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So it can drive rivals out of business, but what do they offer that's different? Comment Within minutes of Uber losing its licence to operate in London, Uber became a totemic icon of innovation and free enterprise market capitalism that was being crushed by vested interests in cahoots with bureaucrats. Boo to the corrupt, killjoy socialists! Hurrah for innovation! Sign the petition!…

Apple fans will be disappointed by its inability to sync iTunes files Review After El Reg covered the My Cloud Home file server announcement in August, WDC kindly sent me a Duo unit to try out in my home office. What I received was a superbly engineered unit that was much better integrated with my Mac OS/iPhone environment than I thought it would be, but also exposed the limitations imposed by iTunes on a central music store.…

Computer vision, deep learning, and the camera in your phone A year after it open sourced its PaddlePaddle deep learning suite, Baidu has dropped another piece of AI tech into the public domain – a project to put AI on smartphones.…

But they need a marketplace and the cloud to make it happen The pell-mell rush to get everything connected and intelligent has led us into some dark corners. Robot vacuum cleaners that map your home - in order to faithfully fulfil your wishes for a clean residence - then sell your data to the highest bidder. Dolls that listen to a child, and share a bit too widely. That sort of thing.…

Equipment still taking too long to patch, leaving systems exposed DerbyCon Electronic medical equipment is supposed to help humans save lives, but their lamentable security could result in considerable death, we were warned over the weekend.…

WebKit project's call for folk to slide into Apple's little slot sparks derision WebKit, the open source project behind the rendering engine that powers Apple's Safari browser on macOS and iOS, has urged web designers to embrace "the notch," though not everyone is happy about doing so.…

In @realdonaldtrump's America, you'll be Googled at the border The United States Department of Homeland Security will soon add “social media handles” and plenty more information to immigration records.…

2026, when a change of heart will mean a pretty bad day The next form of biometric identification may be a heart scan.…

ETSI and OpenFog agree not to disagree, or overlap Telcos looking at “fog computing” will have fewer standards to contemplate if a cooperation between the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the OpenFog Consortium delivers on its promise.…

Black Hat Europe to reveal more trouble for Chipzilla's leaky Management Engine Security researchers say they've found a way to exploit Intel's accident-prone Management Engine, and will reveal the problem at Black Hat Europe in December.…

4.14 rc2 tarball trapped the unwary with missed patch Linus Torvalds is not noted as having the most even of tempers, but after a weekend spent scuba diving a glitch in the latest Linux kernel release candidate saw the Linux overlord merely label the mess "nasty".…

And a Wi-Fi hub and an Ethernet switch and the kitchen sink In a small-biz blitz, Hewlett Packard Enterprise has announced three servers, three MSA storage arrays, a new hyper-converged system, a Wi-Fi hub, and an Ethernet switch.…

Safari, Spotlight to be powered by the Chocolate Factory Apple will drop Microsoft's Bing as the default web search provider for its iOS and macOS gear.…

Phone-controlling Levi's soft-wear for, presumably, non-sweaty nerds Blue pants maker Levi's plans to begin selling its first cloth-ware with Google inside on Wednesday – and the tech should survive up to 10 washes.…

Windows giant touts magic to distract from its legacy tech battle Ignite At the Microsoft Ignite conference today, the expert panel on stage burst into laughter. “This box right over here behind us – nothing! That’s a quantum joke, that’s an excellent joke,” said Microsoft Technical Fellow Michael Freedman as the curtain failed to open to reveal it.…

Rabbani found guilty, vows to appeal after resisting demand for iPhone, laptop passcodes Muhammad Rabbani, international director of human-rights non-profit CAGE, was today convicted under UK anti-terror law for refusing to unlock his iPhone and laptop for police when entering the country.…

Who placed the JavaScript code on two primetime dot-coms? So far, it's a mystery The websites of US telly giant CBS's Showtime contained JavaScript that secretly commandeered viewers' web browsers over the weekend to mine cryptocurrency.…

But don't fret, 10nm Cannonlake's still on track for late-2017 arrival, allegedly Intel has unveiled a new line of Coffee Lake 8th gen Core processors, this time aiming for the gaming and creative crowds.…

Hard time ahead for disgraced sexting politician Anthony Disgraced American politician Anthony Weiner has been sentenced to 21 months behind bars – and three years of probation – for sexting an underage girl.…

Shove this tool into your PC if it's getting stuck during startup After enduring roughly two weeks of complaints, HP Inc has today produced a fix for folks struggling with blank screens on their computers.…

But it’s still not the most popular way to zip data across the pond Almost half of the organisations surveyed by the International Association of Privacy Professionals say they will use the Privacy Shield data-sharing framework in the next year.…

Hadoop-flinger promises one service to manage multiple platforms and use cases Hortonworks has launched an enterprise-scale data management service for multiple platforms and environments that will capture data-in-motion or at rest.…

Bold claim by WND-UK grand fromage UK-based Sigfox network operator WND-UK has opened up a little on why it thinks Sigfox is significantly better, in security terms, than other competing Internet of Things connectivity standards.…

Biz worming its way back in following licence renewal drama The Mayor of London has asked Transport for London to meet with Uber following the firm's totally heartfelt apology – issued after it collected 730,000 signatures protesting TfL's decision not to renew its licence.…

