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Collaboration toys, ransomware protection and a 20% price hike Dropbox has announced new features and partnerships with Atlassian, Slack and Zoom – but it comes after a price rise that has some users feeling hit under the collar.…

OMG, emoji panel also fixed in Microsoft's 2020 OS Microsoft has given its army of unpaid testers some Linux loving with the latest build of next year's Windows 10.…

Sajid Javid inks court papers for hearing tomorrow UK Home Secretary Sajid Javid revealed this morning that he has signed papers to have Julian Assange extradited to the US.…

Ground-penetrating radar and micro ducting to keep that lovely cathedral untouched The sleepy English city of Salisbury – infamous for the poisoning of double agent Sergei Skripal last year – is once again the target of an underground network. Yep, Openreach's full-fibre plans.…

CEO Tom Leighton pitches CDNs for enterprise Akamai Edge World The future of enterprise IT is not in centralised clouds, but in a complex interplay between massive core data centres and small edge locations.…

Office 365 to demonstrate legendary ability to not fall over when pushed to the front line Lucky London plod have been gently nudged down the Microsoft 365 staircase with the cloudy platform rolled out to Metropolitan Police employees.…

Simplify your technology estate and move onto more effective platforms Sponsored webcast Total Gas & Power supplies gas and electricity to industrial, commercial, and business customers across the UK.…

CFO said she talked 'dead man walking' down Autonomy Trial One-time bungling HP chief exec Leo Apotheker seriously considered slurping two software giants in addition to the disastrous buy of Autonomy – but was talked out of it by HP's then-CFO Cathie Lesjak.…

Euro super-boffins embrace MAlt right after academic discount axed For the past twenty years, European boffinry nerve-center CERN has enjoyed licensing Microsoft products on favorable terms as an academic institution.…

Talk about a high profile discovery Wooden burners unearthed from ancient Chinese tombs dating back 2,500 years have revealed the earliest evidence of humans smoking cannabis yet.…

'It is something we are interested in … but the economic model hasn’t worked out yet' Akamai Edge World Akamai CEO Tom Leighton – an expert in distributed computing with 50 patents under his belt – has thrown shade on Google’s plans to launch a cloud-based gaming platform.…

We want to make Chrome safer... by taking away the API we used to race Firefox Analysis Google on Wednesday defended its pending work-in-progress updates to Chrome that will change the way extensions filter out web adverts and other content.…

If it's not a 50in TV or a huge fridge of soylent, we don't want to know Off-the-shelf object-recognition systems struggle, relatively speaking, to identify common items in hard-up homes in countries across Africa, Asia, and South America. The same software performs better at identifying stuff in richer households in Europe and North America.…

La Liga says privacy watchdog is Barca-ing up the wrong tree A top Spanish soccer body is facing a six-figure GDPR fine for inappropriately and covertly accessing the microphones of fans using its cellphone app.…

I'm sorry, I won't comment on ongoing litigation: Two privacy lawsuits filed against Amazon Amazon has been hit with two lawsuits in the US regarding the recording and storage of children's voices through its Alexa digital assistant.…

All that was missing was a Beware of the Leopard sign A "highly skilled IT professional" has lost his fight to be paid his unused vacation days as well as a non-trivial bonus, after a judge stuck to a law he admitted was outdated.…

Welcome to Vim Sh*tty 2000 Proof-of-concept text files are now available that, when opened in a vulnerable installation of the Vim and Neovim, will execute commands on the underlying machine, or even open a backdoor.…

Next up, Falcon Heavy and thinking about those Crew Dragons for Bigelow SpaceX nailed a second landing of a Falcon 9 first stage at its Vandenberg Landing Zone 4 today after punching through the Californian fog to send a trio of Canadian satellites into orbit.…

OK, it has Files On-Demand, but haven't the people suffered enough? Uneasy bedfellows Apple and Microsoft have hooked up to update the PC client for the fruity firm's cloudy storage service.…

Not great, not terrible – but downright diabolical The absolute state of 2019 is that millions of vapid young people, followed by millions more vapid young people, make serious bank just by virtue of being really, really, really ridiculously good looking and posting about it online.…

SQL support and Release 4 arrives in cloudy open source service Feeling a bit poorly? Good news! Microsoft has added SQL to its FHIR Server for Azure, so your symptoms can now be flung even further.…

They've got us on the list Huawei has suspended the launch of the latest Matebook laptop ahead of sanctions being imposed by the US government that will block it from dealing with American suppliers.…

A stitch in time saves 6.5 Microsoft crossed its fingers and started rolling out an update to Azure Service Fabric over its cloudy platform yesterday.…

Call for industry giants to get zoned in on SMR, ZNS drives Western Digital is launching an open initiative called Zoned Storage to convince industry to develop standards and software for emerging types of high-capacity drives – thus feathering its own nest.…

Connect with developments in the operational technology world Sponsored webcast While many organisations are still gazing in marvel at the inelegantly named Internet of Things, the technology world has been making big strides in the area of routinely handling data from thousands of pieces of equipment.…

Think different? In Europe, they definitely are: Huawei, the lads! It isn’t just in China that Apple’s feeling the burn of shrinking iPhone sales. The reassuringly expensive mobe maker is, we're told, shipping millions fewer handsets in Western, Central and Eastern Europe, too.…

