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Careful not to trip while backpedaling, Mayor Durkan The city of Seattle is moving to strike its plan to tax large businesses and use the money to address the Emerald City's chronic homelessness problems.…

Nine per cent of workers to be given their marching orders Tesla is cutting nine per cent of its workforce in a "comprehensive organizational restructuring", according to an internal email sent by its CEO Elon Musk on Tuesday.…

Article 13 goes too far, argue Cerf, Berners-Lee et al A large group of Internet pioneers have sent an open letter to the European Union urging it to scrap a proposal to introduce automated upload filters, arguing that it could damage the internet as we know it.…

All install paths will be rerouted through the Chrome Web Store Google on Tuesday said it plans to discontinue inline installation of Chrome browser extensions, by which code on third-party websites can trigger the installation of extensions from the Chrome Web Store.…

Beyond visual line-of-sight exercise paves way for Amazon-style deliveries A Brit drone firm has made a 29km beyond visual line-of-sight (BVLOS) flight, a small but important step for fuller commercialisation of the tech.…

Counsel suggests issues with staff evaluation behind women being passed on for promotion US District Judge James Robart had some challenging questions for lawyers representing a group of female ex-Microsoft staff for gender discrimination in a Seattle District Court yesterday.…

Subtle attack thwarts macOS code-signing process A recently discovered security vulnerability in how third party vendors are checking Apple's "code-signing" process potentially made it easier to trick macOS users into running malicious third-party code.…

'Systemic failures' put Brit users' personal info at risk Yahoo!'s UK limb has finally been handed a £250,000 fine for the 2014 cyber attack that exposed data of half a million Brit users.…

Bath-based firm offloads fluffy white assets, eyes up VoIP, broadband future Gradwell Communications yesterday emailed clients - mostly fellow small businesses - to let them know that it has offloaded the cloud services "assets".…

Civil liberties committee votes: US has until Sept to comply The deal governing transatlantic data flows doesn't properly protect European Union citizens and should be suspended unless the United States complies with its terms, MEPs have said.…

Manufacturer promises update The recently released ‪OnePlus 6‬ smartphone allows the booting of arbitrary images, security researchers at Edge Security have discovered.…

Learn the tenets of the AWS Well-Architected Framework’s Security pillar Promo The Amazon Web Services (AWS) Well-Architected Framework is designed to assist organizations in building secure, resilient, performant and efficient infrastructure able to optimally support their applications.…

A jury wouldn't have convicted her, rules judge A Crown court judge accused of a Computer Misuse Act offence after browsing digital documents in a case where her daughter was a witness has been discharged from court.…

We're paraphrasing Pointy-Haired Bosses* are splashing AI about their organisations without a clue about why they're doing it, says a senior Gartner analyst.…

So how did that April 2018 Update go for you then? Champion of consumer rights and closer of customer email services Which? has taken a hobnailed boot to Microsoft's beleaguered Windows 10 operating system with research that will make for unpleasant reading at Redmond.…

Company goes from rogue security risk to bargaining chip US president Donald Trump did the deal to keep telco kit provider ZTE in business as a favour to Chinese president Xi Jinping.…

She claims it was gift from Apollo veteran Neil Armstrong A woman has sued NASA, claiming to be the rightful owner of a small vial of moon dust supposedly given to her by Neil Armstrong.…

Owner can’t find anyone to fly the thing profitably On October 25th, 2007 Singapore Airlines flight SQ380 departed Changi Airport bound for Sydney, Australia, marking the first commercial flight of the Airbus A380. But the plane that made that flight won’t ever take to the air again and will instead be broken up for parts.…

Switchzilla's annual gabfest goes over old ground on day one Cisco Live CEO keynotes at big vendors' annual gabfests are evangelical events, and Cisco's Chuck Robbins didn't disappoint on that score as he opened this year's Cisco Live. But if customers expected a big reveal of new products or strategies, they would have come away disappointed.…

Missing input sanitisation fixed after hacker spat If you're a developer relying on GnuPG, check upstream for an update that plugs an input sanitisation bug.…

Eighteen of ‘em all around the world. Perhaps this is a sign of Big Blue’s cloud surge? IBM’s added availability zones to its cloud.…

Open source luminary and former Debian leader Bruce Perens gives it a big thumbs up Systemd-free Linux distro Devuan has released its stable Version 2.0.…

Australian criminologists say kids know they're on CCTV so behave themselves Crime rates in the Australian State of New South Wales have dropped markedly in recent years and researchers think technology might be a big reason why.…

AirWatch Cloud Messaging to lose remote file-wrangling functions VMware’s warned that the agent used by its AirWatch mobile device management product has a vulnerability that could allow remote control of mobile devices running Android or Windows Mobile, so will deprecate the features that allowed the attack.…

