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Drone traffic management, or 'how to regulate the skies' The skies of the future could be divided into “manned” and “drone” segments as regulators struggle to work out how commercial drones should interact with traditional human-piloted aircraft.…

Google, Azure and AWS all on board, the latter in a VMware-like managed service SAP's decided the time is right for its cloud to play nicely with other clouds.…

Building a bot for the co-pilot's seat may be cheaper than adding automation software An outfit called Aurora Flight Sciences is trumpeting the fact that one of its robots has successfully landed a simulated Boeing 737.…

The 17:21 to Happy Town is going in and out and is aaah-aah-bout to finish its journey Commuters at Washington DC's Union Station were left unsure if they were coming or going on Monday, when streamed smut started to appear on digital signs during peak hour. And it appears there's a rash of such incidents taking place around the world.…

You're not helping by allowing server sprawl and ignoring backup, though You're probably cocking up the cloud, but clouds themselves are part of the reason why.…

Sysadmins, don't hurt your necks shaking your heads Still reeling from criticism over the WannaCrypt attack, Microsoft has stuck its hat on a stick and raised it out of the trench to see how its proposals for Internet of Things security might be received.…

Microsoft's weird DaaS licensing melts away when it has a sniff of Azure usage VMware's got the green light to deliver virtual Windows desktops and packaged apps from Microsoft's Azure cloud.…

.SCF files present ID, password to fetch icons for attack file Google's Chrome team is working to fix a credential theft bug that strikes if the browser is running on Microsoft Windows.…

Gene research a test market for cloudy graph engine With AWS, Google, and IBM's Watson already camped in the high-performance cloud business, it's hardly surprising that Cray would tread carefully as a late entrant into the supercomputer-as-a-service business.…

To other vendors using embedded Windows: where are your warnings and patches? Here's why infosec needs to quit yelling “if you didn't patch it's your fault” about WannaCrypt: Cisco has announced it's investigating which of its products can't be patched against the ransomware.…

The Chocolate Factory is spared the aspirin treatment by the 9th District Court Google has won the rights to keep its name a proper trademark after a US court found its search engine is not quite ubiquitous enough to be considered a generic term.…

Droids given 'one shot' lessons to stack blocks The ultimate goal in robotics is the ability to train a machine to perform general tasks after it learns from a few examples. OpenAI, a non-profit artificial intelligence research organization, is a step closer to achieving this by applying a new algorithm called one-shot imitation learning to a robot arm.…

Post-Uber, more claims of tech bros gone wild Updated A female former employee suing UploadVR for discrimination and sexual harassment has filed documents containing lurid goings-on at the virtual reality cheerleader.…

Don't worry, no bank card info taken, eh Bell Canada said Tuesday 1.9 million customer account details were swiped by hackers – although stressed no payment card numbers or passwords were slurped.…

Just make sure you still resemble your passport photo Delta Air Lines plans to deploy four self-service bag drop machines at Minneapolis–St Paul International Airport this summer, one of which will include a facial recognition system to match those depositing bags with their passport photos.…

Sueball-slinging biz kicks off new VR tech legal assault The company that successfully sued Facebook-owned virtual reality company Oculus for $500m has now set its sights on another giant: Samsung.…

And it's going to get a whole lot worse for Zuckerberg and pals Facebook has been fined the maximum possible amount – €150,000 ($166,000) – by France's data protection watchdog for gathering information on internet users without their permission.…

Meanwhile, Fed heads have their work cut out for them US President Donald Trump's cybersecurity executive order, signed on Thursday after a series of delays, will make federal agency heads accountable for protecting their networks.…

Dell EMC has four AFAs now... Comment XtremIO all-flash array revenues have fallen from their 2015 peak as all-flash Unity and VMAX revenues have raced past it.…

Better late than never Realm, maker of an object-based database of the same name, is extending its mobile-oriented software to work with wares from a company not known for its mobile offerings, Microsoft.…

Lazarus rising again... or not Security researchers are exploring the theory that the WannaCrypt ransomware might be the work of an infamous North Korean government-backed hacking crew.…

Familiarity – and dual-cloud strategies – breeds growth Competition for enterprise IT spend is intensifying with Microsoft and Google applying pressure to AWS.…

Adylkuzz predates ransomware by at least a week – and pays better too The now infamous Windows vulnerability (MS17-010) exploited by the WannaCrypt ransomware has also been abused to spread another type of malware, specifically a cryptocurrency miner.…

Should vendors be obliged to maintain ageing, unsafe PCs? Poll Microsoft has got off remarkably lightly from WannaCry, as the finger pointing between Whitehall and NHS trusts began. But that might be beginning to change.…

ARM-powered, 40-node prototype HPE's Machine research project has debuted an ARM-powered, 160TB monster memory system prototype, calling it the world's largest single-memory computer.…

