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W3C, are you listening? +Comment The W3C introduces API standards that end up mostly unused, doing nothing more than loading up the code base with vulnerabilities.…

Party told to 'get it right next time' after calls crossed line into unlawful direct marketing Phone calls made on behalf of the Conservatives in the run-up to the UK general election "crossed the line" into unlawful direct marketing – but the party has escaped regulatory action.…

Flash? Anybody? No? Seagate's first quarter 2018 revenues sank 7 per cent year-on-year to $2.6bn, but the drive biz expects growth and is convinced its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) tech will help that.…

Anonymity crucial for discussion of software asset management in a cloudy world The UK’s Oracle user group is meeting today to discuss the murky world of licensing and software asset management.…

Firm denies sour grapes charge after rival gets licence tweaks Comment Satellite broadband operator Viasat is telling the world it will sue Ofcom over recent changes to rival firm Inmarsat's licence allowing that company to build a vital part of a planned EU in-flight Wi-Fi network.…

If you live fully in the cloud, keep walking Analysis Reduxio's roadmap has it taking its HX/TimeOS array deeper into the hybrid cloud world, supporting application recoveries as well as VM ones, and adding faster array and data access.…

Questions raised over supplier lock-in, tax avoidance, SME agenda Exclusive UK cloud minnow DataCentred went under after HMRC - its largest customer - pulled the plug on a services contract in favour of a deal with Amazon, the corporation recently accused by MPs of tax avoidance.…

OpenIO flexes Arm muscle, inhales funds Five million dollars has just been stumped up to grow a startup making object storage drive-based servers.…

What if you log an incident that AI helped you to avoid? PLUS: Kingston release details Artificial Intelligence might just make IT organisations look for new measures of their success and lead to a rethink of ITIL, according to ServiceNow's chief strategy officer Dave Wright.…

We smoothed the world for cars, but assume robots will have eyes and ears We redesigned the world for automobiles and now it's time to redesign it for robots.…

Google is here to help, really Chrome Dev Summit Your web apps probably suck, according to Google, but there are solutions if developers get porogressive.…

Everything is broken Are we taking the internet for granted? And by "internet" we mean the actual global networks of computers that share vast quantities of information every second by using the same basic protocols.…

Announced support November 2016, but fabled C5 instances are still vapourware Microsoft has announced its first Azure instances running Intel's Skylake silicon, a move that means Amazon Web Services will be the last of the big four clouds to run Intel's latest silicon.…

Robot arm to penetrate surface, get alien world's rocks off for analysis Pics After an extensive summer of long, long, long-distance remote support by NASA engineers on Earth, it looks as though Curiosity on Mars is back in the drilling game.…

It's quantum, it's open source, it's on GitHub. Did we miss anything? Google and rival Rigetti Computing have co-published what you could think of as an open source quantum compiler.…

Susan Fowler's story pitched as 'Erin Brockovich meets The Social Network' The blog post that lifted the lid on Uber's uber-sexist culture and led to the demise of founder Travis Kalanick might become a movie.…

Google survey finds pros don't like safety strategies preferred by spooks A Google-conducted survey of 231 infosec pros worldwide has reaffirmed the industry's faith in strong passwords, and achieved consensus about nothing else.…

Asia's internet numbers registry let some weakly-hashed passwords into the wild Asia's internet numbers registry APNIC has apologised to network owners after a slip in its WHOIS database config leaked credentials, including weakly-hashed passwords.…

Meg starts the bloodletting in earnest HPE kicked off its much-dreaded layoffs globally on Monday as part of its Next overhaul campaign.…

Plus: A new stealthier Monero crafter emerges Another Chrome extension has been found secretly harboring a cryptocurrency miner – and it appears this issue is going to get worse before it gets better.…

Plus: Azure gets all Cray-cray A below-the-radar security feature in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, aka version 1709 released last week, can stop ransomware and other file-scrambling nasties dead.…

Seven days of testing and it's not looking good Earlier this month, Google unveiled its new Pixel smartphones to great hullabaloo – and now to great consternation.…

PM says the network's a waste of money? It's also yet another wasted chance at real reform Australia's telecommunications ombudsman last week reported a startling and unwelcome 159.3 per cent year-on-year jump in complaints, with more than 40,000 lodged about services on the national broadband network (NBN).…

Tech slinger hopes this $3bn fraud lawsuit will be over easy Online electronics souk Newegg has been accused of taking part in a financial scam that duped banks in South Korea out of billions of dollars.…

'Tech evangelist' apologizes but sympathy in short supply Analysis The rolling saga of rich and powerful men being identified as serial sexual harassers has returned to Silicon Valley, having spent a few week slicing through Hollywood. Now it's scooped up another well-known tech figure: Robert Scoble.…

