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Disks shipped with the wrong write cache settings and found their way into UCS boxen Cisco's dropped Seagate in the pooh for a mess that's seen some UCS servers released into the wild in configurations susceptible to data loss.…

'Mutual separation decision' after just 18 months in the job Citrix has announced a bolt-from-the-blue change of CEO.…

Guests' names, possibly email and home addresses viewed, too, via Sabre intrusion Trump Hotels has become the latest accommodation group to put its hands up as a user of the compromised Sabre SynXis Central Reservations system.…

Security biz maintains it has no 'inappropriate ties' with Kremlin as software blocked by officials Kaspersky Lab is facing new restrictions from the US government to go along with a fresh round of accusations that the antivirus makers works closely with Russian intelligence.…

Mass and radius of little blighter is less than a tenth that of our Sun's The tiniest star, similar in size to Saturn, has been discovered as part of an eclipsing binary system by a group of astronomers.…

Microsoft pulls the plug on support for dedicated smartphone OS Microsoft has formally ended support for its Windows Phone platform.…

This time, Brad, this time Analysis As you enter the Willard Hotel in Washington, DC, you step back in time. Abraham Lincoln stayed here just prior to his inauguration; Martin Luther King made the final edits to his most famous speech in its lobby; and Alexander Graham Bell used as it as the venue to demonstrate a coast-to-coast telephone call.…

Augmented Reality bites. Plus: Update Windows boxes, Flash ASAP Patch Tuesday Microsoft's HoloLens may only be in the hands of developers, but that hasn't stopped researchers from finding major security holes in the augmented reality headset.…

Tweet-addicted President treats website as a public forum so cannot exclude views President Donald Trump's habit of blocking critics from following his Twitter account faces a legal challenge that seeks to prevent him from tuning out those with opposing views.…

New laws needed because today's censorship not good enough, apparently Russia and China are banning the use of virtual private networks, as their governments assert ever greater control over what citizens can see online.…

Authentication system gets fixed up today to limp onward Computer security biz Preempt warned last October that Microsoft NT LAN Manager (NTLM) should be avoided. On Tuesday, it plans to support its assessment by going public with details of two vulnerabilities.…

30% smaller data is QAT's meow Kaminario is getting better data compression by using Intel’s C6268 chipset in its K2 all-flash array's gen 6 storage controllers.…

Blasts out 7 new PowerEdge products with better stuff inside Dell is announcing a set of 14G servers, using new Intel processor chips, and replacing the equivalent 13G server line products.…

Processor black hole waiting for Intel announcement Five new Cisco UCS servers have come to light, courtesy of Storage Review, which temporarily withdrew its story for some reason. Tsk tsk. Early signs are that Cisco appears to be cutting its blade server product line count.…

Glassy, glossy, sassy... but smudgy Review Thank goodness HTC is still with us, for I haven’t enjoyed using an Android more all year than its flagship U11.…

What fell sorcery is this? Microsoft finally confirmed that Hell has indeed frozen over – Ubuntu is at long last available from the Windows Store.…

All part of master plan to convince people to go outside The Ordnance Survey has launched a free online map of Britain's green spaces with an open dataset for developers to get their hands on.…

Nokia's well aboard the zeitgeist bandwagon One of the biggest barriers to widespread deployment of connected cars is poor mobile network coverage, according to Nokia's chief car connectivity chap.…

Software maker buys virty firm Data management platform DataGravity has been bought by HyTrust which has also pulled in a $36 million funding round.…

Decision ahead of auction falls short of calls by Three Telecoms regulator Ofcom has capped the maximum amount of mobile spectrum a company can own at 37 per cent, ahead of its auction of mobile spectrum later this year.…

Site hosting claimed 'leaks' disappears A row over data security is gripping India, with Reliance telco brand Jio denying claims it has leaked the details of 120 million customers.…

Full transition to take four years Openreach has finally started removing BT's logo from its 22,000 vans, "unveiling its new branding" four months after the former state monopoly agreed to a legal separation of its broadband division.…

Here's what really happens when ex biz partners threaten to publish and be damned A dental app entrepreneur and his former business consultant ended up in a playground war of character smears conducted via attack websites in each other’s names – and one even sent an associate with a warning to the other’s home where his wife and newborn child were present.…

Newly minted chairman speaks of 'changes' to the IT dept's role The new chairman of the UK and Ireland's SAP User Group (UKISUG) is looking to boost its number of line-of-business users, in response to "changes" in the IT department's role in organisations.…

Behold my mighty 5PB racks and tremble Viking Technology is shipping a 50TB SAS SSD. Yes, you read that right.…

Public sector big hitter to persuade G-cloud bods to inhale its product Former director of Common Technology Services at the Government Digital Service, Iain Patterson, has rocked up at UKCloud as chief digital officer. Notably, he's one of the few ex-GDS crew not to have left for the Co-op.…

