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See? We really are a software company now! Just in case you doubt Cisco’s intention to become a software company, it’s now shrunk its Tetration analytics software and spawned a SaaS version.…

Posts hit hyper-partisan r/the_donald, CEO says most crimped before 2016 election While Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg testified before the US Congress, Reddit confessed to its own Russian problem.…

Future wars will be fought with physical and cyber robots As US Army researcher believes that wars will be fought with human soldiers commanding a team of ‘physical and cyber robots’ to create a network of “Internet of Battle Things” in the future.…

But the US patent office will probably save the day. Again Intellectual property hoarder VirnetX has had another win, probably to be short-lived, against Apple in the two companies' everlasting patent spat.…

WebAuthn and CTAP published this week A pair of authentication standards published this week have received endorsement from Mozilla, Microsoft and Google: the WebAuthn API, and the FIDO Alliance's Client-to-Authenticator Protocol.…

Small problem: world faces big shortages of air freight capacity Poll Airbus has revealed a plan to put beds in passenger planes’ cargo holds.…

And that's the worst of ten patches awaiting lucky, lucky SAP admins SAP has issued its >April security update, which brings a waiting world news of ten patch-worthy problems.…

Apparently someone still uses src to suck content into web pages from FTP servers Mozilla developers have decided to block requests for File Transfer Protocol (FTP) subresources inside web pages.…

Image boffins readying streaming codec for VR, cars, drones The Joint Photographic Experts Group's image compression standard, JPEG XS, has started to turn up in implementations ahead of its slated April 2019 completion.…

Bug allows hijack of city, army and nuclear warning systems Researchers have uncovered a remote hijacking vulnerability present in the systems many cities and organizations are using to manage emergency sirens and alerts.…

Bolstered by a booster, Robo-Zuck sits firm before senators, parries away mild questions A few hours after the introduction of Facebook's newly launched Data Abuse Bounty program – an admission the social ad network has no idea what's become of its illicitly harvested data – CEO Mark Zuckerberg reprised his long-running mea culpa show before America's lawmakers.…

Masshole 'targeted women, families, friends with abuse' A US bloke accused of cyberstalking and harassing his former housemates has been hit with two dozen more criminal charges.…

Internet registries and registrars provide terrible timeline The internet's domain name system is going to miss a May 25 deadline to become compliant with new European privacy legislation by, um, a year or so.…

Adobe's Flash also up the spout Microsoft has released the April edition of its monthly security update, this time addressing a total of 63 CVE-listed vulnerabilities.…

Warns six major companies, refuses to name names America's Federal Trade Commission has told "six major companies" to cut it out when it comes to trying to force consumers to only use their replacement parts for repairs.…

As Cambridge Analytica launches new site 'CambridgeFacts' Continuing its charm offensive, Facebook has published the details of its data abuse bounty, ahead of Mark Zuckerberg’s appearances in front of US lawmakers.…

Well, if you can't beat rivals at public cloud, advise.... Hewlett Packard Enterprise has gobbled Red Pixie, a Brit cloud consultancy and app developer, for an undisclosed sum.…

More IO, less space, faster NVMe and better automation In what it has called its Hoth release, Broadcom said it enhanced its gen 6 Fibre Channel products with new NVMe technology, automation technology, and higher density hardware.…

Audit and sales departments to be split up too SAP has changed its pricing model following mass confusion among customers and fears of litigation over indirect access.…

Signal still off the rails The London Waterloo to Southampton train line is today named the worst major commuting route for frustrated wage slaves desperate to get a signal on their way to and from the office.…

Two people in one changing room? Nein und €600 fine A steamy romp in a sauna – like there's any other kind – has landed two alleged canoodlers in hot water.…

But it'd be tricky: Teardown folk give mobe 4/10 for repairability Armed with tools to send most smartphone manufacturers into a cold sweat, the team at iFixit have found the Huawei P20 Pro is going to be a tricky beast to repair. So best not drop it, OK?…

Let's be honest, $100m was never going to cut it Dell's cloudy native software production house Pivotal expects its initial public offering to raise up to $592m.…

France et al can ban illegal taxi services without having to give Brussels a prior legislative heads-up Updated The EU’s top court has ruled against Uber in France, in a judgement that allows it and other member states to ban illegal taxi services like UberPop more easily.…

Competitive eater bit off more than he could chew A man had to be taken to hospital after eating one of the world's hottest peppers in an eating contest, it has emerged.…

Campaigners say Home Office trove must also be purged Campaigners have welcomed reports that the UK government is planning to cease monitoring pupils' nationality in its mass school data slurp.…

Half of a tiny Caribbean island, population 42,000, but still Eeek! A nation’s entire government is staggering to its feet after being shut down for a week due to a "cyber attack".…

