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Heads up: Fujitsu tips its hand to reveal exascale Arm supercomputer processor – the A64FX

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Fire chief says Verizon throttled department's data in the middle of massive Cali wildfires

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What's holding you back from Google Cloud? Oh, OK... it was hoping you'd say 'lack of hardware security modules'

Lava pit

Igneous Systems says bye-bye to proprietary hardware, hello to data management services

Man and dog eat dog food. pic by shutterstock

.NET Core 2.1 – huh, yeah – what is it good for? Bing, apparently

A hand holding an axe in shadow

Microsoft takes another whack at killing off Windows Phone 8.x

Apple shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find gambling in its Chinese App Store

Python wriggles onward without its head

Insider Threat

superdrug

Super-mugs: Hackers claim to have snatched 20k customer records from Brit biz Superdrug

Pull the plug

Security MadLibs: Your IoT electrical outlet can now pwn your smart TV

Use Debian? Want Intel's latest CPU patch? Small print sparks big problem

Bear

Microsoft: We busted Russian Fancy Bear disinfo websites

Broken chain graphic

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

Thinking of saying goodbye to your servers? We'll show you how

Privacy

MyHealth Record privacy legislation published

Bloke hurls sueball over Google's 'is it off yet?' location data slurping

US tech circles wagons as India reviews data protection proposals

wall punch

Internet overseer continues wall-punching legal campaign

bittorent

Texas ISP slams music biz for trying to turn it into a 'copyright cop'

sabotage

Big Tech turns saboteur to cripple new California privacy law in private

farris

Miss America 'scholarship program' adds Microsoft Azure developer to lineup

Justice Statue, blind folded

Apple web design violates law, claims blind person

Geek's Guide

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

transistor

Boffins build the smallest transistor, controlled by an atom

nao_robot

Kids are more likely than adults to submit to peer pressure from robots

Stone wheel on hillside

UK.gov agencies told to drop fancy tech or risk 'reinventing the wheel'

Illustration of a "bitcoin" dissolving into numbers. Photo by SHutterstock

As it turns out, no, you can't just run an unlicensed Bitcoin money exchange

Hiker free falling from cliff

Gartner's Great Vanishing: Some of 2017's emerging techs just disappeared

Jensen Huang of Nvidia

Nvidia shrugs off crypto-mining crash, touts live ray-tracing GPUs, etc

Verity Stob

Beam me up, PM: Digital secretary expected to give Tory conference speech as hologram

Finger pushes power button

The Death of the Gods: Not scared of tech yet? You haven't been paying attention

ball

The future of humanity: A Bluetooth ball hitting your face – forever

Two people sleeping in a meadow to raise charity

Want to raise cash for Action for Children’s Byte Night? The clock is ticking

Top stories

Big Tech turns saboteur to cripple new California privacy law in private

Google, Facebook and friends don't want you gaining access to your data

Fire chief says Verizon throttled department's data in the middle of massive Cali wildfires

Not a great look for telco giant ahead of net neutrality suit

Use Debian? Want Intel's latest CPU patch? Small print sparks big problem

Linux distro hits the brakes on rolling out microcode for security bugs in license row

Microsoft: We busted Russian Fancy Bear disinfo websites

Bear

HPC

Heads up: Fujitsu tips its hand to reveal exascale Arm supercomputer processor – the A64FX

Hot ChipsAKA how it learned to stop loving SPARC64

Fire chief says Verizon throttled department's data in the middle of massive Cali wildfires

Not a great look for telco giant ahead of net neutrality suit

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

Maybe future astronauts can finally enjoy a nice cuppa

Texas ISP slams music biz for trying to turn it into a 'copyright cop'

Grande Comms tells US court it's swamped with fake takedowns

Super-mugs: Hackers claim to have snatched 20k customer records from Brit biz Superdrug

Or just 386, according to chain

Security MadLibs: Your IoT electrical outlet can now pwn your smart TV

McAfee finds new way to break thing that shouldn't be on your home network in the first place

Don't miss SUSE and Microsoft give enterprise Linux an Azure tune-up

Cloud

What's holding you back from Google Cloud? Oh, OK... it was hoping you'd say 'lack of hardware security modules'

Like AWS and Azure, GCP now hosts secrets inside HSMs

Big Tech turns saboteur to cripple new California privacy law in private

Google, Facebook and friends don't want you gaining access to your data

Use Debian? Want Intel's latest CPU patch? Small print sparks big problem

Linux distro hits the brakes on rolling out microcode for security bugs in license row

