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Southern ocean slaughter to continue unchecked The anti-whaling organization Sea Shepherd Global has said it won't be going after the Japanese fleet of cetacean "research vessels" in their annual pilgrimage to the Southern Pacific – because satellite technology has made the job impossible.…

No bid credits for sockpuppets, rules judge A US Court of Appeals has upheld US broadband watchdog the FCC's decision to bar companies connected to satellite provider Dish Network from claiming discounts on their bids in a 2014 wireless spectrum auction.…

Human body 'tries to turn on all possible defense systems' A new study analyzing the blood samples of 18 Russian cosmonauts reveals that space sends the body’s defensive immune system into overdrive.…

The smart home may need to get a whole lot smarter, researchers warn Smart home devices supply much more personal information than you might imagine – even when the data is encrypted – it appears.…

Advisory warns of dodgy digital money scams America's financial regulator has warned investors to steer clear of shady alt-coin investment schemes.…

Computer reseller warns of password, personal info theft Second-hand electronics dealership CeX says two million customers may have had their personal information swiped by hackers.…

First California accident, caused by inconsiderate human The Uber self-driving program has had its first accident in California since regaining permission to experiment on the roads – and for a change, it wasn't Uber's fault.…

That's the announcement everyone's been waiting for, right? Apple has signed up another vendor to help its iPad to the enterprise push – IT consulting and outsourcing specialist Accenture.…

On Earth it requires two diamonds and a ton of pressure Oil and water do mix, a group of scientists have discovered. The two substances normally repel one another, but under extreme conditions oil molecules can dissolve in water.…

Says users are migrating away, criticizes Oracle's roadmap and ends builds and support, effective ASAP MongoDB has killed off its Solaris development efforts. The company's director of platform engineering Andrew Morrow calls the decision “bittersweet,” but says “lack of adoption among our user base” made the decision easy and necessary.…

That's one way for a storage array business to avoid an IPO After dropping $1.4bn to try and buy Toshiba’s stake in the WDC-Toshiba flash foundry joint-venture, WDC has just bought the Tegile storage array business. Oh, and it bought the Upthere cloud consumer storage business for a guesstimated $100m-plus yesterday as well.…

We're all doomed More than a third of national critical infrastructure organisations have not met basic cybersecurity standards issued by the UK government, according to Freedom of Information requests by Corero Network Security.…

Company again reminded of difference between 'we can do this' and 'we should do this' Amid heavy criticism over how it handles user privacy, Uber has agreed to not track riders after their trips end.…

Can someone lend them some direction-finding gear? A mystery New Zealander has been hijacking police radio frequencies to sing verses from Old MacDonald Had A Farm and make oinking noises at the Old Bill.…

Server and storage solutions rise to new data demands Promo Supermicro is launching a comprehensive line of new server and storage solutions featuring the Intel Xeon Scalable processor family released earlier this year. The company claims the X11 generation offers the strongest support for NVMe storage and 25G/100G Ethernet in the industry.…

No button to silence squabbling kids in the back as yet Mazda and Toyota are working together on a Linux-based connected car navigation and entertainment system, according to reports.…

Firm says it'll pay out up to $30k for big holes Bending to public pressure as more and more drone hackers break into their kit, Chinese firm DJI has now announced a bug bounty program.…

Grey screen gets ribbonised One of Microsoft's tools for debugging blue screens of death and other exciting Windows problems will be getting a bit easier to use.…

Gobbles consumer file-hosting startup for undisclosed amount Western Digital Corporation has bought Upthere, a consumer data storage startup with its own public cloud.…

Broadband's out nationwide, say frustrated Twitter folk EE broadband customers have been unable to get online this morning, due to what seems to be a major nationwide outage.…

Researchers able to hijack server and steal card details Point-of-Sale systems from SAP had a vulnerability that allowed them to be hacked using a $25 Raspberry Pi or similar device, according to research unveiled at the Hack in the Box conference in Singapore last week.…

Slowly, slowly, findee source codey Chinese drone company DJI has removed hot-patching frameworks discovered in its apps by hackers – and is beginning to reveal GPL-licensed elements in its code.…

IBM 650 could cobble together fiction long before Watson marketing kicked into gear Next time IBM tries to convince you that Watson is the latest and greatest innovation that couldn't possibly have been done any time other than now, know that Big Blue tried to get a computer writing short stories in the 1960s.…

