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That feel when 'beating heart' of your project returns a 404 Game designer Jason Rohrer has had a bad week, discovering that his 23 code repositories representing 15 years of development and community contributions were wiped from GitHub.…

Number One, send in another Away Team On Call Friday is upon us once again, and as the week disappears into the rear-view mirror we have another tale from those princes and princesses of the pager in our regular On Call column.…

What a wild ride, eh Komodo? Blockchain biz Komodo this week said it had used a vulnerability discovered by JavaScript package biz NPM to take control of some older Agama cryptocurrency wallets to prevent hackers from doing the same.…

Cloud, Global Technology Services, Watson Health said to be shedding hundreds of roles Updated IBM is once again understood to be warning some staff they face the chop in a number of its divisions.…

Municipal broadband half the price of Comcast, AT&T etc The city of Ammon in Idaho is now offering internet access for free.…

Pair said to have tried to take non-profit's Mississippi simulation blueprints Two professors at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana, have been indicted for an alleged plan to steal computer trade secrets from their former employer, a technical services non-profit called the Water Institute of the Gulf, and to commit computer fraud.…

Quest gets the dreaded sternly worded letter from Washington DC As healthcare companies come forward to confirm hackers would have been able to access millions of patients' personal information from a compromised American Medical Collections Agency (AMCA) database, US senators are demanding answers.…

Business IT giant that services Apple, Cisco, and others, exposed 264GB of info IT gear distributor Tech Data is the latest company to expose an insecure database, jam packed with personal and sensitive information, to the public internet for anyone to rifle through.…

Fit and finish, spit and polish, and Zorin Connect make the leap from 12 to 15 While Microsoft may be shoehorning the Linux kernel into Windows 10, veteran Linux flinger Zorin has applied some buffing to its Windows-like distro with a version 15 release.…

Customers get to pay for it! America's communications watchdog has finally acted to limit the billions of robocalls that cellphone owners receive each year.…

Still no official Linux version? GitHub Desktop 2.0 is here and brings with it new features including stashing and rebasing.…

'Things have to be proven,' intones Mr Justice Hildyard Autonomy Trial A High Court judge rebuked Meg Whitman today for stating as a fact that former Autonomy chief exec Mike Lynch committed fraud.…

First buy under new broom Thomas Kurian as Chocolate Factory tries to make up ground on AWS and Microsoft Google is spending a whopping $2.6bn on data analytics and machine learning specialist Looker.…

Might also use Lake Michigan water for cooling Digital Crossroads, the company converting an old coal-fired power station near Chicago into a giant colocation data centre, will use server heat to help agricultural efforts at the nearby Purdue Uni Northwest.…

And only if it doesn't cost too much Brit comms regulator Ofcom has revealed that the universal broadband service – previously known as the universal service obligation – will come into effect in March 2020.…

More toys for everyone's favourite source-code editor Microsoft has continued its rapid-fire releases by booting out another Visual Studio Code update with extra Remote Development goodness.…

Because we haven't a clue The chief exec at Ofcom is swapping life battling telcos – or doing their bidding, depending on your perspective – for an altogether more lucrative role as the chairman of John Lewis Partnership.…

What did you think we meant? Not content entwining with Oracle, Microsoft has added another third-party database tech to Azure – this time to the Government incarnation of its cloudy platform.…

Leave your lappy in the bag at every UK terminal from 2022 Heathrow Airport is spending £50m on computed tomography (CT) scanners, which should mean travellers no longer have to remove liquids and laptops from their carry-on bags during security checks.…

Too many caveats to make this a slick option in most cases AWS has confirmed the arrival of Windows Containers on its Elastic Container Service (ECS) – but with caveats that show limitations versus the more commonly used Linux-based containers.…

When Huawei sneezes, memory makers get a cold The ongoing trade dispute between the world's largest economies is exacerbating the problems with DRAM supply to the point that memory printing might become a loss-making activity.…

Pesky public cloud rivals didn't help either as share price crashes 30% Fiscal '20 hasn't started well for Cloudera as enterprise customers paused spending due to roadmap uncertainty over the Hortonworks merger and held off for the coming of the Cloud Data Platform (CDP).…

Hackers cheese free slices after logins from other websites deliver the goods Pizza Hut has warned members of its loyalty scheme "Hut Rewards" not to re-use passwords after hackers managed to access some customer accounts.…

Hi! It looks like you're planning a night out! Would you like a taxi with that? re:MARS At Amazon's AI event in Las Vegas this week, the company introduced Alexa Conversations, a new way to code skills that support more natural conversation and participate in multi-topic interactions.…

