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Not quite the Caspian Sea Monster, but the ground effect vehicle has returned Russia has posted pictures of a new ground effect vehicle, or ekranoplan. The new design is more modest than the "Caspian Sea Monster" that so alarmed Western intelligence during the Cold War, and can only be seen taxiing.…

Beastmode crew hosts three-day conference in Lugano, Switzerland HPC Blog Looking to find out about the latest cutting-edge research and the best way to utilise HPC gear? Or would you just like to hang out with your HPC homies on the Piazza della Riforma in the brisk night air? Either way, you'll want to be in Lugano, Switzerland, next week because the HPC Advisory Council is coming to town.…

Chinese vendors' upgrades driving costs Techno-seers Gartner have once again peered into the cosmic spreadsheet and found that global device spend will increase by 2 per cent this year to $600bn (£480bn) in its latest tech spend divination ritual.…

Stargazers perform grav wave 'paleontology' in simulations Astrophysicists are one step closer to understanding how pairs of merging black holes form in the far reaches of the cosmos.…

PCIe-connected super-calculator trounces outdated competition Analysis In 2013, Google realized that its growing dependence on machine learning would force it to double the number of data centers it operates to handle projected workloads.…

Official list of phoned-home info revealed by Microsoft Next week Microsoft will begin the slowish rollout of its big update to Windows 10, the Creators Update.…

This year's flagship ThinkPad for business feels a little underwhelming REAL WORLD TEST Lenovo's X1 Carbon ThinkPad is the company's flagship business laptop and has just been refreshed for 2017. But the new model may frustrate.…

Discovery could be key to cracking universe's baffling particle drought puzzle The mystery behind why there is an imbalance between matter and antimatter in the universe could be one step closer to being solved.…

Get patching, friends Cisco's discovered that its Mobility Express Software, shipped with Aironet 1830 Series and 1850 Series access points, has a hard-coded admin-level SSH password.…

Also adds app tracing to stop code troubleshooting being a 'murder mystery' Pivotal has popped out its quarterly Cloud Foundry update, and this time there's something notable: the ability to manage fleets of Windows Servers.…

Third party repair doesn't void consumer warranty rights Apple's “error 53” i-Thing bricking bug has landed it in court again, this time in Australia.…

Lefthand dating ad: 'Righthand, let's get together soon' +Comment Well, that's awkward. Facebook's head of global safety and CEO Mark Zuckerberg on Wednesday gave differing descriptions of the advertising network's just-launched "AI" powered “online safety” initiative.…

New captain piped aboard the Good Ship Failboat Australia's Digital Transformation Agency has a new project-canceller-in-chief, announcing that ex-banker Gavin Slater will succeed interim CEO Nerida O’Loughlin as of May 1.…

Denies deploying 'Stingrays' near government buildings in Ottawa, so who are the spys? The Royal Canadian Mounted Police has ‘fessed up to a long-held suspicion that it uses Stingray-style equipment to track mobile phones.…

Lawyers stand down, bosses get checkbooks out Amazon is going to refund as much as US$70m of in-app charges racked up by American children, after reaching agreement with US trade watchdog the FTC.…

It was due 'towards the end of March' and almost a week later … tumbleweeds The PwC review on just what went wrong with the Australian Taxation Office's HPE storage is … well we can't say exactly what it is.…

Major sports school levels up with esports program The University of Utah on Wednesday said it will offer scholarships to students who excel at esports – meaning they can play, say, League of Legends for the US college to pay their way through an engineering degree.…

Party like it's 2003 Ubuntu's dream of a single Linux platform across all your devices has died, swiftly, following a single gunshot to the head. Holding the revolver: founder of Ubuntu, Mark Shuttleworth.…

Not hacking, just an inept IT bod unable to secure a database, apparently Online brokerage Scottrade has admitted sensitive loan applications from roughly 20,000 customers were exposed to the world by a fumble-fingered third-party supplier.…

O'Rielly tests the waters as watchdog boss Pai pushes economic angle FCC Commissioner Michael O'Rielly has said US Congress will have to resolve the tricky question of net neutrality.…

Sort it out or get a slap, warns High Court judge Huawei may be barred from flogging its smartphones in the UK after Unwired Planet International chalked up a convincing win in a long-running patent infringement lawsuit.…

Saturday night’s takeout: robot made pizza delivered by drone Remember the old EMC IDC Digital Universe we’re-drowning-in-a-zettabyte-sized-data-flood annual studies? Like a phoenix, it has come back.…

Two horsemen of the apocalypse unite Eyeo, the German company behind Adblock Plus, has acquired Flattr, the online tip jar operation co-founded by Peter Sunde, of Pirate Bay infamy. The two companies already had a formal partnership.…

Two horsemen of the apocalypse unite Eyeo, the German company behind Adblock Plus, has acquired Flattr, the online tip jar operation co-founded by Peter Sunde, of Pirate Bay infamy. The two companies already had a formal partnership.…

