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Testimony paints lurid picture (and we’re not talking golden showers) Analysis Former FBI director James Comey today spoke in public for the first time about his relationship with President Donald Trump, and he didn't stint in calling out the Leader of the Free World on being economical with the truth.…

We must have missed the bit where code bugs were extinct The governor of Washington has green-lit the testing of self-driving cars on the US state's public roads, with or without human operators, calling the technology "foolproof."…

Friend, do we have a bizarre legal battle for you Analysis In an extraordinary and expansive lawsuit, former CIA and NSA contractor Dennis Montgomery has teamed up with the lawyer who brought down the NSA's mass surveillance operation – Larry Klayman – to sue all the US intelligence services and their former and current heads personally, as well as former president Barack Obama, for illegal surveillance.…

$7.4m fraud ring traced back to iGiant's database Twenty Apple employees in China have been arrested by cops investigating the lifting and reselling hundreds of thousands of pieces of customers' personal information.…

Situation does not look good for Michelle Carter Prosecutors in the US who want to send 18-year-old Michelle Carter to jail for her boyfriend's suicide have rested their case after three days in court.…

Class-action complaint against Arris Surfboard broadband boxes widens A class-action lawsuit claiming Arris's gigabit Surfboard modems buckle under light pressure is gathering in size and pace – once again putting the spotlight on Intel's much-maligned Puma 6 chips.…

Isn't that, like, 90% of tech upstarts' biz models? In an indictment unsealed on Wednesday, Isaac Choi, founder and CEO of failed Silicon Valley job search startup WrkRiot, was charged with five counts of wire fraud for allegedly defrauding former employees.…

Call of Cloudera and Hortonworks? MapR Technologies is going for IPO – just not yet, the company’s chief executive Matt Mills has told The Reg.…

€8m bung for V2X efforts Ericsson, the one-time mobe-maker, is leading a coalition tasked by the EU with building a 5G V2X network for connected cars.…

Waaaaaaa... I need to join Prime for 'unlimited storage'? Oh. Just photos Amazon has shuttered the flat fee-based unlimited cloud storage plan for Amazon Drive to all but paid-up members of the premium "Prime" service – who will only be able to store unlimited numbers of photos.…

Comey calls Trump a liar Washington is gearing up for a potentially explosive session, as former FBI director James Comey gives evidence in front of the Senate Intelligence Committee over his dealings with President Donald Trump.…

Legality of mass comms data under court's scrutiny again The commissioners responsible for overseeing the UK's spy agencies have admitted that they have never carried out a formal inspection or audit of the sharing of bulk communications and personal data with industry.…

Shareholders complaints fall on deaf ears, probably Nuns calling for greater transparency over "dark money" lobbying practices, Larry Page being hailed by Eric Schmidt as one of the greatest humans alive today, and extreme gender pay disparity. Yep, it's the Alphabet Annual Meeting of Shareholders!…

Greg's escaped the trunk and is joined by Usermind CEO Michel Feaster

Majority verdict swats aside 'paranoid' man's sueball An avionics technician who claimed he was unlawfully fired from Elon Musk's SpaceX after raising the alarm over alleged safety failures has lost his wrongful dismissal lawsuit.…

Just don't ask him to explain cryptography... "Why is Jeremy Paxman at Infosec?” more than one person wondered, as Newsnight's former rottweiler-in-chief took the stage to deliver the morning's keynote.…

Official bug notice? Sure, but not before I get cred and LOLs More than three-quarters of vulnerabilities are publicly reported online before National Vulnerability Database publication.…

'Tightened' travel, meals, catering policies the new norm A six-month squeeze on staff travel expenses and meal allowances are among the measures Hewlett Packard Enterprise is using to lop up to $300m off its operating costs.…

And it's not just a question of money, either Britain has a long-term health problem: Britons are living longer with conditions that would previously have killed them. This is obviously great for the people concerned, but not for the government, which is on the hook for most of the nation’s healthcare costs.…

Crappy software everywhere means we face a world of pain Governments are poised to intervene over the security of IoT devices, as the industry has so far failed to self-regulate, infosec guru Bruce Schneier has said.…

Amateur spy-watcher plots path to USA 276's fly-by For a little while earlier this month, astronauts on the International Space Station had a spooky companion: a spy satellite that circled just outside the its “danger zone”.…

Prof hits out at looming regulations Analysis Opposition is growing over demands that digital forensics labs comply with ISO 17025 – an international checklist for laboratory testing.…

… until now, when it decided a bit of security is a fine idea Running a virtual machine in the cloud without a firewall sounds a bit nutty, right? Because security.…

Have you seen Arkit? Is someone channeling Oasis? Apple's most significant announcement at its Worldwide Developers Conference was not its vaporware HomePod speaker. Rather it was ARKit, an iOS framework for placing digital graphics into mobile device camera scenes while taxing batteries.…

That's 100,000 years older than the last fossil find Pics It's a double-whammy discovery for fossil enthusiasts this week. Two groups of scientists have reportedly found the world's oldest known remains of Homo sapiens – and a really old mushroom.…

