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He'd have been aiming higher than the top of London's Shard to hit his mark A Canadian sniper has reportedly shot dead an Islamic State terrorist from the astonishing distance of 3,450 metres – more than two miles away.…

Organised crime coppers cuff young men Detectives have arrested two men in the UK this morning in connection with an international "conspiracy" to break into the Microsoft network.…

Data on flash or disk? Er, it's complicated, says Reduxio Reduxio, the startup that stories data in unique indexed, tagged and timestamped chunks, has introduced v3.0 software with unified primary and secondary storage.…

Government opens Industrial Strategy linked funding call The UK government's long-promised Industrial Strategy Challenge Fund is open for business.…

Flash? It's all flash, mate NetApp has introduced an all-flash SolidFire-based FlexPod.…

Researchers finger trojan-slinging AdGholas group Security researchers have suggested that the ransomware attack on University College London last week was spread through a "malvertising" campaign.…

More speakers join MCubed Lineup Events Ethics, algorithms and finance are all key areas for machine learning and AI, which is why we’re chuffed to announce three more excellent speakers who will be joining us at MCubed London in October.…

Alt-net providers call for ads to be reviewed Adverts using the word "fibre" to describe services deployed over copper lines are leaving consumers baffled, according to research commissioned by alternative network providers.…

UK and Ireland boss nowhere to be seen UK and Ireland boss of Fujitsu Lucy Dimes has gone on gardening leave just one year into the job, according to multiple well-placed sources.…

We've already got one tried and tested system, huffs MoD The Ministry of Defence has insisted it has made “no decision” to install the US Navy’s JPALS aircraft carrier landing system aboard HMS Prince of Wales, the second of the Royal Navy’s two new 65,000-tonne aircraft carriers.…

Clash with tech titan continues Trouble struck British chip designer Imagination Technologies has confirmed it is for sale amid an ongoing dispute with Apple that has crushed its valuation on the London Stock Exchange.…

'Dragon'-owned biz shifts focus to B2B market Mobile gadget souk Expansys shuttered its digital doors to consumers – a natural conclusion for a business that lost direction under the ownership of lanky Dragons' Den badass Peter Jones in a commoditised space.…

NVMe over Fabrics box bashes Dell EMC, Pure and Infinidat NVMe over Fabrics flash array startup E8 says its box out-performs Dell EMC and Pure arrays by up to 20 times.…

Not all figures are equal If you want to develop your ML and AI skills, you will need to pick up some statistics and before you have got more than a few steps down that path you will find (whether you like it or not) that you have entered the Twilight Zone that is the frequentist/Bayesian religious war. I use the term "war" advisedly because war, by definition, has moved beyond debate and discussion. "Religious" because the war is based on belief systems, not information.…

Strapline on van: 'Where your vote is your choice'. Meow! Pic A rival of the reseller who threatened to sack Labour-voting employees hired a billboard van to drive past their HQ with the words “we’re hiring – where your vote is your choice” emblazoned on its side.…

If LINPACK would pack wood... and other computer sports posers HPC Blog As part of our continuing coverage of the most exciting events in the computer sporting world, Student Cluster Competitions, we like to meet each team individually.…

Curiosity Rover's autonomous operation experiments have been a great success, say astro-boffins In late 2015 NASA gave the Curiosity Mars rover a software upgrade to let it operate autonomously. The Autonomous Exploration for Gathering Increased Science (AEGIS) code was uploaded because the rover can't be told what to do during the long periods communication with Earth is not possible. A little autonomy, NASA reckoned, could mean Curiosity could do more and perhaps better science.…

Troll your WebEx-loving execs with a crafted recording file We all know the only thing more fun than a WebEx conference is a recorded WebEx conference, which is why WebEx Network Recording Player exists – and if you use it, you need to patch it.…

ESA to start the construction of space telescope network The European Space Agency’s PLATO mission hunting for habitable exoplanets has been given the green light to move from blueprint into construction.…

Forget free sushi, gyms or Steve Jobs clones. Netflix values fearless sharing In 2009, Netflix published what became an influential slide deck explaining its culture, including a policy of not hiring “brilliant jerks” because the benefit of their moments of excellence are outweighed by the cost of their other behaviours.…

Borg's boxen can now figure out if there's malware lurking in encrypted traffic Cisco has turned research published nearly a year ago into a product it hopes will protect enterprises against malware hidden in encrypted traffic.…

Calls for standards-setting conference to consider security, privacy, whatever other regs distributed ledger types want The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has decided the time is ripe to start talking about what standards might be developed for distributed ledgers, aka Blockchain and fellow-travellers.…

Borg plans 'AI-assisted operations in IT', but first we get new HCI boxen for ROBO Cisco will next week reveal something called “Project Starship” that it promises will allow greater and easier automation of UCS servers and its HyperFlex hyperconverged appliances, no matter if they run in the data centre, remote office or a small business.…

