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by Alexander J Martin on (#29KFY)
Big Blue talks 'silver threads' IBM Watson has taken heat from Wall Street for not adding to Big Blue's revenue as the company reported a 19th successive quarter of decline.…
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'Deeply concerned' about possibility of sharing citizen info with companies A House of Lords committee has slammed the "inappropriate" and "untrammelled" powers laid out in the Digital Economy Bill to share citizen data across the public sector.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#29KAZ)
Largest fab in the Middle Kingdom to be surrounded by huge 'international city' China’s flash-fancying Tsinghua Unigroup is going to build a $30bn-plus flash fab.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#29K80)
Here's what's in Build 15014 Microsoft has removed the much-anticipated "People Experience" from current beta builds of Windows 10, and will release it later this year instead of this spring.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#29K51)
Data protection SW biz buys filer hardware startup Analysis Backup SW biz StorageCraft has bought Exablox, a startup making scale-out deduping filer arrays using underlying object storage software.…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#29K21)
Internet of Things: Make ordering johnnies great again Amazon Web Services is so desperate to shift its AWS Internet of Things Buttons that it is offering free AWS credits, tech support and even design services to anyone who buys them – and has relaunched its "enterprise program" to boot.…
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It's so important they held a 'three-week consultation'... over the Christmas hols At the current rate Julian Assange is more likely to see the light of day than the government's digital strategy – with a second Parliamentary committee having criticised its long-overdue publication.…
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AT&T's streaming service only behind HBO's despite user complaints AT&T's freshly hatched DirecTV Now OTT streaming service is forecast by most industry analysts to hit around 1 million subscribers after one year, following its launch at the end of November, but here at Faultline Online Reporter we believe the service has the potential to take off on a much bigger scale – providing it can overcome some initial obstacles.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#29JT2)
US nuclear power plant fiasco prompts fears of writedown Reuters is reporting that Toshiba has started its chip business minority stake sale process.…
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by Verity Stob on (#29JQZ)
Where's pocket Bjarne Stroustrup when you need him? STOB Peter Wayner, a tech columnist, claims to have identified the seven most vexing problems in programming. According to his subheadings, these are: multithreading, closures, "too big data", np-completeness, security, encryption and identity management.…
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by Alistair Dabbs on (#29JKN)
I am guilty of too much clouded thinking Something for the Weekend, Sir? My neighbours are staring at my hole and shaking their heads disapprovingly. They were a little surprised to receive my invitation to view my orifice, and it may not be as big as theirs, but I needed their advice on how to fill it.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#29JHS)
Necrus botnet wakes up and starts fresh malware-cano Cisco is warning of possible return of a massive ransomware spam campaign after researchers noticed traces of traffic from the hitherto dormant Necrus botnet.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#29JGS)
EU antitrust bod nods in approval as another market opens up Apple and Amazon have agreed to end the exclusivity deal that gave Audible sole access to the iBooks store.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#29JEV)
Oh, bless Analysis Secondary storage silo converging startup Cohesity has added entry-level hardware as it reaches 80+ customers and 100+ US resellers.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#29JE0)
Board member claims he was sacked for slamming Trump and Brexit A sacked board member of UK telco regulator Ofcom is suing the British government for refusing to give him a £75,000 ($92,500) payoff.…
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by John Leyden on (#29JCR)
'More realistic picture' we're told Crime stats for England and Wales have shown a huge year-on-year increase. Don't panic, though: it's due to the inclusion of fraud and computer misuse offences for the first time.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#29JA3)
Saintly clients fled investment firm after workers revealed hellish smut mountain ON-CALL Welcome again to On-Call, which returns for 2017 with more tales of your fellow readers' experiences of horrible jobs at horrible times.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#29J85)
Breaking news, literally Facebook apparently blocked Russia Today – the Kremlin-bankrolled broadcaster now known as RT – from posting anything other than text messages on the social network.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#29J75)
Reg man submits self to invasive sparkly-unicorn androgyny transformation PIC The Meitu selfie horrorshow app going viral through Western audiences is a privacy nightmare, researchers say.…
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by Chris Mellor on (#29J3F)
From the special forces to, um, HPE Profile SimpliVity CEO and cofounder Doron Kempel is a two-time storage startup winner. With HPE buying his firm for $650m, what will he do next?…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#29J2E)
Decade-old capital structure needs a refresh for cloudier times Avaya has filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 11 of the United States Bankruptcy Code, which allows organisations to re-organise their affairs in part by temporarily relieving them of obligations to creditors.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#29HZY)
New .gov domains will only ever offer HTTPS, says US CIO On United States president Barack Obama's last day in office, the U.S. Chief Information Officer and the Federal CIO Council have announced a new rule that will see all future .gov websites shrouded in impenetrable secret codes.…
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by Simon Sharwood on (#29HX1)
Logo picked to represent internet roots just confuses the internet LOGOWATCH Mozilla, sorry Moz://a's new logo is causing problems because it doesn't work when typed into browsers' address bars.…
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by Darren Pauli on (#29HT2)
Krebs says he's fingered author of epic IoT web assault code The author of the massive distributed denial-of-service attack malware Mirai, which ropes infected routers and internet of things devices into remotely controlled armies, is a New Jersey man, according to journo Brian Krebs.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#29HMM)
Biz optimistic 2017 will see cloud and mobile help boost bottom line IBM is touting growth in its cloud and cognitive business units as the enterprise giant wraps up a year of double-digit revenue declines.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#29HJN)
