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'Bela' BeagleBone Black cape, ideal for impatient musos A team from London University's Queen Mary (QM) tentacle is rattling the tin down at Kickstarter for its "Bela" - an open source "embedded computing platform developed for high quality, ultra-low latency interactive audio".…

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Security guards seized tog's equipment, said he was a 'lunatic' – and called police Video A photographer in a public place was called a “lunatic”, "detained" by private security guards and had the police called on him after he videoed a wall outside the Port of Tyne.…

340 days aloft end in Kazakhstan tonight 'Nauts Scott Kelly and Mikhail Kornienko will wrap 340 days in space tonight when they return to terra firma from the International Space Station.…

Not quite the end of their prerogrative to pry IPB The redrafted Investigatory Powers bill is about to return to Parliament, accompanied by complaints that the government is trying to rush it through, threats of Conservative backbench rebellions and a withdrawal of Labour support. It could almost be the European Union referendum.…

Hamburg Court allows proceedings after considering kernel dev Christoph Hellwig's right to action Proceedings have begun in the German case probing whether VMware's ESXi is in violation of the Gnu Public Licence…

Big Data applied to metadata is a lesser evil than back doors, analyst argues Gartner veep and distinguished analyst Avivah Litan has told the FBI to “stop bullying Apple and the technology industry around” with regard to that iPhone.…

Things were worse in 2014, but governments are trying to drag us down with sloppy security More than 700 million records were breached last year, according to security researchers at Gemalto.…

Legal eagles need to get off their perches and start squawking at each other An ambitious plan to modernise Blighty's criminal justice system via a £700m digitisation programme will not cure its increasing inefficiencies, a government spending watchdog report has found.…

Undocumented API features and security If you're tearing your hair out trying to make sure your Windows 8 / 8.1 /10 application isn't attackable through the filename structure, a Google security engineer has penned a long look at the API to try and help.…

Akamai report finds surge in weighty packets. The number of distributed denial of service attacks rose 149 percent in dying months of 2015 according to Akamai's networking wonks.…

Employee data blabbed to wannabe CEO. User data safe. Promise Snapchat has blabbed its staff payroll information to a criminal after someone in human resources fell prey to a phishing email.…

Redmond plans pre-loaded WinPi for thing-makers Microsoft has announced a cut Windows 10 IoT Core for the Raspberry Pi 3.…

'Intrusion software' to be withdrawn from arrangement The Obama administration is revisiting much-criticised 2013 revisions to the Wassenaar Arrangement that made it look like practically any security software is illegal.…

Soft launch of subscriber service on Tuesday RSA 2016 Three months ago HackerOne, the group that pays a bounty to security researchers for bugs, appointed Mårten Mickos as its new CEO, and the tech-savvy Finn has clear ideas about the future of hacking for pay.…

The l33tz will shake and quake in their boots Fortinet and Cisco have signed data-sharing arrangements with the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation (NATO) to try and improve their respective infosec capabilities.…

Not for that iPhone, but judge says All Writs Act FBI likes doesn't apply A New York magistrate has decided the All Writs Act isn't the right key to force the lock on a drug dealer's iPhone.…

Is 'Sorry about that, we promise to learn from our mistakes' any way to run a cloud? Add another SNAFU to the long list of Google cloud wobbles caused by human error: this time The Alphabet subsidiary decided to patch the wrong routers.…

Self-driving car's slow-motion sandbag situation ends in dented reputations Alphabet has filed an accident report with the California Department of Motor Vehicles, in which it says one of its autonomous cars had a low-speed bingle with a bendy-bus.…

Commissioner tells parliament he might consider sackings South Australia's police commissioner says he fields 100 complaints a year regarding inappropriate data access by police officers.…

Mind you, applicants aren’t helping sometimes either RSA 2016 It's a refrain at this and past RSA conferences, that companies can't hire enough top-notch talent, but it's addressable if companies hire smartly and applicants learn how to play the game.…

Dev kit for Redmond super-specs will set you back $3,000 Microsoft has opened up its Hololens augmented reality hardware for pre-order with a shipping date of March 30.…

Big Blue augments incident response for security systems RSA 2016 After nearly a week of rumors IBM has confirmed it has bought incident response firm Resilient Systems and so gained the services of its CTO security guru Bruce Schneier.…

'Biggest ever' fine might not be paid after firm shuts down A Brighton-based robo-call spam operation has been hit by a record £350,000 fine by data privacy watchdogs. Since the firm has been closed down and entered liquidation, however, even the Information Commissioner admits the fine is unlikely to be paid.…

Educational software should be watertight, argues IT techie dad Mathletics, an e-learning platform for mathematics that is used by millions of school kids across the English speaking world, has admitted a coding error that meant kids’ login details were transmitted in the clear.…

