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Blood-scanning radar could be built into a smartwatch AI may help people with diabetes monitor their blood sugar levels without puncturing their own skin, according to a research from the University of Waterloo.…

'We’re removable SSDs now’, says SD Association The SD Association, the industry body behind the SD card memory spec, has announced a new version 7.0 spec for its tech that makes the postage-stamp sized memory cards rather more interesting.…

Private tabs squeezed through anonymizing network taste like actual privacy Brave Software has updated its web browser so that its private mode actually supports privacy, or nearly – a few lingering technical issues still need to get ironed out.…

Seven years after AWS S3, but just in time for serverless Microsoft’s Azure Storage service has added an option to host static websites comprised of not much more than HTML, JavaScript and other client-side goodies.…

Шифтинг то а сепарате бут еqуал сыстем ит цлаимс The internet registry operator for Europe's .eu domains will forcibly dump yet more internet addresses, with a decision to kill off any domains in the Cyrillic language.…

Officials gather up previous canned statements, adds contents page... er... Analysis The Uk government's lightweight biometrics strategy has failed to make any serious policy recommendations – and instead reiterated a series of already announced promises and promising further consultation on governance.…

Recently-litigious Citrix sinks competitive FUD docs. Why might that be? References to F5 Networks have vanished from Citrix’s web page, and The Register understands a possible lawsuit is the motivation for the deletions.…

Conniving crypto creeps caught covertly concealing coin-crafting computer crime code Cryptocurrency-mining malware writers are dialing back their use of your compute cycles in order to avoid detection.…

If you downloaded anything from project's hub repos, consider it compromised If you have fetched anything from Gentoo's GitHub-hosted repositories today, dump those files – because hackers have meddled with the open-source project's data.…

Compromised payment cards detected in April, JavaScript code meddling revealed in June Online bank Monzo said it warned Ticketmaster that something weird was going on in early April, two months before the ticket-slinging giant revealed its payment pages had been hacked.…

Deutsche Telekom and others go with subscriber-focused lightweight approach Despite a decade of efforts, the rollout of IPv6 is still stubbornly sat at less than 25 per cent, in terms of internet traffic, with recent reports suggesting adoption may actually be leveling off.…

Infosec bod shops NameTests, claims leaky code exposes info Facebook has forked out an $8,000 reward after a security researcher flagged up a third-party web app that potentially exposed up to 120 million people's personal information from their Facebook profiles.…

Security researcher shops NameTests app as leaky javascript exposes user info Facebook has paid out $8,000 after a security researcher reported an app blabbing users’ info in what is possibly the first cash payment under the platform’s new data abuse bug bounty programme.…

Presumably, you're all typing on it wrong Apple's butterfly keyboards can be thwarted by little more than a speck of sand.…

Credit agency promises eight US states it will boost cyber security measures, escapes fine A former Equifax software engineering manager was today charged with insider trading – and has promised to pay back his alleged ill-gotten gains.…

Cue raised eyebrows – Cohesity and SUSE enter IDC has cast its eyes over object storage suppliers, and ejected DDN from its marketscape, brought in Cohesity and Cloudian, and shuffled around a few suppliers.…

Perm Sec declines to confirm if review will be published as planned next month The Home Office's massive project to replace the UK's radio infrastructure with a 4G network has shed 70 staffers and plans to expunge another 130, officials have said.…

FoI request reveals extent of attacks on UK healthcare NHS trusts across England experienced more than 1,300 hours of downtime in the last three years, according to results from a Freedom of Information request (FoI).…

Virty disk software quadruples max raw capacity per server Microsoft has quadrupled Storage Spaces capacity and made other improvements for IoT edge use.…

Networking, storage get some love in the latest drop of code The Kubernetes team has unloaded a new version – 1.11 – of the container orchestration platform.…

Dell EMC, Nutanix rule the roost Why go for plain old converged systems when you can hyper the hell out of your infrastructure? That seems to be the question that more and more customers are asking.…

A collaborator worthy of London's finest entrepreneurs. Wait, what? Muralwatch Keen fans of Crap Murals were seen heading to Shoreditch this morning, as a new artwork celebrating "two of history's greatest minds" was unveiled.…

'I really hope Microsoft can keep them totally neutral.' Haha So it's official – Google was also keen on acquiring GitHub before Microsoft swooped in with its $7.5bn purchase.…

But Department for Education admits historic data will be retained Schools have been told not to suck up information on kids' nationalities or country of birth – but historic data will not be deleted.…

The great feature phone revival rolls on The Linux formerly known as Firefox OS has become the fastest-growing phone platform in 2018, and is expected to be in around 100 million devices by the end of the year. Now KaiOS has received a huge boost from Google.…

