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Unexpected final boss for games kit SpatialOS: Unity blasts multiplayer GDK out of the cloud
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.…
Two out of five Silicon Valley techies complain Trump's H-1B crackdown has hit 'em hard
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.…
Reddit locks out users with poor password hygiene after spotting 'unusual activity'
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.…
Talk about beating heads against brick walls... Hard disk drive unit shipments slowly spinning down
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.…
Oracle's in-house lawyer denied access to Uncle Sam's procurement docs in JEDI legal battle
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.…
Good news: Microsoft's Azure Data Box Disk is here. Bad news: UK South Storage is having a liedown
The cloud giveth and the cloud taketh away Microsoft Azure's UK South storage region developed a distinct wobble today.…
Amazon takes aim at MongoDB with launch of Mongo-compatible DocumentDB
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.…
Baddies linked to Iran fingered for DNS hijacking to read Middle Eastern regimes' emails
'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.…
Everything you ever wanted to know about NVMe
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).…
Windows 10 Insiders sent on quest deep into Registry to fetch goblet of Reserved Storage
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.…
Just for EU, just for EU, just for EU: Forget about enforcing Right To Be Forgotten outside member states
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.…
Peak Apple: This time it's SERIOUS, Tim
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.…
Before you slink off to the pub, be sure to patch these 19 serious vulns in Juniper Networks kit
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.…
FYI: NASA eggheads can't fix a knackered Hubble space 'scope camera – thanks to Trump's govt shutdown
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.…
The D in SystemD stands for Dammmit... Security holes found in much-adored Linux toolkit
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.…
Wanted – have you seen this MAC address: f8:e0:79:af:57:eb? German cops appeal for logs in bomb probe
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.…
Typical! You wait ages for a fast radio burst from outer space, and suddenly 13 show up
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).…
Steamer closets, flying cars, robot boxers, smart-mock-cock ban hypocrisy – yes, it's the worst of CES this year
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……
We're two weeks into 2019, and an email can potentially knacker your Cisco message box – plus other bugs to fix
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”.…
Fake news? More like ache news. Grandma, grampa 'more likely' to share made-up articles during US election
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.…
This July, Google will weep for there are no more worlds to banhammer: 'Bad ads' to be blocked globally
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.…
Who cracked El Chapo's encrypted chats and brought down the Mexican drug kingpin? Er, his IT manager
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.…
IBM insists it's not deliberately axing older staff. Internal secret docs state otherwise...
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.…
Microsoft wins today's buzzword bingo with empowering set of updates to Teams
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.…
Just updated Windows 7? Can't access network shares? It isn't just you
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.…
Zuck's 2019 tech talk tour should tackle the questions Facebook spent 2018 dodging
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.…
Google Play Store spews malware onto 9 million 'Droids
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.…
Smartphones gateway drug to the Antichrist, says leader of Russian Orthodox Church
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.…
Microsoft vows to destroy Office, er, offices: Campus to be demolished and rebuilt
Alternative headline: Redmond smashes windows to bits Microsoft has announced that it is time to simply tear stuff down and rebuild anew.…
Kubernetes co-founder Joe Beda to kick off our Continuous Lifecycle London conference
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.…
Cambridge Analytica sister firm pleads guilty, fined £21k for failing to obey UK information commish
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.…
Thought Macbooks were expensive? Dell UK unveils the 7 meeeellion pound laptop
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.…
Amazon exec tells UK peers: No, we don't want to be dominant. Also, we don't fancy being taxed on revenues
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.…
What's 23 times the size of Earth, uncomfortably warm and has astroboffins excited?
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.…
Real-time OS: Ordnance Survey gets snuggly with Intel's Mobileye
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.…
Fly me to the Moon, let me play among the stars. Do you think we could get another probe to land on Mars?
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.…
Before dipping a toe in the new ThinkPad high-end, make sure your desk is compatible
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.…
Great, you've moved your website or app to HTTPS. How do you test it? Here's a tool to make local TLS certs painless
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.…
Gyro failure fingered for sending Earth-gazing Digital Globe sat TITSUP (That's a total inability to snap usual pics)
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.…
Y'know how you might look at someone and can't help but wonder if they have a genetic disorder? We've taught AI to do the same
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.…
Bish, Bash... gosh! Good ol' Bourne Again Shell takes a bow as it reaches version five-point-zero
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.…
Killer superbugs in space... are something astronauts on orbiting science lab don't have to worry about right now
Don't miss ISS's Star Spores: Return of the Fungi Space isn’t, for now, turning bacteria on the International Space Station into nasty superbugs hellbent on infecting astronauts, according to a study published on Tuesday.…
Make a SAP decision: Apply these security fixes if you're using German giant's software
11 patches ship on Patch Tuesday While you were sighing your way through Microsoft's Patch Tuesday, enterprise vendor SAP slid 11 security advisories under your door.…
Welcome to 2019: Your Exchange server can be pwned by an email (and other bugs need fixing)
Hyper-V, DHCP, Word, and more. Plus, bonus shock: Adobe spares Flash in January patch dump Patch Tuesday Microsoft has released the first Patch Tuesday bundle of the year, patching up 49 CVE-listed security vulnerabilities and issuing two advisories.…
Jeep hacking lawsuit shifts into gear for trial after US Supremes refuse to hit the brakes
Owners claim security vulns have damaged resale price A class-action lawsuit claiming Fiat-Chrysler knew about, but failed to fix, significant cybersecurity holes in its cars will go to trial in America later this year.…
If you've been dying to run some math on a dinky toy quantum computer, IBM may have something for you
Well, we all have to start somewhere: Rentable Q machine has just 20 qubits IBM today claimed it will shortly sell the world's first commercial quantum computer – or, more accurately, calculation time on it.…
Drone goal! Quadcopter menace alert freezes flights from London Heathrow Airport
Alleged sighting of annoying flying gizmo torments second UK air travel nerve-center London Heathrow Airport temporarily halted departing flights this evening after a drone was apparently spotted hovering in the area.…
Senator Wyden goes ballistic after US telcos caught selling people's location data yet again
Rights warrior ticked off after yet another report of whereabouts being flogged to dodgy geezers US Senator Ron Wyden is renewing his calls for legislation banning the sale of people's private cellphone location information after yet another report of phone carriers doing exactly that.…
Double denim? Ha! Now you can go triple denim with Seagate's hipster portable drive range
Western Digital's CES lineup a tad more composed Seagate and Western Digital has of course announced new mobile HDDs, SSDs and data protection facilities at the CES gadgetfest in Las Vegas – and some of Seagate's are clad in a "tactile, textile industrial design". Oo er.…
Fire(cracker) sale at AWS: Up to 50% lopped off container compute engine Fargate
Your move, Microsoft and Google Amazon has taken an axe to the pricing of its containers-for-dummies service Fargate with costs for the on-demand engine dropping by up to 50 per cent.…
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