Algo prof passes on aged 86 Edward McCluskey, professor at Stanford University and pioneer of complex chips and crash-proof computers, has passed away at the age of 86.…

JavaScript false positive prompts virtual recall Surfers who rely on ESET anti-virus are having a hard time surfing the web following a misfiring anti-virus update, pushed out on Monday morning.…

Now, about that $67bn price tag on the deal The EU has waved through the $67bn (£47bn) takeover of EMC by Dell, less than a week since the Federal Trade Commission approved the deal.…

Motors in dramatic shut-down on 'low thrust alarm' SpaceX yesterday failed once again to get the SES-9 satellite aloft atop a Falcon 9 rocket, after the lifter's computers shut down the engines shortly after motor ignition.…

Switch from physical to digital, move to analytical Structural upheaval driven by technological change will cost British retailers nearly one million jobs by 2025, according to a trade body.…

Don't feel sorry for the fandroids, though... Windows mobile developers need every crumb of comfort they can muster – so mobile ad network InMobi has offered a few.…

Just hours left to save hundreds Our early bird tickets offer for Continuous Lifecycle ends today, so if you want to save on our two day conference or our all day workshops, or both, you need to get moving fast.…

Pie in the sky? More like a Scotch egg in space Forget the government's paltry promise of universal broadband speeds of 10 Mbps by 2020. The Institute of Directors is today calling for a target of 10 gigabits per second by 2030.…

Faster flash goodness inside the VMAX data services house +Comment EMC has two new all-flash VMAX products as a result of re-engineering aspects of the VMAX design to lower latency.…

Rack scale flashery from EMC abolishes network latency +Comment EMC has launched its all-flash, rack-scale DSSD D5 array offering 10 million IOPS and 144TB in 5U of rack space.…

When UK.gov engages with experts it loses, says backbench Tory MP IPB The Home Secretary will formally introduce the Investigatory Powers Bill to Parliament on Tuesday, it is rumoured, inviting criticism that the Snoopers' Charter is being rushed through while MPs are distracted by the UK's looming EU membership referendum.…

iMovie? KDenLive? Cut! I'm a believer Review It's been nearly two and a half years since the OpenShot video editor released an update. The long-awaited OpenShot 2.0 was beginning to feel like vaporware until a Kickstarter campaign raised more than $45,000 and promised a cross-platform release.…

The platform battles are back MWC16 +Analysis Two parallel trends bubbled away at MWC this year – but without getting much attention. When Android and Microsoft converge, it’s going to be the next big platform battle, and one Microsoft can’t afford to lose.…

Connected cars get a look-in too New areas for standardisation that could aid with the development of new connected and autonomous vehicles will be identified by car manufacturers and telecoms companies in collaboration, industry bodies have said.…

See that chopping block? Head over there please IBM is taking the knife to the UK Labs team with almost one in eight staffers expected to get the chop, insiders have told us.…

'CTB Locker' targets WordPress, offers live chat to help victims pay up A new ransomware variant appears to be ripping through WordPress sites encrypting data and demanding a payment of half a bitcoin to release files.…

256GB in your smartphone or fondleslab at 260MB/s should shake things up nicely Samsung has announced it's started mass production of 256 gigabyte embedded memory modules using the Universal Flash Storage (UFS) 2.0.…

And the winner is IBM. And the lawyers milking the case for 13 long years The long-running SCO vs. IBM case looks like it might just be over.…

1.2 GHz ARM Cortex A53, 802.11n Wireless LAN and Bluetooth As rumoured last week, the Raspberry Pi Foundation is celebrating its fourth birthday today with the release of the Pi 3, packing a 1.2 GHz 64-bit ARM Cortex A53, 802.11n Wireless LAN capability and Bluetooth 4.1.…

Feeling woozy after a big night? It's safer to suffer in silence Australia's health authorities have started cracking down on “hangover clinics” after someone's morning-after quick fix landed them in hospital.…

something about history An IT lecturer from the Australian state of Queensland wants to revive the very first Unix – the version written by Ken Thompson on a Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-7.…

Symantec asked for new SHA-1 certs to keep old payment kit alive. Mozilla said yes Everyone knows the SHA-1 cipher is a relic that can be cracked without colossal effort. So why has Mozilla allowed Symantec to issue some new SHA-1 certificates?…

Project Loon needs carriers' spectrum before it can beam heavenly broadband to India The Indian government has asked Google to tie the knot with a local carrier, so it can begin trialling Project Loon in the country.…

'Sybil' nodes could be used to de-anonymise traffic The Tor Project is working with Princeton University boffins to try and identify possibly malicious nodes, and prevent them from harvesting traffic by gaming its node reputation system.…