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Kneel before Watson The legal system may need to be changed to allow artificially intelligent computing systems to file their own patents, rather than their operators stealing all the glory.…

We chat with hub makers WigWag "Open is always going to win," states Ed Hemphill, CEO of WigWag, a company that hopes to make sense of the ever-expanding and ever-more-complex Internet of Things market.…

The software separating jobseekers and jobs remains a secret Analysis When you submit a résumé for a position at a large company, you may or may not be contacted for further information or an interview.…

Associate prof will have opportunity to explain 'publish or perish' to secretive company Apple has hired Russ Salakhutdinov, an associate professor in the deep learning department at Carnegie Mellon University, to oversee its AI research and improve relations with academia.…

MIT hardware under pressure Video In a tale that tells you all you need to know about the parlous state of American science, a fusion reactor has broken plasma-handling records in the last few days before losing its funding.…

Bing searches get speed boost from Catapult integration Microsoft hooks up reprogrammable chips directly to its data centers' internal networks to ramp up the performance of its web applications.…

Attorneys General face reality A lawsuit brought by four US states' attorneys general against the US government over the ICANN internet handover has been dropped.…

It's harder than Silicon Valley thinks Is Silicon Valley “disrupting” the car industry – or is the car “disrupting” Silicon Valley? It might be the latter; after Google’s car struggles comes further news of Apple’s ailing auto project.…

JS Foundation: It's raining devs... A project fostering JavaScript’s panoply of projects has been established by the Linux Foundation.…

Nothing too flashy, but it still makes bucks on ribbons of rust IDC says HPE is the big cheese in the tape systems market, getting more revenue from streaming ribbons of rust devices than anybody else.…

Baby bro McBoatface will probe under ice sheets... Construction for RRS Sir David Attenborough has formally begun after Sir David Attenborough kickstarted the opening ceremony by laying the ship’s keel in Merseyside today.…

Swaps all-flash array, analytics for channel access Lenovo, which has huge ambitions in the storage market, has sealed a partnership deal with Nimble and will be selling Nimble's all-flash array and using its predictive analytics.…

I don't believe it! The mad lads have only gone and won a legal case against the spooks! A significant legal blow has been dealt to the British government over its secret mass surveillance activities.…

Gone in 360 seconds, says researcher The unpatched Windows XP problem that spawned the Blaster and Sasser worm a decade ago is being replicated on a different platform by hackers exploiting IoT devices to launch denial of service attacks.…

Footage uploads to Axon cloud for use as evidence The Metropolitan Police Service has on Monday begun to roll out the 22,000 body-worn video cameras its cops will be using to record their interactions with denizens of the British capital.…

But who checks the fact-checkers? Analysis I remember when I first noticed “factivism”. It was more than 10 years ago.…

Secure or not, it's great if someone's making money The Dell EMC borg has chucked a slack handful of systems integrators into its Internet of Things Solutions Partner Program, it says.…

China to 'deeply and broadly' go where some have gone before China has successfully sent two astronauts into space today to conduct a series of experiments to prepare for the launch of its own space station in 2023.…

20,000 cases of implant surgery to be held A national silicone breast implant database is to be created to ensure faulty products can be traced in the event of a product recall.…

Four airprox* reports made in just five days Drones are still presenting a haphazard hazard to British pilots, with four near-miss reports being made during a five-day period in June alone.…

It rubs the lotion on its skin, repeatedly it seems Exclusive An unpleasant Monday morning kicked off when my personal email account popped up a message of thanks for joining YouTube rival Vimeo. Seven minutes later, I visited the website, where I was confronted by a sexually explicit video stating I was a pedophile.…

And impress us with your container, DevOps, CD and Agile stories If you’re still working up your proposals for our Continuous Lifecycle London conference next year, you might want to consider the calibre of tech pro who’ll be perusing your proposals.…

Brexit-bashed, but still likely to be the UK's largest tech IPO Misys, the British banking software business, has slashed the value of its initial public offering by £1bn.…

RN admiral insists robots won't replace sailors, for now Drones won’t replace proper sailors anytime soon because, believe it or not, they need more manpower to operate, a Royal Navy admiral has insisted.…

Nobody knows you, so how do you get there? Part Four You need customers, but credibility too. One begets the other. But which comes first? We are now in the final, challenging chapter of early start up mode: of getting paying customers and leveraging them to your advantage in the world to gain more.…

'Be relevant, beat the compeetition. Believe. Have fun. Go to the boozer' The classic management domino affect has reached Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s UK team with new broom Marc Waters naming his sales lieutenants.…

