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Ups Enterprise's capacity, speeds up data streams Seagate's sixth generation Enterprise Performance disk drive ups its capacity by 50 per cent to 900GB and increases data transfer speed past 300MB/sec.…

What went wrong? Analysis Santa may have an empty sack this Christmas, crushing the dreams of fanbois (and fanfilles). Apple admitted yesterday it was unable to meet the demand for its iPhone 7.…

Pesky kids A senior US intelligence chief has said that "non-state actors" – bored kids or crooks* – are likely behind the high-profile attack on DNS provider Dyn last week.…

Memos confirm Pallante was locked out of network and office The US’s top copyright expert since 2011 has been re-assigned to investigating new tills for the gift shop and brainstorming social media strategies on the orders of her new boss, US president Barack Obama appointee Carla Hayden, leaked memos reveal.…

NASA's spine-tingling experiments spell bad news for astronauts New research brings more bad news to astronauts thinking about long-haul space flights as spinal muscles shrink after months in space, scientists have found.…

Strike out on your own instead of playing catch-up OpenStack Summit First came AWS, then Microsoft’s Azure – now Google’s Cloud Platform (GCP). Microsoft’s been playing feature catch-up to AWS since 2008 with the baton passing now to Google under Diane Greene.…

Plus: Cockcroft jumps ship to AWS, Facebook threat to enterprise, and more

Less blue-sky thinking, more 'is this profitable?' needed IoT World Congress What does the Internet of Things actually mean for business? "If a customer is spending $10m on maintenance, I say, 'Give us $8m and... I will bring you better availability of your equipment'," a confident Karthikeyan Natarajan of Tech Mahindra told The Register yesterday.…

What? Software companies must enable customers that acquire an unlimited licence to use their product to download a copy of that software to replace originals that have been damaged, destroyed or lost, the EU's highest court has ruled.…

Because Docker container security leaves something to be desired In order to remain tenable as the security market adjusts to software containers, Tenable Network Security, based in Columbia, Maryland, has acquired FlawCheck, a San Francisco-based company founded last year to make Docker containers more secure.…

Biz apologises and blames issues with its IT system Vodafone has been fined £4.6m for failing customers for mis-selling to customers, inaccurate billing and poor complaints handling.…

Audio: Aussie hacker shows even NSA hacks haven't schooled some telcos Ruxcon They've been warned for years, but scores of telcos are still making bone-headed configuration mistakes in their GPRS Global Roaming Exchange (GRX) networks, leaving mail and FTP servers vulnerable.…

Report says supply chain is ramping up for refurb and electronics upgrade “Uglier things have been spotted in the sky, but not by reliable witnesses” – and, in the case of the A10 “Warthog”, it'll be the ugliest thing in the sky for a lot longer than the US Air Force wanted.…

Liverpool John Moores University thinks crop-munching pests deserve light relief, not poison. Or Brexit, presumably The European Commission (EC) has found €1,777,985 for research on rat-repelling laser fences.…

Spectral modulation looks like 233 coincidences too many As any followers of the “Tabbi's Star” controversy will tell you, put “aliens” in a media release and you're bound to get the clicks.…

It's goodbye Artik 1 and hello Artik 7 Samsung has expanded and updated its IoT hardware with the release of the low-end Artik 0 and high-end Artik 7 modules – both of which support the Thread protocol for the first time.…

'Researcher' sells spamming, trojan wares Malware has been spotted using the freemium model more than 30 years after it was introduced.…

Not a lot of difference and we support the one, so let's support the other Atlantis is integrating its virtual workspace (desktop) into the Citrix management suite and is also providing a software product to manage and provision compute, networking, storage and data services for containers.…

Access CEO asks Google Maps for nearest exit Google's taken another step in winding back its fibre rollouts, and Craig Barratt, CEO of the operation, is showing himself the door.…

Keen hackers at Mobile Pwn2Own The Nexus 6P appears to have been hacked with attackers at the Mobile Pwn2Own contest installing malware without user interaction in less than five minutes.…

Spy agency faced 'incredible growth' in spies in Sydney, Melbourne, Canberra, book reveals The Australian Security Intelligence Organisation (ASIO) has publicly admitted for the first time it was infiltrated by Soviet spies during the Cold War.…

A cloudy forecast points towards a flattish Q4 Juniper's turned in a Q3 2016 quarter revenue of US$1.285 billion, up 3 per cent on the same period last year, but with GAAP profits down by 13 per cent to $172.4 million.…

Security biz up, content distribution down Cloud computing security has driven a 6 per cent year-on-year revenue growth for Akamai, up from $US551 million last year to $584 million for Q3 2016.…

IT Crowd jokes aside, who okayed this mess? If Vulture South wasn't running short-staffed yesterday, we'd have stayed with the Senate Committee hearings inquiring into Australia's Census outage on August 9, and caught this gem:…

