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Latest Java-friendly move after Amazon's Corretto OpenJDK distro Amazon has made another effort to be a good Java citizen by joining brewmasters at the Java Community Process (JCP), the group which develops specifications for the Java platform.…

Cute, says rival Slack, polishing its library of 1,800 apps and an updated developer toolkit Microsoft has released its Azure Repos app for Teams in a bid to entice developers to its collaboration platform a day after competitor Slack upgraded its app developer toolkit.…

Situation normal, says Microsoft as it runs rings round Insiders Having declared 18363.418 the final build for the Windows 10 November 2019 Update, the Windows Insider team has surprised no one at all by issuing patches ahead of release.…

And rest of the world? When it comes, you'll likely need to Play Huawei for apps Almost eight months after its initial debut at Mobile World Conference, Huawei's long-awaited Mate X foldable handset finally has a launch date.…

National Cyber Security Centre handled 658 incidents last year The UK's National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has said in its annual review (here) that Russia, China, Iran and North Korea "continue to pose strategic national security threats to the UK".…

Chipzilla invokes Sherman and Clayton Acts in attempt to have contracts declared void Intel is taking legal action against a spider's web of patent holders from SoftBank-owned Fortress Investment Group and its network of subsidiaries.…

Blue Origin and industry vets eye a slice of NASA's lunar lander largesse Richest person in the world, Jeff Bezos, yesterday pitched NASA a team mostly made up of the usual suspects to build a lunar lander for the agency's ambitious 2024 boots-on-Moon goal.…

Firm £1m in arrears with single creditor and owes HMRC £886k Documents filed at Companies House reveal the scale of Gaia Technologies' debt burden, which led a major creditor to push the Bangor-based school tech supplier into administration.…

It's a tale as old as time Epson is facing a class-action suit from disgruntled US punters sick of being told what sort of ink cartridges to put in their machines.…

... it's a consequence of production use of containerised apps Interview Thanks to your local DevOps team, containerised applications are heading for production environments. However, this can be the beginning of a world of hurt for storage admins.…

We’d love to hear from you at our Nuance-powered morning briefing Promo When it comes to voice-powered systems in the enterprise, there’s one surefire way to work out if it’s for you: talking through the benefits and challenges with a room full of your peers.…

Creators tried to stop us looking through it. We saw a copy anyway. Now it's being scrubbed clean Special report ImageNet – a data set used to train AI systems around the world – contains photos of naked children, families on the beach, college parties, porn actresses, and more, scraped from the web to train computers without those individuals' explicit consent.…

We sat through this 90-minute committee hearing so you didn't have to Vid The US House Committee on Homeland Security grilled a panel of experts to understand how foreign adversaries could weaponise emerging technologies like AI and quantum computing in cybersecurity.…

Details of military personnel and trips leak online from poorly secured AWS service A security team for review site vpnMentor, led by Israeli researchers Noam Rotem and Ran Locar, recently found a publicly accessible AWS-hosted database owned by Autoclerk, a reservation system recently acquired by Best Western Hotels and Resorts Group.…

Top brass beams aboard from $10bn IT brouhaha as it emerges son works for IBM The US military’s controversial JEDI cloud contract has seen another strange twist: the US Secretary of Defense has stepped back from the project as it emerged his son works for one of the bidders for the $10bn winner-takes-all deal.…

Distributed assault hampering connectivity for websites, apps, customers are warned Updated Parts of Amazon Web Services were effectively shoved off the internet today – at times breaking some customers' websites – after the cloud giant came under attack.…

Rather than settle and make pain just go away, project wants to send a message instead After being hit with a patent-infringement lawsuit last month, the GNOME Foundation has fired back with a counterclaim – and urged the courts to dismiss the case.…

Yeah, it's not us Firefox turned 70 today, at least in terms of version, with an update focused on – surprise, surprise – security and privacy.…

Look what happens when you bend for Beijing Apple chief exec Tim Cook has been promoted to chairman of the board of advisors at a management and leadership university in Beijing.…

Can we at least turn the thing around before we... y'know? Japanese hotel chain HIS Group has apologised for ignoring warnings that its in-room robots were hackable to allow pervs to remotely view video footage from the devices.…

Here's how to sim that with RAM and hard drive space The esoteric world of quantum computing is all aquiver following a robust blog post from IBM essentially rubbishing claims from Google that it has achieved "quantum supremacy".…

Well, it's more of a dash really The UK government has a cunning plan to help meet its carbon emissions targets: green number plates.…

Javier Soltero looks forward to making a 'profound impact' on people's lives Former Cortana boss and Acompli co-founder Javier Soltero has popped up at Google to helm the G-Suite team, nearly a year after his departure from Microsoft.…

Another step towards affordable space access for Brit boffins Brit rocket outfit Reaction Engines has demonstrated its precooler chilling air in Mach 5 conditions in less than 1/20th of a second.…

Outlet says it's been ordered to cease trading under name Larry Ellison's database behemoth is threatening serious legal consequences for a blockchain and cryptocurrency news service called "OracleTimes".…

Any cloud you like, so long as it rhymes with bee fix hive On the eve of its FY20 Q1 earnings and with the Ignite shindig around the corner, Microsoft has announced the purchase of cloud migration outfit Mover.…

