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Top court, that is – she coped fine with the escalator A Canadian woman fined for failing to hold on to an escalator handrail in 2009 has finally reached the Supreme Court in her search for justice.…

Machine learning chips for everyone and everything Chinese IT leviathan Huawei has launched a range of hardware for machine learning applications based on its own specialised silicon.…

BlackBerry throws lifebelt to marooned users BlackBerry has said it will open up its BBM Enterprise encrypted chat service to all-comers as the consumer version nears death.…

Is manufacturing proving ground for mainstream solutions? Reader Study We're all getting a bit fed up with marketeers who tag pretty much anything they can with "AI-enabled" or "powered by AI". But we also know that AI is more than just pure hype – yes, it's a bandwagon, but it can also be both a fundamental technology shift and a deep operational transformation.…

Industry veteran to teach Jenkins-flinger new tricks CloudBees, DevOps darling and spiritual home of the Jenkins platform, has been on a bit of a spending spree, picking up release orchestration outfit Electric Cloud.…

So that's all OK then Facebook has admitted to harvesting email contacts from 1.5 million people without permission.…

Founder Terry Gou steps down for new life in political limelight The boss of Taiwanese manufacturer Foxconn is stepping down in order to run in upcoming presidential elections in Taiwan.…

Plus: Other market-watcher 'unaware' of firm's hardware sales Autonomy Trial A City analyst was accused of being "seriously unethical" after selectively telling investors in Autonomy to sell their stocks in the firm, London's High Court heard earlier this week.…

Meanwhile, customers complain of complete comms shutdown Updated Customers of web host 1&1 Ionos are complaining of a lack of communication after the company suffered a day-long server outage that pulled some websites offline.…

It's like talking to my children, sighs marketing bigwig Huawei top brass took to the stage in Shenzhen this week to insist that everything was fine and dandy in the company's world, despite the shrieking from US lawmakers.…

New Linux kernel, new build Pull on those flares and perch atop your most precipitous platforms – Canonical has emitted Ubuntu 19.04, aka "Disco Dingo", with its sights set firmly on infrastructure.…

Just weeks to go until Continuous Lifecycle London 2019 opens its doors Events We’ll be opening the doors at Continuous Lifecycle in less than one month, and we really want you to join us to discuss containers, DevOps, Continuous Delivery and much, much more.…

All your URLs are belong to us On Tuesday Google renovated its Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) web publishing format, making it more secure with less Chocolate Factory branding – a change certain to be welcomed by publishers committed to AMP.…

Here's that regularized programming you wanted. Bish, bash, er, Bosque Interview Microsoft has introduced a new open source programming language called Bosque that aspires to be simple and easy to understand by embracing algebraic operations and shunning techniques that create complexity.…

Breaking news: Hacks hacked off by Galaxy Fold fail (at least the mobes haven't caught fire) Samsung’s space-age Galaxy Fold smartphones, which you can fold in half to pop in your pocket, are cracking up after just a few days of use.…

You wouldn't download a car – oh actually... The maker of a car-hire smartphone app has temporarily halted its service in Chicago after dozens of its vehicles were stolen.…

Critical patch available now for those with vulnerable kit Cisco has issued a security patch for a flaw in some of its routers that can be exploited by miscreants to potentially rifle through telecommunications networks.…

Website settings altered to point visitors to malicious clones Internet domain registrars and at least one registry were hijacked to change certain websites' DNS settings so that visitors to said sites were in fact directed to password-stealing phishing pages, researchers detailed on Wednesday.…

Welcome to the free market as defined by right-wing politics America's Federal Communications Commission (FCC) will block the entry of the world's largest mobile company – China Mobile – into the US market, citing security concerns.…

Why? Because biased AI is bad news for minorities Microsoft president Brad Smith has revealed that the company turned down an order from California cops for its facial recognition technology over human rights concerns.…

IT services are in, building and upgrading your own data centres – not so much Bean counters at Gartner have updated their forecast for IT spending in 2019, and the total remains roughly the same - $3.8tn – but the way the money is distributed is very different from the numbers projected in January.…

Please speak clearly for the tape... I mean, my ears Interview A gauche "spy" has made clumsy efforts to get critics of Russian antivirus biz Kaspersky Lab to incriminate themselves as shills for rival security companies.…

Should companies be on the hook for criminal employees' doings? Brit supermarket chain WM Morrisons is headed for the Supreme Court to fight an earlier ruling that made it liable for one disgruntled employee dumping the personal details of 100,000 colleagues online.…

Sure, FPGAs don't make much cash, but they might soon? Intel is buying Omnitek, a small British FPGA design house primarily serving the media and broadcast industries.…

That Storwize array refresh was really needed Analysis IBM has posted a third sequential quarter of storage hardware revenue decline as part of its first 2019 quarter's results.…

Virgin complaint upheld The UK's Advertising Standards Authority has slammed Brit telco Vodafone's ads for its "Gigafast Broadband" as misleading.…