Whitepaper sings upcoming power tech's praises The European Data Centre Association (EUDCA) has published a whitepaper extolling the virtues of li-ion batteries - a tech that is still veiwed with suspicion by some bit barn operators.…

While Arm founder slams US tantrum tactics from the big orange baby Huawei has signed a contract to develop Russian 5G networks for mobile provider MTS over the next two years.…

We know it's controversial – but don't rule out paying the ransom to unscramble your biz files, experts suggest As ransomware infections continue, conventional wisdom on how to respond to threats is going out the window.…

HP customers: If your spinoff can put a computer into space, why can't I have my Reverb? While HP may be struggling to meet demand for its new idiot visors, HPE's Spaceborne Computer has returned to Earth after 615 days onboard the International Space Station.…

Even mouse support. Kind of WWDC Apple announced iPadOS at its WWDC event in San Jose, giving the tablet its own dedicated operating system for the first time.…

Worse news, there's more in alcohol than tap water Humans consume and inhale up to 121,000 bits of microplastic every year, per person, according to estimates published in a study this week, and the authors warn they may be underestimating that figure.…

We translate domain registry CEO's hit piece Analysis Nominet, which runs the .uk domain-name registry, has taken a leaf out of Donald Trump's playbook, and called our report this week into its sale of up to £100m worth of domain names "fake news."…

Lmao, we're not paying that chump change, says ad slinger Google has appealed the $1.7bn (€1.49bn, £1.32bn) fine set by the European Commission for strangling rival advertising networks with the firm grip of its dominant search platform.…

Pension fund lawsuit could reveal evidence of dodgy sales – or clear Big Red completely The ongoing lawsuit between Oracle and a major pension fund over claims Big Red artificially inflated its cloud revenues has just stepped up a notch.…

Updates are on the way… if you have a Google device, at least Google has released its June bundle of security vulnerability patches for Android, with fixes for 22 CVE-listed flaws included.…

YouTube happy to spare iGiant embarrassment but won't take down 'slur' vids MP3 Apple's focus on privacy, if you're not in China that is, now extends to its events, at least the embarrassing moments.…

Assured exec stumbles when probed over sales screwups Autonomy Trial Fresh from regretfully admitting she wanted to throw HP’s former CEO “under the bus,” Meg Whitman today told London's High Court Leo Apotheker said to shareholders he wouldn’t do a “transformative” acquisition – before doing that exact thing and buying Autonomy.…

WTO appoints three-bod panel to rule if levies break its rules The World Trade Organization has appointed the three-person team whose job it will be to determine if the tariffs levied by the US's Trump administration on Chinese goods are flouting its rules.…

Microsoft's Azure brought in to plug gaps in Big Red's product Microsoft got together with Oracle today to fling interoperability at users of Azure and the latter's less-loved Cloud.…

Sends me into Newquay airspace when I see her pretty face The UK government is flinging more cash at Blighty's embryonic launch capabilities, with another £20m up for grabs.…

Anyone who thinks otherwise should Benioff Digital transformation - sorry readers, we feel sick too - is as important to CEOs in this day and age as preparing for the Millennium Bug was to CIOs in the countdown to the year 2000.…

At least no one had much use for the metal monstrosity In parochial Blighty, it seems like a month doesn't go by without some ne'er-do-wells stealing a church roof to sell as scrap metal. But the UK's crims could learn a thing or two from their Russian counterparts, who have made off with an entire rail bridge.…

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Then-CEO also told Mike Lynch's people to 'grow up' Autonomy Trial Meg Whitman told London's High Court today she regretted saying she was "happy to throw Leo [Apotheker] under the bus in a tit-for-tat" during the fallout over HP's purchase of Autonomy.…

Absolutely criminal behavior – unrestricted file upload, really? Exclusive Phishing kits – used by miscreants to build webpages that steal victims' personal information and money by masquerading as legit websites – harbor vulnerabilities that can be exploited by other miscreants to pilfer freshly stolen data.…

Historic St Paul's digs among 270 offices offloaded BT is shuttering more than 270 UK offices as part of a three to five-year grand plan to carve out £1.5bn in expenses.…

Promises to give EU the goods by 2021 After just six months, the EU-funded project attempting to build home-grown CPUs that would power future European supercomputers has delivered its first architectural designs.…

Not even a video link, lawyers tell judge Autonomy Trial Sushovan Hussain, former chief financial officer of Mike Lynch's Autonomy, will not testify in his defence to London's High Court.…

Azure Active Directory integration and super secret APFS volumes? Oh my WWDC Amid the hoo-ha surrounding Apple's WWDC announcements were some nuggets aimed at encouraging enterprises to get snuggly with the fruity firm's devices.…