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The condensed version... Klan K not doing much to help women. Or anyone really A sociology student has scored a first class degree in sociology, in large part because of her mighty 10,000-word thesis on American reality TV "star" family the Kardashians.…

Torrent release groups are the target - not teenagers Digital Economy Bill As it promised in the Queen’s Speech – and as first revealed here – legislation will extend the maximum penalty for industrial scale online copyright infringement from two to 10 years.…

Following the trendIT trend Israeli hi-tech companies rang the tills with exits adding up to $3.3bn in the first half of 2016.…

Universal Service Obligation of 10Mbps may be increased in future Digital Economy Bill Communications provider Ofcom has gained powers to fine mobile operators up to £2m if they fail to comply with coverage obligations under their spectrum licence.…

Flash cacher gets undermined by cheapening flash Comment Rumour has it Nutanix is talking to Pernix Data about a possible acquisition. It could be a good thing for Nutanix and, of course, its customers.…

Europe, Asia, US close to commercially viable model In the week of Brexit and Iceland, a London event perhaps did not need any more reminders about falling behind the rest of the world – but a final, unavoidable conclusion from last week’s 5G World was that the east Asian operators, always very technically progressive, are also in a league of their own when it comes to detailed deployment plans too.…

Trial by combat and toothpick-applied war paint Cheating is an unforgivable offence for paper wasps and has a direct effect on their hormones, according to new research published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.…

Must 'clearly and prominently' label it Online publishers, bloggers, tweeters and other "digital influencers" must "clearly and prominently" label content they are paid to produce as paid-for promotions, new guidance developed by a body of regulators from around the world has said.…

Securo firm says it was a 'business decision', unrelated to warrants 'we didn't recieve' Silent Circle has quietly euthanized its warrant canary for 'business reasons' leading privacy pundits to freak out over double negatives and double speak.…

Check Point slayers reveal building address, pop panels, publish office floor plan. Net scum behind the Hummingbird Android malware are raking in a mind-boggling US$300,000 (£233,125, A$404,261) a month through illegitimate advertising and app downloads from a whopping 10 million infected devices.…

Phobos and Demos last remnants of Martian rings Vid A new study suggests the early history of Mars was incredibly violent and the planet's two small moons are the sole surviving remnants of what was once a shimmering halo.…

Bonk-hopefuls' site's fake profiles under investigation The US Federal Trade Commission has decided to add Ashley Madison's “fembots” to the company's long list of woes.…

192.168.1.1 is a pain, but it's better than 'admin:admin' on the Web anyhow TP-Link, rather than recovering domains it forgot to renew, is going to abandon them.…

ESA schedules Gaia mission's first data release It's time for astroboffins and enthusiasts to start clearing space on their hard drives: the European Space Agency has scheduled its first Gaia mission data drop for September 14, 2016.…

Flawed arguments and right-wing tropes don't make the case for Internet voting Australia's close-run federal election has brought out the tech sector in force, seeking government rent so it can appropriate the country's democracy.…

Logjam in patch pipeline cleared at last HP Enterprise has popped into its Tardis, and gone back in time to patch OpenSSL bugs dating back to 2014 – including the infamous Logjam bug.…

Vendors queue for punishment as 'ThinkPwn' fallout spreads Gigabyte has been swept into turmoil surrounding low-level security vulnerabilities that allows attackers to kill flash protection, secure boot, and tamper with firmware on PCs by Lenovo and other vendors.…

Shocking revelation, people don't like forced add-ons The Dolphin mobile browser is feeling the wrath of netizens angry over the new extensions being bundled with the app.…

Appeals Court says CFAA can be wielded in Nosal case A man who used his colleagues' passwords to swipe confidential information from his employer has failed to overturn his computer hacking conviction.…

It's like a spam filter only with faceless censors in charge China has stepped up its online censorship efforts with a declaration that from now on all news stories will need to be "verified" for accuracy.…

Catalyst's Dr Maryanne Demasi off air, program under review The ABC has suspended the presenter behind its unscientific “Wi-Fried” Catalyst program that aired earlier this year.…

Smugness levels cut among Apple fanbois Security firm Bitdefender has issued an alert about a malicious app that hands over control of Macs to criminals via Tor.…

Chinese giant caught using expensive camera to shoot photo supposedly taken by mobe Huawei is under fire after admitting a photo it supposedly took with one of its phones was actually snapped using an expensive digital camera.…

And everyone is now happy to leave it be… wait, what's that? The FBI has said it will not file any charges against Hillary Clinton for her use of a private email server while secretary of state.…

