Cloud and Infrastructure
Autonomous weapons could 'accidentally' start the next world war, warns ex-Google engineer
Laura Nolan, who resigned from Google last year over military drone project, warns over 'killer robots'
IBM pitches new z15 mainframe as platform for mission-critical hybrid cloud
Encrypt data everywhere and revoke access to data instantly, promises IBM with launch of z15 mainframe
Oracle CEO Mark Hurd takes leave of absence for health-related reasons as company reports disappointing quarterly results
Hurd will nevertheless continue to receive all employment benefits during his leave of absence from Oracle
Wikipedia whacked in weekend DDoS attack
Wikipedia blames 'malicious attack' on 'bad faith actors'
Capital One hacker Paige Thompson pleads not guilty on all counts
Thompson is accused of compromising data on 106 million Capital One customers in the US and Canada
Paige Thompson mined cryptocurrency on Capital One's cloud servers and hacked more than 30 companies - indictment
Freshly unsealed indictment claims that Thompson developed her own scanning tool to identify cloud computing accounts' misconfigured firewalls
Micro Focus shares plunge 30 per cent following profits warning
CEO Stephen Murdoch launches strategic review after disclosing that revenues could fall by up to eight per cent
NatWest website back up after second day of IT outages
NatWest website goes down in a second day of IT outages affecting accident-prone RBS banking group
Bulgaria's Attorney General releases more evidence from tax office hack investigation
Email supposedly from a Russian hacker found on PC of accused, Kristian Boykov
NCSC warns organisations to dump Python 2 or risk WannaCry-style cyber attacks
Python 2.x will no longer receive bug fixes and security patches from January 2020
Splunk acquires monitoring and analytics firm SignalFx for $1.05 billion
Splunk claims SignalFX acquisition will enable it to offer application performance management from cloud-based apps to on-premise applications
Vulnerabilities in Google Nest Cam IQ Indoor camera could allow attackers to take over a device
Denial of service, code execution and information disclosure bugs found in Google's Nest Cam IQ indoor camera system
How Network Rail CIO Aidan Hancock is using data science to speed up your commute
How do you make trains run on time? It turns out you use a mixture of data science, analytics and cloud, according to Hancock
Peter Cochrane: AI and the emergent properties of good, bad and evil
Forget Asimov's 'Three Laws of Robotics', robots will almost certainly go off the rails at some point in the future - but they still won't be as bad as human beings
Biometrics of one million people discovered on publicly accessible database
Biostar 2 database, used for access control by police, defence contractors and banks, found online unprotected and unencrypted
Valve updates Steam over escalation of privilege security flaw - but accused of ignoring other vulnerabilities
Gaping holes still exist in popular Steam app used by more than 90 million PC users every day, warn security researchers
NatWest trials home banking via Google Assistant smart speaker
Five hundred NatWest customers will be able to use voice recognition combined with PIN to confirm their identity
Facial recognition begins creeping roll-out across London with installation on Kings Cross estate and Canary Wharf set to follow
Question marks over GDPR opt-outs for facial recognition surveillance systems springing up across London
Salesforce to acquire ClickSoftware in $1.35bn cash and stock deal
Salesforce buys ClickSoftware for field service management and mobile workforce management cloud tools
Steam client zero-day vulnerability enables arbitrary code to be run with LocalSystem privileges
The vulnerability was reported to Valve Software but was rejected for being 'out of scope'
BA claims to have resolved the check-in system IT problems that caused around 100 flight cancellations
British Airways has resolved the IT issues that have kept its check-in systems down all day
Microsoft contractors are listening-in to Skype conversations
Used Skype's translation feature? Microsoft contractors may well have listened in on your call
Monzo log file security blunder forces PIN reset for 480,000 customers
Users of mobile bank Monzo will need to use cash machines belonging to conventional rivals to reset their PINs
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