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Apply these patches – and please don't demand a recall “Ask more of your phone,” is the Pixel 2's official marketing slogan. It's not a good sign when early adopters are asking Google for more support.…

Ex-military supersonic daredevil? Come hither... An American startup claiming to be building a modern-day Concorde is hiring a test pilot.…

All your data protection are belong to us +Comment Comtrade's HYCU product snuggled up to Nutanix as its most friendly data protection platform. The latest release sidles even closer with a great big Nutanix bearhug.…

Judges grill government on nuances of spying laws The UK's surveillance laws have been put under the spotlight today as the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) heard legal complaints against the government's spying powers.…

UK stats body tasked with finding cheaper data sources Mobile phone data could be used to gather information on people's workplaces for future censuses as the government tries to cut the cost of producing population statistics.…

Variants on zombie horde that took down Dyn still at large The Mirai botnet is alive and kicking more than a year after its involvement in a DDoS attack that left many of the world's biggest websites unreachable.…

Now that's a hard one Sketch With the TV landscape changing faster than some viewers change their socks, today's marathon grilling of BBC bosses at Westminster took on some urgency.…

DoSsing for fun and profit not just a 'nuisance', they warn Security researchers have said they've uncovered a new way for hackers to crash Brother printers.…

Multi-vendor, multi-tier data manager gets Quebec labour fund cash Quebecois' savings are being wagered on the success of a Montreal-based data management firm via a venture fund that aims to boost local biz.…

And what about uninsured UK.gov robocars? AEV Bill "Pointy-headed technocrats" behind autonomous vehicles tech are worried that a proposed new law won't protect the public from huge financial claims if a mass hack of a driverless car fleet occurs.…

Bookings up 50% in a quarter... though all of HCI is doing nicely Hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) supplier Pivot3 saw better than 50 per cent sequential growth in its bookings from the second to third 2017 quarters. It said it had a record number of million-dollar orders in both the video surveillance and data centre areas.…

It also makes for great fertiliser A speculative new study suggests that nucleic acids, proteins and cell membranes – precursors to life Earth – first grew from a single kickstarting molecule named diamidophosphate.…

Qualcomm punts on NVMe-over-fabrics server SAN startup Under acquisitive siege by Broadcom, Qualcom has invested millions in NVMe-over-fabrics array startup Excelero.…

Cupertino denies avoidance Apple has continued to avoid the heavier taxes that some countries would like to exact by moving parts of its company to Jersey, the Paradise Papers have revealed.…

Deutsche Telekom's got a feeling about i.am+ voice assistant Omega Would-be entrepreneur and tech magpie will.i.am's startup, i.am+, has bagged $117m venture funding from Salesforce.…

'US is the worst for startups' The outgoing executive chairman of Cisco, John Chambers, has made no secret about his desire to invest in drones in his life after the Borg. But now he has also revealed his passion for cricket farming.…

Ahhh, it's a mistake. Not CEO Bezos' plan to get EVEN richer AWS has a reputation for ratcheting up prices as customers migrate more workloads to its sprawling rack empire, but a bunch of UK users endured a sphincter-tightening moment today when they checked their bill.…

Sorry the line is bad... what? BT is once again hiking prices, with punters facing an extra £30 on their annual broadband bill in the new year.…

Look, people use microwaves and cars, and they effectively operate as black boxes Opening up the processes that underpin algorithms may well magnify the risk of hacking, widen privacy concerns and stifle innovation, Google has told MPs.…

All's fair in war and cloud The cloud is a highly competitive arena, where cloud providers jostle for market share. We know of Microsoft's long haul against Amazon’s AWS, but of late Oracle has cranked up the noise against Jeff Bezos' market leader while trying to break past Google and IBM.…

Underdogs fail to see how that's a competition 'remedy' As the European Commission mulls Google's own remedy to its anti-competitive behaviour on the web, the former startup behind the original complaint has warned of possible consequences.…

Also, AI isn't really doing much for the economy Robot-assisted surgery costs more time and money than traditional methods, but isn't more effective, for certain types of operations.…

The XGIMI CC Aurora is, frankly, outstanding. But a little buggy Review Every now and again in the world of gadgets there is a confluence of technologies that make something new possible. A better take on a familiar task.…

We catch up with 'death watch' project after latest version bags 1.6m downloads Interview Apache OpenOffice 4.1.4 finally shipped on October 19, five months later than intended, but the software is still a bit buggy.…

Earth-based 'scope clocks one of this simulation's first wonders A large international team of astronomers has detected one of the oldest galaxies in the universe we've seen to date – born within a billion years after the Big Bang.…

