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And were used on combat ops for just two days The British Army's notorious Thales Watchkeeper drones have cost the taxpayer a billion pounds over the past 12 years.…

As German ERP biz cozies up to Microsoft in the cloud SAP is “getting there” with its efforts to address concerns around deployment of the latest version of its ERP business suite, according to S/4HANA COO Sal Laher.…

New TLS 1.0 turnoff offers three months warning, reprieve if you'd rather remain insecure IBM has announced it will again try to wean its cloud off the known-to-be-insecure TLS 1.0 and 1.1, but will also keep them available for some services.…

Code can work out if you're close to topping yourself Analysis Facebook is using mysterious software that scours material on its social network to identify and offer help to people who sound potentially suicidal.…

All content is created equal, regulator rules India has decided to implement a formal Internet neutrality regime.…

Lord Chief Justice to hear Suffolk man's challenge against removal to US Alleged computer hacker Lauri Love’s appeal against extradition from the UK to the US begins this morning at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.…

Also bare metal EC2, that KVM-based hypervisor and an entry to the security biz AWS reveals 'Nitro' - custom ASICS and boxes that do grunt work so EC2 hosts can just run instances Also bare metal EC2 and a KVM-based hypervisor Amazon Web Services has revealed that it's spent four years working on a new architecture that offloads networking, storage and management tasks from EC2 host servers to dedicated hardware.…

He had some once, but lost them down the back of the sofa In fact he's kinda rubbish at cryptocurrency altogether Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI and Boring Company boss Elon Musk has denied inventing the blockchain and bitcoin, or being Satoshi Nakamoto.…

It's fine to spy on a suspect's mobile devices, just don't listen Canada's domestic spy agency has won permission to continue using IMSI-catchers, in some cases without warrants, following a decision by the country's federal court.…

Effort to muddy transparency reports fails to impress judge Twitter has won another round in its long-running campaign to publish numbers that the US government insists should be secret.…

Signature policy has cost AU$1.7bn, looks rather sickly One of the Australian government's signature policies, the electronic health record, has been all-but-abandoned by the healthcare sector.…

Karim Baratov pleads guilty to ransacking web accounts for 'mystery' paymasters A Canadian hacker for hire has admitted ransacking webmail accounts for miscreants accused of orchestrating the Yahoo! megahack that hit all three billion Purple Palace user accounts.…

Karim Baratov accepts government plea deal One of four people involved in the Yahoo! megahack that cracked all three billion Purple Palace accounts has taken a plea deal, but insists he never knew who he was working for.…

We were bought by your rival, but that doesn't mean we don't still need you (for a few months) A New York investment firm is suing its ISP to retain its access to a high-speed international internet link – after the firm was acquired by a company that has a beef with the broadband provider.…

Illinois, Washington sue 'reckless' transit upstart Challenged on Monday by US senators to explain its failure to report that it had allowed hackers to grab records on 57 million customers and drivers and then paid hush money in an attempted year-long coverup, Uber has been presented with its second state-backed lawsuit for not alerting authorities to the pilfering.…

Pai puts in his thumb and pulls out a plum Analysis Ajit Pai – the head of America's broadband watchdog, the FCC – has responded to widespread criticism of his plan to tear up net neutrality safeguards by… mocking celebrity tweets.…

Three finger erasure fail: didn't control, didn’t delete, may not 'alt collection of metadata In April, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) apologetically promised it would destroy illegally-collected metadata about a journalist. It's now emerged that it botched the job, and didn't until shown the error of its ways.…

Cab-hailing app maker in Wayyyyyymo trouble A judge today delayed the start of a trade-secret theft case against Uber – after evidence suggesting the upstart operated a secret trade-secret-stealing unit was revealed at the last minute.…

Launch blunder not the best start for Putin's new spaceport A Russian weather satellite and 18 micro-satellites are right now thought to be at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean after a Soyuz rocket carrying the birds malfunctioned shortly after launch.…

Gigabytes of Army, NSA files found out in the open online A classified toolkit for potentially accessing US military intelligence networks was left exposed to the public internet, for anyone to find, according to security researchers today.…

Apple, this is Windows 95 bad – but there is a workaround to kill the bug Updated A trivial-to-exploit flaw in macOS High Sierra, aka macOS 10.13, allows users to gain admin rights, or log in as root, without a password.…

How NVMe enables the real-time business Webcast On the 6th of December at 10am GMT we're broadcasting live with a webcast that explores the potential of NVMe to help organisations manage the storage bottleneck.…

Ofqual considers changing how course will be graded The new compsci GCSE has been plunged into chaos after solutions to coursework tasks were found leaked online.…

10TB is a lot of embarrassing, explicit acts Toshiba has taken its MG06 10TB enterprise capacity disk-drive technology and used it to update its surveillance line.…

But can COSMOS find a way to improve HPE profits? Hmmm Well, would ya look at that? Hewlett Packard Enterprise has retained a customer. Stephen Hawking's Centre for Theoretical Cosmology (COSMOS) has slurped the firm's latest data-crunching HPC system to better understand the universe.…

