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by Chris Mellor on (#2M9JB)
Now supports cloud-native apps in AWS, Azure Storage startup Rubrik claims it is taking the lead in public/private cloud data management and says it is approaching a $100m annual run rate after 18 months of product availability.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2M9ED)
For something you never knew you wanted Spotify is seeking experienced hardware engineers to create “a category-defining productâ€, according to a (now removed) job ad.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2M9CK)
FPGA-based project has scored £290k so far Yet another crowdfunded ZX Spectrum reboot project has emerged – and this one has raised more than £290,000 from backers.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2M9AG)
Now a privately owned debt-free company +Comment Violin Memory is back, as a privately owned company fresh out of bankruptcy.…
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by John Leyden on (#2M96D)
SSH... it's Shishiga Hackers have unleashed a new malware strain that targets Linux-based systems.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2M94S)
Meanwhile, US continues to bury its head in the sand over letter from 114 MPs Lauri Love, the alleged hacktivist from Stradishall, Suffolk, England, has been granted permission to appeal against his extradition to the United States.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2M8ZD)
Land Rover BAR's America's Cup hopes rest on just one app We got a sneak peek behind the scenes of the Land Rover BAR sailing team hoping to leave Oracle’s Larry Ellison with a red face in this year’s America’s Cup.…
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by David Gordon on (#2M8YD)
Can you get to London in May? Promo If you want to get bang up to date on the technology and thinking driving the smartest software operations, you need to join the conference AND workshop sessions at Continuous Lifecycle next month.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2M8TQ)
Or is this the start of Microsoft's $26bn LinkedIn writedown? Microsoft will this summer start mining LinkedIn as a CRM database using Dynamics 365 in a bid to challenge Salesforce.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2M8SB)
She's in there. Who's in there, sir? My PIIIIIIINT! A South Dakotan was cuffed after he repeatedly barged past police and firefighters that were trying to deal with a blaze in his apartment block so he could re-enter and rescue his most precious possession - beer.…
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by John Leyden on (#2M8QS)
Everyone, everything's a target for mysterious APT28 crew The Russian cyberespionage group blamed for the infamous US Democratic National Committee email leak launched targeted phishing attacks against French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron's campaign as recently as last month.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2M8K2)
Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? Comment When Henry Kissinger received the Nobel Peace Prize against the backdrop of the US Air Force's secret bombings in Cambodia, the satirist Tom Lehrer declared that satire had become obsolete. If satire died that day, then Jimmy Wales has dug it up, exhumed the corpse, and is giving it a state funeral.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2M8HN)
Immuta debuts Projects for machine learning governance, 'interpretability is key' – CEO Immuta, a data governance startup in Maryland run by former US National Security Agency technicians, has developed a method to govern how data is used by machine learning algorithms.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2M8CR)
Weighty S8 bait, trait by trait Review The P10 Plus is the big brother of Huawei’s 2017 flagship the P10. And as you’d expect, it's beefier, heavier and packing a bigger battery, a better camera and display, better antennas for faster LTE, and infrared.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2M8AX)
If you didn't want to travel from Taunton-to-Trowbridge before, you probably won't now either Great Western Rail has been advertising the bargain of a lifetime; a first-class journey from Taunton to Trowbridge for £10,000.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2M875)
No downtime till 2018 CERN made headlines with the discovery by physicists in 2012 of the Higgs boson, paving the way to a breakthrough in our understanding of how fundamental particles interact.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#2M84T)
Monolinguist or code polymath? So, you want to create a hugely successful machine-learning startup? Or you've been asked to start investigating ML for your firm? Well, you'd better get programming – but what language should you use? No languages have been designed specifically with ML in mind, but some do lend themselves to the task.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2M818)
Reasonable, fair, no-nonsense. Typical Canucks Analysis Canadians are so reasonable. As far as we're aware there aren't any derogatory terms used by Canadians to describe their continental cousins below them – quite an achievement given the endless efforts by Americans to cajole and rile them at every opportunity.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2M7X2)
Law-flouting ride service challenged for alleged privacy, wiretap, and business law violations A former Lyft driver is suing Uber alleging the ride-summoning biz spied on his movements and violated privacy, competition, and communications laws.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#2M7S6)
OmniTI calls time on Illumos-inspired operating system Development of OmniOS – an Oracle-free open-source variant of Solaris – is being killed after five years of work.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2M7MS)
Miller and Valasek spread the word on hacking archive Two famed car hackers claim they can save fellow tinkerers and security researchers a lot of time and money – by handing over their tools and blueprints for free. The pair boast the gear is worth over a million bucks.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2M7G9)
Endorsement from SFX house is a major win Case study HPE has enabled DreamWorks Animation to replace legacy storage systems by having Qumulo software running on its Apollo servers.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2M78M)
They're going to get plenty of LipChat IRC-for-biz HipChat says a vulnerability in a software library used by its HipChat.com service allowed hackers to access private conversations and customer account information.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2M75S)
Even automated security tool thinks Redmond's snooping operating system is 'malicious' Webroot's security tools went berserk today, mislabeling key Microsoft Windows system files as malicious and temporarily removing them – knackering PCs in the process.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2M6W5)
'Stolen creds' used to swipe data on aerospace giant's staff Northrop Grumman has admitted one of its internal portals was broken into, exposing employees' sensitive tax records to miscreants.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2M6PW)
