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NASA 90% certain of lift-off on Saturday NASA meteorologists have given a 90 per cent chance of good weather for the launch of the revolutionary Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite – R Series (GOES‑R) on Saturday.…

Details confidential, but don't expect to see Brogan BamBrogan on the board The extraordinary lawsuit/soap opera surrounding tube-travelling Hyperloop One has been brought to a close.…

Database was breached for handset update scam The CEO of UK carrier Three Mobile has confirmed that a customer database was compromised by hackers and more than 130,000 customers have had their account data exposed.…

Meet the new 10-year-old command line, better than the even older command line Taking timeworn advice for authors to "murder your darlings," Microsoft has done away with the Windows Command Prompt.…

Have a small mouth, fat lips, close-set eyes? Oh dear Through machine learning, researchers have repeated the historic criminology experiment of telling criminals apart from law-abiding people using facial recognition.…

One foot is out the door for this Apple customer Analysis For the past few weeks, this tech reporter has been tussling with a complex issue: which new laptop to buy.…

Beltway cloud aims for renewable power milestone Amazon is planning to open five new solar power farms to help run its AWS cloud data centers.…

No sign of GPUs though Intel has flexed its AI muscles and beefed up its services with a bunch of new products and collaborations, in an effort to adapt to the technological upheaval of intelligent software.…

Binary split Humpty SAN Dumpty logically put back together again Analysis Dell EMC is working on fixing the increasing split between primary storage data on flash and capacity data storage on object arrays by logically combining them underneath a 2 TIERS software abstraction layer.…

Servers you right, says shrinker to bulked up big boy HPE is making almost twice as much revenue from shipping servers into the supercomputer market as Dell EMC.…

Crimson headcover kernel gets dedupe and compression The Mad Hatter of Linux is getting Alice in Wonderland style physical space virtualisation with thin provisioning, compression and deduplication courtesy of Permabit.…

Biggest market share crash in Gartner history Samsung is paying the price for the Galaxy Note 7 disaster. The South Korean giant recorded its largest ever fall in global smartphone market share in Q3, Gartner reckons.…

Adds Azure to its replication bridge target list Zerto announced its Enterprise Cloud Edition with general availability of Zerto Virtual Replication 5.0 (ZVR), which has Microsoft Azure support.…

All is well, rejoice, rejoice, let's get into the white 'n' fluffy Intel has caved to Google pressure over data centre silicon and has joined hands with Mountain View to fly you into the white and fluffy cloud of everyone else's enterprise future.…

So say Europe's Parliamentarians Opinion Consumers should not have had to actively provide their personal data in return for digital content to be supplied to them to benefit from consumer protection rights relating to the supply of that content, a committee of MEPs has said.…

Firm announces third-quarter revenue growth of 25 per cent Salesforce, the once self-styled antithesis of a software company, reckons it's on track to become a $10bn software company in its next fiscal year.…

We might start making profit in two years, says French firm French Internet of Things startup Sigfox has missed its $200m funding target for its latest round, settling for €150m ($159m) instead – although it has Salesforce, Intel, and others on board as investors.…

Dump the Zuck ... and leave the crazies with him

Learn how in Automic Webinar Promo So you have automated your infrastructure processes. The logical next step is to automate how you provision and manage your servers and application releases.…

Part of broader investigation into alleged data theft Three men are due to appear at the Old Bailey charged with various offences linked to an investigation into the mega TalkTalk hack a year ago.…

What a time to be alive NSFW A new "AI" application could save pornography sites hours of grunt work. The neural network "Miles Deep", released under the GPL, claims to classify each second of a porn clip of a sexual act with 95 per cent accuracy.…

Shadow IT casts its darkness over us all Something for the Weekend, Sir? I would like it to be known that mine is bigger than yours. And yours is bigger than everyone else's. Only losers waste their time with small. We do big.…

Game theory, moral machines and the 'Trolley Problem' A common fantasy for transportation enthusiasts and technology optimists is for self-driving cars and trucks to form the basis of a safe, streamlined, almost choreographed dance. In this dream, every vehicle – and cyclist and pedestrian – proceeds unimpeded on any route, as the rest of the traffic skillfully avoids collisions and even eliminates stop-and-go traffic. It’s a lot like the synchronized traffic chaos in Rush Hour, a short movie by Black Sheep Films.…

We don't need no early adopters... Radbot Previously, you made it clear that most of you think that test harnesses are a GoodThing.…

The tale of a truly career-defining hell desk call ON-CALL If it's Friday it must be time for me to file On-Call and then start drinking so you can start the last day of the week with one of our always-amusing tales of nasty jobs done at nasty times.…

Icy heart thought to cover subterranean super-slushie Pluto may contain a colossal underground ocean, say New Horizons mission scientists.…