Igneous Systems says bye-bye to proprietary hardware, hello to data management services

Helped along by Pure, Isilon and Qumulo

The big fish eats the little fish

Newcomer StorCentric gobbles array flinger Nexsan and prosumer storage vendor Drobo

Private equity machinations behind new business setup

Bear

Microsoft: We busted Russian Fancy Bear disinfo websites

Right-leaning American think tanks reportedly targeted

Apple Mac Mini

Apple tipped to revive forgotten Macbook Air and Mac mini – report

Old-school cool with new guts

.NET Core 2.1 – huh, yeah – what is it good for? Bing, apparently

Microsoft chows down on its open-sourced dog food

Dell EMC stumbles into composable systems late waving MX7000 box

Kit lands early September

Cloud

Brit Railcard buyers face lengthy, unexplained delays. Sound familiar?

The Southern Rail experience without stepping on a train

Miss America 'scholarship program' adds Microsoft Azure developer to lineup

Sadly, the talent section won't involve serious coding

Bloke hurls sueball over Google's 'is it off yet?' location data slurping

Ad giant 'intentionally complicated' opt-out systems

Microsoft takes another whack at killing off Windows Phone 8.x

Still using it after last year's OS axe? No apps for you then

TLS developers should ditch 'pseudo constant time' crypto processing

Fixes for Lucky 13-type bugs could still be vulnerable

UK.gov agencies told to drop fancy tech or risk 'reinventing the wheel'

GDS-commissioned report recommends bigger role for... who else but GDS?

Connected car data handover headache: There's no quick fix... and it's NOT just Land Rovers

Who has the keys to your car?

US tech circles wagons as India reviews data protection proposals

Ex-Cisco CEO-chaired lobby leading the charge

Cookies

That's the way the cookies crumble: Consent banners up 16% since GDPR

While news sites cut cookies by 22% – but Google retains omnipresence

wall punch

Internet overseer continues wall-punching legal campaign

ICANN appeals its appeal and tells German courts yet again that they're wrong

HPC

Fix for July's Spectre-like bug is breaking some supers

RDMA-Lustre combo swatted, HPC admins scramble

Apple web design violates law, claims blind person

Incompatibility of apple.com with screen-readers said to harm the sight impaired

As it turns out, no, you can't just run an unlicensed Bitcoin money exchange

21 year-old facing 31 charges for "no questions asked" cross-border cryptocurrency buys

Apple shocked, SHOCKED I tell you, to find gambling in its Chinese App Store

Thousands of apps yanked for violating terms and conditions

Mozilla accuses FCC of abdicating its role, ignoring comments in net neutrality lawsuit

Legal battle #433 over Pai's push to kill off rules

Python wriggles onward without its head

AnalysisThe software's just fine, annual codefest agrees

Prenda lawyer pleads guilty to moneyshot honeypot scheme

Smut-slinging copyright troll cops to fraud and money laundering charges

Cloud

SUSE and Microsoft give enterprise Linux an Azure tune-up

Veteran penguin botherer feels the need. For speed

Face-PALM: US Patent and Trademark Office database down for 5 days and counting

No end in sight yet to mystery maintenance 'issue'

Gartner's Great Vanishing: Some of 2017's emerging techs just disappeared

They plunged off the Peak... They perished on the Plateau... They tripped in the Trough...

SuperProf gets schooled after assigning weak passwords to tutors

Updated'Super' + 'user's first name' login is crackers, see me after – clients

So phar, so FUD: PHP flaw puts WordPress sites at risk of hacks

Bsides ManchesterBut claims of 'complete system compromise' are a little extreme

Cloud

Plane. Image via shutterstock

London's Gatwick Airport flies back to the future as screens fail

UpdatedStaff forced to whiteboard in terminals as cloud connection goes TITSUP*

Please ignore this sticky note

Your Phone prematurely ejected, Skype texting on the way, and 900 more years of Windows

Three SMS platforms? Oh Redmond, you spoil us

Beam me up, PM: Digital secretary expected to give Tory conference speech as hologram

Concerns that voters will see right through him ignored

Amaze your colleagues, confound customers and perturb partners with your encyclopaedic storage news knowledge

The knowledge you need lies beneath

Techie's test lab lands him in hot water with top tech news site

Who, Me?But who are we to hold a grudge...

The Death of the Gods: Not scared of tech yet? You haven't been paying attention

Book ReviewNew book details snatch for humanity's joystick

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