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How PS/2 and OS/2 handed the industry to Bill Gates Special Report Thirty years ago this month, IBM declared war on reality – and lost. For the 30 years prior to that April day in 1987, nobody had dared to challenge IBM’s dominance of the computer industry. It would take almost a decade for the defeat to be complete, but when it came, it was emphatic.…

Name-checks VC object of affection in leaked pitch +Comment Vexata is a stealthy storage array startup with a product technology that it has been telling people is "25 times faster" than arrays from leading rival vendor and VC favourite Pure Storage.…

Framework continues to draw criticism from campaigners The inaugural annual review into the operation of the EU-US Privacy Shield is to take place in September this year.…

Aerospace outfit says just four launches could build a base in Lunar space by the early 2020s Aerospace outfit Boeing has detailed the hardware it thinks humanity will need to stage a piloted mission to Mars.…

Chases AWS prices with Broadwell E5-2673 v4 at 2.3GHZ with 64 vCPUs Microsoft's revealed that virtual machines in its Azure cloud will soon be defined by virtual rather than physical cores.…

One false frame in 50 and TensorFlow sees whatever you want it to Early in March, Google let loose a beta previewing an AI to classify videos – and it only took a month for University of Washington boffins to defeat it.…

And heading for Azure real soon now, as the company figures out how to sell it DataCore's long-touted Parallel Server has reached production at “lighthouse customers” and should formally go on sale later in 2017.…

And also to make 5G sing, and cary radar so it can spot missiles at Mach 4 Phased-array antennas, a technology crucial to modern Wi-Fi systems that use beam-forming to improve throughput, has a speed limit in how quickly beams can be manipulated.…

'Quagga' gets new name, code injection from Linux Foundation, Cumulus and pals A group of open networking companies have dispatched a fleet of X-Wing fighters in the direction of the biggest target in networking: Cisco.…

Purple Palace keeps its exclamation mark under Alphabetical umbrella Logo Watch After a brief social media flurry, Yahoo! has spiked speculation that it's about to lose its name.…

And that's not all: a redaction slip identifies Lior Ron as Levandowski's co-accused A tired court clerk has accidentally unmasked the co-accused in Google's case against Anthony Levandowski and his autonomous car business "Otto" – it's his co-founder Lior Ron.…

President and COO Peter McKay doesn't deny suitors have come a-callin' Veeam has denied it is for sale, but not that it could be bought.…

Svakom's Siime Eye exposes your most intimate moments Sex toy designer Svakom decided that a vibrator needed a camera on the end, and it also needed a Wi-Fi access point – with the utterly predictable result that the device is hackable.…

Alleged spammer targeted victims of previous fraud An alleged PC tech support scam that used fake news releases from the US Federal Trade Commission to make its false claims more believable has attracted the attention of the consumer watchdog agency in the form of a lawsuit.…

Payment system lets punters use quaint concept of 'paper money' Amazon has introduced a payment system that will let customers buy its products without the need for a bank card.…

Don't skip this update Apple hasn’t provided much detail, but you don’t want to ignore the latest iOS release – 10.3.1 – because it plugs a very nasty Wi-Fi vulnerability.…

Canuck tells FBI to back off the big fella A Canadian appeals court has told the FBI it's not allowed to review servers from file-sharing service Megaupload held north of the border.…

No, not that way An iPhone user is trying to raise awareness about the dangers of sleeping with your electronics after nearly getting electrocuted in the night.…

Coders seeking H-1B visas may have to document their specialness more thoroughly Technology firms in the US seeking to hire computer programmers from abroad using the H‑1B visa program may have more trouble doing so, as a consequence of both Trump administration policies and lawmaker concerns that emerged during the Obama administration.…

And we get to see details of the odd deal it struck with Intel After playing coy for the past two weeks, Cloudera has finally gone public with its plans to go public, filing the relevant IPO forms with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.…

Pai slices away 'overbuild' condition on Time Warner Cable gobble US comms watchdog the FCC has voted to eliminate a key provision in Charter Communications's merger deal with Time Warner Cable that required it to expand into new markets.…

Lucky Ottawa folk get to stay put Multinational car company Ford has hired 400 developers from BlackBerry for its connected cars, shortly after announcing the building of its own data center.…

IAAF breach exposed therapeutic use exemptions The IAAF has been hacked and it blames the notorious Russian hacking group APT 28, also known as FANCY BEAR, for the attack which targeted athletes'Therapeutic Use Exemption (TUE) applications stored on IAAF servers.…

Press F to pay respects Google's Android has overtaken Windows to become the world's first-choice platform for accessing the internet, according to number cruncher StatCounter.…

Services, services, services! Hot on the heels of a global haircut of its workforce, Rackspace is moving into the professional services space as it chases those "digital transformation" pennies.…

Why? For science! A UK government research council is spending £20m to build six regional high-performance computing (HPC) centres.…