Offers cheap-ish fix for screens that lose touch with the real world Apple has admitted that the iPhone 6 has “Touch Disease”, a glitch that leaves the handset's touch screen inoperable.…

Open sourced 'Little Doctor' vaporises chat apps, but Rocket Chat, Ryver patched. KIWICON Hackers everywhere can now more easily compromise popular chat apps to steal users' webcam and audio feeds using a worm framework published online - and they even have a new zero day to help the plundering.…

Records snatched in bid to get handsets UK carrier Three Mobile was the victim of a hacking scheme that has reportedly left the records of millions of customers exposed.…

560-slot library can store 8.4 petabytes. The good news: bad guys can only get 45TB an hour HP Enterprise has warned that its StoreEver MSL6480 Tape Library is at risk of allowing “remote unauthorized disclosure of information.”…

Bank of Mum & Dad steps in where others fear to tread nbn™, the entity building and operating Australia's National Broadband Network, has secured a AU$19.5bn loan from Australia's government and will use it to complete project.…

Virtzilla's Predictive Distributed Resource Scheduler squeezed into final release VMware's quietly revealed that vSphere 6.5 is now generally available and therefore on-sale to world+dog.…

VirtualIron Curtain lowered on Microsoft-bait business network Russian telecoms regulator Roskomnadzor has made it official: LinkedIn is no longer welcome in Putin's formerly-socialist paradise.…

Although not at the same time It has been a good 24 hours for the European Space Agency. Not only has its first four-in-one Galileo satellite launch gone flawlessly, but ESA astronaut Thomas Pesquet is on his way to the International Space Station.…

Embrace, extend, er, enter In March, when Microsoft announced plans to release SQL Server for Linux, Scott Guthrie, EVP of Microsoft's cloud and enterprise group, said, "This will enable SQL Server to deliver a consistent data platform across Windows Server and Linux, as well as on-premises and cloud."…

Just wait for FBI versus Apple: The Revenge Versus16 Silicon Valley should work with the US government in Washington to arrive at a solution that gives law enforcement access to encrypted comms, but that respects individual privacy.…

More than half of workers say they rely on apps to make ends meet Around 56 per cent of "gig economy" workers say the income they get from those services is essential to making ends meet.…

Connect shows direction for .NET, cloud and mobile efforts Connect 2016 At the Connect event under way in New York, Microsoft laid out its plans for developers targeting its platform – though what the "Microsoft platform" means has changed radically from what it used to be.…

Users flummoxed by texts telling them to shift funds by Monday Exclusive Payment service Revolut has contacted users in several countries to warn them that funds in their accounts will disappear if not transferred to a bank by November 21.…

Time to turn security model inside out, conference hears Versus16 It's a computer security truism that human beings are the biggest network threat. Sysadmins have always assumed that means users, but it may be time to take a long, hard look in the mirror.…

Not that kind of merger, but a merger nonetheless Opinion The Australian Federal Government is wasting millions of dollars on redundant cyber-capabilities. It should scupper its competing agencies and strip powers from others, and hand the lot to a resuscitated Australian High Tech Crime Center police-civilian super-agency that would be distributed across Australian capital cities.…

Want to keep your call records private? Disconnect from iCloud Apple's effort to avoid becoming an on-demand data dispensary for authorities faces unlikely saboteurs: The company's commitment to convenience and its customers' preference for the same.…

Good riddance, says senator who caught him lying Videos James Clapper, who as Director of National Intelligence was economical with the truth when it came to acknowledging US domestic surveillance activities subsequently revealed by NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, has announced his resignation.…

Yahoo! is going to fit right in here AOL, best known for being your parents' old ISP, is laying off 500 workers.…

You had one job, Mozilla. One job Mozilla popped out a new browser today, aimed at the privacy-aware mobile user. Somewhat ironically, it sends Mozilla user data by default: you’ll need to turn this off manually.…

Data to be crunched in on-premises bit barn, transport types confirm Transport for London is to start a four week trial of reading Wi-Fi connection request data from London Underground passengers’ mobile phones.…

Government accused of burying report in wake of Trump election The UK government has been accused of burying a report on its hated £11bn smart meters project by releasing revised spending data just hours after the election of Donald Trump.…

Buying app monitoring and analytics smarts to add to its infrastructure intelligence Storage workload and network testing company Virtual Instruments has bought Xangati and its hybrid cloud and virtualisation performance management technology.…

Motorola gets paid if it's on time, gets paid if it's delayed Users of the UK government's plans to shove the emergency services on to a 4G network by March 2020 are sceptical about the programme's timetable. Perhaps somewhat unsurprisingly, since a scheme of this scale has never before been tried anywhere else in the world.…

All Virtzilla's stuff to rise 15% from 1 January for UK punters VMware will become the latest American software company to bump up UK prices for customers by double digit percentage points from the start of next year, not that Virtzilla wanted to be drawn on the plans.…