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eBay, Drudge Report, etc inadvertantly carry evil adverts Internet lowlives who used Yahoo! ads to infect potentially countless PCs with malware have struck again – using adverts on popular websites to reach millions more people.…

Dot-com owner applies screws to young upstart Verisign is up to its old tricks again, having sued XYZ.com, the owner of the .xyz registry a second time.…

Revelation could unlock secrets to our Solar System's formation Pic Pictures from the universe-scanning Gemini Planet Imager (GPI) show a young Jupiter-like world that formed just 20 million years ago. That's well after the dinosaurs became extinct on grand old Earth.…

Not even going to hear it this time, just pay them the $550m already Samsung's attempt to wriggle out of paying $548m to Apple has been shot down by the federal circuit court in Washington DC.…

Payoff led to $14.5m contract signoff A former regional director of German enterprise software outfit SAP has pleaded guilty to bribing officials in the Panamanian government to secure a contract for one of the company's resellers.…

Russian biz allegedly tried to hoodwink competitors with legit Windows executables Kaspersky Lab deliberately fed bogus malware to its rivals to sabotage their antivirus products, two anonymous former employees allege. Kaspersky says the accusations are false.…

But rivals won’t get a chance to have their say in an oral hearing Google has been given another deadline extension as it prepares to mount a defence against antitrust charges in Europe.…

Steal of a deal, but it's not quite plain sailing for the vendor With an echo back to its prior Overland Storage data protection days, Sphere 3D has bought Imation’s RDX removable disk storage business.…

No blackspot spotting tools, or comparative element Analysis Ofcom has released a map of where you should have mobile phone coverage. Based on computer models and limited testing, however, it’s not a map of where you do actually have mobile coverage.…

And she's not even a techie. Oh dear, Cupertino Apple’s latest diversity report shows that of the fruity firm's 83 executives, senior officials and managers, 72 are white and 60 of those are male. A look at Apple’s executive info biography page shows a sea of white male faces.…

Wings come off cunning prison dope delivery plan Costa Rican prison authorities have thwarted a cunning attempt to smuggle drugs into chokey via carrier pigeon, CNN reports (in Spanish).…

Q2 growth slows largely due to dependence on Apple Hon Hai/Foxconn's revenue slowed dramatically in the second quarter, as its iGadgets manufacturing reliance began to take its toll, with fanbois' showing thrift in anticipation of a new iPhone launch later this year.…

Web development 101: Thou shalt stop thy users from inputting JavaScript A cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability on Salesforce's website might have been abused to pimp phishing attacks or hijack user accounts. Fortunately the bug has been resolved, apparently before it caused any harm.…

Kindly Commish lets UK spend its money as it wants ... on a space launcher Their benevolent highnesses at the European Commission have seen fit to allow the UK to grant £50m towards the designing of the SABRE space launcher, after questioning whether the grant was in line with EU state aid rules.…

Child protection laws mean there's not mushroom for drug debates Reddit has been banned and then unbanned in Russia, following the 4chan-lite site's decision to block domestic access in the country to a single page on growing mushrooms.…

Oh, it’s all gone quiet over there Third generation Apple TVs were shipped with a faulty part, and the company has begun to contact consumers to confirm the issue and offer a replacement.…

Push off with all your 'jumping fruity girls' pics, this is the real good news More youngsters are taking A-Level exams in science and technology subjects this years than their peers five years ago, with an increase in tech subjects seen as an encouraging sign that the so-called skills shortage may become less acute in coming years.…

Korean mobe maker goes large, ups periscope First Look It's only a few months since Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S6 and S6 Edge, its latest attempts to make some money out of Android. They're pretty decent phones, as we concluded in our in-depth review.…

Haters begone! You can now buy 'em with your bangers and mash Breaking Fad When you can buy a 4K telly at the supermarket, along with your bangers and mash, you know Ultra HD has entered the mainstream. Retail giant Asda is now stocking the Polaroid-branded P55D600, a 55-inch Ultra HD screen for just £699. If you want to really push the boat out, you can heft the 65-inch version into your wonky-wheeled cart, for only £300 quid more.…

Want to tag your own sensitive info? No problem now Paula Long-led startup DataGravity has updated its Discovery array with a second generation Discovery Series V2 software.…

Astro-boffins routed by pitiless grass-slaying droids in FCC's arena of pain The inevitable fight to the death between humanity and the soulless hordes of Skynet's robot army came a step closer recently, after hideously beweaponed drones vanquished their human adversaries in the merciless arena of the proceedings of the US communications regulator – the Federal Communications Commission (FCC).…

Malformed .MOV files can murder your movies Two Borg assimilators have discovered five denial of service vulnerabilities in Apple's QuickTime.…

Hovering bots drive grizzlies to distraction Vid Bears, those savage and fearless predators of the wild, are driven to distraction by hovering unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs aka drones).…

