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When is a Barracuda not a Barracuda? When it's really AWS S3
Now you can replicate backups to Barracuda's actually-Amazonian cloud Barracuda's backup appliances can now replicate data to Amazon’s S3 cloud silos.…
Russian malware scum post new rent-an-exploit
Unpatched browser, plug-in bugs targeted by and with 'Disdain' kit WebEx on Firefox is among the targets of a new exploit kit that's started circulating on Russian nastyware exchanges.…
Azure Stack will need special sysadmins, says Microsoft
'Operator' to wrangle on-prem cloud, with paid course coming soon, natch Microsoft reckons its forthcoming Azure Stack on-premises cloud needs a special breed of sysadmin to keep it humming.…
Creepy backdoor found in NetSarang server management software
Do you use this suite? If yes: A July 18 update screwed over your security Researchers at Kaspersky Lab have found a well-hidden backdoor in NetSang's server management software.…
Intel's diversity numbers are out – and that 'push' has become more of a 'gentle nudge'
Plus: 10nm+ 9th-gen Core family codenamed Ice Lake Intel says it is still on track to meet its 2020 workplace diversity targets even as the pace of its efforts to include women and underrepresented minorities slowed.…
Swinburne Uni slings SGI, picks DellTel for new 4,140 core super
'OzSTAR' to speed search for gravitational waves using LIGO data Australia's Swinburne University has signed up for a new supercomputer, to help spearhead efforts to detect gravitational waves.…
A glimpse of life under President Zuckerberg? Facebook CEO's boffins censor awkward Q&A
Human cell study AMA on Reddit all cleaned up Money can't buy you love, but it can remove criticism, at least in the hallowed world of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg.…
Revealed: The secret CEO texts that tell the tale of Uber-Waymo's self-driving tech spat
Court docs give insight into execs' relationship Analysis Hundreds of unsealed text messages between former Uber CEO Travis Kalanick and self-driving engineer Anthony Levandowski have revealed an intriguing insight into the relationship between the two – and raised more questions about whether they conspired against Levandowski's former employer.…
Taken a while but finally here's the first proper smart-home gizmo
And it's a light bulb from Ikea Comment It's been three years since we, here at El Reg, first started taking the introduction of a new generation of "smart home" devices seriously – and that was mostly focusing on the security implications.…
Uber to bend over, take privacy probe every two years for next 20 years
FTC forces taxi app upstart to let in auditors after complaints of data security cockups Uber and America's trade watchdog have reached a settlement following claims the taxi app maker lied about the extent to which its staff can mine customers' personal info for fun.…
Slurping people's info without a warrant? That's OUR JOB, Google, Facebook et al tell US Supreme Court
Tech giants lobby against warrantless phone spying A group of technology companies with a fondness for data collection have banded together to ask the US Supreme Court to stop the American government from snooping on cellphones without a warrant.…
Outage outed: Bing dinged, Microsoft portal mortal, DuckDuckGo becomes DuckDuckNo
Like it or not, it's back to Google for now Microsoft's Bing fell over on Tuesday morning, Pacific Time, causing a ripple effect that crippled other search engines.…
Datrium claims its split-provisioning DVX array is 'tomorrow calling'
And it wants its super-scaling, newfangled tech back Datrium is providing separate scaling of CPU power and storage capacity in its disaggregated converged storage arrays.…
RBS sharpens axe again: 900 IT jobs to go by 2020
Unite says Brit bank will soon be running a 'skeleton service' The Royal Bank of Scotland is planning to show 40 per cent of its London-based IT staff the door by 2020, according to Unite the union.…
Fresh Microsoft Office franken-exploit flops – and you should have patched by now anyway
Exploit combo fails to dodge Word warning prompts Updated A booby-trapped .RTF file is doing the rounds that combines two publicly available Microsoft Office exploits.…
Atomic bonds: Gigabyte, Supermicro fire out boosted Atom CPU range
Denverton systems, servers and motherboards Gigabyte and Supermicro are bringing out Atom C3000-powered systems, servers and motherboards.…
The cheek of it! Beach bar owner shoots nude bather in the booty
Gerroff moi land! A bar owner in southern Corsica stands accused of firing a pellet into the booty of a nudist who refused to cover up during a beach bathing session.…
Google paying Apple BEEELLIONS to stay search top dog on iDevices, say analysts
But it could turn off taps at any moment Google might pay Apple $3bn in fiscal year 2017 to keep its search engine the default on iOS devices, analysis by Bernstein suggests.…
