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Earlybird tickets take off in August If you like simplifying your infrastructure, saving money, and beating deadlines, you’ll want to know that you’ve got just one month to save hundreds of pounds on tickets for Serverless Computing London.…

Has loss-making UK arm plumbed its final network? Dimension Data Advanced Infrastructure (DDAI) will not be providing network plumbing to the construction industry again – at least in its current guise – because the business is in administration.…

Says firm's airliners designed with security foremost in mind Airbus's UK infosec chief, Ian Goslin, has said that cyber-attack attribution is a matter for "nation states" – and has questioned whether some critical national infrastructure companies are taking the infosec threat seriously.…

Venerable Linux distro still keeping it clean, after all these years Slackware, the oldest Linux distribution still being maintained, has turned 25 this week, making many an enthusiast wonder where all those years went.…

Leap seconds issue solved, but without segmented smearing Microsoft Windows Server 2019, coming later this year, will include UTC-compliant leap second support, both for added and subtracted time. But there will be no smearing.…

Thousands of researchers sign pledge to not develop lethal AI Hundreds of organisations and thousands of techies, including Elon Musk, Demis Hassabis from Google's DeepMind, and the head of the Chocolate Factory's AI lab Jeff Dean have promised never to support the development of autonomous weapons.…

Brass hats seek more control over technology and research Australia’s research and university communities have united against what they see as Department of Defence overreach: the brass-hats want greater powers to control international collaboration.…

Twenty-five bugs writhing on the netops floor this week Cisco has emitted 25 product security advisories – with four critical bugs flattened in its service provider-oriented Cisco Policy Suite.…

Check your OEMs for patches In case you missed it, Chipzilla has gone public with more patches for the Intel Management Engine.…

Cloud and security big winners in Q2 while Cognitive sags IBM is touting the growth in its "strategic imperatives" business lineup with helping its revenues once again gain over the year-ago quarter.…

Cloud and security big winners in Q2, while Cognitive sags IBM is touting the growth in its 'strategic imperatives' business lineup with helping its revenues once again gain over the year-ago quarter.…

Punch up at Cali startup An engineer is suing Pinscreen, a startup that supposedly uses AI to generate cartoon avatars of people, claiming he was illegally fired and assaulted after confronting the CEO about its allegedly faked technology.…

Chinese broker faces prison, if he's ever found in Uncle Sam's jurisdiction and convicted A Chinese investor has been charged in America with insider trading after allegedly using Lattice Semiconductor secrets to turn a massive profit on Wall Street.…

Chocolate Factory apologizes for overzealous bots as service wobbles offline With no mention of Tuesday's Cloud Platform service troubles, Google on Wednesday heralded the arrival of click-to-deploy Kubernetes apps in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.…

Chocolate Factory apologizes for trigger-happy AI With no mention of Tuesday's Cloud Platform service troubles, Google on Wednesday heralded the arrival of click-to-deploy Kubernetes apps in the Google Cloud Platform Marketplace.…

Tens of thousands of Canadian medical files, healthcare worker details snatched Hackers say they will leak patient and employee records stolen from a Canadian healthcare provider unless they are paid off.…

Gizmos gain control over Windows 10 updates - at a price Be still your beating hearts, Microsoft’s Windows 10 IoT Core Services has hit public preview and the software giant has indicated just how much it is all going to cost.…

Happy now? For realsies? The great British tradition of huffing, tutting and whinging is in grave peril. Regulator Ofcom has reported a decline in complaints across telecoms, mobile and TV services.…

App security firm sanctioned in US over ties with Russia Oracle fixed 17 flaws in its products found by ERPScan researchers without acknowledging the application security firm, which was recently and controversially sanctioned in the US.…

Dell EMC and HPE help fuel record quarterly revenue High-speed Ethernet biz Mellanox has posted record revenues for the second quarter of fiscal year 2018, driven in part by Dell EMC and HPE's seeming insatiable appetite for Ethernet switches.…

Breach identified potential victims taking part in probe The UK's data watchdog today issued the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) a £200,000 penalty after it sent a bulk email to participants that identified possible victims of historical crimes.…

New CEO prepares company for new direction Israeli storage startup Reduxio, with its shiny new CEO, is going to sell only via channel middlemen and has waved bye to another exec.…

Vows to appeal as Euro competition commissioner says: Stop it now Analysis What convinced the European Commission that it had a Microsoft-scale competition problem on its hands with Google isn't a mystery. Google engaged in a carbon copy of '90s Microsoft-style tactics.…

Inspire attendees paw at not-quite-a-Surface-Hub kit Lovers of big screens in boardrooms, rejoice! The first of Microsoft's Ginormonitors (aka Windows Collaboration Displays) has arrived at Redmond's partner shindig in Las Vegas.…

