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But what about cost? Analysis A burst of Optane memory reviews have come out, timed to coincide with Optane retail availability, but none of them answer the "Is it cost-effectively faster than flash?" question.…

And that's good because apps can handle codecs that broadcasters abandon A few weeks back I turned on my television to find out it had stopped receiving two of the free-to-air channels I watched most often. All of the other channels still resolved with perfect, digital clarity, so I couldn’t work out why these two channels - out of four in packaged in a multichannel broadcast signal - failed to display.…

Devs complain web giant's Skills Kit knackers their code Developers trying to integrate their applications with the Amazon Echo have suffered headache after headache for the past week, thanks to mystery problems with Alexa APIs.…

Mitigating the side effects just requires removing the headset A New Yorker and a transplant from London to the Big Apple last week managed to endure watching virtual reality videos for 50 hours non-stop, setting a Guinness World Record in the process.…

Chinese Academy of Sciences thinks it has a way to give DNS a backup The venerable Domain Name System (DNS) is becoming known for fragility, and keeping track of your own favourite sites' IP addresses is a pain. So a group of researchers want to automate the upkeep of hosts to give users an emergency backup if their provider blacks out.…

Unbeli-baaaaaaa-ble Video Scientists in Philadelphia have created a plastic womb that has successfully incubated eight premature lambs – and the doctors behind the project say they will be ready for human trials within three years.…

DRAM prices putting the squeeze on margins Juniper Networks has slipped something of a surprise into its Q1 2017 financials, announcing that it's no longer going to break out service provider and enterprise verticals in its reports.…

WordPress plug-in bug exploited in eight countries An Interpol investigation has revealed a worrying degree of insecurity in south-east Asian countries, with even government-operated web servers infected to operate as command and control systems for bot-herders.…

Patent calls for drives in which mechanical bits and electronics aren't bound together Amazon's won a patent for “Hard disk drive assembly with field-separable mechanical module and drive control”.…

Sammy says trust-known-MACs code is a feature not a bug A security researcher is complaining that Samsung isn't making a serious response to a vulnerability in its Smart TVs.…

Snub says more about misunderstanding rules than anti-immigrant trends, though An Irish Stripe worker was denied entry to America because he had a Somalian stamp in his passport, according to the payment-processing biz's CEO.…

ServiceMesh is still there. But the VSANs are landing to help an automation push The Commonwealth Bank of Australia has made a significant investment in VMware's hyperconverged stack.…

Remote locate, unlock, and start vehicles – using a fixed encryption key... ouch Hyundai has patched its Blue Link smartphone app to stop it blabbing private info that could, it is claimed, be used to break into and steal people's cars.…

Remote locate, unlock, and start vehicles – using a fixed encryption key... ouch Hyundai has patched its Blue Link smartphone app to stop it blabbing private info that could, it is claimed, be used to break into and steal people's cars.…

IT bods can separate monthly updates with new controls Microsoft has added yet another option to its monthly patch jumble for IT departments.…

Blames pricey SF rent for $350,000 insider-trading scam An ex-Expedia IT admin has been fined and jailed for 15 months after he spied on the emails of the travel giant's top brass to make insider trades.…

App dev ransacked after gang used test/test login, it is claimed A Brit biz selling surveillance tools that can be installed on phones to spy on spouses, kids, mates or employees has been comprehensively pwned by hackers – who promise similar stalkerware peddlers are next.…

Burning down the Purple Palace has its rewards When Yahoo! boss Marissa Mayer leaves the merged Verizon-AOL-Yahoo! behemoth, as is expected soon, she'll walk away with stocks and cash today worth $186m.…

Taxi app upstart pushed father-of-two to suicide, say lawyers Uber can add racism to its long list of corporate culture failings, say lawyers representing one of its software engineer who killed himself last year.…

nbn™ still thinks hardly anyone needs gigabit broadband but wants to show it's ready anyway nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's national broadband network (NBN), has demonstrated a 1.1Gbps downstream and 165Mbps upstream connection using its fixed wireless network.…

We'll bung you a tenner to tide you over, no worries, mate Western Digital CEO Steve Milligan says his corporation is willing to help bail out sinking Toshiba.…

High priority apps get first dibbs at fast SSD storage Hyper-converged infrastructure supplier Pivot3 is adding an NVMe flash tier with app-priority-based quality of service (QOS).…

20-year-old Herts man slapped with two years' stripey suntan time A Hertfordshire man has been jailed for two years after netting nearly £400,000 from the malware he wrote as a 15-year-old student.…

Now supports cloud-native apps in AWS, Azure Storage startup Rubrik claims it is taking the lead in public/private cloud data management and says it is approaching a $100m annual run rate after 18 months of product availability.…

For something you never knew you wanted Spotify is seeking experienced hardware engineers to create “a category-defining product”, according to a (now removed) job ad.…

