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Rackspace launches cloud consultancy service while firing staff
Services, services, services! Hot on the heels of a global haircut of its workforce, Rackspace is moving into the professional services space as it chases those "digital transformation" pennies.…
UK splurging £20m on six regional HPC centres
Why? For science! A UK government research council is spending £20m to build six regional high-performance computing (HPC) centres.…
Power plant cyber threat: Lock up your ICSs and SCADAs
That's not worrying at all Nuclear power stations have been told to tighten their defences after government officials warned of a "credible" cyber threat.…
Dell EMC canning XtremIO file services project
FluidFS development frozen as XtremIO roadmap refocusses on block Dell EMC is halting development of file services on its XtremIO all-flash block access array.…
Drone complaints to cops are up twelvefold in three years
Irate Britons moan about idiots buzzing over their back gardens – and more The number of UK complaints about drones has shot up twelvefold over the past three years.…
Oracle uses own public cloud as back-end storage shed for ZFS boxen
Obvious integration to boost Oracle's walled hybrid garden +Comment Oracle is using its in-house public cloud to provide back-end storage for its on-premises ZFS appliances, adding functionality to its walled hybrid cloud garden.…
D'oh! Amber Rudd meant 'understand hashing', not 'hashtags'
Home Sec sends out junior minister to clarify gaffe It was the cringiest moment in an already gaffe-prone interview on The Andrew Marr Show last week.…
Microsoft Friday false positive: Bluber-A ballsup makes sysadmins blub
Benign and fine but alarms do double-time Enterprises were faced with all sorts of inconvenience on Friday after a Microsoft security tool incorrectly flagged up benign files as infected with a worm.…
Silver Lake and Broadcom bid $18bn for Tosh memory biz
US memory-buying partnership arrives out of the blue We can add the pairing of Silver Lake and Broadcom to the ten bidders for part or while stakes in Toshiba’s memory business.…
Continuous Lifecycle: Over 40 reasons to secure your place
Questions on DevOps or containers? Our speakers will have the answers Events If you’re asking yourself how to get your boss to sign off on your ticket for Continuous Lifecycle London in May, the answer is 42.…
Microsoft's in-store Android looks desperate but can Google stop it?
Phone-flashing fun Analysis To survive in an increasingly mobile-first world, Microsoft needs the kind of regulatory intervention it fought so hard to avoid in the 1990s and 2000s. Only this time, imposed on the dominant mobile OS, Google's Android.…
Oracle breaks silence to deny 'even considering' buying Accenture
In other news: Bear claims to have always used indoor facilities for ablutions Oracle has seemingly backed away from a potential acquisition of Accenture, and is now claiming it had "never even considered it".…
Mediaeval Yorkshirefolk mutilated, burned t'dead to prevent reanimation
Likely not cannibalism issue, as knifemarks not near the meat. Er, OK Archaeologists investigating human bones excavated from the deserted mediaeval village of Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire have suggested that the villagers burned and mutilated corpses to prevent the dead from rising from their graves to terrorise the living.…
Hundreds of millions 'wasted' on UK court digitisation scheme
'Agile' Common Platform Programme is 'vapourware', say insiders Exclusive Hundreds of millions of pounds have been wasted on plans to digitise the criminal justice system due to the mismanagement of a key programme that has so far delivered little value to the taxpayer, according to multiple insiders.…
British biz Imagination Technologies admits Apple may dump its IP
UK chip bods license GPU tech to the fruity firm – for now British chip designer Imagination Technologies is in trouble after Apple told the firm it would no longer be using its intellectual property.…
Europe supplants US as biggest source of child abuse hubs
Scumbags host 92% of it in just 5 countries Europe now hosts majority of child sex abuse images (60 per cent), pushing North America into second place (37 per cent), according to an annual report from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).…
Ubuntu 17.04 beta FACT: It's what's on the inside that matters, not looks
Stars align Download Ubuntu 17.04 beta preview, recently released, and visually speaking you might be a little disappointed.…
Ubuntu 16.04 beta FACT: It's what's on the inside that matters, not looks
Stars align Download Ubuntu 17.04 beta preview, recently released, and visually speaking you might be a little disappointed.…
Top tip: Boost your supercomputing powers at ISC 2017
If you work in any HPC field, don’t miss the Frankfurt conference Promo Catch up with the latest developments in high-performance computing at the five-day 2017 ISC High Performance conference and exhibition in Frankfurt June 18-22.…
Lochs, rifle stocks and two EPIC sea gates: Thomas Telford's Highland waterway
Feats of engineering, projections busted - the Caledonian Canal GEEK'S GUIDE TO BRITAIN The Highlands are home to spectacular hills and mountains. You'll also find dotted around some fairly unusual engineering projects that have endeavoured to conquer them.…
Franken-firm DXC Technology is born today, the fun begins...
