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Tech biz call for ideas to get FCC, lawmakers listening A slew of internet companies, including Amazon, Kickstarter, Reddit and Mozilla, have signed up for a "day of action" on July 12 in an effort to retain net neutrality rules.…

Their decision to join NATO likely played a part The prolific Kremlin-backed hacking crew blamed for attacking the US Democratic National Committee last year has targeted the Montenegro government with cyberattacks, according to cybersecurity company FireEye.…

No, really... Japanese tech monolith Fujitsu's long awaited sale "synergy" of its PC business with Lenovo will happen "soon", the firm's president has today promised.…

Windows Defender is the alleged offender Kaspersky Lab has filed an antitrust complaint against Microsoft over allegations that Redmond is hobbling third-party antivirus software.…

More thinking, less doing in FY2018, reckons naval service The US Navy is not bolting its new electromagnetic railgun to any of its warships in the coming year, a move sure to disappoint those who rejoice at innovative methods of blowing stuff up.…

Former gov.UK advisor Rohan Silva branded 'utterly clueless' Calls by a former special advisor to ex UK Prime Minister David Cameron to allow the circumvention of end-to-end encryption to monitor terrorist suspects have come under fire from security experts.…

1,500 staff and contractors to be shipped over Exclusive Lloyds Bank has today inked a mega 10-year cloudy outsourcing deal with IBM, with 1,500 staff and contractors to be shipped over to Big Blue - according to internal memo seen by The Register.…

Cruel mistress science throws astroboffins a curveball WASP-67 b and HAT-P-38 b are two far-flung exoplanets orbiting near-identical stars at similar distances. Their size and temperatures are also pretty close. So, naturally, astronomers thought that their atmospheres wouldn't be too far apart. They were wrong.…

Era of automated ads risks brand image, apparently Vodafone will block its advertising appearing against so-called "fake news" and hate speech from today.…

You're not sticking criminal charges on me, says Levandowski The one-time Google engineer who is said to have handed a pile of the Chocolate Factory’s trade secrets to taxi app Uber is pleading the 5th Amendment of the US Constitution because he is worried about criminal prosecution, according to reports.…

Quality beats quantity, though – and having a decent boss is a game-changer Deployment is up in the world of DevOps.…

And machine learning is the solution Researchers have developed a method to improve the characterisation of superfast X-rays that they say will allow data to be collected up to a thousand times faster.…

How to weather the storm Like it or not, the cloud in all forms is approaching at great speed, irrespective of your employer's size. All sysadmins need to get onboard or be left behind. Me? After 17 years working in a range of environments, I did at one point believe I had ages before the cloud arrived at large-scale enterprises like the one where I'm employed. Plenty of time to skill up. Or so I thought.…

Page through this profiler... HPC Blog The HPC Advisory Council exists to spread the word about high-performance computing tech, provide a network of expertise, equipment for members, and generally educate all-comers about the wonders of HPC.…

Cryptocurrencies, globalisation erode Kremlin's coercive power Russia's control of cybercrime groups that have come to play a part in its espionage activity is crumbling, according to Cybereason.…

Fresh wave of outsourcing could slash UK IT team from 600 to less than 100 Exclusive Consultancy goliath Ernst & Young is planning to offshore hundreds of IT jobs to India in its latest wave of outsourcing.…

Minimalist makeovers for iPad, Mac, iOS and MacOS leave Cupertino perhaps looking iterative, not innovative WWDC When Microsoft revealed its Surface Studio last year , more than a few observers looked at its 28” touch screen and accompanying Dial touch wheel and wondered whether Apple could offer something similarly startling for workstation-class users.…

Left Australian National University 'by mutual agreement' in 2014 To suddenly leave one prestigious university CIO gig may, to paraphrase Oscar Wilde, be regared regarded as misfortune. But to suddenly leave two? In three years?…

Colossus suffers cosmic tanning session from hell Astronomers have discovered KELT‑9b – the hottest giant exoplanet yet seen. It is twice the size of Jupiter, has a dayside temperature of 4,600 Kelvin, and is being stripped by ultraviolet radiation from its star, KELT‑9.…

Spinning up VMs is so 2010. What you need now are services HPE Discover 2017 HPE is looking to win customers for its Gen10 suite of hybrid cloud enterprise IT platform by first offering them some tough love.…

May's scapegoat and Trump's Twitter rants are damaging society Comment In a predictable but still shocking pronouncement, UK Prime Minister Theresa May has put much of the blame of recent terror attacks in London and Manchester on the internet and internet companies like Google and Facebook.…

Quick, let the Daily Mail know – add the Red Planet to cereal, cheese, tea, joy and other crazy carcinogens you must avoid Aspiring astronauts might want to think twice before going to Mars, as scientists estimate that the risk of cancer doubles for long-term missions outside Earth’s magnetic field.…

SEC pounds Ponzi prospectors ZenMiner and GAW Miners America's Securities and Exchange Commission has won its case against two bogus – and now shuttered – Bitcoin companies operated by Homero Joshua Garza.…

Death by blinkenlight thanks to dodgy firmware Back in February, it was hard drive lights that leaked data. Now, the side-channel experts at Israel's Ben-Gurion University have applied a similar principle to routers.…

