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Frosty the plaintiff: Yeti Data flings surprise trademark sueball at Snowflake

Work-from-home shift trickles down to Western Digital as cloud builders stuff storage in bit barns to meet demand

CSI GitHub: That big outage last month? It's always DNS. Or it was Kubernetes. Maybe it was a heady blend of both

EY to outsource compute function, sending 800 staff into the loving arms of... IBM

Greatest crossover of all time: Microsoft and Samsung preview Android apps on Windows via Your Phone app

UK insurance biz Direct Line drops 'misrepresentation' claims against IBM in £36m database platform lawsuit

Mozilla warns more Firefox website breakage to come because devs just aren't checking for SameSite snafus

Google creates secure file locker for countries where people often share smartphones

Think carefully about cyber insurance, says NCSC. But don't worry about buying off ransomware crooks

National Crime Agency says Brit teen accused of Twitter hack has not been arrested

USA decides to cleanse local networks of anything Chinese under new five-point national data security plan

Canon not firing on all cylinders: Fledgling cloud loses people's pics'n'vids, then 'Maze ransomware' hits

Microsoft introduces Open Service Mesh for Kubernetes, plans quick donation to CNCF

Are your homegrown business apps as secure, fast and usable as they could be?

New Relic streamlines app monitoring tools, shifts to per-user, pay-as-you-go pricing, adds free tier to lure you in

Feeling unInspired? We can't help much with that, but there is a new .NET 5 preview and an Azure DevOps roadmap

Rackspace IPO bags $704m, proceeds used to pay down debts to private equity backer

Going for a song: Wales inks £300m in deals after shopping spree for hardware, software, and audio-visual equipment

European Commission: Full-scale probe launched into data-slurping potential of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit buy

You think the UK coronavirus outbreak was bad? Just wait till winter: Study shows test-and-trace system is failing

OnePlus Nord is surprisingly fixable compared to earlier stablemates, but common repairs require disassembly

Well, that was quick: Google brutally culls Pixel 4 and 4 XL before successor hits market

Call of duty, modem warfare: Taiwanese Qualcomm rival MediaTek teams up with Intel for firm's first stab at 5G laptop modem

Oppo Find X2 Neo: We're not getting any slimmer through lockdown, but phones are

Geek's Guide

The results are in: Science says the Solar System's magnetic heliosphere looks like a deflated croissant

Austria astroboffins shed a little light on how we might track orbital junk hurtling at spacecraft during daytime

What a good eye-dea: Battery-less, grain-of-sand-sized 2.4GHz transmitter to help save your eyesight

I've seen things you people wouldn't believe – because we used astrometry: A Saturn-like world hugging its star

Self-driving car supremo Anthony Levandowski sentenced to 18 months in the clink for stealing trade secrets from Google's Waymo

Singapore to give all incoming travelers wearable tracking device

If you're on invite-only tech-testing scheme, take care with Amazon's Alexa-powered answer to Google's Glass

Microsoft to Cortana: you’re not going out dressed in iOS or Android, young lady!

Verity Stob

The Last of Us Part II: Never mind the Metacritic nonsense, Naughty Dog's ultra-violent odyssey is a must-play*

An irritating itch down the back of your neck? Searing midsummer heat? Of course, it can only be SysAdmin Day

Elite name on Brit scene sponsors retro video games preservation project at the Centre for Computing History

Dutch Gateway store was kept udder wraps for centuries until refit dug up computing history

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America was getting on top of its electronic voting machine security – then suddenly... A wild pandemic appears

Black Hat'We need to prepare for a number of scenarios that may not come to fruition' says Prof Blaze

Doctor, doctor, got some sad news, there's been a bad case of hacking you: UK govt investigates email fail

Former trade minister Dr. Liam Fox named as source of leaked trade docs

Bad: US govt says Chinese duo hacked, stole blueprints from just about everyone. Also bad: They extorted cash

Including COVID-19 research, it is claimed. And they'll almost certainly never face an American court

Hey there, want to break into computers like an Iranian hacker crew? IBM finds 40GB of videos that include how-tos

In BriefPlus: BitTorrent CEO puts a $1m bounty on Twitter hackers

Report: CIA runs secret cyberwar with little oversight after Trump gave the OK, say US government officials

Details start to emerge on real-world impact of Prez-signed secret memo

Collabera hacked: IT staffing'n'services giant hit by ransomware, employee personal data stolen

ExclusiveCrooks made off with everything needed for ID theft

Guilty: Russian miscreant who hacked LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring, stole 200-million-plus account records

Yevgeniy Nikulin faces up to 10 years in a US cooler

It’s happened again: AT&T sued for allegedly transferring victim's number to thieves in $1.9m cryptocoin heist

Man claims life savings lost in theft aided by telco staff

US govt: Julian Assange tried to recruit hacker to steal hush-hush dirt and we should know – the hacker was an informant

WikiLeaker accused of tapping up LulzSec's Sabu as a source

Facebook pays for exploit to catch a predator, voting software security under the microscope...

Roundup... and more in this rapid-fire summary of infosec news

Someone got so fed up with GE fridge DRM – yes, fridge DRM – they made a whole website on how to bypass it

Water filter system requires RFID-chipped part

That string of supercomputer hacks last week? Of course it was a crypto-coin-mining get-rich-quick scheme

Stuck for compute power to craft digital funbucks? Go where the big beasts slumber

I know what you leased last summer: Asset database leak hits Capita, Rolls-Royce, Tesco (every little helps, eh?)

RoundupPlus: Pop's Lady Gaga popped in hack, and more

Senator demands deep probe into spyware-for-cops after NSO Group touts hacking toolkit to American plod

Updated'Aggressive oversight' needed, Congress urged

Spyware slinger NSO to Facebook: Pretty funny you're suing us in California when we have no US presence and use no American IT services...

Malware maker urges judge to dump lawsuit over WhatsApp phone snooping

San Francisco trial of Russian bloke extradited and accused of hacking LinkedIn, Dropbox, Formspring stalls again amid pandemic lockdown

Case that has rumbled on since 2016 may have to be started again from scratch

Spyware maker NSO can't claim immunity, Facebook lawyers insist – it's time to face the music

Software developers aren't nation states, antisocial giant points out

Stuck inside with time on your hands? The US govt would like to remind you it's paying $5m for Nork hacking scalps

US-Cert issues new report on misdeeds of North Korean groups

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