IS supporter Samata Ullah branded a “new and dangerous breed of terrorist"

A 34 year old man from Cardiff, Samata Ullah, who posted encryption training videos on a radical Islamic blog was a dangerous “cyber terrorist,” a court heard yesterday.

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Cassini, the James Webb Space Telescope, and Bricks: This Week in Space

There's good news for NASA, bad news for Cassini, and what on earth do bricks have to do with space?

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Windows Phone Is Dead and Surface Sales are Slipping

Microsoft's overall quarterly results were excellent, but the company's hardware divisions were a different story. Decline in the Xbox market is expected, but a huge drop in Surface sales doesn't look good. Meanwhile, Windows 10 Mobile is barely on life support.

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Nintendo Announces New 2DS XL, Returns to Clamshell Design

Nintendo has announced a new 2DS XL in a familiar clamshell package. If you've wanted a discounted New 3DS XL, this is the hardware you're looking for.

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Cassini’s First Grand Finale Images of Saturn Are In, and They’re Stunning

The first images from the Grand Finale have been sent back to NASA, and they're stunning. They're also just the start -- Cassini has 21 more close orbits planned.

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What the slowdown in Amazon's cloud growth means for Google and Microsoft

With Amazon Web Services' growth rate continuing to decline over successive quarters, what does this mean for its cloud rivalry with Microsoft and Google?

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Office workers don’t appreciate the complexities facing IT staff

IT staff feel under-appreciated because office workers don't understand what they do, study shows

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Many companies lack GDPR plan, PwC data shows

Many organisations around the world do not have a coherent plan to prepare for compliance with the EU’s new data protection laws

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CW500 video: Mark Lockton-Goddard, former interim CIO, Drax Group

Mark Lockton-Goddard, former interim CIO, Drax Group, speaks to Computer Weekly about cloud maturity

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CW500 video: James Donkin, general manager, Ocado Technology

James Donkin, general manager, Ocado Technology, speaks to Computer Weekly about cloud maturity

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Intel Will Rebrand Xeons, Preps Gold, Platinum Workstation Processors

Intel's shaking up its Xeon branding with a new branding scheme. New chip introductions and capabilities may not be far behind.

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Facebook pledges to counteract government propaganda

Facebook has pledged to take action to stop governments exploiting its platform to influence opinion in other countries

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Barclays to create 1,750 UK IT jobs over three years

Barclays bank is creating nearly 2,000 IT jobs at a delivery centre in north west England

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Debenhams appoints ex-Direct Line CIO as tech and supply chain director

Angela Morrison, the ex-CIO of Direct Line Group, has been appointed technology and supply chain director for department store retailer Debenhams

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Wetern Digital Ships 12TB Helium-Filled Hard Drive

Western Digital has come through on its promise late last year to release a 12TB hard drive. It will not be cheap.

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Upload speeds an increasing concern for broadband users

Changing usage patterns and consumption habits mean that for many consumers, slow broadband upload speeds are as big a concern as slow download speeds, says survey

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UBS reduces legacy dependence with Microsoft Azure

Swiss bank begins its strategy of moving core systems into the cloud

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Microsoft chief reveals Azure upsell strategy

Azure competes with AWS on price as an IaaS, but Satya Nadella sees this as a way to get CIOs to buy higher-level services

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Changing tracks: Examining VMware's evolving hybrid cloud strategy

The past 12 months have seen VMware apply a number of tweaks to its hybrid cloud strategy. Daniel Robinson takes a look at what these changes means for the company’s future and technology roadmap

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Intel reports record first-quarter revenue

Company says growing demand for high-performance computing is driving growth for the business

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Education key to reducing systems attacks, says university security manager

Central Lancashire University’s IT networks and security manager says educating users is key to avoiding cyber security flaws

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Nordea strikes partnership with Swedish mobile payment startup

Nordic bank links up with payments startup in its latest fintech project

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Forge ahead with GDPR, says ICO

UK organisations cannot afford to lose the public’s trust in their ability to safeguard personal data and should be working to ensure they have that capability, says the Information Commissioner’s Office

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Bring the cup home: mobile holds key to UK’s America’s Cup challenge

Computer Weekly visited the Land Rover BAR sailing team in Portsmouth to find out how mobile innovation may help bring the America’s Cup back to the UK for the first time since 1851

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Backup testing: What to test, when to test, how often to test

We run the rule over what’s involved in backup testing in virtual and physical server environments, how often you should test and the key pitfalls to avoid

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Study: Humans Arrived in North America 100,000 Years Earlier Than Thought

This claim is based on a reexamination of purported stone tools and broken mastodon bones that were uncovered in the early 1990s. However, not all researchers who have seen the research agree with the findings.

