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Soulless contraptions in the home or at work are a risk – not to humanity Common security flaws in mainstream robotic technologies leave them wide open to attack, infosec researched have warned.…

He was originally cleared of any criminal offence A man under police surveillance who was cleared of criminal offences after leaving unpleasant comments on YouTube will be tried again after the Director of Public Prosecutions got his acquittal overturned.…

He was originally cleared of any criminal offence A man under police surveillance who was cleared of criminal offences after leaving unpleasant comments on YouTube will be tried again after the Director of Public Prosecutions got his acquittal overturned.…

Colliding parallel file access products Analysis The entertainment and media market has not been typically seen as a part of the high-performance computing (HPC) market, with the associated massively parallel file access and data set management. In the HPC world file access software such as Lustre and GPFS, now renamed Spectrum Scale are often seen.…

Gang discuss PoisonTap, SHA-1 and get a how-to on hacking

Forget IPv6. Names - I want NAMES! PACK. IT. IN. We're fresh out of IPv4 addresses. Getting hold of a subnet from your average ISP for hosting purposes is increasingly difficult and expensive, even the public cloud providers are getting stingy. While we wait for IPv6 to become usable, there are ways to stretch out the IPv4 space.…

Don't call us cheap MWC Interview Although Huawei phones are getting more expensive, the company still thinks Samsung and Apple phones are "overpriced", a top executive told us this week.…

Nice try, Isle of Wight council A new chain ferry has been built for the Isle of Wight – and the council reckon it weighs the same as 250 cows.…

Exposes Amazon customers' inadequate BC/DR plans too Analysis Amazon’s S3 outage is a gift to Azure and Google, on-premises IT, hybrid cloud supporters and multi-cloud gateways. But it has also exposed inadequate business continuance and disaster recovery provisions by Amazon's business customers.…

No, not the fictional energy sword, the machine learning hacker sniffer Palo Alto Networks has acquired smaller cyber security firm LightCyber for $105m in cash.…

Cookie consent that doesn't disrupt the user experience... Newly proposed reforms to EU ePrivacy rules could exacerbate problems that stem from existing rules governing the use of "cookies".…

Scottish prison guards left mobile network snooping device in sight of jailbirds Exclusive Prisoners at a Scottish jail evaded an IMSI catcher deployed to collar them making illegal phone calls – by putting up tinfoil after bungling guards left the spy gear visible to inmates.…

OpenStack's Jonathan Bryce and Mark Collier explain the best bits of the new release Interview Last week, OpenStack took the covers off its Ocata release. Today, The Register spoke to OpenStack foundation executive director Jonathan Bryce and COO Mark Collier about three key aspects of the release – Cell v2, the Placement API and Resource Scheduler, and OpenStack's expanding container support.…

The stuff Virtzilla is doing to build NFV for telcos will trickle down into its other products VMware has launched the second version of its Network Function Virtualization suite as it hopes to convince telcos to go down the same software-defined route its offered other data centres. And in so doing the company is infusing its core products with telco-grade features it thinks will be widely applicable.…

CEO shoots for $10bn revs, though 2017 will start slowly Salesforce.com has posted record quarterly and annual results.…

It's time we taught computers what we think of BMW drivers What does a car say about its owner? Uni researchers have managed to accurately estimate income, education, race and voting patterns for US neighborhoods by looking at cars on Google Street View.…

Thousands won't be able to make us cash, upstart moans Uber's lawyers in the UK have argued against rules requiring minicab drivers to pass an English literacy test – because many of its cheap cyber chauffeurs would fail.…

Cloudy with a chance of XSS Cloud management software peddler Zscaler has plugged cross-site scripting holes in the admin portal it provides to customers.…

Invented before the Galaxy Note 7 went down in flames, the case detects heat and then sprays fire-suppressing gas Boeing has sought a patent for a “Fire detection and suppression pack for battery-powered personal computing devices.”…

End-to-end encryption touted Datrium Blanket Encryption combines always-on deduplication, compression and encryption so that data is secure – or so it claims – whether that data is at a host, in flight across a network, or at rest in persistent storage.…

Warnings about leaky Bluetooth Web API all-too-accurate As the world learns of its embarrassingly leaky customer database, internet-connected cuddly toy maker CloudPets is under further scrutiny. This time for not securing its gizmos against remote exploitation via the Bluetooth Web API.…

Websites, apps, expensive IoT cameras and ovens knackered Tuesday's Amazon Web Services mega-outage knocked offline not only websites big and small, by yanking away their backend storage, but also knackered apps and Internet of Things gadgets relying on the technology.…

Apparently the world is ready for hybrid-cloud-database-as-a-service, on subscription Oracle's added a new piece of hardware to its “Oracle Cloud at Customer” offering, in the form of the new Exadata Cloud Machine that runs Oracle databases on-premises with the very same interface as offered in the Exadata Cloud Service.…

Offering contracts that will end soon … but might end sooner HPE's offering some SimpliVity staff the chance to join the ranks of the Living Dead.…

Lemur-2-NATE came down yesterday and there's plenty more where it came from A small satellite burning up in the atmosphere has led to big excitement.…

