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Suddenly, corps in a rush to fess up to e-break-ins Analysis If Equifax's mother-of-all-security-disasters last year underlined one thing, it was that big companies think they can weather just about anything cybercriminals – and regulators – can throw at them.…

Nerd out over bizarre ultrasonic fluid dynamics Video Fluid dynamics is weird. Physicists have reverse engineered the popping of a bubble and managed to keep it levitated just by using the power of sound.…

You had one job, Precision 40 Have you noticed that your big expensive Cisco TelePresence unit seems like it needs a pair of glasses? You're not alone.…

Thou shalt not use sync speeds instead of throughput speeds, decrees Brit watchdog Vodafone was today slapped by the Advertising Standards Authority for quoting router sync speeds instead of throughput speeds in its advertising following a complaint from rival BT.…

Game dev platform looks to expand its virtual horizons Unity Technologies on Monday released version 0.5 of its ML-Agents toolkit to make its Unity 3D game development platform better suited for developing and training autonomous agent code via machine learning.…

Monopoly or competition? Guess which one is winning A group of 17 consumer and civil rights groups have launched a new coalition aimed at countering efforts by Big Cable to siphon off funds for rural broadband into their already deep pockets.…

Too smart? There's also an old-fashioned image file RCE Admins will again be working overtime as Microsoft and Adobe have posted their monthly scheduled security updates for September.…

Watch John Oliver magically transforming into Stephen Colbert Videos Using AI to make fake videos look as realistic as possible is all the rage at the moment.…

Programming language bites its tongue to be more inclusive Python creator Guido van Rossum retired as "benevolent dictator for life" in July, but like Michael Corleone in The Godfather III, he's been pulled back in to resolve a debate about politically incorrect language.…

Syncing company dumps storage wrangling subscription, infuriates customers Streaming biz Plex has dumped its cloud-based media wrangling service, prompting users to dump its subscription service.…

Vulnerability still open to all despite multiple fixes A privilege escalation flaw in McAfee's True Key software remains open to exploitation despite multiple attempts to patch it.…

Our 5G is bigger and better than theirs, promise Ericsson, Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T It may not exist yet but the mobile phone industry is determined to let everyone knows that when it does, their 5G is going to be the best.…

Chief exec warns Prez Trump's proposed soaring import charges will hit biz, customers Cisco chief exec Chuck Robbins has warned that a US-China trade war over tariffs could lead to price rises for Switchzilla’s networking kit.…

Prosecutors rub their hands with glee British Airways faces a £500m lawsuit over its recent mega-breach that exposed payment card details of 380,000 customers.…

Tune in now to hear from Carbon Black Promo New research from Carbon Black shows that a staggering 92 per cent of UK businesses have been breached in the past year and nearly half of companies have reported falling victim to multiple breaches.…

The Pi has got its HAT on. Hip hip hip... oh dear People are reporting problems with the newly released Power Over Ethernet adaptor for the new Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+, with non-functional USB ports causing much anguished wailing.…

10 million IOPS, half a petabyte, one U – hella fast Analysis Supermicro's latest Samsung ruler-based thin storage server can cough up 10 million IOPS, has a 20GB/sec throughput and 576TB capacity, which is all very well, but its Intel ruler one can provide 13 million IOPS, 52GB/sec and a whole petabyte.…

Skype also does MMS. Your Phone also does photos. Neither talks to iOS Skype demonstrated that it does indeed exist as a separate entity within Microsoft by bringing SMS functionality to its Insiders a week after something similar was flung out to Windows Insiders.…

Out of the frying pan into the... frying pan Hard-pressed outsourcing biz Capita was today selected by the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) to manage the Gas Safe Register (GSR) for five years, including overseeing the competence of engineers listed.…

Gartner's rollercoaster trundles into exciting world of data management Gartner has turned its annual Hype Cycling gaze upon data management and found that – shock – expectations of Blockchain remain hopelessly inflated.…

Ancient tech – but it isn't so bad Loyal Android Wear users are dismayed that the first new Qualcomm silicon for smartwatches in three years uses ancient technology – and won't offer the gains in performance they were hoping for.…

Airline yet to reveal breach's cause Security experts are debating the cause of the British Airways mega-breach, with external scripts on its payment systems emerging as a prime suspect in the hack.…

UK.gov pats self on back in response to MPs' report on data-driven decision-making The UK government has tentatively accepted calls from MPs to monetise public sector data – but would rather brag about existing efforts to encourage responsible use of algorithms.…

Distro emerges blinking after 8-year hibernation What were you doing in 2010? The Space Shuttles were still flying, Toy Story 3 ruled the cinemas, and Apple released its very first iPad. Oh, and Linux distro Elive locked down its last stable build. Until now.…

