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Preview release arrives to entice devs who believe cross-platform code is a good idea On Wednesday, Google's cross-platform mobile framework Flutter reached Preview Release 1, a designation that places the code somewhere between buggy beta and less buggy 1.0.…

Fancy website, code emitted – Roku, Google, etc stuff at risk A technique for attacking computer networks, first disclosed more than a decade ago, has resurfaced as a way to manipulate Internet-of-Things gadgets, smart home equipment, and streaming entertainment gizmos.…

Old-school DNS attack messes up routers, streaming boxes An attack technique first disclosed more than a decade ago is resurfacing as a way to manipulate IoT and home network devices.…

Big Blue’s restored its backups and says A-V-as-a-service is serviceable again Updated IBM’s cloud experienced an “unplanned event” that caused its McAfee-as-a-service offering to operate with sub-par performance for nearly a day.…

US bloke gets 20 months for knackering city govt IT A 23-year-old Arizona man was thrown in the cooler this week after he admitted being the not-quite-infamous website-rattling "Bitcoin Baron".…

...from Microsoft, which also just bought upstart Bons.ai Microsoft has thrown open the doors to its AI Lab, a suite of beginner projects to help developers learn machine learning.…

Fixing security issues in the face of standards gaps and vendor silence isn't easy Updated Earlier this year, Jake Archibald, developer advocate for Google Chrome, found a bug affecting Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Edge and had two very different experiences trying to get the problem fixed.…

Musk blames bad Tripp, drags fella into lawsuit Tesla has sued a bloke it claims was behind an effort to sabotage the electric car maker by leaking its confidential blueprints.…

Sharing's caring, intone government bods Israel Cyber Week The UK's National Cyber Security Center, the information assurance division of GCHQ, may be getting a regulatory function or charging for its services before settling into the role of encouraging better cybersecurity.…

Eight platters serving up 1.5TB each for data-belching surveillance cameras Video surveillance is an insatiable monster, constantly needing more digital storage – and Western Digital is now feeding it 12TB drives.…

Ethics! Principles! But no talk of scrapping federal contract either Microsoft's continued efforts to distance itself from a clumsily worded blog post continued today with the publishing of an email from CEO Satya Nadella.…

Bias-enabling algorithms and smart contract tech no one quite trusts now easier to secure Israel Cyber Week At the Cyber Week security conference in Israel on Tuesday, chip giant Intel plans to discuss how it is addressing threats to the overexposed tech celebrities known as AI and blockchain.…

Storage goes immutable as Redmond plays catch-up Microsoft emitted a preview of immutable storage for Azure Storage Blobs yesterday in an effort to win the hearts and minds of industries weighed down by regulation.…

Claims German biz used ERP to 'lure' them into joint venture Data warehousing biz Teradata has flung a sueball (PDF) at SAP in the District Court for Northern California, alleging the German ERP giant undertook a "decade-long campaign of trade secret misappropriation, copyright infringement and antitrust violations".…

No, but not everyone's happy with the changes JURI, European Parliament's legal affairs committee, voted today to approve article 11 of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market, which allows news publishers to seek payment for reuse of snippets of articles, in a narrow 13:12 vote.…

Faster interface aims to replace 6Gbit/s dead end in servers Toshiba has sent in a SAS SSD hit team to assault SATA SSDs and their slower interface in the shape of its RM5 vSAS drive.…

It's Carry On Coding as Microsofties fiddle with knobs The spirit of Kenneth Williams* is alive and well in the corridors of Redmond, with staffer Raymond Chen detailing some internal Microsoft jargon in a euphemism-heavy MSDN posting.…

Wants to shut off access to Europol, security DBs The UK will only be able to get a data adequacy decision from the European Union once it has offered up its new legal framework – and won't get access to the bloc's policing and security databases, Michel Barnier has warned.…

Incumbent telco fined £77k for sending 5 million of the things Brit telco BT has been ordered to pay £77,000 for sending almost 5 million nuisance emails – equivalent to about 1.5p a mail.…

Director insists collaboration will continue after Brexit The head of GCHQ has publicly called for security co-operation with Britain's EU allies to continue after Brexit.…

Harmonise with on-premises SQL for when, you know, the cloud falls out of the sky Microsoft announced general availability of its Azure Data Sync tool this week, which allows data to be synchronised between cloudy Azure SQL databases and on-premises servers.…

Mobe UX goodies for 2018 leak Samsung isn't the first name most people would associate with slick user interfaces – but its 2018 Android P overhaul could make rivals Apple and Google look shabby.…

File system contender makes a play for enterprise public cloud Analysis Hybrid cloud filer Elastifile's co-founder and CEO Amir Aharoni has stepped aside and the new incumbent of the stretchy hot seat, former Scality man Erwan Menard, has said the firm will offer cloud native product optimised for each public cloud.…