UK market remains particularly poor performer Vodafone has reported a substantial loss of €6.1bn (£5.2bn) during its full-year results 2016/17, mainly due to a writedown of its Indian business.…

Forthcoming ExtReact promises support for a price Enterprise web app biz Sencha plans to make its ExtJS JavaScript interface components available to React developers through an offering called ExtReact.…

Expired Fraunhofer patents won't be renewed The owner of the MP3 format killed it off last month – and it's taken three weeks for anyone to notice. With the last of the patents protecting the MPEG Audio Layer III expiring, the Fraunhofer Institute has declined to renew the IP and terminated its licensing programme.…

Japan encouraging Tosh and WDC to come to agreement +Comment The latest twist in the Toshiba Memory Business auction sale is that Toshiba has not barred access to the foundry or its online facilities from partner WDC employees.…

Oh, 'collective responsibility' – that old chestnut Analysis In the circular firing squad of WannaCrypt, the world's largest recorded ransomware outbreak, nobody looks good.…

Data dump on monthly subscription model The infamous Shadow Brokers hacking crew, central players in the release of the vulnerability that led to last week's WannaCrypt chaos, have returned online with a threat to release more exploits.…

But is it enough? Hands On It made everyone's favourite Android just three years ago, the "Alfa Romeo of phones", but today finds HTC like Sony, hanging on in the market despite shareholder pressure to bail out.…

David must be stoked by his corporate elevation from UK boss seat to Europe IBM’s UK overlord David Stokes is getting his just deserts for presiding over a sustained period of sliding sales and plummeting profits - he’s being promoted.…

With human trainers, bots may finally get smart enough to hold complex conversations Facebook's artificial intelligence research team, which operates under the self-endorsing acronym FAIR, has released an open-source research framework called ParlAI to train bot software to chat more coherently with people.…

Also dumps Apple, Intel and Microsoft, plus plenty more. But it's not a good look IBM's pension fund has sold most of its shares in IBM.…

Emerald Isle catches up with modern technology The Irish government is planning to make the most unpleasant online acts criminal offences.…

Privacy watchdog scolds hospital for using unproven AI app to diagnose Brits Google's use of Brits' medical records to train an AI and treat people was legally "inappropriate," says Dame Fiona Caldicott, the National Data Guardian at the UK's Department of Health.…

Quantum fluctuations may be key to explaining why we're all drifting apart Not only is our universe is expanding, its expansion is accelerating. How and why this is happening remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in science.…

German government stores IP addresses of visitors, Pirate Party lawyer wants that to stop Germany's federal court is set to hand down a ruling about the legality of storing IP addresses.…

Retailer accused of acting like a real bunch of Dixons A British man says PC World botched his order, then staff trolled his blog after he wrote a post complaining about it.…

AWS is cooking virty servers with 16TB but thinks we'll also need clusters packing 34TB Amazon Web Services is working on new instance types that will offer either eight or 16 terabytes of random access memory.…

Security partners have chatted to PM Turnbull and the idea is under consideration Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has said the nation is considering signing up for the laptops-on-planes ban imposed by the United States and United Kingdom.…

Company couldn't school all the phish in the sea Electronic signatures outfit DocuSign has warned world+dog that one of its email systems was cracked by phisherpholk.…

Appeal offers a laugh-a-minute how-not-to guide for would-be criminal masterminds Michael Mancil Brown, aka Dr Evil, who tried to extort a million dollars from PricewaterhouseCoopers on the basis that he'd nicked Mitt Romney's tax returns, has had a win on appeal and will be sentenced anew.…

Two code reviews give crypto client nearly clean bill of health The venerable OpenVPN client has been given a mostly clean bill of health.…

And it took three months to release despite Eternalblue leak When the WannaCrypt ransomware exploded across the world over the weekend, infecting Windows systems using a stolen NSA exploit, Microsoft president Brad Smith quickly blamed the spy agency. If the snoops hadn't stockpiled hacking tools and details of vulnerabilities, these instruments wouldn't have leaked into the wild, sparing us Friday's cyber assault, he said.…

Clients, access points and backhaul all need firmware patch before attacks ferment 5G wireless vendor Mimosa Wireless has patched against a bunch of remote code execution, denial-of-service and file disclosure vulnerabilities.…

Seven Apple updates, because it's not like you had anything else to patch today Apple has released security updates for both of its main operating systems, along with iTunes, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. All should be installed as soon as possible before they are exploited by miscreants.…

Big Blue gets cloud cred. Nutanix gets a chance to talk core apps Nutanix and IBM will announce on Tuesday a new relationship that will see Nutanix build hyperconverged systems out of IBM Power servers – its first non-Intel-powered boxes.…

Middle Kingdom's CERT puts infection rate in the thousands If reports from China are accurate, the country's often-bootlegged and under-patched Windows installations are being hit hard by the WannaCrypt ransom-worm.…