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Consultancy expects to take on 3,000 of 6,500 employees French multinational IT consultancy Capgemini is set to gobble Ciber, which has filed for bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 of the United States bankruptcy code.…

Daaaamn, these exploits are old-school The self-styled Shadow Brokers group has made a collection of NSA hacking tools and exploits publicly available.…

And now we are all part of this sickening cycle too The chief executive of T-Mobile US has offered a random teen on the internet a year’s supply of chicken nuggets if he switches from AT&T.…

I can see me mam's house from up here Korean flash fabber SK Hynix has built a 72-layer 3D NAND die with 256Gb capacity.…

Collective legal action rears its head in Horizon IT scandal Over 1,000 subpostmasters whom the Post Office accused of dipping into the tills — wrongly, many complained, citing problems affecting the Post Office's Horizon IT system — could be set to join a group litigation order to clear their names.…

Risen from the ashes? “NetApp has risen from the ashes and executed an unlikely business transformation” – at least according to one Wall Street convert.…

How premium, you ask? Analysis When YouTube announced its standalone TV subscription service last month, Faultline called for Apple to return fire, and last week there were rumours doing the rounds that Apple is preparing to rope in premium content providers to offer a bundled subscription package of its own.…

From EMC to IBM, XIV to Diligent, the Symmetrix inventor is still going hard at 68 Profile The man is an enigma, but you can't expect billionaires to be easily understood people. He has performed several storage engineering firsts; he develops products and is basically a storage legend in his own lifetime. He is also said to have a massive ego.…

Just show me the money! Comment "It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice," according to Chinese revolutionary Deng Xiaoping.…

Just show me the money! Comment "It doesn't matter whether a cat is white or black, as long as it catches mice," according to Chinese revolutionary Deng Xiaoping.…

Compares Mir chat to 'irrational' gun control or climate change debates, so F-that-S Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth has labelled some members of the free software community habitual, hateful and reflexive contrarians.…

Standards help, too, as we fight to ensure the cost of sharing doesn't outweigh the benefits A long-ago cartoon in The New Yorker put it plainly: "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a dog." If that cartoon had been written today, the caption might have read, "On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a fraud."…

So why can it read scripts sent by SMS anyhow? TP-Link's M5350 3G/Wi-Fi router, has the kind of howling bug that gives infosec pros nightmares.…

270,000 customers advised not to worry but also to watch out for odd transactions and ponder password refresh Payday lender Wonga has advised 270,000 customers of a data breach and offered inconsistent advice about the severity of the incident and how to respond.…

9,448 of world's most popular airliner have flown since April 9th, 1967. 4,500 more are on order. 168 were written off Boeing's 737, the world's most common airliner, turned 50 over the weekend: the single-aisle workhorse first took to the skies on April 9th, 1967.…

'Castellans' memorise manuals, 'Tinkers' can't stop hacking hardware. Keep 'Algorithmicists' out of a corner office Open source luminary Eric S. Raymond has given the world eight “Hacker Archetypes” that he thinks offer useful ways to categorise your colleagues and by doing so help them to understand their strengths and weaknesses.…

'Castellans' memorise manuals, 'Tinkers' can't stop hacking hardware. Keep 'Algorithmicists' out of a corner office Open source luminary Eric S. Raymond has given the world eight “Hacker Archetypes” that he thinks offer useful ways to categorise your colleagues and by doing so help them to understand their strengths and weaknesses.…

Cupertino's so keen on Android it took eight months to repair interception bug If you're so much an Apple fan that you run Apple Music on Android devices, there's an upgrade to patch against a man-in-the-middle vulnerability.…

Testing was inadequate, staff training worse, averaging incomes was known to be risky but used anyway Australia's Commonwealth Ombudsman has published its report (PDF) on Centrelink’s automated debt raising and recovery system and found that while it is capable of correctly assessing debts, the agency was aware it had flaws and did little to prevent them.…

FireEye, McAfee, disclose over the weekend. Will Microsoft squash it on Patch Tuesday? All eyes will be on Microsoft's April patch run - due tomorrow - to see whether Redmond gets ahead of a nasty Word zero-day that popped up last week.…

US Customs OKs interface re-written software Arista has been cleared by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to start shipping modified products to the United States again.…

LiDAR? I barely know her! Uber has filed its response to Waymo's trade secret suit, arguing it does not even use the self-driving car technology described in the complaint.…

Rogue code aims to create permanent DoS A new form of attack code has come to town and it uses techniques similar to Mirai to permanently scramble Internet of Things devices.…

ACCC to start broadband performance rating service to reveal real-world speeds Australia’s Competition and Consumer Commission has been given at least AU$7m to fund a broadband speed rating service that will publish details of speeds users experience on Australia’s national broadband network.…