Our Vault Ltd fined £70k and Horizon Windows scolded over unsolicited marketing calls Two nuisance callers were today named and shamed – only one was fined – by the UK's data watchdog for illegal marketing activities.…

Maybe next time Microsoft dropped another Insider build of Windows 10 last night. Hidden away among the long list of tweaks in build 17704 was news that the anticipated Sets function is unlikely to see the light of day.…

Array maker survived a whole year after IPO Tintri has laid off 80 per cent of its staff, including its top sales bod, leaving just 40 to 50 staff behind, however it still expects to run out of cash on June 30.…

Cheaper than Amazon's Elastic File System, but that's hardly a stretch Google has opened a beta programme offering managed file storage for apps running in its cloud platform.…

Well done for finally drawing up a contingency plan, though Plans to implement a new customs system for Brexit are still fraught with risk and the taxman has yet to fully engage with users and traders who rely on them, the UK's spending watchdog has said.…

Leaked missive insists 'no selfies, no bathroom run-ins or elevator pitches' with Rometty Marketing folk in IBM's offices in Austin, Texas, were treated to a visit by CEO Ginni Rometty this week – but not before they were handed a list of things not to do in her presence, including taking selfies or using the loo at the same time.…

And now all four big clouds have a rugged FedExNet data upload option IBM and Google have each announced a competitor for Amazon Web Services’s “Snowball”.…

Or Oumuamua could just be a weird tail-less comet Pic Oumuamua, the odd elongated cigar-shaped interstellar object zipping through the Solar System, continues to flummox scientists.…

Behold, the new, faster version 3.7, with nanosecond timing, data classes and docs in more (human) languages Version 3.7 of anything probably doesn’t seem that notable, but stick with us here because Python 3.7, released on June 27th, 2018, is the programming language’s first big update in 18 months and adds plenty of new features.…

You say either and I say either. You say ne1th1er and I crash Neural-network-based language translators can be tricked into deleting words from sentences or dramatically changing the meaning of a phrase, by strategically inserting typos and numbers.…

And more are being debated – all in the name of standardising language The world’s just been given two new definitions of Edge Computing, in the service of making it easier to talk about the topic. But another debate is already considering more definitions for the term!…

'Exceptional access' is a really bad idea, says standards-setter, but one-off malware is cool The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has joined the ranks of objectors to proposed law enforcement measures that would compromise access to strong cryptography.…

When Nano Server or Server Core are too small, 'windows' will be in the Goldilocks zone Microsoft’s released a new version of Windows called “windows” that ships as a container image.…

Upstart's network kit no longer infringe two Borg patents, still more lawyering to come After more than three years under legal assault from Cisco, Arista could soon be breathing easy – now that the United States' International Trade Commission (ITC) has axed its probe into whether the upstart ripped off two Cisco patents.…

Minority reports rebuts findings of lax leadership, low capacity Australia's government is rubbish at computing, according to a new report from the Senate's Finance and Public Administration Committee.…

Judge Lucy is rid of bickering billionaires... for perhaps a week or so, we guess Apple and Samsung appear to have once and for all settled their years-long smartphone patents squabble.…

Thought your gambling site was secure? Don't bet on it Gambling site BetVictor has been caught leaving what appears to be the administrator credentials for its website out on the public internet.…

Manipulative user interfaces lead netizens away from privacy Five consumer privacy groups have asked the European Data Protection Board to investigate how Facebook, Google, and Microsoft design their software to see whether it complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…

Decade of legal wrangling leaves unresolved issue behind Vid An infamous and long-running copyright lawsuit over a dancing baby has finally come to a close, albeit with a critical legal question unresolved.…

Feds bust shady people doing shady things on shady sites In news that will surprise no one who has had internet access in the last 25 years, crooks have been using online souks to tout drugs, weapons, and, shockingly, other illicit goods.…

Desperate punters forced to twiddle their knobs manually for hours worldwide Updated Google's entire Home infrastructure has suffered a serious outage, with millions of customers on Wednesday morning complaining that their smart devices have stopped working.…

Desperate punters forced to twiddle their knobs manually for hours worldwide Google's entire Home infrastructure has suffered a serious outage, with millions of customers on Wednesday morning complaining that their smart devices have stopped working. At the time of writing, the service is still down.…

What a party pooper Ticketmaster UK has warned punters that malware infected one of its customer support systems – and may have siphoned off their personal information and payment details.…

There's gold in them thar hills of servers and daemons Software automation and management outfit Puppet has inhaled another $42m of funding in its efforts to go global.…

Document database biz cosies up to new and old-skool devs Document database biz MongoDB is aiming to be all things to all people as it continues to court the enterprise and move up the stack, offering a mobile product, ACID compliance and global clusters.…