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Group cultivating Bitcoin's serious cousin LinuxCon, Berlin Jim Zemlin raises an eyebrow when I say Hyperledger is rather outside Linux Foundation's usual domain, being a bit, er, consumery.…

Anti-doping body WADA says it ain't so Hackers may have doctored athletes’ data prior to leaking it, according to the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA).…

Einstein AI features could be long-term prospect Salesforce.com Marc Benioff took to the stage in San Francisco yesterday, using his Dreamforce 2016 keynote address to tout the benefits of his company's Einstein campaign.…

Kid thought he'd buy mansion with revenue from his YouTube vids A child in Spain has received a bill of €100,000 from Google after confusing its AdWords and AdSense services.…

All change in the object storage world Cloudian has appointed a new chief marketing officer - Jon Toor. Paul Turner, who was Cloudian’s CMO and recently became chief product officer, is moving on.…

Blinkenlights won't save you, user, piggyback is going for broke Mac malware could piggy-back on your legitimate webcam sessions - yep, the ones you've initiated - to locally record you without detection, a leading security researcher warns.…

Pity, as Digital Economy Bill means it's about to get hold of even more.. UK citizens have little faith in the government's ability to securely handle their private data - according to a wide-ranging survey which echoes findings by the National Audit Office.…

Sales are up, CA. Sure you made the right decision? Private equity-owned backup and DR house Arcserve has got itself a second generation UDP 8000 appliance sitting above the existing UDP 7000 series with more performance and capacity.…

At least according to (indie) experts Independent security experts have downplayed concerns about a reported flaw in iOS 10 private browsing.…

Don't just accept the defaults and hope for the best Wherever you look there's yet another SME or enterprise migrating to Office 365. This says a lot for the attractiveness of cloud-based office suites, and perhaps it also says something about the attractiveness of letting someone else look after one's SharePoint and Exchange servers rather than having to fight with their maintenance and upkeep internally.…

Quick, the taxman is outside, wire us $60k! US victims targeted, possibly UK too More than 500 call centre staff have been detained by police in India, after allegedly threatening US citizens and siphoning off their money.…

US cities see major crash in data speeds. But that's not the whole story... US cities have seen a massive crash in LTE data speeds this year - but consumers haven’t noticed as latencies are getting lower.…

Not clear which UK goods and service will benefit from prospective new trade deal The UK will trigger Article 50 of the Treaty of Lisbon, triggering the formal two-year Brexit negotiation process, by the end of March 2017, the prime minister has announced.…

Oh and the cool parts of the PCI-DSS standard are on pages 117-118... Security-related certifications such as ISO 27001 and, more particularly, the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS), have stringent requirements regarding the controls on infrastructure, how data is routed and stored around it, and so on.…

Report says VMware and Amazon will announce alliance next week VMware and Amazon Web Services are reportedly about to stage a public display of affection.…

Chandra spies orphan X-ray source Boffins analysing old Chandra x-ray telescope data have spotted a rarity indeed: an X-ray source that seems to be a black hole, but without a galaxy to surround it.…

Plans own European data centre for cloudy VM failover from new all-flash rack-mount NAS Taiwanese network-attached storage (NAS) vendor Synology is about to pick fights with several far larger competitors.…

Not by much and we know mass enterprise adoption is still to come Microsoft may have used its Ignite conference to trumpet Windows 10 now running on 400 million devices, but the operating system's market share went backwards in September according to two of three traffic-watchers we track each month.…

Established enterprise players are coining it, with hardly a white-box vendor in sight World spent US$7.7b on cloud in Q2, and that was during a soon-to-end lull in construction of hyperscale data centres.…

In theory this should mean two-day waits for sat snaps are a thing of the past Geo-geeks rejoice (and, if you're in a country that has such things, pray for your download allowance): Google is now hosting Landsat and Sentinel-2 data on its public cloud.…

White box is putting too much of the market in merchant silicon hands (and not enough in ours) Juniper Networks CEO Rami Rahim has looked at where the world of “white box” merchant silicon is going, and doesn't seem to like it much.…

Two year consultation ditched Look out, Australia: the government wants to turn the Triple-Zero emergency call service into a fully-agile, IP-enabled multimedia extravaganza.…

Nexus switch owners, pay attention Cisco's ongoing fix-all-the-things effort has emitted its regular weekly round of patches – and some, like in the NS-OX operating system that powers a bunch of its switches, deserve your attention.…

Filing tells NSA exactly where to send cable-sniffing divers The Hawaiki Cable, which would create trans-Pacific competition for those shipping bits across the ocean to Australia and New Zealand, plans to get its Australian landing in place by August 2017.…

