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Ffw-dumm... Ffw-dumm... Ffw-dumm... Ffw-dumm... IBM this week introduced a 16-socket Power9 server monster.…

Data herding upstart stamps foot on the gas, bags another $100m in funding Four years after picking up a $100m E-round, data wrangling biz Actifio has picked up another $100m in an F-round.…

Touts storage boxes, dreams of code-composable infrastructure Western Digital is setting out to go beyond hyper-converged kit, and create a software composable server, storage, and networking infrastructure, starting with new flash and disk boxes.…

Get patching after team gets under the skin of OpenEMR Fresh light has been shed on a batch of security vulnerabilities discovered in the widely used OpenEMR medical records storage system.…

Where? Not saying, but it'll be nearly everywhere by 2020. Pinky-promise DOCSIS 3.1 has finally landed in Australia, courtesy of a currently-limited rollout to HFC-connected National Broadband Network (NBN) customers.…

Mobile ballots dubbed 'horrific', blockchain reliance questioned The US state of West Virginia plans to allow some of its citizens to vote in this year's midterm elections via a smartphone app – and its seemingly lax security is freaking out infosec experts.…

After all, never say never! Analysis Facebook has denied it is seeking to suck up netizens' bank account details, claiming it just wants to connect bank customers to their bank's chat accounts and give useful financial updates.…

If you want to do some ML, and you've got a fat budget, they've got some tech to sell you Hoping to take advantage of the alleged any-minute-now boom in artificially intelligent software for enterprises and service providers, Dell EMC has announced a pair of "AI Ready Solutions."…

Development of new language funded to boost Ethereum client Status.im, the makers of the Status mobile Ethereum client app, has allied with the team developing the Nim programming language, promising funding to support at least two full-time developers.…

Biz files official complaint to auditors over prices, configs Oracle has filed an official complaint with US government over plans to award the Pentagon’s lucrative cloud contract to a single vendor.…

Patches incoming for kernel versions 4.9 and up A networking flaw has been discovered in the Linux kernel that could trigger a remote denial-of-service attack.…

Plus: Web access penetration static, according to ONS survey Nearly a third of Britons don't think they have the required computer skills to do their jobs despite 9 in 10 households having internet access, according to the Office for National Statistics.…

NEC to provide NeoFace kit to 40-plus venues for the games Automated facial recognition systems from Japanese biz NEC will be used on staffers and athletes at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.…

'Disoriented and dazed' pair had to be dragged back Anyone ever told they're "too old for this shit" can take heart in this tale from Germany, where two elderly gents skipped out on nurses, apparently to rock out at Wacken Open Air – the world's largest heavy metal festival.…

Flips poacher turned gamekeeper notion on its head Exclusive The UK government’s top tech adviser Liam Maxwell is to swap public life for the private sector, with a global role at tax-efficient cloud titan Amazon Web Services, The Register can reveal.…

Fastest software builds – if you go by benchmarks NVMe-over-Fabrics storage array supplier E8 has reclaimed the SPEC SFS 2014 file storage benchmark title from WekaIO.…

Web giant sends spare resources into the mines Does the world need another streaming platform? Cloudflare thinks so, and today it set its Cloudflare Stream beta (running for nearly a year) to general availability.…

Activists sick of 'neither confirm nor deny' excuse British cops' efforts to keep schtum about their use of IMSI grabbers to snoop on people's mobile phones is to be challenged in court.…

Activists sick of 'neither confirm nor deny' excuse British cops' efforts to keep schtum about their use of IMSI grabbers to snoop on people's mobile phones is to be challenged in court.…

Drive and Docs may end up in Tencent-owned DCs Google is pondering a cloudy move to China and a hookup with local operators Tencent and Inspur, according to reports.…

One rule for banks, another for us, says white hat Updated Halifax Bank scans the machines of surfers that land on its login page whether or not they are customers, it has emerged.…

Poor dears report combined £448m drop in UK infrastructure services sales British businesses and the public sector spent £448m less on infrastructure services (IS) from DXC Technology, IBM and Capgemini in 2017.…

Chaebol to tease desktop units with up to 4TB later this year Samsung has started mass production of the world's first QLC (quad-level cell) consumer SSD.…

Also: hide aeroplanes from enemy fighters by blowing their wings off mid-flight Miscreants and researchers are using automation to help them find exploitable flaws in your code. Some boffins at New York University in the US have a solution to this, and it's a new take on "security through obscurity".…

That's right, count 'em. And 4 million IOPS to boot Mellanox claims to have rolled out the world's fastest Ethernet storage fabric controller at this year's Flash Memory Summit.…

