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Researchers fear spies are about Security researchers running a project to audit open source disk encryption tool VeraCrypt have been spooked by the mysterious disappearance or non-arrival of encrypted communications.…

First media unsuitable for DIMM use and ASIC tuning needed In the week of Intel's Developer Forum we have heard its Optane XPoint SSDs and DIMMs may be delayed.…

Independent inquiry has already slammed 'legacy of delays' Exclusive The government’s high-profile inquiry into historic child sexual abuse has been hampered by IT delays, which have been a major component of its "legacy of failure”.…

SanDisk ReRAM becomes WD's XPoint competitor Analysis WD, with its acquired SanDisk operation, is squaring up to Intel and Micron’s XPoint with ReRAM - Resistive RAM technology.…

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Gob-smacked drivers spot pair playing Pork-a-chu against municipal waterwheel The tiny Swedish town of Insjön has been left shaken, traumatised and probably put off its breakfast after two porcine-feature exhibitionists launched a laser-enhanced sex spree on Friday.…

Mesh startup wears NVMe-over-fabric-style hat Analysis Excelero is working on its new NVMesh software to connect shared NVMe SSD storage with accessing servers and their applications.…

Not enough time for businesses EU law makers should step back from plans to subject virtual currency exchanges and digital wallet providers to anti-money laundering (AML) regulations from the beginning of next year, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has said.…

It's part of our £2bn customer service systems overhaul Vodafone is withdrawing its free legacy Demon email service and is giving customers the choice of either moving their addresses to another, paid-for service or losing them altogether.…

BeyondCore taken in 'season of M&A' Salesforce has made its second acquisition of the month, and its fourth since June.…

Telcos get green light to stiff WhatsApp, OTTs Analysis The biggest European telcos are poised to use Brussels to enact their revenge on American internet platforms, and on OTT providers like WhatsApp, the Eurocrats’ house journal The Financial Times claims.…

OS and apps & data on different storage media? Oops Windows 10 Anniversary Update is crashing on some PCs employing a solid-state drive.…

Add another item to Virtzilla's list of unfortunate mistakes VMware has revealed an embarrassing mistake: the virtual machines it made available for its Photon OS container runtime included a default public ssh key.…

Not everyone is convinced the Lurk takedown also accounted for Angler The Angler exploit kit has all-but vanished and whoever knows why isn't talking.…

Entangled photons will also be used for encryption key exchange … in Spaaaaaaace China has launched a satellite dubbed “Micius” that bears the Quantum Experiments at Space Scale (QUESS) instrument it will use to test quantum communications between Earth and space.…

Crowd-sourcing info for White House cyber-sec wonk-circle Sometimes, “don't read the comments” just isn't an option – like when you're United States' National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), and you're soliciting input for the US government's Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity (CENC).…

Small problem: Citrix's software isn't built yet and RemoteApp closes on August 31st, 2017 Citrix has had a big win in the cloud: Microsoft has decided to discontinue its own application publishing service in favour of a forthcoming Citrix product called “XenApp express.”…

Where's the money coming from after the gummint's last billions? Don't know yet nbn, the entity building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network, has delivered a pretty dull set of annual results.…

Another triumph for Google's social network as identical YouTube service takes over Google has slipped a death notice for Google+ Hangouts On Air into its support stream.…

PowerShell your way to user hell The User Account Control feature in Windows has been popped by researcher Matt Nelson, without even having to plant a .DLL on the target machine.…

Downside: that zero-day is still zero-month As of October, users of Windows 7, Windows 8, and various server products can farewell a Patch Tuesday of downloading multiple files: Microsoft is implementing the monthly patch rollup it promised in May.…

Email and a phone call enough to secure nine payments. The local council of the Australian city of Brisbane has been fleeced of A$450,000 (£248,000, US$334,000) from email-whaling scammers who tricked staff into wiring money into their bank accounts.…

Thankfully nobody's using it yet Homomorphic encryption is one idea offered to secure data in the cloud: the idea is to let software work on data without encrypting it.…

Uncle Sam readying more charges for emissions cheating The US Department of Justice (DoJ) is reportedly preparing to file criminal charges in the VW emissions testing scandal.…

Eurocrats, tech sector face off over future of ePrivacy Directive The tussle over the future of the ePrivacy Directive is warming up: while tech and telcos want the directive relaxed or scrapped, the European Union is considering extending it to cover services like WhatsApp and Skype.…