Get busy: SQL injection, XSS, CSRF and more SD-WAN company Peplink has patched its load-balancing routers against vulnerabilities turned up by a German pentest company.…

It's 1994 all over again, it seems It looks like the 1990s are back in fashion: Microsoft is, it seems, preparing another flavor of Windows 10 – the tentatively named Windows 10 Pro for Workstations.…

Yasss Steve i mean Tim... sorry... tell ush moar ab, ab, aboat aaye eye WWDC While touting forthcoming operating system features at its annual developer conference on Monday, Apple made sure to mention machine learning and related AI-oriented terminology over and over.…

GSLV Mk III pits new entrant into the orbital workhorse biz India has successfully launched its GSLV Mark III heavy-lift rocket on schedule, leaving explosion-watchers disappointed.…

We won't know what they are for a fortnight, but clouds are warning of VM reboots The Xen Project has announced nine – as in 3^ – embargo-worthy bugs. Details of the problems, which fixes for all, will be revealed on June 20.…

Reality Winner cuffed by FBI after allegedly emailing journos A 25-year-old contractor has been charged with leaking NSA files that claim Russian intelligence hacked at least one maker of voting software used in 2016's US elections.…

But labor worries aren't over yet AT&T has agreed to a new contract with 17,000 union workers who were threatening a strike.…

Cable networks' upgrade to DOCSIS 3.1 inches a step closer If you build a hybrid-fibre coax network in a lab, nbn™ says it can support 1 Gbps down / 100 Mbps up performance.…

Dial-a-ride biz agrees to settle another California class action Uber will pay $32.5m to settle a California class-action lawsuit alleging it was charging customers a fee on their rides for a background check service it was not providing.…

Yet another belated entry into the interactive snooping speaker world WWDC Apple has joined Amazon, Google, and Microsoft in the race to plant microphones in people's homes.…

Will they live up to the promise, though? HPE today announced its generation-10 ProLiant servers – claiming they have better security and more persistent memory and manageability – while, like Dell, saying nothing much about the coming Skylake server CPUs from Intel.…

Uni gives kids a lesson they'll never forget after spreading stupidity on Facebook At least ten students due to start at Harvard this fall have had their admission offers torn up – after they swapped offensive piffle online.…

Armed robbery case goes to America's highest court After years of contradictory appeals court decisions, the US Supreme Court will finally hear a case about how private your cell phone location should be.…

Info safeguards to ramp up spending, say beancounters The rush to comply with Europe's upcoming General Data Protection Regulation will balloon the continent's IT security budgets to $11.5bn in 2018, analyst group Canalys reckons.…

You can't make the internet more and less safe at the same time The UK's Prime Minister has been taken to task for trying to make the internet "both more and less safe" at the same time – and failing to publicly acknowledge the dichotomy.…

Where's my self-driving plane? Nowhere, it's a feasibility study* It's the fear of anyone who watches Snakes on a Plane and books a flight – what if your plane crashes? Now take a deep breath and imagine that you're travelling on a plane or rocketship with no pilot. A new NASA research project hopes to find ways to certify unmanned autonomous aircraft systems for safety.…

Unable to raise orders following database merge few weeks ago The merger between Dell and EMC has caused havoc for partners attempting to raise invoices with the borg, as its "new combined customer base" is having problems issuing purchase order numbers.…

Emo Oil targets overheated marketeers and frigid FM specialists alike If you're worried that your fellow office workers' productivity is being compromised because they're boiling over with "frustration", Northern Ireland's Emo Oil is promising to relieve their plight with its selection of oils and lubricants.…

'NetApp HCI' takes all of its best bits and wraps them around compute and vCenter NetApp has finally revealed its long-promised hyperconverged appliance. Named “NetApp HCI”, the product pours almost everything the company does into a 2U box, along with four unnamed servers, a cloud-style pay-as-you-go pricing plan and a vCenter plugin so you can manage it without having to learn new tools.…

Meanwhile, Tosh shoves WDC's stake back, mutters 'keep it' Apple, Amazon and Foxconn are preparing to "chip in" for ailing Toshiba's NAND flash memory chip-making division, according to reports.…

Um. Who put production credentials in onboarding doc? "How screwed am I?" a new starter asked Reddit after claiming they'd been marched out of their job by their employer's CTO after "destroying" the production DB – and had been told "legal" would soon get stuck in.…

Defence Science and Tech Lab accused of 'discriminatory' rules A data scientist claims the UK's Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) diddled him out of a £12,000 research competition prize because he is Russian – despite assurances he'd be able to claim the money.…

It's not the velociraptor you can see that kills you One of the key principles of designing any high availability system is to make sure only vital apps or functions use it and everything else doesn't – sometimes referred to as KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid).…

The hidden problems of criticality bloat One of the key principles of designing any high availability system is to make sure only vital apps or functions use it and everything else doesn't – sometimes referred to as KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid).…

How difficult can it possibly be? Very, apparently Delays in updating software and operating systems are putting organisations at greater risk of attacks, according to research by Duo Security.…

Forget 'value or biz justification' says UK GTS chief IBM UK and Ireland has told the Global Technology Services team that all travel to customer sites must be approved by divisional general manager Tosca Colangeli irrespective of "value or business justification".…