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Nintendo Switch Sales Boom, Could Surpass Wii U in Just Over a Year

Nintendo's Switch sales are booming, with a reported 2.74 million consoles sold to date. Nintendo believes it can ship 10 million units this year; some analysts think they're low-balling the total.

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Despite What You May Have Heard, Licking Frogs Does Not Cure the Flu

We found a peptide on frog skin that destroys the influenza virus with extreme prejudice.

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NASA Debuts 3D-Printed Space Chain Mail

From flexible impact armor to folding solar sails to treads on rover wheels, this unique hybrid space fabric is capable of a lot.

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ET deals: Get a VPN Unlimited lifetime subscription for 92% off

Businesses, governments, and malicious individuals are more than happy to gather as much information about your browsing habits as possible. Pushing back on that requires a fair amount of work, but a VPN is a good place to begin. And for a limited time, you can save hundreds on a subscription to VPN Unlimited.

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Amazon’s New Echo Look Puts a Camera, Microphone in Your Bedroom

Amazon's new Echo Look touts fashion advice as its major feature, but it's a major push to put "smart" devices in the bedroom.

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AMD Updates Ryzen’s Windows Power Plan, Boosts Performance With New Chipset Driver

AMD's latest chipset driver contains important updates for anyone using a Ryzen 5 or Ryzen 7 system.

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Case Study: How Swedish retailer Stayhard boosted sales online

Swedish retailer adopts cloud-based software to turn customer browsing into sales

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Case study: Specsavers furthers digital transformation with single customer view

UK retailer Specsavers has been in the process of digital transformation for several years, and has now partnered with Fujitsu to eliminate disparate systems and create a single customer view

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TSB launches first fruit of its owner’s proprietary system

TSB launches its first IT-based service built on its new core IT platform called Proteo

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Security Think Tank: How one organisation’s incident can become everyone’s defence

How can organisations use red teaming to identify security gaps?

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New Graphics Comparisons Highlight What Project Scorpio Brings to the 1080p, 4K Table

Microsoft's new Project Scorpio is being shown off behind the scenes -- and the console's increased firepower can meaningfully improve visual fidelity as well as rendering at higher resolutions.

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Cyber espionage up, but basic defences still down, DBIR shows

Organisations are still failing to address basic security issues and well-known attack methods, Verizon’s latest Data Breach Investigations Report reveals for a second year in a row

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FCC Chairman Announces Plan to Roll Back Net Neutrality Regulations

FCC chairman Pai has released a plan to roll back the 2015 Title II "common carrier" reclassification, essentially gutting net neutrality in the US.

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New Prosthetic Arm Powered by Bluetooth and Brainwaves

Doctors in the Netherlands are now testing a new type of prosthetic "click-on" arm that is connected to the patient's existing nerves. It needs a little help from Bluetooth, but the end result is a prosthetic controlled with the mind.

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Mario Kart 8 Deluxe is a Phenomenal Performer on the Switch

If you're on the fence about the Nintendo Switch, you might just change your mind by the time the weekend rolls around. On April 28th, an updated version of Mario Kart 8 is being released on Nintendo's new hybrid console, and it's getting rave reviews.

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ET deals: Dell Inspiron 3650 Quad-Core Desktop PC for $599

If you want a desktop PC with a good balance between performance and price, check out the Dell Inspiron 3650. With a quad-core Skylake processor and a substantial amount of memory, this flexible PC is a fantastic bargain when you use today's 47% total discount.