Wanna buy a Dell? It'll cost you 10% more now Dell has blamed a Brexit-induced sterling meltdown for a double-digit price hike across its portfolio.…

And you thought killing off ATVOD was the start of a new era Digital Economy Bill The government has proposed mandatory age verification measures on all British pornographic websites, on pain of a whopping fine in cases of non-compliance.…

Instrument Contributing to Stability and Peace? Whatever The European Union wants to spend part of its “peace building” overseas aid budget on equipping African and Middle Eastern countries' armed forces, according to reports – which could include the provision of Chinese-built drones.…

Middle class self-entitled whingers also Remainians? Yarr. The well-groomed throng of bourgeois protesters that shunned the weekly Waitrose shop and headed for London’s Parliament Square on Saturday had something in common other than a common desire to remain in the EU. The demographic that closely mirrors keen Remain voters is more likely to download content illegally than any other UK demographic.…

Will Blighty get ours? Probably The EU Commission has launched a public-private partnership on cybersecurity that is expected to trigger €1.8bn ($2bn) of investment by 2020. The EU is promising to invest €450m ($502m) in a bid to spur innovation in cybersecurity with the remainder coming from the private sector.…

Plus: 10Mbps right, extra Ofcom powers as Commons sniffs bill Digital Economy Bill The UK government is to lay its digital bill before Parliament today, which, among other things, is intended to create a legal right for every household to access 10Mbps broadband.…

Sculley-backed Cyanogen contender falls short Review Oh, Obi. With your striking Nordic vibe, and Cyanogen OS, we did so want to like you.…

Can we stop farting around with website designs now, please? Analysis The UK government’s digital strategy is among the many things Brexit has put a lit match to, and, amid the current EU exit plan bunfighting, it’s unlikely to top any “Right, what the hell do we do now?” lists.…

Real talk about this generation's coolest tech toy Analysis Containers are the cool toy meaning two things: new technology and hype.…

Brexit rebound? The UK’s other chip designer, Imagination, posted a £63.2m loss before tax for the year to April 2016 as it radically restructures its business.…

Big Brother Watch report Police forces across the UK have been responsible for “at least 2,315 data breaches” over the last five years, according to research by Big Brother Watch, prompting concerns about the increasing amount of data they're holding.…

Small blades, supersized bodywork Review Supermicro has a neat new product it calls "Microblades". Supermicro has made blade servers for some time, and Microblades are blade servers, but smaller. Supermicro sent a chassis and a pair of blades over for review.…

Latte-swilling, public Wi-fi-using, over-sharing #DataToGo Last year saw a surge in identity fraud against young UK adults, according to official figures published today.…

Access granted to DeepMind for historic data. What consent? Famous eye hospital Moorfields has agreed to give Google’s DeepMind access to one million anonymous eye scans as a part of a machine learning study intended to spot early signs of sight loss.…

Phisherman's friend A second US man has pleaded guilty to stealing intimate pictures of celebrities using a phishing scam.…

It's 2016, people, even the pirates have patched Possibly the most exploited unchallenged Microsoft Office vulnerability of the last decade was found and patched in 2012.…

Hawkeye plucked Trustwave researcher Rodel Mendrez has gained access to the inbox of the criminal behind a commercial keylogger used to attack industries including finance, cloud services, logistics, foreign trade, and government.…

Hopes to climb the smartphone market Chinese vendor TCL is the latest to signal an interest in manufacturing in India.…

Erdan: social media king not cooperating with cops Israel's Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan has blamed Facebook founder Mark Zukerberg for the killing of Hallel Ariel and Michael Marks.…

Facebook funds frozen because WhatsApp won't hand over drug-lords' messages Brazil is trying yet again to force Facebook's WhatsApp to release user messages, and has frozen US$6 million worth of locally-held funds.…

One patched, one to go The US industrial control system computer emergency response team (ICS-CERT) has warned of twin flaws in substation control software.…

Facing the nightmare of unionised drivers, drive-share behemoth makes half-hearted attempt at transparency Uber in Australia has been pushed into making public the criteria that can get a driver kicked out.…

NBN is likely to make the service obsolete. If the clown-show gets it built The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is considering whether the eventual advent of the National Broadband Network (NBN) means wholesale DSL regulation can be retired.…

Ubuntu joins calls for users to let go of i386 versions Major Linux distributions are in agreement: it's time to stop developing new versions for 32-bit processors.…

100 day target still out of reach NASA's super-pressure balloon project has once again fallen short of its 100-day target, but still managed to set some records on the way.…