pact United States President Donald Trump's decision to walk away from the Paris climate change agreement has been met by a chorus of disgruntlement from the technology industry.…

Chemical analysis of Gale Crater finds Martian lakes were a lot like ours Mars' Gale Crater was once home to a body of water “that offered favorable conditions for microbial life” thanks to stratification that meant different parts of the lake offered different conditions.…

The market's growing fast, but only the cheap stuff with no strings attached is selling Virtual reality headsets are moving at a rate of 2.3 million a quarter, but cheap and simple devices dominate the market.…

2018 Camry's infotainment system will run Automotive Grade Linux The Linux Foundation's Automotive Grade Linux project is celebrating its first big-name user, after Toyota said it will employ the OS in the 2018 Camry model it will sell in the United States.…

End-user computing biz turns a corner but markets worry about billings VMware's posted a strong first quarter for 2018, hauling US$1.74bn through the door, nine per cent more than Q1 2016, and posting GAAP net income of $232 million, up from Q1 2016's $161m.…

eCW body-slammed by Uncle Sam A health records software company will have to pay $155m to the US government to settle accusations it was lying about the data protection its products offered.…

New version pushes Python language Microsoft has updated its AI framework with the launch of Cognitive Toolkit 2.0 on Thursday.…

Selected travelers will have to provide usernames, detailed travel histories and more Through the end of November, individuals seeking a visa to travel to the US may be asked to provide usernames for social media accounts going back five years, subject to the discretion of consular officials.…

Hitches ride with Ariane after SpaceX drops the ball American comms specialist ViaSat is set to put the world's most powerful communications satellite into orbit on Thursday afternoon atop an Ariane rocket.…

The worst thing to happen to Samsung Mobile in at least a few months Samsung has confirmed that it will be delaying the release of its Bixby voice assistant in the US, after the software showed problems with processing English-language requests.…

Gated community sees life beyond its borders Taking another tentative step toward openness, Apple says it will tweak its Swift Playgrounds educational coding app to interface with programmable toys, drones, and musical instruments.…

The third time's the charm Physicists working at the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) have spotted gravitational waves rippling through the universe for the third time, according to results published in Physical Review Letters on Thursday.…

HP, Asus, Lenovo ring in brown trouser time for Intel Qualcomm has named HP, Asus and Lenovo as its first partners to sell ARM-based Windows 10 PCs.…

Recycling kit to lower costs is key to Musk's goals Updated On Thursday afternoon, SpaceX is planning to relaunch a Dragon supply capsule that already spent a month in space nearly three years ago.…

Binging for pennies The uptake for Microsoft's long-suffering search engine, Bing, continues to be so dismal that Redmond has resorted to paying people to use it.…

Component shortages, forex and 'stiff competition' blamed for Q2 crappiness The long feted turnaround of Hewlett Packard Enterprise has yet to show up after the misfiring tech corp reported another set of quarterly declines, and it’ll surprise no one that cost cutting is going to feature heavily once again.…

Still struggling? Your files might be recoverable after all Mistakes in the WannaCrypt ransomware worm might allow files to be restored after infection.…

Penalties double, but it's nothing next to GDPR The UK is among the most fined nations in Europe for data protection breaches, doubling the amount of penalties to £3.2m (€3.6m) during 2016.…

Look, here's some stuff I read on the internet about infosec and it's terribly worrying isn't it? A group of anti-nuclear campaigners have claimed Britain’s nuclear deterrent submarines are vulnerable to hackers – and their report setting out the “evidence” quotes, in part, from Wikipedia.…

Saucy Japanese chip-fryer tries to swallow its JV stake Loss-ridden Toshiba has pulled an unexpected move which it hopes will allow it to auction off its flash memory unit for a big pile of cash within the month. It says it has reabsorbed assets from its flash foundry JV with Western Digital Corp.…

WannaCrypt? Actually human error is the biggest problem The UK health sector accounts for nearly half (43 per cent) of all data breaches, according to new research.…