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Funding round lifts startup's profile and firepower End-point backup and data governance starup Druva has just raked in an $80m funding round less than a year after it pulled in $52m.…

Deaths of sailors prompt admirals to halt all warship ops The accident-prone US Navy has suspended all of its warship operations around the world following its third collision at sea this year.…

Data loss prevention bot patrols Amazon's cloud storage solution Analysis Data loss prevention is about to get a whole lot smarter.…

Affecto's 1k staff to merge with CGI if all-cash deal goes through Canadian outsourcer CGI has made an all-cash offer for the Northern European data analytics firm Affecto.…

How's that 'digital transformation' going? For its latest "digital transformation", Fujitsu is trying to sell off its mobile phone business, according to reports.…

Not looking good for cheesed off customers Updated Virgin Media is seemingly suffering a series of outages accross the country, with aggrieved customers using alternate methods to air their ire at the telco.…

New survey polls developers' 'unmet needs' About half of 3,880 participants in the 2016 "State of Agile" industry survey reported using continuous integration. Now new research from Oregon State University and University of Illinois suggests that the platforms still leave a lot to be desired.…

Cloud cost rises, growth pushes staff demand up again Research has found businesses need to hire more server staff – but they're in limited supply.…

Facial and voice recognition – just beware translations In just over a year, Microsoft has launched and expanded a set of APIs called Cognitive Services, which handle everything from face and emotion recognition, to a Language Understanding Intelligence Service (yes, LUIS for short) and a Custom Decision Service.…

This whole 'Esport' thing looks serious – for games developers looking to boost sales Formula 1 has announced it's getting into “e-sports”, the preferred phrase for competitive computer gaming, with a new “Formula 1 Esports Series” that will see a virtual F1 champion crowned later this year.…

Clash of the machine-learning titans In a machine learning tug-of-war, Microsoft may have just barely slipped ahead of IBM for speech transcription accuracy.…

Emerging markets are where it's at Following a rocky year of recalls and other exciting events, Gartner has found that phone-slinger Samsung could be doing quite well.…

Plenty of other teams have some security responsibility, so why not end the overlap? Disbanding your security team may not be an entirely dumb idea, because plenty of other people in your organisation already overlap with their responsibilities, or could usefully do their jobs.…

Listed company's creditors are circling so it's auctioning assets Colorado security startup Root9B is teetering on the edge, with its creditors sending over a foreclosure nastygram after it defaulted last week.…

Was it the EPO? Brexit? Insufficient support? Yes The German federal court has finally revealed why it ordered a halt to the ratification of the Europe-wide Unitary Patent Court.…

'Windows Server Software-Defined' program signs HPE, Lenovo, Fujitsu and Supermicro Microsoft's revealed it's signed up several server vendors to make hyperconverged appliances running Windows Server natively.…

Your Amazon Echo could live a double life as an echo-location device Researchers at the University of Washington have devised a way of conducting surreptitious sonar surveillance using home devices equipped with microphones and speakers.…

Groupize denies report by researchers at Kromtech, but locks down repo anyway Another day, another unsecured AWS storage bucket leaking corporate data, this time from hotel booking service Groupize.…

Gill us now Netcraft 'net watchers have cast a fly over the lake of generic TLDs, and turned up the first .fish domain dedicated to – wait for it – phishing.…

Crowdfunded submersible story somehow gets weirder The story of a Danish inventor and a missing Swedish journalist has taken a bizarre turn, as Peter Madsen now claims he buried Kim Wall at sea.…

100 Mbps? Call it the 60 Mbps customers might actually experience at peak hour The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has fired off its latest salvo in its decades-long argument with the telco industry about internet speed claims in Australia, telling them to advertise typical speeds rather than theoretical maxima.…

The Chocolate Factory's mobile operating system comes with saccharine emoji filling Google on Monday released Android 8.0 Oreo, the latest update to the world's most widely used operating system, as measured by internet usage.…

Trio squeezes a bit more life out of current-gen broadband standard A group of researchers working for Verizon, Ericsson and Qualcomm say they have hit a record 1.07Gbps download rate with LTE hardware.…

Stanford researchers figure out how icy outer planets make it rain gemstones Researchers from Stanford have shown how the frigid, high-pressure atmospheres of the planets Uranus and Neptune can create a "rain" of diamonds.…

Super SF writers don't last all summer long Obit Brian Aldiss OBE, one of the most popular and prolific science fiction writers of his generation, has passed way at his home one day after his 92nd birthday.…

No LAWS for us, please Leading roboticists and computer science researchers have again asked the United Nations to save us all from lethal autonomous weapons systems (LAWS).…

