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Or how to stop worrying about infrastructure and love lock-in DevOps, a combination of development and operations, may have to be rethought because ops is on the outs.…

Sooner or later, dependency hell creates a problem for everyone Dabblers with prominent artificial intelligence tools have been warned and/or reminded to check their dependencies because some have open vulnerabilities.…

Anything smaller than 5.5 inches just won't satisfy, especially in China Analyst outfit IDC has predicted the smartphone era will soon end, with 2019 to see the dawn of the phablet age.…

Each packed with 50-plus qubits, it's a stepping stone to next-gen computing. Possibly Two teams of researchers have created the world's largest publicly known quantum simulators – a type of quantum computer – each containing more than 50 qubits to model complex interactions between matter that cannot be performed with a conventional supercomputer.…

Baidu's Deep Speech with TensorFlow under the covers Mozilla has revealed an open speech dataset and a TensorFlow-based transcription engine.…

Elvis had Graceland. Will Microsoft have Gatesland? Poll Apple built a spaceship, Amazon's tendered for a town and now Microsoft's announced a “multi-year campus refresh project” that will see it splash US$150m to renovate 6.7 million square feet of its offices, add eight new buildings and lay a cricket pitch.…

Note the 'currently' because something just made the Gin Palace's shares pop 20 per cent Nokia Networks has denied a rumour that it's planning to make an offer for Juniper Networks.…

Web alt-coin nasties run even after you leave the page Miscreants have found a way to continue running cryptocurrency-crafting JavaScript on Windows PCs even after netizens browse away from the webpage hosting the code.…

As expected – just like the Oracle bashing AWS re:Invent On Wednesday in Las Vegas, USA, at Amazon Web Services' sixth annual re:Invent dog-and-pony show, CEO Andy Jassy fulfilled industry expectations and introduced a managed Kubernetes service – Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS).…

Down a deep rabbit hole of alleged theft of secrets Uber caught one of its employees trying to steal documents and save them to his personal computer. He resigned.…

Vacation system gremlin gives everyone who asked time off A bug in American Airlines' pilot scheduling software has left the US airline dramatically understaffed for the coming month, particularly around Christmas week.…

Blame Google. And ICANN Network admins, code wranglers and other techies have hit an unusual problem this week: their test and development environments have vanished.…

While you patch your Mac, take a look at what upset the Apple cart this week Code dive Apple has emitted an emergency software patch to address the trivial to exploit vulnerability in macOS High Sierra, version 10.13.1, that allowed miscreants to log into Macs as administrators without passwords and let any app gain root privileges.…

US.gov argues in favour of extraditing accused Brit hacker Lauri Love Accused Brit hacker Lauri Love may be held in indefinite detention in an American prison if US courts find him unfit to enter a plea, the High Court in London was told this afternoon.…

Suing for patent infringement? Right back at ya, champ Apple filed a countersuit against Qualcomm in the Southern District Court of California today for allegedly infringing eight power-efficiency patents.…

MPs say body has 'given up' chasing GPs to identify harm NHS England has been slammed after more than 700,000 patient records went undelivered.…

Object storage partner Scality: Don't forget they put a RING on it! +Comment Not content with having one object storage partner, Scality, HPE has linked arms with a second – Cloudian.…

House of Lords members make push for Scottish spaceports During a third reading of the draft bill for space industries at the House of Lords yesterday, peers debated limiting the British government's power and also plumped for Scotland as the venue for a UK spaceport.…

'None of Your Business' to help bring consumer cases to court Austrian privacy activist Max Schrems is crowdfunding a nonprofit that will bring consumer privacy cases to court in a bid to enforce European data protection laws.…

Defence submits opening arguments to Administrative Court Accused hacker Lauri Love is at a strong "likelihood of suicide" if extradited to America – and that a formerly anonymous co-defendant was tried at home in Australia is good reason for Love to be treated the same way, defence barrister Edward Fitzgerald QC told the High Court today.…

ICO still waiting for technical reports Uber has finally come up with a figure for the number of UK-based riders and drivers affected by its massive data breach: 2.7 million.…

Yes, it's real While 5G suffers the usual, protracted birth pangs, unfashionable Gigabit LTE is going to be how your mobile bits are delivered for ages.…

But ... we won't 'be held to ransom by criminals' British shipping company Clarkson has 'fessed up to a data breach, saying a miscreant has accessed its systems and the public should expect some of it to be made public.…

Third quarter brings positive cash flow for first time Analysis Pure Storage had a great growth quarter and sees itself taking on NetApp filers with its unstructured data FlashBlade product.…

Ministry of Fun launches network infrastructure review, extends basic broadband subsidy scheme The UK government has launched a review to figure out what’s holding back investment in "full fibre" and 5G networks and how policies could help the telco market.…

When the agenda goes up, so does the price You’ve got less than 24 hours to secure blind bird tickets for our Continuous Lifecycle London conference next May for the rock bottom price of £500 plus VAT.…

