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ICANN or ICANN'T be trusted? Uncle Sam wants to know The US government has formally asked whether it should reassert its control of the internet's administrative functions, effectively reversing a handover to non-profit organization ICANN two years ago.…

Defected goods hustle brought in big bucks – for a while A pair of married scammers and their fence were sentenced to 71 months, 68 months, and 24 months in prison respectively for defrauding Amazon.com, the US Attorney's Office (USAO) for the Southern District of Indiana said on Monday.…

App-rented tech bro-mobiles play fast and loose with city rules, say officials San Francisco has banned commercial electric scooters, which can be rented via apps, from its streets – after several months of confrontation between the authorities and tech companies.…

45,000 plan holders hit by hack, say corp officials Updated Financial house Transamerica has admitted hackers swiped some of its customers' sensitive personal information, including social security numbers.…

Potentially four million or more plan holders hit by hack Financial house Transamerica has admitted hackers swiped some of its customers' sensitive personal information, including social security numbers.…

It's war for biz customers as ERP king eyes up CRM lands SAP has overhauled its CRM offering, launching a suite of applications under the banner C/4HANA, as the German biz best known for ERP aims to take on Salesforce.…

But I'm just a poor Brit, and nobody loves me Unperturbed by posturing in the UK and EU, the European Space Agency has welcomed the latest pair of Galileo satellites to its spaceport in Kourou, French Guyana, ahead of a July launch.…

Path traversal flaws could lead to data mangling, code execution – so patch now Video Booby-trapped archive files can exploit vulnerabilities in a swath of software to overwrite documents and data elsewhere on a computer's file system – and potentially execute malicious code.…

Infosec bods warn of poorly secured tools auto-scaling, landing a jackpot for crooks PureSec, a maker of security software for serverless apps, has been poking about various cloud service providers, and found that hosted functions offer a shortcut to illicit crypto-mining.…

Messaging apps verboten until they fall into line with EU regs Multinational car parts maker Continental AG has banned its employees from using Whatsapp and Snapchat on their work phones due to concerns over the recently introduced European General Data Protection Regulation.…

Airliners do it all the time - but these aren't airliners Comment Britain’s first permanently UK-based F-35 fighter jets are not arriving in Norfolk today as expected due to RAF concerns about bad weather.…

Dido Harding dodges security budget grilling Infosec Europe Baroness Dido Harding, former chief exec of Brit telco TalkTalk, warned other business leaders of the dangers posed by legacy tech in the opening keynote of the Infosecurity Europe conference.…

Report: dodgy software still accounts for beeeellions of lost cash and malware aplenty The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has put out a report showing that while the use of unlicensed software is dropping, it is due to a fear of malware rather than a worry of a visit from the lawyers.…

Whack some SSDs in your infrastructure and off you go Composable infrastructure startup DriveScale has said its users will be able to add flash storage to their existing composable server and disk storage infrastructure.…

Game-changers? Could be Analysis Are you excited about Apple's new AR emoji as we are? Or the push-to-talk feature for the Apple Watch? Just kidding, folks.…

Bad news if you've been defrauded online Just one in three police forces in the UK are able to tackle cybercrime such as DDoS, malware attacks and online fraud, a Home Affairs Committee heard today.…

Time team comes closest it ever has to magical zero result A team at the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) has used a range of atomic clocks from around the globe to test the equivalence principle* of Einstein's theory of general relativity.…

Just days left to save £100s on AI, ML and data analytics conference We’re going to be announcing the speaker lineup for MCubed London this Friday, which means you’ve got just a few days left to snap up conference tickets for just £500 plus VAT.…

Manx government keeps poker face, aims to add another arm to its tech biz offering The Isle of Man – a largely unassuming island in the Irish Sea measuring just 52km (32 miles) long and 22km (14 miles) wide – fancies itself as a technology centre and is looking to hitch its wagon to both Brexit and data protection.…

That's what you get for selling unlocked phones Analysis UK mobile networks will be eyeing Carphone Warehouse's current woes with some glee.…

You might think it's a laugh, maybe you'll baaaarf, but yes, it's imminent “So, let me ask you,” he said, smoothing out his goatee with one hand. “Five planes have been circling for hours, delayed. You can land one.” A long pause. “How do you choose?”…

One has a screen on the touchpad, the other’s a no-real-keyboard clamshell ASUS has staged its annual Computex keynote and shown off laptops with dual screens.…

One-watt displays promised, plus new Optane-for-PC and a 5.0 GHz CPU Intel’s staged its annual keynote at Taiwan’s Computex tech-fest and revealed a new “Low Power Display Technology” that the company said can halve the power consumption of a laptop’s screen.…

