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'BeyondCorp' plan prefers analysis of user behaviour and device state instead Google sees little distinction between board rooms and bars, cubicles and coffee shops; all are untrusted under its perimeter-less security model detailed in a paper published this week.…

Hackers scoped internal structures to figure out who had authority to send funds Toy maker Mattel has recovered some US$3 million it shipped off to Chinese hackers who sent a well-crafted phishing email to a finance executive.…

Not drowning under-performing products, waving happily about the whole business. Really. Intel has announced that it's going to radically revise the segmentation it uses for financial reports.…

VMUG Advantage and EVALExperience users to be migrated somewhere, soon VMware's written to members of its user group (VMUG) and subscribers to its EVALExperience program to advise they're being booted out of its cloud.…

Optimising workloads in the world of Docker Docker-herder Iron.io has added another string to its bow, in an agreement with Intel that gives it access to Chipzilla's Snap* framework.…

Conspiracy-theorists, get out your tinfoil hats and wallow in the 1.71 Exabytes of data we download every 90 days Australians downloaded 1,714,922 Terabytes in the 90 days to December 31st, 2015, according to new data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS).…

Acquires Yogitech for its certification smarts Intel has acquired Internet of Things business Yogitech with an eye to the automotive segment.…

Let the wild speculation about just how the FBI cracked San Bernardino killer's phone begin Update: Server-side salvation from Cupertino In a release that's bound to spark all sorts of speculation, Vulnerability Labs has disclosed an iOS touch passcode bypass at Full Disclosure on April 5.…

Email's cheap, but cracked Australian credit cards remain the world's most expensive Want to read a business rival's email? Dell wonks say hacked-corporate-email-as-a-service operators can deliver for just US$500.…

Get ready to pay for movies, people Near field communications (NFC) readers can now be baked into in-flight entertainment devices, making it possible to offer contactless payments in the sky.…

It's all the media's fault. Even when the DHS hypes things up +Comment Everybody knows how easily the world could be plunged into a New Dark Ages with nothing more than a handful of hacker keystrokes – everybody except the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS).…

As if the world needed yet another reason to finally flush Flash forever Adobe will this week issue an out-of-band patch for Flash after spotting a critical flaw that is now being "actively exploited" in the wild.…

Under the hood of the HPC, AI workhorse ... which'll be coming to a desk near you GTC16 So there it is: the long-awaited Nvidia Pascal architecture GPU. It's the GP100, and it will debut in the Tesla P100, which is aimed at high-performance computing (think supercomputers simulating the weather and nuke fuel) and deep-learning artificial intelligence systems.…

When even PayPal thinks you're bad, you know you've really jumped the tracks PayPal has abandoned plans for a new global operations center in Charlotte, North Carolina, after the US state passed a "religious freedom" act that allows discrimination against employees on the grounds of gender identity and sexuality.…

How about actually answering the questions, presidential candidate asks Republican presidential wannabe Ted Cruz, along with two other Senators, has lambasted DNS overseer ICANN a second time for failing to answer questions over its former CEO's ties to China.…

Strategy or a desperate maneuver? Twitter has paid a reported $10m for the streaming rights to ten NFL games later this year, surprising many and leaving some scratching their head.…

Plastic parts induce sweaty response Video A study by Stanford University has shown that human volunteers demonstrated "physiological arousal" when a robot instructed them to touch it up.…

Commissioner looking into advertising dominance The European Union (EU) is pushing forward with its probe into Google/Alphabet's dominance of the online ad market, with the commissioner in charge suggesting formal charges are on the way.…

Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown – and a tax shelter Iceland's Prime Minister Sigmundur Gunnlaugsson has resigned over documents in the so-called Panama Papers, which revealed details of his family's tax arrangements.…

Come to OpenShift, poke and prod it, see if it's useful Red Hat is offering upstart financial types the opportunity to play with blockchain tech on its OpenShift platform.…

CHEOPS benefits from some quality artwork No less than 3,000 sketches by European kids will accompany the CHEOPS space telecope when it thunders aloft in early 2018 on its mission to accurately measure the radii of transitioning exoplanets.…

Unifying two Linux-based distros to grow overall market Seagate is helping to unify the Lustre parallel file system software world by incorporating Intel Enterprise Edition for Lustre (IEEL) into its ClusterStor arrays.…

If only hardware makers could print more customers 3D printing is still perched on the edge of greatness, industry types insist, but sales are not yet matching the marketing bluster.…

Auntie dishes out latest slice of £2bn Atos pie The BBC has once again opened its wallet and is enticing suppliers to bid for a £560m ICT and hosting contract – part of its plans to replace its mega £2bn Atos contract.…

VSAN, ScaleIO and Nutanix join horse race EMC-Dell deal Dell has three horses in the hyper-converged system race: VMware’s VSAN colt, EMC’s ScaleIO mustang and OEM’d Nutanix’s filly. Come 2017, VMware and EMC should be inside Dell and eyes will look quizzically at the Dell Nutanix OEM deal.…

