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by Chris Mellor on (#2F96R)
Aims to hit WD for six with new product for hyperscalers Seagate has announced a 12TB helium-filled data centre disk drive, catching up with WD's Ultrastar H12, and providing both SAS and SATA interfaces.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2F93N)
Passes 100k mark and the MPs' sanity filter, unusually The BBC TV Licensing fee is set to be debated in Parliament in early May after a public petition passed the 100,000 signature mark.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2F91T)
On storage-class memory and leaving HP Labs Interview When "retired" HP Labs head Martin Fink surprisingly joined Western Digital as CTO we were interested how this memory-driven computing proponent would affect WD's solid state tech strategy.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2F8YX)
Who're you calling a Pointnext-er? Technology Services brand murdered With Enterprise Services about to become a past problem for HPE, the business has rebranded the remaining consultancy unit, killing off the Technology Services tag in favour of Pointnext.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F8XX)
Cold Atom Laboratory slated for August SpaceX supply mission Plenty of readers will agree that the International Space Station would be a cool place to work, and it's getting cooler: a billionth of a degree above 0K (in a very small spot).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F8S0)
Just unplug them now before someone writes a botnet, okay? Get ready for the next camera-botnet: a Chinese generic wireless webcam sold under more than 1,200 brands from 354 vendors has a buggy and exploitable embedded web server.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2F8N5)
Airbus imagines podules that mate with rolling or flying engines, directed by AI Airbus and italdesign have offered the world a hybrid car/copter concept that they think can Make The World A Better Place™.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F8HY)
Painting the boxes white Bowing to the inevitable, Arista has decided to risk cannibalising its hardware sales and is making its Extensible Operating System (EOS) available for container deployment as cEOS).…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F8BF)
'Caught, sorry, will stop' looks like it's just the way Uber rolls Caught out over showing fake cars to anyone it suspected of being a cop or a regulator, Uber has announced it will end the practice.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F84N)
Black hats testing remote code execution zero-day vulnerability Infosec researchers have found a “dire†zero-day in Apache Struts 2, and it's under active attack.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2F81P)
Injecting arbitrary parameters into dynamic methods violates dev rules Apple has begun informing a limited number of developers using hot patching frameworks that doing so violates its rules.…
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by Chris Williams on (#2F7YC)
Redmond fires bullet into WinTel beast's belly Pic Microsoft today signaled more than half of its cloud data center capacity is set to be powered by 64-bit ARM servers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2F7S5)
You look down – why not buy some stuff to cheer yourself up? Google Next '17 Google is pitching retailers on a total conversion of their floor, register, and warehouse systems to its Chrome, Android, and Cloud platforms.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2F7RD)
Comey blames Snowden for popularity of encryption FBI director James Comey has told a cybersecurity conference that any communications – be it with your spouse, your priest, or your lawyer – and any of your memories are up for grabs should a court order it.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F7Q5)
'People won't think we make mistakes if you stop reporting our mistakes' Australia's Department of Human Services (DHS) has doubled down, telling a Senate Committee yesterday its troubled robo-debt system will continue, and if there's something wrong, it's all your fault.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2F7M2)
Battistelli fighting to avoid lame duck status European governments have finally had enough of the head of the European Patent Office, Benoit Battistelli, and are pushing for a vote that could turn him into a lame duck president.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2F7DR)
Drink data from networked boxes with no CPU overhead Storage startup Excelero slides out of stealth today with its NVMesh v1.1 Server SAN software, which can drink data directly from a remote node, bypassing that node's CPU.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2F7DS)
Video recog, audio training data pave way to more intelligent machines Google Next '17 Following on the heels of its image dataset dump last year to aid the training of image recognition models, Google has done the same for sound, even as it beefs up the visual machine learning capabilities available through its Cloud Platform.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2F7C3)
Other news: Windows 10 not that great; Uber a little bit nasty A new report into nearly 300 websites run by the US government has reached an unsurprising conclusion: they suck.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2F70K)
Chocolate Factory makes friends for support, integration Google Next '17 Google Cloud is in a full-on push to build an ecosystem for itself with a fresh line of partnerships.…
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by John Leyden on (#2F70N)
Spy agencies more interested in stockpiling bugs than closing the gaps WikiLeaks' dump of CIA hacking tool documents on Tuesday has kicked off a debate among security vendors about whether intel agencies are stockpiling vulnerabilities, and the effect this is having on overall security hygiene.…
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by Clodagh Doyle on (#2F6MM)
Almost 40 trademarks given for tourists seeking the company of bad mamacitas China may soon be home to Donald Trump-themed escort services.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2F6K1)
Get ready for a fragmented net... and RAGNAROK Peter Thiel makes a perfect modern sinister panto villain. From investing in deep state spookware Palantir to supporting Donald S Trump, Thiel ticks all the boxes. Throw in an eccentric medical practice – like, say, a fondness for injecting himself with young people's blood – and all that's missing is an impregnable offshore lair, and a seat on Facebook's board.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2F6E1)
Poll finds most pirates aren't even using streaming stick With some in the media industries predicting an imminent "Kodipocalypse", a survey of more than 2,000 UK internet users suggests that simply being nice to those users who download illegal content – on Kodi or otherwise – isn't effective.…
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by John Leyden on (#2F67Z)
