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Now you need only briefly see the cabin interior Good news for well-heeled British Airways customers! Now you can transport yourself away from the carrier's aircraft interior through the wizardry of Virtual Reality.…

That's a rocket by the way, not half-horse, half-Spock Wannabe space station supplier Sierra Nevada Corporation (SNC) has selected ULA's Vulcan Centaur rocket to launch its Dream Chaser freighter in 2021.…

It's true most blame put on China-linked woes, but it'll hire staff in s-a-a-a-a-a-a-ales A sharp slowdown in enterprise customers' all-flash array purchases has sucker-punched NetApp, and though it is hiring more sales heads to fix this worry, things aren't forecast to get better anytime soon.…

Mostly the public adversely affected A young man who DoSed two British police forces' websites has been sentenced to 16 months in a young offenders' institution.…

'Automated and manual' data processing – so humans, yeah? Microsoft has responded to the furore over its use of humans to listen in on Skype and Cortana recordings by tweaking its privacy policy a bit.…

Axe fell on sales, marketing and product development One in 15 IBM jobs in the UK were rubbed out during calendar 2018 despite local financials returning to growth.…

Jumpin' Jupiter smash, it's a gas, gas, gas Jupiter may have started life as a dense rocky planet that only became more gas-like after a massive newborn planet smashed right into it 4.5 billion years ago, according to new research.…

TripAdvisor said what now? A Victorian public convenience in Hull has made Lonely Planet's list of the best 500 places to visit in the UK.…

Clickjacking code found on sites with 43 million daily visits total Analysis Clickjacking, which came to the attention of security types more than a decade ago, continues to thrive, despite defenses deployed since then by browser makers.…

Thinking US again? You'd be wrong Comment In a report that has left lawmakers across the globe reeling, the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday claimed a smartphone maker helped government officials in Uganda access encrypted texts on a handset used by one of its own citizens, and track the device's whereabouts.…

Stock price back up to, er, just below IPO level Dell-owned VMware is in talks to acquire Dell-owned Pivotal Software, the hypervisor giant announced Wednesday.…

Stock price dives as Wall St learns of trouble overseas and weak outlook Cisco warned of problems on the horizon as it wrapped up it fiscal 2019 financial results [PDF].…

Chipzilla patches firmware, drivers, SDKs Hot on the heels of Patch Tuesday fixes from Microsoft, Apple, Adobe, and SAP, Intel has dropped its monthly security bundle to address a series of seven CVE-listed vulnerabilities in its firmware and software.…

Prosecutors file papers to keep Paige Thompson behind bars while awaiting trial The ex-Amazon software engineer accused of stealing the personal information of 106 million people from Capital One's cloud-hosted databases may have hacked dozens of other organizations.…

Authentic tech company vibes, right down to billions in losses and admission it 'may never be profitable' Comment WeWork, the office rental upstart that poses as some kind of tech startup incubation facility, has submitted the paperwork for its stock-market debut in the US – and its filings warn the biz “may never be profitable.”…

Peer-to-peer networks meet peer pressure The Internet Society has stepped up its long-running effort to improve routing security with a new online stats engine.…

Spoiler alert: It won't The boss of the Federal Trade Commission, Joe Simons, said yesterday that his agency could split up big technology companies if other solutions or remedies did not work.…

A few weeks until 'soft landing' achievement unlocked (maybe) India's Chandrayaan-2 probe is on its way to the Moon after completing a final orbit-raising firing of its engine overnight.…

.NET Core 3.0 Preview 8 – ready for production if you're feeling lucky? Microsoft continued battering developers with toys as it emitted fresh previews of Visual Studio 2019 and .NET Core 3.…

The chaebol tightens its vice-like grip on Europe Samsung exploited Apple's iPhone channel inventory glut and the continued political campaign against Huawei to sell more than 18.3 million smartphones into European retailers and distributors in Q2.…

Models recalled for faulty batts banned from air over fire risk The Federal Aviation Authority has reiterated that recalled MacBook Pros that haven't had their faulty batteries switched are not welcome in carry-on or luggage stowed aboard flights.…

Biostar 2 goes supernova after Israeli duo's probings Two infosec researchers found 27 million personal data records, including a million people's fingerprints, exposed to the public along with plaintext admin credentials for the Suprema Biostar 2 system they were associated with.…

You gotta use 99% confidence setting before arresting anyone Amazon's Rekognition system wrongly matched one in five Californian politicians with images from a database of 25,000 wanted criminals' mugshots in tests by the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).…

23 reckon anti-competitive behavior has hurt biz – report Updated Several leading jobs sites have written to the European Commissioner for Competition, Margrethe Vestager, calling for an investigation into how Google ranks their websites.…

A Charmeleonaire, if Mew will Folks: great news. If you get your first-edition Pokémon trading card collection down from the loft, you may as well tell the boss you're not coming in again.…

Beware the denials of service: Netflix warns of eight networking bugs On Tuesday, Netflix, working in conjunction with Google and CERT/CC, published a security advisory covering a series of vulnerabilities that enable denial of service attacks against servers running HTTP/2 services.…