Big legacy tech companies in UK govt start to feel pinch – report
But Brexit, weakened GDS could stall 'disaggregation' Big legacy tech firms are finally feeling the pinch of the government's contract "disaggregation" plans, although Brexit could halt that trend - according to an annual report by analyst firm TechMarketView.…
APT-style attack against over 4,000 infrastructure firms blamed on lone Nigerian 20-something
'Get rich or die trying' seems to be working out for this fellow A seemingly state-sponsored cyberattack aimed at more than 4,000 infrastructure companies has been blamed on a lone Nigerian cybercriminal.…
NASA delivers CREAM-y load to ISS to improve cosmic ray detection
Far away from where Earth's atmosphere can interfere Hitching a ride on SpaceX's 12th commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station is NASA's latest tech for studying the origins of cosmic rays, the high-energy particles that bombard Earth from deep space.…
Drone-maker DJI's Go app contains naughty Javascript hot-patching framework
Apple has already smote JSPatch once this year Updated Chinese drone firm DJI appears to have baked a hot-patching framework into its Go app that breaks Apple's App Store terms and conditions, according to drone hacker sources.…
Heavy sleeper? Put your god-given talent to work and raise some cash
El Reg and Action for Children want to put our readers onto the streets If you always sleep like a log, we’ve got just the thing for you - do some good by spending the night roughing it on the streets with a bunch of your industry compatriots in October, and raise a bunch of cash for vulnerable children into the bargain.…
Commentard Quizwall experiment ends with more quizzing than commenting
Is that one-liner worth it? Earlier this year Norway's government-owned broadcaster embarked on a stern Lutheran experiment with commentards. Before being able to post a comment on a story, they would need to pass a reading comprehension quiz, to prove they had read it all.…
HP Inc vows: We're not walking away from Continuum
And no, neither is Microsoft, thanks very much Analysis While Windows roadmaps purportedly leaked to a blog last week appear to have a big hole in them where mobile should be, HP Inc tells us it has been assured by Redmond there are no plans to drop Continuum.…
Vodafone customers moan about sluggish data abroad
No, non, nein says telco's marketing bods, 'we don't throttle' Vodafone customers are complaining their data is being throttled while on hols, with supposedly 4G services dropping to sluggish speeds of 2Mbps.…
Are Asimov's laws enough to stop AI stomping humanity?
Data, and who has it, is the real concern Blade Runner, the film inspired by Philip K Dick's book Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, is 35 years old this year.…
Police camera inaction? Civil liberties group questions forces' £23m body-cam spend
Report says UK cops need to prove tech benefits policing Almost three-quarters of police forces have forked out more than £22m on body-worn cameras, but are failing to properly monitor how the videos are used in court, according to a report released today.…
Nice guy NetApp's adopting 'disruptive' tech non-disruptively
Gently easing us into the NVMe-over-Fabrics and storage-class memory future Analysis NetApp will bring disruptive NVMe-over-Fabrics technology to its customers in a non-disruptive way.…
Oh, boy! Uber investors behind CEO sueball say Travis Kalanick won't let the company grow up
Benchmark's letter to employees details delaying action, trash-fire culture Uber investor Benchmark Capital has written a letter to the company's employees in which it suggests the company's culture may be even more rotten than is widely known and that former CEO Travis Kalanick is obstructing efforts at reform.…
VMware in premature release of joyful liquidity
Announces preliminary results for Q2 and warns it'll blow its year, in a good way VMware has admitted its core vSphere business is in long-term decline. This little thing called “cloud” seems likely to make some of its products less relevant in coming years, while Azure Stack and containerisation highlight other weaknesses.…
Waymo fleshes out self-driving car tech with hardware that goes soft at first sign of trouble
Shriveling vehicle patented Waymo has been granted a patent to deck out its self-driving cars in a material that becomes less rigid when its sensors detect a high chance of collision.…
Intel CEO Krzanich quits Trump's Manufacturing Council over response to Charlottesville rallies
CEOs of Merck and Under Armour also dump, and dump on, Tweeter-in-chief Three big-name CEOs have put some space between themselves and the US President: today they resigned from the American Manufacturing Council, President Donald Trump's panel of advisors formed to create more manufacturing jobs in the United States by bringing together titans of industry to share their experience.…
