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Tech support chap given no training or briefing before jobs, which is why he was arrested

On-CallOur hero fixed a spook-puter and tried to take a broken part back to the office

Indictment bombshell: 'Kremlin intel agents' hacked, leaked Hillary's emails same day Trump asked Russia for help

Charges filed against dozen suspected Russian spies

Farewell then, Slack: The grown-ups have arrived

CommentRumours of email's death have been greatly exaggerated

No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?

Woman talks into smartphone / cellphone with the device held flat
Networks

Report claims AWS will make switches to go after Cisco

AWS increasingly accepts hybrid cloud is a thing, but would it really get into support?
16 Jul 04:02
Virtualization

QEMU Qicks out release Qandidate, new Qadence for version 3.0.0

Some qode qleanup, some tweaks and also an arbitrary numbering thing
16 Jul 02:02
Policy

ZTE sends 400 million hostages, gets back in business stateside

US commerce dept. counts escrow cash, warns it's always watching, Congress still split
15 Jul 23:59
Networks

Juniper makes a meal of Spectre/Meltdown

ROUNDUPPlus BIND bugs, billion-Euro Nokia deal, and push-to-talk gets LTE-rrific
15 Jul 22:01
Security

Hope for Hutchins, Navy sinks contractor, there's another Russian hacking scandal, and more

RoundupAlso, make sure you update your Juniper kit quickly
14 Jul 09:07
Artificial Intelligence

Montezuma's Revenge still too tough for AI, new Google Brain office, and other bits and bytes

RoundupA wonderful week in machine learning
14 Jul 07:03

Don't miss Microsoft: For God's sake, people, cut down on the meetings!

Artificial Intelligence

Get ready for a golden autumn of AI, machine learning... learning

Save big on your MCubed conference ticket now, then hit the beach happy
12 Jul 09:50
Security

Two-factor auth totally locks down Office 365? You may want to check all your services...

A network's only as strong as its weakest link or worker
24 Comments
13 Jul 23:48
Security

US drug cops snared crooks with pre-cracked BlackBerry mobes – and that's just the start

AnalysisSame being used against ordinary US citizens?
35 Comments
13 Jul 22:49
Security

Scam alert: No, hackers don't have webcam vids of you enjoying p0rno. Don't give them any $$s

Extortionists snatch weak passwords to shame victims
52 Comments
13 Jul 22:30
Emergent Tech
facial_recognition

Clean up this hot sticky facial-recog mess for us, Microsoft begs politicos

Redmond also insists ICE is not using its AI to snare immigrants, split families at the border
13 Jul 20:50
Bootnotes
fake_news

It's 2018 so, of course, climate.news is sold to climate change deniers

Oh, and vaccines.news? Yep, anti-vaxxers. The same guys
60 Comments
13 Jul 20:20
Security
trump

Indictment bombshell: 'Kremlin intel agents' hacked, leaked Hillary's emails same day Trump asked Russia for help

Charges filed against dozen suspected Russian spies
76 Comments
13 Jul 19:13
Servers

Es are good, Es are good. Xeon Es are good, says Intel: Entry-level workstation CPUs touted

Single-socket job wakes up and smells the Coffee Lake
13 Jul 17:46
Bootnotes

Fix this faxing hell! NHS told to stop hanging onto archaic tech

We can’t have Matt Hancock calling a hospital and hearing: baa-ruhr-reee-uh-reeee-uh-reee
119 Comments
13 Jul 15:33
Security

It pays to know your enemies: Sophos webinar gives you the lowdown on cybercrime

PromoMove over ransomware – CPUs are being hijacked for alt-coins, now
13 Jul 15:04
Software

Farewell then, Slack: The grown-ups have arrived

CommentRumours of email's death have been greatly exaggerated
53 Comments
13 Jul 14:44
Insider threat

Bogus Mobile Device Management system used to hack iPhones in India

Baker's dozen pwned by tricksy attack
13 Jul 13:44
Security

Ukraine claims it blocked VPNFilter attack at chemical plant

We won't say who we think it is but we'll point with our elbow...
15 Comments
13 Jul 11:44
Bootnotes

Adtech-for-sex biz tells blockchain consent app firm, 'hold my beer'

Hey love, just click on this link... what do you mean, you're seeing loads of creepy articles?
45 Comments
13 Jul 11:19
Software

Microsoft: For God's sake, people, cut down on the meetings!

