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Big Linux distros have pushed their fixes, but let's not assume everything auto-patches, OK? It’s time to patch Samba again - or turn off SAMBA 1, which is never as easy as it sounds.…

Programming language makes some fuzzy big numbers Consider this an item for the watch-list, rather than a reason to hit the panic button: a math error in the Go language could potentially affect cryptographic libraries.…

This may explain why you've craved Vlad Putin's borscht recipe since mid-2016 Facebook has revealed it's started work on a tool that will let its members learn if they saw ads published by the “Internet Research Agency”, the outfit thought to have been behind mass buys of pro-Kremlin propaganda ads during the 2016 US presidential election.…

AWS explains itself to project Board, keeps its revelations off the record Fresh from the news that Amazon Web Services intends to replace its hypervisor, the Xen Project will tell the world it has a fine future in embedded applications.…

Verification, credibility and accuracy Sponsored Big data holds great promise: structured and unstructured data harvested, processes and analysed in near-real-time by organisations sifting for new opportunities or seeking to refine existing activities. Data is pouring in: from sensors, shoppers, IoT, social and more with companies investing in big-data projects, from data lakes and processing frameworks like Hadoop to analytics tools and Intel hardware.…

Just in time for Thanksgiving when no one will notice Ajit Pai, head of America's communications watchdog the FCC, has unveiled his "plan to repeal the Obama Administration's heavy-handed regulation of the Internet," referred to by critics as an anti-consumer giveaway to large communications companies.…

Off-shored statue offered a curious roll A Catholic School in Australia has been left red-faced after a newly commissioned statue of a revered saint appeared to be offering to share more than a few loaves and fishes with the little children.…

Hmmm. Looks familiar… Microsoft is experimenting with taking Search out of Cortana and making it more Mac-like in the newest Windows 10 build.…

We'd ask them what it means, but, uh... Apple researchers have released a paper about a "trainable deep architecture", setting out the fruity firm's plans to make autonomous vehicles better at detecting cyclists and pedestrians.…

Are you in control? Comment According to an old Chinese proverb: "When a wise man points at the Moon, an idiot looks at his finger." Google may have been hoping that you were examining a finger, not reading a Quartz story yesterday, which reveals how Android phones send location data to Google without you even knowing it.…

MP: Funny, you managed to contact customers when TfL put your licence on hold… Brit regulators, security agencies and MPs have slammed Uber for covering up the massive data breach of 57 million customer and driver records.…

Trebling comp sci teachers, digi tax evaders clampdown “The world is on the brink of a technological revolution,” UK chancellor Philip Hammond declared in Blighty's Autumn budget today. “We choose the future; we choose to run towards change, not away from it.”…

Broadband TV spot hid key details in hard-to-read text BT has had its ears boxed by the Advertising Standards Agency after one of its adverts with masses of small print was ruled "likely to mislead".…

Not so, er, Nimble in the area Comment Did HPE shoot itself in the foot with US 3PAR push? Its fourth quarter results showed storage revenues grew slightly but with sales in the US of the tech limping in a quarter with sales organisation changes.…

MoD claims it's still committed but warns of 'uncertainty' Rising costs might force the UK to reduce its order of F-35 fighter jets, the House of Commons has been told.…

But for Pete's sake, don’t recommend another new body The UK's health service should get cheaper rates on healthcare products developed using NHS data, peers have been told.…

♫ "Boredom, boredom, boredom, b'dum b'dum" ♫ SIM-only contracts are now the most popular kind of mobile deal in the UK, as punters step off the tedious upgrade treadmill.…

Wow, I see what you did there *rolls eyes* The maintainer of the Linux manual program man has scrapped an "Easter egg" after it broke a user's automatic code tests.…

Sacha Baron Cohen steps in after Czech tourists become butt of joke Borat creator Brit comedian Sacha Baron Cohen has said he'll pay the fines handed to a group of mankini-clad Czech tourists by Kazakhstani authorities.…

And who will build the roads, asks Transport for London London mayor Sadiq Khan has come out against driverless electric cars, telling Parliament that adoption of the vehicles by Londoners could harm government tax revenues, reduce the number of cyclists – and leave questions over who would build the roads.…

Hold on to your laces, email server was compromised Miscreants, hackers – call 'em what you will – have pilfered email addresses from an unknown number of Loake Shoes customers.…

And you can probably guess how that turned out Hacks played representatives of a hacked company in an incident response exercise run by F-Secure this week.…

Python is not the be-all and end-all of writing smart algorithms Machine learning is fast becoming one of the high-growth areas for developers – but what language should you employ, given that so many exist?…

Using bcache to speed Linux 4.14? Stop if you want your data to live A filesystem-eating bug has been found in Linux 4.14.…

Ad giant has malware detection in its script-hosting service... but Coin Hive isn't flagged Crypto-jackers using Coin Hive code to secretly mine Monero via computing power supplied by the unsuspecting have found Google Tag Manager to be a convenient means of distribution.…