Ransomware, external hackers dominate 2018 probe, natch The admins among you will be unsurprised to discover that, more than a quarter of the time, data breaches across the world originated between the chair and the keyboard of organisation "insiders". And no, we don't mean they clicked on a dodgy link...…

Are you a virtualization hater? I got into an argument with a friend of mine a little while back. This person abhors containers and virtualization, claims not to understand why anybody should need to use them, and refuses to deploy them in production.…

New z-series model fits in 19-inch rack without special cooling IBM has shrunk its z-series mainframes to fit 19-inch racks, the size used by just about every other server in the world.…

Google doesn't recognise dots in email addresses, which creates an opportunity for evil A developer has discovered that Gmail's email handling creates a handy phishing vector to attack Netflix customers.…

Single commit crueled version 0.7.7, a fix took three days Maintainers of ZFS on Linux have hustled out a new version after the previous release caused data loss.…

...Confidential deal followed by fresh class-action suit A busy Monday saw Facebook settle one court case, only to have another pop up.…

Nobody believes we're not a taxi company, let's go multi-modal and see if that works Uber apparently isn't burning cash fast enough, so the ride-share company has bought dockless bike-share outfit JUMP Bikes, with CEO Ryan Rzepecki coming along for the ride.…

Furious Francs flay fruit-phone flinger for financial finagling in false fatality fracas A French group opposed to Apple's tax maneuvering in Europe took to the company's stores this weekend in a public protest.…

Containerise apps to run in a browser, on anything. Annoy Citrix and VMware as you go British outfit Droplet Computing thinks it’s found a new way to package and publish applications, by bundling them up to run using WebAssembly so they can run in a browser, online or offline.…

IOS XR gets an SDN injection to help things out, too Cisco might be turning itself into a software company, but that's a slow process, and in the meantime, the router giant still has hardware on the roadmap.…

'Oblivious DNS' decouples users from the sites they visit The Domain Name System (DNS) is a plain-text service that lets anyone who can see “the wire” capture a user's DNS traffic and work out whether they're asking for naughty.com or nice.com. So to help enhance its privacy a group of researchers has proposed a more "Oblivious DNS” protocol.…

Indictment unsealed, book thrown at site's operators After the Feds swooped on the Backpage.com website on Friday, they promised to outline why. Now on Monday, they have unsealed a 93-count indictment of seven of the dot-com's staff and investors, as well as seizing the domain name.…

Azure’s ‘Australia Central’ keeps certification, but agencies told to await ‘compensating security controls’ before using it So this is awkward: last week Microsoft trumpeted its new Australian Azure regions for government clients. But three days later Australian authorities said the new regions need extra security controls before they're sufficiently secure.…

And with no public scrutiny? D'ya think that's possible? The Trump administration wants US Congress to extend the military's drone-downing powers to the Department of Homeland Security and the Department of Justice, even as it backs broader commercial deployment for unmanned aircraft.…

And it's been downhill since Clouds of sulfur dioxide billowing from erupting volcanoes may have kickstarted a chemical process that led to life on Earth more than four billion years ago, according to new research.…

Calm down Scientologists, Xenu isn't a factor Clouds of sulfur dioxide billowing from erupting volcanoes may have kickstarted a chemical process that led to life on Earth over four billion years ago, according to new research.…

It's the Ruskies! Or maybe the FBI! Stingray secrecy rebounds Senior Congressmen have demanded "immediate action" over mysterious fake cell phone towers in Washington DC that they worry could be being operated by foreign governments.…

It's the Ruskies! Or maybe the FBI. Stingray secrecy rebounds Senior Congressmen have demanded "immediate action" over mysterious fake cell phone towers in Washington DC that they worry could be being operated by foreign governments.…

Facebook boss shamefaced (again) for flouting basic concepts of privacy (again) Facebook supremo Mark Zuckerberg will apologize to US Congress this week as his website tries to clean up yet another privacy scandal.…

Feinstein, Vance to try yet again to create magic math US lawmakers are yet again trying to force backdoors into tech products, allowing Uncle Sam, and anyone else with the necessary skills, to rifle through people's private encrypted information.…

Feinstein and Vance to try yet again to create magic math US lawmakers are trying again to introduce an encryption backdoor into tech products, according to numerous leaked reports.…

ThreadKit leverages flaw fixed in February In case you needed another reason not to open Adobe Flash or Microsoft Office files from untrusted sources: ThreadKit, an app for building documents that infect vulnerable PCs with malware when opened, now targets a recently patched Flash security bug.…

It'll be totally independent, guys, even if it doesn't like the answer Facebook has announced an initiative it says will help academics investigate the effect of social media on society without overstepping the privacy line.…