FPGA-based project has scored £290k so far Yet another crowdfunded ZX Spectrum reboot project has emerged – and this one has raised more than £290,000 from backers.…

Now a privately owned debt-free company +Comment Violin Memory is back, as a privately owned company fresh out of bankruptcy.…

SSH... it's Shishiga Hackers have unleashed a new malware strain that targets Linux-based systems.…

Meanwhile, US continues to bury its head in the sand over letter from 114 MPs Lauri Love, the alleged hacktivist from Stradishall, Suffolk, England, has been granted permission to appeal against his extradition to the United States.…

Land Rover BAR's America's Cup hopes rest on just one app We got a sneak peek behind the scenes of the Land Rover BAR sailing team hoping to leave Oracle’s Larry Ellison with a red face in this year’s America’s Cup.…

Can you get to London in May? Promo If you want to get bang up to date on the technology and thinking driving the smartest software operations, you need to join the conference AND workshop sessions at Continuous Lifecycle next month.…

Or is this the start of Microsoft's $26bn LinkedIn writedown? Microsoft will this summer start mining LinkedIn as a CRM database using Dynamics 365 in a bid to challenge Salesforce.…

She's in there. Who's in there, sir? My PIIIIIIINT! A South Dakotan was cuffed after he repeatedly barged past police and firefighters that were trying to deal with a blaze in his apartment block so he could re-enter and rescue his most precious possession - beer.…

Everyone, everything's a target for mysterious APT28 crew The Russian cyberespionage group blamed for the infamous US Democratic National Committee email leak launched targeted phishing attacks against French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign as recently as last month.…

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Comment When Henry Kissinger received the Nobel Peace Prize against the backdrop of the US Air Force's secret bombings in Cambodia, the satirist Tom Lehrer declared that satire had become obsolete. If satire died that day, then Jimmy Wales has dug it up, exhumed the corpse, and is giving it a state funeral.…

Immuta debuts Projects for machine learning governance, 'interpretability is key' – CEO Immuta, a data governance startup in Maryland run by former US National Security Agency technicians, has developed a method to govern how data is used by machine learning algorithms.…

Weighty S8 bait, trait by trait Review The P10 Plus is the big brother of Huawei’s 2017 flagship the P10. And as you’d expect, it's beefier, heavier and packing a bigger battery, a better camera and display, better antennas for faster LTE, and infrared.…

If you didn't want to travel from Taunton-to-Trowbridge before, you probably won't now either Great Western Rail has been advertising the bargain of a lifetime; a first-class journey from Taunton to Trowbridge for £10,000.…

No downtime till 2018 CERN made headlines with the discovery by physicists in 2012 of the Higgs boson, paving the way to a breakthrough in our understanding of how fundamental particles interact.…

Monolinguist or code polymath? So, you want to create a hugely successful machine-learning startup? Or you've been asked to start investigating ML for your firm? Well, you'd better get programming – but what language should you use? No languages have been designed specifically with ML in mind, but some do lend themselves to the task.…

Reasonable, fair, no-nonsense. Typical Canucks Analysis Canadians are so reasonable. As far as we're aware there aren't any derogatory terms used by Canadians to describe their continental cousins below them – quite an achievement given the endless efforts by Americans to cajole and rile them at every opportunity.…

Law-flouting ride service challenged for alleged privacy, wiretap, and business law violations A former Lyft driver is suing Uber alleging the ride-summoning biz spied on his movements and violated privacy, competition, and communications laws.…

OmniTI calls time on Illumos-inspired operating system Development of OmniOS – an Oracle-free open-source variant of Solaris – is being killed after five years of work.…

Miller and Valasek spread the word on hacking archive Two famed car hackers claim they can save fellow tinkerers and security researchers a lot of time and money – by handing over their tools and blueprints for free. The pair boast the gear is worth over a million bucks.…

Endorsement from SFX house is a major win Case study HPE has enabled DreamWorks Animation to replace legacy storage systems by having Qumulo software running on its Apollo servers.…

They're going to get plenty of LipChat IRC-for-biz HipChat says a vulnerability in a software library used by its HipChat.com service allowed hackers to access private conversations and customer account information.…

Even automated security tool thinks Redmond's snooping operating system is 'malicious' Webroot's security tools went berserk today, mislabeling key Microsoft Windows system files as malicious and temporarily removing them – knackering PCs in the process.…

'Stolen creds' used to swipe data on aerospace giant's staff Northrop Grumman has admitted one of its internal portals was broken into, exposing employees' sensitive tax records to miscreants.…

Imitation is the sincerest form of abuse Hastening the arrival of a world in which simulation is indistinguishable from reality, startup Lyrebird has announced plans to power up an online service software can use to imitate a person's voice.…

Also worked for Google, Comcast, Qualcomm... Analysis One of the most popular applause lines from Donald Trump's presidential campaign was that he would "drain the swamp" – meaning put an end to the corrupt, revolving door of government and private practice that virtually defines modern Washington, DC.…