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Microsoft was, and maybe still is, considering injecting targeted adverts into the Windows 10 Mail app.…
Posted on 17 November 2018 | 1:03 am
The US Department of Defense's "do not buy" list of foreign software and equipment turns out to be about as long as the list of bug-free Windows releases or privacy-focused Facebook apps.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 11:47 pm
Amazon Web Services is taking steps to halt the epidemic of data leaks caused by the S3 cloud buckets it hosts from being accidentally left wide open to the internet by customers.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 10:12 pm
Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene has quit the online ads giant, and will be replaced by ex-Oracle executive Thomas Kurian.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 8:35 pm
Microsoft broke Euro privacy rules by carrying out the "large scale and covert" gathering of private data through its Office apps.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 8:17 pm
Microsoft devs rejoice! A new version of Visual Studio 2017 has arrived replete with fixes, tweaks and ARM64 support.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 7:23 pm
Riverbed made two announcements covering its SteelHead SD-WAN solution this week – a bunch of enhancements, and subscription pricing options.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 7:00 pm
Quantum has stepped sideways into the autonomous vehicle testing market with a data logging system integrated with its StorNext multi-tiered workflow file management product.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 6:00 pm
Microsoft's Surface line leapfrogged Apple's iPad Pro as the detachable tablet of choice for tech distributors in Western Europe but that top spot definitely won't be sustained, or so IDC says.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 5:00 pm
Oracle is to slurp up software-defined WAN provider Talari Networks for an undisclosed sum.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 4:00 pm
Google's parent company Alphabet has closed down its biped robot maker Schaft after failing to find a buyer.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 2:58 pm
An apparent cut-and-paste error has revealed that American prosecutors may have already filed criminal charges against cupboard-dwelling WikiLeaks fugitive Julian Assange.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 2:20 pm
BlackBerry has made its biggest acquisition ever, spending over half of its cash pile to bolster its threat detection unit.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 1:47 pm
London cops have broken data protection rules by using a controversial database that ranks people's likelihood of gang-related violence but fails to distinguish between victims and perps, and low and high-risk people.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 1:14 pm
Dell Technologies has upped the buy price for Class V stock to win support from shareholders that threatened to block the proposed transaction and hinder the company’s return to the US stock market.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 12:35 pm
A Russian-speaking man from Cambridgeshire has become the first person in the UK to be convicted of illegally flying a drone beneath a police helicopter during a search operation.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 12:04 pm
The UK's comms watchdog claims to have slapped a £13.3m penalty on EE and Virgin Media for fleecing customers who wanted to exit their broadband or mobile phone contracts before they were due to expire.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 11:20 am
Review What if Huawei used OnePlus's Oxygen UI, I found myself musing recently. Wouldn't it be the perfect package? Huawei's amazing RF performance, and bleeding-edge tech, with a UI that didn't actually suck?…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 10:50 am
Something for the Weekend, Sir? "Work out loud," my prospective new employer tells me, adding that "we are a team, not a family". Sister Sledge need not apply.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 10:20 am
China's Yangtze Memory Technology (YMTC) aims to leapfrog 96-layer NAND and move straight to the production of 128-layer flash in 2020, according to a report.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 9:50 am
Millions of Britons unwilling to be parted from their urban broadband and not-too-shabby mobile phone reception are shunning rural living, according to a survey.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 9:19 am
On Call Dust yourselves off, dear readers, it’s Friday once more and time for On Call, our weekly column of reader’s technical triumphs.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 8:01 am
The 1809 build of Windows 10 and Windows Server is fast becoming infamous. Microsoft pulled it shortly after release when it started deleting people's files, and stumbling in other ways. Redmond reissued the software on Tuesday, and today it's clear you shouldn't rush into deploying it, if installing it at all, in its present state.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 6:56 am
Space-fans pricked up their Twitter-ears today, when just for a few minutes it looked like the little lost rover Opportunity had woken up.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 5:26 am
Australia's government's crypto-busting legislation risks blocking security research, a leading Internet policy boffin has warned.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 2:17 am
Nvidia has turned in growth in revenue and profit, but has been punished for missing its guidance in the third quarter of its fiscal 2019, all amid a continuing sharp drop in demand from crypto-currency miners.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 2:14 am
