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If malware wants to bury deep inside your Lenovo or Gigabyte servers, they can just ask Vertiv's insecure BMC firmware

An email arrives. It's from the boss. Subject: Hybrid Cloud. You gulp. You get the cloud – but what's this 'hybrid' bit?

Office 365 verboten in Hessen schools: German state bans cloudy Microsoft suite on privacy grounds

In the US? Using Medicaid? There's a good chance DXC is about to boot your data into the AWS cloud

Chrome on, baby, don't fear The Reaper: Plugin sends CPU-hogging browser processes to hell where they belong

No support for CloudEvents standard as AWS does its own thing with EventBridge

Alexa! When will Windows 10 19H2 ship? New version promises more toys for assistants

You can't say Go without Google – specifically, our little logo, Chocolate Factory insists

It was totally Samsung's fault that crims stole your personal info from a Samsung site, says Samsung-blaming Sprint

Let's open the Mystery Data Security Blunder box, and see what's inside today... Ah! Hotel reservations and more

Maybe double-check that HMRC email? UK taxman remains a fave among the phisherfolk

Patch now before you get your NAS kicked: Iomega storage boxes leave millions of files open to the internet

IBM drags Websphere devs towards Kubernetes with Kabanero package

Amazon brings serverless pie to Visual Studio Code party

Want to get deep into AWS Lambda or Azure Functions? Spend the day with us...

Front-end dev cops to billing NSA $220,000 for hours he didn't work

Awkward! Bernie tells Bezos-sponsored event he'd break up Amazon and other tech titans

'I AM NOT PUTTING UP WITH THIS SH*T' Mike Lynch raged at salesmen

Ex-Which? bod's £3bn Safari sueball has second shot at Google over UK data laws

Facebook chucks 1.5 hours' profit at Citizens Advice anti-scam charity to defuse consumer champ's defamation suit

Google nuked tech support ads to kill off scammers. OK. It also blew away legit repair shops. Not OK at all

Cough up, like, 1% of your valuation and keep up the good work, says FTC: In draft privacy deal, Facebook won't have to change a thing

US border cops' secret racist Facebook group a total disgrace, says patrol chief. She should know, she was a member

Farewell to function keys and swappable SSDs in the new two-port MacBook Pro

Geek's Guide

Bad news: Earth is not going to be walloped by asteroid 2006 QV89. Good news: Boffins have lost sight of it, so all hope is not yet lost

Experts: No need to worry about Europe's GPS satellites going dark for days. Also: What the hell is going on with those satellites?!

SpaceX reveals chain of events that caused the unplanned disassembly of Crew Dragon capsule

50 years ago today Apollo 11 slipped the surly bonds of Earth to put peeps on the Moon

Dear chip designers: It will no longer cost you an Arm and a leg to use these CPU cores (well, not at first, anyway...)

Amazon's bugging of homes has German boffins worried that Alexa may be an outlaw

A Facebook AI research chief and a machine-learning guru walk into MCubed in London...

AI solves Rubik's Cube in 1.2 seconds (that's three times slower than a non-AI algorithm)

Verity Stob

It just wasn't meant toupee: Bloke nicked at Barcelona Airport with €30k of blow under wig

Bulb smart meters in England wake up from comas miraculously speaking fluent Welsh

The Pi who loved me: Licensed to SSL

Scientist, war hero and gay icon Alan Turing is new face of the £50 note

Data Centre > Networks

What Huawei to go: Hundreds of Chinese tech giant's US workers to get pink slips – report

With trade ban set to kick in next month, jockeying continues

16 Jul 00:08 | 22

DDoS attack? Mad dash to file forms? No, errant network switch crashed Australian tax service

15 Jul 19:47 | 3

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UK says no way to US calls for no Huawei on 5G networks: MPs find 'no technical grounds' to exclude Chinese giant

Plus: American biz bods could say yes way to Zhengfei... in '2 to 4 weeks'

15 Jul 14:55 | 23

Virgin Media blocks Imgur, literally tens of people rage at UK ISP

They blame IWF-related error, IWF says 'it's not us, it's you'

15 Jul 13:55 | 33

Prospect union urges members at BT: Say yes to pay and grading shakeup revisions

Common ground found on People's Framework revamp after months of haggling

15 Jul 11:16 | 5

X-ray specs: Signal whizz JMA Wireless claims to have solved indoor 5G, everyone

But how will it compare against Wi-Fi 6?

12 Jul 23:28 | 12

With heroes like BT and Openreach, who needs villains? ISP lobbyists' awards continue to vex

How you holding up, Mozilla?

12 Jul 14:38 | 15

Ofcom head Sharon White pocketed nearly £500k last year

A pittance compared to the near-£1m she is due to take home at John Lewis

12 Jul 10:00 | 18

FCC boosts broadband competition by, er, banning broadband competition in buildings

AnalysisGeorge Orwell's got nothing on this lot with doublespeak

11 Jul 22:19 | 28

Ofcom snaps on fresh pair of rubber gloves for deeper rummage around in Giffgaff billing faff

EE, Sky and O2 also face probes from comms regulator

11 Jul 11:17 | 7

Frenzied bidding war for hot property KCOM as share price rockets by tuppence and a half

Highest offer £573m so not pocket change for Hull broadband and cloud biz

11 Jul 10:15 | 12

RTFM: Wireless Broadband Alliance squeezes out 40-page ode to the joy of Wi-Fi 6

Which means we're nearly there

11 Jul 09:00 | 23

Brussels sprouts yet another 'transparency' centre: This time the honour is all ZTE's

Networks and phone builder joins compatriots Huawei in insisting it has nothing to hide

10 Jul 15:44 | 3

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Big Switch to Big Photon for Cisco: Switchzilla to splurge $2.6bn on Acacia

All aboard for 'siliconisation of optical interconnect'

You TalkTalk a big game, says ads watchdog, but your testing not good enough to say your Wi-Fi's best

UK ISP claimed signal 'couldn't be beaten.' Regulator disagreed

10 Jul 10:11 | 18

Can you trust Huawei... or any other networks supplier for that matter?