Skip it, it's a Google thing Linux-loving hyperscale types at Euro startup Quobyte have pushed out a plug-in for its Data Centre File System, used in HPC-style workloads, that enables TensorFlow apps to access its files directly instead of having to traipse through the Linux kernel.…

You have three months left of unfettered self-love to enjoy Stick 15 July in your diary because the government has at last broken its silence over when the UK's age checks for online porn will come into force – thrusting legions of onanists a timeline for either their last hurrahs or how they intend to circumvent the system.…

Deadline for 5G kit was perilously close Comment The dramatic peace treaty between Apple and Qualcomm is good news for iPhone buyers, but raises questions about the market's ability to produce a viable competitor to the 5G leader – at least in the short term.…

Can't take over the galaxy if you don't know how it works, innit? American researchers are working to introduce the laws of physics into machine learning models to improve the way algorithms understand the real world.…

Wednesday off every week? OK, you have our attention Wednesday, colloquially known as "hump day", tends to be regarded as the toughest of the working week. Furthest from the weekend in either direction, distracted eyes flit constantly clockwards in anticipation of medicinal refreshment or simply just leaving a bureaucratic hellhole.…

I was slapped in Nebraska, sunshine, not California Special report In the internet era where people are able to interact across wide geographic areas, the world's legal systems have struggled with the question of where an offence occurred and so where a lawsuit or criminal charges should be lodged.…

Dead telescope keeps on giving Binary star systems are relatively rare but astroboffins poring through data from the now-defunct Kepler telescope have found something unique - a binary system with three planets.…

Put that on the side of a bus While the UK government has been trumpeting Blighty's ambitions in the great beyond, a little bit of Scottish satellite infrastructure will close its doors for the last time this month.…

Approach could one day create faster data centre interconnect Researchers at the Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Germany have said they have developed a novel method of encoding information with lasers that could boost the amount of bandwidth sent down a strand of fibre to 240 gigabits per second.…

Scaling buggy hardware is easier than scaling software Comment Industry sources have confirmed that Google is readying lower-cost Pixel smartphones for imminent launch.…

Your wish come true, thanks to these US neural net boffins Artificially intelligent software could help doctors treat a problem that is, quite literally, a pain in the arse: prostate cancer.…

Hold the front page Red Hat, now a part of Big Blue, on Tuesday released its first annual survey on the State of Enterprise Open Source, a statistical snapshot of what IT leaders think about Linux, Kubernetes and the like.…

Rogue employee takes blame, seems he ain't no Fortinet son Fortinet this week agreed to pay the US government $545,000 to settle claims it allowed employees to peddle Chinese-made gear that would eventually end up being illegally supplied to federal agencies.…

So tonight I'm gonna party like it's, er, two thousand sixteen IBM is attributing another slow quarter to currency headwinds and purchase cycles, as Big Blue logged a dip in revenues for the third consecutive quarter. That means it's back into its old groove of shrinking sales.…

Multiple pre-auth remote code exec holes need pasting over, enterprise IT giant warns Oracle today issued its quarterly security updates, patching a total of 296 vulnerabilities across its massive line of enterprise software.…

iThings flogger, chip-licensing biz put differences aside, agree multi-year modem supply deal Updated Apple and Qualcomm today settled out of court all of their various patent and licensing legal battles against one another around the world.…

Amendment would exempt, um, Google and Facebook Analysis A proposed amendment to California's new data privacy law would drive a huge hole through the legislation, privacy advocates have warned.…

Blocklist biz appears to swing ban-hammer at legit vuln scanners, denies doing so Analysis In recent months, several security researchers have said Spamhaus has been automatically blocking people for carrying out legitimate network port scanning and failed to provide a prompt means of redress.…

UK personal sales drop whopping 17.6%, Windows saves day for biz A general fall in consumer PC sales across Western Europe was particularly marked in the UK, where confidence is "low amidst Brexit-related uncertainty" and sales to consumers dropped by a whopping 17.6 per cent in calendar Q1.…

Freelance techies take note Claims that Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs does not understand its own rules are all the louder now the UK taxman has lost another IR35 case – this time to TV and radio broadcaster Kaye Adams.…

2018 signups down 130,000, 35,000 naughty sites nuked EURid, registry manager of the .eu top-level domain, has reported a plunge of just over 130,000 registrations for 2018.…

ICO slaps £80k penalty on biz that bothered opted-out peeps The UK's data protection watchdog today fined a funeral plan firm £80,000 for contacting tens of thousands of people who had registered with the Telephone Preference Service (TPS).…

Over two-thirds of attacks Russian biz spied targeted venerable Microsoft suite Russian security biz Kaspersky Lab has said more than 70 per cent of malware attacks it detected last year were made against everyone's favourite Microsoft suite – Office.…

HPC goodness sure to cost an Arm and a leg Folk wanting in on the Arm-based goodness baked into Japan's upcoming "Post-K" exascale supercomputer are in luck – Fujitsu has finished the design and sales of commercial versions will begin some time between October 2019 and March 2020.…