'Stressed fibre optical cabling' crashed 3PAR box, then wide-striped disks went kaput The HPE 3PAR SANs that twice failed at the Australian Taxation Office had warned of outages for months, but HPE decided the arrays were in no danger of major failure. Combined with decisions to place the SANs' recovery software was on the SANs themselves, and HPE's configuration of the SANs for speed, not resilience, the failures proved difficult to recover from even if no data was lost.…

We're fine. You might not be as Turla espionage-ware uses Britney's Instagram for evil The malware scum behind the ongoing Turla campaign have been spotted experimenting with Instagram accounts as a C&C channel.…

Hands up anyone who tests what they stick their labels on. Anyone? We thought not The Internet of Things got just a lot worse, with F-Secure unravelling eighteen vulnerabilities in IP cameras from Chinese vendor Foscam.…

Boris and the Chocolate Factory, with murder, extortion, bootlegging, bribery on the side US law enforcement agencies on Wednesday unsealed charges against a large-scale Russian criminal syndicate, laying charges against 33 individuals with some pretty startling sidelines.…

Platinum attack spotted in Asia, needs admin credentials Microsoft is warning against a new way to exploit Intel's Active Management Technology, this time to pass messages between infected machines over business LANs.…

Just close your eyes, be at peace, and visualize Waymo's lawyers kicking your ass Uber boss Travis Kalanick is once again making headlines – this time for taking over a designated employee lactation room to use for meditation.…

Outlook now bleak for out-of-pocket contractors, especially those owed Superannuation A receiver has been appointed to mop up fallen payroll-for-contractors outfit Plutus Payroll.…

Doubt it'll stop him, though The number of H‑1B visas requested by Indian outsourcing companies has dropped dramatically, but not for the reasons you might think.…

Pro tip: Frontier is West Virginia's largest broadband ISP "I bet you that cost me my job," West Virginia Senate president, Republican Mitch Carmichael, jokingly told colleagues in April when he voted for a new measure that would expand broadband competition in his state.…

Meg Whitman doesn't have time for work-at-home slackers HPE Discover Chalk up Hewlett Packard Enterprise as being among the crop of tech giants demanding workers clock in at an office every day.…

Bullsh*t sandwiches all 'round Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR) blew a fuse Wednesday morning when his years-long effort to get American intelligence services to say how many US citizens have been sucked into a foreign spying program was dismissed out of hand.…

Two sons get suspended sentences, daughter cleared If chef Gordon Ramsay reprises his TV series Gordon Behind Bars, he could see a familiar face – after his father-in-law was sentenced to six months in jail on hacking charges.…

Two sons get suspended sentences, daughter cleared If chef Gordon Ramsey reprises his TV series Gordon Behind Bars, he could see a familiar face – after his father-in-law was sentenced to six months in jail on hacking charges.…

Arbitrary exes, no, but friendlier rules for dev tools Analysis In conjunction with the commencement of its Worldwide Developer Conference and the release of developer builds of planned operating system updates, Apple has revised its Developer Program license agreement, for better or worse.…

Tesla bigwig hints at music algorithms and other assorted nuggets at shareholder meeting Tesla might turn tastemaker, CEO Elon Musk let slip yesterday at the annual shareholders meeting, suggesting that the company may move into music "matching algorithms".…

Ks Clean: Run and install: OK, OK or, er, OK? A malicious Android app that downloads itself from advertisements posted on forums strongly resists removal, security firm Zscaler warns.…

Grants of up to £100k to figure out implications of big data, blockchain The UK's data watchdog is offering up to £100,000 for projects looking at how emergent tech affects information rights, saying that practical research "needs a stronger voice".…

AR doesn't qualify for free speech protection Analysis In the blue corner: Candy Lab, a maker of augmented reality games, which doesn't want people banned from playing its distractions in public places.…

NXP acquisition part of IoT push, say market-watchers Analysis The $39bn acquisition of Dutch chip company NXP is central to Qualcomm's strategy to expand its Internet of Things and connected car activities, getting to scale more quickly than it could through in-house developments alone, even with its renowned engineering teams. But it may face obstacles in the European Union, according to Reuters reports.…

Only Dell EMC manages to expand its waistline in Q1 Sales stats for the server market are out for the first three months of the year and they are bad – bad meaning bad, not bad meaning good.…

Former spymaster Stella Rimington on cyber espionage, terrorism and more Former MI5 boss Stella Rimington says complex communications "make it very difficult for our intelligence services" to keep pace against "hideous ideologies" whose sole aim is to kill, while cyber espionage is something "no one really knows effectively how to deal with".…

Demand outstripping supply ahead of GDPR... and, hot damn, those salaries The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) will force European organisations to expand their cyber workforce, causing demand to outstrip the supply of expertise.…

Waiting for the next industrial revolution. Still waiting... Mountains of cash keep pouring into the titans of big data despite the world's inability to do much of value with their software.…

Donors' money funds outgoing managers' nest eggs The Wikimedia Foundation (WMF) recently released a Form 990 for its 2015-2016 financial year. Once again, the foundation took almost a full year to do so rather than the standard five months.…

An HPC boffin predicts system trends HPC Blog Dratted laws of physics. Cranking up frequencies is difficult due to leakages from ever smaller guard rails on the electron highways inside the processor. You have to jack up the power to make sure the instructions make it through, which leads to thermal problems.…