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PwC report into what went wrong and why has been received. And hidden, for now The Australian Taxation Office says its planned Easter outage to replace its infamously wobbly HPE storage area network went well.…

Mega load of updates lands for tons of Big Red gear Oracle today emitted a huge batch of 299 security fixes for its software – including a patch for a vulnerability exploited by a leaked NSA tool that can hijack Solaris systems.…

Mega patch load lands for April Oracle today emitted a huge batch of 299 security patches for its software – including a fix for a vulnerability exploited by a leaked NSA tool that can hijack Solaris systems.…

Sigh IBM says it is right on track for the coming fiscal year: everything is going to plan and its sales are falling just as expected. Hurrah for Big Blue!…

Between killing an OpenStack research team and killing IDF, we see a pattern here Intel's decided to stop offering its own version of the Lustre file system – the code beloved of high-performance computing types because it's handy for managing exabyte-scale storage spanning colossal Linux clusters.…

File request under: 'Trash can' Civil and digital rights groups are leading a campaign to stop the US Department of Homeland Security's demanding access to foreigners' social media accounts when entering America.…

Buy American, hire American, unlike me, grins US president President Trump today signed an executive order that may lead to an overhaul of the H-1B visa system used by US technology giants to draft in cheap foreigner workers.…

Facebook boss reckons he'll heal society's ills with pix F8 2017 Amid the fallout over the killing of an elderly man broadcast via Facebook Live on Sunday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared, "Our next focus is building community."…

So far, the highest bid is $27bn, it is claimed Three new characters are starring in Toshiba's saga to sell off its memory business: they are Foxconn, Apple, and a fund backed by Japan's government.…

Voice version won't even ship until spring It's not entirely clear why Samsung hyped up its new digital assistant earlier this year.…

Windows giant devours Office mastermind and his biz, Intentional Software Microsoft has acquired Intentional Software on undisclosed terms.…

Brouhaha over shoddy website and payments sparks lawsuit Yahoo! has been hit with a lawsuit alleging its web-hosting service has been shutting down customers' websites for months while still charging them.…

Turn off the heating, it's gonna get −180C in here Microsoft and Rambus have announced "an expanded collaboration" to develop prototype systems that can optimise memory performance at cryogenic temperatures.…

Just don't mention the memory business malarky Demonstrating the strength of Toshiba's NAND chips and SSD business, Dell's PowerEdge 13G servers will use Toshiba HK4 SSDs to make them faster and add encryption options.…

It's actually pretty nerdy but in a good way Docker will today release LinuxKit, an open-source toolbox for building fine-tuned Linux-based operating systems that run in containers.…

Nifty dashboard shows the bitcoin rolling in Cybercrooks have begun retailing a new easy-to-use ransomware strain that promises profit with only one successful infection.…

Silicon Valley wants foreigners, POTUS preparing to say no Applications for H-1B visas, the most common route for skilled technologists seeking lawful work in America, have decreased for the first time in years.…

New builds from Nightly to Beta Mozilla is killing the channel it introduced for developers to test experimental new features in Firefox and keep pace with Chrome.…

Brit scientist warns of increased hazards from new constellations Broadband satellites could lead to an explosion in the volume of space junk, a British scientist has said.…

But are they just better at sniffing out breaches? Larger businesses in the UK are far more likely to be victims of attacks than smaller ones, according to a survey by the British Chamber of Commerce.…

Not yet anyway Microsoft has scotched reports that it has "abandoned" Windows Mobile.…

Bid to nix post-Brexit 'uncertainty and instability' Prime Minister Theresa May has called a snap general election to be held on 8 June.…

Growth slows as subs replace boxes and renewals fluctuate Renewal period volatility is giving Barracuda a headache as the cloud-focussed protection and security outfit follows its customers away from box sales towards annual subscriptions. Growth has been, well, moderate.…

All the hoops and how to jump through them on your way to information security ISO/IEC 27001:2013 is more commonly known simply as "ISO 27001". It is, as the ISO website puts it, "the best-known standard in the family providing requirements for an information security management system".…

VMware's also released first vSphere 6.5 hardening guide Ever worried that software phoning home application performance data so vendors can learn from real-world users might become an attack vector? If so, your nightmare just came true: VMware's vCenter has just that problem, thanks to its use of the Adobe-derived open source BlazeDS messaging tool to process messages.…

If Dmitry Bogatov's been compromised, Debian needs to protect itself Debian has removed keys assigned to developer Dmitry Bogatov after he was arrested by Russian authorities for using the internet to organise protests. Or, as Russian outlet TASS puts it, “for terrorism and attempts to stage unrest in Moscow.”…

