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Buy Prelert, the world needs... um Elastic, the company behind Elasticsearch, has acquired behavioural analytics biz Prelert.…

First TV, now enterprise tech Interview In an age of on-demand Netflix content streaming, BitTorrent Inc – which developed and maintains the peer-to-peer protocol from the early 2000s – reminds many of us of its historic place in file-sharing rather than bringing to mind the modern software biz of the same name.…

Many services affected Microsoft Azure is wobbling all around the world at the moment, especially Azure DNS.…

Gaming, software industries bear brunt raw packet assaults The number of distributed denial of service attacks has doubled over the last 12 months.…

Well done Pirates. Great result Result, guys. Result.…

Weave.ai rumoured to be AI tech target British AI startup, Weave.ai, is the latest company rumoured to be snatched up by a US tech firm in Silicon Valley, according to the Financial Times.…

Ladies and gents, warm up your wishlists Oracle has committed to deliver the delayed Java Enterprise Edition 8 “within a year.”…

Cross-border online access 'widened' Analysis Brussels’ widely leaked copyright reforms [PDF] have been formally published.…

Security questions persist, but world is hungry for more The global public cloud services market is set to grow by more than 17 per cent in 2016.…

Bad pennies A UK hacker who broke into the computer systems to get details of gold bullion deliveries so they could be intercepted and stolen has been jailed for five years and four months.…

Getting hot and sweaty at a London IoT shindig Thingmonk “In education technology one thing I’d love to see is … making sure every coding club in this country offers hardware as a topic,” said Alexandra Deschamps-Sonsino, giving the opening talk at yesterday’s Thingmonk Internet of Things conference in London’s Old Street district.…

Your business's flexible friend Sysadmin blog Who are the sysadmins of tomorrow? Are they today's sysadmins, evolved? Or are they something new – a different breed of administrator that looks at the world differently, lacking the biases of those who built their careers hugging servers?…

If the network goes down, people could die Plans for a new 4G emergency services network (ESN) to be used in life and death situations by the blue light services have been dubbed as "high risk," in a report from the National Audit Office today.…

Madeira cake, Madeira cake, Madeira cake! Poll Long weekends cooped up in a cramped sweaty workplace, grappling with unstable materials, your work critiqued by an harsh and judgemental boss.…

New programming language does clever things with caches MIT boffins have created a new programming language called “Milk” that they say runs code four times faster than rivals.…

Account opening ammo goes up for sale. Cleartext passwords, real names and user names, email addresses plus and IP addresses for 2.2 million users of cash-for-surveys site ClixSense have been dumped online, with a further alleged 4.4 million up for sale.…

Beijing's just about using Government Digital Service lovey-speak China has got the e-government bug, signalling its intention to put lots of government services online by the year 2020.…

Old Apples, modded Androids, most at risk from Chinese DualToy trojan A newly-outed trojan is exploiting iOS and Android devices, ripping iCloud credentials abusing the trusted link between phones and PCs, says Palo Alto security researcher Claud Xiao.…

Redmond's Universal Windows Platform vision gets a little closer to reality Microsoft has revealed that its Desktop Bridge is open, meaning Win32 apps can now be packaged for consumption on the Windows Store and on anything that runs Windows 10.…

Play Store 'error state' just kept trying to find you even though GPS was out of reach Google has confirmed that its Play digital tat bazaar made a whole lot of unexpected attempts to locate users even after they opted-out of location services.”…

Backdoor-within-a-backdoor enables significant naughtiness Hackers have exploited a back door in more than 35,000 ARRIS modems, making off with firmware and certificates, according to security researcher Bernardo Rodrigues.…

Machine learning and analytics as G-cloud's biggest lures Smiles a-plenty down Google way today, after web scrapbook Evernote declared it was tired of running its own bit barns and decided to adopt the G-Cloud.…

Other nations' crackers deal in code only, but in France things are seriously nasty French hackers are selling concealed weapons including so-called pen guns that fire .22 Long Rifle bullets on highly secretive crime forums, threat researcher Cedric Pernet says.…

So in wades Riverbed, with its usual tricks tweaked for the stuff all the cool kids are doing Riverbed’s given some of its flagship products a software-defined tweak.…

Chocolate Factory struggles to fix lingering outages Google has spent most of its day today working to address ongoing problems around the world with its Gmail service.…

