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Healthcare networks pummeled amid drama over teen girl's custody Five months after he was found guilty of orchestrating a distributed denial-of-service attack against US healthcare providers, the self-styled Anonymous hacker Martin Gottesfeld has been sentenced to 121 months in prison.…

Why? For science! Within hours of announcing that he and his wife are divorcing, what's alleged to be Amazon tycoon Jeff Bezos' steamy texts to his new girlfriend were leaked online.…

Because this comp is counting down to something... On Call Friday has come around, reliable as ever, to mark the end of that most dreaded thing, the first full week after New Year.…

50-year theory finally confirmed by European space craft A scan of the heavens has shown space is littered with the crystallized remains of stars, and our own sun is expected to go the same way, too. Yes, turning into a crystal ball.…

Database intrusion should not have succeeded, probe finds, but... The theft of 1.5 million patient records, including those of Singapore's Prime Minister, from the city state's SingHealth hospital group by hackers could probably have been stopped had the IT department not been so useless, an inquiry has found.…

The younger generation leads the fight against face matching Surprise, surprise, most Americans believe the US government shouldn't limit the use of facial recognition technology, particularly if it's convenient for them or used for their protection.…

Hackers may be rubbing their hands with glee The IT impact of the ongoing partial US federal government shutdown has begun to show up in the form of degraded computer security. According to internet services biz Netcraft, more than 80 TLS certificates used on .gov websites have expired and have not been renewed.…

Snack company client disagrees, sues for $100m US snack food giant Mondelez is suing its insurance company for $100m after its claim for cleaning up a massive NotPetya ransomware infection was rejected – for being "an act of war" and therefore not covered under its policy.…

If you're not Lenovo, HP or Dell it has been a year of shrinkage Global PC shipments slumped 4.3 per cent in the final quarter of the year as computer manufacturers had a very unhappy festive season.…

Game over for Brit-based maker of real-time online gaming platform? Updated Improbable, the UK-based maker of the SpatialOS Game Development Kit (GDK) for the Unity game engine, on Thursday warned that all Unity-based titles integrating its GDK are now violating Unity's Terms of Service.…

End of fast processing upsets the Apple cart (and workers at other Silicon Valley giants) Restrictions placed on US work visas by the Trump administration are upsetting employees in one of America's most profitable industries: technology.…

Forum admin blames recycled credentials for 'security concern' Some Redditors have been locked out of their accounts over a mysterious security problem that the internet forum's admins have blamed on people reusing old passwords.…

This is the age of the SSD Disk drive shipments sank from 104.8 million in Q4 of 2017 to 88-89 million in the fourth quarter of 2018, according to a preliminary report from research house TrendFocus.…

You can’t stop the change: Chalk one up to AWS as judge agrees with Big Red's rival Oracle's in-house counsel has been denied access to sealed information in its legal battle over the Pentagon's $10bn cloud contract after a judge sided with AWS in what will be one of many smaller battles in the case.…

The cloud giveth and the cloud taketh away Microsoft Azure's UK South storage region developed a distinct wobble today.…

Move comes after database upstart mooted new licence to stop cloud giants ripping off its tech Amazon has sent a shot across the bow of MongoDB today as it announced a document database with Mongo compatibility.…

'Almost unprecedented' attacks use the old man-in-the-middle diddle – infoseccers Infosec biz FireEye has suggested Iran may be responsible for what it claims are DNS hijacking attacks aimed at snooping on the contents of Middle Eastern governments' email inboxes.…

Unshackle your data from slow disks eBook Promo If you are trying to find the best way to boost the performance of your top-tier applications, look no further than Non-Volatile Memory Express (NVMe).…

It's dangerous to go alone, take these WSL tweaks too Microsoft dropped a fresh Windows 10 Insider Build last night, which brought some welcome tweaks to the Windows Subsystem for Linux and enabled Reserved Storage.…

Top court receives advice paraphrasing M People* European Right To Be Forgotten (RTBF) rulings should not apply globally, but block results across all EU states, the bloc's top court has been told.…

What Captain Cook can do next for Cupertino Comment Like a comedy sketch Lord Nelson, Apple CEO Tim Cook held the telescope to his eyepatch this week and told investors he couldn't see any enemy ships.…

Happy New Year from the Gin Palace Juniper Networks has had its first big bug day in months, with 19 patches announced covering everything from third-party package catchups to critical errors in password handling.…

Donald's wall tantrum has out-of-this-world consequences The Wide Field Camera 3 on NASA’s beloved Hubble Space Telescope is right now out of order due to a hardware glitch, the space agency confirmed this week.…

Patches pending for distros to deal with threat of local privilege escalation to root Security biz Qualys has revealed three vulnerabilities in a component of systemd, a system and service manager used in most major Linux distributions.…

