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Your social media's been scraped as the Investigatory Powers Act flaps in the wind Concerns have been raised that neither of the bodies tasked with overseeing the UK's spy agencies were aware that data they collected was shared with industry.…

Seeing that the Pixelbook costs $999, don't hold your breath The year of Linux desktop was a running joke. The concept of Linux being ready for the mainstream with users confidently running it on their desktops, sadly, never happened.…

Only joking. You are all very clever Hello, wrong number At the heart of machine learning are patterns, and patterns are all about counting, so it's important to make sure we are counting the correct items in the correct way. Combinatorics is the branch of mathematics concerned with counting things; more specifically, all the wonderful ways you can count, arrange and manipulate finite (limited in size) sets of things. Having a grasp of basic combinatorics is vital because it underlies many wide and varied real-world situations.…

Estimate of full impact 'out of date and flawed' says committee HMRC, Amazon and eBay have not done enough to crack down on overseas sellers evading VAT in the UK, a “dismal” failure that has hit British businesses hard, the Committee of Public Accounts has said today.…

From heading one cyber-attack victim to another Dido Harding, the woman at the helm during TalkTalk's 2015 mega breach, was yesterday grilled about her move to chair NHS Improvement, the body responsible for overseeing the UK's health service and also famously clobbered by a huge cyber attack.…

Plod say crims now too hard to find and catch online Europol has asked cellphone networks and other internet providers to stop using Carrier Grade Network Address Translation (CGNAT) – because it’s making life too difficult for cops trying to track cyber-villains across the web.…

Windows Server version 1709 is now yours for the downloading Microsoft's vision of six-monthly Windows Server updates is now a reality.…

Take a mass spectroscope and synthesise some 'very tiny disks are coming' hype Monomer-manipulating researchers writing in Nature Communications this month say they have read multi-byte sequences using mass spectroscopy and bit-storing monomers.…

SoC gets hot enough to fry a very, very, small egg. And heat sinks aren't much help Microsoft, of all people, has offered a recipe for cooling the Raspberry Pi 3.…

Brrrt! Brrrt! Brrrt! Big Red's bug gun targets 252 bugs, and you for not patching fast enough Hundreds of products, more than 250 vulnerabilities … yes, it's Oracle's quarterly critical patch update day!…

Your personal data was probably already in crims' hands The United States Internal Revenue Service has said that citizens affected by the Equifax breach need not panic, because it probably didn't reveal anything that hasn't already been stolen and the agency has tooled up to deal with fraudulent tax claims.…

Nice try, Big Blue, but it's now 22 straight quarters of revenue decline IBM topped analyst expectations in its third quarter of the year, but still couldn't shake a run of falling revenue that now stands at 5 and a half years long.…

Greg Kroah-Hartman issues 'enforcement statement' after chap wins 'a few million Euros' with questionable claims Linux kernel maintainer Greg Kroah-Hartman and several other senior Linux figures have published a “Linux Kernel Community Enforcement Statement” to be included in future Linux documentation, in order to ensure contributions to the kernel don't fall foul of copyright claims that have already seen a single developer win "at least a few million Euros.”…

Flatiron School accused of operating without license, cocking up grad claims Analysis New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman last week agreed to settle charges that New York City-based code bootcamp Flatiron School operated without a license and failed to adequately disclose information about the employment outcomes of graduates.…

I’ll have a garlic bread, a Supreme and a side of privacy breach by slack partners Domino's Pizza's Australian outpost has blamed a partner for a security breach, after angry customers went online complaining about finding themselves on spam lists.…

Block all the things! No, wait, not the XSS security alerts Top ad-blocking plugin uBlock Origin has come under fire for being a little too eager in its quest to murder nasty stuff on the internet: it prevents browsers from sounding the alarm on hacking attacks.…

Cyber kangaroo isn't loose in minister Teehan's top paddock INTERVIEW As Vulture South reported Monday, Australia's government hopes to have consumer Internet of Things products given security “star ratings” of some kind, so consumers know what they're buying.…

Forget KRACK, good ol' Office malware has biz workers in its sights again Updated Malware exploiting Microsoft Word's DDE features to infect computers has been lobbed at US government-backed mortgage biz Freddie Mac.…

America hasn't gone full-blown crazy, yet The head of America's telly watchdog, the FCC, said he cannot follow up on Donald Trump's threat to revoke the broadcast licenses of TV networks that run unflattering news coverage of the US president.…

It's Andy Rubin v Tony Fadell Android phone maker Essential, which needs stronger sales, also needs a legal defense.…

'Overboard' proposal shot down by Corley Updated The district judge overseeing Waymo's trade-secret legal battle with Uber has denied a request by Waymo to get all of Uber's self-driving car source code.…

Throw your storage vanities on the bonfire Analysis Security software supplier Symantec is moving 105 Norton data centre applications to Microsoft's Azure cloud.…

Where it doesn't rain – indoors It's barely six months since the industry agreed on a standard (5G NR) for exploiting millimetre wave spectrum, and now Qualcomm's silicon has achieved a 5G connection in the extreme high-frequency millimetre wave (MMW or mmWave) portion of the spectrum, between the super high frequency and the far infrared bands.…

