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Stumbling StorNext ruins Quantum's solace
Storage biz's seasonality dip exacerbated by sales fall Quantum almost failed to meet its revenue expectations in its final fiscal 2017 quarter, as a StorNext revenue dip added to a seasonal decline.…
Intel breathes $2bn sigh of relief over patent trial
Jury finds that chip giant did not infringe on AVM patent Intel is breathing two billion dollars lighter Thursday, after a jury in Delaware decided that the chip giant had not infringed on a dynamic logic circuit patent.…
T-Mobile USA sued by parents after their baby dies amid 911 meltdown
'Ghost' calls overload lines, preventing babysitter from getting through for help – suit A Texas mother is suing T‑Mobile USA, alleging technical issues with the carrier prevented her child from getting urgent medical care, which led to his death.…
Plutus Payroll pays people after Senator writes to Australian Taxation Office
But court date delayed again and superannuation payments are still in limbo No-longer-AWOL payroll provider Plutus has, as promised, started paying people again.…
Trump signs executive order on cybersecurity, White House now runs the show
Promises to hold agency heads responsible for slipups President Donald Trump has signed his long-promised executive order on cybersecurity – and it says the executive branch will take overall command of securing America's critical IT systems.…
A bleary-eyed Microsoft wakes up after its cloud, IoT party, clears throat: 'Oh yeah, so Windows...'
A roundup of things you might actually use Build At its Build 2017 developer conference in Seattle, US, on Wednesday, Microsoft turned its attention to Windows and cozied up to competitors.…
Moneybags Verizon swoops in, swipes Straight Path from AT&T with a $3.1bn pot of gold
They won't love you like I love you, sniffs Ma Bell Just one month after announcing a $1.7bn acquisition deal with AT&T, 5G spectrum holder Straight Path now says it is instead inking a $3.1bn deal with Verizon.…
US spymasters trash Kaspersky: AV tools can't be trusted, we've stuck a probe in them
Eugene shouts back: Gimme the mic and let me testify Five US spy bosses, and the acting FBI chief, today told the Senate intelligence committee they do not trust software from Russian antivirus maker Kaspersky.…
Try not to scream … ads are coming to Amazon's Alexa and VR goggles
Well, of course they are It's time to let Benjamin Franklin know that there is a third inevitability in life. To death and taxes, we must add advertisements.…
HP Inc ships laptops with sinister key-logger
Dodgy Conexant driver spaffs keystrokes into wide-open log HP Inc ships a creepy key-logger on its laptops, according to security researchers.…
Microsoft emits code for DIY Linux IoT hubs. Repeat, Linux IoT hubs (that talk to Azure, duh)
Open-source software to lure devs into Redmond's cloud Build Microsoft has wheeled out open-source software that wrangles Internet of Things devices and beams data to and from Azure.…
IBM wheels out bleedin' big 15TB tape drive
Proprietary tape format bits shrink while capacity bulks up IBM has brought out a TS1155 tape drive as an update on the existing TS1150, offering 15TB raw capacity, half as much again.…
Google buys developers of VR goof-around Job Simulator
For when the robots have taken yours Google has acquired VR games company Owlchemy Labs, makers of Job Simulator. The witty cross-platform VR role-playing game is set in 2050. You're invited to strap on your goggles and engage in now-forgotten activities such as booking a meeting room, finding the office stapler, or other drudgeries associated with early 21st century lifestyles.…
Cisco gobbles AI biz MindMeld for $125m
Platforms, platforms, platforms, powering workplace of future, yada, yada Cisco is the latest member of the tech old guard to jump on to the artificial intelligence bandwagon by slurping MindMeld for $125m (£97m).…
Microsoft touts next Windows 10 Creators Update: It's set for a Fall
Cross-device clipboard, OneDrive placeholder files, mixed reality headsets... Build Microsoft has announced the Windows 10 Fall Creators Update, a second wave of updates to its "Windows as a service" operating system. The first Creators Update was released in April 2017.…
Dyson celebrates 'shock' EU Court win over flawed energy tests
For you, Fritz, the testing is not over Europe's top court has ruled that the General Court issued a flawed and unfair verdict against Dyson, Britain's best-known manufacturer.…
10Mbps universal speeds? We'll give you 30Mbps, pleads Labour in leaked manifesto
Oh go on, we'll throw in a soft-boiled Brexit The UK Labour has pledged a 30Mbps universal broadband speed by 2022, according to a draft leaked version of its manifesto.…
Cloudflare goes berserk on next-gen patent troll, vows to utterly destroy it using prior-art bounties
