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The nuclear option for troubled Toshiba Foxconn has confirmed speculation that it is one of the companies bidding for a slice of Toshiba's silicon business.…

Anyone? Bueller? Asking because Microsoft, Google, have just offered free migration tools Today might not be the best day to contemplate migrating to the cloud, given that yesterday's epic Amazon Web Services outage. But that hasn't stopped Google and Microsoft from issuing new offers to help you take on-premises workloads into their clouds.…

The plan is to infill HFC-rich areas to create homogenous service zones nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network, is installing new hybrid-fibre coax cables in some suburbs.…

'We were silenced by the Feds!' Shoppers of 40 online stores have had their bank card numbers and addresses slurped by a malware infection at backend provider Aptos.…

Spies given carte blanche thanks to Trump order The critical transatlantic data agreement, named Privacy Shield, is worthless, gives intelligence agencies complete free reign, and should be discarded, according to Human Rights Watch and the American Civil Liberties Union.…

No need for a big panic, says Big Blue Updated You know the out-of-office automatic emails that we've been using for the past 20 years? Well, IBM has just been awarded a patent that states it practically invented the system.…

Find out which apps, protocols, or people slow your networks with the SolarWinds Bandwidth Analyzer Pack Promo Nobody enjoys slow networks. If your organisation is wasting productive time watching virtual sand pour through virtual hour glasses, you need to get to the bottom of the problem.…

Privacy warriors drag reluctant aviation watchdog to court Privacy advocates are pressing the US Federal Aviation Administration to ground creepy peeping-tom drones.…

Using NextGEN Gallery? Update or kill it with fire A critical flaw has been found in the third-party WordPress NextGEN Gallery plugin that is, according to wordpress.org, actively used by more than a million websites.…

My files belong to me – and it's getting easier to protect them Like it or not, collaboration and file-sharing services like Dropbox have become embedded in corporate IT.…

A status dashboard post about last week's cockup disappeared – but that's apparently normal The baffling mass logout of Google accounts last week was the result of accidental OAuth token invalidation, a cause Google acknowledged, but only to a subset of those affected.…

Brits catch God yet again screwing with our heads Video As far as we know, nearly four billion years ago nothing walked the lands of Earth, but there was life in the seas. Now British boffins think they've found a fossil record of some of the earliest lifeforms on the planet.…

Data is not stored in AWS or Azure Explainer Nimble’s Cloud Volumes (NCV) store block data for use by Amazon or Azure compute instances, but the NCVs themselves are not stored in either Amazon’s Elastic Block Store or in the Azure cloud.…

Ex-EMC exec takes CEO reins Former EMCer Guy Churchward has taken the reins at DataTorrent as CEO and president.…

Why should modern OSes and silicon have all the fun? The cloud's great for x86 CPUs, Windows and Linux.…

Chief beanie made CEO, asked to lead review into crappy finances Yet another senior exec has fallen on his sword at cybersecurity and managed services outfit NCC Group, just weeks after the latest profit warning. This time around it was CEO Rob Cotton.…

Look out, Google, your killer pram does not impress us Britain's most successful engineer Sir James Dyson is taking on Google and Facebook with a $2.5bn investment to turn the former RAF base at Hullavington near Malmesbury into a research campus for robotics, AI, and other advanced technology, including batteries and vision systems.…

Soulless contraptions in the home or at work are a risk – not to humanity Common security flaws in mainstream robotic technologies leave them wide open to attack, infosec researched have warned.…

He was originally cleared of any criminal offence A man under police surveillance who was cleared of criminal offences after leaving unpleasant comments on YouTube will be tried again after the Director of Public Prosecutions got his acquittal overturned.…

He was originally cleared of any criminal offence A man under police surveillance who was cleared of criminal offences after leaving unpleasant comments on YouTube will be tried again after the Director of Public Prosecutions got his acquittal overturned.…

Colliding parallel file access products Analysis The entertainment and media market has not been typically seen as a part of the high-performance computing (HPC) market, with the associated massively parallel file access and data set management. In the HPC world file access software such as Lustre and GPFS, now renamed Spectrum Scale are often seen.…

Gang discuss PoisonTap, SHA-1 and get a how-to on hacking

Forget IPv6. Names - I want NAMES! PACK. IT. IN. We're fresh out of IPv4 addresses. Getting hold of a subnet from your average ISP for hosting purposes is increasingly difficult and expensive, even the public cloud providers are getting stingy. While we wait for IPv6 to become usable, there are ways to stretch out the IPv4 space.…

Don't call us cheap MWC Interview Although Huawei phones are getting more expensive, the company still thinks Samsung and Apple phones are "overpriced", a top executive told us this week.…

Nice try, Isle of Wight council A new chain ferry has been built for the Isle of Wight – and the council reckon it weighs the same as 250 cows.…

Exposes Amazon customers' inadequate BC/DR plans too Analysis Amazon’s S3 outage is a gift to Azure and Google, on-premises IT, hybrid cloud supporters and multi-cloud gateways. But it has also exposed inadequate business continuance and disaster recovery provisions by Amazon's business customers.…