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Dutch manufacturer turns to SDN to save 30% on network costs

Huisman, a Netherlands-based manufacturer of heavy construction equipment, has chosen Masergy to supply a hybrid WAN and SDN platform to connect multiple global locations

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McAfee links Saudi Shamoon attacks

McAfee has published data showing the evolution of Shamoon malware campaigns as the company announces increased commitment to cyber threat research

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Demo shows GPUs are more than simple accelerators

Graphics processor units have helped to accelerate a reservoir simulation program, showing that the technology could be applied to complex code

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Research: Local councils urged against rushing to adopt cloud

An academic paper, profiling the cloud adoption journeys of three local councils, cautions public sector organisations from being pressured into adopting off-premise technologies before they are ready

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Cloud-based IT services spending tops €1bn in Emea in first quarter

Demand for cloud-based IT services continues to grow in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, with spending exceeding €1bn in the first quarter of 2017

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Globalisation creates Catch-22 for protectionists as India responds to threat of US visa clampdown

US government might have to negotiate with India before getting tough on its work visa regime

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Hadoop-centric data science proves value at Danske Bank

Nordics bank Danske Bank has been using the Hortonworks distribution of Hadoop as a plank in its data science programme, which targets fraud, fills ATMs, and aims to combat customer delinquency

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Why Cars Are Moving to 48-Volt Electrical Systems

48-volt electric turbochargers and motor generators can yield big savings. A $2,000 investment might increase fuel economy 20 percent.

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Verizon Doesn’t Seem to Know How Much its $70 Gigabit FiOS Actually Costs

Verizon gave itself a hearty pat on the back earlier this week as it rolled out a new gigabit tier of its FiOS internet service. The new option, Verizon said in the press release, would only cost $70 per month. This isn't exactly a lie, but it doesn't get the whole truth across.

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Accenture increasing Newcastle-based workforce

Accenture is expanding its operation in Newcastle with the addition of 60 recruits

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Security Think Tank: Red teaming benefits to business can be profound

How can organisations use red teaming to identify security gaps?

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SLAs being met but most fall short of ‘always on’ backup and restore needs

Veeam Availability Report finds most IT professionals think there is a gap between how fast they can restore data and their requirements to be an “always on” organisation

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Next-generation processors block older Windows

The benefits of the latest generation of PCs will now only be available to those who run Windows 10

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Seagate Launches Drone-Friendly DJI Fly Drive

Seagate and DJI have partnered to create a drone-friendly hard drive. The well-named Fly Drive bakes in a microSD slot so you don't need to worry about carrying a reader into the field.

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One Modder’s Quest: Recreate Parts of Fallout New Vegas Inside Fallout 4

One modding team is working on implementing Fallout New Vegas in the Fallout 4 engine, but a total conversion is outside the scope of the current project. Early work still looks gorgeous and hopefully one day we'll see an updated version of Obsidian's RPG.

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As HSCN transition begins, NHS trusts prepare to make the leap

NHS customers around the UK are starting to transition their networks from the decade-old N3 service to the new HSCN

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Russian cyber espionage highlights need to improve email security

Security experts are advising political parties and businesses to pay more attention to email security after the latest revelations about a Russian cyber espionage group

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How Oracle differentiates its IaaS against AWS

Cloud computing is changing both IT infrastructure and software development. We take a look at Oracle’s plans as it starts to compete with Amazon Web Services

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Carrenza's US datacentre expansion plans help spend control firm get cloud compliant

Fourth, a customer of UK-based infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider Carrenza, explains how the firm’s decision to expand its US datacentre footprint has benefited its business

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Danish defence minister accuses Russia of cyber espionage

Government officials in Denmark believe they have been under attack from Russia-based hackers

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AMD’s New Radeon Pro Duo is Slower, Cheaper Than Its Predecessor

AMD's new Radeon Pro Duo isn't as fast as the Radeon Pro Duo it launched last year -- but it does offer 4x the RAM, a significantly reduced price, and much lower power consumption.

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Waymo now offering free rides in self-driving cars for Phoenix residents

Waymo, which was spun-off from Google X's self-driving car project, has started offering regular folks a lift in its driverless vehicles.

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SK Hynix Will Launch GDDR6 in 2018, But What About HBM2?

SK Hynix has announced production on GDDR6 with launches expected in early 2018 -- but wasn't HBM2 supposed to obviate the need for higher-speed conventional memory?

