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HyperFlex 2x virtual advantage hyped Cisco's HyperFlex hyperconverged products can support more than twice the number of VMs than other HCI systems while maintaining high performance, according to tests by ESG [PDF].…

Nice chunk of change FireEye is close to paying $10.3m to settle a class-action lawsuit alleging that the security firm misled investors about the effectiveness of its security technology.…

Probably won't be built in Blighty, sadly Jaguar Land Rover is to resurrect the venerable old Defender – and it may be built abroad, according to media reports.…

Web hosting services supplier vanishes Web hosting services at Fast.co.uk are out of action in what would appear to be the final nail in the supplier's coffin.…

Flash array maker to give infrastructure biz a shot in the arm Not content with buying SimpliVity, HPE has signed a "definitive" agreement to gobble Nimble Storage for $1.2bn.…

We don't know what's caused it, but it's probably a cyberwar with aliens living among us Some unknowable terror has struck at the heart of the 21st century's communications infrastructure, as complaints mount regarding the global unavailability of Microsoft services, including email and authentication.…

If you've got 40 Bitcoin burning a hole in your pocket... Cybercriminals are attempting to flog a supposedly undetectable Mac malware strain on the dark web for 40BTC ($50,000) a pop.…

Want that promotion? Better improve your performance in the sack A healthy sex life at home is apparently linked to better performance at work, according to a study by Oregon State University.…

Einstein hopes to make artificial alleged intelligence accessible Salesforce's Spring 17 release has arrived with Einstein inside, software that its creators hope will live up to its rather clever namesake.…

PR 101: How not to head off an embarrassing investigation + Comment Facebook reported BBC journalists to the police after the reporters accidentally emailed them images of child sexual abuse, the social network's PR has alleged.…

BBC probe reveals scale of the scam Hundreds of staff were hired by scammers in Indian call centres to defraud TalkTalk customers, according to a BBC report revealing the extent of the scam.…

Flash supply shortages drove up prices and profits Samsung was top of the charts as NAND prices rose in the fourth 2016 quarter due to supply shortages, with suppliers’ profits peaking according to TrendForce.…

Not EVIL, not FIRST, but yes... it's your data and they're using it According to a story doing the rounds, psychometric big data pushed Britain into Brexit and Trump on to America. The winning sides adopted a method developed at the University of Cambridge to psychometrically profile people by using publicly available data including Facebook "likes". They used these to create devastatingly effective digital advertising and targeted millions of voters' psychological traits.…

Investors not happy, nominate seven independent directors Quantum's board has caved in to activist investor VIEX and agreed to reconstitute itself with new independent directors.…

'Income will be an important part to us surviving' Two northern councils have teamed up to sell technology and services commercially.…

Small firm claims calf birth safety boost with M2M monitor Internet of Things devices mounted on cows’ tails are responsible for 150,000 safe births of calves, if the developer and Vodafone are to be believed.…

Plans to chuck more cash once it's merged up with OneWeb Comment Softbank has arrived as the unlikely white knight to save Luxembourg-based internet-satellite provider Intelsat from running out of cash. It has injected debt funding and proposed a merger through its LEO satellite firm OneWeb. Now bondholders for Intelsat must give the deal the go-ahead.…

And this time VersaStack's all about hybrid and/or cloud with software-defined storage IBM and Cisco are having another crack at converged infrastructure, by releasing a few new configurations for their joint VersaStack rigs.…

The world's big three PC vendors tell us what they expect you will buy this year Yes, PC sales are now moribund. But someone's going to buy about 280 million of them this year. Lenovo, HP Inc and Dell look like being the ones to sell them to businesses, because all have rosy outlooks for PC sales despite the long sales slide across the industry. The Register therefore asked the three companies, universally rated as the top three vendors by volume. what they've got in store for you this year.…

State of Kerala turns on WiFi network, promises to fund 1,500 startups and grow 175k IT jobs The Indian State of Kerala, home to 34 million people, has declared its citizens have a right to internet access.…

Dutch minister, International Labor Office signal they've had enough with EPO dysfunction Time is running out for European Patent Office president Benoit Battistelli.…

Software Guard Extensions are supposed to hide data. But the 'Prime+Probe attack' fixes that A researcher who in January helped highlight possible flaws in Intel's Software Guard Extensions' input-output protection is back, this time with malware running inside a protected SGX enclave.…

'Cloud Container Builder' offers 120 minutes of container creation, for any platform Google's found another way to wrap developers more closely into its warm embrace: a cloudy software build environment it reckons should be free for most users.…

It's time for you lot to figure out what's going on up there on TRAPPIST's Earth-like planets Astronomers and the astro-curious but software-savvy will be hovering over a download link waiting for midday Tuesday (US Eastern Time), when Kepler data for the TRAPPIST-1 system is published.…