Virtual machines won't press pause in Nutanix deployments Comtrade's latest HYCU Nutanix backup product version has a fix for the VM stun problem.…

Harebrained space schemes are expensive, yo SpaceX has amended an US Securities and Exchange Commission filing from August to reveal it raised cash by selling off about a hundred-million bucks more in equity and stock than previously disclosed.…

What first attracted you to the industrial Internet of revenue-generating things? HPE has an Internet of Things alliance going with industrial giant ABB with the two pushing industrial IoT to make smarter, more efficient industrial products.…

From multi-cloud pain in the ass to a single pane of glass Analysis With OneSphere, HPE has attempted to take a multi-silo, on-premises, hybrid and public cloud pain in the proverbial and "fix it" through one pane of glass.…

System reports, snapshots, improved app store, backups Linux Mint 18.3 – aka "Sylvia" – is here to remind users that, hey, sometimes Linux can work a little bit more like Apple, Google and Microsoft software. (Just kidding, don't kill us.)…

Keep your money, says chap (tho Chinese drone firm did patch 'em right quick) Updated Chinese drone-maker DJI’s bug bounty programme has been struck with fresh controversy after a security researcher claimed he was offered just $500 for reporting, among others, the years-old Heartbleed vulnerability.…

Handy wristjob Google has quietly brought improvements to its wearable OS that users have been asking for three years. And without much fanfare.…

E-Fan X slated to generate lift and 'leccy by 2020 British aero engine maker Rolls-Royce will team up with Airbus and Siemens to develop hybrid electric-powered flying machines, it has been announced today.…

Mischievous herd serves 4-day sentence Eight donkeys were released from an Indian jail yesterday after the law proved itself to be, well, an ass, and imprisoned them for eating the prison officers' plants.…

Virtzilla's new cloudy release cadence gets an airing VMware has added new services, and new features, to its bare metal service running in Amazon Web Services.…

Which pie *doesn't* Japanese corp have a finger in? Software-defined storage biz Nexenta has picked up another $20m in funding.…

Jonathan Taplin against the tech giants If the tech industry wants another wave of innovation to match the PC or the internet, Google and Facebook must be broken up, journalist and film producer Jonathan Taplin told an audience at University College London's Faculty of Law this week.…

NoSQL biz touts 'engagement database' to firms with cash to burn on 'digital transformation' Couchbase is going after businesses tracking customer interactions and investing in "digital transformation" amid speculation of an IPO.…

C'mon... there has to be some aggregation aggravation Interview How does Hewlett Packard Enterprise view hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) now that it has bought and is digesting SimpliVity?…

Open the chuffing pod bay doors yourself, Dave Stob has obtained access to the unpublished journals of a young British programmer who found herself assigned to the elite team that built the HAL 9000 computer during the 1990s.…

Ernst & Young: Mmm... maybe if you had some 'objectives' The UK government’s network of "Catapult" innovation and technology agencies – which fall under its under the R&D spending umbrella – show poor governance and dubious value for money, a report by Ernst and Young has concluded.…

No we aren't talking about helicopters. UK heads, offshoring.... Exclusive With the wider ambition to base eight in 10 services personnel to lower-cost wage locations, IBM has commenced the latest job-cutting process in the UK and Ireland.…

And finally sir, a wafer-thin mint... it is but wafer-thin Tasty storage dishes for your Thanksgiving table include starter from Hazelcast, entree from HPE, a side from Qubole and dessert from Rubrik. Place your napkins in your lap and start dining.…

Unexpected consequences - or drawing the line at non-linear relationships Hello, wrong number You may never have heard of the NPS but if you have ever answered a question such as: "How likely are you to recommend our company/product/service to your friends and colleagues?" you have entered the Net Promoter Score zone.…

You've only got a few billion years, little buddy Astronomers have long known the nearby galaxy, the Small Magellanic Cloud, was being monstered by the Milky Way and the Large Magellanic Cloud. But new imaging captured by the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder (ASKAP) has made it clear that the little star-factory has only a handful of billion years left.…

Think Face/Off, in software, plus some digital touchup Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Informatics have defeated facial recognition on big social media platforms – by removing faces from photos and replacing them with automatically-painted replicas.…

Hundreds of apps put snoops to work, and then there's 'supersonic tone tracking' In case you're wondering, yes, there's a good chance at least some of your Android apps have tracked you rather more than you expect.…

We gave up privacy for convenience, and 2018's the time to win both of them back On a walk across the show floor at January's Consumer Electronics Show, a friend working in technology for nearly thirty years expressed unease at where it all seemed to be headed.…

PowerDNS admins, feel free to fix these DNSSEC bugs before something nasty happens Open source DNS software vendor PowerDNS has advised users to patch its "Authoritative" and "Recursor" products, to squish five bugs disclosed today.…

We promise not to make any sour kraut gags Facebook has caved to political pressure and announced a new office in Germany to scrub abusive posts from its social network.…