Compute Engine wasn't at its best overnight and its disks are waking grumpy Users of Google Compute Engine's Persistent Disks in the europe-west1-b region have endured an anxious few hours, as the service has experienced a lengthy brown-out.…

All hail the monster and his tasty aquatic noodly appendages A BP team operating an ROV at an oil well off the coast of Angola has spotted a deep-sea creature with an uncanny resemblance to Pastafarian deity the Flying Spaghetti Monster.…

President Xi Jinping is on his way to Washington and diplomats are sniping Chinese president Xi Jinping visits the USA in September, a visit expected to be afforded all the pomp and ceremony of a top-level bilateral leader's meeting.…

Internet Defense Prize™ handed out, bugs broken. Hello Oracle? Four researchers have scored US$100,000 from Facebook for revealing 11 bugs affecting platforms including the Chrome and Firefox browsers using novel vulnerability discovery methods.…

Alibaba, cloud offshoot Aliyun, Natwest and ANZ bank running the orphaned OS Windows 2003 support ended a month ago today, but there are still 175 million web servers – or about one in five – that still run the operating system. Plenty also run Microsoft Internet Information Services 6.0, a version of Microsoft's web server that has primitive security compared to its successors.…

DON'T UPGRADE NOW, Sony warns Vaio users, and settle in for a long wait Sony has let owners of its Vaio computers know they're free to upgrade to Windows 10. In October or November.…

Sure you can mail possible pirates, after paying a bond larger than your possible profits The legal brawl between the owners of film Dallas Buyers Club (DBC) and Australian internet service provider iiNet has dealt a blow to Big Content's speculative invoicing practices by requiring a bond to be paid before the film's owners can contact suspected pirates.…

Surgeons, hackers, on mission to provide near-free medical tech to developing world Tarek Loubani, an emergency physician working in the Gaza strip, has 3D-printed a 30 cent stethoscope that beats the world's best $200 equivalent as part of a project to bottom-out the cost of medical devices.…

Bigger, edgier S6, new GalaxyNote 5 can talk to swipe card readers Samsung has revealed that Samsung Pay will debut in Korea on August 20, reach the USA on on September 28 and eventually appear in the U.K., Spain and China, as well.…

Machines designed to cut down prey gets OK from watchdog The US Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has okayed robotic appliance maker iRobot to continue work on its line of lawnmower droids.…

Insider trading scam said to be largest of its kind Analysis The computer hacking and securities fraud ring that was broken up by US authorities this week was "one of the most intricate and sophisticated trading rings that we have ever seen," the US Securities and Exchange Commission has said.…

Moneybags CEO wanted to own rights to scores of gTLDs Google's new mom, Alphabet, has sent the domain name world into a frenzy following its decision to set up home at the online address abc.xyz.…

People make mistakes Pure Storage’s S1 IPO filing said one thing about its 2014 revenues while a Gartner report said something a hundred million dollars different. Why?…

Massive update addresses iOS, OS X, and Safari security holes Apple has issued a huge wad of updates to address dozens of CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in iOS, OS X Yosemite, Safari, and OS X Server.…

Update flawed, new one needed for countless gadgets Google's security update to fix the Stagefright vulnerability in millions of Android smartphones is buggy – and a new patch is needed.…

Cupertino wants in on another area everyone loves and trusts – auto-photo-tagging Apple has asked the US Patent and Trademark Office to grant it the rights to produce facial-recognition features for iOS devices.…

The Oscars it ain't but the key signing ceremony is vital If you have literally nothing better to do today, we would recommend watching the most important but dullest ceremony you can catch online.…

Chinese tat bazaar suffers domestic economic woes following record IPO After the largest-ever initial public offering in September, Alibaba has reported its slowest quarterly revenue growth in three years.…

Although they can still run Windows, ish Pic Google’s Chromebooks are just over four year old and, while the hardware has done well in education, businesses and normal people haven’t been too keen.…

Share price plummets, so off you go guys, sorry Former Taiwanese smartphone titan HTC is to trim 15 per cent of its workforce following a 20 per cent share price tumble this week.…

Chipzilla continues its efforts to diversify its mostly pale, male staff In the pursuit of transparency, Intel has released a breakdown of its staffers, including new hires – revealing that it doesn't seem to know all of its employees' sex or race.…

No sign of Mothra at the Flash Memory Summit, however Samsung has revealed what can only be described as the Godzilla of flash drives, a 15TB SSD, at the Flash Memory Summit.…

Maybe we could think about security when designing stuff The NSA is funding development of an architecture for a "safer" Internet of Things (IoT), in the hope of incorporating better security at a product's design phase.…

'An essential tool for all biz', says Countryside Alliance Small enterprises have warned that delays in BT's rollout of rural broadband could push them out of business as the government announced that three million rural properties now have super-fast net access.…