+ Logo change on the way for the Bernie Sanders of big data MariaDB is entering the analytics market with the upcoming release of its big data analytics engine ColumnStore.…

Fancy a piece of the Riversimple Rasa? UK hydrogen-powered car outfit Riversimple is inviting investors to open their wallets and buy into what it considers to be the future of four-wheeled transport: the "revolutionary" gas-driven Rasa.…

That's why you're seeing loads of massage parlour ads Two reports by privacy campaigners into mobile and Wi-Fi services' location tracking activities have revealed practices of questionable legality and security.…

National Poo Museum promises faecal enlightenment Visitors to the Isle of Wight will this spring and summer be able to enjoy faecal enlightenment at the National Poo Museum, featuring 20 kinds of animal arse output.…

Minnow gears up to take on BT out in the sticks Rural broadband provider Gigaclear has bagged an additional £24m in investment, part of its plans to serve 1.5 million homes currently without fibre-to-the-premises networks.…

Infosec bods look at app, discover huge vulnerabilities Security watchers have warned of massive privacy problems with the Magic Kinder App for children.…

Machine fancier founder comes in as Chief Scientist Salesforce.com has confirmed it has acquired AI startup MetaMind on undisclosed terms.…

Delete all the docs you want, Theresa, the internet never forgets… Exclusive The Home Office is trying to keep secret three out-of-court settlements with claimants who allege the police unlawfully retained their biometric details.…

Keeping your head while those in Silicon Valley lose theirs We’re at an inflection point, or – rather – the point before that inflection point. We are in the pre-countdown-phase for virtual reality or augmented reality or perhaps machine learning or bots, say onlookers. But which is it? Or will it be none of these?…

Open the cloud taps and make it rain, brother I remember going to an HP(E) event back in 2011 (Discover Vegas, I think) when the idea of hybrid cloud and converged infrastructure was just getting going. HPE talked about the idea of “cloud bursting” – moving data and/or applications on demand into cloud infrastructure to cope with increased demand.…

And this would support UK life sciences, claims expert Opinion Some aspects of patent law of relevance to life sciences companies could come back under the control of UK law makers if the UK votes to leave the EU.…

Desired State Configuration tool can create state of chaos AUDIO from Black Hat Asia Forensics men Matt Hastings and Ryan Kazanciyan have flipped the Windows Desired State Configuration (DSC) into a covert persistence mechanism and weapon in a new attack vector to own Windows boxes.…

Re-write your RAM cram plan, server scalers, there's 128GB modules on the way Samsung Electronics has announced it's started baking RAM using a “10-nanometer (nm) class*” process and says the 8GB chips it's emitting are the first in the world to be manufactured in this way.…

And so is Microsoft's as PC sales fall, making strong growth for Windows 10 unlikely Microsoft last week updated its Windows 10 usage data, claiming 270 million devices now run its newest operating system.…

NASA and Japan loose images captured by ASTER cam on Terra earth observation sat NASA and Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry have announced that all Earth imaging data from the ASTER instrument on NASA's Terra spacecraft are now free-as-in-beer.…

Money-shuttling firm lost 2.6 TB of data and didn't even notice The staggering, Wikileaks-beating “Panama Papers” data exfiltration has been attributed to the breach of an e-mail server last year.…

Revised SEC filings suggest IPO ambitions are un-dimmed, as losses mount Nutanix has cracked US$100m in quarterly revenue for the first time.…

Wants one-stop-shop from Ethernet to packet optical Juniper Networks' January-announced acquisition of BTI Systems is complete, giving the Gin Palace a beefed-up footprint in the data centre interconnect and packet optical markets.…

Token-harvesting attack meant one login could open doors to multiple Microsoft services British researcher Jack Whitton has reported a Microsoft account hijacking authentication bug that would have been another arrow in an attacker's phishing quiver, save for the fact that Microsoft fixed it.…

Kit turned to paper weights, devs sucked into Googleplex and customers furious Google Nest is set to brick $300 Revolv home automation hubs after buying out staff and abandoning the project.…

Hybrid hyper-convergence, anyone? SoftLayer's pricing for VMware-as-a-service has emerged and the IBM outfit has scored a deal for per-CPU licences.…

Australia's top telco, Telstra, wants suppliers to explain why its network keeps going down Australia's dominant carrier Telstra has hauled three of its key vendors into the principal's office for a dressing down, following network outages that had the Australian incumbent giving mobile users “free data days” to stem the outrage.…

Chipzilla's head-hunters hunt heads for IoT, mobile Intel's lost more Cs from its C-suite, with reports emerging that two senior executives have left and another is on the way out the door.…

Another bad hair day for Donald, says Krebs Prez hopeful Donald Trump is probably on the phone right now asking Bill Gates how to close down the Internet, following another breach of security in his hotel chain's credit card systems.…

Romanian taxi driver embarrasses the rich and famous Marcel Lehel Lazăr, 44, who as the hacker Guccifer published the email account contents of senior US political figures, has appeared for the first time in a US court.…