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Time to expand the brocabulary Lawyers from Uber and Twitter spoke about ways to curb "bro culture" in the male-dominated world of Silicon Valley at an annual judicial conference this week.…

Stats show few report such crimes to cops The number of incidents of computer misuse in England and Wales reached 1.8 million in the year up to March 2015, according to official crime statistics released today.…

Obviously not enough to stop Wannacry... In the last four years, NHS Trusts have spent £260m on 401,084 new PCs, at an average cost of £650.54 a box, according to Freedom of Information responses.…

The Tale of the Left Behind Thanks to Qualcomm, x86 support is coming to Windows 10 ARM phones and tablets - but not to older Lumia devices. In a webcast, Joe Belfiore, these days the corporate VP in the OS Group at Microsoft, has explained why.…

Sir, what is your occupation? Um, what? A man called the cops to report that cash and a bag of Columbian marching powder stashed in his car had been nicked, police arrest documents have revealed.…

But Placeholders won't be replaced until autumn Neither Apple nor Microsoft has a great history with their cloud graveyards consumer cloud file systems, tripping up users with frequent strategy lurches and abandoning features over the years.…

Any, sorry, many ports in a storm... Comment Problems with the way the UK has implemented mobile phone call routing are emerging as an architecture designed for a small volume of calls struggles under the weight of usage.…

As platform's popularity rose, so did its allure to miscreants The comforting notion that iOS devices are immune to malicious code attacks has taken a knock following the release of a new study by mobile security firm Skycure.…

It's Glasgow, before you lot get too excited The first of the Royal Navy's new Type 26 frigates has been named HMS Glasgow, recycling the name for the fourth time in the last 100 years.…

Big Red vapourises SAN tower, wants clients to do the same +Comment Oracle is refocusing its FS1 storage array into its own public cloud away from on-premises sales.…

Patching done proper WannaCrypt crippled 230,000 Windows PCs internationally, hitting unpatched Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 and computers still running Microsoft's seriously old Windows XP, though the latter wasn't responsible for its spread.…

'OMG zillion-dollar jet is hackable' conspiracy theories in 3, 2, 1... The oxygen deprivation problems that choked F-35 pilots will be fixed through a software update, according to US reports – with the UK's handful of F-35B jets also in line for the fix.…

Who owns all that valuable training info? How technology giants own and use your data will be a focus for our noble and learned friends on the new House of Lords Select Committee on Artificial Intelligence. The committee yesterday announced its first public inquiry "to consider the economic, ethical and social implications of advances in artificial intelligence".…

Rest assured, your personal software agent has been tested for loyalty Amid renewed calls to regulate AI before it wipes humanity from the planet, The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) has rolled out a standards project to guide how AI agents handle data, part of a broader effort to ensure AI will act ethically.…

Transparency is welcome – but you gotta read between the lines Analysis The BBC’s release of its top earners’ salaries this week stirred up both long-time detractors of Auntie and dyed-in-the-wool supporters.…

Only if you're running Wine Gnome developers, take a bow: a bug in your image thumbnailer opens up a (not too scary, thankfully) vector for script injection.…

King Battistelli finally facing consequences for his actions The freeze on long-held plans to approve a single patent court for Europe is a result of the actions of the president of the European Patent Office, according to German media reports.…

Trojan was used to swipe $500m from victims' accounts Russian programmer Mark Vartanyan has been sentenced to five years in US federal prison for developing and spreading the Citadel malware that stole $500m (£383m) from bank accounts around the world.…

Meanwhile, Redmond extends security fixes to tired CPUs Microsoft has blamed Intel for the sad trail of low-end PCs left out of the Windows 10 Creators Update rollouts.…

Interview: Sckipio explains what carriers will like about cDTA Deutsche Telekom and ADTRAN have showed off an emerging G.Fast technology called cDTA which, along with 212 MHz carrier spectrum, ramps system performance well into the gigabit range.…

Prying open speech recognition Mozilla has decided speech recognition should be open source, and has launched a project to achieve just that, Project Common Voice.…

Long paassssswwwwwoooorrrd risks remote code execution Chinese camera-maker Dahua has flicked out a patch to fix a possible remote code execution vulnerability in its Web admin interface.…

Crypto-cash leak made possible by software stuff-up A vulnerability in Parity's Ethereum wallet software has been exploited by thieves to rob victims on a massive scale.…

Apple's royalties and licensing boycott taking a heavy toll Qualcomm is remaining optimistic despite another miserable financial quarter, worsened by the ongoing legal war with Apple.…

Canberra tips dollars into free-space next-gen comms development effort With AU$3.62 million from Australia's government, quantum crypto outfit QuintessenceLabs has set to work getting the fibre out of its diet, and instead running quantum key exchange over free space.…

