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Rules that offering was a cryptocurrency speculation, not real attempt to fund app The US Securities and Exchange Commission has intervened to stop an initial coin offering (ICO) that attempted to raise US$15m for a restaurant review app named "Munchee".…

IE haunted by ghosts of past bugs – plus remote-code exec holes that'll chill your blood Microsoft has kicked out its December batch of software security fixes, the final Patch Tuesday of 2017.…

From version 12 onward, ME-equipped chips will defend against patch rollbacks Intel's Coffee Lake and Cannon Lake x86 processors can be fortified by computer manufacturers to prevent in hardware attempts to downgrade, exploit and potentially neuter Chipzilla's built-in creepy Management Engine.…

Two-decade-old hole lets hackers unlock encrypted data A 19-year-old vulnerability in the TLS network security protocol has been found in the software of at least eight IT vendors and open-source projects – and the bug could allow an attacker to decrypt encrypted communications.…

Dare we say it... Tosh won A peace has broken out between Western Digital and Toshiba over the future of their solid-state-memory factory joint-ventures.…

Nessus Pro V7 launch fiasco Tenable Security has given itself two problems, by releasing a product its users don't like, and then adding them all to a support email group that's sending uncomfortable volumes of messages.…

Trump signs defense law with No Eugenes clause, Kaspersky weighs options UPDATE President Donald Trump has signed the National Defense Authorization Act for 2018, which includes a ban on products from Kaspersky Lab running in US government agencies.…

And they cost $AU6m, on top of $89m for a replacement New South Wales TAFE's failed IT project will be a millstone around the organisation's neck for years, the state's Auditor-General warned yesterday.…

And we'll explain: Epic trolling, online pressure, window-dressing, serious wonk writing It may have escaped your notice but America's broadband watchdog, the FCC, will vote on Thursday on a provision that would effectively undermine net neutrality protections in the US. People are – and this may shock you – not happy about it.…

Venti vanilla skinny latte with sprinkles of JavaScript and a side of Monero mining, please Starbucks has joined the long growing list of organizations that have inadvertently and silently mined alt-coins on customers' computers for mystery miscreants.…

President Trump due to sign into law regulations that overrule federal judge Fellow Americans: if you receive a drone as a Christmas gift this year, you will probably have to register it with the US federal government.…

Quantum claims to node its new stuff totally dunks on rival Quantum has announced an Xcellis scale-out NAS system, claiming performance is three times better than the next-best competing NAS system.…

Scientists create self-applying membrane to protect cell A new battery designed at the University of Waterloo in Ontario could triple the range of electric vehicles, a new paper has claimed.…

The Social Network rises to criticism from former exec Facebook has taken the unusual step of responding to comments by former VP Chamath Palihapitiya that the social media giant was "destroying how society works".…

Major tax overhaul to appease govs and regulators Facebook has said it will no longer send advertising revenue through Ireland, and instead pay taxes in the countries where profits are earned.…

Chip-accelerated WAN could do wonders in the cloud Fujitsu Labs has fitted a parallelising FPGA to a server and quadrupled effective 10Gbit/s networking capacity.…

What you really want is translucency Large tech company reps quizzed over their use of algorithms have said they'd like to be transparent with users... just not too transparent.…

Building management systems easily hackable – researchers Britain's freezing weather has reanimated the issue of insecure building control systems.…

We've long admired you from afar, croons French outsourcer Tech consultant (and UK public sector buddy) Atos has offered to buy mobile chip-smith Gemalto for €4.3bn (£3.79bn) in a deal announced yesterday.…

Latest edge box pumps out more data with haste, claims vendor NAS accelerator Avere has introduced a beefier box to top its edge filer range – the FXT 5850.…

Playing catchup with Britain, or taking a slightly different tack? Two Swedish families are to start data-gathering trials for Volvo’s driverless car project, revealing that the Chinese-owned Swedish carmaker is quite a long way behind British autonomous vehicle R&D.…

Heigh-ho, heigh-ho, it's off to work we go Manchester workers were blamed for knocking out hosting business UKFast's data centre today, after it seems some hapless bod cut a cable with a pickaxe.…

Who best to drain the swamp? Why, the biggest alligator Comment The co-founder of the website that has propagated some of the internet's most enduring falsehoods on an industrial scale will address a Westminster conference about "fake news".…

'Tis the season of glad tidings, goodwill – and job cuts Seagate has said it will reduce its global headcount by 500 staffers, not long after its CEO praised all of its employees for continually going "above and beyond".…

Watchdog keeping voting rights 'huge gain' for marketing sector, say Facebook, Google et al The advertising lobby and tech megacorps including Facebook and Twitter are pushing for the UK's data protection watchdog to have full voting rights on a new, powerful European board after Brexit.…