Web giant wants to invalidate Blackbird Tech's designs, get them thrown out of profession Cloudflare says it will go above and beyond to destroy what it claims is a uniquely dangerous patent troll.…
Microsoft backtracks: 'We are going to support .NET Framework with ASP.NET Core 2.0'
'You do not abandon your users' .NET Foundation chief tells El Reg Build Microsoft will not, after all, restrict its open source, cross-platform web framework ASP.NET Core 2.0 from running on the Windows-only .NET Framework.…
Avast blocks the entire internet – again
Now that's cast-iron antivirus An Avast software update pushed out on Wednesday is preventing web access for at least some devices running the firm's freebie anti-malware software.…
Openreach hints at fibre network strategy rethink
Chief exec says 'significant chunk' of job cuts to come from Global Services Analysis "Collaboration" was the watchword from Openreach chief exec Clive Selley during BT's results this morning. An interesting expression given accusations it previously used its market heft to the disadvantage of its communications providers.…
Police watchdog investigates illegal outsourced Indian hackers scandal
Will the whistleblower please identify himself, asks IPCC The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating claims that the Metropolitan Police used outsourced Indian hackers to illegally access the email accounts of Guardian journalists and environmental campaigners.…
HPE bows to inevitable: Integrity servers get latest Itanium engine and container off-ramp
Will provide workload transition via Linux containers HPE is introducing a new generation of its mission-critical Integrity/HP-UX servers and providing a Linux container migration route to x86 server-land.…
Huge flying arse makes successful test flight
Nine months after its buttocks ignominiously met terra firma The "giant flying bum" Airlander 10 airship has successfully flown for the first time since it nosedived into the ground last summer.…
Uber is a taxi company, not internet, European Court of Justice advised
Now regulate the ass off it Uber is really a transport company, not an internet company, in official advice given to the European Court of Justice. If it's followed by the court, the opinion will have significant impact on horizontally integrated platforms operating in Europe that present themselves as intermediaries and thus bypass many regulations.…
LastPass connectivity snafu locks out Brits from password manager
Cause unclear, users told to go through 'offline mode' Connectivity issues have left Brits unable to reliably access LastPass, the online password manager service, since Tuesday.…
SpaceX settles $3.9m shift pattern class action lawsuit
Workers couldn't take their legally mandated breaks Elon Musk’s SpaceX has agreed pay out nearly $4m to thousands of underpaid employees – yet one of them is curiously annoyed with his court-backed windfall.…
Wedded bliss... ball and chain – how's that Dell EMC honeymoon going?
Well, the divorce lawyers haven't been called yet Analysis At the Dell EMC World event in Las Vegas, the two put a good face on it, with no apparent resentment bubbling underneath, as was the case for Symantec and Veritas.…
Drugs, vodka, Volvo: The Scandinavian answer to Britain's future new border
How Sweden and Norway turned to ANPR Most people leaving Kielder forest park in Northumberland go east towards Tyneside, but you can also head north-west on an uncategorised road through open countryside.…
Phil Collins and supergroup exposed as cloud investors
There's something cloudy in the air tonight. Oh Lord Against all odds, middle-of-the-road rocker Phil Collins – along with ex-Genesis pals – are some of the unlikely backers behind UKCloud.…
Just 99.5 million nuisance calls... and KeurBOOM! A £400K megafine
That'd be 0.4 pence a call – if anyone ever paid it A UK firm found responsible for orchestrating 99.5 million nuisance calls has been fined a record £400,000 (US$517,550) by the Information Commissioner’s Office.…
BT to axe 4,000 jobs across the globe
Profit plunges 19 per cent on back of 'challenging' year BT is to axe 4,000 jobs at worldwide, with profits plunging 19 per cent to £2.4bn during a "challenging" 2016/17 financial year for the former state monopoly.…
Mozilla to Thunderbird: You can stay here and we may give you cash, but as a couple, it's over
Beleaguered email client team gets its 'Dear John' letter A little over a year ago, Mozilla started pondering the future of Thunderbird. And this week, it's decided the troubled open-source email client must sleep in the spare room.…
Bot you see is what you get: The cold reality of Microsoft's chat 'AI'
Look, it's a fancy user interface, not actual intelligence Build Microsoft's Bot Framework received a minor feature injection at the Windows giant's Build 2017 developer conference, with the addition of Adaptive Cards for cross-platform rich media and support for new channels and the company's payment API.…
