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If you can see it in search, you won't buy it, says image bank Getty Images has announced it will file a competition law complaint against Google with the European Commission.…

Punching holes in problematic private APIs Bugs in Android's Binder inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism open up a mass of security bugs, according to University of Michigan boffins Huan Feng and Kang Shin.…

Enterprise agreement holders to receive free advisory services that will help Microsoft too Whenever a big tech company offers something for free, you've got to ask what's in it for them.…

Dossier-building third party probably dumped the data After yesterday's allegations of a file leak, the Qatar National Bank has issued a neither-confirm-nor-deny statement about the data dump.…

Gamers beat Blighty's best. A team of Gibraltar school kids have taken out the British CyberCenturion hacking competition at Bletchley Park.…

Nasty bug tries to confuse you by glowing slow on external storage encryption Kaspersky has announced it's decrypted yet another crypto-extortion racket.…

There is no honour among content thieves Scores of Game of Thrones pirates may have had computers encrypted by ransomware after malvertisers served the dangerous malware through the Pirate Bay during the mega-series' season six première last weekend.…

FBI gets the 'don't hoard vulnerabilities' memo at last Two years after the White House decided disclosure was better than bug-hoarding, the FBI has handed over its first notification to Apple.…

Intel plans to put itself Inside the Panopticon that is cloudy analytics Intel CEO Brian Krzanich, presiding over flatlining performance, boardroom tumult and a one-in-ten slimming down of Chipzilla's workforce, has broken out the happy juice to promise better times ahead for the world's biggest sand-slinger.…

CEO Dorsey faces investors after another loss-making quarter Microblogging platform Twitter has disappointed investors, missing Q1 2016 revenue and user growth forecasts. Its share price has fallen 13.5 per cent in after-hours trading today to $15.35.…

2.3 million new mobile subscribers didn't hurt either AT&T says its recent purchase of satellite provider DirecTV helped drive a 24 per cent jump in revenues.…

Shrinking brains, faltering fertility and cloudy sight Tuesday is the 30th anniversary of the disastrous failure of reactor number four in the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant – located in what is now the state of Ukraine – but the effects of the accident still linger.…

Macroeconomic headwinds blamed for disaster quarter Apple has confirmed analysts' fears of a drab quarter, reporting its first year-over-year sales decline in more than a decade. Its share price is down 8.2 per cent to $95.76 in after-hours trading – dipping below the magic hundred-buck mark.…

Laughter could be best medicine to combat some abusers Container software biz Docker hired private investigators to track down trolls after one of its popular engineers was harassed and bullied for being a woman.…

Let's be frank, Anne Frank It's World Intellectual Property day! So it's time again to think about the plight of IP lawyers, tens of thousands of whom are forced to undergo the daily indignity of people shaking their heads at them as they try to explain why everything in the world, including your own thoughts, are owned by someone else and you should pay a licensing fee to be allowed access to them.…

Its secret? Be a little nicer than Verizon or AT&T For yet another quarter, "uncarrier" T‑Mobile US has shown that there is money to be made in giving customers what they want.…

Alerts for those who are always looking down at their mobe The German city of Augsburg is embedding warning lights in the pavement at traffic intersections to alert smartphone users who don't looking up before crossing the road.…

Feed us more compsci grads! A who's-who list of tech industry executives has urged US Congress to pump computer science training into the brains of American kids.…

Cash machines all too easily compromised – even without malware, we're told Almost any cash machine in the world could be illegally accessed and jackpotted with or without the help of malware.…

Ad fraud, scareware slinger Android.Spy.277.origin found in more than 100 apps Security researchers have discovered a strain of Android malware that keeps finding its way onto Google Play – despite the store supposedly being scrubbed clean of infiltrated apps.…

Super Pressure Balloon team poised yet again in NZ NASA is hoping to finally get off the ground with the Super Pressure Balloon mission which has been grounded twice by unfavourable winds at altitude since 1 April.…

Ashton Kutcher breaks up with pizza slice for spreadsheets Sage Software is following in the footsteps of Microsoft and Salesforce by rolling out big names to vent hot air at its events.…

Hub, keyboard and email also updated BlackBerry has released the Android Marshmallow 6.0 platform update for its Priv flagship, alongside big improvements to the Hub, the phone’s hallmark message aggregator.…

The forgotten flagship Review Every year LG threatens to steal the flagship crown, but the press pauses briefly only on the device before returning to speculating about Samsung and Apple.…

Hits restructure button as 'hyper-competitive' external storage race speeds up Exclusive X-IO Technologies is spinning off its Axellio flash array tech into a separate company as it prepares to stop investing in a market share bun fight with the existing ISE and iglu products.…