Enumeration bug potentially allowed users to peek at each others' details Telefonica Spain has inadvertently exposed the personal details of customers of its Movistar division.…

Taller, narrower, and (some) notchier The shape of the smartphone is changing as a fad turns into a long-term trend, a business analyst has noted.…

Who do we want on stage? You of course Events Continuous Lifecycle London returns in May 2019, and we want to hear your proposals for conference sessions and all-day workshops, spanning the full range of agile, DevOps, application lifecycle management, CD, and container technologies and methodologies.…

Breakup lays bare Chipzilla's failures Comment Micron's commercial discussions with Intel over 3D XPoint have concluded that the tech partnership will be dissolved once second-gen development is completed next year.…

When dumb is usually smart enough Analysis Imagine if Intel had decided in the 1980s that all of its CPUs henceforth would have a vast parallel processing unit worthy of a Cray supercomputer, integrated into every chip. This would quadruple the price of an Intel microprocessor, but "future-proof" its PCs.…

DeX Pad doesn’t have an obvious role, but finding one will be fun Hands-On I’m typing this story on a phone – a Galaxy S9+ to be precise, lodged in Samsung’s new “DeX Pad” not-a-dock that turns its high-end handsets into passable desktops when connected to a monitor or tellie over HDMI.…

200 million transactions visible to all, inc. the inside dope on a cannabis seller's annual sales PayPal-owned digital wallet Venmo shares way too much data via its public API, according to Berlin-based researcher Hang Do Thi Duc.…

If ye can board Microsoft accounts, Azure AD or even OpenID without the skipper knowing, loot be your reward Microsoft’s launched a new bug bounty program, this time for identity services.…

Chip ships 6,400 Mbps, cuts power consumption Samsung has shown off the first prototype of a somewhat-bonkers DRAM chip: at 8 Gbits, it's not news in terms of scale, but the LPDDR5 silicon pushes bits out the door at 6,400 megabits per second.…

Especially sysadmins who want to get off the fix-this-PC-now treadmill Google thinks the time has come for widespread adoption of PCs-as-a-service, so has offered up its own experience as an exemplar how to get it done.…

Which should help neurologists to map the brain Video AI can help neurologists automatically map the connections between different neurons in brain scans, a tedious task that can take hundreds and thousands of hours.…

Access points gets WPA3, OFDMA, Bluetooth LE, Zigbee and more Ruckus Wireless has focussed on high-density outdoor environments with its entry into the 802.11ax Wi-Fi market.…

Chairman Rich Templeton will return to CEO role Former Texas Instruments CEO Rich Templeton will return to the role after a six-week break, because his replacement has been dumped for breaching the company's code of conduct.…

Bandwidth is better, down where it's wetter, take it from me! Google has announced its first private trans-Atlantic cable, with landings at Virginia Beach in the US and on the French Atlantic coast.…

They’ll run on the Snowball Edge data transfer device, which packs a Xeon D In a major departure from its usual cloud-only stance, Amazon Web Services has announced it’s now possible to run EC2 instances with on-premises hardware – but only its own Snowball Edge devices.…

US medical testing giant says no evidence of data theft after alarms triggered Medical biz LabCorp shut down some of its systems last week after it detected "suspicious activity" on its network.…

Nabla Containers promises reduced attack surface through fewer system calls IBM researchers have developed a new flavor of software container in an effort to create code that's more secure than Docker and similar shared kernel container systems.…

Health regime for your Windows 10 devices Promo Windows Analytics is a cloud-based suite of solutions that provides proactive insights into the current state of a Windows environment.…

Man admits to selling remote access malware used by morons for spying A US software developer has admitted to selling and supporting spyware after originally claiming his remote access tool was legitimate admin software.…

Now it has 79 satellites, and one is a tiny 'oddball' Jupiter already had the most moons in the Solar System, but now scientists have discovered twelve new ones bringing the total up to 79.…

Expect this one to be argued all the way to the Supremes In a victory for those supporting open access to technical specifications, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday vacated injunctions [PDF] that prohibited Public.Resource.Org (PRO) from publishing copyrighted technical standards online.…

Expect this one to be argued all the way to the Supremes In a victory for those supporting open access to technical specifications, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Tuesday vacated injunctions [PDF] that prohibited Public.Resource.Org (PRO) from publishing copyrighted technical standards online.…

ES&S admits a handful of systems were shipped with PCAnywhere tool Updated A US voting machine manufacturer has admitted some of its systems sold in the early 2000s had a remote access tool installed.…

Positive outcome from activist investor involvement Just three months after activist investor Elliott Management invaded Commvault’s board-level considerations, the company has announced a radical simplification of its product strategy, shoehorning 20 individual products into four master ones and pumping improvements into its channel program.…

Temporary file during update shuffled off to quarantine A Windows operating system library was wrongly identified as malware by Sophos's antivirus scanner for some users on Tuesday.…