Because after #CensusFail we're all up for biometrics guarded by unicorn worshippers Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull's Digital Transformation Office (DTO) has posted the bones of a proposal for federated identity across Australian government web sites to GitHub.…

Did someone crack Equation Group or are they scammers? A group calling itself the Shadow Brokers has started an online auction for top-of-the-range tools it claims were stolen from the Equation Group, a digital attack squad linked to the NSA.…

Maker of phones nobody has bought in years hires ex-boss of game nobody has played in years The relaunch of the Nokia mobile brand will include the man who once ran mobile games maker Rovio.…

Digital crusaders warm up efforts to build city-owned networks With a US court having recently overturned the FCC's attempts to push for municipal broadband networks, online activists are readying their own campaign.…

Svpeng Trojan incoming! A banking trojan targeting Android users is spreading through malicious ads as part of an ongoing campaign.…

webOS, BeOS and Android heritage The source code of Google's latest operating system has emerged, and it looks like all new code from the ground up.…

Locals had worried tech titan might bash bats, pollute, nick Trevelyn's corn Apple has been granted permission to build a 220kVA data centre in County Galway, Ireland by the council, after the company faced objections over energy consumption and environmental disturbances.…

Bank details, phone numbers and more go AWOL UK debt relief charity Christians Against Poverty has begun writing to supporters following a data breach that exposed personal details – including phone and bank account numbers, and banking sort codes.…

Firmware manipulating string luckily not documented Cisco has uncovered a potentially serious bug in widely used industrial control system kit.…

Um, would some kind of app be useful here? HMRC is casting around for ideas on how to splash £1.3bn in order to become the most "digitally advanced" tax administration in the world.…

MSA config gets lowered cost through option-bundling deal HPE has lowered prices for its SMB storage array customers by building an ARM-powered StoreVirtual array, eschewing X86 CPUs, and by bundling some previously optional components into an MSA 2042 product version.…

Sat on your sofa in India? He knows what you need Apple’s plan to tackle the great iPhone sales slump is for it to produce, yes, more iPhones.…

Standard of proof apparently much lower in civil courts, say plod The City of London Police is piloting a scheme to allow the private sector to chase after miscreants in civil courts in return for a share of the loot.…

Hurt by a cutting put-down? Now you can get the perp jailed + Comment The Metropolitan Police is to spend £2.1m of public money funding a unit that will actively investigate “offensive” comments on Twitter and Facebook, according to reports.…

How far would you go for a better salary? Minneapolis IT security workers enjoy among the highest salaries of any US city while techies in the heart of San Francisco's tech boom region earn a much lower (cost-of-living-adjusted) wage.…

Terrified family evacuated after encounter with Chihuahua chucking poltergeist Scottish Police have been forced to turn to the Catholic Church after a family in South Lanarkshire were apparently subjected to a campaign of terror by a Chihuahua-levitating poltergeist.…

Docker and pals, we've heard of them – AWS Amazon has injected AWS with application-level load balancing, giving devs greater control over container-based apps and services.…

Cops: This doesn't appear to be the work of hackers An unspecified IT problem has taken down the online reporting tool for cybercrime victims in the UK.…

Verification, certainty and stable doors Microsoft has explained the rationale behind last month’s announcement that you won’t be allowed to simply download Azure Stack and get going.…

Never mind real kit, hipsters want to make butterfly drones The Ministry of Defence is making £800m available for a Dragon's Den-style miltech startup funding panel – even as civil servants struggle to balance the books after the Brexit vote.…

4K revives forgotten format Vinyl LPs aren’t the only antiquated disc format that’s enjoying a revival. So is the almost forgotten Blu-ray disc.…

Linux kernel dev Christoph Hellwig says court didn't even begin to consider code copying Linux kernel developer Christoph Hellwig's bid to have VMware's knuckles rapped for breaching the GNU General Public Licence (GPL) has failed, for now, after the Landgericht Hamburg found in Virtzilla's favour.…

Shiny GUI makes ruining someone's life fun and easy! Black Hat A security trio has brewed a toolset to help attackers find sensitive open source intelligence on human targets.…

Thing-makers get a bi-directional wireless standard they can all agree on Three companies backing the LoRa Alliance have joined together to push things along with an Internet of Things development kit.…

Yuliya Stepanova fears her cover has been blown by parties unknown Former Russian runner turned whistleblower in-hiding Yuliya Stepanova has had her World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) account hacked, possibly revealing her physical location to attackers.…