Lots and lots of data dumped online plus keys to escape browsers Chrome Dev Summit At the Chrome Dev Summit in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Google took another stab at making HTML-based apps less of a crapshoot.…

Here's what to do if you have an affected badge Some Gemalto smartcards can be potentially cloned and used by highly skilled crooks due to a cryptography blunder dubbed ROCA.…

No Docker or Kubernetes under The Social Network's hood OS Summit Facebook has its own container system it uses in place of Docker or Kubernetes.…

Is Switchzilla trying to buy its way out of legacy? Cisco has snapped up its two-hundredth acquisition in the form of unified comms biz Broadsoft for $1.9bn (£1.4bn) – its latest attempt to move away from its lacklustre legacy business of switches and routers.…

Response to US fretting over alleged ties to Russian snoops Russian cybersecurity software flinger Kaspersky Lab has offered to open up its source code for third-party review.…

Large-scale randomised US trial: 'Recalibrate’ expectations Police forces have been told to temper their expectations of body-worn cameras, as a randomised study involving almost 2,500 US cops throws up little evidence of purported benefits.…

Take the hint, manufacturers of weak kit TechCon Arm hopes to release open-source code early next year that will help secure Internet-of-Things devices – by encrypting their communications and installing over-the-air security fixes.…

'I don’t know if my voice was very bad and that’s why I got the ticket,' he said A man has been fined by police after being caught singing the 1990s dance anthem "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" while behind the wheel of his car.…

GSM gateway prosecution man: They gave the evidence that they found to the police A man left on bail for more than seven years has hit out at Vodafone's role in his court case as alleged victim and examiner of vital computer evidence.…

But he gets it, there's a balance to be struck, yada yada The FBI has been locked out of almost 7,000 seized mobile phones thanks to encryption, director Christopher Wray has said.…

Penguins and machine learning. It could happen! OS Summit The Linux Foundation has created one open-data licence framework to rule them all, allowing users to collaborate on data-driven projects.…

Dash of containers, drop of tape, soupcon of advanced RAM... perfect Another week has passed by, and yet another torrent of storage news streams towards us, running the gamut from spin-transfer torque magneto-resistive RAM to data streaming and a Maltese Smart Island hub.…

Hopes to raise £1.5bn and clear debt Britain's biggest mast outfit, Arqiva, has confirmed it will float on the London Stock Exchange next month, a move it hopes will raise £1.5bn and reduce its debt.…

Tech laces networks with decoys to contain breaches Israel-based Illusive Networks claims that its approach of planting poison-pill servers in a network can detect incoming attacks faster than any other method.…

Installed Puppet? Visited a waterfall?... Gooble gobble, ONE OF US... ONE OF US! After roughly a decade of DevOps hype, surely we’ve arrived at that blessed time when developer lions lie down with operations lambs in peace…? Err, not so much. Despite larger enterprises striving mightily to become more Agile (with a capital “A”), most organisations still don’t deliver on the DevOps dream, and won’t for some time.…

I'm... I'm going to sit down and think about that. *Sniff* The web-based version of anonymous feedback app Sarahah is riddled with security flaws, according to a researcher.…

The Man Who Knew Too Much, Jeff Smith, has a new job IBM appears to have succeeded in its efforts to stop its former CIO join Amazon Web Services.…

Blue Origin's new and rather large rocket engine fires on first full test Amazon supremo Jeff Bezos' rocket company Blue Origin has successfully tested its main engine for the first time.…

Matter/antimatter distribution looks equal, which should have nixed the universe at birth One of the outstanding questions in physics is why matter and antimatter didn't wipe each other out at the Big Bang?” A new, hyper-accurate measurement of an antiproton characteristic at CERN leaves that difficult question entirely intact.…

It's a joint venture between Mitsubishi and Digital Realty to do bit barns in Japan Digital Realty and Mitsubishi Corporation have entered a joint venture to build big bit barns in Japan.…

A Prompt response to insecurity Text messages aren't a great way to implement two-factor authentication, but it's a technique that's stubbornly persistent. Now Google has decided to push things along by pushing its alternative into production.…

RC1 for Xen 4.10 is upon us, so get testing, hyper-hipsters The Xen Project has issued the first release candidate for version 4.10 of its hypervisor and set a testing schedule aimed at a December release.…

Meanwhile on Mars, we've found a twisted tail NASA's Dawn spacecraft has received another reprieve, with its mission to dwarf planet Ceres extended for another, closer, flyby.…

Necurs botnet spreads ransomware carried in Office documents The ever-vigilant folk at the Internet Storm Centre (SANS) have spotted yet another campaign trying to drop the Locky ransomware using compromised Word files.…

Micron and Xcelero websites both vanish all-flash array, but we're told it's not dead Micron may have put its SolidScale all-flash array into web site limbo in preparation for big news.…