Well. One less excuse for skinflint OEMs, anyway Google's attempt to cure the Android's ever-worsening fragmentation issue and slow updates might actually turn the tide.…

TSS workers get THE memo, enter redundancy talks AGAIN IBM's Technology Support Services (TSS) teamsters in the Global Technology Services (GTS) UK division are braced for further job cuts as they enter yet another redundancy consultation process.…

Time for a more proactive approach to investment? Research Against the backdrop of increasingly crucial and complex IT systems, and a relentless pace of change in the business and technology domains, ensuring that systems are running smoothly and with a good level of performance has become a key imperative. This shines a spotlight on systems monitoring, but how well are organisations doing in meeting requirements in this space?…

UK.gov insiders fairly certain cash won't be spent that way Going by last week's Budget, it looks like the only ones still drinking the 5G Kool-Aid are senior politicians. Perhaps they think it will make them look visionary.…

And were used on combat ops for just two days The British Army's notorious Thales Watchkeeper drones have cost the taxpayer a billion pounds over the past 12 years.…

As German ERP biz cozies up to Microsoft in the cloud SAP is “getting there” with its efforts to address concerns around deployment of the latest version of its ERP business suite, according to S/4HANA COO Sal Laher.…

New TLS 1.0 turnoff offers three months warning, reprieve if you'd rather remain insecure IBM has announced it will again try to wean its cloud off the known-to-be-insecure TLS 1.0 and 1.1, but will also keep them available for some services.…

Code can work out if you're close to topping yourself Analysis Facebook is using mysterious software that scours material on its social network to identify and offer help to people who sound potentially suicidal.…

All content is created equal, regulator rules India has decided to implement a formal Internet neutrality regime.…

Lord Chief Justice to hear Suffolk man's challenge against removal to US Alleged computer hacker Lauri Love’s appeal against extradition from the UK to the US begins this morning at the Royal Courts of Justice in London.…

Also bare metal EC2, that KVM-based hypervisor and an entry to the security biz AWS reveals 'Nitro' - custom ASICS and boxes that do grunt work so EC2 hosts can just run instances Also bare metal EC2 and a KVM-based hypervisor Amazon Web Services has revealed that it's spent four years working on a new architecture that offloads networking, storage and management tasks from EC2 host servers to dedicated hardware.…

He had some once, but lost them down the back of the sofa In fact he's kinda rubbish at cryptocurrency altogether Tesla, SpaceX, OpenAI and Boring Company boss Elon Musk has denied inventing the blockchain and bitcoin, or being Satoshi Nakamoto.…

It's fine to spy on a suspect's mobile devices, just don't listen Canada's domestic spy agency has won permission to continue using IMSI-catchers, in some cases without warrants, following a decision by the country's federal court.…

Effort to muddy transparency reports fails to impress judge Twitter has won another round in its long-running campaign to publish numbers that the US government insists should be secret.…

Signature policy has cost AU$1.7bn, looks rather sickly One of the Australian government's signature policies, the electronic health record, has been all-but-abandoned by the healthcare sector.…

Karim Baratov pleads guilty to ransacking web accounts for 'mystery' paymasters A Canadian hacker for hire has admitted ransacking webmail accounts for miscreants accused of orchestrating the Yahoo! megahack that hit all three billion Purple Palace user accounts.…

Karim Baratov accepts government plea deal One of four people involved in the Yahoo! megahack that cracked all three billion Purple Palace accounts has taken a plea deal, but insists he never knew who he was working for.…

We were bought by your rival, but that doesn't mean we don't still need you (for a few months) A New York investment firm is suing its ISP to retain its access to a high-speed international internet link – after the firm was acquired by a company that has a beef with the broadband provider.…

Illinois, Washington sue 'reckless' transit upstart Challenged on Monday by US senators to explain its failure to report that it had allowed hackers to grab records on 57 million customers and drivers and then paid hush money in an attempted year-long coverup, Uber has been presented with its second state-backed lawsuit for not alerting authorities to the pilfering.…

Pai puts in his thumb and pulls out a plum Analysis Ajit Pai – the head of America's broadband watchdog, the FCC – has responded to widespread criticism of his plan to tear up net neutrality safeguards by… mocking celebrity tweets.…

Three finger erasure fail: didn't control, didn’t delete, may not 'alt collection of metadata In April, the Australian Federal Police (AFP) apologetically promised it would destroy illegally-collected metadata about a journalist. It's now emerged that it botched the job, and didn't until shown the error of its ways.…

Cab-hailing app maker in Wayyyyyymo trouble A judge today delayed the start of a trade-secret theft case against Uber – after evidence suggesting the upstart operated a secret trade-secret-stealing unit was revealed at the last minute.…

Launch blunder not the best start for Putin's new spaceport A Russian weather satellite and 18 micro-satellites are right now thought to be at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean after a Soyuz rocket carrying the birds malfunctioned shortly after launch.…

Gigabytes of Army, NSA files found out in the open online A classified toolkit for potentially accessing US military intelligence networks was left exposed to the public internet, for anyone to find, according to security researchers today.…