Good – if you're eye-deep in Amazon's cloud, that is Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added key features to the console and API for its source code repository, CodeCommit.…

'Text editing' system for speeches to change meanings emerges along with CEO-goading art attack Video Once again, artificially intelligent software has been demonstrated automatically editing videos of talking heads to make them say things they haven’t actually uttered. And it's getting better at it. Today, it's altering footage of boffins, and Mark Zuckerberg and Kim Kardashian, but next it could be you. Probably not.…

Bad news: Might actually be 1,000 years. And not even that devastating Our Sun may be middle-aged but it still has the energy to expel superflares, a rare rush of energy, every few thousands of years that could destroy Earth’s spacecraft and electronics, scientists warned.…

Kaspersky fingers pro-G filters for letting cyber-muck through Spammers are abusing the preferential treatment Google affords its own apps to score free passes through Gmail's spam filters, it was claimed this week.…

Boffins blast boards to boost bits Bit boffins from Australia, Austria, and the US have expanded upon the Rowhammer memory attack technique to create more dangerous variation called RAMBleed that can expose confidential system memory.…

And Google drops a zero-day on Windows after deadline miss Patch Tuesday Microsoft, Adobe, Intel, and SAP have all emitted their latest Patch Tuesday batch of security fixes. Users and admins are encouraged to test and install the updates as soon as humanly possible.…

In Cupertino, no one can hear, er, see your screen Apple's "geniuses" spent two weeks and an estimated $10,000 in warranty costs fixing a MacBook Pro screen fault that was resolved with a single button press or three.…

State attorneys general unimpressed by FCC boss's rationale Ten state attorneys general, including New York and California, are suing in an effort to stop the merger of T-Mobile US and Sprint.…

Automattic's premium hosting service goes TITSUP: Total Inability To Serve Usual Pages Updated News websites and other top sites have fallen over, or reverted to 2002-era my-first-blog themes, after their hosting platform, WordPress.com's premium VIP Go service, broke down today.…

My God, it's full of... really dense metal? Eggheads in Texas have discovered a huge, dense mass lurking beneath an enormous crater on the Moon.…

Chipzilla smacks lips with eyes fixed on the cloud biz Intel is acquiring custom network chip maker Barefoot Networks in a broadside that just might rattle arch-rival Broadcom.…

EMEA and UK teams to colocate in Uxbridge, local MP shakes fist at stalled Brexit Canon is to shutter its Reigate office in deepest Surrey in favour of the unbridled glamour of Uxbridge.…

Also, decoding the Donald and opening up BEAM Roundup Presidential frothing over NASA's direction was swiftly wiped from the walls last week while ESA continued quietly progressing towards new rockets and vehicles.…

'Time to grow up,' says geek behind breach database Troy Hunt, inventor and operator of the popular security website Have I Been Pwned (HIBP), is putting the service up for sale.…

Russian bloke's heroics rewrite survival guides the world over If you go down to the woods today, do it somewhere nice like the Forest of Dean* and definitely not Siberia, where a 30-year-old bloke only escaped with his life because he bit the tongue off the bear mauling him.…

Rights groups slam UK.gov's customer due diligence plans The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and UK Open Rights Group have responded to an HM Treasury consultation on money laundering legislation, in particular to the suggestion that publishing open-source software should be subject to customer due diligence requirements.…

Taxpayers taken for 'mugs' as UK.gov contract awards surface Updated AWS has been accused of treating the British public like "mugs" after it emerged HMRC splashed £11m with the cloud giant last year, more than six times the amount it received in corporation tax from the US firm.…

The Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast system is not happy. Not happy at all Hundred of flights were cancelled and aircraft grounded stateside over the weekend due to a mystery GPS glitch.…

Learn the secret of two-pizza teams and other aids to creating an agile environment Promo Amazon Web Services has launched a series of videos to provide an insider’s view of how the cloud can help businesses stay one step ahead of their competitors.…

And using browser privacy extensions may just make matters worse Boffins from Graz University of Technology in Austria have devised an automated system for browser profiling using two new side channel attacks that can help expose information about software and hardware to fingerprint browsers and improve the effectiveness of exploits.…

Bottle-counting machine-learning software demoed at Business Applications Summit Microsoft has crafted a thing called AI Builder, a visual tool to inject some degree of artificial intelligence into programs created using the tech giant's low-code application builder PowerApps.…

'If we were put under any pressure by any country that we felt was wrong, we would prefer to close the business' The UK Parliament’s Science and Technology Select Committee yesterday asked experts whether Huawei poses a threat to national security. It was a question the answers to which exposed the many problems with trying to ban a manufacturer that’s been a part of the country’s telecommunications landscape for nearly two decades.…

Browser will remain gratis, optional $$-per-month services to be offered later this year Mozilla is planning to launch a suite of paid-for subscription services to complement its free and open-source Firefox browser in October.…

That story we broke in May? It is still true – and perhaps even worse than first thought The US Customs and Border Patrol today said hackers broke into one of its bungling technology subcontractors – and made off with images of people and their vehicle license plates as they passed through America's land border.…