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It's 2017 so SAP's added a Siri clone and machine learning to ERP
S/4HANA 'Cloud' now comes with vertical editions, but not notably more cloud SAP has updated the cloud edition of its in-memory S/4HANA ERP suite and tacked the word “Cloud” onto the end of its name.…
World to spend US$2.4 TRILLION on tech in 2017
Software to overtake hardware by 2020, say abacus-shufflers at IDC Analyst outfit IDC reckons the world will spend US$2.4 trillion (€2.25tn, £1.91tn) on technology products in 2017, with just under half of the cheques to be written by very large companies.…
Google has a canary problem: One clocked off and crocked its cloud
Again. So now Google's re-building dangerously centralized routing rigs Google's explained why new cloudy virtual machines in its cloud engine couldn't connect to the world for a couple of hours in January: a canary didn't fall off its perch, so the company was unaware of a problem.…
Explained: Apple iCloud kept 'deleted' browser histories for over a year
Cupertino giant quickly purged supposedly dead files when word got out Apple appears to have fixed a flaw in iCloud that retained a copy of deleted Safari browsing history data synced from local devices for more than a year.…
Grumpy Trump trumped, now he's got the hump: Muslim ban beaten back by appeals court
Judges deal stunning blow to president's executive order President Trump has suffered a serious blow to his authority following a decision by a court of appeals against his controversial travel ban.…
Senator wants a piece of Pai: FCC boss blasted for ripping up schools, libraries internet report
Ajit gets a Florida-style full Nelson after study scrapped US FCC Chairman Ajit Pai is facing criticism for his decision to axe a study on improving internet connections at public schools and libraries.…
Hyperloop sueball noose-man launches tube-travel rival
Brogan BamBrogan is back! And this time he means BamBusiness Three months after settling a lawsuit with former employer Hyperloop One, engineer Brogan BamBrogan (of the BamBrogans) has launched a rival to the tube-travelling transport company.…
Why software engineers should ditch Silicon Valley for Austin
And it has nothing to do with South by Southwest Software engineers should ditch their coveted Silicon Valley jobs and look for opportunities in Austin, San Diego or Seattle.…
Zut alors! Uber wrecked my marriage, fumes French businessman
Now give me €45 MEEELLION to make up for it A French businessman is suing Uber for a ridiculous amount of money, with the claim that the dial-a-ride app cost him his marriage.…
Trump cybersecurity order morphs into 2,200-plus-word extravaganza
Expanded executive order calls for no fewer than 10 reports The latest draft of a cybersecurity executive order to be signed by President Trump has become an unusually precise, report-ordering extravaganza.…
Clusters f**ked: Insecure Hadoop file systems wiped by miscreants
Weak default settings attract data deletion attacks despite warnings Administrators of Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) clusters have evidently not heeded warnings that surfaced last month about securing software with insecure default settings.…
Comcast lied and now it must STFU: Its cable broadband is not 'the fastest' in the US
Ad watchdog hits out at telco's alternate facts Lying Comcast will no longer be able to advertise its cable internet service as the "fastest" following a decision from the US National Advertising Review Board.…
Macs don't get viruses? Hahaha, ha... seriously though, that Word doc could be malware
Files spotted using Python code to infect Apple machines Hackers are menacing Apple Mac users with Word documents laced with malicious macros that install malware.…
Prepare your popcorn: Wikipedia deems the Daily Mail unreliable
Stage set for Jimbo Wales vs Paul Dacre. Who will win? Welcome, Mr Dacre. Wikipedia editors have voted to put The Daily Mail in the sin bin – alongside The Register.…
Dell's XtremIO has a new reseller in Japan – its all-flash rival Fujitsu
*slow clap* Check this baby out.…
EMC exile Russo scales Iron Mountain to be crowned CTO
Former VMAX product head finds refuge Fidelma Russo has been appointed CTO at data management firm Iron Mountain, Storage Newsletter reports.…
OK, 2016 wasn't the best, but look for a buyer? That's Cray
Slowing market sparks ideas... but only in analysts' minds +Comment A poor year for Cray was rescued by its fourth 2017 quarter’s results.…
Life after antivirus: Reinventing endpoint security
Multilayered defence Promo Security professionals still talk about “antivirus defences,” but in the space of a handful of years what is meant by this term has undergone a dramatic shift.…
