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Facebook, Google, Twitter and friends face clampdown European Union ministers have approved new rules for video that will oblige Facebook, Google, Twitter and others to remove hate speech and sexually explicit videos online or face stiff fines.…

Lobs deployment tools at sysadmins, complete with Silverlight and ActiveX support Google is trying to give businesses a reason to ditch Internet Explorer by giving sysadmins a new set of tools for mass deployment of its own Chrome browser.…

Stacks up against Open Compute with one design for data centres of all sizes plan LinkedIn wants you to brick it in the data centre by following it and its friends with a new standard for data centre hardware that pushes its ambitions to the edge and into competition with the Facebook-derived Open Compute Project.…

Cloud's just 'recommended', for now, as local industry plans 50 per cent growth by 2025 India's issued three “Guidance Notes” outlining its government's policies for procuring software and entering into alliances and running RFPs.…

World's biggest advertising company needs to prove ads are worth the money Google wants stores to gather purchase data on its behalf, to bolster its case that advertising on the platform works.…

Emissions software scandal flares anew Fiat-Chrysler, accused of the same kind of software defeat as landed Volkswagen in hot water, is now the subject of a Department of Justice lawsuit.…

Active Deploy binned in favour of Kubernetes and/or Cloud Foundry IBM's announced a swift retirement of its Active Deploy service, a facility offered to those who want frequent updates to cloudy applications.…

Penguinistas, rejoice: Tavis Ormandy lets you fuzz Windows Google Project Zero's Windows bug-hunter and fuzz-boffin Tavis Ormandy has given the world an insight into how he works so fast: he works on Linux, and with the release of a personal project on GitHub, others can too.…

Iris-scanner defeated with a camera in night mode, a contact lens, and a printer Chaos Computer Club's "Starbug" has taken a look at the Samsung Galaxy S8's iris-scanning authentication feature and found you can beat it with a photograph.…

He left Oracle years ago so this is no biggie, but clearly cloud is where big brains want to roost Java creator James Gosling has announced he now works for Amazon Web Services.…

And it's a nasty one if the user you crack has admin rights French security outfit Sysdream has gone public with a vulnerability in the admin interface for OpenVPN's server.…

One small bag for a man, one giant check for Sotheby's The bag Neil Armstrong used to carry home lunar samples from the Apollo 11 mission could fetch up to $4m at auction next month.…

Fines equal around 8 hours of profit, that'll teach them Target, the shopping behemoth for people who are too classy to go to Walmart, has today reached a settlement with 47 states and the District of Columbia over the 2013 hacking incident that saw 70 million customers lose their personal information.…

Axions still a no-show over at CERN Axion Telescope The hunt for axions – a potential dark matter candidate – at the CERN Axion Solar Telescope have been fruitless. But scientists refuse to give up as they set a new limit that calculates the probability of finding these elusive particles.…

Kiss goodbye to that Android bike and Transformers car It has all gone pear-shaped for Chinese conglomerate LeEco after the firm told nearly 70 per cent of its US staff that their services will no longer be required.…

Dial-a-ride house admits underpaying New York drivers Uber said today that it will hand drivers back pay that could add up to tens of millions of dollars.…

Metadata confirms what we all suspected A "toolkit" provided to House Republicans to defend US comms watchdog the FCC's recent decision to tear up net neutrality rules was written by the cable lobby.…

Two sets of judges rule for citizens and against government The US National Security Agency has been hit by two legal losses that may put the last part of its controversial spying program on US citizens under threat.…

Activists say they got cease and desist threat for pointing out astroturfing An activist group says it was threatened by Comcast lawyers after it pointed out the cable giant's efforts to astroturf the FCC with fake comments on net neutrality.…

Middle Kingdom mandarins get their own OS While much attention has been focused on the new Surface Pro laptop Microsoft has launched in Shanghai on Tuesday, the company also announced a special build of its operating system for China.…

Boutique fondleslab gains SIM slot... but not until later this year Microsoft has revamped its Surface tablet, which at last includes a SIM card slot.…

Cities sick of being used as techies' sandboxes Cities are tired of being the "guinea pigs" caught in the middle of the Internet of Things' ongoing standards bunfight, London's LPWA conference was told this morning.…

Won't somebody think of the savings? Oh, they have, and now the dream has died The long-running and highly criticised joint venture between Capita and Birmingham, England, City Council is being rubbed out, reportedly saving taxpayers around £44m.…

VLC, Kodi, Popcorn Time and Stremio were all vulnerable Hackers have gone back to the future by attempting to infect targets with booby-trapped subtitle files.…

Global biz is flying to fast-access frames of flash Analysis Amadeus, the global travel booking business, is testing Micron's SolidScale NVMe flash arrays, thinking they can provide vastly better realtime access to the terabytes of flight information it holds on behalf of airlines and travel operators.…

Telco argues payment isn't covered by reorg scheme The widow of an Avaya employee has said the troubled UK telco should not terminate her death benefits following its bankruptcy filing in January.…