'Don't feel too embarrassed to wear fancy dress', biz tells staff Franken-firm DXC Technology, the corporate mash-up between CSC and HPE Enterprise Services that was brought to life today, has urged staff to turn up to work in fancy dress, or at least corporate colours, to celebrate the launch.…
Finally – from brandbox to whitebox: Storage fabric is SDS realised
An existential threat to today's big players A new term is popping up among startups: the storage fabric. Depending on who you talk to, the term itself is recycled, but the concepts and implementations definitely are new. Today's storage fabrics are closer to the originally hyped promise of Software Defined Storage (SDS). What remains to be seen is if the arrival is timely enough to matter.…
Facebook, Mozilla and Craigslist Craig fund fake news firefighter
'News Integrity Initiative' gets US$14m to improve 'news literacy', with help from PR firms and Jimbo Wales Facebook, Mozilla and Craig from Craigslist are among the donors behind a new “News Integrity Initiative” that's given itself the mission “advance news literacy, to increase trust in journalism around the world, and to better inform the public conversation.”…
Head of US military kit-testing slams F-35, says it's scarcely fit to fly
Gun: fail. Flight: fail. Software: fail. Schedule: fail. Budget: fail. Plus 270 more fails Now-retired Dr Michael Gilmore, until recently the Director of Test and Evaluation for the US military, has published his final evaluation of the F-35 program, and it's a treat.…
Dell warns PC slowdown threatens transition to infrastructure sales
Form 10-K says Dell's manufacturing methods are losing relevance and sales integration is slow Dell has released its new Form 10-K, the annual warts-and-all disclosure of every possible risk a public company faces, and suggests that slowing PC sales are a risk to its strategy of becoming an infrastructure technology leader.…
Bank cartel denied access to iPhones' NFC chips for alt.Apple.Pay
Apple told tribunal it wouldn't abide by a ruling against it The four Australian banks that wanted to start their own mobile payments service using the near-field communications chips inside iPhones have been rebuffed, partly because Apple said that even if a ruling went against it the company would not have allowed them access to the chippery.…
Assange™ keeps his couch as Ecuador's president wins election
Opposition candidate planned to find leaker-in-chief another bolt-hole Julian Assange will sleep easy tonight – assuming he sleeps at all – after Ecuadorian president Lenín Moreno Garcés retained power.…
Make America Wait Again: Trump hasn't stopped H-1B visas
Candidate Trump promised to make tech companies hire Americans first, but the deadline for action in 2017 has passed Applications for the United States' H-1B visas open tomorrow, as usual. Which isn't what many expected after president Donald Trump made reform of skilled workers visas one of his key campaign promises.…
Boeing and Airbus fly new planes for first time
Stretched 787 stretches its wings and A319neo Euro-hops. Airbus and Boeing have both debuted new commercial jets.…
Snakes and bats cause more blackouts than criminal haxors
The rogue forklift is mightier than the keyboard, says Australian report Blackouts in Australia can be caused by snakes, birds, bats, and cats, but precious few by Russian hackers.…
That sound you hear is Splunk leaking data
Visit a malicious web page and JavaScript extracts user names Splunk has patched a slip in its JavaScript implementation that leaks user information.…
DDR5 to jump off the drawing board in 2018
Standards org confirms RAM will double density, speed, become persistent The JEDEC Solid State Technology Association has revealed that a full standard for DDR5 memory will arrive in June 2018, along with a new NVDIMM-P standard to house the memory, connect it to computers and protect the contents of RAM.…
Cisco boxen hang after 213-and-a-half days
ASA and Firepower kit have death clock. Fix it by rebooting If you're the lucky owner of Cisco Firepower or Adaptive Security Appliance devices, check the version number and see if you need to reboot your kit.…
Cambridge Analytica arrives in Australia to STEAL our democracy!