Focus is to be specifically on online cases China has just opened a new court that will solely deal with internet-related cases.…

Sucky security leaves MIT cryptoboffins red-faced Cunning hackers have successfully duped investors out of almost $500,000 after compromising the servers of the online currency platform Enigma.…

And just 6% say they're fully prepared for GDPR Most of the UK's top businesses are underprepared for new data protection rules, while 10 per cent have no response plan for a cyber attack, according to a government survey.…

Reuben from Hartlepool, today's your unlucky day Handyman-finding UK app Bizzby appears to have sent a number of people an unsolicited email containing the full name and address of one of its subscribers.…

Clawing its way out of the red Misco is shuttering its UK warehouse and distribution centre in Greenock, Scotland, in a bid to drag the P&L accounts out of the red.…

It's all NVMe-me-me nowadays Tegile is moving on from SAS backplanes and has developed an N-Series array product line with NVMe flash drives.…

Will supply the software for Netzilla's HyperFlex HCIA line Cisco is buying Springpath for $320m and will have the startup supply the software for its HyperFlex hyperconverged products.…

Hello? Yes, I want a fondleslab that does things like a workstation, please Intel has wheeled out its 8th Generation Core processors, a refresh of its Core i5 and i7 chips, and their base specs wouldn’t look out of place in a desktop PC circa 2012.…

Match made in The Cloud Sponsored Storage is a growth area in IT, as the volume of data generated by users and applications keeps on expanding at an increasing rate, while legislation dictates that organisations must retain some types of data for regulatory purposes and cannot just delete it all to free up capacity.…

WannaCry killer had been working with the spy agency Secretive electronic spy agency GCHQ was aware that accused malware author Marcus Hutchins, aka MalwareTechBlog, was due to be arrested by US authorities when he travelled to United States for the DEF CON hacker conference, according to reports.…

Political uncertainty blamed for crap Q2 Brexit and the general election were highlighted by Gartner as being among the reasons why the good folk of Britain purchased far fewer PCs in Q2.…

And Austin-based firm is hiring Stuttering NVMe-over-Fabrics startup Mangstor has raised $7.1m and is hiring.…

Think twice before you fire that foul-mouthed Twitter tirade The UK's Crown Prosecution Service has pledged to tackle online abuse with the same seriousness as it does hate crimes committed in the flesh.…

Telephone Preference Service – check it or feel the ICO's wrath A firm offering people energy-saving solutions has been fined after making almost 1.5 million unsolicited calls without checking if the numbers were registered on the UK's opt-out database.…

Tell us what you’re doing - or not doing - with DevOps, Containers, Agile The call for papers for Continuous Lifecycle 2018 is open now, and we really want to hear what’s happening out in the real world.…

It's a week's worth of storage nutrition, so let's tuck in We've got a few storage news sushi snacks to start off your week. Get your chopsticks out and lift up each of these little beauties to get a taste of who's doing what in the land of the data-baiters, virtualizer commercializers and the cloud crowd.…

And he risked being executed by his own side in the process Would you give up your comfy technical desk job to join a military raid into hostile territory? Would you jump at the chance to put your world-leading technical knowledge to use in the most extreme of circumstances, even if your own side was under orders to shoot you if you got captured?…

Meanwhile, DRAM makers toasting record sales hauls HPE is hiking server memory prices by up to 20 per cent from today, according to communications with the channel, seen by us.…

Why not? Europeans, once so smug about the global success of GSM, have had to get used to advanced mobile networks and devices arriving in the US first.…

With the array controller out of the data path, who needs it? Opinion NVMe-over-Fabrics (NVMeF) shared storage access could kill the legacy storage array business – unless vendors get inventive and somehow continue to supply charged-for data management services alongside NVMeF data access.…

User tells of significant data loss Fujitsu Australia has confirmed that its data centre in the Australian suburb of Homebush has experienced an outage.…

After first wave attacks ended, thing-herders took aim at PlayStation, XBOX and Valve The Mirai botnet that took down large chunks of the Internet in 2016 was notable for hosing targets like Krebs on Security and domain host Dyn, but research presented at a security conference last week suggests a bunch of high-profile game networks were also targeted.…

Remote work and automation is about to see Voyager-listeners' work change, but our man says tuning in is still a thrill When Richard Stephenson drives to work, there's a chance that later that day he'll become the first human to see new details of Mars, a moon of Saturn, or the far reaches of the solar system.…

We love open source so much we can't drop sueball shield, says The Social Network™ Facebook's decided to stick with its preferred version of the BSD license despite the Apache Foundation sin-binning it for any future projects.…