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They see AI, cybersecurity as 'battle fronts' - and rising populism will make it worse - former UN official…

Why the battery story doesn't add up Analysis Apple’s iPhone slump may be down to the company’s generosity and kindness - according to Apple-friendly blogger Jon Gruber.…

It's Amazon how quickly these monopolies begin Column At the annual spectacular of crap that we optimistically term the Consumer Electronics Show, I found myself locked into a room with Alexa.…

No idea who could have been behind this one... The South Korea Ministry of National Defense says 10 of its internal PCs have been compromised by North Korea unknown hackers .…

You mean they are collecting our opinions to sell ads? Who would have guessed it?…

Israeli company was 'feeling lucky' but lost out Google has won a patent dispute over its famous "I'm feeling lucky" button that immediately connects a user to its top-raking search link with a single click.…

Lawsuit claims coin thief was part of a gang targeting crypto whales The victim of a $24m cryptocurrency heist is suing his assailants in what is believed to be the first ever RICO claim involving digital currency.…

The poor cotton seedling froze to death as temperatures plunged during the lunar night The budding cotton seed hailed as the first plant to ever grow on the Moon, has, erm, died.…

Community outcry over exile of cloud networking biz leads to terms of service revision…

California Congresswoman claims FCC 'failed to listen to reasonable input'…

UEFI malware has been in the wild for more than two years The Fancy Bear hacking group's Lojax rootkit is far from a one-off tool, and may have been active in the wild for years before it was first reported.…

IPO? Maybe 2019. Perhaps 2020. Depends, OK? Enterprise cloud botherer Infor announced today that shareholders were tipping the best part of $1.5bn into its coffers ahead of a potential IPO.…

Trump, communism and 5G - a rare glimpse into the founder's past and present…

The subscriber you have dialled is no longer available... Legacy data warehouser Teradata has appointed an insider as its CEO, and will be hoping his cloud and subscriptions strategy will get its growth mojo back.…

Third stage failure means atmospheric fireworks show Warned by the US and Israel not to launch a satellite, Iran went ahead and launched one anyway, but the payload didn't make it to orbit.…

A tale of XSS, SQL injection and OAuth implementation…

Whoa - is that an Access 97 iceberg dead ahead? Microsoft has released a second raft of fixes for Windows 10 following the monthly Patch Tuesday excitement last week. It has also issued some fixes for its latest Windows Insider build.…

Not even using the founder's brand could save Big Blue's Slack for suits IBM is killing off its collaboration-plus-AI tool Watson Workspace from the close of next month due to crappy customer demand.…

Privately owned firm, er, changes its growth strategy +Comment Backup firm Veeam, privately owned and headquartered in Switzerland, has taken on $500m in surprise funding.…

Need to email an order for a s*$tload of hamburgers from your smartphone? Microsoft has an app for that…

And... stock-botherers seem happy with that Supercomputing remains a tough place to do business, with Cray warning investors that it expects to report a siginificant net loss for both 2018 and this financial year.…

Reverse ferret by reassuringly expensive consultant Blockchain companies are upset with management consultant McKinsey for pointing out the technology is stubbornly stuck at base camp after years of hype.…

Want some more cash? Get some more skills. And perhaps a moving truck DevOps darlings Puppet has emitted some juicy salary data from its annual DevOps survey, showing that the US is still the place to go for an impressive IT paycheck.…

Future Circular Collider hopes to rack up 100 tera electron Volts to probe physics CERN, the European research hub in Geneva, is already home to the world’s largest particle accelerator – and it’s hungry for another one that’s bigger and better.…

Living in a box, living in a faraway box, I'm living in a box…

Evidence-based policy? What a novel idea... Analysis President Trump on Monday signed legislation that attempts to make US government data more accessible for people and machines, though his predecessor deserves much of the credit.…

2011 ban on interstate, foreign sports betting extended to online lotteries, poker, casinos…

Crooks banked $270,000 in just one move, it is claimed A pair of Ukranian hackers broke into America's financial watchdog to swipe insider info for stock traders, it is claimed.…

Yes, it plans to appeal again Apple has, for the fourth time now, lost an appeal against a $440m patent-infringement damages award, payable to VirnetX – and pledged to appeal the decision.…

Security hole can still be exploited to tamper with journeys, warn infosec bods…