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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PKVJ)
AWS is cooking virty servers with 16TB but thinks we'll also need clusters packing 34TB Amazon Web Services is working on new instance types that will offer either eight or 16 terabytes of random access memory.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PKTN)
Security partners have chatted to PM Turnbull and the idea is under consideration Australian prime minister Malcolm Turnbull has said the nation is considering signing up for the laptops-on-planes ban imposed by the United States and United Kingdom.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PKS7)
Company couldn't school all the phish in the sea Electronic signatures outfit DocuSign has warned world+dog that one of its email systems was cracked by phisherpholk.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PKQ9)
Appeal offers a laugh-a-minute how-not-to guide for would-be criminal masterminds Michael Mancil Brown, aka Dr Evil, who tried to extort a million dollars from PricewaterhouseCoopers on the basis that he'd nicked Mitt Romney's tax returns, has had a win on appeal and will be sentenced anew.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PKPF)
Two code reviews give crypto client nearly clean bill of health The venerable OpenVPN client has been given a mostly clean bill of health.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2PKHF)
And it took three months to release despite Eternalblue leak When the WannaCrypt ransomware exploded across the world over the weekend, infecting Windows systems using a stolen NSA exploit, Microsoft president Brad Smith quickly blamed the spy agency. If the snoops hadn't stockpiled hacking tools and details of vulnerabilities, these instruments wouldn't have leaked into the wild, sparing us Friday's cyber assault, he said.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PKFM)
Clients, access points and backhaul all need firmware patch before attacks ferment 5G wireless vendor Mimosa Wireless has patched against a bunch of remote code execution, denial-of-service and file disclosure vulnerabilities.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2PKAE)
Seven Apple updates, because it's not like you had anything else to patch today Apple has released security updates for both of its main operating systems, along with iTunes, Apple Watch, and Apple TV. All should be installed as soon as possible before they are exploited by miscreants.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PK87)
Big Blue gets cloud cred. Nutanix gets a chance to talk core apps Nutanix and IBM will announce on Tuesday a new relationship that will see Nutanix build hyperconverged systems out of IBM Power servers – its first non-Intel-powered boxes.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PK3V)
Middle Kingdom's CERT puts infection rate in the thousands If reports from China are accurate, the country's often-bootlegged and under-patched Windows installations are being hit hard by the WannaCrypt ransom-worm.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2PJZY)
Two more chip heavyweights enter the patent fray Add Intel and Samsung to the mix of companies siding against Qualcomm in its battle with US trade watchdog the FTC over alleged dodgy patent licensing.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2PJBR)
Still allowed to continue self-driving research, however Uber has two weeks to make sure Waymo receives all of its stolen documents back and one month to give a full accounting of all its interactions with the former-Waymo engineer who stole them.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2PJ6Y)
Not a good month for the aviation giant You get the feeling United's PR boss must be praying for death at this point, after his employer admitted to another serious cockup.…
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by John Leyden on (#2PJ3D)
Kill switch ID'd in ransomware attempt to abuse MS17-010 patch A feared second wave of WannaCrypt ransomware attacks has failed to materialize, but 16 UK National Health Service Trusts are still grappling with last week's infection.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2PJ01)
At least the human cargo will be safe as houses Volvos of the future will include an in-car entertainment system built on Android, the stolid Swedish automaker announced earlier today.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PHEB)
This co-CEO nonsense is spreading from Oracle +Comment Backup firm Veeam has retired its freshly promoted CEO to a board committee chair role and promoted two other execs to be co-CEOs.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2PH7Y)
Crowdsourcing is the future of (pubic) navigation Some anonymous clown has drawn a, well, giant spawn hammer on Antarctica by using Google’s crowdsourced map-‘n’-satnav app Waze.…
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by John Leyden on (#2PH6A)
Watered down homeopathy for computers is more powerful, m'kay? Updated Sophos updated its website over the weekend to water down claims that it was protecting the NHS from cyber-attacks following last week's catastrophic WannaCrypt outbreak.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PH2C)
ARM-powered, 40-node prototype flies HPE's hot development technology flag HPE's Machine research project has debuted an ARM-powered, 160TB monster memory system prototype, calling it the world's largest single-memory computer.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PH0E)
Storage firm is going hybrid cloud Nutanix has booked Google Cloud supremo Diane Greene to talk at its .NEXT 2017 conference, leading to speculation that a deal – possibly around hybrid cloud – is being cooked up between the two.…
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Only caveat is they need to actually get in power... The Liberal Democrats have pledged to end the "Orwellian nightmare" of mass-snooping powers in the Investigatory Powers Act ahead of their manifesto launch.…
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by Team Register on (#2PGRG)
Software brains, fabulous food, served up in Westminster Events We’ll be throwing the doors open at Continuous Lifecycle in just over 36 hours, but there’s still time for you to grab a prime spot for three days of the best in DevOps, Agile and Containers.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2PGNN)
A solid, thoughtful job Review Well, no one saw this one coming. Samsung has succeeded where Microsoft and HP have struggled (so far) in turning a phone into a PC.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2PGKP)
Fancy a crack at being Germany's secret signalman? The National Museum of Computing has put an emulation of an "unbreakable" Second World War German cipher machine online for world+dog to admire.…
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by Dan Olds, OrionX on (#2PGKR)
Tsinghua's score analysed HPC Blog Tsinghua University topped their 19 competitors to take home the Overall Championship trophy at the recent ASC17 Student Cluster Competition in Wuxi, China.…
