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Humanity needs to know more about how matter behaves in extreme conditions VIDEO Boffins at the SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford's PULSE institute have had fun blowing up water jets and droplets with an X-ray laser. For science, of course.…

He wants it for 1/7th, plus a proper thin client to access it with and for Silicon Valley to come up with some new ideas Former Sun CEO Scott McNealy has data on one in 14 humans, wants to get that down to one in seven, but at heart what he really wants is the thin client that Oracle killed when it acquired Sun.…

"Operation Ke3chang" updates 'Tidepool' malware to target MS Word mess Attackers have revamped their malware to better target embassy staff, says a Palo Alto Networks security team.…

RFC calling for DNS encryption would make it much harder for spooks to know where you surf DNS requests and responses – part of what many countries regard as “metadata” that they want collected for law enforcement – should be encrypted to protect users from surveillance.…

CTRL-V vector turns "not evil" into "evil" without the target noticing Once, you could use HTML/CSS to manipulate the clipboard, but it was not a good way to do so. Now a security bod has worked out how to do it in JavaScript and reckons it's a lot more dangerous.…

TIP is the iceberg Facebook's Telecom Infra Project (TIP) has signed up a bunch of carriers and vendors.…

Breaking up is not hard to do HP Enterprise (HPE) has spun out its enterprise services business into CSC, creating an entity with US26bn of revenue.…

Azure Active Directory no longer allows the likes of 'M!cr0$0ft' to gain entry With LinkedIn providing yet more fodder for attackers' rainbow tables and login bots, Microsoft has decided to start blocking too-common passwords.…

Filing challenges the attempt to throw out class action suit A class of iPhone owners say that Apple has not lived up to its promise to reimburse customers for bricked handsets.…

Preparing for President Trump or Clinton Apple has added a security star to its firmament with the hire of Jon Callas to its security team.…

No word if paychecks being saved to buy a used Corolla SoftBank Robotic's "Pepper" humanoid robot will soon be put to work selling pizzas in Asia.…

Feds' warrant names the guilty printer The Australian Labor Party's (ALP's) senator Stephen Conroy has formalised his claim of parliamentary privilege over documents seized in last week's Australian Federal Police raid of his office and the homes of two of his staffers.…

Humble piece comes in five slices The head of the SWIFT financial network has put forward a five-part plan to improve security after its systems were the focus of several cyberattacks.…

Cloudy comms unit joins T-Mobile uncarrier push On day one of its SIGNAL Developer Conference in San Francisco, cloudy comms firm Twilio has announced a new marketplace for add-ons to its API and a new SIM-card-as-a-service offering to let IoT devices communicate via T‑Mobile.…

Tiny 'puters find a niche in virtual desktops Citrix has unveiled a desktop thin client based on the Raspberry Pi microcomputer.…

Photos and @username references won't be part of sending limit Twitter has announced another tweak to its text-message system that will give users greater space to send messages alongside pictures.…

Old world sales types unlikely to get a taste of young firms Most new companies are likely to opt for cloud-based software, the president of Atlassian said today.…

Pushing for creation of cyberattack database The head of a UK industry insurance organisation has called for the government to create a database where companies would be obliged to “record details of cyber attacks”.…

Hardware minus big-shops-software bits Nutanix is having a crack at the medium-sized business market with a product called Xpress.…

The Chocolate Factory is 'cooperating fully' with Inspector Clouseau et cie Google's office in central Paris was raided this morning by police, directed by French financial officials, over alleged underpayment of taxes.…

Close to claiming highest launch Guinness World Record A bunch of US 5th graders* yesterday came close to breaking the Guinness World Record for the highest-altitude paper plane launch, which currently stands at a dizzying 35,043m.…

Specialist audio visual firm calls administrator as cash flow dries Specialist audio visual distributor Steljes Ltd has called in the administrators after liquidity dried up in what was its 29th year of commercial life.…

Businesses want in too Booming sales of computers and tablets with detachable and rotating keyboards brought some cheer to the ailing PC market in the first quarter of 2016, according to research.…

HPC shop goes elastic compute and cloud Supercomputer shop Cray is branching into analytics with tailored high-end systems packing open-source number-crunching software.…

Lands in four English cities in June Promo Working in IT and the public sector? The Cloud for UK Public Sector roadshow could be just the ticket for you.…

Hello, privilege escalation attacks Google is planning to use “trust scores” to kill off traditional passwords on Android.…

Satellites 13 and 14 safely aloft Europe's home-grown Galileo satnav network is two orbiting operatives closer to a full constellation following the successful launch earlier today of satellites 13 and 14.…

Mega framework contract notice out ... also calls for open source The government’s official procurement arm, Crown Commercial Services, has coughed the contract notice for a multi-year mega framework for commodity tech valued between £2bn and £4bn.…

