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Helped along by billion dollar-plus cash pile outside USA BI and data warehouser Teradata's revenues fell 10 per cent on the year from $545m to $491m in the first quarter of 2017, with a loss of $2m as the firm's recovery under new CEO Victor Lund still has a ways to go.…

Staying compliant & off the front page There’s nothing quite like a nice, juicy financial crisis to wake up the regulators’ rule-setters, psych up the lawmakers and get the lawyers sharpening their quill pens and breaking out a fresh bottle of Quink. And so it seems to have been proven since the financial car crash of the mid to late noughties, with the appearance of a variety of new rules and legislation to keep the financial services industry on its toes.…

We’re testing, testing, testing...the food We’ll be opening the doors for Continuous Lifecycle London 2017 in less than three weeks, meaning time is running out to secure a front row seat for three days of the best in DevOps, Containers, Agile, CD and more.…

Not so smart now, eh? Seven in ten UK universities have admitted falling victim to a phishing attack in which an individual has been tricked into disclosing personal details via an email purporting to be from a trusted source.…

Catalogue of errors by stuck-in-the-rut firm Comment Here's a suggestion – Seagate, led by a combined chairman and CEO, has made a catalogue of tactical errors in the face of the NAND tidal wave while rival Western Digital has pivoted sideways to embrace flash.…

All 28 countries' navies now speak the same language below the waves Boffins at NATO have managed to ratify, across the entire alliance, the first ever official standard for underwater digital communications.…

Go wild, the KEYone is here BlackBerry Mobile has begun shipping its first post-BlackBerry phone in the UK today, although fans will need to cross their fingers and pop into Selfridges' Oxford Street store in London to find one.…

Woes whack Wi-Fi webcam willy with weak websec walls The US Federal Trade Commission has been urged to launch a probe into a hackable sex toy, which is potentially exposing couples' teledildonic frolics to cyberpervs.…

31.7 trillion flops – pretty sporty HPC Blog Another world record has fallen. Asian Student Cluster competitors have broken the student LINPACK record with an amazing score of 31.7 TF/s. This barely tops the former record of 31.15 TF/s set at SC16 by the University of Science & Technology of China.…

Disappearing platforms problem SourceForge wants tighter ties with other code repositories following Microsoft’s decision to shutter CodePlex.…

The scramble for space driving the commodity race There's a war brewing in the cloud, and machine learning may well determine the outcome. With infrastructure services trending toward commoditisation, each of the big-three cloud purveyors is racing to augment vanilla IaaS and PaaS with not-so-vanilla machine learning (ML)/artificial intelligence (AI) smarts. Sure, they're way out in front of the market – most enterprises simply aren't doing much with ML – but the hope is that by paving the way to a dystopian future when the machines take over they will make boatloads of money along the way.…

New standard addresses wireline aspects of low latency 5G Analysis We can no longer see 5G as a wireless standard alone. Its heart may still be a 3GPP-defined radio, but to deliver commercial benefits to operators (old or new), wireline links will be as important as wireless ones, and architectural change will be more important than an updated air interface.…

Verizon super depressing report's in Cyberespionage and ransomware attacks are on the increase, according to the latest annual edition of Verizon's breach report.…

It's basically a promise to do better and not mess things up Symantec is hoping to get its certificates back on Google's trust list.…

All too easy to choke enemies' gateways, it seems Broadband modems using Intel's bungled Puma 6 chipset can be overloaded and virtually knocked offline by a trivial stream of packets, it is claimed.…

Met cops gloat after pair admits to pilfering subscriber records Two chaps in the UK have admitted stealing more than 150,000 customer records from TalkTalk.…

Faulty LPC clock bus timed out Intel finally has reworked its flawed Atom C2000 chips, which have been failing at a greater-than-expected rate for about a year and a half.…

Virtual Skype turns out to be a reason to pick up the phone Citrix has posted a solid first quarter in which it posted modest revenue and profit gains, beat its expected earnings-per-share and said its transition to selling cloudy subscriptions is coming along nicely.…

'You shall not use the silhouette of any fruit' commands Cupertino idiot tax operation In the never-ending effort by Apple to think higher of itself, the computer giant has opposed a trademark featuring the silhouette of a pear.…

Cisco won't blink, but high-frequency traders may get twitchy Australian company Exablaze has released a switch with claimed latency of just 49 nanoseconds.…

Five nasties await netadmins Admins of SolarWinds system management systems can block out a biggish chunk of their diaries to implement a bunch of serious patches.…

‘Antbleed’ attack could crock 70 per cent of all mining. Time to try another flavour? A new branded bug (sigh) has landed, specific to an ASIC-based Bitcoin miner: dubbed “Antbleed”, it allows remote shutdown of hardware sold by a company called "Bitmain".…

Boffins turned up hard-coded password in ancient controllers General Electric is pushing patches for protection relay bugs that, if exploited, could open up transmission systems to a grid-scale attack.…

Distro download servers are too hard to run and users ignore them anyway Debian's decided to shut down its public File Transfer Protocol (FTP) services, because hardly anybody uses them any more and they're hard to operate and maintain.…