No, not the fictional energy sword, the machine learning hacker sniffer Palo Alto Networks has acquired smaller cyber security firm LightCyber for $105m in cash.…

Cookie consent that doesn't disrupt the user experience... Newly proposed reforms to EU ePrivacy rules could exacerbate problems that stem from existing rules governing the use of "cookies".…

Scottish prison guards left mobile network snooping device in sight of jailbirds Exclusive Prisoners at a Scottish jail evaded an IMSI catcher deployed to collar them making illegal phone calls – by putting up tinfoil after bungling guards left the spy gear visible to inmates.…

OpenStack's Jonathan Bryce and Mark Collier explain the best bits of the new release Interview Last week, OpenStack took the covers off its Ocata release. Today, The Register spoke to OpenStack foundation executive director Jonathan Bryce and COO Mark Collier about three key aspects of the release – Cell v2, the Placement API and Resource Scheduler, and OpenStack's expanding container support.…

The stuff Virtzilla is doing to build NFV for telcos will trickle down into its other products VMware has launched the second version of its Network Function Virtualization suite as it hopes to convince telcos to go down the same software-defined route its offered other data centres. And in so doing the company is infusing its core products with telco-grade features it thinks will be widely applicable.…

CEO shoots for $10bn revs, though 2017 will start slowly Salesforce.com has posted record quarterly and annual results.…

It's time we taught computers what we think of BMW drivers What does a car say about its owner? Uni researchers have managed to accurately estimate income, education, race and voting patterns for US neighborhoods by looking at cars on Google Street View.…

Thousands won't be able to make us cash, upstart moans Uber's lawyers in the UK have argued against rules requiring minicab drivers to pass an English literacy test – because many of its cheap cyber chauffeurs would fail.…

Cloudy with a chance of XSS Cloud management software peddler Zscaler has plugged cross-site scripting holes in the admin portal it provides to customers.…

Invented before the Galaxy Note 7 went down in flames, the case detects heat and then sprays fire-suppressing gas Boeing has sought a patent for a “Fire detection and suppression pack for battery-powered personal computing devices.”…

End-to-end encryption touted Datrium Blanket Encryption combines always-on deduplication, compression and encryption so that data is secure – or so it claims – whether that data is at a host, in flight across a network, or at rest in persistent storage.…

Warnings about leaky Bluetooth Web API all-too-accurate As the world learns of its embarrassingly leaky customer database, internet-connected cuddly toy maker CloudPets is under further scrutiny. This time for not securing its gizmos against remote exploitation via the Bluetooth Web API.…

Websites, apps, expensive IoT cameras and ovens knackered Tuesday's Amazon Web Services mega-outage knocked offline not only websites big and small, by yanking away their backend storage, but also knackered apps and Internet of Things gadgets relying on the technology.…

Apparently the world is ready for hybrid-cloud-database-as-a-service, on subscription Oracle's added a new piece of hardware to its “Oracle Cloud at Customer” offering, in the form of the new Exadata Cloud Machine that runs Oracle databases on-premises with the very same interface as offered in the Exadata Cloud Service.…

Offering contracts that will end soon … but might end sooner HPE's offering some SimpliVity staff the chance to join the ranks of the Living Dead.…

Lemur-2-NATE came down yesterday and there's plenty more where it came from A small satellite burning up in the atmosphere has led to big excitement.…

Don't forget about nerds of color, rev preaches during iGiant's shareholder meeting Reverend Jesse Jackson urged Apple CEO Tim Cook to hire more Black and Latino workers at the company's annual shareholder meeting – just moments after a diversity plan that would tie executive compensation to meeting greater diversity goals was defeated by a 95 per cent No vote.…

An admittedly terrible headline for a terrible company Uber faces yet another antitrust lawsuit brought by cab companies, this time in Boston, Massachusetts.…

Shared state tech support leads to five years of misery The head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has blasted his IT staff, claiming the number of computer outages hitting the force has more than doubled – and that cockups take twice as long to fix.…

Adds Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to Pi Zero, bumps price from thrifty $5 to slightly less thrifty $10 The Raspberry Pi turned five on Tuesday and the Foundation behind the computer has given us all a present: a new “Pi Zero W” model.…

And still can't say how much money it has recovered, says audit Automating its troubled Centrelink data-matching program has cost the Australian government's Department of Human Services dearly: almost 370 extra staff were needed to implement it.…

Them good ole ISPs are drinking whiskey and rye MWC Ajit Pai – chairman of America's broadband watchdog, the FCC – has outlined his vision of data networks in the United States. And it most definitely does not include net neutrality.…

Heir-apparent slapped with bribery, embezzlement charges Samsung supremo Lee Jae-yong has been formally charged with bribery and embezzlement – sparking the dramatic shut down of the tech giant's top strategic office.…

Everything's fine now. Patch. Keep using them. Move along Password management applications, recommended by many security experts as the only viable way to deal with large sets of passwords that are unique and sufficiently complex, introduce their own set of problems – namely the general fallibility of software.…