This kind of security that should keep the likes of the NSA and pirates out, but doesn't Several large gaps have been found in the IEEE's P1735 cryptography standard that can be exploited to unlock or tamper with encrypted system-on-chip blueprints.…

Rights carrot dangled before Netflix, Amazon and HBO, apparently J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings could be on its way to the small screen.…

Out with Xen, in with 'core KVM technology' for new C5 instances and future VMs too AWS has revealed its created a new hypervisor based on KVM, not the Xen hypervisor on which it has relied for years.…

Deployed with Skylake-powered instances unleashed today, coming soon to more instances AWS has revealed its created a new version of the Xen hypervisor to make a new type of EC2 instance go faster.…

Domains? Blocked. Search engines? Blocked. ISPs? Ditto. Good luck with that A US judge has ruled that world+dog must help block Sci-Hub, a publisher of scientific texts, which will likely result in protracted battles with Internet companies over their responsibility for copyright infringement.…

As researcher pleads with you not to brand bugs with a logo A security researcher has turned up new ways to silently hijack and infect Android devices via malicious Wi-Fi packets over the air.…

Users want it and NVIDIA's already sniffing around OPENSTACK SYDNEY The OpenStack Foundation has started to scope what it will take to make its software a suitable platform on which to run machine learning workloads.…

Wanna break the Internet? Start by not patching this problem Cisco's pushed a fix for a border gateway protocol (BGP) denial-of-service bug in its IOS XE operating system.…

Cisco still hasn't managed to drown this kitten Trying to duck patent sueballs slung by Cisco didn't stop Arista from claiming record revenue and profit for its most recent quarter.…

Crypto-crafting JavaScript appears on hipster-boxing site Yet another website has been caught secretly running Coin Hive's JavaScript that silently pressgangs visitors' computers into mining the Monero digital currency.…

Redmond, Princeton hope to protect folks from ICE swoops Microsoft is suing the US government to prevent the deportation of immigrants – including at least 45 of its own staffers – who are in America under the now-dying DACA program.…

Uncle Sam loses control of social media accounts The US Digital Registry – an authoritative list of government Twitter accounts – reveals that almost 30 have been suspended, several after tweeting in, er, Russian.…

Celebrates CenturyLink gobble by blacking out A fat-fingered configuration blunder at Level 3 temporarily sent a chunk of internet connectivity in America and the wider world to level zero on Monday.…

Google, Facebook and chums quietly signal they're OK with tweaked US proposals Just before the weekend, the Internet Association quietly dropped its objections to the proposed Stop Enabling Sex Traffickers Act (SESTA) which is making its way through US Congress – after fighting against the draft legislation for months.…

You're typing it wrong, duh Apple says it is working on a fix for an annoying bug in iOS 11 that leaves some fans unable to properly type the letter 'i' without it glitching out.…

Stop whining, says ad giant, we only promoted harmful nonsense for a short time Following the murder-suicide of 26 people in church on Sunday by Texas gunman Devin Kelley, ad giant Google managed to shoot itself in the foot by promoting fake news about the 26-year-old.…

Just months after Chipzilla trashed its new best friend as an 'unreliable supplier' Analysis Arch-rivals AMD and Intel have put aside their animosity toward each other, and united against a common foe: Nvidia.…

HPE's big honking server and memory box HPE has upgraded its Superdome X server to use Skylake CPUs, bragging that it's the world's most scalable and modular in-memory computing platform.…

Hello, hello? No I said a pain in my... Hello? Londoners are being given the choice of putting their health in the hands of their internet connection, via a 24/7 app-based NHS service which will allow them to have consultations with doctors over video call.…

US Supreme Court sends another appeal packing Samsung seems to have trouble accepting reality when it comes to a long-running patent spat with Apple.…

Appleby condemns 'criminal act' and 'politically driven' reporting Revelations from the Paradise Papers, a leaked set of more than 13 million financial documents, have shed light on how the rich and famous channel funds through offshore tax havens.…

They're super keen to get it done ASAP Broadcom has confirmed its multibillion-dollar bid for Qualcomm, revealing more details of the $130bn all-cash-and-shares offer to buy out its rival chipmaker.…

So rested they by the iSCI tree... And filed awhile in thought Red Hat's v3.0 Ceph storage software adds iSCSI block, POSIX file and containerisation support to the object storage core, making it a unified protocol storage software product.…

Climate apocalypse, you say? Meh, at least we have truffles The Périgord black truffle has survived UK weather and grown in Wales.…

Burn in. Weird colours. Welcome to Super Retina Is the technology press operating double standards when it comes holding Apple to account?…