Expanded management with policies, snaps, replication and archiving bulks out SW offer Datrium has announced a rack scale product to ease large-scale deployment and management software providing virtual machine-focussed protection, replication, copy data management and archiving with a roadmap to public cloud support.…

Confused by the new Huawei? You should be Huawei launched its Honor brand to sell good value phones in the UK after experts at this sort of thing predicted Westerners would never be able to pronounce "Huawei". The experts at this sort of thing turned out to be wrong.…

Tutorials, best practices at Lugano HPC-fest HPC Blog The upcoming HPC Advisory Council conference in Lugano will be much more than just a bunch of smart folks presenting PowerPoints to a crowd. It will feature a number of sessions designed to teach HPCers how to better use their gear, do better science, and generally humble all those around you with your vast knowledge and perspicacity.…

Adds entry-level product, support for Hadoop and its own DW.BI software Data warehousing and business intelligencer Teradata has an all-flash Intelliflex product and a ready-to-run entry-level IntelliBase offering.…

Not looking so fluffy-wuffy now Eleven charities have been fined by the UK's Information Commissioner's Office for their dodgy dealings with donors' personal data.…

GE Digital and Lufthansa see startup Software startup Portworx, which is building storage for containers, has scored $20m in B-round funding.…

Prison letters from Peter Sage reach world+dog The jailed motivational speaker accused of diddling HPE out of 42,000 servers in a fraud spanning several years has been writing letters from prison to his "dear and amazing" fans inviting them to "join me on the journey".…

What's a squashed jogger or two in the name of progress? Around a hundred Londoners will travel in Blighty’s first public driverless cars over the next few weeks, it was announced this morning.…

Project says data will be safely stored at Bradford Teaching Hospital Bradford is to share the "de-identified" medical data of half a million patients from 88 GP surgeries across the region, in a bid to improve treatments for frailty and childhood obesity.…

Pay-to-be-slayed plan pulled over blasphemy, health & safety worries Senior clergy in Manchester have cited health and safety and blasphemy concerns after nixing a plan to fill a funding gap for the city’s Easter Passion play by offering members of the public the chance to be crucified.…

Focus will be on Europe, US French cloud computing giant OVH will operate recently inhaled vCloud Air solely as a private and hybrid cloud, a change from VMware's practice of offering a roll-up-roll-up-bring-your-credit-card cloud.…

Antivirus vendor could teach the Romans a thing or two +Comment Prominent next-gen antivirus vendor Cylance has confirmed a wide-ranging restructure involving swingeing job cuts.…

Yeah right, says America

Two become one Key internet standards-making body the Internet Society (ISOC) and security and privacy org the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) are merging.…

'Other opportunities' exerts its seductive pull once again +Comment Infinidat is the Moshe Yanai founded and led storage supplier building high end Infinibox arrays.…

Yet another huge funding round for secondary storage startup Secondary storage-consolidating startup Cohesity has notched up a $90m cash infusion in a third funding round. Is this a new storage unicorn, with a $1bn valuation?…

Hadoop-flinger's new president talks Brexit and getting rid of the sales chaff DWS17 Hortonworks' new president, Raj Verma, has stated that his company will retain London as its international headquarters unless its financial sector and telecommunications customers fled the city following Brexit.…

Survey: 6 in 10 have 'experienced' crap connectivity Perennial complaints about crap internet connectivity feel like the digital equivalent of people grumbling about potholes. So it's no surprise that six in 10 of us have moaned to Which? of problems in the last year.…

Literally – meet the $100m project to read/write the mind Technical work demands tools. Software developers have integrated development environments and text editors. Genetic researchers have gene sequencing machines and CRISPR. Doctors have too many toys to name.…

Usernames, passwords swiped for hours, malware dropped on PCs Rather than picking off online banking customers one by one, ambitious hackers took control of a Brazilian bank's entire DNS infrastructure to rob punters blind.…

First step in developing family robots with general intelligence AI researchers at Chinese tech beast Baidu have attempted to teach virtual bots English in a two-dimensional maze-like world.…

Doable, if you have a soldering iron and a couple of hundred transistors Warning: there's no real IT angle in a chap hacking a venerable Tektronix Type 422 oscilloscope to play Pong. It's just fun.…

Only 22 orbits to go before it burns up in glory Video NASA's Cassini spacecraft will enter the final stages of its mission by nosediving between Saturn’s rings on April 26, before it rams into the planet's atmosphere and vaporizes.…

Death knell sounded for paravirtualisation, here's why Xen has a critical bug that means Qubes 3.1 and 3.2 need an immediate patch, for Xen packages between 4.6.4 and 4.6.26.…

Cisco and HPE couldn't make it work and Virtzilla probably dodged a server refresh cycle ANALYSIS VMware quitting the public cloud by selling vCloud Air to OVH looks like failure, but is the best possible sort of failure because the company still has excellent prospects to turn a quid from the cloud, without having to operate one.…

This time the plan is security outcomes through togetherness LOGO WATCH McAfee is McAfee again: the security company that Intel thought was worth US$7.68bn in 2010 and then sold 51 per cent of for $3.1bn in 2016 is now independent once more.…