Windows 10: What is it good for? Microsoft pitches to devs ahead of Creators Update
Gaming, mixed reality, Cortana Skills on the agenda as MS continues to plug UWP Microsoft briefed developers on the updates to the Windows 10 platform at an online Developer Day in preparation for the Creators Update, set for release later this year.…
Docker polices secrets, in Iron Man suit no less
Container wrangler can now shield your sensitive privates Secrets management can present problems for those working in containerized environments. Storing secrets – API keys, SSH keys, TLS certificates and other sensitive data used for authentication and authorization – within a container image may be the path of least resistance but doing so is insecure. Anyone with access to the container image will have access to the secrets within.…
Cardiff researchers get £250k to monitor Brexit hate crime on Twitter
Pre-crime snoops study spread of cruel chatter Cardiff University's Social Data Science Lab has been awarded a £250,000 grant to set up a centre to monitor “Brexit-related hate crime” on Twitter.…
That's cute. AI and IoT need 'ethics regulation', mumbles Lib Dem baron
Government kindly but firmly puts him back in his box A Liberal Democrat peer has suggested that the Internet of Things needs government regulation in the UK.…
Oh my Tosh: Bids up to $3.6bn for memory biz as deadline approaches
Forget WD – bigger stake in joint flash fab would make more sense Reuters is all over the Toshiba memory division 20 per cent stake sale, reporting incoming bids up to $3.6bn.…
Brought to you by UK.gov: 'Most ambitious programme of change of any government anywhere in the world'
Don't be afraid. It's just that year-late digital strategy Cabinet Office minister Ben Gummer has today unveiled the government’s long-delayed digital strategy, calling it "the most ambitious programme of change of any government anywhere in the world”.…
USMC: We want more F-35s per year than you Limeys will get in half a decade
American general wants rid of his Harriers tout suite The head of US Marine Corps aviation wants to buy more F-35Bs per year than the UK will receive in the next five.…
SQL Server on Linux? HELL YES! Linux on Windows 10? Meh
Like GNU running in Windows – outrageous. And pointless Once the second biggest enemy of Linux (SCO Group takes top honours), Microsoft is positively giddy about not just supporting Linux but actually building tools that run Linux in Windows and about putting previously Windows-only software on Linux.…
Cattle that fail, not pets that purr – the future of servers
Four paws bad! Time to break the emotional attachment Microsoft, Amazon, Google, others all telling us to move server loads to the cloud. Most of us with on-premise servers haven't designed things in a cloud friendly way and - call us old sentimentalists - have heaped time, love and workloads on our tin.…
Memory1: All right, Sparky, here's the deal: We've sorted your DRAM runtimes
Inspur and Diablo smash those datasets Analysis Chinese server vendor Inspur has cut Spark workload runtimes in half by bulking out DRAM with Diablo Technologies' Memory1 technology.…
Euro bloc blocks streaming vid geoblocks
Now your soaps can come on holiday, too European Union citizens will soon be able to carry their streaming video subscriptions across borders, without virtual private networks but not necessarily for free.…
Jawbone leans over, whispers: Psst, guess who's in a criminal probe? Yes, it's Fitbit
Whatever, you're just a sore loser, Fitbit fires back The bitter battle between Fitbit and Jawbone has picked up again, with Jawbone claiming in its latest court filing that its rival is under criminal investigation.…
Microsoft touts cheap-ish anti-patent troll protection shield for Azure-hosted devs
If $1,000 a month is cheap, sure Patent trolls are a growing problem, and Microsoft thinks that it has the solution – an affordable-ish protection scheme for Azure customers.…
Mag publisher Future stored your FileSilo passwords in plaintext. Then hackers hit
Plaintext passwords. In 2017 UK magazine publisher Future's FileSilo website has been raided by hackers, who have made off with, among other information, unencrypted user account passwords.…
ITU-T wants video sizes to halve again by 2020
Boffins challenged to make H.265 compression look flabby The International Telecommunications Union wants researchers to get busy on new video compression codecs, setting an ambitious target to double their squeezing compression power by 2020.…
F5's Big-IP leaks little chunks of memory, even SSL session IDs