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by John Leyden on (#2PGFZ)
Researchers warn over new Uiwix strain Miscreants have launched a ransomware worm variant that abuses the same vulnerability as ‪the infamous WannaCry‬pt‪ malware.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PGF2)
Bottles benchmark battle backlash Analysis Infinidat recently ran a benchmark in which it claimed to have beaten EMC and Pure systems.…
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by Trevor Pott on (#2PGDV)
Redmond chucks a lifeline. Not to you, to Big Box Co Dell EMC will release a four-node Azure stack. This potentially places Microsoft's cloud-in-a-can within reach of the SMB. The subscription model thing could get in the way.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PGB3)
Breach of contract bustup could block sale of Tosh's chip unit Updated WDC is taking Toshiba to an arbitration court process, potentially blocking Toshiba's sale of its Memory Business, which owns Toshiba's share in a flash foundry joint venture with WDC.…
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by Dan Olds, OrionX on (#2PG9K)
GPU-flinger Nvidia offers cops artificial intelligence HPC blog Not long after the news that UK cops may use artificial intelligence to make decisions on custody, Nvidia was showing off AI-for-cops at its GTC event – except this time it's the vehicular sort.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PG6Y)
First flight of Orion capsule atop Space Launch System slips from 2018 to 2019 NASA will miss its deadline for the first flight of the Orion capsule and the Space Launch System, with the launch moved from 2018 to 2019.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2PG31)
People can't be bothered to recount crashes, so machines are here to help Auto-completion systems that attempt to finish your sentences when typing text messages or search queries can be a mixed blessing. Often, they save time. But they can also get in the way when they make incorrect guesses about intended input.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PFZ8)
Miscreants downgrading firmware to vulnerable QTS boxen QNAP has issued a critical-rated warning for devices running its QTS operating system.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PFVP)
VMUGs placed under new Dell umbrella without consultation VMware's user groups are fuming at being brought under Dell's wing without consultation, and some group leaders are considering action against the leaders of the organisation overseeing the groups.…
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by Mark Pesce on (#2PFQR)
Behold the deliberately-not-mighty Samsung Z4 and the Android ascendancy Anyone hoping that Samsung would use its Tizen operating system to shake up the mobile market has again had their dreams dashed, after the company emitted a for-n00bs phone running the OS.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PFMZ)
The way you spin the loo paper roll exposes your business Japanese boffins have measured the spin-speed of toilet rolls to work out who's on the loo.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PFJ1)
You know the drill: patch fast or cry slowly It's a patch for vendors and developers, but it could be nasty: there's a bug in a Universal Plug'N'Play (UPNP), used in a wide range of black-box devices.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#2PFD3)
Monday wrap: “kill switch†holding for now; new versions emerging; patch what you can In the midst of the ongoing WannaCrypt attacks, Microsoft has issued an unusually strongly-worded warning to governments around the world to quit hoarding vulnerabilities.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PF8G)
Contractors weren't paid for weeks, now some have been paid four times Beleaguered Plutus Payroll has a new mess on its hands: after a fortnight during which its customers went without pay, some have now been paid too much.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2PF79)
But Linux 4.12 rc1 made it out before Mother's day anyway, thanks to new kernel.org plan Linus Torvalds might just be a big softie after all. The Linux Lord, infamous for his occasional foul-mouthed criticism of those who don't meet his standards, has just popped out release candidate one for Linux 4.12 a day early so he could give his undivided attention to Mother's Day.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2PDDM)
That's still a lot of stuff – and we've summarized it for you Our weekly storage news roundups are threatening to become multi-page books.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2PBDW)
Three years of the US's top cop in action Analysis The firing of FBI Director James Comey came as a shock to almost everyone, not least to the man himself.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2PAR9)
The software hippies' minds are going to be blown over this one A question mark over whether the GNU GPL – the widely used free-software license – is enforceable as a contract may have been resolved by a US federal judge.…
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by Katyanna Quach on (#2PAH9)
Boffins share findings of strange alien world 440 light years away A strange, distant planet HAT-P-26b has an atmosphere full of water vapor, hydrogen and helium – and could change how scientists think of planet formation.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2P9PY)
All you need to know – from ports to samples Special report The WannaCrypt ransomware worm, aka WanaCrypt or Wcry, today exploded across 74 countries, infecting hospitals, businesses including Fedex, rail stations, universities, at least one national telco, and more organizations.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2P9EJ)
Ability to screen callers, block people Coming Soon™ Amazon's voice-controlled assistant Alexa and its Echo devices now sport the ability to take your phone calls – so long as you don't ever plan on ignoring calls from anyone.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2P969)
Zuck's Open Compute Project stole our designs, claims Brit biz Facebook is set to be dragged before a jury next year to face allegations that its Open Compute Project is built on stolen server and rack technology.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2P8NE)
Judge Alsup denies Waymo arbitration request, refers case to Uncle Sam's legal eagles Uber may face criminal charges over its alleged theft of trade secrets from Google-owned self-driving car upstart Waymo.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2P8EP)
Alsup wants torrent-chasing biz to work that IP detector hard A grumble-flick studio will be blocked from lobbing copyright infringement claims at pirates until it proves its tools for identifying illegal downloaders work.…
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by John Leyden on (#2P854)
EternalBlue now an eternal headache Updated Workers at Telefónica's Madrid headquarters were left staring at their screen on Friday following a ransomware outbreak.…
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