He's heard of security but groks the cloud at scale and that's what matters Palo Alto Networks has named a CEO and chairman: former Google and Softbank executive Nikesh Arora.…

Curiosity Rover's drill is mostly working again after 'percussive maintenance' The percussive maintenance NASA carried out on the Curiosity Rover's drilling machinery has worked, and the robot has started analysing Martian rock samples again.…

HPC types offered density, carriers get roll-your-own customer-premises kit Cavium’s made two new attempts to find an audience for Arm-powered servers.…

Crypto-libertarian will form his own party, but first to launch his paper-based cryptocurrency John McAfee will run for US president again.…

Snapdragon 850 is latest attempt to lure PC makers, buyers from the x86 realm Like a lawman in an old-timey Western movie running while firing his pistol at escaping bandits, Qualcomm is running through PC land shooting out Snapdragon system-on-chips at computer manufacturers.…

How to expand a cloud platform without building data centres? Get partners to run 'em Microsoft has doubled the number of countries in which its Azure Stack hybrid cloud kit will operate, effectively extending Azure's reach with minimal capital expenditure .…

Phone makers agreed to behave when we handed them your friend lists, social info dispensary sniffs Facebook on Sunday said an arrangement that gave some 60 mobile device makers access to data about device users' Facebook friends is not at all like the deal it made with app developers that gave rise to the Cambridge Analytica scandal.…

Dodgy outer orbits all down to asteroids and gravity The mysterious, so-called Planet Nine, may not be a planet after all but just gravitational trickery, according to a new study.…

American broadband bossman's ban plan panned Chinese telco giant Huawei is hitting back at America's comms watchdog, the FCC, over its proposal to ban the telco from key US markets.…

Using your service as advertised? How dare you! Gamers are the enemy of fixed wireless connections on Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN).…

Patent battle looms again for iGiant in wake of ruling Apple has been pulled back into a patent-infringement lawsuit in the US over its touchscreen iPhones – after an appeals court overturned a previous ruling, and complained about its sloppy analysis.…

Panel slaps down colleague for buying Cupertino arguments Apple has been pulled back into a patent-infringement lawsuit in the US over its touchscreen iPhones – after an appeals court overturned a previous ruling and complained about its sloppy analysis.…

We're on the road to nowhere – come on inside, taking that ride from reality Video Machine-learning experts have built a neural network that can manipulate facial movements in videos to create fake footage – in which people appear to say something they never actually said.…

We're on the road to nowhere – come on inside, taking that ride from reality Video A group of researchers have built a neural network that can control the facial movements in a video to create fake footage.…

But try running these iThing apps now on your Mac Apple held its annual developer prep rally in San Jose, California, on Monday to discuss additions and improvements to its software but not its hardware.…

Everything will remain open, along with lots of Microsoft 'opportunities' Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is at pains to reassure developers that its $7.5bn purchase of GitHub won't turn the code repository into an Azure-only space.…

Not enough time to even call Bruce Willis and Armageddonoutofhere Video Scientists at NASA's Planetary Defense Coordination Office have made a rare sighting – an asteroid on a collision course with Earth.…

Worker time-keeping system at center of biometric privacy legal battle in the US A former employee at a nursing home is alleging the company and its equipment provider violated the US state of Illinois' biometric privacy laws with a fingerprint-scanning time clock system.…

Hip-hip, array! Analysis Artificial Intelligence (AI) is assuredly one of the hot topics of the moment, even rather overhyped, some might add.…

Server/networking revenues receive a 41% bump Dell revenues grew almost 20 per cent in its first fiscal 2019 quarter, with losses down two-thirds and server income leaping 41 per cent.…

People are suffering in Amazon... I mean THE Amazon UK Foreign Secretary and Beano* character wrought in flesh, Boris Johnson, put tech boffins and conservationists in a room together today and asked them to come up with a way of combating illegal wildlife trade.…

Let's praise the cosy mobile duopoly working so hard to make things so much better Comment When several "leaked" reports appear to show that Apple is focusing on quality, not features, it's reasonable to conclude that Apple is concerned the world perceives a quality problem.…

Pure Storage's AIRI reference architecture probably a bit jelly NetApp and Nvidia have introduced a combined AI reference architecture system to rival the Pure Storage-Nvidia AIRI system.…

GitHub 365, anyone? Guys? Microsoft has agreed to acquire development platform GitHub in a deal worth $7.5bn, sending developers scurrying for cover.…

More opportunities to get to punters in crowded market Mobile operator Three is launching an MVNO with health and beauty business Superdrug – the latest such deal aimed at boosting operators' presence in an increasingly challenging market.…

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All the info, none of the food and drink If you didn’t get along to Continuous Lifecycle London last month, we’ve got the next best thing: most of the conference sessions are now available to view at your leisure.…