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Tesla tips ice on Apple, Google, Microsoft accounts of '$1m leaker'
US court grants freezing order on Marty Tripp's email and cloud hideyholes Apple, Google and Microsoft have been whacked with a US court order by Tesla that forces them to preserve copies of an ex-employee's deleted emails and cloud storage accounts.…
Microsoft's next trick? Kicking things out of the cloud to Azure IoT Edge
Open-source service sticks containers in internet of stuffs After years of pitching its customers to move their compute onto its Azure cloud, Microsoft is trying to push them out.…
BlackBerry KEY2: Remember buttons? Boy, does this phone sure have them
Busy business device that puts you back in control Review Imagine a consumer gadget where the designers didn't think buttons were an abomination to be removed with extreme prejudice, but something that attempted to make things convenient for users. Something to make a chore easier. Can you picture a kettle with an all-touch display, or living in a house where every light switch is a fondlepad?…
Hipster horror! Slack has gone TITSUP: Total inability to support user procrastination
Work-avoidance tool avoids work Updated Hipster darling and reskinned IRC client Slack went dark today, with users having to resort to actually speaking to each other instead.…
Relive your misspent, 8-bit youth on the BBC's reopened Micro archive
A simpler time at your fingertips The generation of Britons who honed their skills on 8-bit micros can revisit a well-spent youth. The BBC has put 129 educational computer programmes online, many from the early 1980s.…
Labour MP pushing to slip 6-hour limit to kill illegal online content into counter-terror bill
Plus: Brit lawmakers debate 'three streams and you're out' rule for terrorist material A Labour MP is pushing the UK government to introduce strict time limits for tech giants to take down illegal content as part of draft counter-terror legislation.…
Microsoft has another crack at fixing Chrome problems in Windows 10
SMB1 networking and Media Center content playback revived A few short weeks since Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has emitted a raft of fixes for Windows 10 including one that should ease the pain of some Chrome users.…
A year after devastating NotPetya outbreak, what have we learnt? Er, not a lot, says BlackBerry bod
Say it with me: 'Patch outdated systems.' Good, and again... Today (27 June) marks the first anniversary since the NotPetya ransomware ravaged a range of businesses from shipping ports and supermarkets to ad agencies and law firms.…
Galileo, here we go again. My my, the Brits are gonna miss EU
Britain launching its own sat looks more and more likely The UK Commons Select Committee for Science and Technology yesterday hauled government bigwigs in to explain themselves in light of the latest round of Galileo handbag-swinging.…
Quantum seems to go through CEOs like a hot knife through butter
That's the fifth head honcho in six months for tape survivor Sickly scale-out storage biz Quantum has hired Jamie Lerner as CEO and president, replacing interim head and new CFO Michael Dodson, who in May replaced Patrick Dennis, who replaced Adalio Sanchez, who replaced Jon Gacek in January.…
ICO seeks views on how tween-friendly websites should be designed
More Pewdiepie is definitely not an option The UK's data protection watchdog is crowdsourcing ideas for the code that will govern how websites and apps aimed at under-16s are designed.…
Why, hello Rubrik's Trello: Data protection biz leaves productivity tool open to world+dog
Anyone with URL could see lists of case study projects Rubrik's internal security controls must have taken an early summer holiday because a Trello page that listed customer case studies and their status has been open for the great unwashed to access.…
Crime epidemic or never had it so good? Drilling into statistics is murder
It's both. And neither Britain is in the grip of a crime epidemic, the likes of which we have never seen before. Knife crime. Stabbings. And if you're out after dark, make sure your will is written and posted before you close the front door.…
Firefox hooks up with HaveIBeenPwned for password pwnage probe
For now, let's ponder browser version 61 adding code that lets extensions close tabs Firefox has started testing an easier way for users to check whether they're using a leaked password, through integration with Troy Hunt's HaveIBeenPwned database.…
Facebook quietly kills its Aquila autonomous internet drone program
Silicon Valley hubris project crashes down to Earth Facebook has canned its plans to bring high-speed internet via a solar-powered drone beaming lasers to the ground, according to an announcement on Tuesday.…
Press 1 for automagic K8s cluster. Press 2 or 3 for complex Kubernetes
VMware expands SaaS portfolio with non-confusing third container offering on AWS VMware’s announced a new container play called “VMware Kubernetes Engine” (VKE) that will be offered as SaaS on AWS and soon on Azure too.…
EU summons a CYBER FORCE into existence
Why cyber? Because CERT-EU was already taken Lithuania's proposal that the European Union create an international cyber-force has been endorsed, and the effort already has seven countries on board.…
Google kills AdWords!
