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Finally, a FIFA scandal you can't blame on Sepp Blatter A US man is facing felony wire fraud charges for allegedly stealing and reselling in-game currency for EA Sports' FIFA console games.…

#OpLastResort hacker suspect on suicide watch It appears that appeals for clemency have come to naught after the UK Home Office confirmed that the extradition order for Lauri Love has been signed off by Home Secretary Amber Rudd.…

Never believe what you read online – except this story, obviously Google has been sucked into the post-election scapegoat meltdown after it displayed a fake news story at the top of its rankings for election result searches.…

Developers committed to C# have something to look forward to Microsoft Visual Studio, or something like it, will soon be available for macOS, a shift that reflects the company's effort to be more open toward non-Windows technology.…

And sticks with its previous backend operator The non-profit that runs all .org domains and provides the bulk of the funding for the Internet Society and Internet Engineering Task Force has just saved itself millions of dollars a year.…

So we've got that going for us, which is nice Amazon has rolled out yet another cut to prices for Amazon Web Services server instances.…

Cause was system 'bug,' not user error, claims mouthpiece National Health Service Digital has tried to blame IT outsourcer Accenture for its ongoing email Reply-all woes, even though the cause is almost certainly a combination of user error and a trouble-inviting system config update.…

CCTV cameras? You've been looking in the wrong place Security researchers have discovered a "missing link" in the Mirai botnet that may prompt a rethink in what makes up the zombie network.…

Welcome focus on Hive standards... but how many more components to go? The Hadoop standardisations body, ODPi, has today made its 2.0 release generally available.…

And IR35 changes could mean thousands down tools The government currently employs 18,000 digital contractors and 12,000 "in-house" tech folk, according to a leaked draft outline of the Government Digital Transformation Strategy seen by The Register.…

Hybrid set-up plus Nytro caching software sends small I/Os to SSD Seagate’s ClusterStor 300N storage array for high-performance computing is a hybrid flash/disk array, lifting sequential bandwidth by 33 per cent and small, random I/O by up to 1,200 per cent.…

The sequel Hundreds of millions of Adult FriendFinder (AFF) accounts appear to have been exposed once again.…

Fill the DataStax-sized hole with big ideas I've been a user of Cassandra for quite a number of years. I've suggested fixes for Apache Cassandra and – I believe – was the first to build a small cluster on Raspberry Pi computers. This year I was lucky enough to be voted an Apache Cassandra MVP.…

Unsurprisingly, Kaspersky recommends prevention Small businesses faced eight times more ransomware attacks in the third quarter of 2016 than the same quarter last year, according to stats from Kaspersky Lab.…

Did the doc A) send him home, B) buff the gold, C) use aspiration method? A South African was forced to undergo rare penile strangulation surgery after slotting a wedding ring over his tackle that he was unable to pull off, according to a medical journal.…

Seagate plops BarraCuda inside external backup Sitting in my desk drawer is a 500GB Hitachi Life Studio Mobile. External drive, pathetic capacity. Seagate has a 5TB Backup Plus Portable external drive in the same physical size, with ten times as much storage space.…

That's about 1 per cent of the entire UK population Updated A test email sent by accident to 850,000 NHS workers has caused utter chaos after being sent from an apparently incorrectly configured* email distribution list.…

ProtonMail suggests fear of the Donald prompting lockdown "ProtonMail follows the Swiss policy of neutrality. We do not take any position for or against Trump," the Swiss company's CEO stated on Monday, before revealing that new user sign-ups immediately doubled following Trump's election victory.…

Hitches ride on BT's EE network – but can they do it better than they do broadband? Outage-prone Plusnet is bringing its service to mobile phones, making use of parent company BT's EE network gobble earlier this year.…

That's a helluva lot of dosh for headrest screens Samsung is splashing out $8bn on buying US connected car tech firm Harman Industries, it announced this morning.…

New chassis and server nodes use NVMe SSDs, uprated Xeons and DDR4 DIMMs Huawei has a new X6000 model in its FusionServer 2U rack chassis line with server cartridges stacked inside.…

German giants are excited by their own seminal move Siemens is to acquire the design automation and industrial software business Mentor Graphics in a $4.5bn deal, including debt.…

Channel convergence and consolidation continue London Stock Exchange-listed distie Exertis has gobbled specialist AV wholesaler Medium UK for an undisclosed sum.…

Donald Trump <3s WikiLeaks WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange is finally being questioned by prosecutors more than six years after he was first accused of rape in Sweden.…

Smartphone 'for the brave' with a foxy look Review British startup WileyFox has made the best "for around £150"* phone since the first Moto G shook up the market for low-cost smartphones back in 2013. There are two models, the Swift 2 at £159 (list) and dual SIM Swift 2+ at £189 (list), both the same size. I tested the "Plus size" here. Both variants have a fingerprint sensor and both are outstanding value.…