Handling proves to be too talon order The Dutch police's scheme to use eagles as drone-intercepting assistants has turned out to be as successful as the British skier who shares their name.…

Jumping the air gap Security researchers have demonstrated a new technique for hacking air-gapped industrial control system networks, and hope their work will encourage the development of more robust defences for SCADA-based systems.…

Calls for safe spaces with comfy recliners to speed recovery Moaning men complaining they have "man flu" – a much more serious and, if sufferers are to be believed, potentially deadly version of the common cold – may actually have a point.…

What does it even mean ...and is it a good idea? What is serverless? Sure, the name serverless sounds stupid, but serverless technologies like AWS Lambda are increasingly being used by developers looking to build applications quickly.…

Nearly all Air Force recruiting grounded, online system blamed Capita’s disastrous Recruiting Partnership Project with the Ministry of Defence is so bug ridden that the Royal Air Force stopped taking on new recruits except for those in “priority roles”.…

SEC says it's monitoring transactions like a hawk The chair of the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a strongly worded Statement on Cryptocurrencies and Initial Coin Offerings that recommends extreme caution for anyone contemplating any kind of involvement in such investments.…

NorthStar WAN SDN Controller has 28 nasties, half a dozen critical Juniper admins using the company's NorthStar WAN SDN Controller Application, hop to it: the company's just dropped fixes to 28 security vulnerabilities.…

This gives us building blocks for coupla-qubits quantum computers German and American boffins have claimed a speed record for a quantum CNOT gate: 200 nanosecond operation, which would equate to 5 MHz clock speeds.…

Turi Create lands on GitHub Apple's joined other juggernauts of the tech sector by releasing an open source AI framework.…

Heat-driven storm is hundreds of kilometres deep video It's at least 150 years old, one-and-a-half Earths wide, reaches 300 km (around 200 miles) into Jupiter's atmosphere – and now, thanks to data from the Juno probe, NASA's offering the chance to take a virtual dive into the famous Great Red Spot.…

Holy Moley! iOS and MacOS were wholly holey Ian Beer of Google's Project Zero has followed up on a “coming soon” Twitter teaser with a jailbreakable iOS and Mac OS vulnerability.…

Find shows people still suck at passwords A data dump containing over 1.4 billion email addresses, passwords, and other credentials, all in clear text, has been found online by security shop @4iQ.…

Vid biz's admission shows that no data is private A tweet sent in jest from Netflix's official Twitter account on Sunday evening has called the company's data practices into question.…

POTUS also wants to Make Mars Great Again President Trump has called on NASA to focus its attention on returning humans to the Moon and landing on Mars.…

Pentium Silver, Celeron get gigabit WiFi update Intel has released the successors to its low-power Pentium 'Silver' and Celeron lines.…

Formal investigation launched. Not the first, won't be the last Canada's privacy commissioner has launched a formal investigation into the massive data breach concealed by the ride-hailing app company Uber.…

Try writing quantum code in Q#, because...uh, teleportation Those without access to a quantum computer can console themselves with Microsoft's Quantum Development Kit, introduced as a preview release on Monday.…

Porous space rocks just can't handle the pressure Researchers have discovered why most meteorites disintegrate before they reach Earth - and it's all to do with atmospheric pressure.…

Rep. Johnson shuns Kentucky sly clickin' A state legislator in Kentucky wants to mandate porn filters on all PCs and mobile phones sold in the state.…

Technologists publish open letter warning about "imminent threat" to internet Internet and technology luminaries, including Web creator Tim Berners-Lee, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and "Father of the internet" Vint Cerf, have called on the FCC to cancel its planned net neutrality vote this week, arguing that it is based on a "flawed and factually inaccurate understanding of Internet technology."…

Subtly named group has gone largely unnoticed until now Security researchers have lifted the lid on a gang of Russian-speaking cybercrooks, dubbed MoneyTaker.…

UK Airprox Board say it was 'endangering other aircraft' A "DJI Mavic type" drone was flown close to an airliner leaving London City Airport in September, a recently published UK Airprox Board report has revealed.…

Your lip service is all very well, but where are the people? A lack of skills in the engineering and technical workforce could hold up the government's industrial strategy, according to a report by the Institution of Engineering and Technology.…

Beware the 'Others', who now make up 48% of shipments Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Dell EMC top the league tables for server revenue and sales in Q3, but face rapid growth from its global competition, according to a new Gartner report.…

You might just have to wing it with that potpourri recipe There’s a chill going around cyberspace with an upsurge of people concerned that their Pinterest account has been hacked.…