FTC settlement bars taxi app maker from publishing fiction about potential riches Cab app Uber has agreed to pay $20m to settle charges that it exaggerated how much drivers using its software can earn and downplayed the cost of financing cars through the company.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#29HGB)
WikiLeaker folds hand in pledge poker If US investigators were hoping WikiLeaks boss Julian Assange would be deliver himself into their hands, then they are due for a disappointment.…
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by Thomas Claburn on (#29GZ5)
Code lets developers test applications without a hosting account Hardware infrastructure, once the foundation of computing giants like IBM, has become an abstract commodity thanks to cloud computing, virtualization, and containerization.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#29GVN)
The technical term for this, in the financial world, is: 'Boned' Around 33 per cent of the technology companies to enter the market in the last ten years are currently valued at a price lower than their IPO mark.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#29GRR)
Autopilot update cuts prangs by 40 per cent, we're told The US National Highway Traffic Safety Administration investigation into a fatal Tesla crash last year has determined that the car manufacturer should face no further action and has improved safety considerably.…
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by Kieren McCarthy on (#29GMS)
No pressure, peeps: Techies are awaiting a fix from their Redmond coworkers A bug in Windows 10 is undermining Microsoft's efforts to roll out an IPv6-only network at its Seattle headquarters.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#29G75)
Stateless Linux data center released into the wilds An alliance that dominated the PC industry is entering the world of fluffy white stuff and open source: Microsoft Azure is the first public cloud to include an Intel initiated and container-oriented Clear Linux OS.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#29G58)
It's your own fault, Trump-friendly tycoon tells Davos Silicon Valley’s tech plutocrats have kept a relatively low profile at Davos, the WEF’s schmoozefest for corporate, government and NGO elites. But into the void stepped Jack Ma, founder of Alibaba.…
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by Gavin Clarke on (#29G10)
Time for REST... and it's only January Oracle’s first financial splash of 2017 has seen it snap up enterprise API specialist Apiary.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#29FWW)
Badge engineering to make open networking easier for newcomers Open networking operating system vendor Cumulus Networks is about to start selling hardware – but it's not going to start actually making the stuff.…
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by Team Register on (#29FV4)
Don't learn about IoT, learn how to do IoT The early bird ticket offer for Building IoT London ends very soon, meaning you’ve got just hours to save a stack of cash on three days with the IoT world’s finest thinkers, doers and developers.…
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by John Leyden on (#29FMQ)
Carbanak: It's not just a caramel-flavoured choc-trocity. It's also malware The Carbanak cyber criminal gang is abusing Google’s infrastructure as a conduit for botnet control.…
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by John Leyden on (#29FB9)
UK security firm's chairman steps down NCC Group’s chairman Paul Mitchell said he would be stepping down as he UK cyber security consultancy announced a drop in profits on Thursday.…
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by Clodagh Doyle on (#29F5M)
Fearless Flatley flouts inauguration boycott Fears that Donald Trump inauguration will be more winalot than Camelot have abated, with the news that renowned trad Irish hoofer Michael Flatley will parachute in his Lord of the Dance troupe to Friday’s virtually celeb-free inauguration.…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#29F0V)
Anything Elon can do…? Korean boffins want to create the blueprint for a train capable of operating at 1,000km/h (621mph).…
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by Andrew Orlowski on (#29EV2)
Maybe it doesn't need friends? But it should worry about fragmenting Android further Google’s decision to keep premium Android features for itself attracted surprisingly little comment last year - but the dangers are heaving into view. By declaring war on its most important customers, Google risks losing a degree of control over Android, further fragmenting the platform.…
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by John Leyden on (#29ESX)
Whitehouse.gov down? A software engineer is calling on netizens opposed to Donald Trump to visit the Whitehouse.gov site and overload it with traffic tomorrow.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#29ENZ)
Keep yr Digits for now, fam ... we're good Google is set to acquire Twitter's mobile app development platform, Fabric, and assimilate its team within its own development platform, Firebase.…
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Peace, love and Docker or Kubernetes – you must choose Docker was arguably a dumb thing for you to do with your time last year. Developers loved it but enterprises weren’t so sure.…
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by Alexander J Martin on (#29EDE)
Known oppressive regimes including Egypt, and er... the UK? Oh, the IP Act is law... ProtonMail, the privacy-focused email business, has launched a Tor hidden service to combat the censorship and surveillance of its users.…
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by Danny Bradbury on (#29EBN)
AFA without tears Conventional wisdom says that for performance-sensitive applications, you want all-flash arrays (AFAs), while for less-critical applications and bulk storage, disk is better. How can you use them in conjunction with each other? What would a joint AFA/hybrid/disk environment look like?…
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by Gareth Corfield on (#29E8M)
Why? 'Umm, er, cable insulation standards,' mutters MoD Britain’s naval service will receive new fleet support tanker RFA Tidespring more than 18 months late, following delays which left the vessel languishing in a South Korean shipyard.…
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by Iain Thomson on (#29E5Z)
Turns out Mother Nature is a killer for power and people Video For decades now people have been claiming that the power grid could be taken down by terrorists. However, simple statistical analysis shows that the biggest danger isn't online hackers, but squirrels – aka rats with good PR.…
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by Shaun Nichols on (#29E45)
Stop us if you've heard this one before – billionaire fights to turf people out of private paradise Facebook boss Mark Zuckerberg is suing dozens of families in Hawaii to force them to give up land they've owned for generations.…
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by Richard Chirgwin on (#29E37)
Does that 'thing' really need to run Linux, given alternatives have smaller attack surfaces? The Mirai botnet? Just the “tip of the iceberg†is how security bods at this week's linux.conf.au see the Internet of Things.…
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