Salesforce CEO talks diversity, investments and, yes, making the world a better place Marc Benioff is many things. But a whiner is not one of them.…

'Holy s**t, Tim!' - profits have slipped to a mere 'bonkers' Apple once again saw revenues drop, as 45.5 million iPhone 7 sales were not enough to boost its fourth-quarter earnings.…

475,000 Americans will get trade-in value plus $5k to $10k compensation Volkswagen's proposed US “Dieselgate” remedies can go into effect, a US judge said, approving the disgraced auto-maker's US$14.7 billion settlement.…

Overlap dialling lets attacker shut down system Asterisk users need to get busy with a patch.…

Cambridge researchers envision electronics that thrive on a starvation diet Since 1965, transistors have followed a path predicted by Gordon Moore, becoming more densely packed year after year. The result has been a steady improvement in CPU performance. Batteries, however, haven't advanced at the same pace.…

Intel CEO talks teamwork, not reading books and white privilege Intel CEO Brian Krzanich doesn't read books.…

Not first-gen Purley in 2017 as we were sorta promised Intel will fab Xeon processors that support 3D XPoint DIMMs in two years, its CEO signaled to analysts on a conference call this month.…

Hidden image of product unearthed in latest Sierra Apple has stashed what looks like a photo of its new MacBook Pro – due to be announced this week – in the very latest macOS Sierra update.…

Sides settle beef over the cost of that DVD player you never use HP says that Panasonic will no longer be a target in its optical drives lawsuit – after the two sides reached a settlement deal.…

Chocolate Factory has acquired Eyefluence to watch you watch VR Not content to track people's activities online, Google plans to read their minds.…

Next time, ask for your pint in 'minute straw shapes' A team of researchers has ventured deep into the physics of spilling to uncover why pints of beer splash everywhere but liquid in straws do not when positioned horizontally.…

Phone-sync'd widgets open folks to stalker risk Tracking widgets that you stick on your keys and wallet so you don't lose them are riddled with security vulnerabilities, we're told.…

Helion a 'real environment for production' OpenStack Summit Hewlett Packard Enterprise has polished its open-source cloud bundle ready for those returning from public cloud or perturbed by off-premises services.…

Sour taste ahead for professional drivers A truck using Uber’s latest automated driving system has made its first commercial delivery after shipping 45,000 cans of beer Bud on public freeways with no one at the wheel.…

Jamboard is a cheaper Microsoft Surface Hub Pic Google's latest tablet, the Jamboard, weighs 93 pounds (42 kilograms). It could inflict grievous bodily harm if it toppled onto you. But Google made sure to have the four-wheeled stand that supports the unwieldy screen certified by safety testing firm UL.…

CPU designer touts cloud to push updates securely to all devices ARM TechCon Processor designer ARM will squirt security fixes directly into internet-connected gadgets to hopefully keep them defended from hackers.…

We win! Boo-yeah! First place out of three? ARM TechCon Suse is claiming victory over Red Hat by announcing – and these caveats are all crucial – "the first commercial enterprise Linux distribution optimized for ARM AArch64 architecture servers."…

Fine, but you really should consider replacing it by now Samsung is issuing a software update to all its Galaxy Note 7s across Europe, limiting the maximum battery charge to 60 per cent, in an attempt to quell its explosive safety issues.…

Switch to asymmetric keys, stat! Pager communications in industrial environments often run over unencrypted channels, creating a hacker risk in the process.…

Now go forth – and develop armies of soulless stenographers Microsoft has released a catalogue of AI software under Microsoft Cognitive Toolkit on GitHub today.…

Lack of cohesion Exclusive Cohesity has parted ways with its chief operating officer, Riccardo Di Blasio, one year after he joined the startup.…

Q: What happens when a one-disk-failure-tolerant RAID fails? A: So do new applicants King's College London suffered its seventh consecutive day of IT woes today. According to our sources in Blighty's capital, this was down to a redundant array of inexpensive disks (RAID) which was running virtualised systems failing during a hardware upgrade.…

Yeah yeah. Humanity is unnecessary. We're sick of experts shoving it in our faces Once upon a time a public sector job was a golden ticket: little actual work, less accountability, and a job for life. Not any longer.…

Why are you screaming and tearing your hair out? IoT World Congress Putting Internet of Things sensors into electricity distribution grids works just fine - and security is catered for by existing broad standards, Luc Hossenlopp, CTO of Schneider Electric’s energy division, told the Internet of Things World Congress today.…

Guidelines issued on ensuring the public is protected, not spied on “There is a gap between what exists and what should exist,” according to the UK's commissioner responsible for ensuring that surveillance cameras are protecting members of the public, rather than spying on them.…