Saves devs from down-time with mobile JIRA and Confluence... Atlassian has further cut off developers’ hopes of some peace and quiet by announcing full mobile apps that will plug them into its key platforms.…

Live from a VMUG? Worth a try... Sysadmin Blog I am going to moderate a webinar today*. The webinar is about the real world implications of copying data and cloning VMs. The interesting bit? We're going to try this with video conferencing, live from the Wisconsin VMware User Group meeting (VMUG).…

The X-Files star in 007 bid Gillian Anderson has got a her fans all a-tizz down at Twitter with a hint that she might be prepared to fill Daniel Craig's shoes as 007.…

Just as GDS's Verify goes live HMRC is pushing ahead with its own plans to build an online authentication portal following the decommissioning of the current Gateway portal in 2018, according to multiple sources.…

OSIRIS-REx: NASA's greatest improbable acronym NASA's improbably acronmyed* "Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security – Regolith Explorer" (OSIRIS-REx) spacecraft has arrived at Florida's Kennedy Space Center ahead of a September launch on an asteroid-sampling mission.…

Keeping a grip on Docker Containers are becoming the de facto way of spinning up new services and applications. Many are running on cloud servers which themselves are virtual machines running on bare metal, well... somewhere in the world.…

'Linkedin'? 'P4ssw0rd'? '123456'? Come on, people Analysis of passwords from the LinkedIn leak has revealed, should there be any doubt, that users remain terrible at choosing secure login credentials.…

Two working parties, ministers galore... but data transfer law remains in limbo The revelations by rogue NSA sysadmin Edward Snowden in 2013 caused indignant EU politicians to open a dialogue with the US government to update the data transfer regime to safeguard personal data. The Privacy Shield is the culmination of those discussions.…

Google's OS has 84%, WinPho has 0.7% Microsoft has trumpeted the fact that 300 million devices now run Windows 10, but the scale of its failure to extend its operating system dominance into mobile can be seen in the fact that of the 349 million smartphones sold in 2016's first quarter, 293.7m ran Android. And just 2.4m ran Windows Phone.…

83 per cent of browser features are used by under one per cent of top websites It might be time for the warlocks of the Web and brewers of JavaScript to revisit their ever-burgeoning developer wish-lists and sweep away the rubbish.…

Redmond's Feedback Hub is now open to all Windows 10 users Microsoft has opened its Feedback Hub to all users of Windows 10.…

Malware and keyloggers are better, we think they're saying While the FBI, in the person of James Comey, continues its campaign to persuade the tech sector that mathematics isn't that big a thing and therefore backdoors are feasible, The European Union Agency for Network and Information Security (ENISA) and Europol have tip-toed around the issue, issuing a joint statement that both opposes and supports breaking encryption.…

If your Netflix password is your banking password, you'll get what you deserve The perils of password re-use have been laid bare with the discovery of a botnet dedicated to finding account credentials on websites and testing the logins it finds on banks.…

Choose your own adventure: Features and spies, or boring freedom. Security industry types and leaker Edward Snowden have rubbished new Google instant messenger app Allo after its lead product engineer revealed it would not run end-to-end encryption by default.…

Make a phone call, breach a patent Apple, your iPhones are making phone calls so we're suing you: that's the substance of the latest round of patent-trolling attempt against Cupertino.…

Everybody loves somebody sometime, so 'iloveyou' is easier to guess than 'ilovekale' People have a very poor grasp of what makes one password stronger than another, according to research conducted at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) and published by the Association of Computing Machinery.…

Crims watched Active Directory closely, then sprung their attack with off-the-shelf malware Swiss defence contractor RUAG and the country's GovCERT have revealed the details of a 2014 network breach in which attackers got access to a stunning 23 GB of data.…

Exploit kits on board as devs fix crypto flaws and harden up cash-for-data code A new complex and dangerous ransomware strain has been detected.…

Bug means log file can grow until it fills your disk The Xen project has revealed a new bug, XSA-180, but warns its patch for the problem is itself problematic.…

The law of unintended consequences... On Friday Oculus broke its word and instituted DRM (digital rights management) controls on its virtual reality headset, blocking non-approved games from its kit. The weekend wasn't over when coders struck back and their crack only makes Oculus' problems worse.…

Romanian hacker to plead guilty The US Virginia Eastern District Court has posted a notice for a change of plea hearing set for Wednesday in the case of Marcel Lehel Lazar. Two additional documents were also filed with the court under seal.…

Silicon Valley episode five: Back to form RECAP While Game of Thrones obsessives reveled in that series' fifth episode The Door (hold the door; poor guy), the true nerds were instead staring at a chair.…