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by Danny Bradbury on (#2VMK3)
Maybe we're headed for a robo-pocalpse, but let's deal with these other problems first, eh? Not many people know that Isaac Asimov didn’t originally write his three laws of robotics for I, Robot. They actually first appeared in "Runaround", the 1942 short story*. Robots mustn’t do harm, he said, or allow others to come to harm through inaction. They must obey orders given by humans unless they violate the first law. And the robot must protect itself, so long as it doesn’t contravene laws one and two.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VMH9)
Both go to Broadcom for their ASIC chips Broadcom's $5.9bn purchase of Brocade has been approved by the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) so long as Broadcom's technology used in chips for fibre channel switches built for Cisco is walled off from its storage networking business.…
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Another highlight from ISC17 in Frankfurt HPC Blog On the HPCG side of the house, Purdue/NEU reigned supreme with their score of 1,394.32. They foiled FAU's plans for a HPC benchmark sweep by topping the Germans by a comfortable margin. Beihang and EPCC took the third and fourth place respectively.…
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After winning Asian contest, can they make it a hat-trick in Denver? HPC Blog The ISC Student Cluster Competition is in the record books and now it's time to dive into the numbers and see what happened. This time, we're going to present the results day-by-day and show you how the lead changes hands over time.…
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by John Leyden on (#2VMBD)
It does a pretty good job of ruining everything Ransomware dominated the threat landscape last year even though file-encrypting nasties made up less than one in a hundred examples of different Windows malware during 2016.…
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by David Spooner on (#2VMAC)
Tibet? Pah! A £20m ride puts the Highlands at your feet Geek's Guide to Britain The world's highest railway is the Xining-Golmud-Lhasa railway at 5,068m (16,627ft) above sea level and running 815km (506 miles). As much a political piece as a transport corridor, the line was designed to fuse China with Tibet – the country the People's Republic invaded and annexed in 1950.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VM7V)
Rocket and payload just fine, try again tomorrow SpaceX's current launch, carrying the geosynchronous satellite Intelsat 35e, hasn't got off the ground yet: two launches in a row have been pulled at the last minute.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VM4Z)
Massive news While business around the world closed out a financial quarter or a financial year ahead of June 30, US boffins were working to a different deadline: linking the kilogram to electromagnetism.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VM2A)
Boffins bust libgcrypt via side-channel Linux users need to check out their distributions to see if a nasty bug in libgcrypt20 has been patched.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VKZ1)
Emergency security talks in Japan, South Korea North Korea's regime remains bent on brinkmanship, with yet another missile test launched and suspicions it reach Japan's Exclusive Economic Zone.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VKWE)
We care about your privacy... Medicare numbers in Australia became a lot less useful as a proof-of-identity, with the Australian Federal Police investigating how an unknown number of records ended up for sale on a Tor site.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VKRV)
Wallow in my DevOps holiday It looks like the New York Stock Exchange took the opportunity of an abridged trading session ahead of the fourth of July to test some code relating to its API.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VKNC)
So does ESET, which reckons the malware spread better than its authors expected Ukraine's security service, which last week called on international help to trace the “NotPetya†outbreak, has upped the ante, accusing Russia of being the source of the malware.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VKM1)
MITM, remote code execution If you use an app called eVestigator, billed as checking Android phones for compromise, delete it.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2VKHJ)
Corporate shill allegations spark furious response Special report In an extraordinary flurry of allegations, personal insults and legal threats, net neutrality has entered the world of academia.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2VJPP)
What's here already, what's missing Sysadmin blog In late 2014 I wrote about Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI). I revisited this early last year. This year I expect the first mainstream SDI blocks to emerge, likely under the moniker "Enterprise Cloud". So what does the enterprise cloud of 2017 look like?…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VJM3)
What are we getting? Endurance NVMe drives could last longer because of a feature in the new NVM v1.3 specification (282-page PDF).…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2VJHJ)
Enterprise, corporate sales become one Microsoft is in the process of squishing more of its various sprawling limbs and partners into a single group. Multiple sources close to the tech giant have told us jobs would be cut during the upcoming revamp, although they could not name a number.…
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by Nicole Segre on (#2VJHK)
How to stay calm and carry on Promo As the volume of data held by companies mounts up at dizzying speed, so too does the complexity of protecting IT systems from theft or malicious attacks. Has your company’s success and steady growth meant that your data is being held in various geographic locations, on a mix of platforms and media, with several different solutions in place to protect it?…
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by John Leyden on (#2VJCB)
Are you thinking what we're thinking? (They even invited Hoodie-wearing Hacker™) Organisers have drawn up their conclusions following a pan-European cyberwar exercise.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VJCD)
Stock market launches can be hazardous to your value Dropbox looks set to follow fellow file sync and sharer Box with an IPO.…
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Royal Free Hospital asked to establish a 'proper legal basis' for project The Royal Free NHS Foundation Trust failed to comply with the UK's Data Protection Act when it provided 1.6 million patient details to Google's DeepMind, the Information Commissioner's Office said today.…
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Ministry of Fun gets even more fun... The Ministry of Fun - aka the UK government's Department formerly known as Culture, Media & Sport - has received a "digital" rebrand today, making it DDCMS for short.…