Google bins white supremacist site after it tries to host-hop away from GoDaddy
Ad giant has legal fig leaf to justify ban Google's become the latest company to let alt-right site The Daily Stormer know it's not welcome to register its domain.…
Photon scattering puts a shine on CERN ATLAS boffins' day
A heavy metal performance proves an old theory Large Hadron Collider boffins in charge of the ATLAS experiment reckon they've seen photons interacting at the quantum level for the first time.…
nbn™ cracks the $1bn revenue barrier, cracks whip on tardy retailers
Customer service problems are everyone's problem, by design, says CEO Bill Morrow nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), has reported annual revenues of AU$1,001m for the year ending June 30, 2017, and says it's ahead of target for construction and uptake.…
US military spies: We'll capture enemy malware, tweak it, lob it right back at our adversaries
Collateral damage in 3, 2, 1… The US Defense Intelligence Agency has vowed to capture enemy malware, study and customize it, and then turn the software nasties on their creators.…
hiQ prevails / LinkedIn must allow scraping / Of your page info
Our little haiku to mark temporary lifting of blockade on social network's public profiles A US judge has ruled that LinkedIn must allow an analytics outfit to scrape data from its public profiles.…
Australian Bureau of Statistics flip-flops over marriage equality survey
Promises not to identify citizens. Except with a barcode The Australian Bureau of Statistics is being set up for another hot privacy debate.…
Australia's metadata retention scheme costs telcos $500k per cuffing
Netadmin-general Brandis needs just one more vote to get telco-tweaking powers The Australian Government's telecommunications data retention scheme is racking up the bills for carriers, but government funding has fallen short of the industry's costs.…
US prosecutors demand data to unmask every visitor to anti-Trump protest website
DreamHost refuses to hand over 1.3m IP addresses, and more, says warrant too broad Web hosting biz DreamHost is resisting a US government search warrant to turn over data about everyone who visited a website used to coordinate anti-Trump protests.…
Internet addict sent to an anti-addiction boot camp is no longer an addict. Because he's dead
Chinese clinic staff cuffed after 18-year-old gets ultimate cure Staff at one of China's internet addiction clinics have been arrested after a teenager sent there for rehabilitation was found dead after 48 hours.…
Macie slay: AWS touts S3 patrol bots to kill data-slurping hackers
Plus: Database Glue guns, more encryption, hardware key management, and config tools AWS kicked off its New York City summit with a handful of announcements on Monday.…
Chap behind Godwin's law suspends his own rule for Charlottesville fascists: 'By all means, compare them to Nazis'
We did Nazi that coming Mike Godwin, creator of Godwin's law, has rescinded his own rule for those outraged by vile fascists marching the streets of Virginia, USA, at the weekend.…
Sigh. Big Cable execs dominate FCC panel overseeing Big Cable's broadband upgrades
Deployment committee stacked with industry bods, says report In just the latest example of how far America's telecoms regulator is in the pockets of the cable giants, its panel scrutinizing US broadband rollouts has been heavily stacked with industry executives.…
Raising minimum wage will raise something else: An army of robots taking away folks' jobs
Low-skill workers are under threat either way, it appears Raising the minimum wage increases the chance employers will automate low-skill jobs away, according to a paper published this week through National Bureau of Economic Research, a non-profit group of econ wonks.…
WannaCry vanquisher Marcus Hutchins pleads not guilty to flogging banking trojan Kronos
Trial scheduled for October Marcus Hutchins, the WannaCry kill-switch hero, has today pleaded not guilty to charges of creating and selling malware at a hearing in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.…
A storage giant wants to give you 46,763...
Terabytes? Flash drives? No, PDF pages. Price list SKUwered How many pages does it take to list Nutanix’s prices? One hundred? Maybe too few. One thousand – sounds about right. Ten thousand? Don’t be ridiculous. Forty-six thousand, seven-hundred and sixty-three? Well, actually ……
If Anonymous 'pwnd' the Daily Stormer, they did a spectacularly awful job
More likely damage control after host GoDaddy pulled plug Doubts have been cast over claims that hacktivists have taken control of neo-Nazi website the Daily Stormer.…
Microsoft does something unusual in Australia: names the bit barn hosting Azure
Plan to conquer federal IT sees Redmond team with super-secure Canberra Data Centres Microsoft's cooking up a government-grade cloud in the Canberra, Australia's capital city.…
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