Centre for Internet Safety calls for consumer safeguards Default passwords, unpatched firmware, unencrypted traffic: according to a report from a Canberra University research organisation, Australia's smart electricity meter rollouts are characterised by n00b-level security gaffes.…

Another reason to feel queasy when leaving – bank-card-stealing malware The last quarter has been a trying one for Mexican fast-food chain Chipotle. People are returning to its restaurants after the great 2015 E coli outbreak, but now customers are being struck by a different kind of virus.…

No more test patches without a subscription Linux users, the free lunch is over. Pennsylvania-based Open Source Security on Wednesday decided to stop making test patches of Grsecurity available for free.…

ISPs told they'll have to find another vendor Exclusive Hewlett Packard Enterprise has quietly axed its OpenSDN suite, effective immediately.…

Google Play scanners asleep at the switch while morons tap away their security Ad-displaying malware in nearly 50 apps on the Google Play Store has infected nearly two million phones.…

Watchdog boss opens can of worms, sticks partisan head in The head of America's telecoms regulator, the FCC, has vowed to kill off his nation's net neutrality safeguards.…

Bug of the week, perhaps? Netizens trying to sell items in Facebook Marketplace for the first time were completely locked out of the social network for 72 hours this week.…

We'll give it to you when it's ready – and it is not Microsoft has urged non-tech-savvy people – or anyone who just wants a stable computer – to not download and install this year's biggest revision to Windows by hand. And that's because it may well bork your machine.…

Beating flash on $/TB in nearline drives a core strategy Seagate made a canine evening meal of its third 2017 fiscal quarter – with flattish revenues on the annual compare greeted by a disappointed Wall Street expecting more and marking the shares down 15 per cent. The full year revenue is likely to show an annual decline as well.…

In short, stop flogging players with pirate add-ons Europe's highest court has made it easier for member states to halt the sale of media sticks with preloaded pirate streaming links and add-ons.…

Silicon Valley has a problem with IP. And it won't grow up Comment Thanks to the World Intellectual Property Organization, today is World Intellectual Property Day 2017. Perhaps this celebration needs a dark companion – World Hypocrisy Day. Here's why.…

Orange County loses disk and flash fabber’s HQ as jobs go in transformation opportunity Western Digital Corp is moving its HQ from Irvine, Orange County in southern California to San Jose in the north of the state, with job losses in both areas.…

MPs find BBC job creation offsets redundo positions The BBC has given up trying to cut the number of its employees paid more than the British Prime Minister, the UK's National Audit Office has discovered.…

You're helping terrorists, shrieks Amber 'Hashtags' Rudd Twitter has reportedly blocked a third-party firm used by the Home Office from accessing its firehose, prompting the government to complain that the social network is siding with terrorists.…

You're helping terrorists, shrieks Amber 'Hashtags' Rudd Twitter has reportedly blocked a third-party firm used by the Home Office from accessing its firehose, prompting the government to complain that the social network is siding with terrorists.…

Supporting The War Against Terror, one update at a time Drone bods DJI has quietly released a series of software updates that geofence off large areas of Iraq and Syria – indicating the Chinese firm is covertly helping the US war against Islamic extremists.…

Critical design bug caused havoc on 30 March Neatgear has cocked up its cloud management service, losing data stored locally on ReadyNAS devices' shared folders worldwide – and customers have complained to The Register about only being informed four weeks later.…

Records highest quarterly operating profit in its history Korean DRAMmer and NAND fabber SK Hynix reported revenue rises and record profits in its first 2017 quarter.…

Build it and they will come. Maybe "5G doesn't mean anything to us," says Kirill Filippov, chief executive of SPB TV, an OTT TV, IPTV and mobile TV provider touting live 360 VR in 4G at this year's Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.…

Build it and they will come. Maybe "5G doesn't mean anything to us," says Kirill Filippov, chief executive of SPB TV, an OTT TV, IPTV and mobile TV provider touting live 360 VR in 4G at this year's Mobile World Congress event in Barcelona.…

And Trump's 'fake news' bleating harms US tradition of defending free press The UK has dropped two places on the World Press Freedom Index following the passing of the Investigatory Powers Act and threats to pursue journalists reporting on national security.…

Small racks, large GPUs HPC Blog More than 230 university teams vied for only 20 slots in the 2017 Asian Student Cluster Competition (ASC) finals being held this week in Wuxi, China. At 20 teams, this is the largest cluster competition the world has ever seen. Really, it is.…

Your best excuse for using Firefox or Chome is just that April’s almost done and May here, and you know what that means. Not the end of a month of showers, rather yet-another round of browser stats articles showing, if past trend is an indication of future development, the continued loss of market share by Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and the rise and rise of Google’s Chrome.…

More like National Fail amirite? On the heels of an IT error leading to Great Western Rail advertising a first-class journey from Taunton to Trowbridge for £10,000 comes an exponentially more expensive offer from National Rail.…

Adios, the Canny Guru solving Sphinx-level COBOL riddles While it’s easy to start up a few, flashy new DevOps teams, releasing to production each week and flaunting the ball-and-chain of enterprise governance, scaling that change to your organisation will always be challenging, if not crushingly impossible.…

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