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SAP Q1 2017 results: cloud revenue €906m, 5,800 customers for S/4

SAP has announced €5.29bn in first quarter 2017 revenue, of which €906m was for cloud subscription and support, 17% of the total. Supplier adds 400 S/4 Hana customer in quarter

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Court grants Lauri Love appeal against extradition

Alleged hacker’s appeal court hearing will be the first major test of the UK’s forum bar, designed to protect vulnerable people from extradition

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Pivot3 launches Acuity hyper-converged with NVMe flash and QoS

Acuity operating environment merges features inherited from NexGen acquisition and adds NVMe Accelerator nodes with flash as cache in front of main storage

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MigSolv offers SME colocation clients way-in to public sector deals through Janet network

Norwich-based colocation provider embarks on technology tie-up with Janet's commercial arm to ensure clients have direct access to education sector network

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UK trade department in New York to promote fintech firms

Group of financial technology firms taken to New York to show off their knowledge of regulatory compliance software

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Huddle needs $5m equity injection or to find a buyer, as investment declaration deadline looms

Companies House documents reveal Huddle needs to raise $5m or more by the end of April or find a buyer to meet its financial obligations for the next 12 months

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City University London launches undergraduate data science course after postgraduate success

Following the success of its postgraduate data science course, London university launches undergraduate programme

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Amazon Ponders Self-Driving Vehicles for More Efficient, Cheaper Delivery

Amazon is studying self-driving vehicles. The goal (probably): Amazon's own fleet of self-driving vehicles to speed delivery. Pretty soon, no more need for UPS or FedEx.

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ET deals: Save big on the ultimate learn to code course bundle

Whether you want to strike out on your own on the app store or start a career in software engineering, you're going to need to learn to code. Today, SkillWise is offering up ten beefy courses that will help you navigate the fundamentals of modern programming.

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New ‘Genius’ Television Series Will Explore the Twists and Turns of Einstein’s Life

A new show from National Geographic will focus on the life of Albert Einstein, showcasing him as both an older and younger man, and with an eye towards his personal life -- not simply his scientific endeavors.

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Someone Turned the Lights On in Pripyat, 31 Years After Chernobyl

Polish adventurers took a trip to Pripyat just ahead of the 31st anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster, to see if any of that ancient Soviet tech still worked. It did.

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Why Smartphone Speed Tests Don’t Tell You What You Think They Do

You can learn some things from "speed test" videos, but not as much as you think.

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Storm clouds gather for US-EU Privacy Shield data deal

The European Parliament of Justice launches unprecedented criticism of Privacy Shield, while the Irish Court mulls future of binding corporate contracts

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Security Think Tank: How to maximise the value or red team exercises

How can organisations use red teaming to identify security gaps?

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Tips on how to get a Hana implementation off the ground

The confusion around SAP’s in-memory database is holding many customers back. We look at some of the approaches being taken to simplify implementation

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One in eight people have suffered a healthcare data breach

A quarter of victims had their NI number compromised and 18% saw their biometric identifiers compromised, but most people trust healthcare providers with their data

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Government must extend machine learning support across education and industry

The Royal Society believes the UK is well placed to make the most of machine learning, but it is early days and technical and policy issues need addressing

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SAP board member talks Middle East investment

In an interview with Computer Weekly, SAP’s chief financial officer, Luka Mucic, talks up the significance of the UAE and wider Middle East region in terms of IT transformation

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Gulf Air refreshes storage and server farm hardware with Dell EMC

Airline completes major project to revamp its storage infrastructure with Dell EMC technologies

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Cancer researcher gets Nodeum LTFS tape NAS

Belgium-based OncoDNA replaces IBM tape library with flash-powered Nodeum LTFS to provide file access to backup and archive tapes at approaching nearline timescales

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Intel Optane Review Roundup: Next-Generation Memory Standard Earns Lukewarm Reception

Intel's new Optane drives, based on 3DXPoint memory, are finally available, but the consumer performance may not be quite what enthusiasts had hoped.

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Google Unveils Stunning 17-Camera VR Video Rig

Google announced a new and improved VR video rig called the Yi Halo. It can film multiple 4K video streams simultaneously, then feed it all into Google's special video processor to create a VR experience.

