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Jobs, schmobs: ZTE's about national security, stupid, say Republicans United States president Donald Trump appears to have tried to get back to making America great again, rather than saving jobs in China, with a new Tweet about Chinese network kit-maker ZTE.…

Fastest-ever adoption and connection rate needed, but at least finances look decent nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's national broadband network, last week released its third quarter results. And as is now our practice at Vulture South, we’ve shoved its numbers into our nbn™ scoreboard – the table we use to compare assumptions from the nbn™’s corporate plan (PDF) with its latest results.…

Sole admin on holiday as devs cross fingers and hope there's a backup <pOpen source WiFi firmware project OpenWrt says a hardware fault has taken down its forums, which appear not to be recoverable.…

CEO blames 'nationalisation' for limp financials, like The Simpsons can't defend ARPU Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN) continues to white-ant the business of dominant local carrier Telstra, which yesterday cut its earnings guidance yesterday.…

Hey Google, don't be evil! Hundreds of academics across the world have signed an open letter urging Google to stop working with the US Department of Defense in analysing drone footage using its AI technology for Project Maven.…

Three million "intimate" user profiles offered to researchers Yet another rogue Facebook app that gathered and sold "intimate" details on millions of users has come to light.…

Dark energy clue comes to light A universe containing life like ours is probably more common in the multiverse than previously thought, according to new theoretical studies.…

Plume pinpointing means the Europa Clipper is going surfing Space scientists have just figured out that an unusual anomaly from over 20 years ago was the equivalent of a space probe being squirted in the face.…

Of course by "we", we mean educated, well-off Westerners Before you get back to constructing your underground chamber to protect humanity from the hordes of death-dealing AI robots, we have a more optimistic view of the future for you.…

If a hacker can get into your inbox of ciphered messages, they may be able to read the content Security researchers have gone public with vulnerabilities in some secure mail apps that can be exploited by miscreants to decrypt intercepted PGP-encrypted messages.…

Researchers punch hole in encryption classics Security researchers are going public with a vulnerability that is leaving some secure mail apps vulnerable to decryption.…

Tons of critical fixes for Reader, Acrobat and Photoshop Adobe has posted security updates for Acrobat, Reader, and Photoshop, many of them critical fixes.…

Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo all guilty, Apple in the clear The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has revealed the names of six companies it formally warned over efforts to force consumers to use only their replacement parts.…

£20bn military budget black hole is NOT our problem F-35 maker Lockheed Martin’s UK chief has breezily dismissed the idea of Britain cutting the number of jets it is buying from the US firm.…

Accessors of 'large amounts' of data pre-2014 get time-out pending probe Facebook has suspended 200 apps while it probes whether they misused people's information as part of its investigation into dodgy data dealings.…

The last one was named after a Dickensian thief, to be fair The Royal Navy, always keeping up with the times, has named its newest attack submarine HMS Agincourt, after the 1415 battle where an English army beat French troops led by its nobility.…

Ever since Snowden it's been the default – report Encryption is making it more difficult for law enforcement agencies to detect dangerous offenders, according the the National Crime Agency's (NCA) yearly assessment of serious organised crime in Britain.…

Quickly follows 2018's Pro Mobile parts AMD spent a pretty penny marketing its desktop-grade Ryzen Pro chips, to launch this week, but we'll summarize the new line for you in just a dozen words: they are cheaper than rival Intel parts, and have nice enough graphics.…

Rumours of meatball-based escalation unfounded Weekend shoppers can now add trolley rage to the list of reasons to avoid their local IKEA store after an altercation in southeastern Germany ended up with a visit to hospital.…

Dust disables costly kit and repairs are EXPENSIVE Two Apple customers, fed up with the keyboards used in recent model MacBook notebooks, filed a lawsuit against the company on Friday in a San Jose, Calif, federal court.…

Bumkins still lag cityzens on connectivity A group of cross-party MPs have urged digital secretary Matt Hancock to whack a legal obligation on the UK's four mobile operators to provide 4G coverage to 95 per cent of the UK's landmass by 2022.…

So many good reasons not to get with the program Here you are, doing the DevOps so hard you've broken the spine of your DevOps Handbook, but Robin won't get with the whole "culture thing".…

Is this how you tame the beast, though? News Corp publications and networks traditionally rail against government intervention, but the media giant's boss Robert Thomson has urged governments to establish "algorithm review boards" to help police Google and Facebook.…

Where to begin with born-to-be-scaled stuff Given the hype around microservices, it's tempting to question whether the task of managing microservices has also been oversold. Isn't it just just like managing a traditional piece of software? Well, no. Here's why.…

Automated filth shows plan just grist to the privacy activists' mill Web-dwellers who don't use Tor but are worried about the UK's impending smut block interrupting their viewing habits have been offered a simple way to satisfy their urges – porn by Email.…

