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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2N55H)
You left the stable door open? AGAIN? C'mon guys, keep those guests locked up Qubes is once again regretting how long it's taken to abandon Xen's PV hypervisor, disclosing another three bugs including host escape vulnerabilities.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2N51G)
China, really bad. IPhones, meh. Aw who are we kidding, it made a billion dollars in profit Apple's iPad sales continue to plummet, and iPhone sales are going flat, but the Cupertino idiot tax operation was still able to haul in a hefty $11bn profit in the past quarter.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2N4YB)
docker run Steve Singh # Chairman takes over as CEO Easy-to-use container pioneer Docker on Tuesday installed a new chief executive, swapping Ben Golub for Steve Singh, the co-founder and former CEO of travel expense biz Concur, now owned by SAP.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2N4MC)
Oddly, fails to mention massive voter distrust, strategic failings Hillary Clinton today gave her first full interview since dramatically losing the US presidential election – and has placed the blame for her downfall on Russian hackers, FBI director James Comey and Wikileaks.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2N4JP)
Oddly, fails to mention massive voter distrust, strategic failings Hillary Clinton has given her first full interview since dramatically losing the US presidential election and has placed the blame for her loss on Russian hackers, FBI director James Comey and Wikipedia.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2N4CV)
Linux vendor insists on thinking inside the containerized box Enterprise Linux vendor Red Hat on Tuesday said it will make Amazon Web Services available through the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2N4BF)
They may take our bytes, but they'll never take... OUR FREEDOM! In the latest display of FCC-Senate two-step dancing, Senate Republicans have proposed new legislation that would eliminate net neutrality rules in America – just days after the federal regulator's chief announced he would fight to do the same.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2N4BH)
Shine comes off hyper-converged boxes as meteoric growth plateaus Analysis Should we be concerned about Nutanix? Two bosses have left, its share price is falling, and it's now worth just a little less than Pure Storage.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2N480)
Whose fault was it? We have a pretty good Ikea A fat-fingered human accidentally broke a transatlantic internet backbone that knackered Cloudflare's content delivery network in the US.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2N3NN)
Super-speedy Axellio servers take the fight to the old guard Fifty microsecond storage access and 12 million IOPS gives X-IO's Axellio server the edge at the edge.…
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by John Leyden on (#2N3FR)
23-year-old walks away with probation and $1.5m fine A game hacker who admitted involvement in a plot to steal millions from Electronic Arts was sentenced to probation by a Texas court on Monday.…
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by John Leyden on (#2N36X)
Greetings from sunny Salamanca Startup Olé 2017 Hardware tech and companies from across the world came together at the EU-backed Startup Olé conference in Salamanca, western Spain, last week.…
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by Clodagh Doyle on (#2N32Q)
You’re not taking das Michael, German judges tell gigolo’s impregnated client A German woman who was impregnated by a male escort she apparently hired to liven up a stay in the East of the country has had her attempts to track him down trumped by the country’s rigid data protection laws.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2N3KE)
Windows 10 Cloud trying to replace Chromebooks Liveblog It's a warm day in New York City and Microsoft is holding a large press event that is expected to be the debut for its plans to take over some of Chromebook's market share.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2N2Z0)
Windows 10 Cloud trying to replace Chromebooks Liveblog It's a warm and moist day in New York City and Microsoft is holding a large press event that is expected to be the debut for its plans to take over some of Chromebook's market share.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2N2VG)
Mouthy vendor issues ten grand win-or-lose challenge Ten grand win or lose – Infinidat is spoiling for a fight against all-flash array vendors with its "Faster than All-Flash Challenge".…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2N2R5)
Puff, puff... pass A Florida woman was arrested for repeatedly ignoring a cop's request to hand over a pot pipe, preferring instead – according to cops – to conceal the gear in her nether regions.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2N2M2)
How about that stripey suntan then, boyo? Linux Mint terrorist Samata Ullah has been jailed for eight years by Cardiff Crown Court.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2N2M3)
Security breach? Really? ZX Spectrum reboot company Retro Computers Ltd appears to have lost control of two of its web domain names over the weekend – and is now complaining about a “security breach†after some cheeky person bought them and pointed them at sites criticising RCL.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2N2GY)
Security breach? Really? ZX Spectrum reboot company Retro Computers Ltd appears to have lost control of two of its web domain names over the weekend – and is now complaining about a “security breach†after some cheeky person bought them and pointed them at sites criticising RCL.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2N2D8)
Scale-out servers packaged in ickle-wickle cases +Comment Say hello to hyperdense server and NVMe storage startup Aparna Systems and its Cloud-in-a-Box system.…
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What could possibly go wrong? LinkedIn users desperate to climb the greasy pole but unable to come up with necessary corporate small talk to do so, will be able to use chatbots to shoot the shit for them.…
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Customers warned sites such as gb.com will no longer be in use Owners of domain names at several extensions, including .gb.com, will no longer be able to use their registered sites as of this week, with reseller CentralNic having told customers those domains have been "sunset".…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2N28F)
Relevant Bill section now five times longer Lawyers are exempt from tweaks to UK law aimed at combatting "patent trolls". The Intellectual Property (Unjustified Threats) Bill received Royal Assent last week to little fanfare.…
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by Scott Gilbertson on (#2N25P)
Shaping up for a Red Hat or SUSE future If the recent news that Canonical is killing its Unity 8 desktop/phone interface and Mir display server caught you off guard, it’s only because you haven't been paying attention to the ups and down of the Linux world.…
