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Can Nokia and BlackBerry save us from this 'turgid sea of sameness'? Analysis Hold the front page! Nokia's launching a bunch of new phones this weekend, and everyone is very excited.…

'Community' can buy what money can't Open Source Insider Surprisingly, the MXNet Machine Learning project was this month accepted by the Apache Software Foundation as an open-source project.…

Did you mean to type "rm -rf /" or should we be concerned? Dropbox has released the code for the chatbot it uses to question employees about interactions with corporate systems, in the hope that it can help other organizations automate security processes and improve employee awareness of security concerns.…

It all ends in beers after marital bliss and commercial reality collide On-Call Welcome again to On-Call, our weekly look at readers' memories of hibs gone bad.…

God, is there nothing artificial intelligence can't master? We all know you love it so much Google has partnered with Jigsaw, an Alphabet incubator, to tackle online trolling with the launch of Perspective, new software that uses machine learning to highlight “toxic comments.”…

This ain't over yet by a long shot - ratification roadmap stretches to 2020 The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has published a draft of what it expected to become the final 5G specification.…

Compute and storage is coming out of the core and into the light Mobile World Congress kicks off next week in Barcelona and, as ever, is two shows in one. Gadget-lovers get to go “squee!” about new handsets and the fun they'll have with them. And in the fun and important part of the conference, telco wonks discuss the plumbing that makes the “squee!” possible.…

Workers told to get on the job while on the job, to boost local population A Swedish municipality may allow its workers to get on the job while on the clock, for an hour each week.…

And grand for everyday use, but the modules just don't excite Hands-on Motorola's modular Android, the Moto Z, offers something genuinely new in the increasingly dull world of smartphones.…

Vulnerabilities in Hangul word processing program exploited The South Korean public sector is once again in the firing line of a sophisticated – and likely government-backed – cyberattack.…

And hidden fees and pricing The FCC has granted pricing and speed reporting exemptions long sought by small US broadband providers.…

Heartbleed-style classic buffer overrun blunder strikes in 2017 Big-name websites leaked people's private session keys and personal information into strangers' browsers, due to a Cloudflare bug uncovered by Google security researchers.…

How could app maker's week get any worse? Glad you asked Alphabet's self-driving car outfit and Google stablemate Waymo is suing Uber, alleging theft of trade secrets and patent infringement.…

And more than half the biz working overseas on the cheap HPE's financial results for the first quarter of its fiscal 2017 are in, and they don't look good. Profits are flat and the servers, storage and networking divisions have shown double-digit declines in revenue.…

Copyright allegations wreck search rankings Analysis Big corporations are abusing the system for taking down files and links to copyright-infringing content by sending millions of fake links, according to Google.…

'Alexa, am I being murdered?' Police in the US believe an Amazon Echo overheard the murder of a bloke found dead floating in a hot tub. All the cops want is a copy of any audio recorded by the personal assistant, conveniently stored in Amazon's cloud.…

Polymer highway into the head promises easier neurological monitoring MIT brain boffins have developed a tiny fiber that can carry chemical, electrical, and optical signals back and forth between the brain and an external device, offering an improved path for testing brain functions and interactions.…

Michael Thomas' appeal will send shockwaves through IT industry if successful Back in December 2011, Michael Thomas did what many sysadmins secretly dream of doing: he trashed his employer's network and left a note saying he quit.…

Watchdog forces them to drop claims of privacy protections Three US companies have settled with the FTC after they were accused of lying about the security safeguards on their customer information.…

Most argued articles include Pervez Musharraf, Niels Bohr and Schwarzenegger Analysis An investigation into Wikipedia bots has confirmed the automated editing software can be just as pedantic and petty as humans are – often engaging in online spats that can continue for years.…

Tired old algo underpinning online security must die now Google researchers and academics have today demonstrated it is possible – albeit with a lot of computing power – to produce two different documents that have the same SHA-1 hash signature.…

Tired old algo underpinning online security must die now Google researchers and academics have today demonstrated it is possible – albeit with a lot of computing power – to produce two different documents that have the same SHA-1 hash signature.…

Eleventh-hour amendment, but will it stick with government? An eleventh-hour amendment has been added to the UK government's Digital Economy Bill, proposing an increase of the Universal Service Obligation from 10Mbps to 30Mbps.…

How many swallows do you need for a summer? One will do The adoption of prophylactics to protect users against advertising failed to rise in 2016, according to pollsters YouGov.…

Brit firm 'missed the jackpot', says High Court judge The High Court in London, UK, has agreed that a company's former employees who took thousands of confidential files away on USB sticks when they quit the firm were indeed naughty – and ordered them to pay damages of just £1 each.…

