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Team Zuck lays down journalism commandments Stung by accusations that it allowed its platform to be hijacked by Russian propagandists, and facing looming regulatory crackdowns, Facebook has decided to shift the spotlight onto journalists and lecture scribes on how not to write "fake news."…

Credential leaked from Kickstarter hack used to hijack Cloudflare DNS Monero miner maker Coin Hive was hacked so that websites using its code inadvertently redirected their generated cryptocurrency to miscreants – after the outfit forgot to change an old password.…

Spend a little bribe, er, time with me... American tech giants have ramped up the amount of cash they spend on lobbying US lawmakers to get their own way, yet again. As congressmen consider regulating organizations from Facebook to Google, and mull antitrust crackdowns against Amazon, said corporations have responded by flinging more dosh at the problem.…

Off-roadmap announcement precedes debut of business kit and is weird about FTTN nbn™, the company building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has announced it will start using G.fast in 2018 and will eventually use it in fibre-to-the-node installations.…

Ransomware breeds through Windows networks via SMB, fake Flash Updated Computers at Russian media outlets and Ukraine's transport hubs were among Windows PCs infected and shut down today by another fast-spreading strain of ransomware.…

Matching staff contributions? Not from next year Exclusive DXC Technologies Canada will match only half the pension contributions made by former HPE Enterprise Services staff in yet another dramatic expenses purge.…

Watchdog could ban firm from operating in the country UK financial service regulators have launched an investigation into Equifax over its handling of the recent mega-breach.…

CEO: Are we scared of Oracle moving in on our space? Nope Graph database-flinger Neo4j has released a platform that adds analytics, data import and visualisation on top of its database.…

Remote-control flying toys are most beloved of men aged 45+ Most British drone fliers are old men knocking on for retirement, reckons a drone retailer that carried out a survey.…

'The Dark Overlord' threatening to distribute patient images A plastic surgery clinic frequented by celebrities such as Katie Price has been targeted by hackers.…

Redmond wants to warn netizens when Feds demand their personal information The US Department of Justice has limited its gagging policy that bans companies from alerting customers when their personal information is accessed by the Feds.…

Report shows they're ripe targets for hackers Traffic analysis on 375 industrial networks worldwide has confirmed the extent to which hackers target industrial control systems (ICS).…

Plus: Magic stuff to spot people sniffing secrets from chips TechCon Kicking off its TechCon engineering conference today in Silicon Valley, Arm announced a couple of things: Internet-of-Things gateway wrangling code, and some security measures to potentially prevent secrets leaking electrically from chips.…

QBE walks away, others reduce lines amid worries for high street Exclusive Credit insurers are cutting their exposure to geek emporium Maplin Electronics amid some reports of declining profit and wider concerns about old-school retailing.…

W3C, are you listening? +Comment The W3C introduces API standards that end up mostly unused, doing nothing more than loading up the code base with vulnerabilities.…

Party told to 'get it right next time' after calls crossed line into unlawful direct marketing Phone calls made on behalf of the Conservatives in the run-up to the UK general election "crossed the line" into unlawful direct marketing – but the party has escaped regulatory action.…

Flash? Anybody? No? Seagate's first quarter 2018 revenues sank 7 per cent year-on-year to $2.6bn, but the drive biz expects growth and is convinced its heat-assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) tech will help that.…

Anonymity crucial for discussion of software asset management in a cloudy world The UK’s Oracle user group is meeting today to discuss the murky world of licensing and software asset management.…

Firm denies sour grapes charge after rival gets licence tweaks Comment Satellite broadband operator Viasat is telling the world it will sue Ofcom over recent changes to rival firm Inmarsat's licence allowing that company to build a vital part of a planned EU in-flight Wi-Fi network.…

If you live fully in the cloud, keep walking Analysis Reduxio's roadmap has it taking its HX/TimeOS array deeper into the hybrid cloud world, supporting application recoveries as well as VM ones, and adding faster array and data access.…

Questions raised over supplier lock-in, tax avoidance, SME agenda Exclusive UK cloud minnow DataCentred went under after HMRC - its largest customer - pulled the plug on a services contract in favour of a deal with Amazon, the corporation recently accused by MPs of tax avoidance.…

OpenIO flexes Arm muscle, inhales funds Five million dollars has just been stumped up to grow a startup making object storage drive-based servers.…

What if you log an incident that AI helped you to avoid? PLUS: Kingston release details Artificial Intelligence might just make IT organisations look for new measures of their success and lead to a rethink of ITIL, according to ServiceNow's chief strategy officer Dave Wright.…

We smoothed the world for cars, but assume robots will have eyes and ears We redesigned the world for automobiles and now it's time to redesign it for robots.…