Don’t pop the champagne – it’s just a rebrand with some AI pixie dust LOGOWATCH When announcing its first quarter results for 2018, Google CEO Sundar Pichai focussed on what he called "our three big areas, cloud, YouTube and hardware".…
Creep travels half the world to harass online teen gamer… and gets shot by her mom – cops
Crazy Kiwi comes a cropper A New Zealand gamer who flew halfway around the world to confront a 14-year-old girl he met online got more than he bargained for when her mom shot him, according to police.…
Fella travels half the world to harass online gamer… and gets shot by her mom
Crazy Kiwi comes a cropper A New Zealand gamer who flew halfway around the world to confront a 14-year-old girl he met online got more than he bargained for when her mom shot him.…
FireEye hacked off at claim it hacked Chinese military's hackers
Allegation in book mistook RDP recording for real world action, company asserts US security company FireEye has denied a claim aired in a new book that it hacked into laptops owned by Chinese military hackers.…
Top banker batters Bitcoin for sucky scalability, security
Australia’s Reserve Bank sees no need for national cryptocurrencies, for now The head of payments policy at Australia’s Reserve Bank – the equivalent of the Federal Reserve or the Bank of England - has asserted that cryptocurrencies’ strengths are also their weakness and suggested central banks won’t need to create their own equivalents any time soon.…
German researchers defeat printers' doc-tracking dots
Whistleblowers, rejoice Beating the unique identifiers that printers can add to documents for security purposes is possible: you just need to add extra dots beyond those that security tools already add. The trick is knowing where to add them.…
Amazon adds cloudy Linux desktops to encourage developers to code for EC2
Running Amazon Linux 2, which just scored long-term support Amazon Web Services has added a Linux option to its “WorkSpaces” desktop-as-a-service and pitched the offering as a fine way to develop apps for its own EC2 infrastructure-as-a-service.…
K8s awaits due date for latest, greatest slate: Extension versioning will reach beta, mates
Version 1.11 of Kubernetes expected to drop Wednesday Kubernetes, the software container orchestration system, is expected to hit version 1.11 on Wednesday, bringing with it a handful of potentially useful enhancements.…
Sophos SafeGuard anything but – thanks to 6 serious security bugs
Your antimalware tools can get malware too, so get updating Companies running Sophos security clients will want to update their software following the disclosure of six privilege escalation flaws in the the security suite.…
US gov quizzes AI experts about when the machines will take over
Should we be worried? Erm, yes and no... A panel of AI experts were grilled on the impact and importance of artificial general intelligence by the US House of Representatives on Tuesday.…
Dot-Africa saga going to jury trial... thousands of miles away in America
ICANN faces fraud allegations in continent's top-level-domain dispute The long-running saga over ownership of the .Africa top-level domain name will go to a jury trial… in California.…
So woke: Microsoft's face-recog can now ID more people who aren't pasty white blokes
This would work great for ICE. We're just saying... Microsoft has improved its facial recognition technology so that it is better at identifying humans who aren't white men.…
Class-action status snub for lawsuit alleging Microsoft mistreatment of women workers
Redmond slips out of key provision in discrimination case Microsoft may not have to face a class-action complaint over its alleged mishandling of harassment and discrimination complaints by women employees.…
Reality Winner, liberty loser: NSA leaker faces 63 months in the cooler
Renegade pantyhose smuggler admits slipping Russian election hacking dossier to hacks Reality Winner – who leaked to the media a classified NSA file describing Russians fiddling with American election technology – has pled guilty to one count of espionage.…
UK Foreign Office offers Assange a doctor if he leaves Ecuador embassy
The times, they are a-hinting that Jules might walk soon A UK Foreign Office minister has offered cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaker Julian Assange access to medical attention if he leaves Ecuador's London embassy.…
Now NHS Digital is going after data on private healthcare too
UK.gov says project will help patients, improve transparency The UK government plans to funnel data on private healthcare into NHS systems to address concerns about transparency in private care.…
Who wants to cram some BOFH skills into their brains? How about from, er, Google?