Research org releases VM to let you simulate it, plus other interplanetary networks The Mitre Corporation has given network administrators something to chew on, in the form of a simulator that lets them build networks in space.…

Google settles antitrust case and pledges to open its OS to rival search engines and apps Google has settled its Russian anti-trust case and will therefore open its Android OS to rivals in Vladimir Putin's demesne.…

Vanish that flab using lasers to warp laws of physics A team of physicists from around the world have created a fluid they claim has negative mass.…

Also, er, yeah, Chipzilla pulled the plug on that big project Intel has walked out of a major OpenStack collaboration with Rackspace – but both companies and the OpenStack Foundation insist everything's fine. There's nothing to worry about. We're all good. Allegedly.…

Didn't we fix this back in 2005? Apparently not Click this link (don't fret, nothing malicious). Chances are your browser displays "apple.com" in the address bar. What about this one? Goes to "epic.com," right?…

Revise your plans for a long working holiday – the new visa will be tougher to score Australia will scrap its visas for skilled temporary workers.…

Researchers find vulns in popular tutorials that have spread far and wide Developers' enthusiasm for sharing code saves their colleagues' time, but also means they share security bugs they haven't noticed. And that means a smart attacker could follow who's shared what with whom to trawl the Web for vulnerabilities.…

Plan to collect local sales tax from all sellers has tat bazaar, Amazon and others fuming Tat bazaar eBay has threatened to stop Australian buyers doing business with offshore sellers if the nation goes ahead with a plan to charge local sales taxes on imported goods.…

Retiree grilled after trying to flog heirlooms to foot medical bills A NASA agent can be sued for allegedly subjecting a 74-year-old granny to a "degrading" two-hour interrogation over a sliver of moon rock.…

'Nearly half of users' rolled back due to 'general instability', so it's been taken behind the shed ... Well this is embarrassing: FreeNAS has downgraded its latest release to “technology preview” status.…

Ex-NASA manager oversaw tech that grew into today's web, OSes Obit Robert Taylor, who oversaw the creation of the internet's precursor ARPANET, the computer mouse and the first GUI-based personal computer, has died after a long illness. He was 85.…

The bad: Australian readers are now being tracked. The good: Civil litigants won't be able to slurp your metadata... for now On the same day that Australia's telecommunications metadata retention regime kicked off, the nation's attorney-general also tabled a report quashing the use of that metadata in civil litigation.…

Welcome (back) to Macintosh! The Internet Archive has hooked up an Apple Mac emulator to its collection of vintage software so you can breeze through your afternoons reliving the 1980s – all from the comfort of your browser.…

Jim Sensenbrenner long on bluster, short on thought Faced with an angry citizen asking why he had voted away their online privacy rights, US House Rep Jim Sensenbrenner (R-WI) had a remarkable answer: you don't have to use the internet if you don't like it.…

Processors are like sausages, uh, you don't need to know how they're made, apparently For the past 20 years, Intel has held its annual Intel Developer Forum in and around the San Francisco Bay Area. It is supposed to be a technical conference for system programmers, application writers and hardware engineers.…

Larry goes Dutch on Docker support Oracle has acquired Dutch developer support house Wercker to beef up its offerings for container management.…

A Minority Report future awaits Opinion Algorithms are almost as pervasive in our lives as cars and the internet. And just as these modes and mediums are considered vital to our economy and society, and are therefore regulated, we must ask whether it's time to also regulate algorithms.…

Race to robo ride glory continues to heat up Apple is the latest player to enter the race to test out self-driving cars, alongside other big names including Tesla, Uber and Google’s Waymo. It received a permit on Friday from the California Department of Motor Vehicles to toy with autonomous vehicles on the US state's roads.…

Microsoft claims it has patched most of the exploited bugs Updated The Shadow Brokers have leaked more hacking tools stolen from the NSA's Equation Group – this time four-year-old exploits that attempt to hijack venerable Windows systems, from Windows 2000 up to Server 2012 and Windows 7 and 8.…

GEMSA, meet Streisand The Electronic Frontier Foundation is countersuing a patent troll that wants its name removed from a "stupid patent of the month" blog post.…

Panic over the Riddle flaw – or just update to version 5.7. Your choice. We're not your dad A programming blunder has been uncovered in Oracle's MySQL that can potentially leak usernames and passwords to man-in-the-middle eavesdroppers.…

Machines are more like us than once thought Artificial intelligence can inherit the same racial and gender biases as humans do when learning language, according to a paper published in Science.…

This app maker's policies are something quite atrocious Updated California is probing Uber for allegedly failing to ditch more than 150 sloshed drivers who picked up passengers using its dial-a-ride app.…

There's no escape muhaha The recent explosion in people installing ad blockers for their browsers may have an ironic side effect: identifying them to advertisers.…