Oh, great: There's a new Same Origin Policy exploit for Edge
Browser helps attackers by autocompleting passwords Edge nemesis, security tester Manuel Caballero from Buenos Aires, has popped the browser again, getting around its Same Origin Policy to steal stored credentials.…
Taiwan government to block Google's public DNS in favor of HiNet's
Claims it's for cybersecurity – but whose security exactly? The Taiwanese government intends to block Google's public DNS service, citing cybersecurity concerns.…
Mozilla wants EU to slow down its ePrivacy Directive process
'We love privacy, just not this much privacy, not this fast' Mozilla wants the EU to tap the brake on a privacy process slated to deliver a new ePrivacy Directive by May 2018, calling the timeline “overly aggressive”.…
VMware-Dell integration kicks off with on-prem VDI-and-PC-as-a-service
If it weren't for the pricing, this would be very dull stuff indeed When Dell acquired EMC one of the things we were promised was clever integration between Dell EMC hardware and VMware software.…
Dude hit with $300K bill for faking his hours, hacking boss's website
When your fake invoice strategy is black numbers on a black background, you're gonna fail Former security officer Yovan Garcia better have deep pockets: a California district court has presented him with a bill of more than US$300,000 for attacking his former employer's computer systems.…
nbn™ delivers another financial yawn-fest
Solid Q3 with no surprises There's very little to say about the latest numbers from the company building Australia's National Broadband Network, except to say that at least there's no bad news from the government.…
Misery loves company so ServiceNow's built anonymous chat-rooms for the recently p0wned
'Jakarta' release also adds software asset management, multi-cloud wrangling and more Cloud wrangling giant ServiceNow has announced the new stuff that will land in its next release.…
Attention, Asus RT wireless router owners: Patch your gear now to squash web hijack bugs
Buggy admin interface – where have we heard that before? Asus RT wireless routers have joined the SOHOpeless list – with poor cross-site request forgery protection affecting 30 variants of the devices.…
Your 90-second guide to new stuff Nvidia teased today: Volta V100 chips, a GPU cloud, and more
Various bits and bobs to break Intel's heart this year GTC Today at Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference in San Jose, California, CEO Jensen Huang paraded a bunch of forthcoming gear – all aimed at expanding the graphics chip giant’s reach in AI.…
America 'will ban carry-on laptops on flights from UK, Europe to US'
Crackdown coming this week over mid-air bomb blast scares, apparently America is prepared to ban laptops from cabins on flights to the US from UK and Europe, Homeland Security officials said today.…
Senate committee wants all drones registered
Quadcopter hoons on notice That sound you can hear is Australia's drone army angrily hammering their keyboards to try and fend off the threat of re-regulation.…
Go, GoDaddy! Domain-slinger decapitates email patent troll in court
Appeals judge confirms: RPost will get nothing and like it Domain registrar and host GoDaddy has won its battle with a patent-holding company that had accused it of violating a handful of claims related to basic email functions.…
Chinese stock traders hacked lawyers, profited from Intel's Altera gobble, now fined $9m
S'wot the SEC told a court Three Chinese miscreants have made millions on the stock market using insider information stolen from US law firms.…
Well this is awkward. As Microsoft was bragging about Office at Build, Office 365 went down
TITSUP: Total Inability To Stand Up Products Build Microsoft scrambled to get its Office 365 service back online after the cloud productivity suite was hit with a mid-day outage.…
Could US appeals court save us all from 10 years of net neutrality yelling?
California judges agree to rehear critical data privacy case – with huge implications The US Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit has agreed to rehear a critical case on data privacy – one that may reset how Uncle Sam treats phone companies and internet giants, and may even prevent another ten years of fights over net neutrality.…
Microsoft is on the edge: Windows, Office? Naah. Let's talk about cloud, AI
At its dev conference, Redmond is all about Azure, bots, Azure and also Azure Build At the Build 2017 developer conference today, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella marked a Windows milestone – 500 million monthly active users – and proceeded to say very little about Windows or Office.…
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