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'I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by' After five years at Vulture Central, mainly covering government technology and telecoms, I'm off.…

Free software credits not for you? How about a free tier instead? Kubecon 2019 CI/CD darling Codefresh took to the high seas of Kubecon to announce that it would be flinging $100m at the open-source ecosystem, as well as adding a free tier for its Kube-friendly pipeline tech.…

From digital strategy to data practicality with the clever folks at Qumulo Webcast Let’s keep this simple. You’re looking to move to the cloud because you know just how powerful the model can be. You’ve seen what you can make possible, if you harness the wealth of data now available to your applications. You’re looking to deliver on your digital transformation goals, respond to new business opportunities and disrupt your entire market.…

Reminds us of a small island nation's attempt to leave a certain political union The US Department of Commerce has agreed to grant several exemptions to its ban on Huawei, in what appears to be the Chinese kit maker's second reprieve this week.…

Makes you think pen and paper would be a better alternative British Airways suffered yet another IT failure, causing knock-on flight delays and cancellations for thousands of unhappy travellers*.…

A new office for Blighty 'wherever Brexit lands' Devops pipeline outfit CircleCI has ignored Britain's looming withdrawl from the EU to set up a European beachhead in London, headed up by a freshly poached Facebook exec.…

Epyc apology, Chipzilla Intel has issued an open letter apologizing to punters and partners alike for its inability to meet demand for processors.…

Chroots maneuver Miscreants can potentially hijack Docker users' computers by tricking them into running malicious containers and waiting for them to kick off a simple copy command – thanks to a critical flaw.…

Bettåma than nöthurihag For many of us, assembling IKEA furniture is proof that while Scandinavians are no longer vikings, they can still ruin your day.…

Self-assessment phishing and phone scam alert raised The UK’s tax authorities have issued an official warning to contractors to watch out for self-assessment scams - and they don’t mean IR35 for a change.…

Fraudster oversaw operation with contraband phone A convicted fraudster housed in a maximum security prison in Nigeria managed to pull off a $1m (£775,000) online scam from behind bars.…

Yes, more energetic than a pedantic Trekkie correcting you Scientists have detected the most-energetic photons yet seen from a gamma ray burst, with energies nearing a trillion electron volts.…

Spare a thought for the lives of the creative accountants It can be tough in the repair industry, and no one knows that better than struggling corporation Apple.…

Rights warriors want governments to actually, y'know, do something – anything Amnesty International says the "pervasive surveillance" practiced by Facebook and Google represents a threat to human rights, a claim the two companies dispute.…

Better to iron out these flaws now before Musk fills these crates with people Video The Mk1 prototype of Elon Musk's Starship suffered what we're betting SpaceX will call an "anomaly" during a fuel tank test today.…

Sale comes within months of DNS overseer pushing through controversial contract change Special report The sale of one of the internet’s most popular registries to a private equity firm has revived concerns over how the domain name system is governed.…

Everyone's Ring to rule them all and in the narc-fest bind them Amazon's camera-infused doorbell biz Ring offers virtually nothing in the way of privacy or civil-rights protection for the surveillance video it collects and shares with police – according to US Senator Edward Markey (D-MA).…

Just don't forget where you put your keys and you'll be fine Google is taking new steps to ensure the volumes of data it stores for businesses are properly protected.…

Whither the £4m drone detection system? Police? Security? Bueller? Two airline pilots reported a near-miss with a drone while just 30 seconds from touchdown at London Gatwick airport earlier this year, an official report has revealed.…

Revenue growth lags as biz makes subscription transition Operating profit at accountancy software biz Sage dropped 10.5 per cent year-on-year to £382m for the company's 2018/19 results ended 30 September due to an increased investment in its cloudy products.…

Are you for real? splutters surveyor Sophos Half of UK public sector IT chiefs think the data they're responsible for protecting is less valuable than private sector information, according to a survey by antivirus firm Sophos.…

ACK! London's Metropolitan Police Service (MPS) has published its first procurement notice to consolidate its IT "towers" in a contract worth £600m over five years.…

People person CEO urges staff 'if you like the One DXC logo, tell others' LogoWatch Words are cheap and what better way for the new man in charge of DXC to convince his troops that a more caring regime has taken over than by scrapping its current corporate colours and logo to something more daring.…

Lock the front door, you chumps A British video-editing startup exposed what is claimed to be "thousands" of user-uploaded videos, including family films and home-made pornography, in an unsecured Amazon AWS bucket.…

Ailing services integrator pulls in more cash from backers to pay off debts, rebrands US MSP arm Cash-strapped IT services integrator Getronics has finally confirmed its split with group CEO Nana Baffour and is getting an injection of capital following its cash-flow issues.…

