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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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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).…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

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.…

$US120m buy aims to step beyond DevOps into triage Last week Splunk spent US$120m to acquire VictorOps, a DevOps incident management outfit.…

Look at these GreenLake bundles. PS: Don't just look Just a single digit percentage of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s annual sales come from stuff sold as-a-service – that is, products you pay for depending on how much you use them.…

IETF floats formal deprecation suggestion, even for failback As TLS 1.3 inches towards publication into the Internet Engineering Task Force's RFC series, it's a surprise to realise that there are still lingering instances of TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.…

Woman cops to using stolen records to open bank accounts A woman has fessed up to using people's personal information, leaked online from the US government's Office of Personnel Management mega-hack, to take out loans and open bank accounts.…

USB gizmo biz apologies amid infosec drama Yubico has apologized to a security vulnerability researcher who had complained the dongle peddler lifted his work to nab a $5,000 Google bug bounty.…

MSR's E2 processor EDGEs closer to reality... with a little help from Qualcomm, too Microsoft has ported Windows 10 and Linux to E2, its homegrown processor architecture it has spent years working on mostly in secret.…

According to magic people, VDOO people Researchers have detailed a string of vulnerabilities that, when exploited in combination, would allow for hundreds of models of internet-linked surveillance cameras to be remotely hijacked.…

We'll forgive you if you change your ways, says Linux giant Red Hat on Monday said all of its newly initiated open-source projects that adopt GPLv2 or LGPLv2.1 licenses will be expected to include the GPLv3 "cure" provision.…

Outcry over children being separated from parents raises ructions Microsoft removed and then replaced a reference to its work for the US government's immigration authorities in the wake of a national outcry over a new policy of separating children from their asylum-seeking parents at the border.…

'Monopoly' game continues The US Supreme Court will scrutinize an antitrust lawsuit against Apple, opening the door for the computing giant to escape censure over its app store policies and potentially millions of dollars in claims.…

Claims years-in-dev tech doubles speed Toshiba has claimed its new consumer NVMe SSD blasts the performance cobwebs off SATA SSDs.…

Family members can seek damages The British Home Office's bid to reduce the number of potential claimants from a 2013 data breach that exposed the personal details of thousands of asylum seekers has been knocked back by the Court of Appeal.…

Committee calls for more public spending – but not with outsourcer A Parliamentary committee has called for Capita to be stripped of its military recruiting IT contract unless its performance improves, as part of a wider call for UK defence spending to increase.…

Will run national security, energy workloads HPE is building the world's largest Arm-based supercomputer, Astra – 2.5 petaFLOPS from 2,592 HPE Apollo 70s – for Sandia National Labs in the US, where it will run advanced modeling and simulation workloads in areas including national security and energy.…

Farewell, dear app, we hardly knew ye (which might have been the problem) Users of the Windows Phone incarnation of the popular collaborative messaging platform Slack have been advised to look elsewhere.…

Extends cloudy deals with IBM, Microsoft and Google Data management firm Hortonworks has enabled containerisation in the latest release of its Data Platform, while announcing a set of extended cloud deals with Microsoft, Google and IBM.…

Wake up, little snoozy Some Pixel 2 owners are still waiting for a fix for dead screens six months after the issue was first reported.…

The week's good, bad and weird from Redmond E3 aside, the team at Redmond were busy last week with a smattering of the good, the bad and the frankly odd.…

L0pht luminary Chris Wysopal talks to The Reg Interview It has been 20 years since Chris Wysopal (AKA Weld Pond) and his colleagues at the Boston-based L0pht* hacker collective famously testified before the US Senate that the internet was hopelessly insecure.…

Evidence sought on software 'defeat device' Audi chief executive Rupert Stadler has been arrested in Germany over the software-enabled Dieselgate emissions scandal, according to reports.…

How does that work? Chinese brands have been eyeing Western markets for some time, but in the UK customer inertia means many punters stick with what they know.…