Code dumped on GitHub for you to play with this weekend (and maybe beyond) Alphabet’s AI outfit DeepMind has released Sonnet, a framework that allows developers to construct neural network components more easily in TensorFlow.…

The Friday fun has just begun A heady flight of storage and server news was served to our enterprise news desk this week. Here’s a selection...…

CBP kills own lawsuit to out Donald-trolling twit Twitter and the US government's game of chicken over an anonymous anti-Trump tweeter is over before it barely began.…

App has been short-changing drivers, new lawsuit claims Uber has been hit with a class-action lawsuit alleging the dial-a-ride app maker deliberately cuts driver payouts while at the same time overcharging riders.…

But have your popcorn ready 2030 BST just in case A threat to wipe millions of supposedly compromised iCloud accounts and iPhones has yet to materialise. A security expert who has analysed samples of compromised data has concluded that the threat – such as it is – only exposes a small number of accounts to potential credential-stuffing attacks.…

Back to being the uber internet regulator then Analysis Americans may get a less Google-friendly and less-politicised regulatory regime if America's trade watchdog, the FTC, adopts responsibility for "net neutrality provisions", as reports today suggest. But under Trump, will the FTC have any teeth?…

All-flash portable and pocketable drive Western Digital has stuck a 1TB SSD in its My Passport line of portable storage drives – previously they have all been disks.…

'Plug-and-play' connectivity tech sealed the deal, says firm A utility company has opted for Narrowband Internet of Things (NB-IoT) connectivity technology for its IoT deployment, crapping all over competing connectivity techs in the process.…

Exactly what the Japanese government doesn't want China's Foxconn has emerged as the leading bidder for Toshiba's Memory business.…

New variant of 'Tsunami' is a disaster waiting to happen Hackers have brewed up a new variant of the IoT/Linux botnet "Tsunami" that exploits a year-old but as yet unresolved vulnerability.…

"Openness a driving force" says Google Open-source search analytics are coming to Google's Cloud Platform courtesty of Elastic.…

Yet the yellow submarine's operators are calm about it... Boaty McBoatface has slipped beneath the icy waters of the Antarctic on her first operational deployment.…

What fresh hell Facebook's first practical attempt to implement machine learning blew up badly. After suffering a 70 per cent failure rate, the Messenger Bot was redesigned to provide a potentially useful menu driven service.…

Area with just 8,000 residents to benefit from small cell Bankers are to enjoy free 1Gbps Wi-Fi thanks to a deal brokered by the City of London Corporation intended to bring high speeds to the Square Mile.…

Sources whisper to Reuters that it's an A-OK from Brussels Rupert Murdoch's 21st Century Fox will gain EU clearance for its full takeover of Sky, according to sources who whispered to Reuters.…

Hive-minded project injection Interview Hortonworks believes it's solved duplication issues in its Hadoop spin that menaced users when incrementally merging data.…

Fires and server crashes also known to work Episode 5 "The thing is," I explain to James, "the vast majority of management bright ideas aren't – they're just stuff which keeps the Boss occupied till lunchtime firing off urgent emails about problems we don't have."…

Skillset re-upping with hands-on guidance We've got six full-day workshops locked and loaded on the Continuous Lifecycle London agenda. The question is, which one to choose?…

German court finds against the chopping of German man Data warehousing and business intelligence flogger Teradata has reached a settlement with ousted co-president Herman Wimmer, who alleged he was fired improperly.…

Ad 'duopoly' has markets and public opinion by the short ones Former Times editor and News International chief executive Robert Thomson has launched a precision attack on the "duopoly" of Google and Facebook. As debate rages around what role "fake news" played in electing Donald Trump, Thomson points out that whether news is "real" or "fake", Google and Facebook don't care. Either way, they win.…

People, not process – your worst nightmare We may be leaving the EU, but some EU law – with significant consequences for the IT community – will carry on. One such is the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).…

Real progress, but it's patchy Mobile network sleuth RootMetrics has released some performance data on how well operators are faring in our top provincial cities.…

Read the signs and weep because NO ONE CARES Something for the Weekend, Sir? Everyone is looking at me as I break into a sweat. "Come on, come on," I mutter to my smartphone but already the harrumphing has begun.…

Chainer makes Tensor Flow look like treacle, but until this week it didn't speak Xeon Ever heard of “Chainer”, the open-source framework for creating neural networks?…

Former IBM software engineer decries feeble-minded scientific rules Shajar Abid, a former senior engineer at IBM and presently the "chief visionary officer" at Nubius Technologies LLC, has filed a lawsuit against Google, claiming that the online ad giant has suppressed his freedom of speech and religion.…

Tech support planned to clean gunk with canned air. But the user had an industrial-strength compressor ... twice ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, El Reg's regular Friday feature in which readers share their recollections of being asked to fix follies.…