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Martian probe goes silent mid-descent, Juno also goes dark It's not a great day for space watchers. The European Space Agency's Schiaparelli Mars lander may have failed during its descent to the Red Planet.…

Disk arrays and flash still minor league stuff, though Seagate's latest quarterly revenues benefited from an upsurge in disk drive demand – but still declined slightly year-on-year. The biz managed to bank a five-fold increase in profits, though.…

Upshot of US government meeting to tackle IoT security The big outcome of a one-day special IoT security session run by the US government? A new labeling system for your smart home devices.…

Arrest caught on cam as chap enjoys lunch in Prague with his squeeze Vid Czech Republic police have arrested a Russian believed to be the hacker behind the massive 2012 theft of more than 100 million LinkedIn user credentials.…

Compute-storage wrangler is working with Morgan Stanley from here to IPO +Comment Hyper-converged infrastructure appliance vendor SimpliVity is working with Morgan Stanley to get more private funding and to launch an IPO possibly in 2017. It has also laid people off.…

Twitter bots make a lot of noise but thankfully can't vote in elections Hillary Clinton may have the most human supporters among those running for the US presidency, but Donald Trump has an edge among automatons.…

Telco coughs up cash to make throttling complaints go away, will drop 'unlimited' from ads T-Mobile US has agreed to pay the US comms watchdog the FCC $48m to settle claims that it illegally throttled the connections of some unlimited-plan data users.…

Everyone agrees: Our group has the best solution for patching bugs There are two things that everyone agrees on when it comes to the internet of things (IoT). First, security is a problem. And second, their approach is the best one.…

Avere, Qumulo and Pure's FlashBlade facing pushy eager-beaver of a product Dell EMC is launching the Isilon All-Flash system which is designed to handle extreme high-performance NAS workloads.…

Lawyers weep as retirement plans go AWOL and Dell gets payment The IP dispute between Pure Storage and (Dell) EMC is over with Pure paying some cash to Dell and getting a licence to the disputed patent.…

Software-only Data Domain gets 6X capacity expansion Dell EMC has extended its data protection products with more scalable Data Domain software, Azure support by Networker and extended cloud tiering.…

But he's got a yuge firewall, folks... the best kind of firewall US presidential candidate Donald Trump’s criticism of rival Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server while Secretary of State appeared to have rebounded on him.…

Must be hoping its biz hookup mojo will see off Amazon, S3 Dell DMC has updated its ECS object storage product, adding support for PowerEdge servers, bigger disks, and claiming a 60 per cent cost advantage over public cloud alternatives like Amazon.…

Suck it up, folks, you'll have to take responsibility for yourselves out there The Internet of Things is “dangerous”, according to some bloke trying to rebrand it as the “Internet of You” – and the government ain't going to pass new laws to sort it out.…

Compelling development for SC, much less so for PS Series Dell's SC Series (ex-Compellent) arrays are getting EMC data mobility and protection facilities as they are brought into that side of the Dell storage house.…

SoHopeless Cybercrooks are increasingly targeting routers in consumers’ homes.…

EMC's HCI gear gets a Dell server invasion EMC's VxRail and VxRack hyper-converged infrastructure systems are getting wholesale Dell PowerEdge server transplants.…

A tale of the spy ship Yantar, tinfoil hats and that pesky bugger we call reality Rumours abound on odder corners of the internet that a Russian signals intelligence ship has tapped into one of the main internet cables serving Syria. Sadly for the conspiraloons, it's almost certainly not true.…

Muslim child's Facebook holiday snap farce a case in point Prevent is “not only unjust but also counterproductive” according to a study into the human rights impact of the strategy, which revealed how a 14-year-old was targeted over a Facebook photograph.…

How interesting that you'd say that, Gavin BT's chief exec Gavin Patterson has claimed an Openreach split would make future broadband investments more challenging and increase the firm's already-ballooning pension deficit.…

Pricey, but cheaper than a pub full of BOFHs HP Inc has disclosed pricing for HP Workspace, the Windows app-streaming service that allows its new Elite x3 business phone to fully replace a PC.…

Floating space lab will back up to full capacity Three new astronauts are due to board the International Space Station, after blasting off to space this morning.…

Well at least timetables, payrolls, library systems... King's College London has been borked over the last day or so due to a failure at its Strand data centre.…

Softcat warned of storm cloud in UK ahead of referendum, now says it blew over The storm clouds Softcat pointed to gathering over the industry in the months prior to the EU referendum didn’t rain on the firm’s parade after all, judging by financial results outlined to the City today.…

