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European Court of Justice decides general court skipped important analysis In its decade-long battle to reverse a one-time record European Union antitrust fine, Intel has made some small progress: its appeal continues.…

Before you scoff, consider how much we rationalise away what's in front of us Scientists hunting for the secret of how boffin scalpel-fodder favourite Drosophila melanogaster (aka the fruit fly) makes decisions have found some of the brain circuitry active when it makes choices can be linked to what it has already seen.…

More details emerge on how they plan to compete with the big industry players Analysis More details have emerged about Huawei's public cloud. It is like a hydra, a creature with many heads.…

In some cases fraudsters knew their mark's personal details BT customers in the UK have been targeted by scammers in India – with one person reporting they were defrauded for thousands of pounds this week.…

The options when 17.10 drops The Canonical project is gearing up for one of its biggest releases yet. Ubuntu 17.10, due to arrive October 19, will be the company's first release since it abandoned its Unity desktop, Mir display server and the dream of "convergence". Instead Ubuntu users will get the GNOME desktop with a few tweaks that promise to make it a little bit more Unity-like. But Unity-like does not mean it will be at all familiar for long-time Unity users. Make no mistake, Ubuntu 17.10 will be a stock GNOME desktop with a couple of add-ons to improve the overall experience.…

Seagate Kinetic drive idea had Huawei genesis and has Huawei follow-on Analysis Huawei is developing an NVMe over IP SSD with an on-drive object storage scheme meaning radically faster object storage and a re-evaluation of what object storage's very purpose.…

That Windows-Store-apps-only plan doesn't seem to be going down well with Surface buyers Microsoft has quietly extended a free upgrade offer that will allow some buyers of Windows 10 S to move to Windows 10 Pro, a move that suggests buyers aren't entirely happy with the cut-down version of Windows restriction on running apps sourced from beyond Microsoft's own Store.…

Can't fire folk for using personal comms at work. Another great reason for Brexit, eh? Companies operating in the European Union must balance workplace surveillance with employees' privacy rights, the European Court of Human Rights has ruled.…

Crowdfunded submarine maker blames door slip, denies The submarine captain accused of killing a Swedish journalist onboard his homemade vessel says she died when a hatch door accidentally hit her head.…

Accuracy is not great – but it's a start for computer-aided crackdowns by cops Software can take a decent stab at identifying looters, rioters and anyone else who hides their faces with scarves, hats, and glasses, a study has shown.…

'Time for significant board renewal' and perhaps less sound and fury too +COMMENT Five directors of Internet Australia have indicated they will not seek re-election in order to let the organisation renew itself.…

Another glimmer of hope of finding ET on otherwise barren brutal busted-flush dust world Boron, a relatively rare chemical element, has been detected on Mars for the first time. It's a sign there may have been life on the Red Planet.…

Will you continue to invest in the flash fab....purleaze WDC has told Toshiba it will leave the consortium bidding for the stricken Japanese company's memory business, on the condition that the two companies co-invest in a new flash factory that will give WDC a stronger position in the JV.…

Supporters say switch upstart's US trade bans should be lifted, sooner rather than later Upstart Arista has managed to gather some friends in its ongoing battle with Cisco: both HPs, Vizio, two automotive groups and others have filed an amicus brief with the Federal Circuit arguing that the International Trade Commission's (ITC's) ban on some Arista kit be permanently set aside.…

One of these days the 'BootStomp' attack is gonna walk all over your smartmobe University of California Santa Barbara researchers have turned up bootloader vulnerabilities across a bunch of Android chipsets from six vendors.…

Slackers beware, Facebook-owned messaging platform thinks it can charge for chat WhatsApp thinks the time is right for a service that will formally connect its billion daily users to businesses.…

Who needs actual evidence when you're scared about Russia? US Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH) simply can't wait to banish Kaspersky Lab's antivirus from American government computers on the grounds it's a security risk.…

Meanwhile, Meg gives the dirt on Uber courtship HPE is showing signs that its turnaround is picking up, as the enterprise IT giant raised its revenues – and on Tuesday talked up a future without its software business.…

What goes up, Musk stay on the ground at this rate Incoming Hurricane Irma is menacing Florida, USA, prompting mandatory evacuations – and threatening to ruin Elon Musk's week too.…

I've been to Bali, via California Typhoons have broken four submarine cables in the crowded Asian sea-lanes, with a knock-on impact for Australian ISPs iiNet and Internode.…

Rep Bridenstine wants to get into space – presumably after we've destroyed this world President Donald Trump this month nominated US House Rep James Bridenstine (R-OK) to be the next NASA administrator.…

With DACA dead, all eyes turn to a dysfunctional Congress The technology industry exploded with anger today after President Trump announced an end to a program that has given 800,000 young adults the right to live and work in the United States.…

US cable giant the latest victim of S3 cloud security brain-fart Records of roughly four million Time Warner Cable customers in the US were exposed to the public internet after a contractor failed to properly secure an Amazon cloud database.…

Settlement requires disclosure and monitoring, not much else Lenovo on Tuesday settled charges that it compromised the security of its computers to fling ads onto desktops from August 2014 through early 2015.…

