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Also, the US negotiates fighter jet purchase contracts on our behalf Britain’s F-35B fighter jets currently cost around $123m each – and British officials are quite content that the only engine overhaul facility for the stealth aircraft’s engines is located in Turkey.…

Trading due to begin on NASDAQ today MongoDB hopes to rake in as much as $220.8m when it finally goes public – a move expected later today.…

Open Xchange boss maps out IMAP scheme Interview There's never been a better opportunity for the world to start untangling itself from the giant Silicon Valley data harvesters than now. Last week, we revealed a plan to embed open-source chat into three quarters of the world's IMAP servers.…

And stop hiring floorspace in San Fran, London for Pete's sake In a recent IDG survey, the number of execs worried about a skills gap in IT grew from 49 per cent in 2016 to 60 per cent this year. Other surveys shore up this finding as well: a Cloud Foundry Foundation survey from late 2016 had 64 per cent of respondents worried about getting the skilled staff needed.…

Yeah or maybe not Canalys Channels Forum Tech resellers who are on occasion – and perhaps cruelly – compared to sheepskin jacket-wearing secondhand car dealers, might just be getting into game after all, if a veteran channel analyst is to be believed.…

Flash forward Sponsored Sales of purpose-built storage appliances are falling, markedly, according to IDC, revenue and capacity falling respectively by 16.2 per cent and 14.9 per cent in the analyst’s latest quarterly tracker in September.…

Ten mice and a million cores are going to prove it "Brains are massively parallel. We each have just under 100 billion neurons inside our heads, all running at the same time. And they are hugely connected, with 10 synapses connecting the neurons together. The way forward in computing is parallelism. There is no other option."…

For now, consider the new Surface Book 2 with mere 17-hour life and Intels inside Microsoft says testing of Qualcomm-powered laptops running Windows 10 is well advanced and suggest it will be possible to use the devices for multiple days without charging their batteries.…

We've got something much more ethical anyway, say devs Malwarebytes has had enough of Coin Hive's alt-currency-generating browser-side code, and is now automatically blocking it.…

In Citrix's world, you'd do this to leave vSphere. In the real world? This is silo-saving Citrix has endorsed a third-party product that lets you manage its Xen Server virtualization stack with VMware's vCenter Server.…

You scratch my PKCS, and I'll scratch yours The European Commission has proposed that member states help each other break into encrypted devices by sharing expertise around the bloc.…

Israel's Spacecom still loves Elon enough to also pay for future launch Spacecom and SpaceX have settled their differences over a burned satellite. The Israeli company has once again signed Elon Musk's company for launch services.…

You've been warned The Carnegie-Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute has nominated transport systems, machine learning, and smart robots as needing better cyber-security risk and threat analysis.…

Minister doesn't mention scandals at current operator, says it's time to modernise Australia will conduct a review of how the nation's .au top level domain is managed.…

Plan avoids the need for new fibre to connect a squillion small cells +COMMENT Cisco and CableLabs have put their heads together in the hope they can convince mobile network operators that with a bit of unicorn-dust, DOCSIS networks can support the LTE small-cell rollout.…

Xen pins seven bugs to the card, all with guests doing nasty things to hosts The Xen Project has posted advisories and patches for seven bugs, most of which let guests run denial-of-service (DoS) attacks on hosts.…

Even penguintastic desktops when lodged in DeX dock Samsung has announced it will soon become possible to run actual proper Linux on its Note8, Galaxy S8 and S8+ smartphones – and even Linux desktops.…

Leader Xi Jinping also wants to crimp 'erroneous viewpoints' with more net censorship Chinese leader Xi Jinping has outlined the nation's technological ambitions in his opening address to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC).…

Redmond wags its finger A few weeks ago, Google paid Microsoft $7,500 after Redmond's security gurus found, exploited and reported a vulnerability in the Chrome browser – a flaw that would allow malicious webpages to run malware on PCs.…

Redmond now able to host projects like ████████ and █████████████ in █████ and ███████████ Microsoft's Azure cloud has been approved to host classified-level applications for the US government.…

How'd you like them Big Apples? US telco caught up in kickback scam Verizon will have to reach between its couch cushions for $17.7m to shoo away allegations it overcharged New York schools for phone lines and broadband.…

Self-play code excites machine-learning world Analysis DeepMind published a paper today describing AlphaGo Zero – a leaner and meaner version of AlphaGo, the artificially intelligent program that crushed professional Go players.…

Firefox, IE, Chrome makers: One manual to rule them all A few years ago, programmer and writer Bernard Meisler argued that coders write bad software because they're bad writers.…

'That's insane' says judge (and everyone else) amid FoI battle New York cops claim they can't tell anyone how much cash they have seized from people under civil asset forfeiture laws – because their IBM DB2 database is knackered.…

Now you see it, now you don't Support for Storage Spaces Direct, Microsoft's version of VSAN, has been stripped from the latest build of Windows Server 2016, version 1709, which was released on Tuesday.…

Norwegian project exposes worrying lack of security Tests on smartwatches for children by security firm Mnemonic and the Norwegian Consumer Council have revealed them to be riddled with flaws.…

A masterclass in mind-boggling 'always-on availability' spiel Vantara, Hitachi's new Internet of Things + analytics business, has sped up its operational and disaster recovery chops, claiming to elevate IT with always-on data availability.…

Endurance test for the mobe brand that refuses to die BlackBerry Mobile, which is TCL for all intents and purposes, is making its enterprise slab available in the UK.…

Legendary lake lark comes true, sort of The legendary sword has been pulled from the stone – but the owner wants it back and a crowdfunding campaign has been set up to replace the blade.…

Part of the opening of the network Openreach has today offered its communication providers an alternative to the Ofcom-proposed Dark Fibre Access (DFA) product, which a court ruling slapped down three months ago.…

It's just not a security vulnerability, says Redmond Features of the Intel MPX designed to prevent memory errors and attacks might be abused to launch assaults on Windows systems, security researchers claim.…

Just missing an ombudsman, checks on companies, info on how to use it... Mere quibbles The first annual review of the Privacy Shield agreement that governs transatlantic data flows has come back with a solid, unsurprising mark of "adequate".…

MD reportedly wants look-in on fab agreements Bain Japan's MD reportedly wants to get on the Toshiba Memory Business board, to invest in it and get an agreement with WDC about continuing the joint venture to make flash chips.…

Mathematical model solves the crash blame question, apparently Intel-owned Mobileye says it has cooked up a safety framework for fully autonomous, human-independent, driverless cars – and desperately wants people to notice this before the "inevitable fall" of public interest in driverless tech.…

Advert looked too much like a BT contract, says watchdog Fibre ISP Hyperoptic has been slammed by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) for releasing an advert that looked like an official contract from BT.…

Cortana is broken, intrusive, but still a must-have upgrade Hands On Just over two years after the introduction of both Windows 10 and the "Windows as a service" concept, Microsoft has released the Fall Creators Update. We took it for a spin.…

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.…