Don't blame Apple this time, it tried to warn you With Apple's iOS 10 and macOS Sierra beta now out in the wild, one important non-feature of the OS is giving some network admins headaches.…

And look who has the most open source contributors – it rhymes with Nitro Waft The GitHub Universe event has kicked off in San Francisco, with a number of new GitHub features announced by CEO Chris Wanstrath.…

Toy n' TV slingers will pay up $835K for COPPA violations A group of toy and children's entertainment giants have been lightly fined for letting advertisers illegally track kids online.…

Cruz threatens commerce secretary, staff with jail With echoes of the notorious hearings run by Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s, Wednesday saw Senator Ted Cruz cajole, misrepresent and then outright threaten witnesses to a hearing he called over the important change to the internet's functioning.…

Service providers lured in with promises Hewlett Packard Enterprise is seeking a love-in with service providers that deliver cloudy stuff to customers. The IT giant reckons that unlike its arch rivals, there’ll be no competitive friction to turn things sour.…

Calibrating relationships between celestial objects The European Space Agency has revealed the first catalogue of stars mapped during its Gaia mission today.…

Apparently, it was designed to be 'tongue in cheek' The Science Museum in London has announced it will reconsider its exhibition on sex and gender – after it faced criticism over a quiz that tested whether a brain was male or female.…

Voice through your Linux server? You might want this Red Hat is working with information management firm Veritas on data backup and storage in OpenStack clouds.…

Name ex-Google antitrust guru in suit Two independent women songwriters are suing the US antitrust department of the Department of Justice over its proposal to rip up songwriters' contracts to make them more Google-friendly.…

Evidence that they're functional smoking cessation aids too +Comment More research into electronic cigarettes has reported positively on the devices, finding evidence of their use as smoking cessation aids and finding that they do not appear to cause any serious side-effects.…

Learn from the experts Promo Need to know to more about the role of biometrics, such as fingerprint, DNA, facial and iris recognition, in identity management? Sign up now for Biometrics 2016, three days of expert insight and discussion in the heart of London from 18 to 20 October 2016.…

x86, is it? Worldwide server revenue is down 0.8 per cent while shipments are up by two per cent, according to Gartner, and Dell has pipped HPE to the top spot for shipments.…

Britain-based certification body pleased about 'huge growth' CREST, the UK-based certification and accreditation body for the infosec industry, has signed an agreement with the National Security Agency to take over its incident response accreditation programme.…

Surprise! Super-dense HDDs are more sensitive

Location, location, location (data) Comment Google isn’t just interested in tracking you, or even very interested. Google tracks you with the defiant zeal of an obsessive stalker.…

... and gov wants more of our data? The Cabinet Office is failing to coordinate the UK's government departments' efforts to protect their information according to a damning report by the National Audit Office.…

Based profits on roaming charges? Too bad! Only the IoT-ist will survive Europe's saturated mobile market is forcing operators to eye new routes to revenue in order to survive, big cheeses at Orange and Telefonica have said.…

Survey: They'll 'move if the grass looks greener' Comment UK-based non-domiciled taxpayers contributed £6.57 billion in income tax in 2014/15, an average of £56,589 per non-dom over the year compared to the average of £5,152 collected from the remainder of the population.…

Devs ask for more time to do the job right, meaning July 2017 instead of next week as first planned Oracle's asking for more time to complete JDK 9.…

Just US$2132 gets you half a dozen live Navy.mil accounts. Hackers are claiming to have accounts at major United States government agencies for sale, including NASA, the Navy, and the Department of Veteran Affairs.…

I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of Java devs suddenly cried out in terror The Apache Software Foundation is considering a proposal to take custody of Java development environment NetBeans.…

This software-defined networking stuff is getting just a bit scary ... and scary good! First they came for the DBAs. Then they came for the storage admins. Now the software-defined networking (SDN) shock troops are coming for network administrators.…

Plan calls for ISPs to sign on for attack blocking system Officials with GCHQ are said to be mulling a plan that would extend the UK government's network security tools to private-sector ISPs.…

'No More Ransom' alliance gives users decryption and defence tools Warriors from industry and law enforcement collective No More Ransom have cleansed more than 2500 machines of ransomware by distributing free decryption keys and other tools to eradicate infections.…

Animal rights group wants input into design of Farming Simulator 17 Protests about video games usually call for less violence. But People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) has called for more violence - and more graphic violence – in the forthcoming Farming Simulator 17.…