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Final stepping stone to irrefutable fake news? Video Researchers have crafted algorithms that can blend an audio recording of someone talking with a video of them saying something else entirely – and create a new convincing lip-synched video with the replacement sound.…

Sure, teach people it's OK to plug in random drives A US health insurer is taking heat for its decision to mail USB drives containing coverage information to businesses that offer its plans to employees.…

Firm needs a new anti-harassment trainer after blowup Frank Artale, managing partner at Ignition Ventures, has resigned at the request of the board following multiple claims of inappropriate behavior.…

Dieu merci, nous n'avons pas mis en place un bureau à Paris, le grand fromage of ads sighed Google has narrowly avoided a massive €1.12bn ($1.28bn, £990m) back-tax bill for earnings in France, thanks to not setting up an office in Paris.…

TVs, phones, watches, you all get Sammy's bugs Samsung's Tizen appears to have more holes than a screen door, but the mobile operating system, which powers Samsung watches, TVs, and a few phones, may not be as disastrous as it seems.…

And, surprise, surprise, everyone's still baffled Analysis Remember that selfie of the grinning monkey way back in 2014?…

Have we just reached Peak Register? Snap Inc is being sued by its shareholders who claim that executives misled investors about the value of SnapChat app maker ahead of its IPO earlier this year.…

US telco giant insists only infosec bods saw the info Updated Another day, another leaky Amazon S3 bucket. This time, one that exposed account records for roughly 14 million Verizon customers to anyone online curious enough to find it.…

Katyusha scanner targets web servers with instant chat Hackers are touting a tool that allows any idiot with a smartphone to conveniently order up mass SQL injection attacks against websites.…

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UK.gov pledges transparency in long-awaited response to data and consent reviews The NHS is to get a funding boost for cybersecurity measures, while the UK government has promised patients a digital service that lets them see who's accessed their health records.…

The curious case of the dog that didn’t bark Comment Entering the BBC today to talk about the net neutrality protests “supported by Amazon and Netflix and others”, I had a dilemma. How in three minutes can you give viewers worldwide a perspective which conveys that the motivations are valid – American fixed-line broadband is pretty rubbish – but what we were witnessing was the most powerful multinationals in the world flexing their muscles, a show of corporate strength. In Europe these companies are regularly said to be more powerful than any nation state.…

Economies of scale, in reverse Slower purchases of the F-35 fighter jet have piled $27bn on top of the cost of buying the ridiculously expensive aircraft, according to reports.…

Who'll get all the hotties? Who'll mope in the corner thinking about EPYC? As expected when Intel processors power virtually all x86-class servers, the vendors all hopped on the Skylake Xeon SP party bus.…

Of double negatives, TSVs, TROs, BiCS and JVs Western Digital Corp has won a temporary restraining order (TRO) preventing its flash joint-venture partner Toshiba from impeding the shipment of engineering wafers and samples to WD in Milpitas, CA, as well as preventing it from blocking certain Western Dig employees from accessing shared databases.…

Look here, we're doing OK now, aren't we? It's the last set of results it'll post before its $8.8bn spin merge deal with HPE Software, and the UK's Micro Focus is keen to show it has a clean bill of health.…

Mike Lynch-backed firm pushes unicorn status as demand soars Machine-learning enterprise-focused cybersec firm Darktrace has raised $75m in order to expand its sales operations into Latin America and Asia as it prepares for a possible IPO.…

Didn't manage to pull it off Adult toys and lingerie retailer Honey Birdette was today placed on the naughty step by egg-xacting watchdog the Advertising Standards Authority for mixing sex and religion in a promotion over Easter.…

Transport brainboxes urge UK.gov to keep eye on tech Tech and automotive firms are pushing driverless car technology on society, rather than there being a big demand for it, in the opinion of the Transport Research Laboratory's boffins.…

KEYone flagship crumbles under pressure BlackBerry Mobile reps have confirmed the manufacturing process for its KEYone flagship will be tweaked so the display doesn't pop out so easily.…

Showing Labour boss wasn't on 'ram-packed' train didn’t break law Virgin Trains did not break data protection laws when it released images of UK's opposition Labour party leader Jeremy Corbyn during his supposedly "ram-packed" trip to Newcastle, the UK’s data protection watchdog has said.…

Citizen data can only be stored within the country Apple has announced plans to set up its first data centre as part of a $1bn investment in the Chinese province of Guizhou.…

£60m spent so far and five years late The Ministry of Justice has been slammed by the government's spending watchdog for failing to achieve value for money on its controversial electronic monitoring programme.…

Department must do more to attract sci and tech innovators The Ministry of Defence needs to stop reflexively demanding rights to its suppliers' intellectual property if it is to attract more private sector tech innovators, according to the Royal United Services Institute.…

A hard-won hit at five Difficult as it might be to comprehend, Microsoft has been shipping Surface for just under five years.…

