The award for worst ISP goes to... it starts with Talk and ends with Talk

Microsoft and Facebook's transatlantic cable completed

Cloud washes Dell off perch atop storage market

Cisco puts UCS director on death row, to be replaced by cloudy 'Intersight'

Red Hat pledges patent protection for 99 per cent of FOSS-ware

Ah, good ol' Windows update cycles... Wait, before anything else, check your hardware

Behold iOS 11, an entirely new computer platform from Apple

More are paying to stream music, but YouTube still holds the value gap

Don’t fear the software shopkeeper: T&Cs banning bad reviews aren’t legal in America

Want to get around app whitelists by pretending to be Microsoft? Of course you can...

Aw, not you too, Verizon: US telco joins list of leaky AWS S3 buckets

NBD: Adobe just dumped its PRIVATE PGP key on the internet

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

Facebook U-turn: React, other libraries freed from unloved patent license

Java SE 9 and Java EE 8 arrive, 364 days later than first planned

Puppet plays puppet master, gobbles up automation firm Distelli

GitLab freezes GraphQL project amid looming Facebook patent fears

Spanish govt slammed over bizarre Catalan .cat internet registry cop raid

For Facebook, ignorance is the business model: Social net is shocked – SHOCKED – that people behave badly

UK.gov lays down rules for cross-Whitehall data slurps

Microsoft reveals details of flagship London store within spitting distance from Apple's

Super Cali goes ballistic, Gatorade app is bogus: Even the sound of it is something quite atrocious

If you need to replace anything other than your iPhone 8's battery or display, good luck

Crap cracked fat-attack Pact app chaps slapped in pact backtrack infract

Attention adults working in the real world: Do not upgrade to iOS 11 if you use Outlook, Exchange

Geek's Guide

NASA, wait, wait lemme put my drink down... NASA, you need to be searching for vanadium

Ducks ding dongs in face of stiff competition

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

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

Silicon brains ready to plug into London

Has science gone too far, part 97: Boffins craft code to find protesters on social networks, rate them on their violence

Chatbots: A load of hype or fancy lifehack for the lazy IT person?

Baidu-backed fund has a BEEELLION quid for 100 self-driving projects

Verity Stob

Kebab and pizza shop owner jailed for hiding £179k from the taxman

You forgot that you hired me and now you're saying it's MY fault?

Quebec takes mature approach to 'grilled cheese' ban

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

Top stories

For Facebook, ignorance is the business model: Social net is shocked – SHOCKED – that people behave badly

AnalysisSee no evil, hear no evil, speak of no evil

NBD: Adobe just dumped its PRIVATE PGP key on the internet

Change the name to A-d'oh!-be

Mini-Heartbleed info leak bug strikes Apache, airborne malware, NSA algo U-turn, and more

RoundupThe security week in review

HPE sharpening the axe for 5,000 heads – report

Redundancy

Spanish govt slammed over bizarre Catalan .cat internet registry cop raid

Heavy-handed tactics during lead up to independence referendum

Don’t fear the software shopkeeper: T&Cs banning bad reviews aren’t legal in America

DerbyConDoesn’t stop them trying to put the frighteners, tho

Facebook U-turn: React, other libraries freed from unloved patent license

Hybrid BSD pact will be replaced by MIT deal for some projects

Want to get around app whitelists by pretending to be Microsoft? Of course you can...

DerbyCon...And here's how

For Facebook, ignorance is the business model: Social net is shocked – SHOCKED – that people behave badly

AnalysisSee no evil, hear no evil, speak of no evil

Aw, not you too, Verizon: US telco joins list of leaky AWS S3 buckets

Now is a good time to go check your own Amazon settings. It's OK, we'll wait

Don't miss Shock: Brit capital strips Uber of its taxi licence

NBD: Adobe just dumped its PRIVATE PGP key on the internet

Change the name to A-d'oh!-be

Super Cali goes ballistic, Gatorade app is bogus: Even the sound of it is something quite atrocious

And who's going to stand up for the Arnold Palmer?

If you need to replace anything other than your iPhone 8's battery or display, good luck

And things are looking even worse for the X

IoT botnet Linux.ProxyM turns its grubby claws to spam rather than DDoS

I don't know which is worse

UK.gov lays down rules for cross-Whitehall data slurps

Consultation opens on codes of practice for Digital Economy Act

Litter

Finance sector is littered with vulns, and guess what – most can be resolved by patching

But pen-testers have questioned the figures

Artificial Intelligence

Silicon brains ready to plug into London

EventsIt's getting mighty crowded at MCubed

Microsoft reveals details of flagship London store within spitting distance from Apple's

Neighbours, everybody needs good neighbours

Kebab and pizza shop owner jailed for hiding £179k from the taxman

What a carve-up!