Patches for servers and clients already out there – get updating just in case OpenVPN has patched a bunch of security vulnerabilities that can be exploited to crash the service or, at a pinch, potentially gain remote-code execution.…

International Trade Commission says its kit should be fine to import again Arista's long slog back to the shelves in America continues with an initial determination from the International Trade Commission okaying its product redesign.…

Senate Intelligence Committee frustrated by lack of details Russian attempts to hack key American election systems are more advanced than first thought, according to Homeland Security officials on Wednesday.…

IT giant's market cap soars after (mostly) strong financials Oracle says it has finally turned the corner with its cloud compute transition as it reports big gains for the business, both in the quarter and the fiscal year.…

Grab your camping gear and prepare for August 21 America will witness, for the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse stretching from coast to coast on August 21.…

Government senators play the 'this is fine' card Federal Government senators have rejected a Senate report that describes its “robo-debt” program as “set up to fail”.…

Retail giant prefers partners not feed Amazon their cloud cash Retail giant Walmart says it doesn't want its developer partners using Amazon Web Services to host their cloud apps.…

Benchmarks aren't useful anyway, says cofounder On Tuesday OnePlus launched its latest smartphone with much hoopla, and the handset has already found notoriety.…

Did it decorate notices with glitter and sparkles? Arts and crafts market Etsy announced today that it is cutting more workers in an effort to get its finances back on track.…

'This deal is the coming of age of the offensive security model' Cybersecurity startup Cybereason is looking to go to the next level after securing $100m in funding from SoftBank.…

No you can't have full specs or pricing until next month The first fruit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s buy of SGI is set to hit the streets in July with the release of a high performance system - the HPE SGI 8600.…

Take a deep breath. You might have to hold it for a while The US Air Force has today restarted flights of F-35As that were grounded by oxygen supply problems, even as it admits that it still doesn’t know what caused the life support systems to malfunction.…

Plus: Amazon's Whole Foods move, pizza on Mars, Uber chaos, and more

On-premises data centre not such a big deal any more, it seems Analysis NAS acceleration and cloud on-ramp supplier Avere is facing a surging cloud on-ramp business, now at parity with its data centre business, and growing much faster, with a Google relationship looking key.…

Issue ongoing since last week Certain UK TalkTalk customers have been unable to load Amazon's website since last week.…

How does that rank on the Morissette Scale? The operation behind the UK government's Cyber Essentials scheme has suffered a breach exposing the email addresses of registered consultancies, it told them today.…

It's raining money from that sweet, sweet cloud Adobe has locked customers into its cloud services, and the fluffy white stuff has continued to, well, fluff up both its top and bottom lines.…

No minivans or sedans rolled out of plant for 24 hours Honda said today that it had briefly halted operations at a car plant in Sayama, Japan earlier this week because of the infamous WannaCrypt ransomware.…

Legal headache still hangs over foundry joint venture agreement WDC may have a way back into Toshiba's memory business auction although Toshiba has selected the Japanese state-backed INCJ consortium's ¥2tn ($18bn) bid group, which excluded WDC.…

A guide to seeing the wood for the decision trees How to If you’ve heard the excitement about machine learning, but aren’t quite sure how it could apply to your business, the best way forward is to rip off the cover and see it working for yourself.…

People Per Hours alert does not specify which government An intriguing, and slightly concerning, job ad has appeared on freelancing website People Per Hour, entitled: "URGENT!!! Delivery of a National e-ID System".…

Tories dump a number of manifesto pledges The government is to pass new laws to protect personal data and create a commission for countering extremism on the internet, the Queen announced in the annual state opening of Parliament today.…

Chris Lattner 'wasn't the right fit', says Elon Musk-led biz Tesla's driverless car software chief, a former Apple engineer, has quit just six months after he joined Elon Musk's 'leccy car builders.…

Verify needs to be addressed, Pope is Catholic, etc In what might seem like an exercise stating the blindingly obvious, a report by policy wonks at think tank The Institute for Government has found that gov tech transformation is "happening too slowly" and the online identity platform Verify needs some urgently intervention.…

Let’s leave the polyamorists out of this for now Reg Lectures If the recent election’s clash of centre right and a bit left leaves you cold, perhaps the prospect of libertarians versus transhumanists might make you sit up and take notice.…

Want a more secure PC? Try Windows 10 S, says CRO Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at Finnish security company F-Secure, spoke to The Reg at the launch of Sense, a consumer firewall device that aims to "secure your connected things".…

Students show all at Frankfurt HPC showdown HPC Blog The tension is rising at the ISC17 Student Cluster Competition being held this week in Frankfurt, Germany. Eleven university teams are vying for the coveted Ultimate Champion award, the Highest LINPACK award, and the Fan Favourite Prize.…