Well, if you are going to leave debug code in production apps Drone hackers are busy at work exploiting the application security shortcomings of a major manufacturer to circumvent restrictions, including flight elevation limits. DJI says it has pushed out a firmware update to nip the problem in the bud, but one expert The Register spoke to maintains that hacking is still possible.…

Yes, there was a lot of cheese Interview Hewlett Packard Enterprise has almost concluded its corporate cleansing with the Enterprise Services division spun off to form DXC Technologies and the Software unit about to become part of company history.…

Firms should also carry out regular ‘stress tests’ Insurers whose policies could give rise to claims for damage as a result of cyber attacks may have to adjust their policies or premiums to better reflect these risks, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has warned.…

If you need new servers or hypervisor licences, there's a new model to consider ANALYSIS Microsoft's formal announcement of Azure Stack changes the cloud market forever, by giving us three distinct types of cloud.…

International Entrepreneur Rule paused for at least 9 months, probably forever US president Donald Trump's America First slogan has been extended to StartupLand after the Department of Homeland Security announced a delay to the implementation of the International Entrepreneur Rule, aka the “Startup visa”.…

Mitigate if you must, patch if you can Open source devops platform Cloud Foundry has disclosed a potentially nasty bug in its User Account and Authentication server software.…

Code host also seeking crowd comment on new T&Cs GitHub's taken a leaf out of Google's Chromium book, introducing a feature that puts review requirements under the control of someone designated as a code owner.…

SOCRATES shows off space-to-ground entanglement Japan has become the latest country to demonstrate quantum communication with a satellite, in this case a micro-satellite named SOCRATES.…

If SambaCry escaped your notice in June, get busy HPE NonStop users running Samba need to get busy applying workarounds to a pair of remotely exploitable vulnerabilities.…

75 year-old chap funnelled more than AU$1m offshore Police in the Australian State of Queensland have arrested a man they say set up bank accounts to collect ransoms from victims of tech support scams, and funnel funds to scammers.…

Or in other words, access to encrypted messages Comment The meeting of G20 leaders decided to do something about the internet.…

Heavies team up to form patent-reform lobbying supergroup Some of the biggest names in IT are joining forces to create a lobbying effort focused on patent reform in the US.…

This is getting stupid now – time to dump SMS and switch to code-generating apps or tokens A software developer says a thief siphoned cash from his PayPal account – after a dumbass AT&T rep handed control of his cellphone account to a hacker, thus defeating his two-factor authentication.…

Want to control over 270,000 websites? That'll be $96 and a handover cockup, please A blunder during a handover of the .io registry allowed a security researcher to potentially take control of more than 270,000 .io domains.…

It's hoped cutting-edge tech will bridge broken senses The US military's research nerve center DARPA on Monday awarded contracts to five organizations and one company to develop brain interface technology.…

It's Pimms O' Clock somewhere in the world right now An international team of chemists has set the new record for crafting near-perfect cubic ice crystals. Sadly, the ice cubes are so small, they are invisible to the naked eye.…

Ad giant's head sucked into self-driving car trade secrets saga Google's cofounder Larry Page has been told to submit himself to four hours of questioning from Uber's lawyers in the Waymo self-driving vehicle trade secrets battle.…

Your quick guide to today's Redmond info blurt Microsoft did more than just mash up Office and Windows on Monday at its Inspire conference in the US.…

Bloke's Amsterdam odyssey ends up in hardship When Bernd Dorfmueller was offered a job in Amsterdam with Oracle, he thought he had lucked into a dream situation that would boost his professional career in IT.…

All Redmond's major business offerings have become The One Microsoft is squishing its major biz products into a single solution called – wait for it – Microsoft 365, CEO Satya Nadella announced at Inspire, Redmond's annual event for businesses that flog its wares. Not a single chair was flung, we can report.…

When we said 'Credit Card details have not been compromised', we meant… UK motoring organisation The AA belatedly admitted late on Friday, July 7th that customer data – including in some cases partial credit card numbers – had been exposed in a recent breach. Security experts gave the confession a frosty response while a specialist IT lawyer said incident response handling of this type would risk severe sanctions when new data protection laws come into effect next May.…

'Cut-price' car could be yours, in a year or more, for 'just' $35k Elon Musk's Tesla has delivered its first Model 3 electric car – straight into the hands of Elon Musk.…

Please, for the love of god, keep your plans switched on! Virgin Mobile is allowing customers to access Twitter without paying up for data, in what some might see as one way to ensure users keep using their data allowances.…

Target the target's device, advises former spy chief Former GCHQ director Robert Hannigan has spoken out against building backdoors into end-to-end encryption (e2) schemes as a means to intercept communications by terrorists and other ne'er do wells.…