Price, bug-patching, security, control ... so many factors to consider

10 Jul 08:15 | 30

US giant GTT continues biz banquet by wolfing down Dutch telco KPN's networking unit for $50m

European fibre for American firm with global aspirations

08 Jul 14:10 | 4

Radio-controlled racing car smears some rubber over Goodwood track

Samsung gives drivers another excuse for being a bit rubbish: 5G

05 Jul 13:27 | 12

UK's Openreach admits 50k premises on 'gigabit-capable' FTTP network can't get gigabit speeds

330Mbps will have to do. Boohoo

05 Jul 09:00 | 65

Openreach needs to snap that BT umbilical cord, warns Ofcom

Oh and surprise, surprise... full fibre roll-out remains 'low'

03 Jul 15:30 | 47

UK's North Midlands hospitals IT outage, day 2: All surgery and appointments cancelled

Not WannaCry... this time it's Cisco

03 Jul 12:50 | 56

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New old Windows bug emerges, your 'strong' password is anything but, plus plenty more

Hell hath no fury like a radar engineer scorned

Industry reps told the UK taxman everything wrong with extending IR35. What happened next will astound you

Galileo, Galileo, Galileo, where to go? Navigation satellite signals flip from degraded to full TITSUP* over span of four days

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14 sailors die aboard Russian cable spy, er, ocean research nuke sub after fire breaks out

Disaster and tragedy in Barents Sea

02 Jul 22:22 | 70

This major internet routing blunder took A WEEK to fix. Why so long? It was IPv6 – and no one really noticed

CommentWhen you meant to type /127 but entered /12 instead

02 Jul 21:09 | 82

Frustrated Brits can dump mobile providers by text as of today

It's not me, it's you: 'Breaking up has never been easier'

01 Jul 08:03 | 39

cPanel unleashes price hikes on its most dense customers

Yeah - because hardware is better these days, we're going to need to charge you more. Much, much more...

28 Jun 16:52 | 20

America's latest 5G drama: Spectrum row bursts into the open with special adviser fingered as agent provocateur

Special reportNext-gen 24GHz cellular broadband roll-out stalls amid 'personal animosity' claims

28 Jun 13:10 | 25

Pitch of the week: Helping to stamp out e-cigarettes while removing hurdles to digital learning

CommentBuy our networking gear and get rid of vaping. Think of the children!

28 Jun 11:57 | 18

You know whose kit for 5G is Huawei better? Go on, have a guess, says UK mobile player Three

Warns deployment will go up spout if UK.gov pulls plug on controversial supplier

27 Jun 11:59 | 32

There's Huawei too many vulns in Chinese giant's firmware: Bug hunters slam pisspoor code

More than 1 in 2 products have serious flaws, some potentially backdoors, we're told

27 Jun 05:44 | 75

FCC adviser and fiber telco CEO thrown in the clink for five years after conning investors out of $270m with fake deals

Funnily enough, she was keen to slash infrastructure investment red-tape

26 Jun 00:46 | 12

Weather forecasters are STILL banging on about 5G clashing with their sensors. As if climate change is a big deal

AnalysisNow gimme that 4K HD live stream of kittens

25 Jun 23:19 | 32

RIP Dyn Dynamic DNS :'( Oracle to end Dyn-asty by axing freshly gobbled services, shoving customers into its cloud

Meanwhile, staff face cuts – and doesnotexist.com may not exist by next year

25 Jun 22:02 | 80

FedEx fed up playing box cop, sues Uncle Sam to make it stop: 'We do transportation, not law enforcement'

Feds are asking Huawei too much from us, complains shipping giant upset it has to police every package

25 Jun 19:46 | 51

BGP super-blunder: How Verizon today sparked a 'cascading catastrophic failure' that knackered Cloudflare, Amazon, etc

Updated'Normally you'd filter it out if some small provider said they own the internet'

24 Jun 19:01 | 61

Hello Moto! UK Home Office shoves comms giant another £82m to stay on Emergency Services Network gig

More delays ahead for troubled programme

21 Jun 11:15 | 15

Comms room, comms room, comms room is on fire – we don't need no water, let the engineer burn

On CallFiguratively, of course

21 Jun 07:02 | 155

Do you want a Kool-Aid with that, Huawei? You'll need one after watching boss chat to US mavens

George Gilder and Nicholas Negroponte join CEO for 2-hour 'Tea with Mr Ren'

17 Jun 14:22 | 15

Exodus: Tech top brass bail on £1bn UK courts reform amid concerns project is floundering

ExclusiveDigitisation programme already at 'serious risk' of missing deadline

14 Jun 11:19 | 36

Germany and South Korea go nuts for 5G while Blighty subsists on test bed crumbs

Huawei with you!

13 Jun 13:02 | 19

Underground network targets Salisbury: Not the Russian death crew, this time it's Openreach laying fibre-optic cables

Ground-penetrating radar and micro ducting to keep that lovely cathedral untouched

13 Jun 10:40 | 25

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