Turn off F5's 'Session Tickets' or patch the bug to survive 'Ticketbleed' There's a new branded bug in town, but thankfully it only hurts kit made by F5 Networks.…
Departing Autodesk CEO says he became dumber and less funny the moment he quit
Carl Bass is not planning to spend time with family - he's not sure they want him around Carl Bass says quitting will mean people stop laughing at his jokes as we noted in passing yesterday, Autodesk's Carl Bass has stepped aside as CEO.…
Vintage Space Shuttle fuel tank destroyed by New Orleans tornado
Space Launch System and Orion undamaged, all personnel accounted for Video A tornado has totalled some priceless NASA artefacts.…
nbn™ tops AU$400 million half-year revenue
But signup for higher speed tiers is flat-lining Australia's National Broadband Network is closing in on a million active fibre-to-the-premises users and topped AU$400 million for the first half of its 2017 financial year.…
To do DevOps right, beam down a UFO says Dynatrace
No, seriously. This thing floats over your office and flashes when code pipelines go bad Application performance monitoring outfit Dynatrace is getting into the flying saucer business.…
Big blues: IBM's remote-worker crackdown is company-wide, including its engineers
Not just marketing – Software and Systems must work from city hubs, too Exclusive IBM is forcing more than just its US marketing staff to move to a handful of regional hubs. The crackdown on remote workers and smaller offices also hits engineers and other staffers in America and Europe.…
Want to come to the US? Be prepared to hand over your passwords if you're on Trump's hit list
Homeland Sec boss says he wants 'enhanced' digital vetting The new boss of the US Department of Homeland Security plans to dig deeper into the lives of some of those wishing to enter the Land of the Free – even going as far as demanding web passwords and banking records.…
Ex-NSA contractor Harold Martin indicted: He spent 'up to 20 years stealing top-secret files'
US prosecutors list dossiers and code allegedly swiped Former Booz Allen Hamilton contractor Harold Thomas Martin III allegedly stole secret and top-secret software and documents from American intelligence agencies for up to 20 years. That's according to a federal grand jury indictment revealed today.…
Revealed: 'Suicide bomber Barbie' and other TSA quack science that cost $1.5 billion
ACLU urges end to behavioral screening of travelers From 2007 through 2015, the US Transportation Security Administration (TSA) spent $1.5 billion trying to identify potentially dangerous travelers by observing their behavior through an ongoing program called SPOT.…
More tech companies join anti-Trump battle, but why did some pay for his inauguration?
Hypocrisy is the new normal More tech companies have added their names to the legal brief against President Trump's immigration ban, but some big names – including Amazon, Google and Microsoft – are facing accusations of rampant hypocrisy for funding his inauguration.…
Samsung battery factory bursts into flame in touching Note 7 tribute
Recycling center processing exploding batts itself explodes. How poetic The factory tasked with producing and later recycling the batteries for the self-detonating Samsung Note 7 has itself fallen victim to a fire.…
Tosh's new workhorse drive: Not too desktop, not too enterprise
Need a 2/47 NAS disk? Mmm, maybe the MN series is just right Toshiba has a new desktop and low-end NAS disk drive, the MN series.…
Good guy Logic Supply resolves breach in days, unlike some companies
*cough* Yahoo! *cough* What? No, I have a terrible cold US-based industrial computer supplier Logic Supply has reset user passwords following a suspected security breach.…
Android Wear: The bloatware that turned into gloatware
2.0 hits the Last Chance Saloon today Analysis After multiple delays, Google is finally launching Android Wear 2 today, nine months after revealing it to world+dog. This is Google's last chance to give Wear a purpose, in a market that's been savage to so many wearables. Otherwise, it's back to the drawing board.…
Conviction by computer is go, confirms UK Ministry of Justice
What could possibly go wrong with this madcap scheme? Petty criminals in Britain will soon be found guilty and sentenced by computers, under new government plans.…
Cisco polishes HALO, flashes enlarged HyperFlex
New hyperconverged pair Cisco has announced two all-flash HyperFlex systems with an up to sixfold performance improvement.…
Biggest Kodi sweep: Brit cops nab five, bag some dodgy sticks
Crackdown reaches Manchester, Wales and Liverpool UK copyright cops made their biggest sweep yet in the crackdown on preloaded Kodi TV streaming kit.…
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