Read-only doom-day slips, December axe still ohovers Even a turkey can get a reprieve: Microsoft's CodePlex shut-down date has run late, but is still imminent.…

Personal gear a more reliable moneymaker than servers. Who knew? On a day when Meg Whitman, CEO of its sibling HPE, announced her departure from the biz, HP Inc revealed its slow and steady progress in two tough markets.…

iGiant didn't want to aid censorship, but $10bn in revenue is $10bn in revenue Apple has told the US government it cooperated with China's demands to block VPN services so it could get other concessions from the Middle Kingdom on human rights.…

More than 20 pulls a day on his desk, v.4.15 bloating and a Thanksgiving trip to pack for made Linus testy Linux overlord Linus Torvalds has apologised – a bit – for calling some security-centric kernel contributors “f*cking morons”.…

Dept. of Justice lamely says 'winter is coming' for Behzad Mesri, aka 'Skote Vahshat' The United States' Department of Justice has identified a suspect in July's attack on Home Box Office, naming an Iranian national, Behzad Mesri, in an indictment unsealed Tuesday, November 21.…

VMware-certified partners will help as Redmond also starts vSphere-to-Azure migrations Microsoft has announced it will offer “the full VMware stack on Azure hardware” with the help of an as-yet-unnamed VMware partner.…

This bug is a feature in 11 out of 12 scenarios Microsoft has rebutted analysis that suggested its Address Space Layout Randomisation (ASLR) technology could be exploited.…

War over Java spills into mobile privacy world Analysis Having evidently forgotten about that Street View Wi-Fi-harvesting debacle, Google has admitted constantly collecting the whereabouts of Android devices regardless of whether or not they have location tracking enabled.…

And it happened a year ago, hoped you wouldn't find out Uber's CEO Dara Khosrowshahi today revealed hackers broke into the ride-hailing app's databases and stole personal information on 57 million passengers and drivers – information including names, email addresses, and phone numbers.…

Stock tumbles, sales sag, profits wiped out, boss ejects Hewlett Packard Enterprise boss Meg Whitman is stepping down, and will be replaced on February 1 by company president Antonio Neri.…

Pai will lay out plan this week, vote in December Analysis Ajit Pai, chairman of America's broadband watchdog, today confirmed what we all knew was coming for months now: a move to tear up the Obama-era's rules on network neutrality in the US.…

First profit in two years, fresh funding, new faces FalconStor has confirmed its first profit in more than two years, bagged fresh funding and employed a new bunch of new faces in its exec lounge.…

Matt Hancock blissfully unaware that deal is on brink of collapse UK digital minister Matt Hancock has denied that talks with BT to improve poor internet speeds in 1.4 million rural areas have fallen through.…

The Chocolate Factory plugs accessibility fudge Mobile app developers are being forced to rewrite their code as Google attempts to tame Android's Wild West.…

The hybrid Arm-Intel Mac draws near One day we'll look back and wonder why it took PCs so long to move from RISC chips that had to pretend to be CISC chips to RISC chips that didn't have to pretend to be anything.…

Others reckon Chancellor's taking it a bit too far... Over the weekend, chancellor Philip Hammond boasted that “fully driverless cars” would be on Britain’s roads in four years’ time. Some in the driverless car industry think this is a dangerous fantasy, while more high-profile driverless car software companies are all in favour of it.…

DL385 blasts SPEC benchmark HPE has upgraded its Opteron-using DL385p server with AMD Epyc processors and used it to notch up a pair of record SPEC benchmarks.…

Survey reveals GDPR training and investment is on the rise Multinationals whose data protection compliance was rubberstamped by the UK's privacy regulator have been assured they won't be stripped of the authorisation after Brexit.…

Brit biz bosses, improve your infosec. We'll handle Russia The chief exec of the National Cyber Security Centre – a branch of the UK's spy nerve-centre GCHQ – has called on everyone to enable two-factor authentication for their emails. This follows revelations that almost the entire population's details are available for sale on the dark web.…

Machine-learning engine stapled to 3PAR arrays HPE is updating its acquired Nimble Storage InfoSight array management system with a machine learning-driven recommendation engine, and adding InfoSight to 3PAR arrays.…

Black Friday week? Is that a thing? Er, not for all retailers What started as a Saturday afternoon nap for SagePay turned into a three-day snooze fest, angering retailers that were as of last night still struggling to process sales in a peak shopping week.…

Another day, another online banking snafu Users who bank online with the Royal Bank of Scotland are having a tough time logging in this morning.…

User files bug report A Debian software package containing an "ASCII representation of zoophilia" has been installed automatically on some users' machines.…

Burkina Faso the most expensive, UK in top third cheapest Tired of continual price hikes on your broadband deal? Then why not move to Iran? According to a study released today, it has the cheapest broadband in the world (if you're willing to ignore political and social problems...)…

Yeah? Us neither. Here's another 'anchored benchmark' of a storage round-up We start this week's collection of storage news with the marketing buzzwords of the month award, which goes to startup Panoply for outstanding excellence.…