But will Google and Facebook be good neighbours? Newspapers in Europe are closer to winning the right to ask Google and Facebook to remove or pay for the news story snippets they scrape for their free services – although there's nothing compelling Google (or anyone else) to actually do anything. The furore over "fake news" last year has helped sway MEPs.…

Oh Mi goodness Nokia may be a spent force in smartphones since selling its devices business to Microsoft, but it still aims to be the power behind the throne of other vendors via its technology licensing programme.…

2014 MU69 is New Horizons' next stop and this is a way to get an early look NASA has flown a plane through shadow of Kuiper Belt object 6.6bn kilometres from Earth.…

ECMAScript 2017 addresses left-pad gate, alongside various improvements ECMAScript 2017, the latest edition of the specification upon which JavaScript is based, plugs a gap left by awkward extinction of some Node.js code last year.…

'Intel Xeon Scalable Processor' hailed as 'cornerstone for new platform' with servers customised for different roles Microsoft may have said ARM servers provide the most value for its cloud services back in March, but today it's given Intel's new Xeons a big ARM-less hug by revealing the hyperscale servers it uses in Azure are ready to roll with Chipzilla's latest silicon and will all use Chipzilla's field programmable gate arrays.…

Or you could buy two of the cheaper battery-pack keyboards for less than the wireless kit Dell has given the world its first wireless-charging laptop.…

Inside Chipzilla's new security measures Deep dive Intel has taken its Skylake cores, attached some extra cache and vector processing stuff, throw in various other bits and pieces, and packaged them up as Xeon CPUs codenamed Purley.…

Disks shipped with the wrong write cache settings and found their way into UCS boxen Cisco's dropped Seagate in the pooh for a mess that's seen some UCS servers released into the wild in configurations susceptible to data loss.…

'Mutual separation decision' after just 18 months in the job Citrix has announced a bolt-from-the-blue change of CEO.…

Guests' names, possibly email and home addresses viewed, too, via Sabre intrusion Trump Hotels has become the latest accommodation group to put its hands up as a user of the compromised Sabre SynXis Central Reservations system.…

Security biz maintains it has no 'inappropriate ties' with Kremlin as software blocked by officials Kaspersky Lab is facing new restrictions from the US government to go along with a fresh round of accusations that the antivirus makers works closely with Russian intelligence.…

Mass and radius of little blighter is less than a tenth that of our Sun's The tiniest star, similar in size to Saturn, has been discovered as part of an eclipsing binary system by a group of astronomers.…

Microsoft pulls the plug on support for dedicated smartphone OS Microsoft has formally ended support for its Windows Phone platform.…

This time, Brad, this time Analysis As you enter the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, you step back in time. Abraham Lincoln stayed here just prior to his inauguration; Martin Luther King made the final edits to his most famous speech in its lobby; and Alexander Graham Bell used as it as the venue to demonstrate a coast-to-coast telephone call.…

Augmented Reality bites. Plus: Update Windows boxes, Flash ASAP Patch Tuesday Microsoft's HoloLens may only be in the hands of developers, but that hasn't stopped researchers from finding major security holes in the augmented reality headset.…

Tweet-addicted President treats website as a public forum so cannot exclude views President Donald Trump's habit of blocking critics from following his Twitter account faces a legal challenge that seeks to prevent him from tuning out those with opposing views.…

New laws needed because today's censorship not good enough, apparently Russia and China are banning the use of virtual private networks, as their governments assert ever greater control over what citizens can see online.…

Authentication system gets fixed up today to limp onward Computer security biz Preempt warned last October that Microsoft NT LAN Manager (NTLM) should be avoided. On Tuesday, it plans to support its assessment by going public with details of two vulnerabilities.…

30% smaller data is QAT's meow Kaminario is getting better data compression by using Intel’s C6268 chipset in its K2 all-flash array's gen 6 storage controllers.…

Blasts out 7 new PowerEdge products with better stuff inside Dell is announcing a set of 14G servers, using new Intel processor chips, and replacing the equivalent 13G server line products.…

Processor black hole waiting for Intel announcement Five new Cisco UCS servers have come to light, courtesy of Storage Review, which temporarily withdrew its story for some reason. Tsk tsk. Early signs are that Cisco appears to be cutting its blade server product line count.…

Glassy, glossy, sassy... but smudgy Review Thank goodness HTC is still with us, for I haven’t enjoyed using an Android more all year than its flagship U11.…

What fell sorcery is this? Microsoft finally confirmed that Hell has indeed frozen over – Ubuntu is at long last available from the Windows Store.…

All part of master plan to convince people to go outside The Ordnance Survey has launched a free online map of Britain's green spaces with an open dataset for developers to get their hands on.…

Nokia's well aboard the zeitgeist bandwagon One of the biggest barriers to widespread deployment of connected cars is poor mobile network coverage, according to Nokia's chief car connectivity chap.…