Traffic-stopping hack could mean six years inside under Indonesian 'Immoral act' law Indonesian police have arrested an “IT expert” in South Jakarta after he reconfigured a giant LED video screen to show porn.…

Fine, go ahead, cyber-crook – cyber-steal my muffin cyber-recipe Online security for the general public is just too much bother. According to a study released on Tuesday by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and published in IEEE's IT Professional, people are overwhelmed with messages about online perils and have just given up.…

Successful escape capsule test and dual landing Vid + pic The fifth flight of Blue Origin's New Shepard rocket saw a successful blast-off for the crew capsule, as the company simulated an emergency escape for future crews.…

Cupertino's stingy communications strategy stops anyone from being sure Comment For over a year, Apple's software has been the subject of more derision than might be expected for a company of its size.…

Hey Cortana: It's all about the syllables Analysis One of the oddest things about this week's Google hardware launch was to constantly hear the same phrase over and over again from everyone in the same room: "OK Google."…

Finally, something that crosses the political divide Australia's famous two-party divide doesn't apply to our attitude towards the Internet: nearly everybody thinks the Internet is an essential service.…

When smart things go wrong Hands-on "I thought it was supposed to talk and tell us when the battery was low," my wife said. In retrospect, that was the first sign that all was not well with the Nest Protect smoke and CO detector.…

Flammable Sammy could bring about another recall A replacement – and supposedly non-exploding – Samsung Galaxy Note 7 caught fire on a crowded aircraft today, we're told.…

Pixel emerges as the One True 'Droid Comment This year’s bid by Google to fill your home with its tat collapsed like a soufflé yesterday – but at least one part will have a huge impact. In the phone world, the impact of its Pixel brand on its partners will be huge.…

Bloke, 51, worked at Snowden's old haunt Booz Allen An American who worked at the same intelligence contractor as NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has been charged with the theft of classified documents.…

Purple Palace twists words to wriggle out of its surveillance hell Updated Almost 24 hours after refusing to deny allegations that it allowed US intelligence free reign on its email systems, Yahoo! has issued a carefully worded non-denial.…

Another set of terrifyingly Orwellian use cases IPExpo Siloed databases will be the downfall of your Internet of Things venture, warned Avaya’s chief technologist Jean Turgeon on stage at IPExpo Europe today.…

For when you really fancy poring through that 'hidden' folder IPExpo Yorkshire-based "IT solutions" firm Oriium was hawking its CX:inSync spy-on-your-employees platform at ITExpo Europe today.…

Performance analytics make this fast array go even faster Big iron array vendor Infinidat has made its third major software release, adding compression, baked-in iSCSI support and enhanced array analytics.…

'Yes, but what does that actually mean?' ask alt-nets UK Prime Minister Theresa May has suggested her government could intervene in failing markets, such as rural broadband.…

New light on licensing plans Interview BlackBerry says it won’t license its brand and security hardened Android “to any Tom Dick and Harry” as it tries to maintain the value of its brand.…

Cheeky pair cuffed after National Crime Agency and Met Police team-up A pair of cybercriminals responsible for laundering millions of pounds stolen using a banking trojan have been sentenced to a combined total of 12 years in prison.…

Christmas tat-pickers wanted Amazon is advertising to fill more than 20,000 seasonal roles within its UK fulfilment centres.…

Details of carelessness disclosed with in-depth investigation of breach The UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) has issued TalkTalk with a record £400,000 fine for allowing attackers to access customer data “with ease”.…

It's still not making profit, but at least it's losing less Micron has reversed its downward trend and pulled off a fourth fiscal 2016 quarter with increased revenues and decreased losses.…

Imagine a boot transmitting data about human faces forever, says Comms365 IPExpo “The majority of SMEs are bamboozled by the Internet of Things and how it will support their business,” Mike van Bunnens, MD of comms tech firm Comms365 told The Register today.…

Crap for average download speeds, though Data from Which? today reveals that London has the best 4G connectivity in Britain - but some of the worst average download speeds in Blighty.…

Network dropped calls because it was told to Backbone provider Level3 says an outage that knocked out VoIP service for much of the US Tuesday morning was the result of improperly configured equipment.…

IPO freely: Whatever you do, you can't wrest control away from Wall St

NVMe over fabrics vs direct NVMe drive = little difference Analysis How does local NVMe drive access compare to accessing the same drive over an NVMe over Fabrics link? Zeta Storage Systems has compared the two access methods and found... not a lot of difference at all.…