Don't forget about nerds of color, rev preaches during iGiant's shareholder meeting Reverend Jesse Jackson urged Apple CEO Tim Cook to hire more Black and Latino workers at the company's annual shareholder meeting – just moments after a diversity plan that would tie executive compensation to meeting greater diversity goals was defeated by a 95 per cent No vote.…

An admittedly terrible headline for a terrible company Uber faces yet another antitrust lawsuit brought by cab companies, this time in Boston, Massachusetts.…

Shared state tech support leads to five years of misery The head of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has blasted his IT staff, claiming the number of computer outages hitting the force has more than doubled – and that cockups take twice as long to fix.…

Adds Wi-Fi and Bluetooth to Pi Zero, bumps price from thrifty $5 to slightly less thrifty $10 The Raspberry Pi turned five on Tuesday and the Foundation behind the computer has given us all a present: a new “Pi Zero W” model.…

And still can't say how much money it has recovered, says audit Automating its troubled Centrelink data-matching program has cost the Australian government's Department of Human Services dearly: almost 370 extra staff were needed to implement it.…

Them good ole ISPs are drinking whiskey and rye MWC Ajit Pai – chairman of America's broadband watchdog, the FCC – has outlined his vision of data networks in the United States. And it most definitely does not include net neutrality.…

Heir-apparent slapped with bribery, embezzlement charges Samsung supremo Lee Jae-yong has been formally charged with bribery and embezzlement – sparking the dramatic shut down of the tech giant's top strategic office.…

Everything's fine now. Patch. Keep using them. Move along Password management applications, recommended by many security experts as the only viable way to deal with large sets of passwords that are unique and sufficiently complex, introduce their own set of problems – namely the general fallibility of software.…

'Increased error rates' is the new 'outage', according to Bezos' bit-barn bods Amazon Web Services is scrambling to recover from a cockup at its facility in Virginia, US, that is causing its S3 cloud storage to fail.…

Souless contraptions in the home or at work are a risk – not to humanity Common security flaws in mainstream robotic technologies leave them wide open to attack, infosec researched have warned.…

Big wins push sales to record high as expenses push losses to... record high It was a record-breaking year for finance and HR cloud purveyor Workday for all the right and the wrong reasons: sales reached a new high aided by Oracle’s disruptive buy of NetSuite, but losses soared too.…

Look how good I look underneath my Cloud HALO Object storage house Scality is offering a 100 per cent data availability guarantee. How so?…

The secure, self destructing mobe for heads of state... and big enterprises MWC There’s exclusive and then there’s exclusive. If you need to ask how much the DarkMatter Katim phone costs, you’re not a serious customer. The first handset to come from the UAE-based security company doesn’t have a price.…

Connected device expert on post-Borg IoT Interview Macario Namie, head of IoT strategy at Cisco Jasper, has been working in the connected device space "before it was known as IoT” and was with Jasper for nine years before it was acquired by the networking borg in 2016 for $1.4bn (£1.1bn).…

Indian subcontractor kept transcripts on insecure server A private health firm has been fined £200,000 after fertility patients’ confidential conversations leaked online.…

IronKey flash drive patent was at stake A jury has found that flash-flinger Imation must pay $11m damages to ioengine for patent infringement.…

Exec professes love for 'colocation hubs'... just 'not sure everyone else will' Exclusive IBM is clamping down on its remote workers in Britain, with the Global Technology Services team being centralised in one of a number of as yet unnamed “colocation hubs”.…

Exec professes love for 'colocation hubs'... just 'not sure everyone else will' Exclusive IBM is clamping down on its remote workers in Britain, with the big iron and storage teams being centralised in one of a number of as yet unnamed “colocation hubs”.…

Just two weeks to save £100s on DevOps/Containers extravaganza You’ve got less than two weeks to snag early bird tickets for Continuous Lifecycle London and save yourself a packet on three days of the best in DevOps, Containers, Continuous Delivery and Agile.…

Keep the devs happy, or Microsoft and Google will catch you Amazon Web Services became the 800-pound cloud gorilla by catering to developers. It expects to own the container crown with the exact same strategy, touting convenience and productivity gains to users of its EC2 Container Service (ECS). There are signs, however, that this fight won’t be as simple, and that a cross-cloud container option like Kubernetes could be the spoiler to Amazon’s steady march.…

Of 227 snooping local authorities, only a third cared how it might affect the public More than half of the UK’s local authorities have used body-worn cameras, with only a third of them having considered the privacy impact on the public, according to best practice.…

ARM bought a startup just like this one last week A few days after ARM bought a couple of Internet of Things startups focused on digital signal processing and integrated IoT chip offerings, a Hong Kong-US joint venture has wheeled out something that looks very similar.…

We only do the last few kms, CEO Bill Morrow tells Senate Estimates The chief executive officer of nbn™, the organisation building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network (NBN), has told Senate Estimates that retailers need to pay more attention to their networks in order to avoid disappointing customers.…

Which sounds great! Shame annual sales will be less in 2021 than they were in 2016 More bad news for the PC and tablet market: analyst IDC says the five-year sales slump is set to extend to a decade of decline.…

Moto puts Mods on speed MWC While recent modular phone experiments from Google and LG have crashed and burned, Motorola’s more sober effort is the one that’s paying off.…