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by Chris Mellor on (#3SN7Q)
Faster interface aims to replace 6Gbit/s dead end in servers Toshiba has sent in a SAS SSD hit team to assault SATA SSDs and their slower interface in the shape of its RM5 vSAS drive.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3SN7R)
It's Carry On Coding as Microsofties fiddle with knobs The spirit of Kenneth Williams* is alive and well in the corridors of Redmond, with staffer Raymond Chen detailing some internal Microsoft jargon in a euphemism-heavy MSDN posting.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3SN3K)
Wants to shut off access to Europol, security DBs The UK will only be able to get a data adequacy decision from the European Union once it has offered up its new legal framework – and won't get access to the bloc's policing and security databases, Michel Barnier has warned.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3SN3M)
Incumbent telco fined £77k for sending 5 million of the things Brit telco BT has been ordered to pay £77,000 for sending almost 5 million nuisance emails – equivalent to about 1.5p a mail.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3SN09)
Director insists collaboration will continue after Brexit The head of GCHQ has publicly called for security co-operation with Britain's EU allies to continue after Brexit.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3SMX1)
Harmonise with on-premises SQL for when, you know, the cloud falls out of the sky Microsoft announced general availability of its Azure Data Sync tool this week, which allows data to be synchronised between cloudy Azure SQL databases and on-premises servers.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3SMT3)
Mobe UX goodies for 2018 leak Samsung isn't the first name most people would associate with slick user interfaces – but its 2018 Android P overhaul could make rivals Apple and Google look shabby.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3SMT4)
File system contender makes a play for enterprise public cloud Analysis Hybrid cloud filer Elastifile's co-founder and CEO Amir Aharoni has stepped aside and the new incumbent of the stretchy hot seat, former Scality man Erwan Menard, has said the firm will offer cloud native product optimised for each public cloud.…
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by John Leyden on (#3SMT5)
It could happen, warns researcher BSides Tel Aviv Blockchain technologies might be abused to create a takedown-resistant infrastructure for botnets.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3SMQM)
Service is now available across three continents for machine-learning code eggheads AI developers can now rent Google’s Cloud TPU chips in the US, Asia, and Europe by the hour.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3SMQN)
Cites security risk of different security domains on one core as others hint at another bug drop next week OpenBSD has disabled Intel’s hyper-threading technology, citing security concerns.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3SMNG)
Unclear if Baidu's tech really is better than a human medic Baidu's AI researchers have built an algorithm that can spot cancerous tumors in breast tissue using a method that doesn’t rely solely on neural networks.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3SMNJ)
And agrees to do better or it'll have to hand over more board seats Mellanox has come to terms with the activist investor that's been stalking the company since 2017.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3SMK9)
Can't get a network connection? No problem, Google OS will still be able to check signatures Google says Android will no longer require an internet connection to check whether applications are legit or potentially malicious.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3SMH5)
Adds ‘System Insights’ to predict future capacity requirements, but Hyper-V 2019 remains mysterious Microsoft’s popped out another preview of Windows Server 2019, Build 17692 to be precise.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3SMF5)
Insecure connections will break after June 30th. And it's acquired Hyperwallet, too PayPal has reminded merchants that they must support TLS 1.2 and HTTP/1.1 by June 30.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3SMDF)
But growth is imminent as businesses buy and build VRs, and consumer kit improves Shipments of virtual reality kit have plunged, but growth is just around the corner.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3SMC0)
Tel-colossus to shed 8,000 jobs, create new infrastructure company Australia's dominant telco, Telstra, will cut 8,000 jobs, flatten its structure by slicing up to four layers of management, turn 1,800 consumer products into 20 (with a similar reduction in the number of enterprise products later), and put its infrastructure into a separate division that could be sold off in the future.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3SMC2)
Want a world with 'millions of clouds distributed everywhere'. Running HPE kit, natch Hewlett Packard Enterprise will make a US$4bn bet on edge computing, CEO Antonio Neri confirmed at the Discover CIO conference in Las Vegas today.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3SMA7)
'Autonomous' database cash haul just ramping up – Larry Oracle has capped off a solid fiscal year, and, let's be fair, you can forgive it for boasting that big things are coming for its database line in the coming 12 months.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3SM83)
Ellison says Autonomous DB cash haul just ramping up Oracle has capped off a solid fiscal year and is predicting big things to come for its database line in the coming 12 months.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3SM85)
Oh look it's 'tech startup advocacy group' CALinnovates again Analysis A group claiming to represent the interests of California's tech startups has argued that the US state should allow so-called zero rating services, despite the negative impact it would have on tech startups.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3SM60)
SEC filing shows company up the creek and sans paddle Thomas Barton, CEO of struggling storage array supplier Tintri, has resigned, leaving the California upstart leaderless as it heads toward running out of cash by the end of the month.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3SM62)
Network open sources Linux command-line tool for optimizing large binaries Facebook has open sourced a binary optimization and layout tool, itself optimized into the acronym BOLT, in the hope it can make large applications faster.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#3SM64)
If you could buy some hardware too that would be great At its Discover conference on Tuesday Hewlett Packard Enterprise rolled out a managed service for private, public and hybrid clouds starting with AWS, Microsoft Azure and Azure Stack.…
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by Chris Williams on (#3SM2K)
