Dell EMC refreshes its entry-level arrays

Hitachi Data Systems is no more! Arise the new 'Hitachi Vantara'

Oracle promises SLAs that halve Amazon's cloud costs

Ofcom to crack down on telcos' handling of nuisance callers

Google Cloud's API knows the sort of thing you like to look at

Chap tames Slack by piping it into Emacs

macOS High Sierra more like 'Cry Sierra' for Mac-wielding beta testers

Black screen of death after Win10 update? Microsoft blames HP

More data lost or stolen in first half of 2017 than the whole of last year

Equifax's disastrous Struts patching blunder: THOUSANDS of other orgs did it too

Inept bloke who tried to sell military sat secrets to Russia gets 5 years

Viacom exposes crown jewels to world+dog in AWS S3 bucket blunder

HMRC scoops up Microsoft veep for CIO role

So you're already in the cloud but need to come back down to Earth

A big ask for any nerd, but going outside (your usual data sets) can be good for you

So much data, so little time: How to not flip your wig processing it

Stack Overflow + Salary Calculator = your worth

The developers vs enterprise architects showdown: You shall know us by our trail of diagrams

WordPress has adverse reaction to Facebook's React.js licence

Pretend Python packages prey on poor typing

Toshiba said yes to the Bain-Capital-backed bunch – reports

Compsci degrees aren't returning on investment for coders – research

UK PC prices have risen 30% in a year since the EU referendum

Congress battles Silicon Valley over upcoming US sex trafficking law

Itching to stuff iOS 11 on your iPhone? You may want to hold off for a bit

Sprint, T-Mobile US reignite mega-merger talks (again)

Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 is hot, but not much more than the S8+

What do you call an all-in-one PC that isn't? 'Upgradeable', says HP

Geek's Guide

Boffins discover tightest black hole binary system – and it's supermassive

NASA Earthonauts emerge from eight-month isolation in simulated Mars visit

Fancy that! Craft which float over everything on a cushion of air

Mad scientist zaps himself to determine the power of electric eel shocks

AI slurps, learns millions of passwords to work out which ones you may use next

'Robocop' maker debuts dune buggy to make America, er, safe again

Why being 'boring' is a university AI spinout's route to success

Microsoft's AI is so good it steered Renault into bottom of the F1 league

Verity Stob

Programming in the Middle Ages: Docker makes a lovely pair of trousers

RIP Stanislav Petrov: Russian colonel who saved world from all-out nuclear war

Jon Hamm of Mad Men to lend his lungs to bounty hunter Boba Fett

A todger, a 2.5kg dumbbell, the fire brigade... and the inevitable angle grinder

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macOS High Sierra more like 'Cry Sierra' for Mac-wielding beta testers

Early issues arise with new version of OS X 10.13

HP Inc's rinky-dink ink stink: Unofficial cartridges, official refills spurned by printer DRM

Software timebomb blasts ersatz Officejet Pro supplies

Itching to stuff iOS 11 on your iPhone? You may want to hold off for a bit

Apps are gonna break. Plus of course, Apple always screws up the first iteration

Boffins discover tightest black hole binary system – and it's supermassive

Artist's view of a binary black hole. Pic credit: NASA, ESA and G Bacon (STScI)

Google Cloud's API knows the sort of thing you like to look at

And now has 'entity' sentiment analysis

More data lost or stolen in first half of 2017 than the whole of last year

That's 1.9 BEEELLION records – and just you wait till GDPR

Toshiba said yes to the Bain-Capital-backed bunch – reports

The question is... will Western Dig give the OK?

Compsci degrees aren't returning on investment for coders – research

Spend £50k to get just £3k per year more than non-grads

UK PC prices have risen 30% in a year since the EU referendum

Vendors Brexploited, but components dearth played part too

Equifax's disastrous Struts patching blunder: THOUSANDS of other orgs did it too

Those are just the ones known to have downloaded outdated versions

Don't miss Itching to stuff iOS 11 on your iPhone? You may want to hold off for a bit

Dell EMC refreshes its entry-level arrays

Behold the new SCv3000 arrays, with auto-tiering, all-flash, twin controllers, 1PB raw capacity all in 3U for <$10k

Artificial Intelligence

AI slurps, learns millions of passwords to work out which ones you may use next

Get creative – bringbackfirefly! will not longer cut it, nerds

Hitachi Data Systems is no more! Arise the new 'Hitachi Vantara'

HDS, Pentaho and Hitachi Insight Group join forces, promise data-driven IoT fun

'Robocop' maker debuts dune buggy to make America, er, safe again

PicsSurveillance bots are really just 'a very weird data center'