Digitisation across primary and secondary providers is the bigger challenge Analysis Plans for a "fully paperless" National Health Service have been announced and re-announced countless times – most recently they promised we'd be paper-free "within the decade".…

Ex-Trump advisor goes through the looking glass, round the corner and down the drainpipe Steve Bannon – former Trump adviser and long-term rattler of sabres against China – has produced a piece of propaganda thinly disguised look at recent events at America's favourite bogeyman, Huawei.…

Whistleblowers claim to have email and audio evidence Infosys shares dropped almost 15 per cent on the Bombay Stock Exchange yesterday on news that regulators are investigating serious allegations of false accounting at the organisation.…

Could drop further, depending on how zealously it's enforced After a boom in IT contractors over the last decade, the number of freelance techies working in the UK dropped last year in the wake of public sector off-payroll working reforms.…

Users will be able to buy own licences and administrators cannot prevent it Microsoft will allow "self-service purchase and license management capabilities" for Office 365 users, initially for its Power Platform low-code services, PowerApps, PowerBI and Flow.…

Also: ESA hopes for parachute joy, NASA veteran is put out to orbital pasture Roundup Last week the International Space Station celebrated its first all-woman spacewalk, ESA politely asked NASA for some help with parachutes and boffins said "goodnight, sweet prince" to the last Van Allen Probe.…

Bossman helps the poor saps who can't see the wood for the trees Canalys Channels Forum The reputation printing has built over the decades is all wrong. It is actually good for the natural world – just ask the boss of HP, the planet's largest maker of print products.…

Admin rights needed to fire up the malware and – hey presto! Security researchers at ESET have published details of a backdoor into Microsoft's SQL Server via hooks and the splendidly named "magic passwords".…

Windows code armors its arse Pointing to a five-fold increase in firmware vulnerabilities over the last three years and not saying much about the growing number of Windows vulnerabilities, Microsoft on Monday said it has been working with PC-selling and silicon-making partners to ship kit that implements protection from malicious low-level device code.…

Join us this lunchtime with experts from Google Cloud and Trax to discuss costs, tools, and more Webcast Whether you run your business on-premises or in the cloud, you probably wish your developers and admins could deploy and manage applications without having to learn different environments and APIs every time.…

It's all thanks to this year's 'unsually wonky' polar vortex The hole in Earth’s ozone layer is the smallest it has ever been since scientists discovered the puncture nearly 35 years ago, according to NASA.…

But, but her emails! The US State Department has delivered its report [PDF] into Hillary Clinton's use of a personal email system and, amazingly enough, there wasn't anything scandalous nor classified on it at the time.…

Show me the money. No, really, show me the actual money iFinex, the parent company of crypto-currency exchange Bitfinex, is seeking subpoenas in its quest to recover more than $880m in missing funds.…

Try not to save files to your Windows PC called cmd.exe or regedit.exe Video A flaw in the Trend Micro Anti-Threat Toolkit can be exploited by hackers to run malware on victims' Windows computers.…

Netizens' traffic flowing out of box could have been sniffed by miscreants Analysis NordVPN spent today attempting to downplay a security breach in which someone sneaked into one of its servers for purposes unknown.…

Quickfire Windows 10 Fast Ring release ends a busy week at Microsoft Roundup It was a busy week in Redmond as Microsoft geared up for its November Ignite shindig – new Windows 10 builds were flung, Azure capacities increased and Teams got a fresh feature... hold music.…

Dutch agreement should be extended to entire bloc, says statement The European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) has expressed "serious concerns" over whether the contractual terms of agreements between EU institutions and Microsoft, for use of products such as Windows and Office 365, is compliant with data protection rules.…

Researchers find nefarious uses for Google Home and Amazon Alexa devices Google Home and Amazon Alexa can easily be hacked to eavesdrop on users or extract information by asking questions that appear to come from each smart speaker provider, according to researchers.…

Software used by millions not compromised this time, says biz On Monday, security biz Avast said it believes some of its credentials were stolen and abused in an unsuccessful attempt to subvert CCleaner, a file cleanup utility that it acquired in 2017.…

Wikileaks founder said to be frail, labours to confirm name and date of birth An emotional and clean-shaven Julian Assange has appeared in court to request more time and resources to prepare his defence against extradition to from the UK to the US on espionage charges.…

New three-year agreement to pull S/4HANA customers into Azure SAP and Microsoft have linked arms as part of SAP's "Project Embrace", a collaboration with Azure, AWS and Google Cloud Platform aimed at migrating the German firm's customers to the public cloud.…

Research blames 'culture of trust' for weak fraud protections UK charities are misjudging the risks of fraud, according to research from the Charity Commission and the Fraud Advisory Panel.…

Only really, really little astronauts need apply With launchpads in New Zealand and (soon) the US, small-sat flinger Rocket Lab toasted a ninth successful launch of its Electron rocket by taking aim at destinations beyond Low Earth Orbit.…

Missing Google already? Huawei has admitted that US sanctions are hurting its mobile phone business as it struggles to find alternatives to Google's software suite.…