An internal problem in corporate, nothing to see here, move on... Payment processing giant Verifone is playing down the impact of a recently discovered breach on its internal computer networks, as well as concerns over wider problems against point-of-sale systems.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2F666)
52PB X100 ActiveScale system landed in January WD has extended its disk-based archive array line scaling out to 52PB with a newish X100 ActiveScale product. This arrived in January with no fanfare and holds 47 per cent more data than the largest SA7010 Active Archive product. What gives?…
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You might love technology, but do you want it to start loving you back? The Register Lectures are back, and on April 19 we’ll be considering one of the most fascinating topics in the world of tech: how AI and robotics are going to interact with and affect human sexuality.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2F62E)
No remote connections to pricey electric dream wagons? Better use your keys Over the past few days Tesla punters from different corners of the globe have claimed an update borked their iOS app, preventing them from connecting to their electric dream wagons.…
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by Chris Williams on (#2F5WS)
Et tu, Microsoft? Then fall, Intel Microsoft has ported its Windows Server operating system to the Qualcomm Centriq – a 64-bit ARM-compatible server-grade system-on-chip.…
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Tax digitisation plans for small businesses delayed Self-employed folk are to be slapped with additional National Insurance contributions, Chancellor Phillip Hammond announced today.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2F5S1)
A quarter of prime British chip goodness will fall under Middle Eastern ownership Softbank is selling a stake in ARM to a Saudi investment group less than a year after buying the Brit chipmaker, according to reports.…
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by John Leyden on (#2F5Q7)
Devs patch after researchers Confide in them about encrypted app's issues Security researchers have discovered multiple vulnerabilities in Confide, the encrypted messaging app reportedly used by President Donald Trump's aides to speak to each other in secret.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2F5HP)
'On a $349 device this amounts to extortion' rages irate user Video doorbell company Doorbird charges its customers $80 for a remote admin password reset, an outraged customer has said.…
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by John Leyden on (#2F5G4)
Android adware poses as YouTube clip utility A malicious app that bombards Androids with ads is using all sorts of trickery to boost its ratings.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2F5CN)
Claims to be two times faster than Chipzilla's latest data centre processor In a raid on Intel's x86 server heartland, AMD has unveiled its next shot at server market glory with Naples, a 32-core, 64-thread CPU based on its Zen microarchitecture.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2F5B8)
Murder accused consents to device being examined We'll have to wait a little longer for a test case on the use of data collected by Amazon's eavesdropper Echo in criminal investigations.…
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by Team Register on (#2F5A3)
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2F56K)
The architects of Michigan's maligned MiDAS system called to court Last week, a proposed class-action lawsuit was filed against the companies responsible for developing and installing MiDAS, the Michigan Integrated Data Automated System.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2F559)
And nobody noticed One of the perils of launching a clever new feature at the zoo called Mobile World Congress is that clever new things get lost in the noise.…
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by Team Register on (#2F52E)
Save big now on conference and workshops You have just a few days to save £100s on Continuous Lifecycle London, our three-day conference on all things DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Containers.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2F502)
Backup software - your best friend Sysadmin blog Hardly a day passes without some kind of major security breach. The type of attack that was once considered staggering in scale has now become the norm.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2F4YB)
You don't need fluent English when you speak digital disruption Comment Perhaps it's time to retire the term "sharing economy" once and for all. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) this week swallowed up the "gig economy" trade group Sharing Economy UK.…
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by John Leyden on (#2F4WG)
Google, Microsoft and Mozilla say they won't trust anyone who hasn't migrated One in five websites (21 per cent) are still using certificates signed with the vulnerable SHA-1 hash algorithm, according to a new survey.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2F4SJ)
Blade-centric Borg surprised by hunger for pizza boxes, also ponders multi-hypervisor NFV Cisco's underwhelming performance in hyperconverged appliances is attributable to the company's heritage as a blade server vendor, the company's executive veep for worldwide sales and operations Chris Dedicoat told The Register at Cisco Live in Melbourne, Australia, today.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2F4SM)
We went through 8,000 documents so you don't have to We're still going through the 8,761 CIA documents published on Tuesday by WikiLeaks for political mischief, although here are some of the highlights.…
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by Tim Anderson on (#2F4NR)
New cross-platform tools and streamlined setup options First Look Microsoft has released Visual Studio 2017, marking 20 years of the software development tool's, er, development.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F4ME)
Prenda Law's John Steele done for fraud after courts ordered repayments of extorted funds One of the architects of the notorious Prenda Law copyright-porn scam, John Steele, has admitted that he and Paul Hansmeier made US$6 million out of the operation.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2F4GD)
Five years? What's the matter? Can't afford Prime? Video Blue Origin, the orbital delivery service funded by Amazon supremo Jeff Bezos, has taken its first satellite launch booking. We're told the sat will be put into orbit in 2021 or 2022 – basically, once Bezos has finished building the rocket to do the job.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2F4AY)
New browser also crumbs cookies and finds new ways to speed web apps The Mozilla Foundation has has given the world the fifty-second version of the Firefox browser, complete with some significant changes.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2F46X)
Unless you want your backups to be in 'Someone Else's Cloud' Western Digital is preparing patches for its My Cloud storage devices because they can be easily hijacked from across the internet or network.…
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