Google is here to help, really Chrome Dev Summit Your web apps probably suck, according to Google, but there are solutions if developers get porogressive.…

Everything is broken Are we taking the internet for granted? And by "internet" we mean the actual global networks of computers that share vast quantities of information every second by using the same basic protocols.…

Announced support November 2016, but fabled C5 instances are still vapourware Microsoft has announced its first Azure instances running Intel's Skylake silicon, a move that means Amazon Web Services will be the last of the big four clouds to run Intel's latest silicon.…

Robot arm to penetrate surface, get alien world's rocks off for analysis Pics After an extensive summer of long, long, long-distance remote support by NASA engineers on Earth, it looks as though Curiosity on Mars is back in the drilling game.…

It's quantum, it's open source, it's on GitHub. Did we miss anything? Google and rival Rigetti Computing have co-published what you could think of as an open source quantum compiler.…

Susan Fowler's story pitched as 'Erin Brockovich meets The Social Network' The blog post that lifted the lid on Uber's uber-sexist culture and led to the demise of founder Travis Kalanick might become a movie.…

Google survey finds pros don't like safety strategies preferred by spooks A Google-conducted survey of 231 infosec pros worldwide has reaffirmed the industry's faith in strong passwords, and achieved consensus about nothing else.…

Asia's internet numbers registry let some weakly-hashed passwords into the wild Asia's internet numbers registry APNIC has apologised to network owners after a slip in its WHOIS database config leaked credentials, including weakly-hashed passwords.…

Meg starts the bloodletting in earnest HPE kicked off its much-dreaded layoffs globally on Monday as part of its Next overhaul campaign.…

Plus: A new stealthier Monero crafter emerges Another Chrome extension has been found secretly harboring a cryptocurrency miner – and it appears this issue is going to get worse before it gets better.…

Plus: Azure gets all Cray-cray A below-the-radar security feature in the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, aka version 1709 released last week, can stop ransomware and other file-scrambling nasties dead.…

Seven days of testing and it's not looking good Earlier this month, Google unveiled its new Pixel smartphones to great hullabaloo – and now to great consternation.…

PM says the network's a waste of money? It's also yet another wasted chance at real reform Australia's telecommunications ombudsman last week reported a startling and unwelcome 159.3 per cent year-on-year jump in complaints, with more than 40,000 lodged about services on the national broadband network (NBN).…

Tech slinger hopes this $3bn fraud lawsuit will be over easy Online electronics souk Newegg has been accused of taking part in a financial scam that duped banks in South Korea out of billions of dollars.…

'Tech evangelist' apologizes but sympathy in short supply Analysis The rolling saga of rich and powerful men being identified as serial sexual harassers has returned to Silicon Valley, having spent a few week slicing through Hollywood. Now it's scooped up another well-known tech figure: Robert Scoble.…

Lots and lots of data dumped online plus keys to escape browsers Chrome Dev Summit At the Chrome Dev Summit in San Francisco, California, on Monday, Google took another stab at making HTML-based apps less of a crapshoot.…

Here's what to do if you have an affected badge Some Gemalto smartcards can be potentially cloned and used by highly skilled crooks due to a cryptography blunder dubbed ROCA.…

No Docker or Kubernetes under The Social Network's hood OS Summit Facebook has its own container system it uses in place of Docker or Kubernetes.…

Is Switchzilla trying to buy its way out of legacy? Cisco has snapped up its two-hundredth acquisition in the form of unified comms biz Broadsoft for $1.9bn (£1.4bn) – its latest attempt to move away from its lacklustre legacy business of switches and routers.…

Response to US fretting over alleged ties to Russian snoops Russian cybersecurity software flinger Kaspersky Lab has offered to open up its source code for third-party review.…

Large-scale randomised US trial: 'Recalibrate’ expectations Police forces have been told to temper their expectations of body-worn cameras, as a randomised study involving almost 2,500 US cops throws up little evidence of purported benefits.…

Take the hint, manufacturers of weak kit TechCon Arm hopes to release open-source code early next year that will help secure Internet-of-Things devices – by encrypting their communications and installing over-the-air security fixes.…

'I don’t know if my voice was very bad and that’s why I got the ticket,' he said A man has been fined by police after being caught singing the 1990s dance anthem "Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)" while behind the wheel of his car.…

GSM gateway prosecution man: They gave the evidence that they found to the police A man left on bail for more than seven years has hit out at Vodafone's role in his court case as alleged victim and examiner of vital computer evidence.…

But he gets it, there's a balance to be struck, yada yada The FBI has been locked out of almost 7,000 seized mobile phones thanks to encryption, director Christopher Wray has said.…

Penguins and machine learning. It could happen! OS Summit The Linux Foundation has created one open-data licence framework to rule them all, allowing users to collaborate on data-driven projects.…