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Unlike in tech, 'I get to make a small difference to people's lives' A male escort has opened up about leaving behind his uncomfortable experiences soullessly prostituting himself in IT in favour of working in the sex industry.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2VJ20)
Exscientia claims approach IDs candidates quicker GlaxoSmithKline has announced a research deal with British company Exscientia to use artificial intelligence to identify drug targets.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2VHYG)
Station F: 2,600 tech entrepreneurs en Paris Giant tech startup incubatory "space" Station F, which describes itself as the world's largest startup campus, officially pulled the dust covers off the scatter cushions last week in Paris's 13th arrondissement.…
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Not just the government that is crap at IT... Nearly 40 per cent of IT projects in the UK are on course to fail, according to a survey of 182 project managers.…
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by Kendra Chamberlain on (#2VHSS)
Can you pick up product, examine it from all sides? Not yet Opinion Nokia has premiered what it calls a first-of-its-kind immersive virtual reality advertising experience for its new line of digital health products. The advert is hitting two Nokia birds with one virtual stone: the ad shows off Nokia’s own burgeoning line of VR content creating hardware – the OZO camera – and its suite of digital health products.…
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The kids are all right HPC Blog Enormous happenings at the ISC17 Student Cluster Competition, where students from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universitat (FAU) broke the student cluster competition world record for HPL (LINPACK).…
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'Now you can watch Game of Thrones in peace' The UK government has today launched its £400m Digital Infrastructure Investment Fund, aimed at boosting Blighty's full-fibre infrastructure.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VHJE)
Putting Bruce Willis out of work NASA has okayed one of its save-the-world-from-asteroids proposals to move to the preliminary design phase, on the way to a hoped-for launch early in the 2020s.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VHFW)
'No reason to delay' As anticipated last week, version 4.12 of the Linux kernel landed Sunday amid a storm of … well, placidity, as it happens.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VHD9)
Fighting to head off Department of Defense blacklisting Eugene Kaspersky, founder of the eponymous antivirus firm, has reiterated his offer to give the US government access to his source code.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VHAN)
Dies ist eine Chaos Germany's e-government system is open to padding oracle attacks and other vulnerabilities because of an insecure communications protocol.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VH8V)
Long March, short flight China's latest Long March-5 Y2 the launch has gone awry for reasons not yet made public.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VH59)
Patches issued for 38 products, plus bonus Web portal bug-fix You don't need state-sponsored hackers to crack industrial control systems, just an empty Intel AMT login – something Siemens started patching against last week.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VH2F)
Red Hat abstains but doesn't spoil the party Java 9's Java Platform Modular System, that's caused Oracle so much trouble has passed the community vote and will ship in September.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2VGZK)
*George Brandis, Self-Certified Network Architect, to get keys to carrier networks The Australian government is moving a step closer to having the attorney-general overseeing its telecommunications networks – even while the committee that looked at the bill says it lacks detail.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VG3N)
Your essential guide to latest developments in enterprise-grade silos of bits and bytes We have here another seven days' worth of scintillating storage news that didn't manage to make the daily news cut in this crowded week of June 26.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2VCXK)
No more freeloading graphics, it wants its $400-a-year cut Photobucket is cracking down on people embedding on third-party websites images it hosts, until now, for free.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2VCW6)
Uncle Sam's wiretap stats show the state of surveillance in Land of the Free, Home of the Brave The US government's annual wiretap report, published this week, has revealed the reach and scope of its agents' surveillance abilities.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2VCRK)
Broke your screen? Avoid dodgy repair shops – your private sexy selfies will thank you later A group of researchers has shown how, for instance, a repair shop could siphon data from Android handsets or infect them with malware with nothing more than a screen repair.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2VCPA)
All part of the wider plan to visit the dusty wasteland of Mars Japan's national space agency JAXA has announced plans to send a lone astronaut to the moon by 2030.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2VCDQ)
Chocolate Factory warns employees about contractor's cock-up Google says some employees may have had their personal information exposed after the agency that handles its company travel bookings got hacked.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2VCDS)
No humans on Red Planet, straight-faced officials have the audacity to claim NASA has not enslaved a colony of children on Mars nor is it using them for vile orgies on the Red Planet nor feasting on them to harvest their precious bone marrow, officials have told The Register.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VC94)
And slashing the share price, too. That also worked After pulling its IPO yesterday, all-flash and hybrid array startup Tintri repriced its shares at $7 to $8, down from the previous $10.50 to $12.50 range.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2VBXP)
If HCI sounds simple, that’s because it is Sysadmin blog Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) isn't a product, it's a feature. The future lies in turnkey cloud solutions. This means that there are certain IT services HCI vendors need to bring to the table to remain relevant.…
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by Rebecca Hill on (#2VBXQ)
Get used to hearing once again: 'We were only following orders' The German parliament has today approved a law that would see social media titans fined up to €50m if they don't quickly remove hate speech from their sites.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2VBV6)
But what's a 'true data fabric'? Analysis Data archiver StrongBox has moved into the data management space with StrongLink.…
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by Andrew Silver on (#2VBNG)
Ken 'e' logins Update Users of Microsoft's Office365 cloud productivity suite struggled to log in today.…
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