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Facebook’s First VR World Is a Hideous Bride-of-Frankenstein Creation

The creators of Facebook Spaces seem to have overlooked the most basic draw of virtual reality -- that is, the freedom to explore and create environments that don’t correspond to anything remotely real.

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Research highlights cloud security complacency in organisations that ditch on-premise tech

Enterprise attitudes to cloud security are laid bare in the latest research report from Bitglass, and suggest more could be done to secure corporate data stored off-premise

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Motorola brings big data digital evidence service to UK police forces

Motorola is launching a digital evidence management service to UK police forces, backed off into AWS cloud infrastructure

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Consortium hopes to drive autonomous car from London to Oxford

The Centre for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles has awarded an £8.6m grant to back a consortium attempting the UK’s first Level 4 autonomous vehicle test run, to take place within the next two-and-a-half years

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Cyber security centre of excellence to open at Cardiff University

Cardiff University and Airbus have launched the first centre of its kind in Europe to tackle cyber attacks on critical infrastructure

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Security Think Tank: Red teaming can help businesses identify best security controls

How can organisations use red teaming to identify security gaps?

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Danish bank group first to offer mobile payments with Dankort

A group of banks in Denmark are working together on a mobile payments service

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Criminal Courts Review Commission appoints forensic accountants for Post Office IT system cases

Investigation into claims of miscarriages of justice in relation to a Post Office accounting system has appointed a forensic accountant firm

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Collaboration is key to fighting cyber crime, say UK police

Cyber crime will be defeated only through collaboration, according to UK police, the Global Cyber Alliance, Cyber Defence Alliance and Verizon

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Meet Hajime, the IoT Botnet Built to Vaccinate Your Devices Against Mirai

Built atop elements of the BitTorrent protocol, Hajime is an arguably gray-hat botnet with a few remarkable quirks in its code.

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Which Xbox One Games Deserve a Scorpio Upgrade?

If Project Scorpio is as beefy as Redmond is promising, there's no doubt that developers will be able to create some gorgeous console games. However, we're hoping that many current Xbox One games will get some much-needed attention as well. Today we're calling out the ten releases that deserve it the most.

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ESA: Time to Get Serious About Removing Space Junk

Scientists have been sounding the alarm about the buildup of space junk for years, a point that was reinforced at the recent European Conference on Space Debris.

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This Week in Space: Metal on Mars, Hydrogen Inside Enceladus, and a Meteoric Near-Miss

This week is full of the usual suspects: dark matter, terrible puns from Mars, speculation about Enceladus, and some bonus eye candy from the ESO.

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Juicero CEO Offers Full Refunds on $400 DRMed Bagjuice Squeezer

Juicero's CEO is offering a full refund to any unhappy customers who feel they were ripped off when they paid for a $700 ($400 now) juicer with $5 juice packs that expire within a week, tops, and can be squeezed by hand with identical results. Wonder if anybody will take him up on it?

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ARM-based Windows 10 Devices Expected to Launch in Late 2017

Qualcomm CEO Steve Mollenkopf provided an update on the future of Windows on ARM in a recent investor call, saying the first Qualcomm-based Windows PCs will be available at the end of this year.

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Apple Refuses to Allow iPhone, Mac Recycling

Apple has released its annual environmental report and challenged itself to build an iPhone from fully recyclable materials, but it also explicitly refuses to allow its iPhones or Macs to be repaired or reused.

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Government puts up £23m a year for AI to boost UK economy

Business secretary Greg Clark announces Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund, committing more than £1bn over four years

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Information security key to digital era business models

Security will become increasingly important as industries seek to collaborate and use each other’s capabilities to enable new business models, with the banking sector leading the way

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Lack of risk taking could threaten British tech, says Level39’s head

Failing to take risks in the current climate of rapid change could act as a barrier for growth for British tech and businesses, according to head of Level39

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Security Think Tank: How to get the best out of red team exercises

How can organisations use red teaming to identify security gaps?