US presidential primary apps leak supporters' phone data Many US presidential primary apps gather users’ personal information and leave their sensitive data vulnerable to attackers, security researchers at Symantec warn.…

Automation platform finally gets full upgrade after ten years... The Jenkins project has declared a new focus on ease of use after finally delivering version 2 of the automaton platform, a mere 10 years after version 1 hit the streets.…

Oh, faith of our pastas... Ireland’s anti-discrimination quango has rejected claims that Pastafarianism is a religion after an Irishman insisted on wearing a colander for his driving licence photograph.…

Adds native NAS, VVOLs, analytics and cloud tiering to big iron array HDS has added native NAS, VVOLs, analytics and cloud tiering to its big iron VSP G-series array.…

Completely redesigned architecture, they say Neo Technology has released Neo4j 3.0, which it declared comes with a "completely redesigned architecture."…

Falling for the marketing hype does your business more harm than good Sysadmin blog Enterprises are slow to adopt new IT. Or is it small businesses that are slow to adopt new IT? Wait, the mid-market is traditionally underserved and overly reliant on appliances so clearly they have to be the laggards!…

New logos trade 'plagiarism' for 'elegance and sophistication' LOGOWATCH Tokyo has whipped the covers off a couple of new logos for the 2020 Olympics, after it was forced to bin the previous brand frontage over plagiarism claims.…

Bad news – if your name is Seagate or Toshiba +Comment A sea change is looming in the disk drive industry as drive spindle motor maker Nidec reduces its total disk drive demand number.…

Post-buyout biz searches for new revenue models Networking biz Alcatel-Lucent Enterprise is replacing its chief exec Jeff Ma with Jack Chen, as the outfit vows to make itself all about the cloud.…

Insights from Puppet and other IT leaders Promo In February, Argyle Executive Forum, a talking shop for Fortune 1000 C-Level execs, invited Puppet to host a webinar on DevOps for its CISO members.…

Now about your, er, offshoring plans, Big Blue.... IBM has left UK staff in no doubt it wants Britain to remain in the European Union even though many of those working in its services division might not be EU-based by the end of 2017.…

The plan: cloudify the enterprise WAN to displace Cisco Riverbed's acquisition earlier this year of software-defined WAN business Ocedo has delivered its first fruit, with the launch of the company's SteelConnect product suite.…

Successful launch of Sentinel-1B VID Europe's Sentinel-1B satellite thundered aloft yesterday from Kourou, French Guiana, en route to its Earth-monitoring role as part of the Copernicus environmental monitoring network.…

Taxman offers not-quite-so-mega contract for various outsourced services HMRC has put £200m up for grabs by one lucky desktop services supplier as the government body attempts a major – and potentially risky – overhaul of its IT.…

Skins stripped away, nodes noted, rams tallied HPC blog The Asian Student Supercomputer Competition (ASC) is the closest thing to true stock car racing that you’ll find on the Student Cluster Competition international circuit.…

Rebrand to SDN hoped to bump up previously flat revenue Exclusive Almost exactly a year since networking biz Riverbed exited from the stock market following pressure from activist investor Elliot, the company is once again gearing up for an IPO.…

Stand alone meta Metasploit. Polish hacker Marcin Bury and developer Mariusz Kupidura have published a capable Python-based router exploitation framework to help hackers better own bit-moving boxen.…

Now hackers can choose between TechCASH and changing grades The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has joined the growing number of large organisations and agencies to offer a bug bounty.…

Curtails warnings of live cloud VM migrations, which you mostly found confusing Google's proved to itself that when users take workloads to the cloud they just assume cloud operators will be takin' care of business.…

Phish me once, shame on Facebook; phish me twice, shame on Facebook anyway Netcraft security man Paul Mutton says phishers are using Facebook's TLS certificate to create a 'remarkably convincing' scam that would go unnoticed by most users.…

Not a challenging course, but still Video Florida has hosted the world's first drone race where the participants eschew joysticks and instead direct the quadrocopters using the power of their brainwaves.…

Take a bite of some seriously big data The CMS Collaboration at CERN has dropped its biggest data publication ever: 300 Terabytes of particle collusions and accompanying analysis.…

Software Conservancy and Document Foundation seen as ideal new homes for project The Mozilla Foundation, which last year flagged its intention to push Thunderbird out of its nest, reckons it's identified possible new homes – including itself.…

Accelerate framework added to Windows Bridge for iOS Intel has dropped a slab of code into Microsoft's Windows Bridge for iOS project, starting with APIs for vector maths, matrix maths, digital signal processing (DSP) and image processing.…

Crims using multiple exfiltration points Cybercriminals are way ahead of the game against defenders without having to try anything new, according to the latest edition of Verizon's benchmark survey of security breaches.…