Chap tames Slack by piping it into Emacs

And then filtering out all the stuff he doesn't need to read

Artist's view of a binary black hole. Pic credit: NASA, ESA and G Bacon (STScI)

Boffins discover tightest black hole binary system – and it's supermassive

Sitting less than one light year apart in spiral galaxy NGC 7674

Cloud

Larry Ellison on stage at Oracle's cloud pricing announcement

Oracle promises SLAs that halve Amazon's cloud costs

Larry Ellison also pledges 'Autonomous Database' to cut the cost of – gulp – the people who run databases

macOS High Sierra more like 'Cry Sierra' for Mac-wielding beta testers

Early issues arise with new version of OS X 10.13

Inept bloke who tried to sell military sat secrets to Russia gets 5 years

Bumbling fool not so much Jason Bourne as Johnny English

Congress battles Silicon Valley over upcoming US sex trafficking law

Crunch hearing reveals wide gulf in views, evildoer is Backpage

Uber Cali goes ballistic, calls online ads bogus: These million-dollar banners are something quite atrocious

UpdatedAdvertising firm sued by taxi app maker

Viacom exposes crown jewels to world+dog in AWS S3 bucket blunder

UpdatedPasswords, server schematics and encryption keys up for grabs in open file store

Itching to stuff iOS 11 on your iPhone? You may want to hold off for a bit

Apps are gonna break. Plus of course, Apple always screws up the first iteration

Sprint, T-Mobile US reignite mega-merger talks (again)

You want more competition, America? Here's another all-powerful telco monolith

Ofcom to crack down on telcos' handling of nuisance callers

Also wants to extend consumer protection to cover more broadband services

DXC squeezes suppliers for extra margin, issues ultimatum

That is IT, stationery, toilet rolls, etc 'give us discounts' says outsourcing biz

Stack Overflow + Salary Calculator = your worth

In case you were wondering what Git, SQL and JS skills will get you, new online tool measures your value

Man exasperated after being on hold for a long period of time. Photo by Shutterstock

Now EE's challenging UK regulator's mobile spectrum proposals

Joins Three in telling Ofcom: See you in court

Google parks old pay-to-play auction in front of European Commission – reports

You want a remedy? Here's our remedy

Ethereum will have transaction chops of Visa in 'a couple of years', founder claims

Starcraft on the blockchain? What a time to be alive

BoJo, don't misuse stats then blurt disclaimers when you get rumbled

Norgrove was right: post-Brexit gross £350m a week? Nope

Black screen of death after Win10 update? Microsoft blames HP

OEM factory images create 'incorrect registry keys'

What's that, Equifax? Most people expect to be notified of a breach within hours?

Go on, you're the breach expert

Programming in the Middle Ages: Docker makes a lovely pair of trousers

StobLest we forget

Artificial Intelligence

Why being 'boring' is a university AI spinout's route to success

DeepMind doesn't stoop, you still conquer

European Commission proposes more powers for EU's infosec agency

Cross-border cybersecurity certification scheme planned

Samsung's Galaxy Note 8 is hot, but not much more than the S8+

First fondleIt's stylish, but the stylus doesn't add a lot

Google, Bing, Yahoo! data hoarding is like homeopathy. It doesn't work – new study claims

Boffins find search quality unaffected

Cloud

IBM packs 120TB into a carry-on bag, for snow-balling cloud uploads

Whither the rapid file transfer app Aspera that Big Blue acquired in 2014?

Pirate Bay digs itself a new hole: Mining alt-coin in slurper browsers

Would you trade your CPU time and electricity bill for pirated content?

Google India launches payment service that sends money as SOUND

'Tez' targets India, where cash is now a dirty word, will soon hit other emerging economies

Oracle OpenWorld cloud

Oracle softly increments SPARC M7 to M8, then whispers: We'll still love you, Solaris, to 2034

And possibly beyond

HP Inc's EliteOne all-in-one PC

What do you call an all-in-one PC that isn't? 'Upgradeable', says HP

Screens-on-a-stalk and replaceable HDD and RAM may not a revolution make

Cloud

Salvador Dali Persistence of Memory pastiche

AWS can now bill us if you read this far. This bit will cost us, too

Servers-by-the-second is now a thing, but you pay for the whole first minute!

Sexploitation gang thrown in clink for 171 years after 'hunting' kids online and luring them in front of webcams

Youngsters tricked into performing sex acts for pervs

Someone checked and, yup, you can still hijack Gmail, Bitcoin wallets etc via dirty SS7 tricks

Two-factor authentication by SMS? More like SOS

NASA Earthonauts emerge from eight-month isolation in simulated Mars visit

Video'Hang on, Trump has done what??!?'

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