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Troll your WebEx-loving execs with a crafted recording file We all know the only thing more fun than a WebEx conference is a recorded WebEx conference, which is why WebEx Network Recording Player exists – and if you use it, you need to patch it.…

ESA to start the construction of space telescope network The European Space Agency’s PLATO mission hunting for habitable exoplanets has been given the green light to move from blueprint into construction.…

Forget free sushi, gyms or Steve Jobs clones. Netflix values fearless sharing In 2009, Netflix published what became an influential slide deck explaining its culture, including a policy of not hiring “brilliant jerks” because the benefit of their moments of excellence are outweighed by the cost of their other behaviours.…

Borg's boxen can now figure out if there's malware lurking in encrypted traffic Cisco has turned research published nearly a year ago into a product it hopes will protect enterprises against malware hidden in encrypted traffic.…

Calls for standards-setting conference to consider security, privacy, whatever other regs distributed ledger types want The International Telecommunications Union (ITU) has decided the time is ripe to start talking about what standards might be developed for distributed ledgers, aka Blockchain and fellow-travellers.…

Borg plans 'AI-assisted operations in IT', but first we get new HCI boxen for ROBO Cisco will next week reveal something called “Project Starship” that it promises will allow greater and easier automation of UCS servers and its HyperFlex hyperconverged appliances, no matter if they run in the data centre, remote office or a small business.…

Patches for servers and clients already out there – get updating just in case OpenVPN has patched a bunch of security vulnerabilities that can be exploited to crash the service or, at a pinch, potentially gain remote-code execution.…

International Trade Commission says its kit should be fine to import again Arista's long slog back to the shelves in America continues with an initial determination from the International Trade Commission okaying its product redesign.…

Senate Intelligence Committee frustrated by lack of details Russian attempts to hack key American election systems are more advanced than first thought, according to Homeland Security officials on Wednesday.…

IT giant's market cap soars after (mostly) strong financials Oracle says it has finally turned the corner with its cloud compute transition as it reports big gains for the business, both in the quarter and the fiscal year.…

Grab your camping gear and prepare for August 21 America will witness, for the first time in 99 years, a total solar eclipse stretching from coast to coast on August 21.…

Government senators play the 'this is fine' card Federal Government senators have rejected a Senate report that describes its “robo-debt” program as “set up to fail”.…

Retail giant prefers partners not feed Amazon their cloud cash Retail giant Walmart says it doesn't want its developer partners using Amazon Web Services to host their cloud apps.…

Benchmarks aren't useful anyway, says cofounder On Tuesday OnePlus launched its latest smartphone with much hoopla, and the handset has already found notoriety.…

Did it decorate notices with glitter and sparkles? Arts and crafts market Etsy announced today that it is cutting more workers in an effort to get its finances back on track.…

'This deal is the coming of age of the offensive security model' Cybersecurity startup Cybereason is looking to go to the next level after securing $100m in funding from SoftBank.…

No you can't have full specs or pricing until next month The first fruit of Hewlett Packard Enterprise’s buy of SGI is set to hit the streets in July with the release of a high performance system - the HPE SGI 8600.…

Take a deep breath. You might have to hold it for a while The US Air Force has today restarted flights of F-35As that were grounded by oxygen supply problems, even as it admits that it still doesn’t know what caused the life support systems to malfunction.…

Plus: Amazon's Whole Foods move, pizza on Mars, Uber chaos, and more

On-premises data centre not such a big deal any more, it seems Analysis NAS acceleration and cloud on-ramp supplier Avere is facing a surging cloud on-ramp business, now at parity with its data centre business, and growing much faster, with a Google relationship looking key.…

Issue ongoing since last week Certain UK TalkTalk customers have been unable to load Amazon's website since last week.…

How does that rank on the Morissette Scale? The operation behind the UK government's Cyber Essentials scheme has suffered a breach exposing the email addresses of registered consultancies, it told them today.…

It's raining money from that sweet, sweet cloud Adobe has locked customers into its cloud services, and the fluffy white stuff has continued to, well, fluff up both its top and bottom lines.…

No minivans or sedans rolled out of plant for 24 hours Honda said today that it had briefly halted operations at a car plant in Sayama, Japan earlier this week because of the infamous WannaCrypt ransomware.…

Legal headache still hangs over foundry joint venture agreement WDC may have a way back into Toshiba's memory business auction although Toshiba has selected the Japanese state-backed INCJ consortium's ¥2tn ($18bn) bid group, which excluded WDC.…

A guide to seeing the wood for the decision trees How to If you’ve heard the excitement about machine learning, but aren’t quite sure how it could apply to your business, the best way forward is to rip off the cover and see it working for yourself.…

