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Gill us now Netcraft 'net watchers have cast a fly over the lake of generic TLDs, and turned up the first .fish domain dedicated to – wait for it – phishing.…

Crowdfunded submersible story somehow gets weirder The story of a Danish inventor and a missing Swedish journalist has taken a bizarre turn, as Peter Madsen now claims he buried Kim Wall at sea.…

100 Mbps? Call it the 60 Mbps customers might actually experience at peak hour The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has fired off its latest salvo in its decades-long argument with the telco industry about internet speed claims in Australia, telling them to advertise typical speeds rather than theoretical maxima.…

The Chocolate Factory's mobile operating system comes with saccharine emoji filling Google on Monday released Android 8.0 Oreo, the latest update to the world's most widely used operating system, as measured by internet usage.…

Trio squeezes a bit more life out of current-gen broadband standard A group of researchers working for Verizon, Ericsson and Qualcomm say they have hit a record 1.07Gbps download rate with LTE hardware.…

Stanford researchers figure out how icy outer planets make it rain gemstones Researchers from Stanford have shown how the frigid, high-pressure atmospheres of the planets Uranus and Neptune can create a "rain" of diamonds.…

Super SF writers don't last all summer long Obit Brian Aldiss OBE, one of the most popular and prolific science fiction writers of his generation, has passed way at his home one day after his 92nd birthday.…

No LAWS for us, please Leading roboticists and computer science researchers have again asked the United Nations to save us all from lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS).…

Focus is to be specifically on online cases China has just opened a new court that will solely deal with internet-related cases.…

Sucky security leaves MIT cryptoboffins red-faced Cunning hackers have successfully duped investors out of almost $500,000 after compromising the servers of the online currency platform Enigma.…

And just 6% say they're fully prepared for GDPR Most of the UK's top businesses are underprepared for new data protection rules, while 10 per cent have no response plan for a cyber attack, according to a government survey.…

Reuben from Hartlepool, today's your unlucky day Handyman-finding UK app Bizzby appears to have sent a number of people an unsolicited email containing the full name and address of one of its subscribers.…

Clawing its way out of the red Misco is shuttering its UK warehouse and distribution centre in Greenock, Scotland, in a bid to drag the P&L accounts out of the red.…

It's all NVMe-me-me nowadays Tegile is moving on from SAS backplanes and has developed an N-Series array product line with NVMe flash drives.…

Will supply the software for Netzilla's HyperFlex HCIA line Cisco is buying Springpath for $320m and will have the startup supply the software for its HyperFlex hyperconverged products.…

Hello? Yes, I want a fondleslab that does things like a workstation, please Intel has wheeled out its 8th Generation Core processors, a refresh of its Core i5 and i7 chips, and their base specs wouldn’t look out of place in a desktop PC circa 2012.…

Match made in The Cloud Sponsored Storage is a growth area in IT, as the volume of data generated by users and applications keeps on expanding at an increasing rate, while legislation dictates that organisations must retain some types of data for regulatory purposes and cannot just delete it all to free up capacity.…

WannaCry killer had been working with the spy agency Secretive electronic spy agency GCHQ was aware that accused malware author Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTechBlog, was due to be arrested by US authorities when he travelled to United States for the DEF CON hacker conference, according to reports.…

Political uncertainty blamed for crap Q2 Brexit and the general election were highlighted by Gartner as being among the reasons why the good folk of Britain purchased far fewer PCs in Q2.…

And Austin-based firm is hiring Stuttering NVMe-over-Fabrics startup Mangstor has raised $7.1m and is hiring.…

Think twice before you fire that foul-mouthed Twitter tirade The UK's Crown Prosecution Service has pledged to tackle online abuse with the same seriousness as it does hate crimes committed in the flesh.…

Telephone Preference Service – check it or feel the ICO's wrath A firm offering people energy-saving solutions has been fined after making almost 1.5 million unsolicited calls without checking if the numbers were registered on the UK's opt-out database.…

Tell us what you’re doing - or not doing - with DevOps, Containers, Agile The call for papers for Continuous Lifecycle 2018 is open now, and we really want to hear what’s happening out in the real world.…

It's a week's worth of storage nutrition, so let's tuck in We've got a few storage news sushi snacks to start off your week. Get your chopsticks out and lift up each of these little beauties to get a taste of who's doing what in the land of the data-baiters, virtualizer commercializers and the cloud crowd.…

And he risked being executed by his own side in the process Would you give up your comfy technical desk job to join a military raid into hostile territory? Would you jump at the chance to put your world-leading technical knowledge to use in the most extreme of circumstances, even if your own side was under orders to shoot you if you got captured?…