Anyone interested? NHS? Bueller? Bueller? National Health Service trusts can consolidate their data in readiness for GDPR by buying an Analytics Private Health Data Vault service, based on Commvault's Clinical Archive product, says its maker.…

Firm will kill live in-flight streaming unless you hand over your details Chinese drone maker DJI is forcing all new users of its drones to register their devices through its app - and is throttling flight performance if they don't comply.…

But don't let poor proof of concept and insecurity put you off... As many as three-quarters of IoT projects are a flop, according to Cisco. But rather than having fewer crappy connected devices, Switchzilla reckons what's needed is a better IoT architecture. If only someone could help...…

Only few bad apples at internet badness hotspots, though The .science domain has become a “hotspots” of malicious or abusive activity on the internet, according to a new study out Tuesday.…

Unspecified lump sum heading for Finland Nokia and Apple have made peace after a brief but vituperative legal stand-off. The two settled all their outstanding issues over intellectual property rights, with an unspecified lump sum heading from California to Finland, as well as royalties.…

That's rich, coming from an audio-branded-call-handling biz Self-serving research published with the sole aim of flogging wares is a fairly standard PR tactic. But every now and then something so artfully shameless pops up it transcends the genre. Step forward, PHMG.…

Huawei breathing creepily down Apple's neck Huawei is breathing over Apple's shoulder as Chinese brands make inroads into Western smartphone markets.…

Get the basics right IT services are rubbish. It’s a fact of life – or at least it is in the eyes of the average user. Of course the nature of IT is that you get far more negative feedback than you do positive: you seldom get people calling the IT service desk to say: “Hey, my webmail is superb today”. But people wouldn’t be phoning if everything was working as the users want it to.…

King Battistelli is at it again The central staff committee of the European Patent Office has sent a letter to the organization's board warning it of proposed changes that would further undermine their rights.…

Emptoris procurement product is being taken behind the shed just five years after acquisition IBM and SAP last week shared a stage and delivered the ShinyHappy™ news that the two are throwing their respective Watson and Leonardo artificial intelligences at “cognitive procurement solutions that redefine the source-to-settle process.”…

Astronaut reproduction could be possible one day, boffins reckon Japanese scientists say reproducing in space could be possible one day, after preserved mouse spermatozoa kept on the International Space Station resulted in healthy offspring.…

Are you ready for an idea from the playground to challenge your organisation? OPINION Fidget spinners may be the biggest thing since the yo-yo, but they can’t hold a candle to the latest fad to sweep the business world: hackathons.…

Customers fleeing your e-store before buying? Your data centre should know how to respond AppDynamics is considering the wonderful world of policy-driven infrastructure automation, so that your data centre can respond when your applications deliver a less-than-stellar customer experience.…

Proposes baseline security spec, plus stickers to prove thing-makers have complied European network and infosec agency ENISA has taken a look at Internet of Things security, and doesn't much like what it sees.…

Cron job aborted after crims scoop ₽50m and share it to 6,000 bank accounts The Russian Interior Ministry has announced the arrest of 20 people following raids related to a malware campaign dubbed “Cron” which had been emptying victims' bank accounts.…

Is it comets? Or aliens? Astronomers want your help to figure out this cosmic riddle Astronomers worldwide are scrambling a worldwide effort to capture as many images of the famous “Tabby's Star” (also known as Boyajian's Star), which has abruptly entered a dimming phase.…

PayPal says Pandora can't make cash without cashing in on its fame LOGOWATCH LEGAL PayPal has filed a lawsuit against streaming music service Pandora, alleging that the latter's stylised single “P” logo is so similar to the payment company's “PP” logo that it's designed to get punters confusing the two.…

Presence of encrypted keys in source code runs afoul of rules Last week, Amazon Web Services banned rclone, an open source cloud storage client application, from accessing Amazon Drive, inconveniencing hundreds or possibly thousands of people using the software.…

Bezos fumes as US bureaucracy holds his drone fleet back JD.com, China's largest online retailer, has announced it is beginning trials of a new delivery drone capable of carrying a ton of cargo to rural Chinese customers.…

Define irony: For-profit school wants unpaid bill forgiven The estate of bankrupt US trade school ITT Technical Institutes is today asking a court to stop Microsoft from erasing its cloud data.…

US lawmakers try to clear up FTC control over data collection The US Representatives who just weeks ago repealed privacy rules for ISPs now want to enact a new set of restrictions.…

But boffins say better tools are needed to nab scofflaws Researchers analyzing the emissions defeat devices found in automobiles made by the Volkswagen Group and Chrysler Fiat Automobiles have developed a way to test software for misbehavior, but they caution that lack of visibility into programming code could pose a challenge for regulators.…

Lawsuit reveals ominous warnings from former government special agent "If you're considering sharing confidential information to a reporter – or to anyone externally – for the love of all that's Googley, please reconsider! Not only could it cost you your job, but it also betrays the values that makes us a community."…

'Orphan memory' could unlock more secrets hidden in our universe A team of physicists has proposed a new idea about gravitational waves that will allow other researchers to find more exotic objects in space.…