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Millions of must-be-firewalled services sitting wide open Network security has improved little over the last 12 months – millions of vulnerable devices are still exposed on the open internet, leaving them defenceless to the next big malware attack.…

Yeah, cloud service providers, large enterprises still need it Spectra Logic's Digital Data Storage Outlook 2017 report predicts IBM will emerge as the sole tape drive manufacturer.…

Power-sipping 900GB, 15,000rpm disk drive Toshiba has a high-speed enterprise disk drive that ships data 20 per cent faster than the model before it.…

Fancy some hair-loss drugs, um, financial services tech? Fumbling British banking software biz Misys has merged with D+H to create the financial services tech firm “Finastra”.…

Changes to funding model would 'jeopardise the BBC' Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson has said his party will vote down any Parliamentary changes to the TV Licence fee, following the Conservatives entering coalition talks with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party.…

WDC could be out on its arse Korean chipper SK Hynix is joining a Japanese state fund-led consortium to bid for Toshiba's memory business, and WDC could be out.…

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Pavel Durov flings Twitter dooky at rivals Signal, says US govt funds their encryption The founder of chat app Telegram has publicly claimed that feds pressured the company to weaken its encryption or install a backdoor.…

Unstructured data box nixed in Europe IBM has withdrawn its Spectrum Scale-based DeepFlash 150 product from sale.…

Patients frolicking by virtual beach felt less pain in the chair Wearing a virtual-reality headset in the dentist's chair could make you more relaxed, a new study suggests.…

But it's OK to boast about length in the lab. Got it? The UK Advertising Standards Authority has rapped BT on the knuckles for claiming its Smart Hub delivered "the UK's most powerful Wi‑Fi signal".…

Designed hardware for Xerox Alto, co-invented Ethernet and did formative work at Microsoft Computer Science has lost a titan: Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker died on Monday, June 12th, aged 74.…

Tape drive due to shut down in 2018 as 1.4 kbps link becomes too skinny Voyager 1 has just ticked off another milestone: on Tuesday it reached 138 astronomical units from Earth, or about 20,600,000,000km from the planet on which you're (presumably!) reading this story.…

Premature recognition of sales in Australia and New Zealand drags down whole company FujiXerox has apologised for what it calls “improper accounting” that saw its Australian and New Zealand operations book sales earlier than was usual, resulting in inflated sales figures.…

DevOps darling has assembled a 'stack' and hopes it and US$186k price stack up Atlassian's decided the time is right for it to do a “stack” for enterprises keen to get their DevOps efforts in order.…

Project Electrolysis means Firefox spawns four processes and shares them between tabs Mozilla has released version 54 of its Firefox browser and in so doing delivered long-promised sandboxing technology.…

Voicemail hacking? Discovered in 2015, and still not fixed.

As big T sells its copper to nbn™, it needs fewer copper techs to fix it Telstra will shed 1,400 or more jobs to make up for revenue gaps looming as the National Broadband Network rollout continues.…

Edward Snowden's preferred-for-privacy OS gets a decent upgrade The developers of privacy-protecting Linux distribution Tails have decided to get closer to Debian with the project's 3.0 release.…

Fix for App Engine memory allocation mess will be applied to just one data centre Google's cloud thought it was out of memory for a couple of hours last week.…

The regeneration process continues to baffle boffins A flatworm sent to the International Space Station has sprouted two heads, an anomaly that never happens in the wild, according to a paper published in the journal Regeneration.…

Glacial thaw brings a bit more openness to hermit kingdom Apple, by necessity, fatigue, goodwill or accident, is becoming slightly more open in how it allows developers to interact with its software.…

🎶 Where the streets have no hostname 🎶 Time to put to bed once and for all the image of the hip young hacker pounding out code to cutting-edge techno music. It turns out that today's devs prefer to work to most of the same tunes your mom plays while driving to the store.…

People who put crap on your laptop love bands who put crap on your iPhone Time to put to bed once and for all the image of the hip young hacker pounding out code to cutting-edge techno music; it turns out that today's devs prefer to work to most of the same tunes your mom plays while driving to the store.…

New algorithm keeps humans firmly in the loop during training Researchers from OpenAI and DeepMind are hoping to make artificial intelligence safer using a new algorithm that learns from human feedback.…

Bugs used by stolen tools fixed among 96 software holes Microsoft today addressed 96 CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its products – plus issued more emergency patches for unsupported versions of Windows menaced by leaked NSA exploits.…

Bill Shorten says there are things 'we do not know enough about to deal with properly' Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten has suggested that governmental action to deny use of encryption to terrorists should extend to Bitcoin.…