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Another truckload of storage news delivered to your face The inexorable storage travelator this week brought us news that Seagate's CFO jumped ship for Tesla, Nutanix lost its president, NGD made its computational storage system more powerful, and DDN came to the rescue of abandoned Tintri storage customers to provide service and support.…

US org told by German court its delusional claims in privacy rules battle are not credible The internet's domain names overlord has failed in a third attempt to keep to the wheels from falling off its Whois service in Europe, raising questions over its competence.…

This machine-learning code has one weird trick – and online editors hate it Artificial intelligent software has been trained to detect and flag up clickbait headlines.…

Shrew'd thinking: Code Shrew helps peeps who want to, or need to, gobble a slice of Py To help aspiring programmers start writing code, researchers from the Georgia Institute of Technology in the US have developed a free web-based platform called Code Shrew.…

Well that's one way to secure systems: deny new trustpoints If your inter-office Cisco-powered VPN suddenly isn't working properly, there's an upcoming update you may need to install.…

Probe confirms: No attack, just an incredibly unpopular policy brought down feedback site An internal investigation has laid waste to the FCC's claims that its net neutrality comments system was knocked offline by a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack.…

Just one appeal left standing Arista has cut a deal with Cisco that leaves the former US$400m lighter, and ends nearly all of the long-running legal battles between the two networking vendors.…

Ding! Ding! Round three in blanket spying bout Analysis A fight has begun over another of the US government's mass surveillance systems – with two Senators raising questions about an unusual data deletion by the National Security Agency (NSA).…

One critical question remains: Who ate all the Pies? Google today somewhat unexpectedly started rolling out to the masses its latest version of Android – dubbed Android 9 Pie.…

No, X-Force Red ain't another trading card game Black Hat IBM has promised to open four research centers that will hunt for security vulnerabilities in technology – including a team dedicated to probing cash machines for flaws.…

Bloke hits out after losing job to former underling in his 30s In January 2016, then-54-year-old Mark Stephens was recruited by Accenture to work as a sales development manager on a project with Facebook, subject to Facebook's approval.…

Workspaces' time machine promises to make quick work of extortionists Black Hat While ransomware continues to extort factories, hospitals, schools, businesses, and ordinary netizens, BlackBerry reckons it can quickly rescue peeps from malware infections.…

Technique exploits weakness in design of roaming-enabled IEEE 802.11i/p/q/r wireless The folks behind the password-cracking tool Hashcat claim they've found a new way to crack some wireless network passwords in far less time than previously needed.…

Pair settle out of court over failed project that cost utility firm hundreds of millions IT consultancy Wipro has paid National Grid US $75m to settle a lawsuit over a botched SAP implementation that cost the utility firm hundreds of millions to fix.…

Baby steps, now With the standalone 5G spec (3GPP Release 15) nailed down in June, it was only a matter of time before the first phone was formally announced. And as expected, it isn't a phone at all, but an addon that clamps to the back of an expandable Motorola phone.…

But it could've been worse, shrugs Apple supplier Chipmaker TSMC has warned that a previously disclosed virus infection of its Taiwanese plant may cost it up to $250m.…

Crypto-code unleashed to inflict security, performance and stability on devs Looking for a TLS 1.3 library? Facebook has you covered. On Monday, the ads and data peddler plans to release Fizz, a TLS 1.3 library written in C++14, as an open source project.…

Put your minds at REST ... there's no 'evidence of malicious behavior' Customer data stored on Salesforce's marketing cloud might have been shared with unauthorised parties, cloud slinger has warned.…

Third of the layers but 3 times the speed, claims Yangtze crew China’s state-backed 3D NAND fabber, YMTC, has claimed it will bring out memory speed flash chips next year.…

Analyst pins global deal values at $371bn for first half 2018 Mergers and takeovers in the tech and telco sector increased 107 per cent in the first half of 2018, compared with the same period in 2017, according to analysts.…

Sinclair branding removed by IP owner as Sir C fails to step in Sir Clive Sinclair's company has accused flailing ZX Spectrum reboot firm Retro Computers Ltd of trading while insolvent. Meanwhile, the firm has delivered some consoles – and been stripped of the brand rights to its flagship product.…

Things that make you go hmmm... HSM firm talks up unusual approach Analysis File lifecycle management – aka Hierarchical Storage Management – can work with data protection and secondary storage convergers, but only by getting the heck out of the data path... which is where Primary Data failed.…

When Go means slow If you can put up with the slow speed, Microsoft's budget Surface Go offers a cheapskate alternative to the stylish but costly Surface Pro line, effectively reviving the Netbook concept a decade on.…

Getting your head around the Performance Efficiency pillar Promo Learn the tenets of the AWS Well-Architected Framework’s Performance Efficiency pillar, hosted by Reliam CTO Jonathan LaCour.…