Imitation is the sincerest form of abuse Hastening the arrival of a world in which simulation is indistinguishable from reality, startup Lyrebird has announced plans to power up an online service software can use to imitate a person's voice.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#2M6J3)
Also worked for Google, Comcast, Qualcomm... Analysis One of the most popular applause lines from Donald Trump's presidential campaign was that he would "drain the swamp" – meaning put an end to the corrupt, revolving door of government and private practice that virtually defines modern Washington, DC.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2M6GM)
Japanese biz triggers worldwide semiconductor patent war Nikon has declared global legal war on rivals it says are ripping off crucial optical technology it developed to print microchips.…
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by John Leyden on (#2M6BT)
This is nuts Security researchers have uncovered a critical security hole in SquirrelMail, the open-source webmail project.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#2M6AJ)
Not sorry we did it – just sorry you're pissed off Jojo Hedaya, the CEO of email summarizer Unroll.me, has apologized to his users for not telling them clearly enough that they are the product, not his website.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2M62N)
I haven't quit, insists founder Dave +Comment NetApp says its SolidFire chief Dave Wright is on hiatus – and his role upon his return will not involve running the storage organization he founded.…
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by John Leyden on (#2M5J4)
Man alleges elaborate scam is slapping money out of online souk's pockets A campaigner has gone public with his concerns over an alleged scam on eBay.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2M597)
Criminal Courts Review Commission confirms investigators in 27 cases The UK's Criminal Courts Review Commission has confirmed that it has appointed a firm of forensic accountants to assist its investigation into whether sub-postmasters were wrongfully prosecuted due to issues affecting the Post Office's Horizon IT system.…
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by Adam Fowler on (#2M56C)
Only six years overdue Office 365 administrators have a reason to be happy: Microsoft has finally joined the party on group-based Office 365 licence management, saving time from manual maintenance, or the reliance on scripts and third-party systems.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#2M551)
They'll be on the motorways as well Driverless cars using UK-made software will be tested on public roads and even motorways between London and Oxford.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2M50G)
Ground-based backup of in-flight drone-recorded data Fly Drive is not about car rental any more, not in our version of disk world at any rate. It's a Seagate disk drive for DJI drones and comes just three months after Seagate and drone-maker DJI announced a partnership to develop storage for drone-recorded images and videos.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2M4Z0)
Greyball snoopware even 'geofenced' Cupertino Uber hid its fingerprinting of iPhone users from Apple – techniques that would have had any other app thrown out of Apple's store. Uber retained the information even after the Uber app had been deleted and the phone had been wiped. Uber CEO Travis Kalanick got a personal reprimand from Apple CEO Tim Cook, but the app stayed put, and Uber continues to use fingerprinting worldwide.…
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by Paul Kunert on (#2M4WM)
No more UK integrations, existing customers offered support from US team SAP Anywhere, the "complete front-office software package", is going nowhere quickly in Europe as the service has been closed to new customers.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#2M4RZ)
♪ Straight outta Cisco, crazy app framework called Metron, open-sourced so data's not crept on ♪ The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has announced Metron, a cybersecurity applications framework for centralised monitoring and analysis of network traffic, as its newest top-level project.…
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by Dan Olds, OrionX on (#2M4QZ)
Cold, hard cash and cred up for grabs HPC Blog This year's edition of the Asian Student Cluster Competition (ASC) is the largest competition of its kind in the world, with 20 teams of university undergrads battling each other, themselves, and the world’s fastest supercomputer, Sunway TaihuLight, to win the Asian Cluster Crown*.…
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Faces off with Facebook Surround 360 kit Analysis The Nokia as we traditionally know it is no more, and the reborn company of today is pinning a core part of its future business strategy on emerging virtual reality (VR) technologies.…
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by David Matthews on (#2M4CD)
A startup paradise? After Britain voted to leave the EU in June 2016, there was a flurry of articles about how London's tech startups, shocked by the prospect of Brexit, could soon decamp to cheap, fun Berlin.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#2M49J)
Hello? Innovation? You in there, buddy? Comment The researchers at the Transportation Research Institute at the University of Michigan (UMTRI) sent me what may be the saddest opinion poll in the world. It asks the public: "Would you like a Flying Car?"…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2M48D)
Peter Levashov indicted over Kelihos as Russian carder Roman Seleznev cops 27 years Last week ended badly for Russian hackers.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#2M473)
Java's days are numbered – but it's a very large number In early April, Stanford University began piloting a new version of its introductory computer science course, CS 106A. The variant, CS 106J, is taught in JavaScript rather than Java.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2M43D)
Laptops lead EMEA sales revival, but Brexit-blown Blighty misses out Sales of personal computers - boring old-school desktop and laptops – are up across Europe.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2M40A)
CTO Val Bercovici has bailed too SolidFire CEO Dave Wright has left NetApp, less than eighteen months after the storage company he founded was acquired by the big blue staple.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#2M3WV)
Another weekly roundup of everything happening, from cloud to tape Storage news, like data growth, is unrelenting.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#2M3SS)
Hoaxer kept thumb drive of swatting calls An 18-year-old dual citizen of the US and Israel has been charged with making a string of online and phone threats against schools and Jewish community centers.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#2M3PZ)
They'll all look and behave the same, but you won't get one console to rule them all Huawei's going to build a global cloud based on its cut of OpenStack, but it's going to be a patchwork quilt of clouds it builds and runs by itself and clouds it builds but which its telco mates run.…
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