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We take a look at a couple of startups and their hype Comment Containerized apps will gravitate to using containerized system services such as storage and security.…

Coming soon: Cracking IoT kit and industrial control systems Popular offensive hacking toolkit Metasploit now works on hardware, including cars, after a major update to the 13-year old platform.…

The Australian Synchrotron warns it's been wormholed, but not dangerously UPDATE The Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) is investigating a computer security breach at the Australian Synchrotron that saw hackers steal scientists' usernames and passwords Friday.…

NSX-T takes network virtualization into the weird world of cloud-native apps VMware has revealed a new cut of its NSX network virtualization product, “NSX-T”.…

No, not Trump... think clouds and parcels Amazon.com shares sank in after-hours trading after its Q4 2016 earnings fell short of analysts' estimates.…

'AND WE MAY NEVER MAKE A PROFIT,' laughs photo-spaff app maker all way to the bank Millennial vanity magnifier Snap Inc, the post-profit maker of Snapchat, hopes to raise $3bn in an initial public offering.…

Don't forget the human touch, says Citrix Promo Webinars are seen as the top-performing lead generator, and the growing business use of mobile devices is extending their reach ever further.…

Public to finally get to see regulator orders before vote The new chairman of the US Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, has come good on a promise to modernize the regulator by getting rid of its most infuriating habit: secret orders.…

US ISP is always app-y to take your money Comcast has kicked off a beta program that will let customers watch TV on Roku hardware, but only if they pay extra.…

More than 1,000 government computer systems shut down A county in Ohio, US, has had to shut down its entire IT infrastructure due to a ransomware outbreak.…

So brave, so very brave Tech goliaths Apple, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are planning to take a stand against the Trump Administration's hardline immigration policy ... because their bottom line demands it.…

Despite the layoffs, Mozilla insists it will be increasing its headcount Mozilla is ending its Connected Devices initiative, the flailing software maker's effort to influence the design and development of networkable things.…

Workaround is to disable the thing – no fix just yet for unlucky corps hit Updated Anti-malware firm Webroot has apologized after an update pushed out this week borked computers at unlucky companies, leaving the PCs unbootable.…

2-in-1s are all about 'generating customer love' In its advice to the manufacturing community, Microsoft has said it wants PC builders to focus on quality and features that differentiate PCs from Macs. It's also seeking to migrate high-end features, and AR, into cheaper kit.…

Hello darkness my old friend Microsoft program manager Mads Torgersen has posted about the company's programming language strategy, stating that the plan for Visual Basic has shifted from co-evolution with C# to a focus on "core scenarios".…

No customs union, everything else TBD The UK government has published its long-awaited white paper on negotiating a withdrawal from the European Union.…

Update your StruxureWare Data Center Expert to v7.4, quick! Schneider Electric has issued a patch for its StruxureWare Data Center Expert industrial control kit following the discovery of a flaw that could allow remote access to unencrypted passwords.…

'It's a nice opportunity,' says Canuck outsourcing giant While most of the world looks on in despair at Trump, Canadian outsourcer CGI is rubbing its hands together at the prospect of some lovely new business.…

DevOps takes on the challenge Promo By working closely together, development and operations teams are improving the speed and quality of application development. But what about the database?…

Cloud provider offers DR-as-a-service using flash Analysis All-flash arrays are now the storage choice du jour for storing fast access primary data but have not been used for storing secondary data, such as unstructured data, ordinary files and just-in-case disaster recovery (DR) data. But change is coming, driven by cheaper flash drives and the realisation that fast access to secondary data is, obviously, better than slow access.…

Steve Jobs didn't just stiff Apple devs, he stiffed Pixar VFXers too VFX workers who created animations for Pixar and Disney movies have won $100m in an out-of-court settlement of a wage-fixing lawsuit.…

Weaker pound and UK revenue decline pooping on the party Vodafone posted a sales fall of 20 per cent to €1.7bn (£1.4bn) in the UK for its third-quarter results, dragging overall sales down 3.9 per cent to €13.7bn (£11.6bn) compared with the previous year.…

Oz police go watchdog over profiteering pot-pushers Aussie coppers have got into the consumer rights business after a distraught stoner turned to them to complain about profiteering by her local pot dealer.…

Las Vegas hotel changes world Reg Standards Bureau Our thanks today are due to Michelle O'Sullivan, late of this parish, who snapped a wonderful poster boasting to residents of the LINQ Hotel in Las Vegas of its recycling prowess.…

Hacking convention's founder hacked off with executive order The next edition of the well-regarded ‪PasswordsCon‬ conference is in doubt as an indirect result of the Trump administration's controversial travel ban.…

Is your machine learning? Pity the 34 staff of Fukoku Mutual Life Insurance in Japan, diligently calculating insurance payouts and brutally replaced by an AI system. If you believe the reports from January, the AI revolution is here.…

A story of a £24k ring and a man who compared himself to Nelson Mandela A "serial entrepreneur" from Leicester who compared himself to Nelson Mandela and whose solar power company is alleged to have defrauded Hewlett Packard Enterprise out of $17.5m in discounts has been jailed for 18 months by the High Court following an application by HPE.…