Spammers hoard contact details on millions of netizens, we can non-exclusively reveal The “1.4 billion identity leak” that was hyped up before the weekend involved, no, not a database ransacking at Facebook, YouTube, or anything that important.…

Data-destroying code moves on from Middle East, now rampaging through Europe Researchers following up on last November's re-emergent Shamoon malware attacks have found something even nastier.…

Attention web scribes: Six nasty flaws found in publishing tool Internet scribblers who use WordPress must update their installation of the publishing tool following the disclosure and patching of six security holes.…

Sucked in by tech world's vacuum for $614m Investors in the cloudy app security biz Veracode are going to be celebrating after CA Technologies agreed to buy it up for $614m in cash.…

You snooze, you lose Video A computer security outfit claims to have plugged an information leak in Windows that was publicly revealed by Google before Microsoft had a patch ready. Could this third-party patching become a trend?…

iVote's proxy issues certs – and decrypts data – in America The Western Australian government is pushing back against concerns about the security of its implementation of the iVote electoral system.…

Electronics retailer once again sees liquidation looming The company that arose from RadioShack's 2015 bankruptcy saga could soon itself be filing for bankruptcy.…

Cable giant nine-figures lighter after ripping off voice-call tech Sprint has been awarded $139.8m in damages after a jury found that Time Warner Cable infringed on five of its patents related to voice-over-IP calling systems.…

But they should expect a discharge or worse, not medals The US Marine Corps is investigating how compromising photos of some of its female members came to be shared on Facebook and Google Drive by fellow marines.…

Current-measuring circuits flawed, potentially over-charge homes, study finds Some smart meters might more accurately be described as fake meters because they present false readings about energy consumption.…

Will decision bring back need to use specific browsers? Sir Tim Berners-Lee has controversially decided to back the introduction of digital rights management – aka anti-piracy and anti-copying mechanisms – as a Web standard.…

Boring, bland... yes, this AI will fit right in at today's newsrooms Robots are elbowing their way into journalism and could steal “hundreds” of jobs, fearful news hacks have told academics.…

Unaccountable? Check. Pointlessly bureaucratic? Check. Blocking reform? Check Analysis It's March again so it must be time for an annual checkup on the Internet Governance Forum – the United Nations body that is tasked with working through the complex social, technological and economic issues associated with a global communications network, and runs an annual conference to that end.…

Big Blue will build 50-qubitter in 'next few years' IBM says it will build commercially available quantum computing systems accessed through its cloud platform, but D-Wave has a claimed quantum computer 400 times bigger.…

Some furious, others rather interested Software company Solarwinds, which sells IT management tools, has infuriated customers after a faulty alert exposed customers' entire client lists to their competitors.…

Both deny allegations The president of South Korea, Park Geun-hye, colluded with confidante Choi Soon-sil to take bribes from Samsung Group, the country's special prosecutor said today.…

Blasts data between on-prem and public cloud SwiftStack v5's Cloud Sync provides two-way replication between on-premises data centres and Google Cloud Storage, Amazon S3 and Glacier.…

Civil servants belatedly nixed PDF metadata Exclusive The UK Home Office's Investigatory Powers Unit (HOIPU) anonymously responded to an Ofcom consultation urging the regulator to maintain a "security"-related ban on GSM devices that help people get cheap calls abroad.…

A: It's five more than answer to the ultimate question IBM UK is looking to chop the Technical Services Support team within the Global Technology Services division by up to 10 per cent, according to company insiders.…

IT man betrayed us for partner, says Columbia Sportswear A sportswear company in Oregon has alleged that a senior IT manager left a backdoor in its systems before departing to a business partner and illegally used that access almost 700 times for his new employer's benefit.…

Sorry your broadband is crap, Ronaldo needs a new Jag BT has beaten arch-rival Sky in its bid to splash £394m retaining the rights for the UEFA Champions League and Europa League.…

Just days left to save £100s on DevOps and containers extravaganza The clock is ticking on our early bird offer for Continuous Lifecycle, our three-day dive into all things DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Containers.…

Firm said to have helped Trump and Leave.EU campaign to be asked a couple of questions The Information Commissioner's Office is investigating how voters' personal information is being utilised for political campaigns.…

Government service provider 'propping up its share price' ahead of merger with HPE The British government must wake up to service delivery implications of the latest mega-layoff scheming at CSC given the number of sensitive public sector contracts held, and work with the business and others to "root out the worst excesses of capitalism".…

Just when you thought Spamageddon had been fixed Just when long-suffering Virgin Media customers thought their spam woes had been fixed, it seems the firm's inbound mail server is now blocking the delivery of mail.…

Kicks in on April Fools' Day Accounting-as-a-service firm Sage is hiking its cloudy payroll software prices by half, The Register has learned.…