Let them eat phish In late August, Microsoft announced a free service that arguably reveals more about the future of the email business and its struggles with security than several years' worth of earnest press releases.…

Who knows if the signals are signs of extaterrestrial activity? AI is helping astronomers spot fast radio bursts, a mysterious class of signal emitted from a new type of object very rarely found in space that boffins are still trying to classify.…

Nvidia waxes lyrical about 5G and GeForce Now leveling the playing field for gamers It's a fact of life for gamers: If you want to be able to compete, you need the best hardware to give you an edge.…

Machine-learning software taught how to pick up things it hasn't seen before Video A trio of researchers have trained a robot that can pick up new objects it hasn’t seen before.…

Egghead says Apple has yet to patch spoofing vulnerability A security researcher has disclosed a flaw that could be used to spoof website addresses in either Edge or Safari.…

Marketing data collection opens potential security nightmare Netgear has irked some security pros by demanding people register accounts before they can use a mobile app to control their Orbi mesh routers.…

Word shifting code shares Silicon Valley male chauvinism Google Translate is used by over 200 million people daily and, according to boffins from Brazil, its AI-powered tongue twisting tends to deliver sexist results.…

Bug allows malicious scripts to run even with protections active Bug broker Zerodium has released word of a flaw in the Tor browser that would potentially allow an attack site to bypass security protections and execute malicious code in the supposedly secure internet system.…

More American cities will get super-fast mobile internet AT&T has promised real-world rollouts of 5G super-fast mobile internet in five more US cities before the end of the year, taking the total to 12, with another seven due next year.…

Those developing custom CPUs can now tap a TrustZone-ish trusted execution environment If you've been looking at SiFive's RISC-V-based chip technology and thinking, y'know what, it's missing an Arm TrustZone-style element to run sensitive code, well, here's some good news.…

Data caught being siphoned off to outside server Updated A bunch of Trend Micro anti-malware tools have vanished from Apple's Mac App Store – after they were spotted harvesting and siphoning off users' browser histories.…

Azure here, there and everywhere. Except last week when VSTS was nowhere Microsoft announced the arrival of Azure DevOps on Monday, an ‘evolution’ of its veteran Visual Studio Team Services into which developers will be enrolled - whether they like it or not.…

Misses no one: PCs, NAS, workstations, enterprise, surveillance Seagate has spread its 14TB, 7,200rpm helium-filled disk drive tech across the PC, NAS, enterprise capacity and surveillance market sectors.…

More power and faster interconnect Cisco has beefed up its C480 AI/machine learning sever, adding a faster GPU interconnect and more GPU slots while losing two CPU sockets.…

Lil pupper yaps at big doge A Microsoft VP has optimistically opined that Amazon's expansion will help Microsoft nibble a little harder at the ankles of the world’s top public cloud firm.…

Listen up, SAN-shine: IDC numbers – read 'em and weep Server SANs aren't eating into the external SAN market, at least as far as analyst IDC's storage tracker numbers are concerned.…

$250bn market ripe for savings Companies waste cash by failing to scrutinise software maintenance and support spend, with contract renewal seen as the line of least resistance, the Campaign for Clear Licensing has said.…

Angry investors want to know why they weren't told before everyone else In the latest fallout from the Dieselgate scandal, Volkswagen is facing down a German lawsuit for $11bn over the company's use of software to thwart emissions performance tests.…

Top EU court to rule whether order made in France should be applied everywhere Europe's top court will tomorrow hear a case that could extend the scope of right to be forgotten rules globally – which free speech campaigners warn would amount to mass online censorship.…

If you're going to batter 8,497 folk with over 60,000 threats, odds are someone will crack Persistence pays off for crooks when it comes to sextortion-based phishing scams, research into its effectiveness suggests.…

Telstar to blast broadband over Asia while ISS astros face fresh underwear delay Grim weather at Cape Canaveral almost caused a scrub of this morning's Falcon 9 launch as heavy cloud and lightning storms blanketed the region.…

Why so hush-hush? Dell outearned IBM in its latest quarter, reporting revenues of $22.94bn in Q2 2019 ending 3 August, compared to the $20.1bn turned over by Big Blue in its own latest quarter.…

We’ve extended our early bird offer offer... Events If getting to grips with AWS Lambda, Azure Functions or FaaS is on your todo list, you should add something else – joining us at Serverless Computing London this November.…

Also: New gear out, plus ENISA overlooks squirrels Freed from the attentions of Qualcomm, NXP Semiconductor has been looking around for its own acquisitions, and this week announced it had slurped OmniPHY.…

Also: Your Phone gets a bit more useful Still reeling from The Great Azure Outage Of September 2018? Fear not – new builds, new apps and some slightly flaky Android integration were the order of week.…

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