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Year of the Linux Desktop imminent for a quarter century Though it may not have managed to bring Linux to the desktop in any meaningful sense, 4 July marks 25 years since the first stable release of not-a-Windows-emulator, Wine.…

FBI botherer picks apart state of transport security Interview "Plane Hacker" Chris Roberts has called for countries to pressure manufacturers into improving the lamentable state of transportation security.…

If so, then this latest Reg survey is for you Study Dealing with regulated data and applying strict controls to comply with GxP (e.g. Good Laboratory Practice, Good Clinical Practice, etc) and privacy in an R&D context is nothing new to the pharmaceutical industry and broader life sciences sector.…

Outsourcing to fluffy white stuff carries 'reputation' risks – report An EU financial regulator has warned that banks moving to the cloud are at risk of vendor lock-in as well as transferring IT jobs to "subcontractors from high-risk areas".…

Sorry. Not laptops. ‘Mobile workstations’ Dell’s started selling a pair of “mobile workstations” with specs that wouldn’t disgrace low-end servers.…

Warns that wording needs to be 'as precise and clear as possible' Europe's top data expert has given a tentative green light to a proposed European copyright law – but warned that it needs to be very carefully written if it's not to distort markets or interfere with fundamental rights.…

You don't want insecure kit from a vendor the Pentagon hates, do you? Huawei has rolled patches to various enterprise and broadcast products to fix a cryptography bug.…

Could Chipzilla replace Brian with a Bryant? In 2017 Diane Bryant left her post as group president of Intel’s data center group after a 30-year Chipzilla career, then took up a gig as chief operating officer of Google's cloud business. Now, she's left Google after just seven months.…

‘Endpoint Verification’ extension reports basics of devices’ security posture Google’s released a Chrome extension that lets admins snoop on the state of PCs accessing its cloudy productivity and infrastructure products.…

Riots and murder have followed fake news and 'provocation' India has warned Facebook-owned messaging service WhatsApp to do something about abuse of its service that has led to murders.…

US loosens ZTE stranglehold, but China Mobile blocked from operating as virtual carrier ZTE has had some good news in America, but China Mobile has had bad news.…

And keep your hands up if you knew the lost data was - eek! - unencrypted The list of organisations notifying customers that they're affected by the Typeform data breach continues to grow – and at least one victim has publicly claimed the breached backup data was unencrypted.…

Deep sigh, because a rush to stay compliant became a virtual DDoS Australia's welfare payments agency couldn't cope with a surge in user traffic it knew was coming last weekend and went TOESUP (Total Outage Ends Support for Usual Performance), with problems continuing until Tuesday, July 3rd.…

Ex-Bluemix global program director, 60, sues Big Blue A laid-off IBM cloud sales ace is suing the IT giant for age discrimination, alleging he was forced out for being too old.…

Stock in US biz plunges as patent spat gets very serious The ongoing war between US-based memory maker Micron and Asian DRAM manufacturers went nuclear today.…

Bio-boffins' feathers ruffled after miscreants flip 'em the bird, costing charity a lotta Zloty A Polish charity is on the hook for 10,000 Zloty (£2,010, $2,648) after a tracking device it put on a white stork was stolen in Africa – and its SIM card used to make a ton of expensive phone calls.…

Giving dozens of devs access to profiles suddenly looks dumb No less than four federal agencies in the US are now investigating Facebook following yet more revelations over how it gave vast quantities of personal data to developers.…

FC director module and switch cranked up to 32Gbit/s HPE has added Cisco 32gig Fibre Channel gear to its product range, making it ready for the bigger data access needs of NVMe over Fabrics.…

Winter HTTPS is coming A looming deadline – now less than three weeks away – means that Google Chrome users who visit unencrypted websites will be confronted with warnings.…

650 new SMEs added to G-Cloud framework, but 'SME' includes Bezos' Brit limb UK.gov has trumpeted the addition of almost 650 new small businesses to its G-Cloud marketplace – but SMEs might want to put the Champagne on ice as sales figures reveal that AWS UK is classed in that group.…

We'll tell you what to say Wikipedia is appealing to its users to swing a knife-edge vote in the European Parliament – even though the crowdsourced encyclopaedia itself won a specific exemption from the legal changes the EU has proposed (PDF).…

From a remand prison cell, no less A bankrupt and imprisoned Australian Hells Angel has somehow won a million-dollar lottery ticket.…

Wait... you didn't read the user agreement? Although Google stopped mining Gmail accounts for data useful to advertisers last year, it left an API open allowing others to do just that, the Wall Street Journal reports.…

Data protection watchdog is always watching, CCTV firm told A firm has been fined £4,500 for processing personal data without registering with the UK’s data protection watchdog and failing to comply with the body’s missives.…

