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Location, location, location ... for testing and research only Geonerds, how would you like to work with raw GNSS data at nanosecond accuracy?…

Want to pay for 50GB of Redmond-powered ad-free email? We decode your options Microsoft has shut down new registrations for the Outlook Premium service, directing customers instead to an Office 365 subscription.…

Misbehaving gas giant's poles light up independently Jupiter’s vivid northern and southern lights flash independently from each other, a discovery that has surprised scientists.…

'JUPITER' is made for video, should see first light in 2020, boast 60 Tbps capacity A consortium including Facebook, Amazon and SoftBank has signed up to build a new submarine cable linking Asia and the United States of America.…

FireEye gives the world GoCrack, a Dockerised hashcat implementation for sysadmins FireEye reckons sysadmins need help enforcing enterprise password rules, so it's released and open-sourced a tool that distributes password testing across multiple GPU-equipped machines.…

unCaptcha is the sound of security crumbling Whatever Google has in mind to replace its reCaptcha had better be ready soon: another research group has found a way to defeat it.…

While Softbank's Sprint goes limp on T-Mobile US merger America's comms regulator has signed off on the $34bn merger deal that will see ISP CenturyLink take over internet backbone Level 3.…

Plus: Folks freak out searching for 'brassiere' on their iPhones Good morning, or afternoon, wherever you are. Here's a roundup of recent AI developments on top of everything else we've reported over the past week or so.…

Browser maker turns to anonymizing network for anti-identification technique Mozilla has incorporated a privacy protection option pioneered by The Tor Project into Firefox's code, but plans to make the feature available only through the browser's nightly builds.…

This Kool-Aid is so tasty The creator and lead developer of Google's news-sucking AMP service is unhappy about being called a liar.…

Sure, that won’t go wrong at all The US Deputy Attorney General has told business leaders that Uncle Sam won't demand mandatory backdoors in encryption – so long as companies can cough up an unencrypted copy of every message, call, photo or other form of communications they handle.…

Virus panic pair agrees to never again offer to 'fix' anyone's PC A husband and wife team accused of scamming people with dodgy tech support calls about bogus malware infections have been barred for life from offering IT support and repairs.…

Facebook, Twitter, Skype, Collusion... allegedly Analysis Where to begin?…

Chocolate Factory's anti-malware protections fail yet again Android apps secretly harboring cryptocurrency-mining code have managed to make their way onto the shelves in the official Google Play Store.…

Remote unauthenticated attack bug gets perfect CVSS score Oracle is urging users of its enterprise identity management system to apply an emergency update to stomp a bug that allows attackers take over the system.…

Partisan publishers hide identity from advertisers – study Publishers hiding their identity from advertisers accounted for 60 per cent of Google's news network ad revenue in a study conducted by a non-partisan ethics watchdog.…

Danish seafarer denies murdering Kim Wall The man charged with the murder of a Swedish journalist in his private submarine has admitted dismembering her body and dumping the parts into the sea – but insists he did not kill her.…

Brit military top brass assures us it has coherent plan to harness Brit boffinry The UK Ministry of Defence has unveiled latest its science and technology strategy by writing a jargon-ridden report full of incomprehensible diagrams – but it contains good news for startups.…

Surveillance hardware purpose-built for deep learning, analytics Seagate has bolted "AI" to its SkyHawk disk drive brand, saying it's better suited for next-generation deep learning and video analytics.…

Pure politics? It won't matter by March 2019 Experts are mystified as to why the European Commission has launched a probe into the UK tax arrangements of multinationals.…

Hardware is called hardware for a reason Analysis In recent years, China's high-tech production miracle and globalisation have made it easy – perhaps too easy – for an outsider or newcomer to dabble in hardware.…

Propose 'brand campaign', tax breaks and, erm, standards The UK lacks effective leadership in digital manufacturing technologies, with a fragmented skills system and poor support for startups in the field, a review has said.…

Encryption? Passwords? Nah, why use those... Detailed security arrangements for London Heathrow airport, including the Queen’s precise route every time she passes through, were found on a USB stick left in a West London street, according to reports.…

Can a dancing hot dog save it? Comment Although Snap Inc. still insists on its home page that it's "a camera company", nobody seems to want its "camera". The core user base of millennials have stayed away from its hardware foray, resulting in an expensive flop.…

No home in Chrome Google is abandoning a next-generation web crypto technology it initially championed.…

Budding firm funded by US defence departments Security startup Cryptonite dropped out of stealth ​late last week with a micro-segmentation-based technology designed to prevent​ ​hacker​ ​reconnaissance​ ​and​ ​lateral​ ​movement.…