Client was silent on critical network details and little things like multi-tenancy Who, me? Welcome again to “Who, me?”, The Register’s confessional column in which techies unburden their souls by revealing that they have broken stuff.…

Users advised to stop using and/or uninstall plugins ASAP to stop Pretty Grievous Pwnage A professor of Computer Security at the Münster University of Applied Sciences‏ has warned that popular email encryption tool Pretty Good Privacy (PGP) might actually allow Pretty Grievous P0wnage thanks to bugs that can allow supposedly encrypted emails to be read as plaintext.…

Arise, ‘Citrix Hypervisor’ and ‘ Citrix SD-WAN’ Citrix has rebranded most of its stuff.…

At an inquiry into news and ads, of all things. Is Big Red playing a deeper game? Oracle has “provided information … about Google services” to Australian regulators.…

Contact form data left on server for more than TWO YEARS, then came ransomware The Australian State of New South Wales' reproductive and sexual health organisation Family Planning NSW has advised users of an April 2018 ransomware attack that may have compromised sensitive information.…

Developer's dreams of driving off in a Ferrari dashed Admins of the Ubuntu Store have pulled all apps from a developer who signed himself "Nicholas Tomb", and from his e-mail signature apparently wanted to crypto-mine himself into a Ferrari.…

Open networking foundation reckons SDN controller devs can sort it out at their end The Open Networking Foundation is moving to address the protocol vulnerability revealed last week in OpenFlow, but won't revise the protocol. Not yet, anyway.…

VID Why crawl when you can fly? Because flying in a thin atmosphere is hard, but Mars 2020 will try anyway NASA has announced that its Mars 2020 mission will include a small helicopter.…

Infosec bods remind devs, users to check for patches Electron – the widely used desktop application framework that renders top programs such as Slack, Atom, and Visual Studio Code – suffered from a security vulnerability that potentially allows miscreants to execute evil code on victims' computers.…

Sanctions for Chinese networks-and-smartmobe outfit one week, diplomacy the next United States President Donald Trump has signalled an intervention to avoid job losses at Chinese networking-kit-and-smartmobe-maker ZTE.…

Hacking laws in the limelight in Georgia and DC, plus new iPhone anti-tampering Roundup Here's a roundup of everything that's happened in the world of infosec this week, beyond what we've already covered.…

Find out more about Google Duplex, the Atlas robot, and what caused Uber's deadly accident Roundup Here's a summary of this week's AI news, beyond what we've already covered.…

One small step for Musk, one giant leap for Bangladesh After a day's delay, Bangladesh's first satellite was today successfully launched atop the first SpaceX Falcon 9 Block 5 rocket.…

But wait! Is that a shining white knight come to save us all? So we finally have a date: June 11, 2018.…

Afrinic in limbo in aftermath of sex harassment claims A protest vote against corporate mismanagement at Africa's main internet body has sent the organization into freefall.…

Senator Wyden asks FCC, mobile carriers to investigate stalker tech Updated An American telco that provides costly phone services to prisoners has been accused of harvesting location data on American phone users – and selling it to the police with no oversight.…

University claims the Bezos Bunch nicked its ideas for language processing Amazon is the target of a patent complaint from a US university that claims the Alexa assistant ripped off its technology for processing voice commands.…

Dell teases high and low-end hyperconverged kit at .NEXT Nutanix .NEXT attendees were this week furnished with details about a heavy duty server and skinny ROBO box – two new Nutanix-based hyperconverged systems from Dell.…

Cheltenham biz awarded $30m in damages against Emerson Facebook's open data centre initiative used stolen British know-how, a Californian jury ruled yesterday.…

Just as the $50m returned from Big Red court battles lifts profits Oracle third-party support slinger Rimini Street has added Salesforce to its portfolio, which isn't going to ease any tension that still exists with Larry Ellison's lot following a protracted court battle.…

Public Accounts Committee recommends department chains its wallet shut Britain's Ministry of Defence's spending plans for the next decade "lack cost control" and contain a £20bn black hole, according to the House of Commons' influential Public Accounts Committee (PAC).…

Researcher finds security hotspots on some rail networks Vulnerabilities on the Wi-Fi networks of a number of rail operators could expose customers' credit card information, according to infosec biz Pen Test Partners this week.…

Storwize catches up with rivals, adds cube of ML sugar to block storage too IBM is again playing catch up with rivals by adding a heavy sprinkling of dedupe dust to its near two-year old Storwize arrays and other products.…

Falcon 9 launch countdown stops at the last minute The launch of SpaceX’s updated Falcon 9, with Bangladesh’s first satellite perched on top, was halted at the 58 second mark.…

Is line-of-sight gear good enough for this kind of work? Southend Airport has trialled an anti-drone system – though its air traffic control boss cheerfully admitted the airport doesn’t have any “outstanding issues with ‘rogue’ drone operations”.…