Analysis There's a new battle brewing in Washington DC and for once it's not between Democrats and Republicans, but over who gets to decide the policies for a new trillion-dollar market: The internet in space.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 1:14 am
Super Micro Computer on Thursday reported net sales in the range of $952m to $962m for the first quarter of its fiscal 2019, which ended September 30, 2018. That's higher than company guidance of $810m to $870m, and up roughly 40 per cent on the year-ago period.…
Posted on 16 November 2018 | 12:15 am
Analysis Facebook on Thursday (again) reiterated its commitment to fighting misinformation, following a report that the data gathering biz hired a public relations firm, Definers Public Affairs, to promote content that undermine company critics.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 10:25 pm
Parents could be unwittingly putting their children's safety and privacy at risk, thanks to security vulnerabilities in potentially millions of kids' GPS-tracker watches.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 9:43 pm
America's broadband and telly regulator, the FCC, today approved a vast expansion in satellite networks around Earth.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 8:47 pm
Hot on the heels of its OpenStack Platform 14, Red Hat has announced the beta of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 8:26 pm
Infosec personality John McAfee has been found legally "liable" via a default judgment for the death of his neighbour, who was found dead from a gunshot wound to the head in his Belize home in 2012.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 7:24 pm
Red Hat used this week's OpenStack Summit to announce the impending arrival of its OpenStack Platform 14. We had a chat with Red Hat's Nick Barcet about cadence, Kubernetes, and most definitely not IBM.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 6:33 pm
"Delay, deny and deflect." Turns out Facebook's strategy for dealing with major threats works pretty well for small fry too because Mark Zuckerberg has once again turned down MPs' advances.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 6:18 pm
HPE Aruba today released a line of wireless hotspots supporting next year's 802.11ax/Wi-Fi 6 standard – and then immediately sullied them by applying the AI marketing buzzword.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 5:30 pm
With one eye on uncertain currency movements and the developing US/ China trade war, NetApp reported a solid set of Q2 numbers, albeit figures that highlighted a slowdown in its monumental all-flash array sales growth.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 4:49 pm
Analysis Google’s DeepMind operation insists UK patients have nothing to worry about now that Google has absorbed the subsidiary - but lawyers and privacy campaigners have raised doubts.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 4:10 pm
The UK will be locked out of European Union databases once the Brexit transition period ends – but the UK is hoping a data adequacy decision will be adopted by the end of 2020.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 3:38 pm
Ever found yourself overcome by cuteness while gawping at sad, caged animals that you just had to take one home with you? Us neither, but that's exactly what 23-year-old Jesse Hooker did on a trip to Perth Zoo in Australia.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 2:59 pm
OpenStack Summit The OpenStack Foundation took to the stage in Berlin this week to talk infrastructure because, heck, everyone loves infrastructure, right? Especially open infrastructure.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 2:20 pm
Prospective phone buyers may want to wait before plumping for a new Xiaomi. The newcomer’s flagship ships with MUIU 9 firmware, which is stuck on 2017’s Android Oreo.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 1:18 pm
In Blighty, we have former home secretary Amber "Necessary Hashtags" Rudd, but shockingly politicians' failure to grasp basic aspects of their brief is not limited to the UK.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 12:35 pm
The FREDI baby monitor has been ranked creepiest connected home gadget on offer this festive season in a survey by Mozilla.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 12:03 pm
Real world review While the XR may be the best value notched iPhone that Apple is making today, some of its compromises may be too much for the target market of customers hanging on to their dated but perfectly functional hardware.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 10:53 am
Webcast If you like true crime stories, you already know that at the end the criminal is usually revealed to be someone the victim knew well.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 10:43 am
A week after announcing hundreds of layoffs, Cisco has turned in a set of financials for Q1 of fiscal 2019 that are ahead of analyst expectations.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 10:12 am
Like the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ but feel that the RAM is just a bit too big, the price too high or the ports too numerous? Fear not, for the spiritual successor to the original Model A+ is here.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 9:30 am
The Court of Appeal has ruled that legal costs from BT Openreach's dark fibre bunfight against UK telcos will be reconsidered by the Competition Appeal Tribunal.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 9:15 am
Another US government panel has warned of the dangers of over-reliance on Chinese tech vendors: the US-China Economic and Security Review Commission.…
Posted on 15 November 2018 | 8:01 am