When diving your U-boat, check all hatches are shut A sunken German submarine from World War One has been found at the bottom of the Irish Sea – and excitable folk are claiming the Loch Ness Monster sank it.…

Your inflatable buddy in the cockpit Good news. DARPA’s ambitious project to recreate Otto, the autopilot from Airplane, is finally bearing fruit.…

UK.gov 'working with fibre providers to find a solution' Digital minister Matt Hancock has said pure fibre and 5G are the priority for Blighty's digital infrastructure over the next decade - but has indicated the government won't be paying for it.…

Well, it's hanging on in there, but why didn't it conquer the world? Analysis Does European Commissioner for Competition Margrethe Vestager's team pay close attention to the tech news? If not, perhaps they should.…

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Not quite sure how the new mechanism works? Mull it over here HPC Blog How does 10x faster server performance sound to you? Not in five or six years, but in late 2017? Ground breaking things are afoot in the server world. IBM’s new OpenCAPI mechanism, and the accompanying organization, promises to make this vision reality.…

More than a mere RHEL release testbed Comment Red Hat is the biggest – and one of the oldest – companies in the Linux world, but despite the difficulty of accurately measuring Linux usage figures, Ubuntu and its relatives seem to be the most popular Linux distributions. Red Hat isn’t sitting idle, though. Despite its focus on enterprise software, including virtualisation, storage and Java tools, it’s still aggressively developing its family of distros: RHEL, CentOS and Fedora.…

Promise to save £600m per year was all talk and no trousers MPs have urged the Cabinet Office to get a grip on its embarrassing efforts to consolidate departments' back offices into two privately owned shared services centres.…

Between two stools one falls to the ground Discussions of information security tend to revolve around keeping confidential information confidential: preventing intruders from compromising the protection of the systems and gaining access to data they're not entitled to see. But there's more to security than just keeping information secret: it's a three-pronged concept.…

Small, large, fast and slow – take your pick from Seagate's latest range Seagate has announced six new Guardian Series disk drives for internal use in portables, desktops and gaming rigs, with BarraCuda and FireCuda branding and a variety of form factors.…

Transcriptionist, your days are numbered, it seems Microsoft on Tuesday said that its researchers have "made a major breakthrough in speech recognition."…

Government-sponsored sweat analyzer gets speedy Drunk driving costs thousands of lives every year and, as El Reg tests have shown, personal breathalyzers aren't that reliable. But now government-funded boffins think they've cracked a way of stopping people driving when they've had a skinful.…

Look on the bright side – at least they're not exploding, right Samsung? Microsoft loyalists are up in arms over yet more battery grief with the Surface Pro 3 and that Redmond is, we're told, breaking promises on repair costs.…

IT biz hires new decision-making CEO – a code-executing officer Finnish IT services firm Tieto has added software to a leadership team that oversees a recently formed data-focused business group.…

If someone doesn't think you can be harmed by a breach, they can stay quiet After years of discussion a draft of Australia's proposed data breach disclosure laws has landed and, to The Register's mind, it leaves a lot of wriggle room for those who would keep breaches secret.…

Voyager data raises possibility of pair of new moons Data from the first and only time mankind probed Uranus appears to show two new moons hiding in the dark rings that encircle the gas giant.…

Copper-extender can hit ~500Mbps, CTO says users will settle for 100Mbps Swisscom reckons it's become the first carrier in the world to announce a G.fast service.…

Indian Premier League TV audiences top 100m, online audience barely tapped Amazon, Facebook, Twitter and BT have been revealed as bidders for rights for India's top sporting attracting, the Indian Premier League (IPL) cricket competition.…

A month in space is the plan as China's ambitions escalate The Chinese capsule launched yesterday atop a Long March-2F rocket has successfully docked with the country's space station.…

Just Save Image As to exfiltrate data, safe in the knowledge webmasters trust JPGs Hackers are going to considerable lengths to hide credit cards stolen from site sites victimised in a wave of recent attacks, weaving the data into working images of products sold online.…

One account to rule them all, on mobe, copper, fibre or whatever else can be VodaFailed As widely anticipated, Vodafone's Australian tentacle has announced it's getting into the fixed-line broadband business.…

Mangstor's MX-Series drives enter the vSphere to soup up VM performance Mangstor has launched a faster NVMe over fabrics storage array – the NX6325 – based on an HPE ProLiant DL380 2U server platform.…

15 are critical, some allowing complete system compromise over HTTP Oracle has released its quarterly patch dump, this time offering 253 fixes for 76 products.…

More than one third of queries hit v6-capable servers, says 'net boffin Huston IPv6 might be moving slowly among the general community, but it's penetrating the Internet infrastructure at a much higher rate.…