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by OUT-LAW.COM on (#2N23N)
Total annual contract value highest ever recorded The total annual value of outsourcing contracts agreed in the UK in the first three months of 2017 hit record levels, according to new figures.…
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Calls for UK.gov to close the loopholes allowing 'bogus' self-employment status MPs have slammed the "bogus" self-employment practices of so-called gig economy companies, accusing the likes of Uber, Amazon and Deliveroo of passing the buck on to the welfare state.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2N1YQ)
Software-defined satellites will run XenServer and let you upload new workloads Virtualization admins asked to explain what they do for a living may finally have something cooler than server consolidation to tell their kids, thanks to space upstart Vector deciding it's a good idea to create software-defined satellites that lift a hypervisor into orbit.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2N1XV)
Rodan + Fields discovers you can't put lipstick on this pig of a tech setup Rodan + Fields managed to turn skincare and social marketing into a billion dollar business over the past 15 years, but for the past week, the high-flying cosmetics seller has been without a website to handle sales.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2N1VF)
Winter upgrade boosted 'inverse femtobarns' for more accurate stuff-spotting CERN says the restart process for the Large Hadron Collider is complete and the proton-smasher is ready to start its 2017 science program.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2N1SH)
MPs suggest 'system' of punishments in web crackdown An influential panel of UK MPs have proposed fining the likes of Facebook, Google and Twitter if they fail to remove illegal content within a certain timeframe.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2N1MJ)
ECRYPT WhobOx Challenge opens May 15 Defender or attacker, it's less than a fortnight away from the WhibOx Challenge, a capture-the-flag (CTF) competition operated by the EU-supported ECRYPT.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2N1JD)
Also won't say why <1,000 people didn't get paid Stricken Australian payroll-services-for-contractors outfit Plutus Payroll is “very solvent†and has “no prospect of receivershipâ€.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2N1D2)
Outlook Forms aren't macros, after all - but is it a bug or a feature? A bunch of white-hat researchers have turned up a nasty new vector for attacking Microsoft Outlook: a forms creation feature that bypasses macro rules so attackers can get to the victim's shell.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2N1D4)
Truck hauls up Nextgen fibre, the fix is in once repair crews can find the break A cut to a Nextgen Networks fibre is cutting off Northern Territory Optus and TPG customers north of Katherine.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2N19C)
'Americans must transform and modernize its information technology' but Silicon Valley hasn't been invited to help United States president Donald Trump has issued an executive order to establish an “American Technology Council†and given it a job to “coordinate the vision, strategy, and direction for the Federal Government's use of information technology and the delivery of services through information technologyâ€.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2N17C)
DevOps types are going to have to prioritise Ops for a bit to quash Java, login vulns Cloudbees's Jenkins needs a patch against a Java deserialisation vulnerability.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2N15F)
US$610 million shaves a third from last year's valuation Cisco has just paid $US610 million to buy an software-defined WAN outfit founded and managed by former Cisco execs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2N12S)
Don't worry, baby, it'll be really great in the second quarter AMD is optimistic about its chances of getting back into black ink after what it felt was a strong quarter to start the year.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2N0XW)
Plutus Payroll 'is suspending our business activities due to a commercial dispute' Tech contractors say the've not been paid after an outfit called “Plutus Payroll†removed all substantive content from its web site and replace it with news it “is suspending our business activities due to a commercial dispute.â€â€¦
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2N0QH)
Bosses must fix workplace culture Analysis Among the reasons people leave jobs in the technology industry, the most common, according to a study released last week, is unfair treatment.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2N0JR)
Remember how awful it was last time around? Just you wait Blowback from the decision to reopen net neutrality rules in America is continuing, with cities, the Washington courts and presidential advisors all piling in.…
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by Chris Williams on (#2N0FK)
Vuln reported in March, now fix is coming... slowly For the past nine years, millions of Intel workstation and server chips have harbored a security flaw that can be potentially exploited to remotely control and infect systems with spyware.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2N0CR)
No fix ready yet for DoS-able home gateways Netgear has warned customers about the trivial denial-of-service vulnerability discovered in its Intel-powered gigabit cable modems.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2N04D)
That's one way to boost new handset sales Google has published timelines for when it will kill off security patches for its Nexus-branded Android line.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2MYFM)
Begun, the immersion lithography wars have Updated ASML and Zeiss have counter-sued Nikon over patents used in the manufacture of microchips.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2MYDA)
'Green Knight' - aka HPE - says it's more agile after cutting itself in half with a light sabre Dell EMC looks to be courting HPE sales people with a Monty Python and the Holy Grail parody that compares the latter company to the film's infamously incompetent Black Knight.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2MY9S)
Court deems the site's for copyright infringement, orders DNS blocks Australia's Federal Court has come to the conclusion that KickassTorrents' primary purpose is copyright infringement and has therefore ordered the nation's internet service providers to block access to its many URLs.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2MY2X)
Head of consumer orders staff into stores on May day to have salt rubbed into wounds Huawei's taken drastic steps to mollify customers upset that its response to a chip shortage was to grab lower-performance substitutes.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2MXZ9)
It's a big release for storage, shared memory, CPU speed boosts and touchy-feely types Linus Torvalds has given the world version 4.11 of the Linux kernel.…
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