Army of web scum constantly testing insecure things' well-known default passwords Criminals are constantly attempting to log into digital video recorders by using their default credentials, the SANS Institute has found.…

No, really, it's a refund offer from the FTC and not another scam email… don't delet… The FTC says it has begun the process of refunding $10m it collected from a tech support scam operation.…

Bork bork bork! Hackers infiltrate major hosting provider Loopia A major Swedish web hosting has been compromised and its entire customer database leaked.…

Submersible drones are vulnerable when they surface to recharge, hence the need for wetter-is-better top-up tech Uncrewed underwater vessels are playing a growing role in military operations like surveillance, but they have to either land or surface to recharge their batteries.…

See how how your storage food can be protected, replicated, encrypted, cached and more Breakfast is the most important meal of the day, so start yours right with a balanced meal of software-defined, hyper-converged, hardware-accelerated, containerised, and virtualised storage industry news.…

Researchers find undocumented accommodation for government customers Security researchers at Moscow-based Positive Technologies have identified an undocumented configuration setting that disables Intel Management Engine 11, a CPU control mechanism that has been described as a security risk.…

Cuffed security researcher needs funds to fight Feds Exclusive A new crowdfunding appeal to help security researcher Marcus Hutchins has begun, after persons unknown spammed his old one with potentially ruinous credit card spam.…

Android takes market share crown, but ~5% of buyers don't care for smartphones Vendors shipped 2.16 million mobile phones in Australia during 2017's second quarter, 100,000 of which were feature phones.…

Galactic magnetism emerges early on in the universe's life Scientists have measured the magnetic field of a galaxy five billion light years from Earth, the most distant coherent magnetic field that has ever been observed.…

Bureaucracy embraces removing communications for millions of people The Indian government has responded to fierce criticism of its increasing use of internet shutdowns by codifying rules for when the extreme measure is allowed.…

APU disaster rears its head again with class action payout Advanced Micro Devices has agreed to pay out $29.5m to settle a class action lawsuit its shareholders filed after the disastrous Llano chip rollout.…

Dara Khosrowshahi to take over troubled cab-hailing company Following a selection process as chaotic and flawed as its own corporate culture, Uber has finally selected a new CEO: current Expedia boss Dara Khosrowshahi.…

The Play Store is looking buggier than ever A coalition of tech firms has taken down the WireX botnet, a malware network run predominantly off Android phones running subverted apps.…

Sharing network hopes to hit hoaxers where it hurts After last year's disabling of users' ability to block ads, Facebook plans to reject ads from those who promote fake news.…

Carriers say they're holding up – more flooding is likely With Houston in the midst of severe flooding from Hurricane Harvey, telcos say they are so far maintaining service and will help with emergency efforts by waiving service costs.…

Bonkers buy-up by bungling billionairess The New York Police Department will scrap 36,000 smartphones, thanks to a monumental purchasing cock-up by a billionaire's daughter.…

If you can get it running and figure out the keyboard, it's impressive Hands-on When my kids were very little, they'd do something a tiny bit naughty and I'd wiggle my index finger as if to threaten a tickle for their naughtiness. They'd then make a great show of running away shrieking. And now I've discovered that finger has another power, namely making a premium laptop look bad.…

Part two of our look into storage world's transition from 2D Analysis Part one of my attempt to understand the transition from 2D to 3D NAND started out by trying to understand how 2D NAND is made, so that its development towards 3D NAND can be understood.…

Dave, I can't put my finger on it, but I sense something strange – like me becoming malware If you don't know what your AI model is doing, how do you know it's not evil?…

Platforms must register identities before users can post China's Internet administration has issued an edict that any platform that allows users to post comments must register their real-world identities first.…

Infect me once, shame on you. Infect me twice… One of the UK National Health Service boards hit by WannaCrypt earlier this year has again been infected by malware.…

Permanently mute those annoying autoplay videos? We're listening Chrome's developers are testing a permanent mute for Websites that insist on running autoplay videos the instant they load.…

Project maintainer Paolo Bonzini details open source hypervisor's future directions The Kernel-based Virtual Machine is making waves. Better known as “KVM”, the open source hypervisor runs Google's cloud and Cisco's using it as the hypervisor for its network function virtualization efforts. It is widely used by OpenStack users while Nutanix uses it to power the Acropolis code it hopes will see its users ditch VMware.…