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That's $173m in total Cloudian has sucked up $94m in yet another funding round that takes the total amount raised to $173m – higher than the $152m so far bagged by arch-rival Scality.…

Sewerage department pinches off big brown puff for Big Red The City of Detroit's Water and Sewerage Department (DWSD) – more used to channeling waste away from civilisation – has squeezed out some fluff for Oracle by claiming its migration to Big Red's cloud saved it $1m.…

Docking stations were a pain, because people trip on cables Sometimes it's the little things that count: in prepping a refresh of its branch and home office networking kit, one of the things Cisco Meraki paid attention to was getting rid of docking stations.…

$4,500 report tells us its gonna be huge by, er, 2022. No, really Professional prognosticator IDC has woken up to the network function virtualization (NFV) market and decided that service orchestration is the place to be.…

Man-in-the-Disk technique able to add malicious files to a device's external storage A newfound way to hack Android using a technique dubbed "Man-in-the-Disk" is central to the recent security flap about Fortnite on the mobile platform.…

Another – yes, another – data management tool with ML lands on our desk Cohesity has Helios, Rubrik has Polaris, Druva has DCP, and now Panzura has Vizion.ai, a SaaS-delivered file data management service.…

Step 1: let the higher-ups know Just when it looked as if the US Democratic National Committee (DNC) had finally got one over on the phishing hackers that had been owning it since 2016, the triumph was torn away by a moment of rebellious fakery.…

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Fortnite spat sheds light on the duopoly Analysis The Google-Fortnite spat will be being watched keenly in Brussels and DC, although we understand no formal complaint to the competition authorities has yet been made.…

Million-year eruptions killed ozone layer, toasting 90% of life on the planet The largest mass extinction event in Earth's history may have been driven by incredibly violent million-year long volcanic explosions that destroyed the ozone layer some 250 million years ago.…

EVP Manoj Leelanivas talks to El Reg Interview With vendors gearing up for the transition from 100 Gbps to 400 Gbps Ethernet in bit-barns, The Register's networking desk spoke to Juniper Networks' Manoj Leelanivas about what to expect.…

What's the virty giant up to now... VMworld US It's day two of VMware's VMworld 2018 US conference in Las Vegas, and here's a quick guide to what's new.…

"God Mode" requires special USB debugging connector The security researchers who found a way to compromise Intel's Management Engine last year have just released proof-of-concept exploit code for the now-patched vulnerability.…

CFO Tim Stonesifer to leave by end of 2018, datacenter takes a dive, Aruba picks up the slack HPE's chief financial officer is quitting the corp, which just revealed its edge compute business is faring better than other more ho-hum divisions.…

Peering rows lead to traffic turbulence – report Analysis We've discovered another reason why IPv6 is, right now, a poor substitute to IPv4: fisticuffs have broken out over the protocol on the internet's trunk roads, causing traffic jams.…

NSA code smacker says no, hackers perform a service Voting machine maker ES&S says it did not cooperate with the Voting Village at hacking conference DEF CON because it worried the event posed a national security risk.…

No doctor needed to double-check software's decisions, apparently The first FDA-approved AI system for diagnosing an eye disease caused by diabetes is completely autonomous, and doesn’t require a doctor to interpret the results.…

Everybody gets a raise in the heady world of ISP lobbying The California State Assembly is voting today on a revised net neutrality bill for the state – one that would likely create a standard that other states will adopt.…

We're obeying the injunction, insists founder Cody Wilson A day after a federal judge extended an injunction barring Cody Wilson and his company Defense Distributed from giving away 3D CAD files of gun designs on the internet, Wilson held a press conference in Austin, Texas to declare that he has begun selling the files through his company's website.…

Only thing left now is a Supreme Court bid in row over Android and Java copyright Over eight years of feuding between Oracle and Google over the use of Java code in Android may be nearing its end following a Tuesday court ruling.…

Judicial review into law launched Campaign groups have today launched a legal challenge against an exemption in the UK's Data Protection Act that could prevent citizens gaining access to immigration data held on them.…

Western Oz infosec audit report was shocking, but only 'cos it made public Internal cybersecurity audits rarely make it to the public domain, but when they do it’s often an eye-popping read.…

If you're after an away ticket, now you know who to call Fat-fingered staff at London football team West Ham United have upset some fans following a ticket confirmation email bungle.…

Who knew you could get away with not IDing yourself to a court for 9 months? A man trying to sue Google is so terrified of being doxed by the ad tech company's Lumen Database that he has managed to hide his name from High Court judges for almost a year.…

More millions handed out to Atos, CDW, AWS... The UK government handed about twice as much cash to large firms for 'digital services' than small ones over the past four months – but still brags about helping SMEs "flourish".…