Still work to do, and could take some lessons from Microsoft It appears that IBM's Human Resources department has skills that extend beyond the laying off of large swathes of staff.…

Another day, another UK public health data breach Confidential information on 150,000 NHS patients has been distributed against their wishes for years due to a "coding error" by healthcare software supplier TPP.…

Buy your MCubed ticket now and save hundreds Events If you’re sweating about how to get on top of machine learning and AI, snap up an early bird ticket for MCubed, our three-day delve into how real organisations can exploit these technologies.…

Multi-array abstraction layer oversees storage provisioning Analysis Last year flash array shipper Pure Storage built plug-ins so that container orchestrators, such as Docker and Kubernetes, running in a server could interact with an array and provision storage for a stateful container.…

All insist financial data is safe – but not names or emails More entities affected by the data breach at web form and survey company Typeform have come forward, including budget hotel chain Travelodge and UK political party the Liberal Democrats.…

Just look at these beefy margins DXC Technologies, which laid off more than 20,000 staff in its first year of life, is trying to convince more investors to put their money where the biggest mouths are when exec compensation is voted for next month.…

How excited to be? Cautiously, unless you need to get cracking with testing for P's big changes Google has emitted a new beta of Android P, but it's not obvious how excited to get about it.…

White boxes, multi-coloured light, 800 Gbps and backhoe-proofing, thanks in part to Zuck Vodafone has become the latest carrier to white-box its optical traffic.…

Going public is all about 'financial flexibility for future initiatives' Analysis Why has Dell Technologies gone public again? In an interview with CNBC, CEO and chairman Michael Dell’s answer was “Well uh look I think aaahhh … it was the best option to simplify the capital structure.”…

Big switch-style fabric comes to pizza boxes Campus networks will get the same capabilities as data centre networks, after Juniper networks squeezed EVPN-VXLAN fabric functionality into campus-size implementations.…

Bundled messages app caught emitting photo albums at 2am without permission, say punters Samsung's Messages app bundled with the South Korean giant's latest smartphones and tablets may silently send people's private photos to random contacts, it is claimed.…

Watson? Down! WebSphere? Down! VMs? Now charged by the minute! IBM has cut the price of cloud services three times in a week.…

Plan could reduce the number of central server operators Internet overseer ICANN is considering a self-managed governance model for the world's Domain Name System root servers – and one of the outcomes could be a reduction in the number of root servers.…

Hurrah! Now we can have a security panic about a violent game instead of a moral panic! Free third-person slaughter-fest Fortnite has attracted over 100 million players but many of them are falling foul to malware attacks as they try to beat other players.…

Alleged perp's apology to watchdog chairman didn't work A Californian man is accused of threatening the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) chairman Ajit Pai and his family, over the decision to rescind net neutrality rules in the US.…

Two blokes charged by SEC settle out of court America's financial watchdog, the SEC, has accused two men of illegally banking $1.4m by selling shares in the bafflingly renamed "blockchain" startup UBI Blockchain.…

Doesn't help that its latest phone – the U12+ – basically sucks Smartphone manufacturer HTC will slash almost a quarter of its employees in an effort to become profitable.…

Telco faces shareholder revolt over outgoing CEO's bonus It doesn’t look to be smooth sailing for British Telecom’s outgoing boss, Gavin Patterson, as a recommendation to reject his bonus has arrived in time for the next shareholder meeting.…

You wouldn't think so Once thought to be one of the most contagious design features on a smartphone, the spread of the "Notch" appears to have been contained.…

Nation mourns stop motion classics hero Peter Firmin, co-creator of The Clangers, has died aged 89. Firmin also designed the puppet Basil Brush and Bagpuss.…

Traffic-fiddling malware may have met its match Clean-up efforts to respond to the VPNFilter malware have accelerated with the release of a free check-up tool.…

Five-year private ownership period to end in Q4, according to paperwork sent to the SEC Dell Technologies Inc is proposing to become a publicly traded corporation again, according to a filing lodged with America's financial regulator the SEC this morning.…

Cloud support busters? If you can find a human at the end of a number A sysadmin given just three days to respond to the threatened deletion of a mission-critical system has prompted a vigorous debate about the quality of cloud support.…

Hopes to slow plummet by flinging off, er, profitable bits SUSE, a 25-year veteran of the Linux world, has been acquired by private equity outfit EQT after less than four years in the hands of former owner Micro Focus.…

Lakes of data, buckets of quantum. IntelliMouse?! It's 7 days in Seattle Seven days is a long time in the Microsoft world, although possibly not long enough to complete an April 2018 Update of Windows 10. This week brought both good and bad news from the bowels of Redmond.…

... platter baby, round round The spinning rust of storage whirls the players around again and again – even the flashy and cloudy sorts who supply kit with no moving parts. When it comes to some of this industry's variables – supply, demand, partnerships and advances in tech – events dear boy, events happen.…