We're five hours and counting into outage Updated Microsoft Azure has tumbled over in northern Europe – and services have effectively stayed down for unlucky customers for at least three hours.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3SKYA)
Kubernetes for GPUs, a PyTorch extension, TensorRT 4, and much, much more Nvidia has released a bunch of new tools for savvy AI developers in time for the Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition conference in Salt Lake City on Tuesday.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#3SKSZ)
But T-Mobile US and Sprint? Not so much Verizon has promised to stop selling user location data to third parties in response to a privacy campaign by US Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR).…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#3SKT1)
Victory for the right to repair crowd, but a flea bite for Apple Apple is facing a $9m (AUS) slap-on-the-wrist for kicking out a firmware update that disabled some repaired iOS devices in Australia.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3SKP0)
European boss says 10% of attempted transactions failed as a result of equipment fault Visa has said a “very rare†partial network switch failure in one of its two data centres led to the fiasco earlier this month that caused millions of transactions in Europe to be declined.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3SK7Z)
OEM partner July Systems' tech tracks in-store punters by Wi-Fi Cisco is to slurp up cloudy indoor location services biz July Systems to add to its Wi-Fi platform and boost customer experience capabilities.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3SK32)
Jon Lewis challenges MPs over KPIs on in-house projects The boss of troubled outsourcer Capita has painted a glossy coat on its woes to MPs, while attempting to turn the spotlight on the government – as the firm sold off a £160m chunk of business and bagged yet another Whitehall contract.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3SK33)
Court of Appeal beak reckons tech will help solve disclosure scandal A senior judge has said that "technology has created many of our current disclosure problems" – and then added that AI will fix them.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3SJXG)
ClusterStor node uses slower SAS SSDs Cray has announced the L300F, an all-flash array for high-performance computing functioning as a speed booster for ClusterStor installations.…
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by Richard Speed on (#3SJSD)
Midlands users report service sucking on a half-time orange The Sky Broadband service took an unscheduled half-time break last night, leaving residents of the UK Midlands unable to stream sporting action from Russia.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3SJSF)
Replica war-winner now in Bletchley Park's historic Block H The UK National Museum of Computing will open its new Bombe gallery this weekend at Bletchley Park in Milton Keynes after a successful crowdfunding campaign to put the WWII code-breaking machines on display.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#3SJN5)
China, you see, has its own chocolate factories Some optimists are betting on Google own-brand devices to save the smartwatch. Others are betting that new generations of Google-free Android-based hardware will do the same thing. And one of the latter is IDC.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#3SJHJ)
2-week delay on vote to dismiss current directors A key shareholders' meeting has been adjourned, prolonging the Retro Computers Ltd ZX Spectrum Vega+ saga for another fortnight.…
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by John Leyden on (#3SJHK)
Healthcare regulations working against cybersecurity, claims expert Israel Cyber Week Healthcare regulations oblige medical equipment vendors to focus on developing the next generation of technologies rather than addressing current cybersecurity issues, according to experts presenting at the eighth Israel Cyber Week.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#3SJE8)
Outsourcer's mea culpa: firm failed on due diligence, lacked data, closed offices too fast Embattled outsourcing giant Capita has made a loss of £140m trying to deliver on a seven-year contract to upgrade back-office support in the NHS – and never expects to turn a profit on it.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3SJB9)
Why? Well Adobe has just revealed deeper hooks into Office and Dynamics Adobe is taking its “Sign†electronic signature service into Microsoft’s Azure cloud, in addition to its current arrangement that sees the service run in Amazon’s cloud.…
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by SA Mathieson on (#3SJ99)
Would they have prevented Windrush? The mind boggles The Windrush immigration papers scandal barred Caribbean-born Britons from public services and in some cases deported them because they lacked sufficient documentation.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3SJ9B)
Brinkmann files third signature spoof vulnerability in a month Security researcher Marcus Brinkmann has turned up another vulnerability in the GnuPG cryptographic library, this time specific to the Simple Password Store.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#3SJ7A)
Your free guide to trick an AI classifier into thinking an umbrella is the Bolivian navy on maneuvers in the south pacific Computer boffins have devised a potential hardware-based Trojan attack on neural network models that could be used to alter system output without detection.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3SJ7B)
Still to come: standards for stuff like IoT that non-carriers care about Meta-standards group the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) last week rubber-stamped the first "frozen" 5G standards.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#3SJ4F)
Revenue will fall, but gigabytes shipped will rise as NAND soars Analyst firm IDC has predicted revenue for the flash storage industry will decline for three years.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#3SJ4G)
Forget pony trekking or camping. Finland now boasts a Google cloud region Suomeen sovellusten kehittämistä ... sorry, let's have that in English: Google has opened its sixteenth cloud region, taking the Google Cloud Platform to the Nordic region via a data centre in Finland.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#3SJ2F)
Humans, keep your eyes out for dodgy web links An artificially intelligent system has been demonstrated generating URLs for phishing websites that appear to evade detection by security tools.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3SJ0F)
Meanwhile USA ponders more tariffs on China in ‘wet noodle’ trade skirmish The United States Senate has passed an amendment that reinstates the ban on Chinese telecoms concern ZTE doing business with US-based companies.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#3SHYV)
$US120m buy aims to step beyond DevOps into triage Last week Splunk spent US$120m to acquire VictorOps, a DevOps incident management outfit.…
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