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Effort to redraw online copyright rules receives furious response Internet giants Google, Facebook and a wide range of organizations from Pinterest to Kickstarter to Wikimedia have responded furiously to a recent decision by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals that could have huge liability implications for online companies.…

Oi, Amazon. Still think you're going to do domestic drone deliveries? The UK's Department for Transport and the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy “don’t understand” airspace traffic management – and UK‑focused drone software startups might be closer to the government view than they like to think.…

It's all to play for Samsung has finally launched its mobile payments service, Samsung Pay, in the UK. The chaebol acquired the technology by buying LoopPay and launched the service in South Korea in August 2015.…

Files complaint over claims contract makers withholding license payments Qualcomm is suing Chinese iPhone and iPad contract makers it says have stopped paying it royalties at the behest of Apple.…

Data centre CPU boasts more cores, IO, memory bandwidth than Intel's AMD has renamed its Zen-based Naples processor as the EPYC brand, pitching it as a data centre server CPU, and hopes to make inroads into both the dual-socket and single-socket server markets.…

The SS300 comes in 2bits/cell and 3bits/cell variants HGST has released the Ultrastar SS300, an enterprise server SSD that's 1.6 times faster than its predecessor.…

Stand down, folks. Back to Defcon none A ransomware variant, dubbed Uiwix, that abuses the same vulnerability as WannaCrypt has turned out to be something of a damp squib.…

SolidScale software supplier gets closer relationship with up-the-stack moving MIcron We understand Micron has invested in Excelero, the software supplier for its SolidScale all-flash NVME array.…

If you want to slash overheads, you're learning from the best Beleaguered Canadian train and plane giant Bombardier has signed a six-year $700m contract with IBM to outsource tech management and, er, cut costs – something Big Blue has expended considerable effort doing itself.…

Mr Slurpy lives next door Review The Galaxy S8+ is like a nine course meal of desserts – tiramisus, trifles, ice creams, one after another – that you have to eat with chopsticks and a straw.…

This (probably) isn't a spear phishing attack but we were too afraid to verify Official anti-ransomware advice issued by UK police to businesses can only be read by clicking on a link titled "Ransomware" which leads direct to a file helpfully named "Ransomware.pdf".…

Pricking your memory, anyone? West Yorkshire police are seeking a giant penis who may have witnessed a serious assault in Leeds city centre in April.…

That is if you ever want to sell or use UK-certified kit abroad The UK's ability to successfully export – and import – drone technology relies on our aviation safety regulators staying as closely aligned with the EU as possible, Royal Aeronautical Society UAV committee chairman Tony Hadley told The Register.…

Optane persistent memory support from Cascade Lake Xeon SPs in 2018 Intel says its coming Xeon SPs (scalable processors) will run in-memory SAP HANA workloads 1.59 times faster than a Xeon E7 v4 system, and has demonstrated Optane DIMMs.…

Significant number of devices continue to expose Windows SMB on port 445 Vulnerable Windows Server Message Block (SMB) shares central to last week's WannaCrypt outbreak are still widely deployed and frequently hunted, security researchers warn.…

Over 1k complain about free tablets, smartwatches wheeze The Information Commissioner's Office has fined Fareham telco Onecom Limited £100,000 for sending spam texts.…

I need to take a cold shower Global travel systems business Amadeus is testing 100TB SSDs.…

Plus: Is America anti-innovation?

Young servers, old servers, no middle-aged servers "In our country," Alice told the Red Queen in Through the Looking-Glass, "you'd generally get to somewhere else – if you run very fast for a long time, as we've been doing."…

By reinventing ILM, HSM and file data management Analysis Komprise is a data management startup saying it will save enterprises money by identifying and analysing file/unstructured data sprawl then shift it to cheap on-premises or in-cloud storage. This is a message put out by others, such as Catalogic and Primary Data. It overlaps with the copy data managers, such as Actifio, and the secondary data convergers such as Cohesity.…

Drone traffic management, or 'how to regulate the skies' The skies of the future could be divided into “manned” and “drone” segments as regulators struggle to work out how commercial drones should interact with traditional human-piloted aircraft.…

Google, Azure and AWS all on board, the latter in a VMware-like managed service SAP's decided the time is right for its cloud to play nicely with other clouds.…

Building a bot for the co-pilot's seat may be cheaper than adding automation software An outfit called Aurora Flight Sciences is trumpeting the fact that one of its robots has successfully landed a simulated Boeing 737.…

The 17:21 to Happy Town is going in and out and is aaah-aah-bout to finish its journey Commuters at Washington DC's Union Station were left unsure if they were coming or going on Monday, when streamed smut started to appear on digital signs during peak hour. And it appears there's a rash of such incidents taking place around the world.…

You're not helping by allowing server sprawl and ignoring backup, though You're probably cocking up the cloud, but clouds themselves are part of the reason why.…

