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Defeating opsec with a rock Melbourne police are investigating who made off with a train at around 2am this morning, resulting in around AU$2 million worth of damage.…

Tumbril rumbles for Windows XP and pre-Yosemite users Google has given Windows XP and old versions of Apple OS X their marching orders.…

No zero days but plenty to be getting on with It's Patch Tuesday the second day of the week in the month of November and Microsoft and Adobe have pushed out their security updates. Joining the perennial favorites Flash and Internet Explorer comes new kid on the block, Edge.…

When salesmanship gets out of hand After hyping his first new product as Apple CEO to death, it appears Tim Cook is feeling the pressure to make the Apple Watch a success.…

Your money needs a holiday: send it to sunny Bermuda In 2012, something like US$80 billion worth of multinationals' profits worked on their suntans in Bermuda, according to an international report into profit-shuffling and tax avoidance.…

Supreme Court rejects robber appeal and adds to already confusing situation Police in some states can now access your phone location data without a warrant, following a Supreme Court decision not to hear the appeal of an armed robber.…

Hopes that 2015 was just a bad dream After letting the world in on glimpses of its Snapdragon 820 processor for a few months, Qualcomm has finally taken the lamp out of the basket.…

And calls father of the internet Vint Cerf dumb The United Nations' new privacy head has slammed the UK's draft surveillance bill, calling it "worse than scary."…

SFA14K boosts performance quite a lot, capacity a little DataDirect Networks has boosted the performance of its flagship SFA12K array, upgrading it to the SFA14K with more than three times the IOPS performance.…

TrustZone in microcontrollers and mbed OS waddles on ARM hopes to make chips in the Internet of Things a little more secure – by adding its TrustZone defenses to its microcontroller blueprints. In effect, ARM is adding some extra hurdles for hackers to leap in order to exploit programming bugs in gadgets' firmware.…

Proof that Brits are experts on forming queues ARM, designer of smartphone brains, will today reveal the Cortex-A35: a processor core subtly tweaked to run mobile web browsers and similar apps faster.…

Tape production ceases after 40 years Sony has finally set a date for the death of Betamax – some 40 years after it first released the ill-fated home video tech.…

Two Israelis and one American face list of 23 charges Three men have been indicted over the megahack of US bank JPMorgan Chase which involved to the compromise of 83 million customer and small business accounts.…

Launch of ProtonMail 3.0 now knocked back ProtonMail has announced that it has successfully mitigated the DDoS attacks which had hobbled it since last week, while also confirming security systems had not been breached.…

MOFCOM decision starts to have real world ramifications HGST is reportedly closing an SSD manufacturing and research and development plant in Penang. The plant currently employs 450 people.…

Just a paltry £8bn needed over the next five years The NHS must bolster its IT budget by up to £8.3bn over the next five years – in order to produce savings of possibly £13.7bn, said the management consultancy McKinsey.…

Weakening encryption will only hurt the ‘good people’ IPB Apple boss Tim Cook has once again warned of what he says would be the "dire consequences" of opening up backdoors to allow spies to access our data.…

Well, in Nvidia's dreams, anyway If you think you can build the next Youtube, Facebook or Google, you'll need to invest heavily in artificial intelligence and GPU-accelerated engineering to get any kind of edge over rivals.…

Hannigan also denies spy agency ever wanted backdoors IA15 Speaking this morning to CESG's Information Assurance conference, Robert Hannigan, director of GCHQ, declared that Britain was a "sovereign cryptographic nation" and reproached the free market's ability to provide adequate cybersecurity.…

Give us your hosting masses Interview The Far Eastern white box makers are sucking up some server volumes in Europe at the expense of the big brands – but that’s just fine, according to Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s EMEA chief.…

Recent consolidations show ‘distinct lack of imagination’ Interview Block storage is dead, object storage can be faster than file storage, and storage-class memory will be the only local storage on a server. So said Robert Novak ... but who he?…

Plus: MoD takes up private Office 365 offer Microsoft's CEO has announced it will build a UK data centre for its Azure cloud - just days after a similar announcement from AWS CTO Werner Vogels.…

Arrest over alleged market manipulation reveals odd thing Scottish financial trader James Alan Craig has been charged in the US with allegedly using Twitter to manipulate share prices. That charge raises a fascinating question: can Twitter be used to fiddle the stock markets?…

Driverless vans also a lovely idea, says chief exec The Royal Mail's chief exec has envisioned a future with drone deliveries and driverless vans.…