It's a storage cocktail and it tastes... well, have a sip Roundup Have we got a bit of storage news for you. Our expert mixologist has poured all the bits and pieces into his cocktail shaker, added some ice, and poured the resulting storage fluid into a tumbler because all our highball glasses were in the dishwasher.…

Q4OS. Oh, gesundheit. Oh, that's the distro, is it... Review The Linux distribution Q4OS sounds like textspeak from a teenager from 1997, but it has potential, and it's not a bad option for Linux newbies.…

Handy guide to best and worst amendments tabled for new law The House of Lords will today start poring over the UK’s Data Protection Bill, line by line, as it enters committee stage.…

Be afraid, very afraid Microsoft stands accused of forcing customers to migrate to cloud services by introducing new licensing terms and raising prices for hosted Windows Server 2016, which could see monthly costs more than doubling.…

Nasty but nice: gaseous comet innards included water ice! On July 3rd, 2016 something unusual happened on Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko: a fountain of dust erupted out of a hole and spewed all sorts of stuff into space.…

What is it with (mostly) single party states and crimps on cryptocurrency? The State Bank of Vietman has issued “Information related to the use of virtual currency” that bans use of the cryptocurrency for payments.…

Sure, the ideas spurt out in a torrent, but they're no longer potent SECRET CIO I had a vasectomy on Tuesday. After the procedure, as I sat sulking on the couch, sipping a cup of tea and clutching an icepack to the affected area, I thought I would quickly check my emails to see if there was anything that would take my mind off the experience.…

Fooling an image classifier is surprisingly easy and suggests novel attacks It doesn't take much to confuse AI image classifiers: a group from Japan's Kyushu University reckon you can fool them by changing the value of a single pixel in an image.…

'Partnership' will see HCL run future development, starting with version 10 in 2018 IBM has struck a “strategic partnership” with HCL Technologies that will see the latter firm take over development of its Notes, Domino, Sametime and Verse collaboration tools.…

We don' want no STEENKIN' proxies, as will be possible under new local laws Concerns at the effect of The Netherlands' new security laws could result in the country's certificate authority being pulled from Mozilla's trust list.…

RC7 is out and Linus would like to avoid rc8 if possible Linux kernel overlord Linus Torvalds wants to avoid an eighth release candidate for the new version of Linux, to avoid delays to the next version.…

Dearth of documentation slows maintenance for Joint Strike Flopper More than a decade after the first F-35 took to the air, the US military doesn't have a complete set of maintenance instructions, and spare parts shortages are keeping 22 per cent of the fleet out of the sky.…

Founders' correspondence and documents weren't yet digitised One of Silicon Valley's most important historic archives, that of the Hewlett-Packard company, has been destroyed in the Santa Rosa wildfires.…

Vote sinks by a third but Pirati can still reach government with its skeleton crew Still in the hunt to form governing coalition, if it can be bothered Iceland's privacy-friendly Pirate Party has lost four seats at new national elections.…

Chandrayaan-2 will send a rover and an orbiter to Luna India's space agency ISRO has announced its intention to launch a mission to the moon in 2018.…

The Roku Ultra is great. But its limitations are showing Review If you are going to buying a streaming media box – and you really should if you want to watch TV shows or movies on a big screen – then you should buy a Roku. It really is as simple as that.…

Scary flaws in time for Halloween weekend Roundup While the security world has been in full Holy Grail mode with BadRabbit, plenty of other stuff has been going on this week. Here's a roundup of everything else you need to know on top of what we've already reported.…

Not a great way, but an interesting way, to teach bots Computers are getting pretty good at translating the world's languages. However, as they say, onwards and upwards. Eggheads are now trying to teach machines to do the job in a more human-like way.…

$279 for the screen? F*%&!* With its iPhone X about to figuratively hit the streets, Apple has today revealed what it will charge when the new handsets literally hit the streets.…

Funnily enough, Qt says the latter The Qt Company would like to remind developers that JavaScript and HTML suck, at least in the world of embedded devices.…

Answer: Yes, but it's hard to prove Special report Schools across the United States are sounding the alarm on what looks suspiciously like an effort by the federal telecoms regulator to undermine efforts to build new broadband networks.…

Former CEO, biz allegedly misled investors America's financial watchdog will extract $1m from controversial insurance reseller Zenefits and its former CEO to settle claims they lied to investors.…

Inshert Hunt for Red October jokesh here The Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China this week reported the first successful test of a magnetohydrodynamic drive that could let ships and submarines sneak around almost totally silently.…

Threat to NAND supply if talks fail and court favours Tosh Updated Western Digital revenues and profits rose in its first fiscal 2016 quarter but worries surfaced about its access to 96-layer 3D NAND if the Toshiba talks fail and it loses at court.…