That's not worrying at all Nuclear power stations have been told to tighten their defences after government officials warned of a "credible" cyber threat.…

FluidFS development frozen as XtremIO roadmap refocusses on block Dell EMC is halting development of file services on its XtremIO all-flash block access array.…

Irate Britons moan about idiots buzzing over their back gardens – and more The number of UK complaints about drones has shot up twelvefold over the past three years.…

Obvious integration to boost Oracle's walled hybrid garden +Comment Oracle is using its in-house public cloud to provide back-end storage for its on-premises ZFS appliances, adding functionality to its walled hybrid cloud garden.…

Home Sec sends out junior minister to clarify gaffe It was the cringiest moment in an already gaffe-prone interview on The Andrew Marr Show last week.…

Benign and fine but alarms do double-time Enterprises were faced with all sorts of inconvenience on Friday after a Microsoft security tool incorrectly flagged up benign files as infected with a worm.…

US memory-buying partnership arrives out of the blue We can add the pairing of Silver Lake and Broadcom to the ten bidders for part or while stakes in Toshiba’s memory business.…

Questions on DevOps or containers? Our speakers will have the answers Events If you’re asking yourself how to get your boss to sign off on your ticket for Continuous Lifecycle London in May, the answer is 42.…

Phone-flashing fun Analysis To survive in an increasingly mobile-first world, Microsoft needs the kind of regulatory intervention it fought so hard to avoid in the 1990s and 2000s. Only this time, imposed on the dominant mobile OS, Google's Android.…

In other news: Bear claims to have always used indoor facilities for ablutions Oracle has seemingly backed away from a potential acquisition of Accenture, and is now claiming it had "never even considered it".…

Likely not cannibalism issue, as knifemarks not near the meat. Er, OK Archaeologists investigating human bones excavated from the deserted mediaeval village of Wharram Percy in North Yorkshire have suggested that the villagers burned and mutilated corpses to prevent the dead from rising from their graves to terrorise the living.…

'Agile' Common Platform Programme is 'vapourware', say insiders Exclusive Hundreds of millions of pounds have been wasted on plans to digitise the criminal justice system due to the mismanagement of a key programme that has so far delivered little value to the taxpayer, according to multiple insiders.…

UK chip bods license GPU tech to the fruity firm – for now British chip designer Imagination Technologies is in trouble after Apple told the firm it would no longer be using its intellectual property.…

Scumbags host 92% of it in just 5 countries Europe now hosts majority of child sex abuse images (60 per cent), pushing North America into second place (37 per cent), according to an annual report from the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF).…

Stars align Download Ubuntu 17.04 beta preview, recently released, and visually speaking you might be a little disappointed.…

Stars align Download Ubuntu 17.04 beta preview, recently released, and visually speaking you might be a little disappointed.…

If you work in any HPC field, don’t miss the Frankfurt conference Promo Catch up with the latest developments in high-performance computing at the five-day 2017 ISC High Performance conference and exhibition in Frankfurt June 18-22.…

Feats of engineering, projections busted - the Caledonian Canal GEEK'S GUIDE TO BRITAIN The Highlands are home to spectacular hills and mountains. You'll also find dotted around some fairly unusual engineering projects that have endeavoured to conquer them.…

'Don't feel too embarrassed to wear fancy dress', biz tells staff Franken-firm DXC Technology, the corporate mash-up between CSC and HPE Enterprise Services that was brought to life today, has urged staff to turn up to work in fancy dress, or at least corporate colours, to celebrate the launch.…

An existential threat to today's big players A new term is popping up among startups: the storage fabric. Depending on who you talk to, the term itself is recycled, but the concepts and implementations definitely are new. Today's storage fabrics are closer to the originally hyped promise of Software Defined Storage (SDS). What remains to be seen is if the arrival is timely enough to matter.…

'News Integrity Initiative' gets US$14m to improve 'news literacy', with help from PR firms and Jimbo Wales Facebook, Mozilla and Craig from Craigslist are among the donors behind a new “News Integrity Initiative” that's given itself the mission “advance news literacy, to increase trust in journalism around the world, and to better inform the public conversation.”…

Gun: fail. Flight: fail. Software: fail. Schedule: fail. Budget: fail. Plus 270 more fails Now-retired Dr Michael Gilmore, until recently the Director of Test and Evaluation for the US military, has published his final evaluation of the F-35 program, and it's a treat.…

Form 10-K says Dell's manufacturing methods are losing relevance and sales integration is slow Dell has released its new Form 10-K, the annual warts-and-all disclosure of every possible risk a public company faces, and suggests that slowing PC sales are a risk to its strategy of becoming an infrastructure technology leader.…

Apple told tribunal it wouldn't abide by a ruling against it The four Australian banks that wanted to start their own mobile payments service using the near-field communications chips inside iPhones have been rebuffed, partly because Apple said that even if a ruling went against it the company would not have allowed them access to the chippery.…