Ethereum-backed hackathon excavates more security holes

Smart contracts language easy to use and create exploits with

How Apple is taming the ad biz. Just don't expect Google or Zuck to follow

Inside ITP, Safari's third-party cookie zapper

Shock: Brit capital strips Uber of its taxi licence

That could mean 40,000 drivers out of work

HPE sharpening the axe for 5,000 heads – report

All part of CEO Whitman's 'long-term ops and financial blueprint'

The award for worst ISP goes to... it starts with Talk and ends with Talk

Two other big brands, Sky and BT, also in the naughty corner

Database biz MongoDB files to go public, hopes to raise a cool $100m

Revenues are up, but NoSQL firm still burning through cash

Mini-Heartbleed info leak bug strikes Apache, airborne malware, NSA algo U-turn, and more

RoundupThe security week in review

Desks in a Classroom

You forgot that you hired me and now you're saying it's MY fault?

Something for the Weekend, Sir?Just install the trial software on 1,000 PCs and I'll be on my way

The route of the MAREA submarine cable funded by Microsoft and Facebook

Microsoft and Facebook's transatlantic cable completed

In 2018 'MAREA' will move ads and Azure from USA to Spain at 160 terabits per second

David Caruso as famously sunglasses-lowering cheeseball crime scene investigator Horatio Crane in CSI: Miami. Photo copyright CBS

Sysadmin tells user CSI-style password guessing never w– wait WTF?! It's 'PASSWORD1'!

On-CallSysadmin hated making it look so easy, but didn't mind being a hero for saving a payroll run

Red Hat pledges patent protection for 99 per cent of FOSS-ware

Company has trove of 2,000 patents and won't enforce any of them if you licence right

First big Privacy Shield review has ended – and yep, it's great! Just don't ask about mass spying

Surprise – a thumbs up to private info flying over the Pond

Cloud washes Dell off perch atop storage market

Backup appliance sales go off a cliff, traditional array vendors just aren't growing

NASA, wait, wait lemme put my drink down... NASA, you need to be searching for vanadium

Bio-boffins urge Red Planet life search to hunt for weird metal

Java SE 9 and Java EE 8 arrive, 364 days later than first planned

Now that all the unpleasantness is behind us, let us code

Cisco puts UCS director on death row, to be replaced by cloudy 'Intersight'

The Borg assimilates the infrastructure-as-code message

IT plonker stuffed 'destructive' logic bomb into US Army servers in contract revenge attack

He's now facing 10 years in prison for act of spite

Crap cracked fat-attack Pact app chaps slapped in pact backtrack infract

US watchdog raps breach-of-contract brats for retracted transacts

Cloudflare coughs up a few grand for prior-art torpedoes to sink troll

DDoS blocker well on its way to nuking Blackbird Tech in patent showdown

Blame Canada? $5.7m IBM IT deal balloons to $185m thanks to 'an open bag of money'

With all their hockey hullabaloo, and that crazy payout too

Facebook, Twitter sucked into US Senate's Russian meddling probe

Politicians want to know what happened with those fake accounts and advertising dollars

Artificial Intelligence

Has science gone too far, part 97: Boffins craft code to find protesters on social networks, rate them on their violence

Image-recognition system posited as reporting tool

Attention adults working in the real world: Do not upgrade to iOS 11 if you use Outlook, Exchange

Kiss your Microsoft email goodbye, for now, if you update

Hi Facebook, Google, we think we might tax your ads instead – lots of love, Europe x

Or maybe hold money from online transactions. Either way, we're getting our damn cash

Nothing to see here, folks, literally... Citrix mysteriously pulls NetScaler downloads

Builds yanked offline for a week in bug riddle

Slain: Unions' US OPM mega-hack lawsuit against Uncle Sam

You have to get shafted before you can sue, says court

SEC 'fesses to security breach, says swiped info likely used for dodgy stock-market trading

EDGAR database a veritable goldmine of financial tips

Artificial Intelligence

Chatbots: A load of hype or fancy lifehack for the lazy IT person?

Some of these buggers are adept at handling the mundane

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