IT Support Professional Certificate coming to some schools later this year Google is bringing its IT Support Professional Certificate program to more than two dozen US community colleges this fall in an effort to prime the sysadmin supply pump.…
WPA3 is the magic number? Protocol refresh promises tighter Wi-Fi security
Routers shipping with standard soon so don't get WEP behind The Wi-Fi Alliance has taken the wraps off the latest generation of Wi-Fi security, WPA3.…
Artificial intelligence? yawns DDN. That's just the new HPC, isn't it?
We already do bigger, faster arrays – now we're scaling up DDN is upping array capacities and access speeds with one eye on its traditional HPC customer base and the other on businesses that are testing or deploying deep learning architectures.…
EU court: No, expat Frenchman can't trademark France.com
Judgment is latest blow against US citizen over travel agency's disputed domain An EU court has tried to forestall ongoing US legal proceedings by declaring that an expat Frenchman can’t trademark a logo containing the domain name France.com.…
A slick phone Linux for your pocket PDA? Ooh, don't mind if I do, sir
Gemini reels in Sailfish Sailfish has become the fourth OS to be officially supported on Planet Computing's pocket computer, the Gemini PDA, and eager beavers can download an image from Planet today.…
UK Minister of Fun Matt Hancock opens London infosec upstart creche
£13m thing aims to get newbies playing with the big boys Matt Hancock, the only UK government minister to have his own social networking app, opened a £13m London infosec creche this morning.…
You can never have too much AI! MapR shoves more in data platform in bid to fill 'critical gaps'
Hadoop-flinger aims to win over devs with shiny analytics tools MapR is to further embed AI and analytics in its data platform, with more support for apps and a boost in data science tools for developers.…
USB-C for Surface owners arrives in form of a massive dongle
$79.99 gets you a single USB-C port for your costly computer Lovers of USB-C who have had a Surface device inflicted upon them may soon find their long wait for dongle-based delight is at an end, according to reports.…
Israel cyber chief's 'pants' analogy for password security deemed, well, 'pants'
Changed often, never shared? Prevailing wisdom suggests otherwise Israel's newly appointed cyber chief has raised eyebrows by offering questionable password advice during a high-profile presentation.…
Air Force Won: Nutanix awarded $45m deal to ply US flyboys with hyperconverged kit
'Largest single deal' for storage upstart, says analyst Nutanix has scored a $45m contract, via an unnamed channel middleman, to supply hyperconverged kit to US Air Forces Central Command (AFCENT)*.…
Serverless Computing London: Agenda is live
Earlybird tickets now available We’ve hit the button and announced the first tranche of speakers for Serverless Computing London, our three day conference on all things, well, serverless, next November.…
GitLab's move off Azure to Google cloud totally unrelated to Microsoft's GitHub acquisition. Yep
Source shack says it's chasing reliability and Kubernetes tech From the department of "yeah, right" comes news that GitLab is shifting its platform from Azure to Google in order to take advantage of the ad giant's Kubernetes technology.…
The suits helped biz PC makers feed their kids in bumper Q2
Sales of computers rebound across Western Europe Less than six months ago forecasters were predicting continued gloom for the European PC market.…
Veritas to put biz tech support on the slow boat to India – insiders
And Backup Exec and Business Critical Services headcount to fall Exclusive Veritas's support services unit, overseen by executive veep Lenny Alugas's Customer Success organization, will reduce its headcount and redeploy workers, company insiders have told The Register.…
Playing nice with a host of tech-pushers pushed OpenStack close to edge
A cross-vendor framework for edge functionality is no small task If one thing stood out at OpenStack's Vancouver summit in May, it's that the open-source project isn't just about data centre-based cloud computing any more.…
Dob in naughty data slurps to top EU court, privacy groups urge
11 member states grassed on to European Commission – including the UK More than 60 privacy groups and activists have demanded that member states still engaging in blanket data retention of communications info – despite it being ruled unlawful – are referred to the EU's top court.…
On Kaspersky’s 'transparency tour' the truth was clear as mud
'America wants to destroy us for defusing its cyber weapons, but we're clean' is the story Kaspersky Labs is on a "Transparency Tour" in which the company attempts to persuade us all that it is not a danger to anyone except cyber-criminals and will soon open a "transparency lab" to prove it.…
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