Firm that claims credit for Trump and Brexit arrives to pitch marketers and pollies The company has repeatedly claimed it helped Donald Trump win the US presidency and got the Brexiters' "Leave" cause over the line has arrived in Australia.…
Reg now behind invisible HTML5 Bitcoin paywall
It'll feel a bit malware-y, but you'll be funding quality journalism without noticing it Readers will be aware that these are tough times for the media. And The Register is no exception: like many other publishers we need to diversify our revenue base.…
Microsoft taking CodePlex behind the shed and shooting it by Christmas
Advises developers to move to GitHub Redmond's open source code repository CodePlex is to close on December 15, 2017 and Microsoft is advising users to move their stuff over to GitHub.…
Friday storage congeries, convocation, collection, compilation, cumulation
And congregation, caboodle – OK enough with the synonyms already! Did you enjoy the synonyms? Friday’s alphabetically-ordered-by-supplier-name collection of sub-prime storage news starts here:…
Apple Store in Pennsylvania hit with discrimination complaint
Ex-worker claims African-American shoppers were targeted A former Apple Store employee has accused the Cupertino giant's retail arm of racial and religious discrimination.…
Trump sets sights on net neutrality
W3C not happy President Trump is spoiling for yet another fight and this time, much to the despair of internet experts, it is net neutrality.…
Good Guy Comcast: We're not going to sell your data, trust us
We won't mistreat customers on this, vows company best known for mistreating customers Update US cable giant Comcast is looking to calm public outrage over its newfound ability to sell the browsing histories of its customers.…
Yee-hacked! Fired Texan sysadmin goes rogue, trashes boot business
Pays high price for 'elphaser' backdoor antics A former IT administrator working at a cowboy boot manufacturer has pled guilty to hacking the servers and cloud accounts of his employer after they fired him and had him removed from the building.…
US ATM fraud surges despite EMV
Best educate yourself about what you can do Improved technologies in the banking sector have failed to stem the rising tide of fraud in the US, according to a study by analytic software firm FICO.…
Oculus Drift: VR gaming boss out at Facebook
Less-than-rosy Palmer leaving Zuck's $2bn lawsuit magnet Oculus founder Palmer Luckey is stepping down from his position at parent company Facebook.…
WikiLeaks exposes CIA anti-forensics tool that makes Uncle Sam seem fluent in enemy tongues
我绝对是中国人 WikiLeaks released the third tranche of its leaked CIA documents trove on Friday, which in this episode focuses on anti-forensics tools.…
Indian Business Machines? One-third of Big Blue staff based there and Bangladesh
Internal blog from worldwide HR exec confirms extent of offshoring Just shy of one-third of IBM's global workforce is now based in India and Bangladesh, a leaked internal blog has indicated.…
Storage startup detaches field sales force from its nexus
Pivots away from direct sales to web download and channel +Comment We heard that storage startup OSNEXUS had laid off its outside sales staff and pre-sales engineering staff on Tuesday.…
Kremlin-linked hacker crew's tactics exposed
Researchers publish intel on US election meddlers Security researchers have published more intel on the tactics of the infamous Russian government-linked hacker crew blamed for compromising the Democratic National Committee (DNC) during last year's US presidential election.…
UK gov draws driverless car test zone around M40 corridor
No need for top hats and red flags says secretary of state A UK minister has reassured the motor industry that buyers of driverless cars will not have to employ a gentleman with a red flag and top hat as he outlined a UK testbed for autonomous vehicles yesterday.…
Point-and-pwn tool for posers dumbs down ransomware spreading
I'm Guybrush Threepwood, mighty hacker Spreading ransomware has become a point-and-click exercise following the release of a file-scrambling malware interface for unskilled wannabe cybercrooks.…
Massive scale, tight security – what's not to love about Kubernetes 1.6? Well...
Cult status is not enough for Mr Money Pants There aren't too many software frameworks that lend their name to industry events but Kubernetes, the open-source container manager, is one.…
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