Auction failed, now false-flag filchers want 10k bitcoin or the code gets it A group thought linked to a Russian hacking outfit has moved to cash in on its cache of likely NSA exploit tooling, by offering it in exchange for 10,000 Bitcoins.…

Resistance is futile against this on-coming go-to-market blitzkrieg Pushy Pure Storage is expanding its FlashStack collaboration with Cisco.…

Linus Torvalds teaches devs a lesson with early rc1 release Google may have killed off its modular smartphone Project Ara idea, but some of the code that would have made it happen looks like coming to the Linux Kernel.…

Your weekly Windows entertainment large and small This week's worldwide BSOD roundup starts with what looks to your writer like a virtualisation launch bug. Submitter Alexander tells us it came from Peterborough Station, in Cambridgeshire.…

BaaS, AaaS and DRaaS joined by STaaS and CaaS HDS has updated its converged and hyper-converged product offerings and added storage, compute and analytic things available as a service. Put another way – BaaS, AaaS and DRaaS are joined by STaaS and CaaS.…

White House open-sources presidential Facebook Messenger chatbot The White House has open-sourced the bot that president Obama uses to automatically respond to messages sent on Facebook Messenger…

Tesla told to tone down its cruise control claims as Elon Musk delays new launch Germany's transport ministry has warned Tesla not to call its driver assist system “Autopilot” within the Bundesrepublik.…

Patches slung to fix popular third-party email app Staff logging into Exchange Server through a popular app could have placed their enterprise credentials at risk through a since-closed vulnerability.…

Bad ads, off-brand app stores and smut carry 'Ghost Push' nasty One of the world's most prolific Android malware instances is still the most prevalent piece of malware more than two years after it first emerged.…

App devs: if UICollectionView bugs you, this might help Instagram's latest open source drop is its answer to a difficult iOS bug – a UI component crashing when users scroll through updates.…

P0wned portal promises custom info that matters to you, except when being acquired Yahoo! has taken the unusual step of cancelling the conference call following its earnings announcement on Tuesday.…

Another 53-day loop needed while NASA sorts out helium check valve delay problem The Juno probe orbiting Juipter has engine trouble and plans for the craft's stay at the gas giant are therefore being revisited.…

That leaves the possible number of interested buyers at … Zero. Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has ruled out making a play for Twitter.…

No birds? No worries: LTE, Wi-Fi help keep things on track With both the US and Russia researching Global Positioning System (GPS) jamming, it's heartening to see boffins working on navigation systems that don't rely solely on satellite signals.…

Your! account! has! shown! up! on! a! breach! list! We! can't! imagine! which! one! Netflix has reminded people whose user IDs are circulating in breach-lists to check their security and if necessary reset their passwords.…

Signals are flowing again, but for a while there all we had was a Ping! The European Space Agency's Schiaparelli lander has parted from the Trace Gas Orbiter that was its companion on the ExoMars mission and is on track for its planned Wednesday landing on the red planet. But the European Space Agency is yet to explain a radio glitch that took place along the way.…

Suffer in your jocks, Telstra: Regulation to stay ahead of complete NBN rollout The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is keeping its eye on wholesale ADSL services, at least while construction of the National Broadband Network (NBN) continues.…

Buggy code pulled plug on wrong certificates, basically GlobalSign has performed a postmortem examination on how, as one of the world's root certificate authorities, it managed to break a chunk of the web.…

OK, so someone's angling for a discount Google has gently increased pressure on Intel – its main source for data-center processors – by saying it is "looking forward" to using chips from IBM and other semiconductor rivals.…

Any standard but Intel in another CPU-memory interconnect consortium +Comment An OpenCAPI consortium has sprung into life, promising a new, open specification that can increase data center server performance up to 10x through the use of a new CPU-memory-IO adapter interconnect scheme – and it doesn't include Intel in its membership.…

Taxman can audit all your accounts, but can't tell cloud from on-premises A report on spending from the office of the US Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) claims that between June 2015 and June 2016, the tax collectors paid $12m for subscriptions on Microsoft Office 365 and Exchange Online that were never used.…

Default password in cellular modem firmware exploited Sierra Wireless cellular modems are being infected by the Mirai botnet malware used to smash systems offline.…

Big Blue says this isn't normal practice as infosec bods take down proof-of-concept code IBM successfully pressured security researchers into yanking offline part of a published vulnerability advisory – even after patches had been distributed to customers.…

US Congress demands answers on what exactly was slurped and how Four dozen members of US Congress have signed a letter requesting a full briefing on the Yahoo! email scandal.…