People Per Hours alert does not specify which government An intriguing, and slightly concerning, job ad has appeared on freelancing website People Per Hour, entitled: "URGENT!!! Delivery of a National e-ID System".…

Tories dump a number of manifesto pledges The government is to pass new laws to protect personal data and create a commission for countering extremism on the internet, the Queen announced in the annual state opening of Parliament today.…

Chris Lattner 'wasn't the right fit', says Elon Musk-led biz Tesla's driverless car software chief, a former Apple engineer, has quit just six months after he joined Elon Musk's 'leccy car builders.…

Verify needs to be addressed, Pope is Catholic, etc In what might seem like an exercise stating the blindingly obvious, a report by policy wonks at think tank The Institute for Government has found that gov tech transformation is "happening too slowly" and the online identity platform Verify needs some urgently intervention.…

Let’s leave the polyamorists out of this for now Reg Lectures If the recent election’s clash of centre right and a bit left leaves you cold, perhaps the prospect of libertarians versus transhumanists might make you sit up and take notice.…

Want a more secure PC? Try Windows 10 S, says CRO Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer at Finnish security company F-Secure, spoke to The Reg at the launch of Sense, a consumer firewall device that aims to "secure your connected things".…

Students show all at Frankfurt HPC showdown HPC Blog The tension is rising at the ISC17 Student Cluster Competition being held this week in Frankfurt, Germany. Eleven university teams are vying for the coveted Ultimate Champion award, the Highest LINPACK award, and the Fan Favourite Prize.…

SNAFU or something more sinister going on? The Conservative Party’s 2017 manifesto was briefly deleted from its website this morning – on the same day that political Britain downs tools for the State Opening of Parliament.…

Challenging dodgy generalisations on IT spending Study One of the silliest concepts peddled by large industry analyst firms is "The CIO agenda". Listen to some of them and you would get the impression that everyone running an IT department woke up one morning and decided the priority would now be Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0, grid computing, SOA, cloud, analytics, mobile, IoT, software development, DevOps, or one of the other "critical imperatives" that have been foisted on us over the years.…

WDC: Hang on ... WHAAAA.... Toshiba has reportedly picked a home-grown Japanese state-backed fund to buy its memory business, and has frozen out flash foundry joint-venture partner WDC.…

Learning lessons the hard way so you don't have to Yes, cloud might be the future but what truths lie hidden beneath this rock of certainty? You've heard the hype, pros and cons, but there's plenty the average cloud user may not have considered in the clamour to get up there. Our company recently heeded the cloud's call, and this is what we discovered.…

Strong and stable release from conservative distro Review The Debian Project has released Debian 9 after two years and, as you might expect for a work that's taken so long, it's quite an overhaul.…

Users say they can't access Child Maintenance Service Users trying to get through to the Child Maintenance Service have been unable to do so for the past two days because of problems with BT.…

'ThinkSystem' spans servers, storage and switches. HCI and Azure Stack are 'ThinkAgile' Lenovo reckons its data centre range has never had a refresh quite like it: 25 new products, a couple of new brands and a new CPU to play with as well.…

Bill Gates' cistern system uses your personal recharger Boffins in Bristol have the perfect solution to the two most common late-night problems: finding somewhere to urinate and keeping your phone charged.…

Investors insisted, board concurred, curtain fell, but bro-in-chief will remain on the board Uber CEO Travis Kalanick has resigned, according to The New York Times.…

'Stream' video vault and share-o-matic debuts in Office 365, as does a dictation bot for Office Microsoft's launched “Stream”, a cloud service perhaps best understood as a private YouTube, with extras.…

Guess which was which. Hint: Firefox now crushes trackers on Android Mozilla's announced that its “Firefox Focus” ad-busting browser has made it to Android.…

The world may need only one company where old software goes to die BMC and CA are considering a consensual acqui-merger, reports Bloomberg.…

Pushing to have 18 Qualcomm patents invalidated Apple is expanding its legal war with Qualcomm to include an attempt at having the chip designer's patents thrown out.…

Researchers explore 3D imaging using drones Video Drones can perform three-dimensional imaging of objects through walls using Wi-Fi, a team of researchers demonstrated for the first time.…

App Engine and Datastore coming real soon now, no word on when other services will land Google Cloud Platform's Sydney region is now open for business … but missing lots of services the company's cloud offers elsewhere.…

Redmond readies the ground for Kaspersky's EU antitrust suit Windows 10 does disable some third-party security software, Microsoft has admitted, but because of compatibility – not competitive – issues.…

Dr Katie Mack explains the SkyHopper cubesat project to El Reg A couple of years after it was first conceived, a Melbourne University-led infrared astronomy cubesat proposal called SkyHopper is gathering momentum.…