C# and XAML devs get path to what UWP promised but never delivered At Microsoft's recent Ignite conference, the company promoted WinUI as the best path for desktop developers, and pointed towards the third-party Uno platform as an option for Windows 7 or web deployment.…

Haven't gotten around to patching since last Spring? Now would be a good time Thousands of Oracle E-Business Suite customers are vulnerable a security bug that can be exploited for bank fraud.…

Businessman gets 18 months for bogus cryptocoin sales A 39 year-old man from New York has been ordered to spend the next 18 months in prison after being convicted of cryptocurrency-based securities fraud.…

Linux was a 'cancer' but Microsoft is now defending it IBM, Microsoft and the Linux Foundation have partnered with the Open Invention Network (OIN), a company formed to protect Linux from patent threats, to take on "Patent Assertion Entities", also known as patent trolls.…

Coalition aims to help users spot and remove covert trackers A collection of security, privacy, and digital rights groups have joined up to push a campaign against stalking software.…

You win some, you lose… 75 per cent of your share value The shares of satellite operators continued to plummet today after it became clear that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) was going to seize valuable spectrum off them and resell it to mobile phone companies.…

But the big money's in Huawei's new (invite only) program Mozilla has decided to celebrate the 15th anniversary of its Firefox browser by expanding its bug bounty program to cover a range of new sites and services and - get this - triple its maximum payout.…

'Magic Leap has moved from being an IF company to a WHEN company,' claims outgoing director Augmented reality hype-machine Magic Leap has lost its chief financial officer (CFO) and creative director, putting yet more question marks over the company’s future.…

Magecart making life difficult yet again for shopping website US retailer Macy's says that hackers planted a card-stealing malware script on its site and harvested customer details for eight days last month.…

And the fake news merry-go-round is already in full swing Brexit-supporting businessman Arron Banks has had his Twitter account hijacked and his private messages dumped online by person or persons unknown – and random script kiddies are trying to claim the credit for it.…

Poor testing and supplier oversight to blame for 'unprecedented' cockup TSB's disastrous migration of its core banking data and payment records of five million customers has today been slammed by an independent report from London City law firm Slaughter and May.…

As well as managed nodes for K8s and new FireLens container logging service Amazon Web Services (AWS) has hauled in Java 11 support to its Lambda serverless platform, along with other upgrades and a new service for container log management.…

US Dept of Justice books one-way plane ticket in his name A rape investigation involving everyone's favourite cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaker, Julian Assange, has been dropped, Swedish prosecutors told the world's press today.…

Two high-level engineers and one managing director accused of stealing from Switchzilla Cisco has filed a complaint against three former employees in the district court of Northern California, having accused them of stealing its intellectual property before jumping ship to a competitor.…

Bare metal or run on any cloud thanks to, er, EPIC BlueData acquisition HPE has announced its Kubernetes-based Container Platform, which can be deployed on bare metal, any public cloud or virtualized infrastructure. Availability is promised for early 2020.…

Over 60% access better than anything found in US and SK 5G in London is so far lagging behind Birmingham and Cardiff, according to research into the tech's early deployment.…

Analyst says firms insuring against hard exit by the UK Figures from tech industry analyst Context show a remarkable jump in server, storage and networking sales in the Republic of Ireland through the last two quarters, pointing to companies continuing to invest in insurance against a hard Brexit.…

CEO insists firm can compete with big rivals on cloud DXC is broken but fixable, the beleaguered outsourcing provider's new chief exec has assured the 130,000 employees still on its payroll.…

Freelance techies claim they face 20% pay cut Exclusive IT contractors with the Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) are mulling legal action following a decision to get rid of all freelancers ahead of controversial changes to UK off-payroll worker tax legislation next year.…

Mind where you're pointing that thing, Al Part 2 Welcome to the second part of our Apollo 12 retrospective, where we look at the breaking of cameras and the (almost) breaking of the lunar module pilot. You can read about the eventful launch in Part 1, here.…

Some concerned it hands too much power to too few Microsoft has put its weight behind the DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) security protocol, greatly increasing the likelihood of it becoming a default internet standard.…

Pool of companies itching for a slice of the $2.6bn contracts has now grown to 14 A total of 14 companies have now entered the race to develop landers to deliver goodies to the Moon as NASA plans to send the first woman and the next man to our nearest rocky companion by 2024.…

Country offline for third day in response to protests Iran has been offline for three days after the government responded to widespread protests by killing the internet.…

US Department of Commerce relents-ish on blockade plans US telcos will be able to continue doing business with Huawei for the time being.…

Terminator it ain't, but should prove useful and a little lovable The US Army has is building a new 248-strong robot regiment to help defuse or detonate explosives and has just spent $109m on the new hardware, which bears an unfortunate similarity to the beloved cartoon character WALL-E.…