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Beware West Coast motivationals, just do IT There’s a debate going on right now about the best way to run IT: specifically, all those custom applications and services inside organizations. Do we try new, agile approaches, or stick to the old, methodical processes?…

IPCC investigates A man in Llanelli has died after being shot with a Taser by officers from Dyfed-Powys Police force.…

Inventors beware: the EU's opening the floodgates. Opinion In 2017, the EU is going to open the Unified Patent Court. This court will make it much easier for patent trolls and corporations in the US – armed with dodgy patent applications and IP attorneys – to reach into the UK and strangle your startup at birth. Think about it.…

Antikythera Mechanism inscriptions suggest eclipse, weather prediction and... RTFM Scientists have examined hitherto-obscure inscriptions on the Antikythera Mechanism, a first century BC apparatus comprised of interlocking gears, and now believe the device could predict eclipses and the motion of the planets.…

Several hundred metres of fibre cabling needs to be replaced Thousands of South Londoners have been knocked offline due to a blunder by a construction worker slicing through a Virgin cable.…

Better late than never, right? SAP has released patches for more than 20 vulnerabilities, including a fix for a flaw first detected three years ago.…

...would be great. But all I want is a new MacBook Pro

Normally they're way too dim to do that Astronomers have discovered a brown dwarf star emitting flashes of light brighter than the Sun – even though it's not supposed to be able to do that.…

Total asset selloff. Hate to say we told you but... Manchester-based failing cloud biz Outsourcery is to undertake a pre-pack administration with Vodafone partner GCI Network Solutions waiting in the wings to buy the company’s assets.…

To the barricades... wait, just let me order an Uber Marx’s vision of the lumpen proleteriat casting off their alienating shackles to become masters of their own destiny could be about to become a reality – just as soon as they sign up as Uber and Airbnb vendors.…

A thousand shopkeepers stood firm and said 'you what, mate?' A deadline for businesses to make sure they were compatible with new payment security measures has been extended after around 1,000 UK companies failed to take the necessary action.…

Sagittarius B2 a veritable plastic factory For the first time, astronomers have made an interstellar observation of a molecule that can exist in left- and right-handed versions – which could help unravel how life can come to exist.…

Names, addresses, emails, and 4,300 valid passports leaked Japan's largest travel agency JTB Corp says 7.93 million passport details, and home and email addresses may have been stolen by hackers.…

Booming borkage bashing blitz Russia is mulling a bug bounty program to find and eliminate bugs in government-approved software.…

Unpatched flaw exploited since March An eastern European group has for more than three months been using an unpatched Flash zero day vulnerability to target 'high profile' victims, Kaspersky Labs researcher Costin Raiu says.…

Ziggy was warned against penning op-ed An op-ed written by nbn chairman Ziggy Switkowsky defending the company's handling of leaks breached the “caretaker conventions” that apply during election campaigns.…

High interest payday loans come with a nasty threat Loan sharks in China are reportedly accepting nude selfies as collateral, presumably on the basis that the threat of publication is an effective way of ensuring the loan is repaid.…

Taps little-known hooks in iOS and Android to make BYOD more secure VMware's extensive ecosystem has been a massive part of its success, as demonstrated by the fact that even when server virtualisation looked like a reason to stop buying servers it created an opportunity for Intel to make virtualisation sing and arguably left Chipzilla making more coin from virtualisation than VMware itself.…

All my ex (ISPs) live in Texas Add Dallas, Texas to the ranks of cities set to enjoy Google Fiber broadband.…

You wouldn't rather be a mule NSW Police has published photographs of nine men and three women wanted for questioning over Internet banking fraud.…

DevOps in easy mode? Chef, IT automation for DevOps, has announced Habitat, an open source project for application automation.…

Government market think-tank also floats universal basic income. Lions lie down with lambs With surprising timing, the Productivity Commission has dropped a report during the election campaign, criticising the widespread belief that science, technology, maths and engineering (STEM) education is an employment panacea in the digital era.…

Double Donkey punch from bear duo The US Democratic National Committee (DNC) has confirmed that hackers thought to be part of Russian state intelligence have had access to their servers for nearly a year. They have read emails, chat logs, and opposition research documents.…

Siri opened up and AI expanded – but only to a point In the age-old tech struggle between open and controlled systems, Apple has realized that when it comes to artificial intelligence, it needs to edge toward open.…