Former IDF fighter pilot aims high as CEO Profile Dani Golan stands on the roof of his Israeli headquarters and points out features of the scenery: an 8,000 year-old ruin here, an ancient trade route there, a modern highway alongside the building, a sign to Nazareth, and fighter jets taking off from a nearby airforce base with thunderous, sky-filling roars.…

Click it and go HPC Blog Eddy Shvartsman, self-described head nerd of the IBM OpenStack Toolkit for OpenPOWER, outlined the newest version of the toolkit at the recent OpenPOWER European Summit in Barcelona.…

AaaS steps out of academia into the big bad world Interview Arkivum has gained £3m funding after appointing a new CEO. The firm is in the AaaS business, archiving as a service. When Guy Yaniv became CEO in June, the previous grand fromage, Jim Cook, became Chief Customer Officer. But he left in October and is now a Project Lead at Genomics England.…

'In the long run, it will be more efficient, consistent, and reliable'. And it's cheaper, too Git repository manager and developer playground GitLab has decided it is time to quit the cloud, joining Dropbox in concluding that at a certain scale the cloud just can't do the job.…

Your career is now a game of musical chairs: you need to be ready when the song stops Although sixty years old, artificial intelligence remained mostly a curiosity until half a decade ago, when IBM’s Watson trounced the world’s best Jeopardy! players in a televised match. At the time, you might have thought nothing of that - what does a game show matter in the scheme of things?…

Processors are going to be everywhere, so they shouldn't be energy hogs Europe is trying to plant a flag in future chip development, slinging money towards low-power server silicon.…

♬ 'F*ck selfies: All those gits who take selfies just get on my t*ts' ♬ VIDEO Monty Python members Eric Idle and John Cleese have penned a tune titled “Fuck selfies”.…

Physicists develop "splash-avoidance" technique Engineers have developed a new technique that could pave the way for splash-free urinals in the future.…

Fast gamma rays and fast radio bursts tracked to same source It's not just radio any more: Penn State University boffins have turned up a “fast gamma ray burst” that correlates with a source of a fast radio burst (FRB).…

Replacement for CSIRO's Bragg is required to hit a petaflop for just AU$4m Australia's Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) has issued a (regwalled) tender for a new petaflop-class supercomputer that can run either x86 or Power systems silicon.…

Engineers went head down, bum up but zipped lips gave users the … heebie jeebies A four-hour outage of Google's BigQuery enterprise data warehouse has taught the cloud aspirant two harsh lessons: its cloud doesn't always scale as well as it would like, and; it needs to explain itself better during outages.…

Two earthquakes hammer South Island New Zealand's been hit by two nearly-simultaneous earthquakes that left two people dead, isolated some towns, cut telecommunications links – and rattled the Large Hadron Collider near Geneva.…

Destination unreachable plus port unreachable equals router unreachable A code artefact in a number of popular firewalls means they can be crashed by a mere crafted ping.…

Grab some popcorn, trans-national forensic accounting fans. Both of you The long-running spat between HP and the company formerly known as Autonomy has taken another turn, with Autonomy's former chief financial officer Sushovan Hussain indicted in a San Francisco court last week.…

And no way could that have influenced an election won by one per cent Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg has denied that Facebook's facilitation of fake news influenced the United States presidential election result.…

Wave goodbye to security if crims can pop a MIMO router Modern Wi-Fi doesn't just give you fast browsing, it also imprints some of your finger movements – swipes, passwords and PINs – onto the radio signal.…

Now Vive joins Oculus and Sulon in effort to escape PC connection The race is heating up for a wireless virtual reality headset with HTC announcing a $220 add-on to its Vive system that will allow you to unplug from your PC.…

Spine chilling Scientists trying to find a cure for spinal injuries have claimed a notable success.…

And Trump's tiny hands The world’s tiniest magnifying glass made with gold nanoparticles is powerful enough to see the individual chemical bonds between atoms, according to research published on Friday.…

Social networking giant so very sorry A day after Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg declared it's a "crazy idea" that fake Facebook news may have influenced the election – never mind the persuasive power of its ads – the web giant took to issuing fake death notices.…

Not mentioned: Why it wasn't discussed when they approved the $50bn merger The FCC is taking issue with AT&T over its plans to launch DirecTV as a zero-rated streaming video service.…

And all it took was a few AGs and lawmakers to make them do it Facebook says it will stop allowing advertisers to set display-by-race preferences for certain types of ads.…

Друг познаётся в беде́ The Russian Federal Antimonopoly Service (FAS) is investigating whether Microsoft abused its position in the market with Windows 10 – after Moscow-based Kaspersky complained to the watchdog and EU regulators.…

Demand that bigots resign was really a call for tolerance, food delivery upstart CEO insists Following the election of Donald Trump, Matt Maloney, CEO of food delivery service Grubhub, sent a message to employees decrying Trump's behavior and warning that similar behavior from employees would not be tolerated.…

Column makes case for holding social media giants to account The UK's Information Commissioner Elizabeth Denham has fired another warning shot at Facebook over its paused plans to share data with WhatsApp, writing a newspaper column in which she outlines her concerns.…