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UK likely to face national cyber emergency, says NCSC

The UK is likely to face a level-1 cyber attack at some point in the future, according to the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC)

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ET deals: Try Amazon Music Unlimited for free, get a $10 Amazon Music credit

Looking for a single service to download and stream your favorite tunes to your PC, smartphone, and tablet? Amazon is offering up an excellent deal on its Music Unlimited service, so now's the time to act. Get access to tens of millions of songs, entirely without ads, and your first month is gratis. Better yet, new subscribers get a bonus $10 credit too.

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Run Android Apps on Your Windows PC

You don't need an Android phone to run apps designed for the platform—with a few software downloads and a couple of tweaks, you can explore them on your PC.

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Think Twice Before Getting Excited for Nintendo’s Upcoming SNES

Nintendo may launch an SNES Classic this Christmas -- but this time, I won't be lining up to buy one. After waiting nearly six months to try and get the NES, I'm not playing that game again.

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Research: OpenStack user satisfaction ratings drop, as adoption of the open source cloud rises

Use of OpenStack-powered clouds continues to grow across companies of all sizes, but customer satisfaction levels appear to have dropped, research shows

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Rumor: Intel Will Launch Coffee Lake, Basin Falls Earlier Than Expected

Intel may be considering pulling in its upcoming HEDT and desktop refreshes. Current rumors suggest next-generation high-end desktop chips will be demoed at Computex, with Coffee Lake launching six months earlier than previously expected.

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Unofficial Patch Unblocks Windows 7 and 8.1 Updates for Kaby Lake and Ryzen

Microsoft has started disallowing Windows 7 and 8.1 updates on machines running the latest hardware. One developer has had enough, and is releasing a patch to help users get around this artificial blockade.

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Researchers Wring Clean Water From the Desert Air

Zirconium crystals now find a new use conjuring water from thin air.

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ET deals: 96% off the ethical hacking A to Z bundle

IT security and white hat hacking are more important than they've ever been. With the potential for worldwide sabotage and corporate spying, both the private and public sectors are always looking for skilled professionals that can help protect against attacks. So if you're ready to start a career in ethical hacking, today's bundle of online courses is a good place to start.

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How to ensure tech staff gain ‘essential soft skills’

Nottingham Trent University’s infrastructure services manager explains how she has made sure her technology team have the essential soft skills they need to support users

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Camden open data platform aims to blaze trail across London

Camden council’s open data platform aims to enlist other London boroughs in a drive to be “world class”. The borough is home to leading lights of UK tech, including Google UK and BT Openreach

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Mastercard integrates biometric technology into cards

MasterCard tests out biometric technology embedded into payment cards, with further trials in Europe planned

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Emerging technologies: How can you cut through the noise?

Technology leaders need to focus the raw potential of emerging technology into a set of priorities with measurable, tangible business impacts

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Dunkin' Donuts and Here Technologies join AWS cloud customer roll call

Companies have separately declared AWS to be their preferred infrastructure partner, as the cloud giant continues to make significant in-roads into the enterprise

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Ofcom: Openreach must do more on duct and pole access

Ofcom releases more detailed proposals to enable CSPs to access Openreach’s national network infrastructure for fibre broadband roll out

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Banks suffer average of 85 attempted serious cyber attacks a year, and one-third are successful

Banks face daily cyber attacks, many of which succeed in stealing data, research finds

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Security Think Tank: Red teaming will benefit security mature organisations most

How can organisations use red teaming to identify security gaps?

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People present the biggest challenge, say infosec professionals

More than 80% of security professionals identify people as the industry’s biggest challenge, but companies are becoming better prepared to deal with cyber breaches, a survey reveals

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Newly Discovered Earth-Like Planet May Have the Right Conditions for Life

Astronomers have confirmed a star 39 light years away plays host to a planet that is much more Earth-like than any we've been able to spot in the past.

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Top Cars of the 2017 Shanghai Auto Show

As China deals with pollution and crowded magacities, it looks to small cars. Electrics and plug-in hybrids aren't just good ideas; they're the future.

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Flashing your RX 480 GPU to an RX 580 BIOS is a really bad idea

There are reports going around of end users successfully flashing RX 480 boards with RX 580 BIOSes and picking up extra performance in the process. While it's an interesting idea, this is one project we'd recommend you not take on.

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