New company will be a copy, like ...oh...what's the word? Xerox has detailed the plans that will see the legendary compute company split itself into two different branches.…

Snappier security updates on the way Analysis The Snap application container system released in April with Ubuntu 16.04 is now going to be opened up to many other Linux distros after a surprise discovery by developers.…

Another month, another patching cycle... Critical fixes for Office, Internet Explorer, and Windows DNS Server highlight this month's edition of Patch Update Tuesday.…

It's not ready for primetime, but it may prove revolutionary It didn't get any airtime at the big opening day of the annual Apple Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC), but excitement is building around Apple's next-generation file system.…

Big Telco loses critical legal battle Analysis Net neutrality rules that make it illegal for ISPs to interfere with data traffic across their networks have been upheld in full by the Washington DC Court of Appeals.…

Randomness done wrong reduced likelihood of winning The body overseeing elections in the Australian state of New South Wales (NSW) has acknowledged researchers' claims of a bug in the software it uses to count votes.…

Traditional storage sales are shrinking, so move on I’m not going to re-define software-defined. Instead I’d like to look around and try to make sense of different interpretations and architecture designs that make this claim.…

Vague hint about the weather in bland company statement TalkTalk is down again, with frighteningly little being said by the business as to why.…

And anonymous trolls threaten free speech, we're told. Hurrah! IPBill It's that time of the year again, and plucky little indie outlet Apple has been nominated for the internet hero of the year award at the 2016 UK Internet Industry Awards, which has also nominated Donald Trump as the villain of the year.…

Ease of exploit kit use may be behind growth of nasties Releases of new ransomware grew 24 per cent quarter-on-quarter in Q1 2016 as relatively low-skilled criminals continued to harness exploit kits for slinging file-encrypting malware at their marks.…

Firm boasts that it's now a threat to established players Hyper-converged systems supplier SimpliVity has won a Global 50 customer, a financial services one.…

See no evil, hear no evil, suffer evil Almost half (48 per cent) of Britain's small businesses were hit by cyber-crime in the last year, with 10 per cent targeted many times.…

Half a million fine, stung for £98k in costs BT has been fined £500,000 and ordered to pay costs of £98,913.51 after one its engineers broke both ankles after falling seven metres from a loft onto a concrete stairwell.…

Then the Midwich Cuckoos show up Publicly owned open spaces in Wales now feature a Red Button that panic-stricken citizens can smack in fury when they spot a vaper on the premises.…

10,000 places for front-line folk of the future Cisco is setting up a $10m scholarship fund to train the next generation of IT security staff.…

Find out at New Relic’s London conference on 5th July Promo New Relic’s FutureStack 16 Tour: London conference is taking place in London on 5th July and is your chance to hear how leading brands are monitoring their app performance to deliver a better customer experience.…

Thousands more to follow as company attempts to make up £850m shortage Swedish telecommunications business Ericsson is reportedly set to rid itself of up to 4,000 employees this summer, and potentially thousands more thereafter.…

Pirates, rejoice! The rest of us... er... Special Report An upcoming EU court decision could strip half a billion EU citizens of their copyright protection, and all because of an accidental translation error.…

Report claims Chipzilla producing 4 SSD product familes Intel looks to be producing four Optane product families, with Mansion Beach, Brighton Beach, Stony Beach and Carson Beach code names seen on what looks like a leaked Intel slide.…

Project managers and biz analysts in app delivery at risk too More details have surfaced about the British Airways job axe hovering above the app delivery team, with project managers and business analysts - not just techies - also at risk of redundancy.…

Running away with worst-case scenarios Sysadmin blog In case you've been living under a rock, Microsoft has bought LinkedIn. Unlike many, you'll notice I'm not laughing. I am not amused. I'm am, in fact, quite afraid.…

What to do with $50m in VC funding? CD vendor JFrog has proclaimed the Internet of Things (IoT) is the next frontier in DevOps as it ponders how to spend the $50m investment shot it received earlier this year.…

HTTPS-buster and root cert bods joining up? Hmm Analysis Symantec’s deal to to buy Blue Coat, the controversial web filtering firm, for $4.65bn will bolster its enterprise security business.…

1,400 white hats jostle for vulns White hats have found more than 100 vulnerabilities in Pentagon infrastructure under its bug bounty program.…

Backups never fail until you REALLY need them The US Air Force Inspector General is investigating the corruption of around 100,000 investigation records, and presumably someone's asking hard questions about backups.…