24-rack unit replaced with 15 'blades', performance gained, millions saved – so they say A 24-rack NetApp system has been replaced with a single Pure Storage FlashBlade product at a customer site.…

Yep, that's gotta hurt Sysadmin blog Holistic IT is hard. There are those among us who want to purchase hardware, software, services or so-called turnkey "solutions" – as vendors call them – bearing logos and stickers and otherwise don't require any architect-level thinking. None of us wants to dive deep into compliance regimes to understand what we need to do.…

Even in rural Australia, sharing is resisted Analysis The advantages of network sharing seem glaringly obvious in a world where the mismatch between mobile data demand and mobile data ARPU is rushing MNOs’ profits. The need to reduce the cost of delivering those rising tides of data is urgent, but many operators are ready to discuss almost any tactic – Wi-Fi offload, automation, outsourcing, even an early move to more spectrally efficient 5G radios, or an outright merger – rather than consider sharing the RAN load with others.…

Just... why? Comment Mark Zuckerberg is the world's fifth-richest man on the basis that stock markets think he's pretty smart. That's not the entire reason for Zuck taking his place alongside Gulf oil sheikhs – but it's certainly a big factor in Facebook's astronomical evaluation. But this week's Facebook strategy insights make you wonder how smart he really is.…

Wholesale price agreement slashes telco-to-telco charges The European Commission has taken the next step towards the scheduled end of roaming charges in the European Union, securing agreement on maximum wholesale charges telcos will be able to charge each other to handle roaming subscribers.…

Windows XP? SHA-1? USB sneakernet? What were they thinking? Or smoking? The Netherlands has decided its vote-counting software isn't ready for prime time, and will revert to hand-counted votes for its March 15 election.…

He who controls the film rights controls the universe The legendary sci-fi novel Dune is going to be turned into a movie again – and, thanks to director Denis Villeneuve, it may not suck.…

Plus: Boston Dynamics builds 'nightmare-inducing' jumping pram Videos Watch out – robots are now fast and strong enough to catch live fish and kick balls underwater, according to a group of engineers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.…

Implementation, however, may take some time Usenix Enigma 2017 Data center managers should take some tips from the US Secret Service when protecting vital servers from hackers, says someone who has been through a White House lockdown.…

And restored itself. But the code locker lost about six hours of data for 707 users GitLab.com, the wannabe GitHub alternative that yesterday went down hard and reported data loss, has confirmed that some data is gone but that its services are now operational again.…

Security outfit Zimperium wants to sell info on vintage Android and iOS exploits Security firm Zimperium will spend US$1.5 million buying hacks targeting flaws in three-year-old Android KitKat and ancient versions of iOS.…

Spinning rust for desktops-as-a-service is soooooo 2016 Amazon Web Services has found another way to make its “Workspaces” desktop-as-a-service offering more attractive: as of today the cloudy Windows instances run on solid state disks instead of ye olde spinning rust hard disks.…

Citius, altius, fortius, recyclius The organising committee for the Tokyo 2020 Summer and Paralympic games has announced that medals at the games will be made from recycled electronics.…

CMS sultan decided you'd be happier not knowing you were ever in danger Last week's WordPress patch run fixed a then-secret zero day bug that let remote unauthorised hackers edit or delete WordPress pages.…

President Bannon can't turn off the Internet, but he'll give it a damn good try The United States' temporary ban on seven nations' citizens seeking to walk on it soil has wrung a rare almost-political statement out of the Internet Engineering Task Force.…

But he's keen on a technology-agnostic NBN energy policy with lots of coal in it Listen closely and you'll hear the tears of hipster app creators, angel investors and "Silicon Beach" real-estate speculators weeping that Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, once such folks' champions, appears now to be ignoring them.…

Remote unauthenticated control over a vulnerable ISP's gear Cisco is advising ISPs and other service providers using its Prime Home system to install a security update immediately – to squash a serious remote execution bug.…

Snitches get stitches A man has been indicted on arson and insurance fraud charges after police got hold of readings from his pacemaker that called his alibi into question.…

Cook bakes up another Chipzilla-free component for fruity computers – report Apple is believed to be developing another ARM-based processor that will challenge Intel hardware in its Mac line.…

ZeniMax prevails in court fight over broken agreement Game maker ZeniMax has been awarded $500 million in its lawsuit against Facebook-owned VR firm Oculus.…

Humans in self-driving cars hit panic button far less in 2016 Self-driving cars may actually learn how to drive well enough to be deployed without human oversight some day, legislation and society permitting.…

President's executive order causes jitters, but data agreement became law today The transatlantic Privacy Shield data transfer agreement is not at risk from Trump's executive actions, former FTC Commissioner Julie Brill has promised.…

Big Apple goes to court on claims it– BUFFERING (0%) New York's Attorney General is suing cable giant Charter on claims of false advertising of its internet speeds.…