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

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

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

Microsoft Office 365 Exchange issues for users across Europe

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

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

European Commission proposes more powers for EU's infosec agency

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

Congress battles Silicon Valley over upcoming US sex trafficking law

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

DXC squeezes suppliers for extra margin, issues ultimatum

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

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

Bumbling fool not so much Jason Bourne as Johnny English

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

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

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

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

Cloud

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

Don't miss Stack Overflow + Salary Calculator = your worth

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

bucket

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

Bill Murray in the movie Groundhog Day. If you haven't seen it, it's about a man forced to endure reliving the same day over and over. Pic: Columbia Pictures

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

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

Student doing air guitar photo via Shutterstock

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

DeepMind doesn't stoop, you still conquer

Jean-Claude Juncker speaking in front of EU flag

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

And possibly beyond

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

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??!?'

Bloke fesses up: I forged judge's signature to strip stuff from Google search

Jewelry exec faces up to five years in the clink for SEO backfire

Artificial Intelligence

An old race car

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

Does someone need to take the handbrake off this thing?

Stanislav Petrov

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

ObitQuiet hero dies at 77

DRM now a formal Web recommendation after protest vote fails

W3C lays out the case for anti-piracy, anti-copying defenses

Bank for central banks admits decentralised cryptocurrencies are a pretty good idea

'Fact that they're even talking about it is quite significant'

Grab your popcorn: The first annual Privacy Shield review is go

Trump administration’s views on privacy to come under scrutiny

Cisco's John Chambers to quit as exec chair

Southern belle to fly off into the sunset on the back of a drone

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