Meanwhile, DRAM makers toasting record sales hauls HPE is hiking server memory prices by up to 20 per cent from today, according to communications with the channel, seen by us.…

Why not? Europeans, once so smug about the global success of GSM, have had to get used to advanced mobile networks and devices arriving in the US first.…

With the array controller out of the data path, who needs it? Opinion NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMeF) shared storage access could kill the legacy storage array business – unless vendors get inventive and somehow continue to supply charged-for data management services alongside NVMeF data access.…

User tells of significant data loss Fujitsu Australia has confirmed that its data centre in the Australian suburb of Homebush has experienced an outage.…

After first wave attacks ended, thing-herders took aim at PlayStation, XBOX and Valve The Mirai botnet that took down large chunks of the Internet in 2016 was notable for hosing targets like Krebs on Security and domain host Dyn, but research presented at a security conference last week suggests a bunch of high-profile game networks were also targeted.…

Remote work and automation is about to see Voyager-listeners' work change, but our man says tuning in is still a thrill When Richard Stephenson drives to work, there's a chance that later that day he'll become the first human to see new details of Mars, a moon of Saturn, or the far reaches of the solar system.…

We love open source so much we can't drop sueball shield, says The Social Network™ Facebook's decided to stick with its preferred version of the BSD license despite the Apache Foundation sin-binning it for any future projects.…

We've got Safe Mode and that's safe enough, vendor tells ~400m users The Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) has gone public with a Foxit PDF Reader vulnerability without a fix, because the vendor resisted patching.…

Open letter to UN warns of 'weapons hacked to behave in undesirable ways' 116 artificial intelligence and robotics experts have put their name to an Open Letter calling for the United Nations to work for a ban on autonomous weapons.…

More software smarts for 'AI you can take with you' Two years after setting up an artificial intelligence research laboratory with the University of Amsterdam, Qualcomm Technology has acquired one of its a spinoffs - an outfit called "Scyfer".…

Chris Wanstrath will lead the search for his replacement, then do product dev and test Chris Wanstrath plans to end his second stint as GitHub CEO by leading the search for his replacement.…

New status puts cyber-ops on same plane as regional commands and global special ops efforts United States president Donald Trump upgraded the U.S. Cyber Command to the status of a “Unified Combatant Command”.…

Merchants share too much tracking information? Colour us un-surprised Bitcoin transactions might be anonymous, but on the Internet, its users aren't – and according to research out of Princeton University, linking the two together is trivial on the modern, much-tracked Internet.…

CEO says he's made 'right decision for the human race' but created 'an existential threat for our company' White supremacist web site The Daily Stormer has been booted off the internet, again.…

Centriq 2400 blueprints revealed this week Hot Chips Qualcomm moved engineers from its flagship Snapdragon chips, used in millions of smartphones and tablets, to its fledgling data center processor family Centriq.…

And how to avoid making the same mistakes BSides Minor blunders in reverse web proxies can result in critical security vulnerabilities on internal networks, the infosec world was warned this week.…

Judges frown upon fishing for incriminating data on phones It's a ruling sending shockwaves through the worlds of privacy, device security, and law enforcement in America.…

And only $230,000 a head out of the public purse! Wisconsin has moved forward a $3bn incentives package to lure manufacturing giant Foxconn to the US state.…

And what finer company than Uber to make that clear You may never read those lengthy terms and conditions attached to every digital download or app but, in America at least, they are legally binding. Sorry.…

Machine learning and code to detect and alert attempts to extract passwords from staff Security researchers from UC Berkeley and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in the US have come up with a way to mitigate the risk of spear-phishing in corporate environments.…

Telco's TV biz accused of false advertising by trade watchdog America's trade watchdog is seeking $3.95bn in damages from AT&T over allegations of dodgy marketing by its DirecTV wing.…

Plus: Steve Bannon fired from White House Updated Tech leaders today resigned from the US government's digital economy advisory board over President Trump's inability to unequivocally condemn racists.…

Big Red seeks open-source foundation to host platform Oracle has revealed plans to shift Java Enterprise Edition to an open-source foundation as it promises delivery of version 8 is "approaching".…

Greenqloud’s QStack becomes gets NetApp-ed NetApp has made one of its relatively rare acquisitions – this time an Icelandic cloud management software house called Greenqloud with its Qstack product.…

Pen-testers face new challenges as defences evolve BSides The opening talk at BSides Manchester on Thursday examined how red team tactics are evolving beyond phishing to include a wider variety of methods.…