Thingstream reckons USSD is talking thingies' future Another Internet of Things upstart has nudged its way into the limelight – and Thingstream reckons its "MVNO for IoT" connectivity offering will compete against established players Sigfox and LoRaWAN.…

Surprise! Using our assumptions, our all-flash array costs less than theirs Kaminario has claimed its all-flash storage arrays have a lower three or five-year cost of ownership than competing products.…

CEO dispatched to secure extra finance. If that fails, administration awaits Misco Group Ltd is holding eleventh-hour talks to secure additional funding to turn around the business and stave off the threat of administrative receivership, multiple sources have told The Reg.…

Rubrik has new competition in the space Commvault is launching a HyperScale all-in-one appliance providing a scale-out platform for its data protection and management services, taking on competing offerings from the likes of Rubrik and Cohesity.…

Dealing with backlog could cost 'in the zone of a million' NHS leaders have admitted that the biggest ever loss of patient documents is worse than initially thought, as another 162,000 undelivered documents have been discovered.…

New European Patent Office chairman gets it in the ohr The issue of falling patent quality at the European Patent Office (EPO) has again reared its head, this time thanks to German intellectual property lawyers.…

Totally, like, an expression of 'humanity and commitment' and stuff Logowatch Throwing caution to the wind, the IT outsourcing and services giant Capgemini is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a daring visit to the Strategy Boutique.…

Tell us what you've stopped doing too... Events If you want to tell a few hundred of your peers just what you've been doing with DevOps, Containers, Agile and Continuous Delivery, you've got till midnight this Friday to respond to the Continuous Lifecycle London call for papers.…

Amazon takes a swipe at hosting provider market Amazon Web Services is trying to lure more Windows developers by rolling out Windows private servers via its Lightsail service.…

Pricier but slimmer Mates Huawei’s “phablet” line, the Mate series, has languished in relative obscurity, but that’s set to change. The three new Mate 10 models unveiled yesterday are set to push the business-focused niche to the forefront of the Chinese giant’s portfolio.…

Airsoft player cleared but case raises many questions A man was prosecuted for posting a picture of himself on Facebook posing with airsoft equipment.…

But yep, there are power points “A lot of people are like, ‘Where’s the AV?’ And I’m like, it’s a treehouse,” Bret Boulter said of Microsoft's new tree-based meeting spaces. “We wanted people to intentionally unplug, because they are sitting in front of screens all day long.”…

'We're here to make money and ain't no one getting rich off it'... even Microsoft The biggest tech resellers in Europe would not mourn the demise of the Surface device should Microsoft decide to kill it off by 2019, as was recently predicted at the Canalys Channels Forum.…

Blue bit-box hawker submits to rival code flocker shocker Container darling Docker plans to make peace with its orchestration rival, Kubernetes, at its European conference this week.…

Partners now have trade wars to fly around Airbus has struck a deal to buy a majority stake in Canadian plane-maker Bombardier's C Series Aircraft in a deal that will mean a shakeup for the global aviation market.…

Airbus now has planes from 100 to 800 seats, but now has trade wars to fly around Airbus has struck a deal to buy a majority stake in Canadian plane-maker Bombardier's C Series Aircraft in a deal that will mean a shakeup for the global aviation market.…

One step forward, two steps back Review At first, it wasn't entirely clear whether it would be worthwhile doing a review of the new Google Home Mini.…

DRAM analyst also says the supply chain is just fine, thank you very much Toshiba has denied a report alleging its NAND flash factories were felled by ransomware.…

Don't panic... whoa, not so fast, Android, Linux users WPA2 Wi-Fi users – ie, almost all of us – have had a troubling Monday with the arrival of research demonstrating a critical design flaw in the technology used to secure our wireless networks. A flaw so bad, it can be exploited by nearby miscreants to potentially snoop on people's internet connections over the air.…

Manic miners don't even pwn you: They just use default creds admins are too lazy to change Here's yet another reason to make sure you lock down your clutch of cloud services: cryptocurrency mining.…

Manic miners don't even hack you - they just use default creds admins are too lazy to change Here's yet another reason to make sure you secure your cloud console: cryptocurrency mining.…

Chocolate Factory can pick pets from people, can't hold a photo right way round Can't tell the difference between a photo of your partner and one of your pet? Good news, Google can now automatically sort photos of animals from pics of people.…

And that's not the evil bit, because there's an IETF standard that could help An Australian senator has come up with a cunning plan to stop phone scammers: any call from an unregistered VoIP line should show the caller's number as “666”.…

FSB wanted keys, messaging outfit said Nyet Encrypted messaging app Telegram must pay 800,000 roubles for resisting Russia's FSB's demand that it help decrypt user messages.…

Migrating VMs isn't a dark art and vSphere users are sticky, but Nutanix is having a crack Nutanix has taken another shot at VMware, this time with a virtual machine migration tool that takes VMs from ESXi to its own Acropolis hypervisor.…

Cupertino iGiant vows to appeal after losing round in tedious infringement boxing match An American patent-holding biz says it will bag a $440m windfall from Apple in a long-running infringement case that seems unlikely to end any time soon.…

Sure, now they care about protecting email Yahoo! may be compelled to hand over the contents of a dead man's email account to his surviving family, Massachusetts's top court has ruled.…