Now for the other half More than half (51.8 per cent) of the Alexa Top 1 Million sites are actively redirecting to HTTPS for the first time.…

Programmable device company needs to program some profits Lattice Semiconductor has hired a shiny new CEO, Jim Anderson, to plot a way forward for the silicon, reference designs and boards maker.…

Survey says one in five security pros have been asked to screw over their employer The threat from rogue insiders, for so long dismissed as scare stories, has quietly bubbled back on to the official worry list.…

And those legal costs just aren't going away Two directors of ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd have resigned as their attempt to stave off a five-figure legal costs bill for the company proved unsuccessful.…

We've got you covered Amid the inexorable flurry of storage industry releases this week, Datera announced increasing revenues and new hires, DriveScale attempted to crack Europe, Maxta touted its Hyperconverged (Un)Appliance, which looks pretty much like any old HCI, and Rubrik got chummy with Cisco bigwig John Chambers.…

UK data watchdog's teen tips on how to be more annoying Schools across the UK may have thought results fever was over for another year – but, thanks to the nation's privacy watchdog, they might not get to relax just yet.…

Cites being left behind by US and China in tech stakes The European Union reckons 5G R&D needs a boost – so it has slung a loan of €500m in the general direction of Finland.…

Hunting the known unknowns Analysis Who'd have thought it? Diagnostic event streams and log files are fashionable at last.…

Meanwhile, UK mobe market is still crashing Huawei overtook Apple in Q2 as the world's number-two phone maker, according to fresh stats from Gartner.…

Join us in October for a human scale take on machine learning and AI Events If you want to find out what machine learning and AI really looks like in the workplace and beyond, join us at MCubed in October and find out.…

Picture of a human + elephant = Chair. Good job. You don’t always need to build fancy algorithms to tamper with image recognition systems – adding objects in random places will do the trick.…

Wave the the CPU trust flag if you're feeling safe enough Linux v4.19-rc1, release candidate code published on Sunday, allows those building their own kernel or Linux distribution to choose whether or not to trust the CPU hardware random number generator, a decision that has become complicated in the wake of the revelations about government surveillance over the past five years.…

Millions to be spent on a feasibility study to see if Brits can do their own thing in space The UK is about to press the big red button on its own satellite navigation system as an agreement for access to the EU’s Galileo programme looks more and more unlikely.…

Researchers manipulate gyroscopic controls with ultrasonic attack A group of university researchers have developed a way to remotely control motion-sensing devices using only sound waves.…

It may be the oldest and largest planet, but it took a long time Jupiter may be heavier than all the other planets in the Solar System combined, but it took a surprisingly long time to balloon in size.…

Local privilege escalation in procedure calls It's not bad enough to take Microsoft out-of-cycle, but CERT/CC has just put out a warning of a new privilege escalation bug in Windows.…

Database ops need less 'muck' says AWS boss Andy Jassy VMworld US VMware's quest to automate admins out of a job continued at VMworld, with the company bedding down with Amazon to add a bit of its virtualisation sauce to the AWS Relational Database Service (RDS).…

Are Adam Sandler fans human? Court didn't rule on that ... The defendant in the “Adam Sandler downloader” case has had another win, in a long-running a case over whether or not he downloaded the movie “The Cobbler”.…

Sticky Notes, Green Screen of Deaths and Skype. There is no rest for the Windows watcher While storm clouds gathered over the UK in time for the August holiday, all was sunny in world of Microsoft. Except, perhaps, in the Israel office. While Redmond goes toe to toe with Tel Aviv over licencing, what else happened last week in Windows land?…

AMD promptly dumps it and hires TSMC for next-gen chips GlobalFoundries is putting its pursuit of 7nm chips on hold indefinitely.…

But, hey, it's not like it had been warned hundreds of times over several years... Analysis Facebook has banned 20 organizations and individuals in Myanmar, including the country's commander-in-chief, following a United Nations report formally accusing the military regime of serious human rights abuses.…

Complaint accuses group of setting up fake site, hotline An Illinois law firm is suing a rival it says was impersonating it online in a bid to steal clients.…

Defense Distributed's Cody Wilson calls ruling 'farcical' A federal judge has issued a preliminary injunction barring the online distribution of CAD files for 3D printed guns, upholding a temporary injunction issued in late July.…

No, we're not pulling your leg VMworld US VMware today showed off a port of its bare-metal ESXi hypervisor for 64-bit Arm servers at its VMworld US shindig in Las Vegas.…

Normal policy – or punishment for stepping outside ad giant's walled garden? Updated The CEO of Epic Games, maker of smash-hit shoot-em-up Fortnite, continues to savage Google for disclosing a security hole in his software.…