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UK.gov's love-in with big biz for digital services continues, as does claim of boosting small firms

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Everything you might like to know about storage (this week) but were too afraid to ask

EU tosses Nokia a small loan of €500m, tells it to go crazy with 5G R&D

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VMware, AWS preview database-on-vSphere

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Linux 4.19 lets you declare your trust in AMD, IBM and Intel

VR dinosaur

Windows 95 roars once more in the Microsoft round-up

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£1 in every fiver that UK biz, public sector spent on software in 2017 went to drumroll Microsoft

James Bond actors in wax figures

Redis has a license to kill: Open-source database maker takes some code proprietary

Insider Threat

Footie fans calling for a red card over West Ham United CC email blunder

Give yourselves a pat on the back, top million websites, half of you now use HTTPS

hacker

Black hats are baddie hackers, white hats are goodies, grey hats will sell IP to kids in hoodies

None too chuffed with your A levels? Hey, why not bludgeon the exam boards with GDPR?

New Rackspace datacenter in Crawley, UK

OpenWhisk, Kubeless, AWS Lambda – don't be confused, let us teach

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Your Twitter app stopped working? Here's why

Serverless? It doesn’t have to be all or nothing

Crypto algorithm selection dial

Here's a fab idea: Get crypto libs to warn devs when they screw up

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FPGA-making Lattice Semiconductor names AMD man as CEO

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UK getting ready to go it alone on Galileo

Myanmar

Facebook admits it was 'too slow' to ban Myanmar regime

A child unhappy with her cash stash

Salesforce boss Marc Benioff objects to US immigration policy so much, he makes millions from, er, US immigration

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ZX Spectrum reboot scandal: Directors quit, new sack effort started

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Huawei elbows aside Apple to claim number-two phone maker spot

Adam Sandler

Cobbler feels the shoe-leather: an IP address is still not a human

GlobalFoundries scuttles 7nm chip plans claiming no demand

Geek's Guide

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Jupiter suffered growing pains before becoming our system's big daddy

ICEsat-2 at Vandenberg ahead of launch

Don't mean to alarm you – but NASA is about to pummel the planet with huge frikkin' space laser

It's official – satellite spots water ice at the Moon's chilly poles

planetary_systems

Lo and behold, Earth's special chemical cocktail for life seems to be pretty common

Who are you going to ask about AI? Alexa or our 40 experts?

AI image recognition systems can be tricked by copying and pasting random objects

3D printed gun

Judge bars distribution of 3D gun files... er, five years after they were slapped onto the web

Smut slinger dreams of AI software to create hardcore flicks with your face – plus other machine-learning news

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London's Royal Courts of Justice

Don't let Google dox me on Lumen Database, nameless man begs

Swearing and ranting

Experimental 'insult bot' gets out of hand during unsupervised weekend

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Quit that job and earn $185k... cleaning up San Francisco's notoriously crappy sidewalks

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OMG! Battle looms over WTF! trademarks

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UK getting ready to go it alone on Galileo

Millions to be spent on a feasibility study to see if Brits can do their own thing in space

GlobalFoundries scuttles 7nm chip plans claiming no demand

AMD promptly dumps it and hires TSMC for next-gen chips

Windows 95 roars once more in the Microsoft round-up

Sticky Notes, Green Screen of Deaths and Skype. There is no rest for the Windows watcher

Huawei elbows aside Apple to claim number-two phone maker spot

Person eating an apple

Footie fans calling for a red card over West Ham United CC email blunder

If you're after an away ticket, now you know who to call

Don't let Google dox me on Lumen Database, nameless man begs

Who knew you could get away with not IDing yourself to a court for 9 months?

Cloud

UK.gov's love-in with big biz for digital services continues, as does claim of boosting small firms

More millions handed out to Atos, CDW, AWS...

Give yourselves a pat on the back, top million websites, half of you now use HTTPS

Now for the other half

FPGA-making Lattice Semiconductor names AMD man as CEO

Programmable device company needs to program some profits

Black hats are baddie hackers, white hats are goodies, grey hats will sell IP to kids in hoodies

Survey says one in five security pros have been asked to screw over their employer

Don't miss Abracadabra! Tales of unexpected sysadmagic and dabbling in dark arts

ZX Spectrum reboot scandal: Directors quit, new sack effort started

And those legal costs just aren't going away

Everything you might like to know about storage (this week) but were too afraid to ask

We've got you covered

None too chuffed with your A levels? Hey, why not bludgeon the exam boards with GDPR?