And it's goodbye from Jim as smallsat launcher takes a 'pause' from operations Roundup Last week saw four launches, one catch, and the ejection of one exec in a busy few days for rocket fans.…

Boffins spill beans on super 'scope machine-learning tech Google Health's so-called augmented-reality microscope has proven surprisingly accurate at detecting and diagnosing cancerous tumors in real time.…

Don't panic over new tech. Book your Serverless Computing London workshop ticket today and save £££ Event If you’re thinking of exploiting serverless technologies, or want to take your current experiments to the next level, what could be better than getting your hands dirty with an acknowledged expert in the field.…

If you let voice chat app transcribe your calls, yup, people were paid to eavesdrop on your private conversations Facebook secretly employed hundreds of contractors to listen to clips of its addicts' private voice calls to transcribe parts of conversations its AI software couldn't understand.…

Case not closed on concerns over how $10bn winner-takes-all super-contract was written Despite the US Department of Defense's assurances last week that any and all ethics complaints against the $10bn Joint Enterprise Defense Infrastructure (JEDI) cloud contract had been fully resolved, the Pentagon's internal investigators say they are still poring over the matter.…

Breach of contract, false advertising, unfair business practices sueball fired Apple is being sued for breach of contract, false advertising, and unfair business practices for allegedly reselling Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform services under its iCloud brand – and failing to adequately disclosure that relationship to customers.…

Fret not. Here's a gentle guide to drawing up a plan to take the pain away from your info management Go back 15 years and big data as a concept was only just beginning.…

Meanwhile, SEC takes on Kik on similar charges Two Canadian lovers have tentatively agreed to pay $7m to the SEC, America's financial watchdog, to settle a long-standing lawsuit.…

Plus special guest stars Adobe and SAP in this month's security fixes Patch Tuesday Microsoft, Adobe, and SAP may have just ruined more than a few summer vacation plans, thanks to a massive and critical Patch Tuesday bundle of security fixes this month.…

Google guru shows how WinXP-era text code grants total control Patch Tuesday Software buried in Windows since the days of WinXP can be abused to take complete control of a PC with the help of good ol' Notepad and some crafty code.…

You've got until Dec 15 to panic buy gear before 10% rise hits America has pushed back its decision to raise import tariffs on Chinese-made smartphones, laptops, and similar electronics, by 10 per cent, the Office of the US Trade Representative announced today.…

No more $15-and-done option – cough up $70 every year, please Microsoft is continuing its campaign to drive Office users onto a subscription plan by killing off its discounted Home Use program.…

1.5 EFLOPS monster will chew through simulations, modeling, and more, when it, fingers crossed, spins up in 2023 Cray will build Uncle Sam's 1.5 exa-FLOPS El Capitan supercomputer for $600m, it was announced today.…

Operators cut throttle during go-around. Aircraft crashed A British Army Watchkeeper drone that crashed near its home base of Aberporth in south Wales did so after its crew overrode its autopilot, causing the unmanned aircraft to hit a tree.…

Also: Redmond buddies up with Reliance Jio Infocomm (no, not that Infocom) Roundup Welcome to your midweek Microsoft roundup – stories you might have missed amid another seven days of Nadella action.…

And look how BC Partners' ownership went for them A British cloud software company has sold a 50 per cent stake to the private equity firm that owned British phone retailer Phones4U at the time of the company's demise.…

IT kit recycling arm that 'wasn't core' turns out to be important London-listed tech supplier Computacenter has revealed it snapped up the IT asset disposal business RD Trading (RDC) in the UK from Arrow Electronics Inc, just four years after flogging it to Arrow's British tentacle for £56m.…

DirectX 11 and Catalina support will please, the price may not Virtualization outfit Parallels celebrated International Left Handers Day* with an update to its Desktop package.…

But it claims just 32 people had 'non-public' info disclosed. Eh? The American Securities and Exchange Commission is said to be investigating a US insurance company that allegedly left 885 million personal records accessible "without authentication to anyone with a web browser".…

Two more chances to get it right or we could be looking at 2022 European Space Agency and Roscosmos's 2020 ExoMars launch is in jeopardy after a failed parachute test.…

Alternative Services spec bungled by browser makers The HTTP Alternative Services header can be abused to conduct network reconnaissance and attacks, to bypass malware protection services, and to foil tracking defenses and privacy assumptions, according to a paper scheduled to be presented at the WOOT '19 security conference on Tuesday.…

Big Brother rang... New research suggests almost 40 per cent of people will have some sort of unique mobile identifier service by 2024.…

You know, the US spy station with the golf balls A curious thing happens when you look at a map of fibre-optic cables – most of the UK section of American cable operator GTT's network appears to link the NSA spy station at Menwith Hill in Yorkshire with continental Europe.…

(Yes, pedants, we know natural methane is odorless. Don't get in the way of a Bowie headline) Ever since methane was detected on Mars, boffins have been trying to find out how it got there. Research published in Scientific Reports on Monday has ruled out one source – rocks being eroded by wind.…