All versions of Struts since 2008 affected – upgrade now Malicious code can be push into servers running Apache Struts 2 apps, allowing scumbags to run malware within corporate networks.…

Google's new landfill strategy It's 16 months since Google declared Android One not dead, so it's time to declare it not dead all over again.…

Its aircraft doesn't have a tail fin. No, really A German startup claiming that an electric vertical takeoff and landing aircraft powered by 36 electric fans is the future of personal transport has somehow scored $90m from investors.…

That's over half the population – digital government, huh? The Estonian government has discovered a security risk in its ID card system, potentially affecting almost 750,000 residents.…

Que pasó? Latin American social networking site Taringa has suffered a database breach that has resulted in the spill of more than 28 million records.…

Your move, EE Brit mobile operator Three has formally filed its legal challenge to cap the forthcoming spectrum auction at 37 per cent, prompting fears that extra 4G airwave capacity and the rollout of 5G could be delayed.…

Driven consortium floors it on the glamour front Updated A Ford Fusion* has been fitted with autonomous driving technology as part of the Driven consortium's tech trials in Oxford, UK.…

Blasts AdWords blockery The founder of the web browser Opera has accused Google of "anti-competitive" practices.…

New boss, whoever they are, has big ol' boots to fill Analysis Arcserve CEO Mike Crest has abruptly left the three-year-old CA Technologies spinout, leaving board chairman Dave Hansen holding the reins while the search for a new chief exec starts.…

Put in some chrome and shade The mania for "flat" user interfaces is costing publishers and e-commerce sites billions in lost revenue.…

Reverse takeover: Cambridge techies to keep London listing Another UK engineering software group has been snapped up by the claws of industrial machines – for about half a billion pieces of cold, hard cash.…

Announces public cloud alliance for China and beyond Huawei is gearing up to deliver public cloud services with an AI component, both directly and with partners in China, and provide plumbing for partners abroad.…

Banks vs fintech war looms. But for now, let's pop the kettle on The UK is lagging behind other countries in mobile wallet adoption, according to a new survey out today.…

Arriving by the end of 2017 Toshiba stand staff at the Huawei Connect conference 2017 in Shanghai said a 14TB helium-filled disk drive would arrive "very soon".…

It's a bit more complicated than going hybrid from private We generally think of a transformation to a hybrid infrastructure as one where you're going from a completely private setup to one that spans the public cloud and your private installation. But what if you started life as a small company with your systems entirely in the cloud? It's not an unusual approach, as running up your initial services in the cloud is straightforward and avoids a big capital outlay. As a company grows it's understandable that it might want to take on a private data centre, build an in-house support team and evolve to a two-site setup.…

Virtzilla's swagger is back as it plans to do to the security industry what it once did to storage industry VMWORLD 2017 VMware's entered the enterprise security market and called for it to become more concentrated.…

4.5km rock is the largest object we've seen up close, albeit still 7,000,000km away Be glad that the asteroid dubbed “Florence” won't revisit Earth for many, many years: observations during its weekend fly-by revealed that the space-rock is so big it's captured two moons.…

Oracle OpenWorld catalog mentions virtual SPARC on cloudy x86, migratory motions Oracle looks like it's going to suggest Solaris users move to its SPARC-powered cloud.…

Electronic Arts tech director thinks tech-agnostic developers can build better networks than slave-to-vendor NetAdmins Fire your network administrators, hire developers instead, and stop expecting networking equipment vendors to provide anything more valuable than free lunches.…

Nine months for letting punters bypass Great Firewall A Chinese man has been sentenced to nine months in prison for helping his fellow citizens drill through the Great Firewall with virtual private networks.…

919444 + 1 is six MEELLION digits long and the twelfth biggest prime ever found Humanity's collection of the very large prime numbers just grew by one member: 919444 + 1.…

Hacker, white hat or crypto boffin? This is important Australia's Department of Defence wants input on proposed changes to “controlled technology” export controls – and the deadline is this coming Friday.…

Bitcoin, Ethereum values dip after 'Initial Coin Offerings' ruled dangerously disruptive Digital currencies Bitcoin and Ethereum have slipped after the Chinese government banned Initial Coin Offerings, a tool that sees equities offerings bid in cryptocurrencies instead of fiat currencies, a share funding mechanism.…

Indian Premier League cricket rejects Zuck's ~US$600m bid in favour of Murdoch moolah Facebook has again suffered a setback in India, this time finding that around US$600m wasn't enough to secure five years worth of digital distribution rights for cricket matches.…

Never mind robots, get a load of these winged horrors Rise of the Insects A Jersey-based drone was brutally attacked by a swarm of Asian hornets after disturbing a nest thought to contain thousands of the angry insects.…

Since when was 'intervening' in TV shows a good idea? Comment Google has begun to infuse American TV and movies shows with propaganda – "good propaganda", the company insists. However, it's unlikely to please two groups who rarely agree on anything: those who think Google isn't diverse enough, and conservatives who fear its political and media power.…