And the Oscar for the best story about why you have recovery tests goes to... Exclusive An external review into last October's catastrophic data loss at King's College London has placed the blame squarely at the feet of the IT technical team, which it found neither understood nor followed the university's system for backing up data.…

Creating 'a one-stop shop for digital shared services' French managed file transfer (MFT) company Axway has bought file sync and share supplier Syncplicity.…

I expect to remain with Tesla forever... and ever, and ever Amid larger than expected losses at Tesla, founder Elon Musk promised he would not be diverted by a mission to Mars and intended to stay at the company "forever".…

Google Ventures-backed Storj Labs makes its pitch Startup Storj (pronounced storage oddly enough) has an open source, distributed cloud object storage platform using blockchain technology and end-to-end cryptography across a peer-to-peer network to secure files.…

Blames it on weak pound Sales at Telefónica UK, which owns O2, plunged 12.5 per cent to €6.8bn (£5.7bn) for the firm's full year, mainly due to currency changes.…

But at least TSS staffers won't have to get career advice from Capita this time Exclusive IBM is hoping to lighten monthly payroll costs by, er, dangling minimum statutory redundancy terms in front of UK staff who volunteer to cut short their career at the creaking tech titan.…

Cops probing Mirai telco takedown UK police have arrested a suspect in connection with an attack that infected nearly 1 million Deutsche Telekom routers last November.…

Rentokil man tells BBC it calls them automagically, so that clearly explains the price Pest control firm Rentokil has developed an Internet of Things mousetrap that gasses rodents and automatically calls out a disposal bod – and it can be yours for a cool £1,300.…

Peter Sage was playing the old grey reseller game, claims US tech monster Peter Sage, the imprisoned "serial entrepreneur" and one-time principal of the company Space Energy, is said to have defrauded Hewlett Packard Enterprise out of tens of thousands of servers in a scam that unfolded over three years.…

Well... not Microsoft, Cisco or HPE, according to a consultant A consultancy reports that Nutanix, Simplivity and VMware lead the SDS/HCI market, while Microsoft, Cisco and HPE lag behind.…

Sorry, Dave. I can’t do that – without an appropriate multi-GPU framework or Python library Machine learning has become a buzzword. A branch of Artificial Intelligence, it adds marketing sparkle to everything from intrusion detection tools to business analytics. What is it, exactly, and how can you code it?…

Ambiguous contract language didn't guarantee outcome If you use software licensed by SAP, you had better read your licence. If you have not yet acquired SAP software, you should make sure you use an experienced IT licensing lawyer before contracting.…

We're working on it Updated The BBC has acknowledged that problems with the latest iPlayer software for PCs and Macs have left users unable to download shows to watch offline.…

1TB chip incoming Toshiba has introduced its first 64-layer 3D NAND device that doubles the capacity of its 256Gb product to 512Gb using a TLC (3bits/cell) design.…

Stop. We don't want to hear it, mutters uSwitch Customers are losing £5.8bn per year by sticking with the same mobile supplier, according to research from comparison site uSwitch.…

Machine learning is cropping up more and more in research papers – does it work? Feature Powerful artificially intelligent algorithms and models are all the rage. They're knocking out it of the park in language translation and image recognition, but autonomous cars and chatbots? Not so much.…

The 5G internet of virtualized networked things is calling and Chipzilla wants to be ready Intel's tossed out a batch of new products ahead of Mobile World Congress, all of them handy for internet of things applications operating on very fast wireless networks.…

Critical update deals with five ways to do remote code execution on Windows Microsoft's popped out a Security Update for Adobe Flash.…

Wearables giant finally reveals cost of gobbling up and killing off rival hardware Fitbit has confirmed the long-held belief that it scooped up rival wearables maker Pebble for a bargain basement price before murdering the watchmaker.…

Malware? Check. Camera? Check. Let's go sniff passwords That roll of tape you use to cover the Webcam? Better use some of it on your hard-drive LED, because it can be a data exfiltration vector.…

No, you're not reading that wrong: PCs are selling better than since the XP upgrade rush HP Inc has reported its first quarter results with a highlight being increased sales and revenue for PCs, but a dip for printer-related activities.…

Broadcom waves farewell to what used to be Ruckus and the ICX switch business Arris Technologies will buy Ruckus Wireless from Broadcom, for US$800m.…

Upstart Sapho gives Son of Notes the 'kids want all software to be Facebook clone' treatment The last time The Register covered IBM Domino, we rode to work on a brontosaurus and wrote the story with a a chisel.…

DCCP code cockup lay unnoticed since 2005 Eleven years ago or thereabouts, the Linux kernel got support for the Datagram Congestion Control Protocol – and also got a privilege escalation bug that has just been fixed.…