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DARPA launches Semantic Forensics project to identify fake news and online disinformation
Algorithms developed under DARPA's SemaFor project will be able to scan more than 500,000 stories, videos, images and audio files to identify fakes
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
Celebrating 50 years of the Unix operating system
Without the pioneering work of Ken Thompson and his colleages the world would be a very different place
Google patches high-severity Chrome browser engine security flaw
The flaw could enable attackers to carry out remote code-execution or denial-of-service attacks
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
New Microsoft Edge browser fires off more than 130 requests to almost 50 endpoints on first run
Facebook, Google, Twitter, Reddit and multiple Microsoft addresses all pinged when Edge is started-up for the first time
Microsoft faces new GDPR privacy investigation over Windows 10 telemetry
Ireland's Data Protection Commission to investigate claims of "new, potentially unlawful" uses of personal data harvesting by Windows 10
Microsoft offers some business customers free Windows 7 extended security updates for one year
The company wants to give businesses a bit more time to finalise their plans for migration from Windows 7 to Windows 10
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
Security researcher Vasily Kravets warns of second zero-day Steam vulnerability
Valve banned Kravets from its security notification programme after he was forced to go public on a rejected security flaw
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
Apple slammed by developers over 'anti-competitive' privacy changes to iOS 13
App makers claim that Apple's tightened privacy permissions won't apply to Apple apps
How AA Ireland smoothed the road to more sales with bots
Bots are a win-win-win for customers, sales and staff, insists customer lifecycle manager Louise McCormack
High-severity Windows security flaw enables attackers to hijack any application
Bug affects all versions of Microsoft Windows, back from Windows XP to Windows 10
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
Apple ups top bug bounty reward from $200,000 to $1m for operating system security flaws
The new bug bounty programme will include iOS, macOS, watchOS, iPadOS, tvOS, and iCloud
Huawei shows-off Harmony, it's operating system to replace Windows and Android
Huawei touts one proprietary operating system to rule all devices
Salesforce to acquire ClickSoftware in $1.35bn cash and stock deal
Salesforce buys ClickSoftware for field service management and mobile workforce management cloud tools
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
Huawei's HongMeng operating system will be revealed this week, suggest reports from China
Honor-branded smart TVs and smartphones expected to be the first to run Huawei's HongMeng operating system
Enterprise software transmits terabytes of data to vendors without customers' knowledge
In one case, a software package sent data to an IP address flagged for hosting malicious programmes
Microsoft's Skype for Business Online to be retired on 31 July 2021
And starting 1st September 2019, all new Office 365 customers will only be able to use Microsoft's Slack-rival Teams for calling, chat and meetings
US sanctions force GitHub to block developers based in Iran, Crimea and Syria
GitHub CEO Nat Friedman says the company has to block developers in sanctioned countries to comply with US laws
Accidental leak of untested Windows 10 build reveals another new Start menu design
Features spotted in the leaked build may not be incorporated into a final version of Windows
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