Have you tried turning it off and.. err… off again? Holdouts to Windows 7, 8.1, and 8.1 RT won't be able to ping Microsoft's own forums for tech support from the company anymore.…

If you want to mine, do it in someone else's cloud Apple has revised its App Store rules to place restrictions on cryptocurrency mining, storage and payment across apps it distributes.…

If you want to mine, do it in someone else's cloud Apple has revised its App Store rules to place restrictions on cryptocurrency mining, storage and payment across apps it distributes.…

Embedi and ERPScan find themselves on blacklist Updated An expansion of sanctions on companies connected with Russian government cyberattacks has pulled in two US tech companies.…

Social networks move to invalidate design claims Facebook and Snap are pushing to have the patents behind Blackberry's massive infringement suit invalidated and thrown out.…

Social networks move to invalidate design claims Facebook and Snap are pushing to have the patents behind Blackberry's massive infringement suit invalidated and thrown out.…

Coinrail theft send vapor-coin prices tumbling A weekend breach and theft at a Korean digital currency exchange is being blamed for a drop in the price of Bitcoin.…

Coinrail theft send vapor-coin prices tumbling A weekend breach and theft at a Korean digital currency exchange is being blamed for a drop in the price of Bitcoin.…

More fighting of course! Six months after the FCC voted to kill off its net neutrality rules, today – Monday June 11 – it has finally happened.…

More fighting of course! Six months after the FCC voted to kill off its net neutrality rules, today – Monday June 11 – it has finally happened.…

Signs in the sky from diamonds The source of unusual faint pockets of microwave radiation found only in a few regions of the Milky Way has been traced back to tiny specks of nanodiamond dust.…

Signs in the sky from diamonds The source of unusual faint pockets of microwave radiation found only in a few regions of the Milky Way has been traced back to tiny specks of nanodiamond dust.…

Major win against business email compromise losses Police have carried out a worldwide wave of arrests that have seen 74 people detained and over $16m in purloined funds seized by suspected whalers, or business email compromise (BEC) fraudsters.…

Major win against business email compromise losses Police have carried out a worldwide wave of arrests that have seen 74 people detained and over $16m in purloined funds seized by suspected whalers, or business email compromise (BEC) fraudsters.…

Judge okays $260K in defense costs to Bruce Perens and lawyers under anti-SLAPP Open Source Security, maker of the grsecurity Linux kernel patches, has been directed to pay Bruce Perens and his legal team almost $260,000 following a failed defamation claim.…

Rising 3PAR dragged down by not so nimble Nimble HPE's all-flash array market share slumped in the first 2018 quarter, and Pure Storage – something of a bellwether because of it was one of the original flash startups – saw its share shrink a tad too.…

Hi-ho, hi-ho, is it off to IPO? Secondary storage converger Cohesity has raised $250m in D-round funding.…

SWIFT-linked system was the target, claim infosec types Banco de Chile has become the latest victim in a string of cyber attacks targeting the payment transfer systems of banks.…

Ageing privileged geezers told: One does not simply 'regulate the internet' UK politicians have been warned to pick their legislative battles when it comes to regulating the internet, and focus on the underlying principles rather than obsess over the companies dominating the space.…

Data centre spending explodes, fuelled by hyperscale cloud, on-prem refreshes, soaring DRAM Server spending is up by a third globally with purveyors of clouds buying up boxes to bulk out data centres, mid-sized enterprises refreshing their own estates and component shortages playing a part too.…

Smart numbers make UK debut "Do not think your house is a hide-out, it is a telephone," complained Ted Hughes in his poem Do Not Pick Up The Telephone, and EE is helping bring that dystopian vision to life.…

Plus global mobe mobs name Sigfox top IoT tech lag Internet of Things connectivity tech firm Sigfox is the market daddy, having left competing mobile operator-backed techs for dust – so sayeth ABI Research.…

Opportunity survived 2007 gale, but this one's way worse As NASA's Opportunity rover nears its 15th birthday, engineers are worried the plucky little robot may not survive a worsening Martian dust storm.…

There's more to them than phones. Like, er, scooters! Chinese tech darling Xiaomi made a loss of $1.2bn (¥7.7bn) on turnover of $5.4bn (¥34.4bn) in the first quarter of 2018.…

The week that was... from Redmond to the world The Microsoft world was awash last week with the wailing and gnashing of teeth over what many of the more vocal in the development world regarded as the big bad corporate wolf chowing down on the fluffy sheep of open source as Redmond picked up GitHub.…

If Matt Hancock says it's a bad idea, it's a really bad idea UK digi secretary Matt Hancock has rejected the idea of greater government intervention on kids' use of tech – just as The Daily Telegraph launched a campaign calling on politicians to take stronger action.…