UK data watchdog's teen tips on how to be more annoying

EU tosses Nokia a small loan of €500m, tells it to go crazy with 5G R&D

Cites being left behind by US and China in tech stakes

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Event management kit can take a hammering these days: Use it well and it'll save your ass

AnalysisHunting the known unknowns

Person eating an apple

Huawei elbows aside Apple to claim number-two phone maker spot

Meanwhile, UK mobe market is still crashing

Artificial Intelligence

Who are you going to ask about AI? Alexa or our 40 experts?

EventsJoin us in October for a human scale take on machine learning and AI

Artificial Intelligence

AI image recognition systems can be tricked by copying and pasting random objects

Picture of a human + elephant = Chair. Good job.

Linux 4.19 lets you declare your trust in AMD, IBM and Intel

Wave the the CPU trust flag if you're feeling safe enough

UK getting ready to go it alone on Galileo

Millions to be spent on a feasibility study to see if Brits can do their own thing in space

Boffins bork motion control gear with the power of applied sound

Researchers manipulate gyroscopic controls with ultrasonic attack

Jupiter suffered growing pains before becoming our system's big daddy

It may be the oldest and largest planet, but it took a long time

Windows 0-day pops up out of nowhere Twitter

Local privilege escalation in procedure calls

VMware, AWS preview database-on-vSphere

VMworld USDatabase ops need less 'muck' says AWS boss Andy Jassy

Cobbler feels the shoe-leather: an IP address is still not a human

Are Adam Sandler fans human? Court didn't rule on that ...

Windows 95 roars once more in the Microsoft round-up

Sticky Notes, Green Screen of Deaths and Skype. There is no rest for the Windows watcher

GlobalFoundries scuttles 7nm chip plans claiming no demand

AMD promptly dumps it and hires TSMC for next-gen chips

Myanmar

Facebook admits it was 'too slow' to ban Myanmar regime

AnalysisBut, hey, it's not like it had been warned hundreds of times over several years...

Illustration of someone taking off a mask

Lawyers sued for impersonating rival firm online to steal clients

Complaint accuses group of setting up fake site, hotline

Judge bars distribution of 3D gun files... er, five years after they were slapped onto the web

Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson calls ruling 'farcical'

ESXi on Arm? Yes, ESXi on Arm. VMware teases bare-metal hypervisor for 64-bit Arm servers

VMworld USNo, we're not pulling your leg

Ah, um, let's see. Yup... Fortnite CEO is still mad at Google for revealing security hole early

UpdatedNormal policy – or punishment for stepping outside ad giant's walled garden?

EMC adopts cloudy and VMware-friendly kit at VMworld Vegas shindig

VMworld USData Domain and VxRAIL to the fore against a multi-cloud backdrop

VMware AWS cloud goes down... under, launches in Asia-Pacific, touts devops-ish tools, etc

VMworld USYour quick announcement summary

Voting machine maker vows to step up security, Fortnite bribes players to do 2FA – and more

RoundupPlus: Feds break up another 'dark-net drugs op'

Experimental 'insult bot' gets out of hand during unsupervised weekend

Who, Me?Creators ticked off for running CPU flat out over the break

Artificial Intelligence

Smut slinger dreams of AI software to create hardcore flicks with your face – plus other machine-learning news

RoundupYour need-to-know

Quit that job and earn $185k... cleaning up San Francisco's notoriously crappy sidewalks

Just waiting for the tech bros to disrupt this dump delivery service

Artificial Intelligence

Everybody dance now: Watch this AI code fool friends into thinking you can cut a rug like a pro

Updated to addDay one: Dance moves. Day two: Committing crimes?

Salesforce boss Marc Benioff objects to US immigration policy so much, he makes millions from, er, US immigration

Billionaire bashed with 'hypocrisy' stick by activists

Now that's a fortune cookie! Facebook splats $5k command-injection bug in one of its servers

Find flaw, report flaw, fix flaw, get paid. Bish, bash, bosh

spank

As porn site pounds hard on piracy laws, Cox pulls out prematurely

AnalysisTime for the internet to grow up? Critical US DMCA safe harbor rules in the spotlight

Windows 10 July update. Surface Pro 4. Working fondleslab. Pick two

Avoid OS build 17134.191 on tablets, it wrecked our gear, complain owners

BSOD in Glasgow

Well, can't get hacked if your PC doesn't work... McAfee yanks BSoDing Endpoint Security patch

Don't install August update, world+dog warned

Xeon-bashing Tachyum claims its Prodigy CPU will run AI jobs as well as traditional apps

No need for GPU/TPU acceleration? We'll see

It's a net neutrality whodunnit: Boffins devise way to detect who's throttling transit

Simple, really – follow the congested links

OMG! Battle looms over WTF! trademarks

P&G wakes up to internet abbreviations, LOL

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