With a nudge and a wink, a spy in the mailbox will tell you stuff you probably already know
42 Comments
13 Jul 10:48
Networks

Chirp unveils free tier of shouting-at-IoT devices audio net tech

One day, your gizmos can bellow nuclear power station info at each other too
14 Comments
13 Jul 10:14
Cloud

Vid services and big AI appear in Microsoft's government cloud

Feds rub their hand with glee as new toys arrive
13 Jul 09:43
Servers
burning laptop

Heatwave shmeatwave: Brit IT departments cool their racks – explicit pics

As the UK melts, cash-strapped techies reach for the fans
110 Comments
13 Jul 09:19
Personal Tech
Woman talks into smartphone / cellphone with the device held flat

No, seriously, why are you holding your phone like that?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Don't panic but you might just be French
229 Comments
13 Jul 08:27
Storage

Dedupe, dedupe, dedupe dedupe dedupe: Dell drops in ROBO backup appliance

Smaller, slower box gets cloud backend tier, vow of 'up to 55:1' rate
13 Jul 08:03
Business

Tech support chap given no training or briefing before jobs, which is why he was arrested

On-CallOur hero fixed a spook-puter and tried to take a broken part back to the office
93 Comments
13 Jul 07:34
Emergent Tech

AR upstart Magic Leap reveals majorly late tech specs' tech specs

And emits another video that doesn't reflect reality
35 Comments
13 Jul 07:01
Storage

NFSaaS becomes ‘Azure NetApp Files’ as ONTAP-on-Azure debuts

Preview teased in October 2017 is better late than never, but not yet for production data
13 Jul 06:32
Artificial Intelligence

AI augments humans to lead them through the (protein) crystal maze

I spy with my little AI, something hidden under the microscope
13 Jul 06:02
Business

That went well – not! Broadcom’s value dives after CA biz gobble

We called it the weirdest acquisition ever and investors don’t get the deal either
12 Comments
13 Jul 05:03
Personal Tech

PC shipments just rose, thanks to Windows 10

No, this story didn’t come through a wormhole in time. Q2 2018 was the best since 2012
55 Comments
13 Jul 04:02
DevOps

Python creator Guido van Rossum sys.exit()s as language overlord

‘Benevolent dictator for life’ tired of the hate, leaves behind no successor or governance
124 Comments
13 Jul 02:02
Personal Tech

Are you ready for some sueball?! NFL opens wallet, makes vid stream patent spat go away

We’re the lawyers your mom warned you about
12 Comments
13 Jul 00:56
Networks

Party like it's 1999: Packets of death, code exec menace Cisco gear

Annoying flaws found, patched in Fabric Services, NX-OS, StarOS, VOIP kit
12 Jul 23:27
Artificial Intelligence

AI threatens yet more jobs – now, lab rats: Animal testing could be on the way out, thanks to machine learning

Time for rodents to retrain as PHP programmers
23 Comments
12 Jul 22:53
Security

Google's ghost busters: We can scare off Spectre haunting Chrome tabs

Site Isolation keeps pages fully separate on Windows, Mac, Linux, Chrome OS
14 Comments
12 Jul 21:37
Policy
red tape

FCC caught red-handed – again – over its $225 complaint billing plan

Plan is killed at the last minute after outrage all round
28 Comments
12 Jul 20:57
Personal Tech

Mastercard goes TITSUP in US, UK: There are some things money can't buy – like uptime

UpdatedTotal Inability to Support Usual Purchases
68 Comments
12 Jul 20:23
Security

Now Pushing Malware: NPM package dev logins slurped by hacked tool popular with coders

UpdatedTokens killed after eslint-scope utility compromised
12 Jul 20:13
Data Centre

AWS Best Practices Webinar: How to get the most bang for your buck

PromoLearn the tenets of the AWS Well-Architected Framework’s Cost Optimization pillar
12 Jul 19:07
Cloud

Data Box Disks, Azure Firewalls and WANs... Microsoft REALLY wants you in its cloud

And if you could shift Windows and SQL Server 2008 to the cloud that would be fine
12 Jul 19:04
Software

Microsoft bids adieu to inky fingers with whiteboard app

Didn't we have one of those already? Yes, but this empowers ideation!
23 Comments
12 Jul 18:03

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