Sysadmins, don't hurt your necks shaking your heads Still reeling from criticism over the WannaCrypt attack, Microsoft has stuck its hat on a stick and raised it out of the trench to see how its proposals for Internet of Things security might be received.…

Microsoft's weird DaaS licensing melts away when it has a sniff of Azure usage VMware's got the green light to deliver virtual Windows desktops and packaged apps from Microsoft's Azure cloud.…

.SCF files present ID, password to fetch icons for attack file Google's Chrome team is working to fix a credential theft bug that strikes if the browser is running on Microsoft Windows.…

Gene research a test market for cloudy graph engine With AWS, Google, and IBM's Watson already camped in the high-performance cloud business, it's hardly surprising that Cray would tread carefully as a late entrant into the supercomputer-as-a-service business.…

To other vendors using embedded Windows: where are your warnings and patches? Here's why infosec needs to quit yelling “if you didn't patch it's your fault” about WannaCrypt: Cisco has announced it's investigating which of its products can't be patched against the ransomware.…

The Chocolate Factory is spared the aspirin treatment by the 9th District Court Google has won the rights to keep its name a proper trademark after a US court found its search engine is not quite ubiquitous enough to be considered a generic term.…

Droids given 'one shot' lessons to stack blocks The ultimate goal in robotics is the ability to train a machine to perform general tasks after it learns from a few examples. OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research organization, is a step closer to achieving this by applying a new algorithm called one-shot imitation learning to a robot arm.…

Post-Uber, more claims of tech bros gone wild Updated A female former employee suing UploadVR for discrimination and sexual harassment has filed documents containing lurid goings-on at the virtual reality cheerleader.…

Don't worry, no bank card info taken, eh Bell Canada said Tuesday 1.9 million customer account details were swiped by hackers – although stressed no payment card numbers or passwords were slurped.…

Just make sure you still resemble your passport photo Delta Air Lines plans to deploy four self-service bag drop machines at Minneapolis–St Paul International Airport this summer, one of which will include a facial recognition system to match those depositing bags with their passport photos.…

Sueball-slinging biz kicks off new VR tech legal assault The company that successfully sued Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus for $500m has now set its sights on another giant: Samsung.…

And it's going to get a whole lot worse for Zuckerberg and pals Facebook has been fined the maximum possible amount – €150,000 ($166,000) – by France's data protection watchdog for gathering information on internet users without their permission.…

Meanwhile, Fed heads have their work cut out for them US President Donald Trump's cybersecurity executive order, signed on Thursday after a series of delays, will make federal agency heads accountable for protecting their networks.…

Dell EMC has four AFAs now... Comment XtremIO all-flash array revenues have fallen from their 2015 peak as all-flash Unity and VMAX revenues have raced past it.…

Better late than never Realm, maker of an object-based database of the same name, is extending its mobile-oriented software to work with wares from a company not known for its mobile offerings, Microsoft.…

Lazarus rising again... or not Security researchers are exploring the theory that the WannaCrypt ransomware might be the work of an infamous North Korean government-backed hacking crew.…

Familiarity – and dual-cloud strategies – breeds growth Competition for enterprise IT spend is intensifying with Microsoft and Google applying pressure to AWS.…

Adylkuzz predates ransomware by at least a week – and pays better too The now infamous Windows vulnerability (MS17-010) exploited by the WannaCrypt ransomware has also been abused to spread another type of malware, specifically a cryptocurrency miner.…

Should vendors be obliged to maintain ageing, unsafe PCs? Poll Microsoft has got off remarkably lightly from WannaCry, as the finger pointing between Whitehall and NHS trusts began. But that might be beginning to change.…

ARM-powered, 40-node prototype HPE's Machine research project has debuted an ARM-powered, 160TB monster memory system prototype, calling it the world's largest single-memory computer.…

UK market remains particularly poor performer Vodafone has reported a substantial loss of €6.1bn (£5.2bn) during its full-year results 2016/17, mainly due to a writedown of its Indian business.…

Forthcoming ExtReact promises support for a price Enterprise web app biz Sencha plans to make its ExtJS JavaScript interface components available to React developers through an offering called ExtReact.…

Expired Fraunhofer patents won't be renewed The owner of the MP3 format killed it off last month – and it's taken three weeks for anyone to notice. With the last of the patents protecting the MPEG Audio Layer III expiring, the Fraunhofer Institute has declined to renew the IP and terminated its licensing programme.…

Japan encouraging Tosh and WDC to come to agreement +Comment The latest twist in the Toshiba Memory Business auction sale is that Toshiba has not barred access to the foundry or its online facilities from partner WDC employees.…

Oh, 'collective responsibility' – that old chestnut Analysis In the circular firing squad of WannaCrypt, the world's largest recorded ransomware outbreak, nobody looks good.…