It could happen, warns researcher BSides Tel Aviv Blockchain technologies might be abused to create a takedown-resistant infrastructure for botnets.…

Service is now available across three continents for machine-learning code eggheads AI developers can now rent Google’s Cloud TPU chips in the US, Asia, and Europe by the hour.…

Cites security risk of different security domains on one core as others hint at another bug drop next week OpenBSD has disabled Intel’s hyper-threading technology, citing security concerns.…

Unclear if Baidu's tech really is better than a human medic Baidu's AI researchers have built an algorithm that can spot cancerous tumors in breast tissue using a method that doesn’t rely solely on neural networks.…

And agrees to do better or it'll have to hand over more board seats Mellanox has come to terms with the activist investor that's been stalking the company since 2017.…

Can't get a network connection? No problem, Google OS will still be able to check signatures Google says Android will no longer require an internet connection to check whether applications are legit or potentially malicious.…

Adds ‘System Insights’ to predict future capacity requirements, but Hyper-V 2019 remains mysterious Microsoft’s popped out another preview of Windows Server 2019, Build 17692 to be precise.…

Insecure connections will break after June 30th. And it's acquired Hyperwallet, too PayPal has reminded merchants that they must support TLS 1.2 and HTTP/1.1 by June 30.…

But growth is imminent as businesses buy and build VRs, and consumer kit improves Shipments of virtual reality kit have plunged, but growth is just around the corner.…

Tel-colossus to shed 8,000 jobs, create new infrastructure company Australia's dominant telco, Telstra, will cut 8,000 jobs, flatten its structure by slicing up to four layers of management, turn 1,800 consumer products into 20 (with a similar reduction in the number of enterprise products later), and put its infrastructure into a separate division that could be sold off in the future.…

Want a world with 'millions of clouds distributed everywhere'. Running HPE kit, natch Hewlett Packard Enterprise will make a US$4bn bet on edge computing, CEO Antonio Neri confirmed at the Discover CIO conference in Las Vegas today.…

'Autonomous' database cash haul just ramping up – Larry Oracle has capped off a solid fiscal year, and, let's be fair, you can forgive it for boasting that big things are coming for its database line in the coming 12 months.…

Ellison says Autonomous DB cash haul just ramping up Oracle has capped off a solid fiscal year and is predicting big things to come for its database line in the coming 12 months.…

Oh look it's 'tech startup advocacy group' CALinnovates again Analysis A group claiming to represent the interests of California's tech startups has argued that the US state should allow so-called zero rating services, despite the negative impact it would have on tech startups.…

SEC filing shows company up the creek and sans paddle Thomas Barton, CEO of struggling storage array supplier Tintri, has resigned, leaving the California upstart leaderless as it heads toward running out of cash by the end of the month.…

Network open sources Linux command-line tool for optimizing large binaries Facebook has open sourced a binary optimization and layout tool, itself optimized into the acronym BOLT, in the hope it can make large applications faster.…

If you could buy some hardware too that would be great At its Discover conference on Tuesday Hewlett Packard Enterprise rolled out a managed service for private, public and hybrid clouds starting with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack.…

We're five hours and counting into outage Updated Microsoft Azure has tumbled over in northern Europe – and services have effectively stayed down for unlucky customers for at least three hours.…

Kubernetes for GPUs, a PyTorch extension, TensorRT 4, and much, much more Nvidia has released a bunch of new tools for savvy AI developers in time for the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City on Tuesday.…

But T-Mobile US and Sprint? Not so much Verizon has promised to stop selling user location data to third parties in response to a privacy campaign by US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR).…

Victory for the right to repair crowd, but a flea bite for Apple Apple is facing a $9m (AUS) slap-on-the-wrist for kicking out a firmware update that disabled some repaired iOS devices in Australia.…

European boss says 10% of attempted transactions failed as a result of equipment fault Visa has said a “very rare” partial network switch failure in one of its two data centres led to the fiasco earlier this month that caused millions of transactions in Europe to be declined.…

OEM partner July Systems' tech tracks in-store punters by Wi-Fi Cisco is to slurp up cloudy indoor location services biz July Systems to add to its Wi-Fi platform and boost customer experience capabilities.…

Jon Lewis challenges MPs over KPIs on in-house projects The boss of troubled outsourcer Capita has painted a glossy coat on its woes to MPs, while attempting to turn the spotlight on the government – as the firm sold off a £160m chunk of business and bagged yet another Whitehall contract.…

Court of Appeal beak reckons tech will help solve disclosure scandal A senior judge has said that "technology has created many of our current disclosure problems" – and then added that AI will fix them.…

ClusterStor node uses slower SAS SSDs Cray has announced the L300F, an all-flash array for high-performance computing functioning as a speed booster for ClusterStor installations.…

Midlands users report service sucking on a half-time orange The Sky Broadband service took an unscheduled half-time break last night, leaving residents of the UK Midlands unable to stream sporting action from Russia.…