Project Zero, GCHQ, and city of Mishawaka, Indiana among credited bug-hunters Apple has today released patches addressing roughly four dozen exploitable security vulnerabilities in iOS, macOS, and WatchOS.…

Likelihood of patching for every affected system is zero Security researchers investigating internet-connected video cameras have uncovered a bug that could conceivably leave millions of devices open to easy pwnage.…

Boffins still turned off by iMaker's closed culture Analysis Continuing its campaign to court AI boffins, traditionally tight-lipped Apple has tiptoed further toward engagement with the outside world through the publication of its first research blog.…

DNS king breaks own bylaws yet again Special report Amazon may still get hold of its namesake top-level domain .amazon after an independent review panel lambasted the decision by DNS overseer ICANN to deny its application.…

-.-- --- ..- -. --. / .--. . --- .--. .-.. . / - --- -.. .- -.-- --..-- / . .... ..--.. For over a hundred years, navies around the world have messaged each other at the speed of light – signal lamp light.…

iGiant bankrolls manufacturers' legal battle royale over patent license fees Updated The four electronics factories sued by Qualcomm for not paying licensing fees have lodged their own countersuit with the backing of Apple.…

Hyperconverged, VDI startup nibbles bits off software-defined storage supplier Hive-IO has bought certain assets of Atlantis Computing, a struggling supplier of VDI and hyperconverged infrastructure software, for undisclosed financial terms.…

Big Red to lure 1,000 bods, expands cloud-in-a-box services Oracle is continuing to head into the cloud, kicking off another recruitment drive for 1,000 fluffy white services sales people – but the news comes amid talk of reorganisation and layoffs elsewhere.…

15% laid off in cost-cutting exercise at HPC supplier Supercomputer supplier Cray is giving 190 employees the elbow in a restructuring exercise to cut operating costs.…

A bit of goodish news from Big Blue Analysis IBM's systems segment brought in $1.7bn, 10 per cent down year-on-year. Systems hardware was $1.3bn with operating systems software at $400m.…

More time to play Snake The boss of HMD Global, the company reviving Nokia-branded phones, quit unexpectedly today.…

Sexism in the Telly Tax, sexism in pay deals... where else, Auntie? Comment The BBC is trembling with excitement following the enforced publication of the annual salaries of on-screen stars earning more than £150,000 at the tax-funded broadcaster.…

Hadoop-flinger's CEO: We're making great progress, but... Hortonworks has ditched its second chief operating office in less than a year as part of a C-suite reshuffle that saw share prices drop.…

Look enterprises, we're all friends here, all getting along The Open Container Initiative, an attempt by Docker and other container tech companies to build standards and consensus for container technology, on Wednesday plans to release the initial version of its runtime and image specifications.…

Обратите внимание на спину! Cyber crime lords have come up with a new money-spinner – Russian-language e-learning courses geared towards teaching the skills necessary to rip off consumers and card companies.…

Wheel-diculous Bluetooth security revealed The latest two-wheel transporter toy from Segway was disturbingly easy to hack, with miscreants requiring just seconds to take control of a vehicle, we're told.…

Why IoT failed, the AI takeover, the rise of content providers, and assorted chat

Valley's funding new companies that end up looking just like the old ones Analysis If Silicon Valley still does one thing better than anybody else, it's propping up profitless corporations, just like the Bank of Mum and Dad. Gulf states pour money into Premier League teams, but not on anything like the scale of Uber and Netflix, two examples of capital-swallowing money pits.…

Big Blue's public cloud reaches nearly 60 DCs worldwide IBM has signed up to an EU Cloud COC initiative and is announcing four new data centres in the UK, Australia and Silicon Valley for the IBM Cloud.…

Will 'engage practically' with former BT arm Sales at broadband provider TalkTalk dropped by 3 per cent in the company's first quarter, with an extra 20,000 new customers failing to offset the drop.…

Should we believe the hype? And why drop so much $$? Two hundred local government employees across the capital of China's eastern Shandong province will soon be encrypting messages with keys that are "impossible" to crack.…

No spraying and praying here, just precise, exorbitant attacks Attackers are manually deploying ransomware directly into target networks to maximise the damage and potential payout.…

Well, rooftop yagis hooked up to 12v Intel PCs WND‑UK – the “who they?” firm that boasted it will deliver more SigFox Internet of Things network coverage than there is 4G coverage across the UK mainland – says it will achieve this by putting IoT aerials on people’s homes.…

But bosses can't promise it will be fully complete on time Transport for London has tentatively started testing 4G on the Tube for emergency services. TfL's CTO said he was not "absolutely confident" it would be complete by January, 2019, however.…

These might be the Star Wars-themed hotel and rides you are looking for Disney has revealed plans to create a wretched hive of scum and villainy adjacent to one of its theme parks.…