Operator posts £1.58bn loss in first half of fiscal year Vodafone CEO Vittorio Colao claimed this morning that the company's huge £18bn infrastructure investment was slowly starting to pay off, with the operator reporting a growth in earnings for the first half of its financial year.…

Advertising regulator now involved TalkTalk has withdrawn an advertisement from circulation that falsely claimed customers would save more money with the telco than with its rivals.…

Let's not let the The Complete University Guide's new rankings stand alone, shall we? The Complete University Guide has released its annual ratings of the best UK universities for computer science studies.…

Tongfang Guoxin aim to be in production within two years The Tsinghua Unigroup is spear-heading China’s dash to get its own flash fab off the ground. Filed plans show pilot production starting in 18 months.…

So who REALLY knows what I access? Google IPB Through pressure from Google, Facebook, and other major providers such as Yahoo and Apple, the world wide web is slowing becoming more secure, with web services using HTTPS to encrypt web traffic by default. However, the arrival of the draft Investigatory Powers Bill raises questions about who can potentially get access to what – here are some answers.…

Rival to Diablo Technologies and SanDisk offerings Micron is launching an 8GB flash DIMM, providing competition for SanDisk and its ULLtraDIMM.…

Rocket Kitten phishermen self-d0x with hard-coded credentials CheckPoint has raided the servers of a bumbling alleged Iranian hacking group using credentials hardcoded into malware, using its access to name suspected members.…

Monkey with the wrong permissions, your program dies Linus Torvalds may have used the Washington Post to drop a bucket on the “masturbating monkeys” of OpenBSD, but they seem insular enough not to care overmuch.…

What a coincidence Imagination Technologies has decided today – right in the middle of its arch rival ARM's annual technical conference in California – is the best day to announce some new chip designs.…

Fingers crossed behind backs as NSA, BND, make Bad Aibling deal Allies US and German spooks cooped up in a windowless structure dubbed the Tin Can have been found secretly spying on each other.…

No sign of AWS squeeze in financials Rackspace topped analyst expectations for Q3, pulling in $509m revenue, up 10.7 on same time last year and net income of $37m or 26c a share.…

New Horizons' data hoard just keeps getting better Video Pluto just keeps getting stranger: the latest speculation to arise from analysis of data gathered by New Horizons is that it might have ice volcanoes.…

Ventures into the chaotic world of personal health apps The IEEE has set to work on standardisation in the e-health device market, and to help the project, it's signed an agreement with medical research nonprofit the Regenstrief Institute.…

DoS vector for e-mail, content and Web appliances Cisco has announced a patch for a high-severity bug in the AsyncOS that runs a bunch of its security appliances.…

Heartbeat a neat threat intel feat, Sophos bleats Sophos has launched a threat intelligence sharing platform 'XG' for its endpoint and network security firewalls and unified threat management systems.…

Cupertino's iPhone 6 bounce starts to wear off Apple and Samsung are still the category-killers in the US smartphone market, but LG has managed to peel a small sliver of market share from both in the September quarter.…

Internal-only certificates issued by accident Certificate authority Comodo has revoked a bunch of certificates issued by mistake, which included reserved IP addresses and internal server names.…

Euro GPS misfires to test General Relativity The European Space Agency is to make the most of two satellite misfires by using them to test Einstein's theory of relativity.…

Auto-spam your friends with Photo Magic Facebook has decided it doesn't pester its users enough, so it's going to use its facial recognition technology as the basis of a new nag-screen.…

Strong, fast, but NIST is wary The authors of a NIST-commended (but left on the shelf) hashing suite have put their work forward for IETF (Internet Engineering Task Force) consideration.…

TensorFlow to help your phone find cats and, you know, everything else Video Google is helping bring HAL to life by open sourcing its machine learning software.…

Morrow announces tariff review Along with its quarterly results announcement yesterday, nbn has hinted to the industry that its CVC charges could fall again.…

Wrist recorder reads your weight, tells the cloud An Australian insurance company has jumped on the fitness-tracker bandwagon, and is going to give away Intel Basis walk-snitches to anyone who wants a discount for populating its databases.…

Flemish court gets feisty Facebook has been ordered to stop tracking people that don't have accounts with it in the next 48 hours or face daily fines of 250,000 euros.…

Grants injunction amid a few choice words In an extraordinary opinion, DC judge Richard Leon has laid into the NSA and US government for its bulk collection of phone records, and issued an injunction banning the collection of metadata on several individuals.…

If you're running Magento, patch it now Linux sysadmins are being specifically targeted by hackers demanding one Bitcoin to gain access to their own data.…