Oops, did someone forget to turn on 2FA? Deloitte, one of the world's "big four" accountancy firms, has fallen victim to a cyberattack that exposed sensitive emails to hackers.…

Gets its mitts on juicy GDPR-friendly data security tech German enterprise giant SAP has bought customer identity management firm Gigya for a reported $350m.…

Which is to say neither do it Security researchers have discovered that two popular home automation systems are vulnerable to attacks.…

Redmond also shows off SQL Server 2017 and internal Bing Microsoft has kicked off its annual Ignite conference with a fresh crop of products and services for the enterprise.…

Too small for lasers, too big for nets Fresh from showing off its gotta-zap-'em-all Dragonfire laser cannon, the Ministry of Defence is now buying a £20m anti-drone system.…

A referee would have stopped this fight While the iPhone 8 retains the same unremarkable design for the fourth year running, the internals are a different story. Thanks to extraordinary improvements in semiconductor design, it has been able to shrink the capacity and size of its battery pack, while opening up a significant performance lead over Qualcomm and Samsung.…

Warn Joe Public: they'll nick your ID and ruin your credit Cops have closed 28,000 websites selling counterfeit goods over the last three years, the City of London Police’s Intellectual Property Crime Unit (PIPCU) has revealed today.…

Oxford students top of the pile with whopping £45k salary Computer science graduates are some of the highest earners six months after leaving university, according to The Sunday Times' annual Good University Guide.…

Now with added NVMe-over-fabrics support Analysis Every two years or so NetApp brings out a new E Series flash box that stores more and goes faster than the last one. This month we have the EF570 arriving, updating the 2015-launched EF560. NetApp claims benchmark-backed price/performance leadership and NVMe-over-fabrics support, and we reckon this deservers a closer look.…

Why IBM's cancer projects sounds like Expert Systems Mk.2 Analysis "OK, the error rate is terrible, but it's Artificial Intelligence – so it can only improve!"…

Information Commissioner's speech renews issue of transparency Comment "You idiot. You naive, foolish, irresponsible nincompoop. There is really no description of stupidity, no matter how vivid, that is adequate. I quake at the imbecility of it," Tony Blair famously said.…

Lands Preben Fjeld Lenovo confirmed to the UK teamsters this morning at 9am that a new boss is set to parachute into the vacant MD’s hot seat locally in a little under six weeks.…

Intel chippery tech mitigates the most careless of workers Sponsored We can all agree that endpoint security is important – and also that it is a pain to enforce. Because of people. Worker carelessness is the most potent threat to endpoint security, according to US IT decision makers.…

A star performer producing fission-free plasma power Geek's Guide to Britain I’m in a room that, in normal circumstances, is not fit for human habitation. It features a number of big red buttons surrounded by illuminated yellow rings – just in case. “Push button to switch off Jet. Press only in case of extreme emergency,” the signs read, informatively.…

Once switches become just another function to spawn, you'll need to know how they'll fare If you fancy wrapping your mind around the complexities that make virtual switches (vSwitches) hard to benchmark, an IETF informational RFC is worth a read.…

Bacon, lettuce, tomato? No, loads of tasty bytes, layers and topologies Roundup Hungry for storage news? Tuck into this bulging storage sarnie for breakfast.…

Written in Python, it's not perfect – but it's pretty cool The Rubik’s Cube is one of those toys that just won't go away. Solving it is either something you can do in minutes to impress, or find so hard you end up using it as a paperweight.…

Firm that Trump banned from another silicon sale scoops GPU tech outfit cored by Apple British chip designer Imagination Technologies Group has sold itself to China-aligned private equity outfit Canyon Bridge.…

Then Loop – or, at least, a future version of it – may be for you Review It's become a phrase repeatedly so frequently, it almost feels like a cliché: if you're not paying for the product, you are the product.…

Particle streams unlikely to come from within the Milky Way The most energetic cosmic rays bombarding Earth originate from outside our Milky Way Galaxy, according to research published just before the weekend.…

Share my car? I'd rather walk, punters tell Australian survey Australian researchers predict that the rise of the autonomous vehicle will make congestion worse.…

Mission plan: retrieve lost votes from deep within black hole of democratic disillusionment Australia's government has committed to starting a space agency, but there are no details about its mission other than a vague commitment to helping industry.…

No prize, because it's too easy: SVR Tracking had an unsecured AWS S3 bucket A US outfit that sells vehicle tracking services has been accused of leaving more than half a million records in a leaky AWS S3 bucket.…

Power outage of software crash, depending on who you listen to Sydney airport was in chaos on the first Monday of the Australian state of New South Wales' spring school holidays, after air traffic controllers had to revert to manual operations.…

Daesh-bags give up on writing their own attack code, copy successful hackers DerbyCon An analysis of the hacking groups allying themselves to Daesh/ISIS has shown that about 18 months ago the religious fanatics stopped trying to develop their own secure communications and hacking tools and instead turned to the criminal underground to find software that actually works.…

Feed antenna collapses, dropping debris onto main dish In the midst of the humanitarian disaster unfolding after Puerto Rico was battered by Hurricane Maria, astronomers working at the Arecibo radio telescope have reported damage that will leave it unable to operate for months.…