Plod hope to snare DHL blackmailer with a penchant for homemade explosives German police investigating a blackmailer's parcel bombing campaign reckon they know the MAC address of a device used by the scumbag, and hope network logs can help unmask the perp.…

Canada CHIMES into search with new 'scope and lots of iron Canada's new radio telescope, built to explore the early universe, has turned out to be a handy hunter for the mysterious phenomena called Fast Radio Bursts (FRB).…

And we're only halfway through the week CES 2019 It's this year's Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas this week – and you know what that means……

Process data, crash, restart, process data, crash, restart... Cisco's security team's holiday season has ended with a bang: 18 patches, but thankfully only one of them rated “critical”.…

Oldies should stick to handing out Werther's Originals, not headlines, study suggests Senior Americans aged 65 and older shared more fake news on Facebook during the 2016 US Presidential election than any other age group, according to a study published on Wednesday.…

Advertising giant insists annoying banners are rare... and killable by Chrome Come July 9, Google Chrome will take its online advertising controls global as it begins worldwide enforcement of the Better Ads Standards, guidelines developed to discourage truly disruptive online ads.…

Feds flipped techie and recorded hundreds of calls In an extraordinary twist, it was revealed on Tuesday that the man most likely responsible for bringing drug kingpin "El Chapo" Joaquin Guzman to justice was none other than his sysadmin.…

Laid-off Big Blue sales ace suing over 'age discrimination' demands end to stonewalling IBM is still refusing to turn over documents in a bombshell age-discrimination lawsuit that attorneys representing plaintiff Jonathan Langley believe will show Big Blue has deliberately and systematically shed older workers.…

I have to celebrate you baby, I have to praise you like I should It's all about "Firstline Workers" in three new updates to Microsoft's cloudy collaboration platform.…

Quality Assurance? We've heard of it Microsoft has doubled down on efforts to persuade users to migrate to Windows 10 by breaking Windows 7 networking for some.…

Otherwise it's just another glossy, scripted PR op Comment After the year he's had, Mark Zuckerberg probably felt he deserved a bit of a laugh.…

How did these get through the net? Malware made it past Google's detection systems and infected some 9 million Android users, analyst Trend Micro has found. Google has removed 85 apps from the Google Play Store as a result.…

And the beast was given a mouth uttering blasphemous words: 'We value your privacy' Just as well we've hit peak smartphone – the leader of the Russian Orthodox Church has warned that people's dependence on the ubiquitous gizmos will herald the coming of the Antichrist.…

Alternative headline: Redmond smashes windows to bits Microsoft has announced that it is time to simply tear stuff down and rebuild anew.…

K8s in production? We’ve got a workshop on that We're very pleased to announce that Joe Beda, one of the founders of Kubernetes, will be delivering a keynote at Continuous Lifecycle London in May.…

Data regulator notches up another successful prosecution SCL Elections Ltd, stablemate of scandal-hit Cambridge Analytica, has been fined a total of £21,000 after pleading guilty to not complying with an Information Commissioner's Office enforcement notice.…

Includes a £3m discount. Excludes VAT and delivery Apple's pricing woes do not seem to have worried PC giant Dell, as the flinger of Windows – and occasionally Linux-powered silicon – appears to have unleashed another multimillion-pound laptop on the world.…

Of course! It's the public's fault it doesn't look like Amazon coughs up enough – we need to better understand corporation tax Things would be lot simpler for Amazon if people had a better understanding of corporation tax and didn't think online tracking was so sinister, according to the UK director of public policy for the £634bn online marketplace giant.…

Kepler's successor, TESS, turns up its first three exoplanets The space telescope launched last year as the successor to NASA's long-running and very successful Kepler turned in three exoplanets in its first three months of observations.…

Noticed a missing bollard? Mappy partnership may help Britain's Ordnance Survey is beginning to provide businesses with real-time information for the first time – almost.…

2018 a cracker for spaceflight. Ignoring Galileo Roundup 2018 was a tremendous year for spaceflight as commercial providers inched closer to carrying passengers and legacy launchers delivered more than a little drama.…

As in, big enough Lenovo has given its Carbon and Yoga business flagships a makeover – but you won't be able to use one in anger until June.…

Breathe easier knowing you've tested your software properly A Google cyrptoboffin is close to releasing a tool that will hopefully make all of us more secure online.…

Two-year-old bird in safe mode An Earth-imaging satellite that generated $85m in revenue last year for Maxar Technologies' Digital Globe business went TITSUP: a total inability to snap usual photographs.…

More suggestive assistant than robo-doc, boffins say Artificial intelligence can potentially identify someone's genetic disorders by inspecting a picture of their face, according to a paper published in Nature Medicine this week.…

Trusty command interpreter gains some new toys and a jolly good buffing In news that will set the hearts of shell fans all a quiver, Bash 5.0 was released this week, replete with a truckload of fixes along with a few new features.…