Turns out Apple execs were testing new file system on you It's a recurring pain experienced by all iPhone owners: the huge and very slow software updates that require you to plug your phone in and forget about it for 30 minutes.…

What do you need news for, anyway? 'It shouldn't be a problem' – NTRA official Egypt has embarked on a new wave of online censorship, blocking news websites and killing off VPN services in order to limit its citizens' access to information.…

Taxi app upstart told to ditch values that excused abusive behavior – while its bro-in-chief takes time off Updated with bonus sexism Uber CEO Travis Kalanick is taking a leave of absence while the company he co-founded tries to remake itself in a more humane image.…

US, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Canada mull leaning hard for access to your info Officials from the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand will discuss next month plans to force tech companies to break encryption on their products.…

CEO Meg Whitman tells staff she's signed pact with Faust Exclusive Hewlett Packard Enterprise has hatched a radical plan to overhaul processes, investments, people and overheads in a project that is “likely to determine” its “relevance in the years ahead.”…

Chief exec says Yaho-o-oo! as biz becomes Oath Marissa Mayer has officially resigned from Yahoo!, as Verizon's $4.8bn (£3.77bn) gobble of the company closed today.…

Also demo'ing end-to-end NVMe over fabrics to Cisco UCS servers Pure Storage is launching a mega-slew of software, with some new hardware, as well as a demo-ing an end-to-end NVMe over fabrics Flash Stack at its annual Pure Accelerate conference in San Francisco.…

Replacing soon-to-be 'museum exhibit' with fleet of robo delivery vans Waymo, the one-time driverless car division of Google, has ditched its original self-driving car, the Firefly, in favour of a fleet of hundreds of robot vans.…

Don't worry long-suffering BA customers, Capita will take care of you Two brands that people love to hate today stand poised to forge an alliance: British Airways plans to outsource call centre management to Capita, sending 1,000 employees into the belly of the beast.…

Virident? Violin?! Where is Tintri? HPE?! IBM??!!! Registrar Daily's Global Enterprise Flash Storage Market 2017 report looks at 15 vendors – of which five no longer exist and two are small-to-insignificant – and totally neglects to mention others.…

Cybercrooks rake it in with Fake-News-as-a-Service Fake news has come to be associated with political intrigue but the same propaganda techniques are also abused by cybercriminals, according to a study by Trend Micro.…

Peeking at the pylons, mes braves? A French drone company reckons it has flown a power line inspection drone remotely for 50km (30 miles) – and controlled the aircraft over a public 3G network.…

Now talks to Nutanix AHV, Microsoft Hyper-V and Oracle RMAN Secondary data storage protection and management supplier Rubrik just added a host of extensions to its product to broaden its appeal to Microsoft, Nutanix and Oracle users.…

But what does the department of odds and sods actually do these days? Analysis Damian Green’s appointment as Cabinet Office minister this week makes him the fourth MP to hold the role over the last seven years. He takes the helm from former Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer, who was ousted as an MP in the general election last week.…

Bigly ambitious bill would archive the President's social media dealings A US congressman has written up a bill that calls for the President's social media activity to be archived alongside other official communications.…

People like the idea of privacy but not the effort, research finds Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University have found that people say they want privacy but make choices suggesting the opposite, and can be easily manipulated through interface design, reassuring statements, and pizza.…

Anti-terror crackdown, evil tech biz to blame yadda yadda, we're told Theresa May and Emmanuel Macron are planning to issue multi-million pound fines to technology companies that don’t act fast enough to remove material that governments and police forces disapprove of.…

Thomas Cook most impacted with 12 delays A technical "glitch" at Manchester Airport has left hundreds of passengers stranded for hours this morning.…

'If it was unstable and uncertain this time last week, it’s gone up a notch' The outcome of the general election has created greater uncertainty over the impact of Brexit on the telecommunications sector, BT chief exec Gavin Patterson has said.…

Constitutional Court slams brakes on UPC – but why? Europe's effort to create a single patent system has been thrown into confusion following a decision by Germany's constitutional court to halt legislation ratifying it.…

Warms IBM Watson for patient data probe Oracle's cloud has been judged too risky, too expensive and not up to scratch by Specsavers, which is aiming to complete an AWS and Azure combo next year.…

Swing when you're winning In the aftermath of almost every recent election, two types of story get written based on the outcome. One is how the polls "got it wrong", how the forecast – surprise! – failed to match the actual result. The other, usually written by someone with at least basic statistical skills, explains why the polls mostly didn't "get it wrong."…

The dangers, and how to guard against them Broadcast - 11am BST If you haven't had any of your key systems or services brought down by a DDoS attack, you can probably consider yourself lucky.…